CATEGORIES OF PUBLICATIONS
EDITORIAL POLICIES
The Editorial Board committed to complying with publication ethics. Except for the negotiated secondary publication, manuscripts submitted to the Journal must be previously unpublished and not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. If a new author should be added or an author should be deleted after the submission, it is the responsibility of the all authors. JNN has no responsibility for such changes. All published manuscripts become the permanent property of the Korean Intraoperative Neural Monitoring Societyand may not be published elsewhere without written permission. The anonymity of reviewers is preserved.
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS
For the policies on the research and publication ethics not stated in this instruction, “Good Publication Practice Guidelines for Medical Journals from the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (https://www.kamje.or.kr/board/view?b_name=bo_publication&bo_id=13&per_page=)” or “COPE Core Practices (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices)” can be applied.
Authorship
Statements of Human and Animal Rights, Informed Consent, and Institutional Review Board Approval
Obligation to Register Clinical Trial
Clinical trial defined as “any research project that prospectively assigns human subjects to intervention and comparison groups to study the cause-and-effect relationship between a medical intervention and a health outcome” should be registered to the primary registry to be prior publication. JNN accepts the registration in any of the primary registries that participate in the World Health Organization International Clinical Trials Portal (http://www.who.int/ictrp/en/), National Institute of Health ClinicalTrials.gov (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/), International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number Register Resister (www.ISRCTN.org), University Hospital Medical Information Network (https://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr/index.htm).
Data Sharing Policy
This journal follows the data sharing policy described in “Data Sharing Statements for Clinical Trials: A Requirement of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors” (https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2017.32.7.1051). As of July 1, 2018 manuscripts submitted to ICMJE journals that report the results of interventional clinical trials must contain a data sharing statement as described below. Clinical trials that begin enrolling participants on or after January 1, 2019 must include a data sharing plan in the trial’s registration. If the data sharing plan changes after registration this should be reflected in the statement submitted and published with the manuscript, and updated in the registry record. All of the authors of research articles that deal with interventional clinical trials must submit data sharing plan. Based on the degree of sharing plan, authors should deposit their data after deidentification and report the DOI of the data and the registered site.
Sex and Gender
The term sex should be used when reporting biological factors and gender should be used when reporting gender identity or psychosocial/cultural factors. The methods used to obtain information on sex, gender, or both (e.g., self-reported, investigator observed or classified, or laboratory test) should be explained in the Materials and Methods section. If only one sex is reported, or included in the study, the reason the other sex is not reported or included should be explained in the Materials and Methods section, except for studies of diseases/disorders that only affect males (e.g., diseases involving male genitalia) or females (e.g., diseases involving female genitalia).
Conflict of Interest
The corresponding author of an article is asked to inform the Editor of the authors’ potential conflicts of interest possibly influencing their interpretation of data. A potential conflict of interest should be disclosed in the cover letter even when the authors are confident that their judgments have not been influenced in preparing the manuscript. Such conflicts may be financial support (employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications, and travel grants) or other relationships (academic or even personal) with commercial entities whose products or services are related to the subject matter in the manuscript, or sociopolitical issues that can cause conflict. Disclosure form shall be same with ICMJE Uniform Disclosure Form for Potential Conflicts of Interest (http://www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf). The Editor will decide whether the information on the conflict should be included in the published paper. In particular, all sources of funding for a research should be explicitly stated.
Redundant Publication and Plagiarism
Secondary Publication
The title of the secondary publication should indicate that it is a secondary publication (complete or abridged republication or translation) of a primary publication. Of note, the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) does not consider translations as “republications” and does not cite or index them when the original article was published in a journal that is indexed in MEDLINE.
Process for Managing Research and Publication Misconduct
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
Reporting guidelines for specific study designs
Research reports frequently omit important information. As such, reporting guidelines have been developed for a number of study designs that some journals may ask authors to follow. Authors are encouraged to also consult the reporting guidelines relevant to their specific research design. A good source of reporting guidelines is the EQUATOR Network (http://www.equator-network.org/home/) and the United States National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/research_report_guide.html).
