Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

APSP Journal of Case Reports is owned and published by The Association of Paediatric Surgeons of Pakistan (Registered). APSP J Case Rep is an open access, peer reviewed electronic journal. 

Our primary mission is to provide a portal for residents in training and junior consultants to get their research published. This shall be a learning opportunity as well. It will also help in developing research culture.

APSP J Case Rep requires the expressed transfer of copyright to the publisher so that protection from the misuse of copyrighted material is ensured.

All articles appearing in this publication, including editorials, letters etc represent the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or opinions of the APSP. Acceptance of any and all articles and advertisement in this publication or any other material published by APSP Journal of Case Reports does not imply endorsement by the publisher or APSP.


APSP J Case Rep disclaims any liability to any party for the accuracy, completeness, or availability of any and all publications and other material, or for any damages arising out of the use or nonuse of this publication, and any and all publications (and other material), and any information  (and other material), and any information contained therein. 

 

Section Policies

Editorial

This type of manuscipt is usually reserved for editorial team and invited ones. However, before submitting editorial team should be contacted for preliminary approval.

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Case Reports

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Letter to the Editor

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Images

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

APSP Journal of Case Reports is a peer reviewed journal. It follows double blind review i.e. both the authors and reviewers are kept unidentified during review. Every manuscript is sent to atleast two reviewers. In case of conflict in the review, a third review from a third reviewer can be performed to resolve the problem. Atleast one external peer review and one internal editorial review is mandatoy to reach the decision.

Reviewer Guidelines

Please log in to your account with username and password provided during registration.

If you have forgotten your password please use "Forget Password" option given on the log in page and reset your password by a two-step process. Upon your request for password, you will be asked for providing email address which one was used during registration process. After that a link will be emailed to the user. On clicking the link, an other email containing the new password will be sent to the user. With that password, a new password can be reset after logging in.

After logging in, click on the active manuscripts "number, like 1" which would take you to the manuscripts to be reviewed. Click on the title of manuscript which would lead to the main reviewer page containing manuscript information and review steps 1-7 in number.

Step 1: Click on the "envelop icon" for  "will do the review" to email the editor to indicate your willingness. or vice versa.

Step 3: After accepting review, the step 2 will show the manuscript file along with supplementary files (Figures and tables). The reviewer can download these files and review these. Reviewers can download review forms for Case Reports, Letter to Editor, Images

Step 4: Indicate competing interests if any.

Step 5: Give your comments for authors and editors separately.

Step 6: Upload comments file, or reviewer form, or manuscript file with suggested changes in step 5.

Step 7: Select one of your recommendations and click “Submit review to editor”

Please read the reviewer section of “Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement” for journal’s policy on it.

Please also read “Review policy” of the Journal.

 

 

 

Publication Frequency

APSP Journal of Case Reports Now publishes 4 issues per year (Sep-2017 onward).

 

First Issue (Jan-March) is published on Last week of January

Second Issue (Apr-Jun) is published on Last week of April 

Third Issue (Jul-Sep) is published on last week of July

Fourth Issue (Oct-Dec) is published on last week of October

 

The editorial team tries its best to comply the time schedule, however a delay of 5-10 days may occur in case of some publishing related delays.

 

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...