Submissions

Author Guidelines

To submit a new paper to our journal:

1. Register on the Journal website; we encourage you to register also as a Reviewer at the same time;
2. Follow the Guidelines for Authors below, for preparation of your manuscript;
3. Read our Editorial Policies and our Competing Interest policies.
4. Log in;
5. Click on the "NEW SUBMISSION" button to start the online procedure.

To submit a revised version:

1. Log in;
2. Click on the title of your paper;
3. Next to the heading "REVISIONS", upload your revised paper by using the "UPLOAD FILE" button;
4. Inform the Editors that a revised version has been uploaded.

Guidelines for Authors

Manuscripts have to be double-spaced with one-inch margins. Headings must be used to designate the major divisions of the paper. To facilitate the review process, manuscripts should contain page and line numbering. Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are strongly advised to have their manuscript checked by a language editing service, or by an English mother-tongue colleague prior to submission.

As an option, we offer our own professional copyediting service. Professional copyediting can help authors improve the presentation of their work and increase its chances of being taken on by a publisher. In case you feel that your manuscript needs a professional English language copyediting checking language grammar and style, you can find a reliable revision service at:

Manuscript preparation

IMPORTANT: As of September 1st, 2020, the Author Guidelines of the Journal of Osseointegration, Periodontics and Prosthodontics have been updated. Please review these updates to ensure your submission complies with the new ethics and study design requirements. If you have any questions, please contact the editorial office: luca.mazzacane@ariesdue.it

The components of a manuscript should consist of: title page, conflict-of-interest notification, keywords, structured abstract, body of text, acknowledgements, references, illustrations (including legends) and tables. Manuscripts must be original and written in English. Manuscript texts should be uploaded as Word files.

Title page

The full names and professional/academic affiliations of all authors must be detailed in the specific section of the submission form. Contact details (including phone, fax, and email address) should be provided for the corresponding author.

All authors must have made substantive intellectual contribution to the study, as recommended by the International Commette of Medical Journal Editors, ICMJE. For authorship of multicentric trials, the individuals directly responsible for the manuscript should be identified.

The first page should include:

1. The title of the article (descriptive but concise, including the study design).
2. If the paper was presented at an organized meeting, the name of the organization, location and date of the meeting should be included.
3. Disclaimers, if any.
4. Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs or all of these.
5. Running title of no more than 40 characters (including spaces).
6. A word count for the text (excluding abstract, acknowledgements, figure legends, and references), which should preferably be at least 4,000 words.
7. The number of figures and tables.

Conflict-of-interest notification. A statement of financial or other relationships that might lead to a conflict of interest.

Keywords. Keywords or short phrases that capture the main topics of the article. Terms from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) list of Index Medicus should be used (www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh); if suitable MeSH terms are not yet available for recently introduced denominations, other terms may be used.

Abstract. A maximum 350-word structured abstract (aims, materials and methods, results, conclusions).

Main Text

Introduction. It provides context or background for the study (i.e. the nature of the problem and its significance). State the specific purpose or research objective of, or hypothesis tested by, the study or observation; the research objective is often more sharply focused when stated as a question. Both the main and secondary objectives should be made clear, and any pre-specified subgroup analyses should be described. Give only strictly pertinent references and do not include data or conclusions from the work being reported. Aims of the study and null hypothesis must be clearly stated at the end of the introduction section
Materials and methods. Include only information that was available at the time the plan or protocol for the study was developed. All information obtained during the conduct of the study belongs in the Results section. Describe your selection of observational or experimental participants (patients, including controls) clearly, including eligibility and exclusion criteria and a description of the source population. Identify the methods, apparatus (provide the manufacturer name, city and country in parentheses) and procedures in sufficient detail to allow other workers to reproduce the results. Give references, if needed, to established methods, including statistical methods (see below); provide references and brief descriptions for methods that have been published but are not well known; describe new or substantially modified methods, give reasons for using them, and evaluate their limitations. Identify precisely all drugs and chemicals used, including generic name(s), dose(s) and route(s) of administration. Describe statistical methods with enough detail to enable a knowledgeable reader with access to the original data to verify the reported results. Analyze the patient as the unit of statistical analysis or take into account the structure of data, for example implants clustered within patients. When possible, quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement, error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals). Avoid relying solely on statistical hypothesis testing, such as the use of P values, which fails to convey important information about effect size. References for the design of the study and statistical methods should be to standard works when possible (with pages stated). Authors submitting review manuscripts should include a section describing the methods used for locating, selecting, extracting and synthesizing data. These methods should also be summarized in the abstract.
Results. Present your results in a logical sequence in the text, tables and illustrations, giving the most important findings first. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables or illustrations. When data are summarized give absolute numbers from which percentages can be calculated, and specify the statistical methods used to analyze them. Restrict tables and figures to those needed to explain and support the argument of the paper. Use graphs as an alternative to tables with many entries; do not duplicate data in graphs and tables. Guidelines for reporting statistics results can be found in Lang TA, Secic M. How To Report Statistics in Medicine. Annotated Guidelines for Authors, Editors, and Reviewers. 2nd Edition, Philadelphia: American College of Physicians; 2006.
Discussion. The new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions that follow from them should be emphasized. Do not repeat in detail data or other material given in the Introduction or the Results section. State the limitations of the work, compare your results with other similar relevant studies, and explore the implications of the findings for future research and for clinical practice. State new hypotheses when warranted, but clearly describe them as such.
Conclusion. Link your conclusions with the goals of the study but avoid unqualified statements not adequately supported by the data. State the clinical implications of your findings.
Acknowledgements. Individuals who have made substantive contributions to the study should be acknowledged. Specify any grants or other financial support. If data (i.e. individual patient data) related to a manuscript are not presented in it but are available from the author or other source, or are online, information on how to obtain this material may be given in the Acknowledgements section.
References. Readers should be provided with direct references to key original research sources, whenever possible. All references must be cited in the text, using the Vancouver (numbered references) style. References should be marked in order of appearance with numbers in round brackets, and listed numerically in the reference list at the end of the article.