General
Title Page
This should contain the title of an article, full names, institutional affiliations, ORCIDs, conflicts of interest, and contributions of all authors. Institutions should be clearly indicated with which department and institution each author is affiliated. In a separate paragraph, the name of corresponding author, degree, E-mail address, and ORCID should be given. The corresponding author will receive all correspondence regarding the manuscript, as well as proof pages, reprint requests. Also indicate where the paper was presented, and if applicable, provide acknowledgments of any grants and/or other assistance received. A running title, 50 characters or less including blank, should not be declarative or interrogative sentences.
Acknowledgments
All persons who have made substantial contribution, but who are not eligible as authors are named in acknowledgment.
Conflict of Interest
Any potential conflict of interest that may influence the results or the conclusion derived from the study should be disclosed. If the authors have nothing to disclose, please state: “No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.”
Funding
Funding to the research should be provided. Providing a FundRef ID is recommended including the name of the funding agency, country and if available, the number of the grant provided by the funding agency. If the funding agency does not have a FundRef ID, please ask that agency to contact the FundRef registry (e-mail: fundref.registry@crossref.org).
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
Authors are recommended to provide an ORCID. To obtain an ORCID, authors should register in the ORCID website: http://orcid.org. Registration is free to every researcher in the world.
Author Contributions
Abstract and Key Words
Abstract must be organized and formatted according to the following headings: (1) Background and Objectives, (2) Materials (Subjects) and Methods, (3) Results, and (4) Conclusion. The Abstract length is typically 250 words in English. Up to five keywords should be listed at the bottom of abstract to be used as index terms. For the selection of keywords, refer Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) in PubMed (https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/ search). If suitable MeSH terms are not yet available for recently introduced terms, present terms may be used.
Original Article
The text is to be divided into four sections
with the following headings: Introduction, Materials (Subjects) and Methods,
Results, Discussion. Define abbreviations at first mention in text and in each
table and figure. If a brand name is cited, supply the manufacturer’s name.
Maximum length of manuscript is 3,500 words in English (exclusive of the title
page and abstract), 30 references and a total 10 images.
Introduction
Brief background, references to the most pertinent papers
generally enough to inform readers, and relevant findings of others are
described. The specific question to which the authors’ particular investigation
is studied should be also described.
Materials (Subjects) and Methods
Results
This part should be presented logically using text, table and illustrations. Excessive repetition of table or figure contents should be avoided. At the end of results, emphasize or summarize only important observations.
Discussion
The data should be interpreted concisely without repeating materials already presented in the results section. Speculation is permitted, but it must be supported by the presented data of authors and be well founded.
References
In the text, references should be cited with Arabic numerals
in brackets (e.g., [1], [2,3], [4-6]). They should be listed in the order of
citation in the text with consecutive number in this separate section. List all
authors up to six. If more than six, list the first six and add “et al”. The
titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the NLM style (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals).
Reference format should conform to the NLM style (Citing Medicine, 2nd edition,
2007. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7256/).
Table
Tables must be cited in the order in which they appear in the
text using Arabic numerals. The table’s footnote may include any pertinent
notes and must include definitions of all abbreviations and acronyms that have
been used in the table. Tables submitted with multiple parts will be
renumbered. The significance of results should be indicated by appropriate
statistical analysis. For footnotes use the following symbols, in
sequence: a), b). All units of measurement and
concentration should be designated. If you use data from another published or
unpublished source, obtain permission and acknowledge them fully.
Figure
Figures must be cited in the order they appear in the text
using Arabic numerals. Figure legends should appear within the document in a
separate section after the references. Figure legends are required for all
article types and should be double-spaced in the manuscript. All relevant and
explanatory information extraneous to the actual figure, including figure part
labels, footnotes, abbreviations, acronyms, arrows, and levels of magnification
in insets, should be defined in the legend text. If figures have multiple parts
(e.g., A, B, C, D), each part must be counted as a separate image in the total
number allowed. Submit a photograph that will not reveal the person’s identity.
Figures must be submitted as separate files saved in JPEG, TIFF, GIF, EPS, or
PPT format (do not embedded the figures in the Microsoft Word manuscript file).
