Information For Authors

Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

Peer Review

Pain and Rehabilitation (P&R) operates a strictly double-blind peer review process in which the reviewer’ name is withheld from the author and, the author’s name from the reviewer (submission must adhere to our guidelines to ensure anonymity). Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two reviewers.

Authorship

Papers should only be submitted for consideration once consent is given by all contributing authors. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors. The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all those who:

1. Made a substantial to the concept and design, acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data, and
2. Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content, and
3. Approved the version to be published, and
4. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.

 

Declarations

P&R requires all authors provide certain information as a separate document alongside their submissions.

• Conflicting interests
• Funding
• Ethical Approval
• Informed Consent
• Acknowledgements

 

Conflicting Interests

It is the policy of P&R to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within all published articles.

Funding

P&R requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading.

 

Research Ethics and Patient Consent

If the work involves the use of animal or human subjects, the author should ensure that the work described has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-international-code-of-medical-ethics/; EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/legislation_en.htm; Uniform Requirements for manuscripts submitted to Biomedical journals http://www.icmje.org. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.

 

Patients' and volunteers' names, initials, and hospital numbers should not be used.

It is the author's responsibility to ensure all appropriate consents have been obtained.

 

Clinical Trials

P&R endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment. However, consistent with the All Trials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for the late registration is acceptable. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.

 

Reporting Guidelines

The relevant EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines should be followed depending on the type of study. For example, all randomised controlled trials submitted for publication should include a completed Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) flow chart as a cited figure, and a completed CONSORT checklist as a supplementary file. Other resources can be found at NLM’s Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives.