Submission guidelines

Mr. Author.

Remember that the manuscript is mandatory for your video to be evaluated by the editorial committee. This writing ensures that the information can be easily valued and presented to the eyes of the journal's readers. The format presented here must be respected and must not contain more than 2000 characters.

• Title:The title of the video
• Introduction:Include the background and what is known in the literature about the pathology or surgical technique that is being presented. 
• Description of the technique: Offer the reader a step-by-step explanation of the surgical technique. 
• Results:Briefly show the results published by external authors or by the same author who is sending the video based on experience or clinical experiments.
• Patient Consent Disclosure Statement  
• Keywords:Maximum 5 terms that facilitate the search for your article
• References. 
• Technical specifications:Video in .MP4 format, horizontal, full HD resolution (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) with a maximum weight of 2 gigabytes. Maximum duration 8 minutes. 
• Language:There must be two audio versions. One in the author's original language (English, Portuguese or Spanish) and an English version.
• Audio:The quality of the audio of the narration must be guaranteed (it is suggested to use a microphone) and if music is used to set the video, it must be royalty-free to avoid problems in publishing the video.
• Video file: Use a mnemonic name that includes the name of the technique and the name of the author, in lower case. Ex: tenodesis_biceps_dr_paulo_llinas.mp4

The manuscript must be sent along with the video to the email editor@videoaccart.com for a first evaluation.

Please note that this first version of the video sent should not have the first slide where the names of the authors or the location of the procedure are done, this is because the objective is to avoid bias.

To send the manuscript, you must register on the Video ACCART magazine website in the SEND YOUR TECHNIQUE menu, filling out a form and attaching the file in PDF format.

To send the video, the WeTransfer application www.wetransfer.com will be used, which is free and allows the sending of files up to 2 GB. 

Any necessary information, contact editor@videoaccart.com  

Dr. Paulo Llinás H 
Editor in chief 

The editor-in-chief of RLVA, Paulo J. Llinás M.D., can be contacted via email paulo.llinas@fvl.org.co. For questions about sending articles, you can contact editor@videoaccart.com.

The Revista Latinoamericana de Video ACCART (RLVA) is an official academic publication supported by the Colombian Association of Arthroscopic and Reconstructive Joint Surgery (ACCART) that seeks to provide visibility to original publications from the Latin American continent with an emphasis on empowering the expansion of the Spanish language and Latino medical knowledge in the field of arthroscopic and sports surgery.

The RLVA operates with peer review and with the reviewed articles blinded to avoid possible selection bias. Articles in the process of publication or definitively accepted must declare exclusivity and not be published or submitted to another evaluation process. 

The evaluation process of the submitted articles consists of blindly sending the videos to be evaluated by two members of the editorial committee, who will assess these publications with academic criteria for the content of the talk and technical criteria for the form of the video. If the two members of the editorial committee consider that the article is publishable, it will be passed on to the editor-in-chief who will give a final verdict. In case of disagreement between the editorial members, the evaluation of the editor-in-chief will be needed to define if it is publishable or not. Finally, if the two reviewing members consider that the article is not publishable due to not having enough academic content or technical problems, the editor-in-chief will assess it, in order to determine possible corrections for the authors and subsequent submission of the corrections.

The evaluation process takes approximately 30 days. After the deadline, the article will be accepted for publication or will be sent to the author for correction, for which they will have a period of 30 additional days to make these changes and resubmit it. 

All published articles must submit to the payment of the established rates that are determined below. However, there is no cost to submit the article for evaluation and the fee will be collected at the time of final publication.

• USD 200 per individual shipment, that is, personnel not members of ACCART or allied associations. 
• 100 USD for ACCART members 
• 150 USD for members of allied societies (SLARD, SCCOT, etc.) 

SUBMIT AN ARTICLE. STEP BY STEP 

To submit an article for peer review and possible publication, the author must send an email to editor@videoaccart.com with the subject: “ACCART Video Publication – (Name of the publication)” with the files marked below:

• Submission of the recorded video of the surgical technique with audio, with the first cut slide (presentation, authors and health center) + manuscript in ACCART video format (see attached). 
• You will be notified of the receipt of the files with the correct specifications in the following 3 business days.
• Once your video is evaluated by the editorial committee, you will receive a response from the editor-in-chief: 
• Approved
• Approved with corrections.
• or not approved. 
• In case your video is approved, you must send the video in high definition ready for publication. (This video will be sent with the first slide).
• If the editorial group considers that corrections are required, they will be notified by mail and the author will have 20 business days to make the corrections and send them again. 
• If your video is not approved, you will receive an email from the editor-in-chief, Dr. Paulo José Llinás Hernández, notifying why your video will not be part of the magazine.

Remember that the process lasts 30 days approximately and during this time you cannot submit the video to evaluations in other media. (YouTube, Vumedi, other magazines)

MANUSCRIPT 

The manuscript is a mandatory format to submit articles to be evaluated and published by the journal. The manuscript must be sent in two versions, English and Spanish. These show the narrated information and the references so that the readers have a base of the information. The format must follow the following guidelines and must not exceed 2000 words. 

• Title: The title of the video 
• Introduction:Include the background and what is known in the literature about the pathology or the surgical technique that is being presented.
• Description of the technique:Offer the reader a step-by-step explanation of the surgical technique. 
• Results: Briefly show the results published by external authors or by the same author who is sending the video based on experience or clinical experiments. 
• References.
• Remember to send the manuscript in both versions, English and Spanish.

VIDEO PRESENTATION 

Two versions of the video must be submitted for the journal. A first version, in which the names of the authors and the factors that refer to the institution where it was carried out are omitted for a first evaluation by the editors, this ensures impartiality and avoids selection bias, this version of the video must be sent as stated to editor@videoaccart.com via WeTransfer (www.wetransfer.com), which allows sending free files up to 2 GB.

Once accepted by two reviewers of the board and by the editor-in-chief, an HD version of the video must be sent in final format (full HD 1920x180 px) in landscape format and maximum size of 2 GB with a maximum duration of 10 minutes, where include the names of both the authors and the institution in question. The video must be sent in English and Spanish and have the following structure to be valued favorably: 

• Title (Including authors and medical center where the procedure was performed)
• Conflicts of interest. (From each of the authors in case they present them) 
• Introduction. (Briefly show what the talk will be about and what is known in the literature) 
• Surgical technique (Must include a step by step from surgical planning, patient position, special instrument requirement and technical outcomes) 
• Potential complications of the technique
• Postoperative rehabilitation protocol 
• Return to work or sports activity. 
• Results published in the literature. In case of being an original technique.
• References (The most important)

PATIENT CONFIDENTIALITY AND CONSENT TO PUBLICATION 

Manuscripts reporting human studies should contain statements indicating that written informed consent has been obtained and that the studies have been conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. If individuals can be identified from a post (for example, through images or on video), authors must obtain explicit written consent from the individual.

All case reports must include a release statement or other form of written approval from the patient(s), indicating that they approve the publication of their case details. 

ACCEPTED ARTICLES 

Once the articles are accepted, which means that they were evaluated by two editors of the board and finally approved by the editor-in-chief, the main author, with whom there is communication, will be informed about it and they will communicate if they should make minimal corrections. From this moment on, the author has 30 business days to make the payment through the platform on the website and his article will be published in the edition following the date on which he is working.

Dr. Paulo Llinás H 
Editor in chief 
editor@videoaccart.com