As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining. All Tables should be placed in the main manuscript text. All Illustrations or Figures are placed in separate files and labeled as FigX.jpg (ex. Fig1. jpg, Fig2.jpg) and only refrenced in the manuscript text
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
One author is designated as the corresponding author with full contact details (email address and postal address)
The manuscript includes a maximum of 250 abstract and up to six keywords
Author Guidelines
Teachnical email issues. Please email your manuscript submission to jods@bads.co.uk / editor@jods.online if unable to register!
General Guidelines
The Journal of One-day Surgery considers all articles of relevance to day-surgery and short-stay surgery.
JODS accept following types of manuscripts:
Original articles (includes RCT, Cohort studies, Case-Control studies, Case Series and Surveys)
Review articles (Systematic Review and/or Meta-Analyses and Literature Reviews)
Audit / Quality Improvement Projects / Service Evaluation
Case Reports
"How I do it"
Day-Case Guides
Interviews with experts
Letters to Editor
Research projects must clearly state that ethics committee approval was sought where appropriate and that patients gave their consent to be included. Patients must not be identifiable unless their written consent has been obtained. If your work was conducted in the UK and you are unsure as to whether it is considered as research requiring approval from an NHS Research Ethics Committee (REC), please consult the NHS Health Research Authority decision tool at:
As of 7th November 2019, the JODS copyright transfer agreement must be signed. If your submission is via our electronic Open Journal Systems(OJS), you will have to agree to the Copyright Transfer when submitting. If you are submitting via email to the editor, please download the agreement from the resources section (tab) via the BADS website: Copyright transfer agreement
Each named author should complete and sign a copy. Scanned copies/legible photos should be sent via email together with the main manuscript to the JODS editor: jods@bads.co.uk
Any source of funding should be declared, and authors should also disclose any possible conflict of interest that might be relevant to their article.
Submissions are subject to peer review. Proofs will not normally be sent to authors and reprints are not available.
The first page should list all authors (including their first names), their job titles, the hospital(s) or unit(s) from where the work originates and should give a current contact address for the corresponding author.
The author should provide three or four keywords describing their article, which should be as informative as possible.
Abstract (ONLY APPLIES IF SUBMITTING VIA EMAIL)
An abstract of 250 words maximum summarising the manuscript should be provided and structured as follows: Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusions.
Main article structure
Manuscripts should be divided into the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions and References. Tables and figures should follow, with each on a separate page. Each table and figure should be accompanied by a legend that should be sufficiently informative as to allow it to be interpreted without reference to the main text.
All figures and graphs are reformatted to the standard style of the journal. If a manuscript includes such submission, particularly if exported from a spreadsheet (for example Microsoft Excel), a copy of the original data (or numbers) would assist the editorial process.
Copies of original photographs, as a JPEG or TIFF file, should be included as a separate enclosure, rather than embedding pictures within the text of the manuscript.
Tables, Figures and Graphs:
Tables constructed in MS Word can be left in their original MS Word file including the manuscript if this is where they were drawn.
Figures: Please submit any figures, graphs and images as separately attached files rather than embedding files into the word manuscript document. Please name the files FigX.jpg (ex. Fig1.jpg, Fig2.jpg etc)
Figures and graphs can be presented in colour but try to avoid 3-d effects, shading etc. Figures and graphs may be redrawn if the quality is not in keeping with the Journal. Please make it clear within the manuscript text where you would like tables, graphs or images to be placed in the finished article with the use of a brief explanatory legend in the manuscript file where you wish the item to be placed, e.g.
Table 1. Patient demographic details.
Figure 1. Proportion of procedures performed as a day-case each year between 2005 and 2018.
Photographs
Photographs can be provided as .jpg or .tiff files but should be included as a separate enclosure, rather than embedded within the text of the manuscript. This ensures higher quality images. However, we will accept images within Word documents, but image quality might suffer!
References
Please follow the Vancouver referencing style:
References in the reference list should be cited numerically in the order in which they appear in the text using Arabic numerals, e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4 etc.
The reference list should appear at the end of the paper. Begin your reference list on a new page and title it 'References.'
Cite articles in the manuscript text using numbers in parentheses and the end of phrases or sentences, e.g. (1,2)
The reference list should include all and only those references you have cited in the text. (However, do not include unpublished items such as correspondence).
Check the reference details against the actual source - you are indicating that you have read a source when you cite it.
Be consistent with your referencing style across the document.
Example of reference list:
Ravikumar R, Williams J. The operative management of gallstone ileus. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 2010;92:279–281.
Dybvig DD, Dybvig M. Det tenkende mennesket. Filosofi- og vitenskapshistorie med vitenskapsteori. 2nd ed. Trondheim: Tapir akademisk forlag; 2003.
Beizer JL, Timiras ML. Pharmacology and drug management in the elderly. In: Timiras PS, editor. Physiological basis of aging and geriatrics. 2nd ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press; 1994. p. 279-84.
Kwan I, Mapstone J. Visibility aids for pedestrians and cyclists: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials. Accid Anal Prev. 2004;36(3):305-12.
Barton CA, McKenzie DP, Walters EH, et al. Interactions between psychosocial problems and management of asthma: who is at risk of dying? J Asthma [serial on the Internet]. 2005 [cited 2005 Jun 30];42(4):249-56. Available from: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/.
[These guidelines were last revised on 20.09.2023]
Copyright Notice
Assignment of copyright in submissions to the Journal of One-Day Surgery
In consideration of the British Association of Day Surgery (“BADS”) reviewing for publication, and/or publishing, in the Journal of One Day Surgery (JODS) my article attached (“Article”), I hereby assign all copyright subsisting in the Article, to BADS.
If I have co-authored the Article I hereby assign my copyright to BADS and shall procure that my co-author(s) shall also assign their copyright in the Article to BADS.
If BADS does not publish the Article, it will send me written notice (by email) to that effect. On the date of the said notice of non-publication, copyright in the Article shall automatically assign back to me, and this agreement shall automatically terminate.
I hereby warrant that, as at the date of this assignment:
The Article is my original work, and has not been copied either wholly or substantially from any other work or any other source;
I have not assigned or licensed any of the rights assigned by this assignment;
So far as I am aware, the exploitation of the rights assigned by this assignment will not infringe the rights of any third party
BADS shall use my name in respect of my Article upon publication, but in assigning copyright (as described above) I hereby waive absolutely all moral rights in respect of the Article under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (and, so far as legally possible, any broadly equivalent rights in any territory of the world).
This assignment is governed by English law and the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it.