Journal reference style:

• Rengo C, Nappo A, Pantaleo G, Spagnuolo G, Ferrari M. Influence of implant dimensions and position on primary and secondary stability: a prospective clinical study in mandible using resonance frequency analysis. J Osseointegr 2020;12(1):34-38. 

Book reference style:

• Lee JS, Kim JK, Park Y-C, Vanarsdall RL. Applications of Orthodontic Mini Implants. Chicago: Quintessence; 2007.
• Baumgartner JC. Pulpal infections including caries. In: Hargreaves KM, Goodis HE (eds). Seltzer and Bender‘s Dental Pulp. Chicago: Quintessence; 2002. P 281-307.

Avoid citing a personal communication unless it provides essential information not available from a public source, in which case the name of the person and date of communication should be cited in parentheses in the text. Authors should obtain written permission and confirmation of accuracy from the source of a personal communication. Provide complete information for each reference. If the reference is part of a book, also include the title of the chapter and name(s) of the book's editor(s). Reference to electronic documents that can be found on the Internet should be accompanied with their URL, and the date of last access.

Illustrations (including legends). Illustrations (graphs, photographs and radiographs) must be numbered and cited in the text in order of appearance and submitted electronically in any format (tif, gif, jpg, psd, eps, etc.) that can be opened using Adobe Photoshop(at least 300 dpi). However, tables and figures can be embedded within the Word document.
Legends for illustrations must be on a separate page and should use Arabic numerals corresponding to the illustrations. When symbols, arrows, numbers or letters are used to identify parts of the illustrations, identify and explain each one clearly in the legend. Explain the internal scale and identify the method of staining in photomicrographs.

Tables. Number tables consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and supply a brief title for each. Do not use internal horizontal or vertical lines. Give each column a short or abbreviated heading. Authors should place explanatory matter in notes, not in the heading. Explain in notes all nonstandard abbreviations, using the following symbols, in sequence: *,**, ***, etc. Identify statistical measures of variations, such as standard deviation and standard error of the mean. If you use data from another published or unpublished source, obtain permission and acknowledge them fully. This journal strongly encourages authors to make detailed data accessible to other researchers (tables with individual patient data are welcome). Additional tables containing backup data too extensive to publish in print may be appropriate for publication in the electronic version of the journal, deposited with an archival service or made available to readers directly by the authors. In that event an appropriate statement will be added to the text. Submit such tables for consideration with the paper so that they will be available to the peer reviewers.

Abbreviations. Use only standard abbreviations. Avoid abbreviations in the title. The full term for an abbreviation should precede its first use in the text unless it is a standard unit of measurement.

Trade names. Generic terms are to be used whenever possible, but trade names and manufacturers should be included in parentheses when first mentioned.

Units of measurement. The International System of Units (SI) should be used. Measurements of length, height, weight and volume should be reported in metric units (meter, kilogram or liter) or their decimal multiples. Temperatures should be in degrees Celsius. Blood pressures should be in millimeters of mercury.

Submission Instructions

Submission is via the online submission section Make a submission,therefore no paper version is required.

Cover letter. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a cover letter, which should include the following details.
I) A statement that the manuscript has been read and approved by all the authors, that the requirements for authorship as stated earlier in this document have been met, and that each author believes that the manuscript represents honest work.
II) If the manuscript has been previously submitted to another journal, it is helpful to include the previous editors and reviewers comments along with the authors responses to those comments. Editors encourage authors to submit these previous communications as doing so may expedite the review process.
III) Copies of any permission to reproduce published material, to use illustrations or report information about identifiable people, or to name people for their contributions must accompany the manuscript.

