Author Guidelines
High Quality Case Publishing
We have made it easy to publish your high-quality surgical case open-access, peer-reviewed.
Our Journal of Plastic, Breast and Reconstructive Surgery (JPBRS) is created by Specialist Plastic Surgeons from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Czech Republic, England, Germany and Switzerland.
All high quality cases related to Plastic, Breast & Reconstructive Surgery are invited for submission and publication.
Submit your case of step-by-step procedures in Plastic, Breast & Reconstructive Surgery and reach surgeons all over the world open-acces.
Journal Focus
We focus on publishing cases showing step-by-step procedures in Plastic, Breast & Reconstructive Surgery. Publish how you perform a specific procedure or your innovative surgical techniques.
We do also publish unique/rare medical and surgical conditions/cases related to Plastic, Breast & Reconstructive Surgery.
Editorial Board Policy
We invite surgeons from all over the world to submit high quality cases to JPBRS. Only cases written in English are accepted for publication. The text must be clear and logical. The photos must be of high quality.
Our Editorial board and reviewers emphazise the following when reviewing:
– High Quality of photos/videos.
– High Quality of written text in English.
– Logical clinical pre-operative considerations.
– Result of final solution of the case.
– Reproductibility of the case following step-by-step.
– Quality of references, pearls and pitfalls.
– Overall presentation and mediation of the case.
Editors and Reviewers may give recommendations and corrections to authors which must be re-written by the authors, and afterward accepted for publication in JPBRS.
The Editors reserves the right to make editorial changes and accepted articles may be subject to further copy-editing to conform to journal style.
All submitted cases will at first be assessed by the Editors. Papers suitable for JPBRS are then sent anonymised to a minimum of two independent reviewers for assessment. The Editors are responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of the submitted cases.
Policy for Reviewers
We believe that Reviewers should get paid for their excellent work as peer-reviewers. Therefore a part of the article processing cost (APC) will go directly to the reviewers.
All peer-reviews are anonymous. The reviewers will be able to give the authors valuable inputs and corrections – to suceed publishing the case.
Ethical Aspects
Any procedures or results on human and/or animals must live up to International standard care.
Publishing requirements and limitations
Abstract
An abstract of between 50 – 100 words must submitted. This abstract may be used for publishing on the frontpage or any other media.
Photos
High Quality photos are preferred. Photos of the procedure should be taken with the assistance of good light and from the same angles if possible. Resolution must be at least 300 pixels and at least the size 100 x 100 mm. At least 5 photos must be submitted. This included a before photo, pre-operative photos, and a follow-up photo.
Step-by-Step photos
All cases must at least be published with are pre-operative photo, 3 per-operative photo, and a final result photo. It is also of great interest with 3, 6, and 12 month follow-up photos.
Illustrations
High Quality photos are preferred. Resolution must be at least 300 pixels and at least the size 100 x 100 mm.
References
All cases must have at least one reference. References are written as “Publication name”, “Author names and affiliations”, “Doi-number”.
Article Processing Charge (APC)
All cases submitted for the Case Competition until the 31st of March 2025 will have no article processing charge/fee applied. This means that you are able to submit your case for free, get it reviewed for free, and win 700USD for being number 1 in the case competition.
All cases of high quality submitted for the Case Competition will be peer-reviewed.
Cases submitted after the 31st of March 2025, will have to pay article processing charge/fee, for open-access publication in JPBPRS. APC will be between 250-450 dollars per case. The article processing charge will be used to pay reviewers for their excellent job and to run JPBRS.
Shared Copyright
At JPBRS we share the copyright between you as author and our journal. Therefore the author is allowed to use photos, text, illustrations and videos for all premises such as education, presentations, social media, scientific research etc. without our permission. Though it is not allowed to use the photos published in JPBRS to publish in another scientific journal, as this may violate the other journals copyright.
Use of cases for Learning Platform
We believe that published cases should be used for educational purposes. Therefore your case may be used on the learning platform called www.PlastSurgeon.org with more than 120.000 yearly visitors. Thereby your case and knowledge will used to help surgeons and patients around the world, anytime-anywhere.