The figure resolution should be at least 600 dpi for grayscale and color
images, and 1,200 dpi for line figures at final size. Color images must be
saved in CMYK mode (and not in RGB mode).
Review Article
The submission of review articles should describe concise
review on subjects of importance to medical researchers. There should be an
unstructured abstract of no more than 200 words. Maximum length of the
submitted manuscript is 4,500 words. The text is to be divided into three
sections with the following headings: Introduction, text (free heading), and
Conclusion. The review articles are accepted after editorial evaluation.
Case Report
PUBLICATION PROCESS
Submission
Authors must submit their manuscript through our submission
service website (http://submission.jnn.or.kr/)
and the instructions should be closely followed. Notification of the
disposition of each manuscript will be sent by E-mail to the corresponding
author on the day of decision.
Screening before Review
If the manuscript does not fit the aims and scope of the
Journal, or does not adhere to the Instructions to Authors, it may be returned
to the author immediately after receipt and without a review from the
publisher. Before reviewing, all submitted manuscripts are inspected by
Similarity Check powered by iThenticate (https://www.ithenticate.com/), a plagiarism screening tool.
The settings for the Similarity Check screening works as follows: The tool
excludes information from the total score of the reviewed manuscript which are
quotes, the bibliography, any small matches of six words that are deemed to be similar,
small sources of 1%, and the Materials and Methods section of the study.
Peer Review
Feedback after Publication
If the authors or readers find any errors, or contents that
should be revised, it can be requested from the Editorial Board. The Editorial
Board may consider erratum, corrigendum or a retraction. If there are any
revisions to the article, there will be a CrossMark description to announce the
final draft.
Process for Appeals
The policy of journal is primarily aimed at protecting the
authors, reviewers, editors, and the publisher of the journal. Appeals can be
submitted to jnn.kinmos@gmail.com. If
appeals arrive at the editorial office, it is discussed by the editorial board
members. The results will be dispatched to submitter. Otherwise, the process of
handling complaints and appeals follows the guidelines of the Committee of
Publication Ethics available from: https://publicationethics.org/appeals.
COPYRIGHT AND PAYMENT INFORMATION
Copyright
Korean Intraoperative Neural Monitoring Society reserves the
right to exclusive publication of all accepted manuscripts. Upon acceptance of
an article, authors will be asked to transfer copyright. The corresponding
author should upload a signed copyright transfer which has all authors sign on
pages. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of
information. A letter will be sent to the corresponding author confirming
receipt of the manuscript. A form facilitating transfer of copyright will be
provided. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s)
must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the
source(s) in the article.
Open Access
Articles published in JNN are open access, distributed under
the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0),
which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and the
reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.
For any commercial use of material from the open access version of the journal,
permission must be obtained from JNN(Email: jnn.kinmos@gmail.com).
Archiving Policy
According to the deposit policy (self-archiving policy) of
Sherpa/Romeo (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/),
authors cannot archive pre-print (i.e., pre-refereeing), but they can archive
post-print (i.e., final draft post-refereeing). Authors can archive publisher’s
version/PDF. JNN provides the electronic backup and preservation of access to
the journal content in the event the journal is no longer published by
archiving in Korea Citation Index and National Library of Korea.
Clinical Data Sharing Policy
All manuscript reporting clinical trial results should submit
a data sharing statement. After acceptance, the corresponding authors of the
accepted research articles are requested to submit the datasets underlying the
results of this paper to the editorial office. If the data cannot be
publicized, the reason should be described.
Article Processing Charge
There are no author submission fees or other
publication-related charges. All costs for the publication process are
shouldered by the Korean Intraoperative Neural Monitoring Society. The hard
copy of the journal is printed in black and white. Color images and color
diagrams will appear only in the online version as color images and color
diagrams. If the authors like to appear the color images and color diagrams in
color in the printed version, an additional fee will be charged based on that
request. Authors may request additional reprints of their articles, in which
case additional charges may be applied. Revenue sources of journal are from the
support of the Korean Intraoperative Neural Monitoring Society and advertising
rates.
EDITORIAL OFFICE
Editor-in-Chief
Website: http://www.jnn.or.kr/