Review/editing of manuscripts. Manuscript selection is exclusively based on the quality of the individual manuscripts, independent of the identity of the submitting authors, country of origin, brand of the materials used or results. Manuscripts which were not rejected at the initial screening will be peer-reviewed using the online manuscript review and tracking system. The manuscript is sent to two external reviewers by the Editor or Associate Editors. Reviewers may be members of the Editorial Board. Final decisions are made by the Editor-in-Chief or the Editor, based on the reviewer reports and/or the recommendation from the Associate Editor responsible for the manuscript. For papers based on already published articles, the review procedure will be abbreviated: they will be approved for publication by the Editor. Subject to the authors final approval, the publisher reserves the right to edit accepted manuscripts in the interest of conciseness, clarity and stylistic consistency.

Adherence to guidelines. Manuscripts that are not prepared in accordance with these guidelines may be rejected.

Mandatory submission & copyright form. The submission and copyright form must accompany all submitted manuscripts before they can be reviewed for publication. This form can be downloaded from https://www.journalofosseointegration.eu/public/License_Agreement_AD.pdf or requested from luca.mazzacane@ariesdue.it
All authors should sign the form (separate forms are acceptable), and a scan of the completed form(s) should be uploaded with the submitted manuscript.

Author misconduct. JO editors will have the option at their discretion to request the submitting authors original data including radiographs, pictures, etc., in order to independently verify the manuscript content. Failure to provide the requested information will result in immediate rejection of the manuscript. In addition, authors or co-authors who have published data that have been proven to be falsified will be banned from publishing in JO indefinitely.

Permissions & waivers
If material has been published, acknowledge the original source and submit written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce the material. Permission is required irrespective of authorship or publisher except for documents in the public domain.
Written consent from the patient is required to allow publication where a patient is identifiable. A consent form can be https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/tileshop_pmc_inline.html?title=Click%20on%20image%20to%20zoom&p=PMC3&id=3111075_informed_consentf1.jpg. Identifying details should be omitted unless essential.
Grant support or any other direct or indirect involvement or commercial interest must be declared.
Authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000.

Reprints The corresponding author will receive the galley proofs of the article as a pdf file. JO is an open access journal, the full text pdf may be downloaded and used for personal purposes, and posted on a personal website or university website, with full acknowledgement of the publication. If reprints are required, the author(s) should order them from the publisher.
Much of the author guidelines are taken from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. The ICMJE has neither endorsed nor approved the contents of these guidelines, which, as the ICMJE periodically updates the Uniform Requirements, may not accurately represent the current official version, available at http://www.ICMJE.org/.

Peer-review policy

All submissions to the Journal of Osseointegration are first checked for completeness (criteria for desk reject are available in the Guide for Authors) before being sent to an Editor, who decides whether they are suitable for peer review. If an Editor is on the author list or has a competing interest in a particular manuscript, another member of the Editorial Board will be assigned to oversee peer review. When making a decision, Editors will consider the peer-reviewed reports, but they will not be bound by the opinions or recommendations contained in them. A single peer reviewer's or the Editor's concern may result in the manuscript being rejected. Peer review reports are sent to authors along with the editorial decision on their manuscript.

Please see the About the Journal page for more information.

Authorship
All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship according to the ICMJE criteria (http://www.icmje.org/ethical_1author.html). Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. Authorship credit should only be based on substantial contributions to i) conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of data; and to ii) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and on iii) final approval of the version to be published. These three conditions must all be met. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship. Any part of an article critical to its main conclusions must be the responsibility of at least one author. Authors should provide a brief description of their individual contributions.

Obligation to Register Clinical Trials (http://www.icmje.org/#clin_trials)
The ICMJE believes that it is important to foster a comprehensive, publicly available database of clinical trials. The ICMJE defines a clinical trial as any research project that prospectively assigns human subjects to intervention or concurrent comparison or control groups to study the cause-and-effect relationship between a medical intervention and a health outcome. Medical interventions include drugs, surgical procedures, devices, behavioral treatments, process-of-care changes, etc. Our journals require, as a condition of consideration for publication, registration in a public trials registry. The journal considers a trial for publication only if it has been registered before the enrollment of the first patient. The journal does not advocate one particular registry, but requires authors to register their trial in a registry that meets several criteria. The registry must be accessible to the public at no charge. It must be open to all prospective registrants and managed by a non-profit organization. There must be a mechanism to ensure the validity of the registration data, and the registry should be electronically searchable. An acceptable registry must include a minimum of data elements (http://www.icmje.org/#clin_trials). For example, ClinicalTrials.gov (http://www.clinicaltrials.gov), sponsored by the United States National Library of Medicine, meets these requirements.

Protection of Human Subjects and Animals in Research
When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2013 (https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects). If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate whether institutional and national standards for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed. Further guidance on animal research ethics is available from the World Medical Association (2016 revision, https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-statement-on-animal-use-in-biomedical-research) and from the International Association of Veterinary Editors' Consensus Author Guidelines on Animal Ethics and Welfare (http://www.veteditors.org/consensus-author-guidelines-on-animal-ethics-and-welfare-for-editors). When reporting experiments on ecosystems involving non-native species, Authors are bound to ensure compliance with the institutional and national guide for the preservation of native biodiversity.