International Journal of Regional Anaesthesia welcomes articles that contribute to Anaesthesia knowledge from all countries. Articles are accepted only for exclusive publication in the International Journal of Regional Anaesthesia. Previously published articles, even those in peer-reviewed electronic publications, are not accepted by the Journal. Published articles and illustrations become the property of the Journal. All studies should be carried out in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with the “Uniform requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journal” developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (April 2010). The uniform requirements and specific requirements of the International Journal of Regional Anaesthesia are summarized below. Before sending a manuscript contributors are requested to check for the latest instructions available. Instructions are also available from the website of the journal and from the manuscript submission site (Click Here).

The Editorial Process

The manuscript will be reviewed for possible publication with the understanding that they are being submitted to one journal at a time and has not been published, simultaneously submitted, or already accepted for publication elsewhere. Violation may lead to serious action against authors as per COPE guidelines.
The Editorial Board will review all submitted manuscripts initially.
Manuscripts that seem to lack scientific message or content are rejected at first instance. Journal will not return unaccepted manuscripts.
Manuscripts that are not formatted as per journal guidelines will be sent for correct formatting before the review process
The manuscript that gets approval from the editorial board and is formatted as per guidelines, will be sent for peer review by at least two expert reviewers [this number may exceed in cases where we do not get a definitive answer by two reviews]. The review process is blinded for the author, Institution, or place of origin of the manuscript. The journal wishes to publish the names of all our reviewers, however, the reviewers’ names will be kept blinded
The editorial team takes a final decision based on the comments received from the reviewers and also from the section editors
The contributors are usually informed about the reviewers’ comments and acceptance/rejection within a period of 8-10 weeks. This period may get extended in cases where more than two opinions are needed.
Articles accepted would be copy-edited for grammar, punctuation, print style, and format. All articles will also be rewritten by the Editorial team and a final copy will be sent to authors for approval
Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author, which has to be returned within 4 days.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
The International Journal of Regional Anaesthesia follows the COPE (Committee for Publication Ethics) Guidelines and decisions about duplicate publication, plagiarism, and article retraction are taken as per COPE Flowcharts. [Click Here to Download COPE Flowcharts]. All Authors need to report that their manuscript is an original publication and should sign the contributors’ form and conflict of interest form for each publication.

International Journal of Regional Anaesthesia has the following salient points on Ethics and Malpractice

1. Publication and authorship:
– list of funding agencies, financial support is to be disclosed
– no plagiarism, no fraudulent data;
– forbidden to publish the same research in more than one journal.

2. Author’s responsibilities:
– All authors are obliged to participate in the peer-review process;
– All authors have to significantly contribute to the research;
– Statement that all data in the article are real and authentic is to be given by all authors
– All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.

3. Peer review/responsibility for the reviewers:
– Judgments should be objective;
– reviewers should have no conflict of interest with respect to the research, the authors, and/or the research funders;
– reviewers should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited;
– reviewed articles should be treated confidentially.

More details on Peer Review can be found HERE

4. Editorial responsibilities:
– e.g. editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article;
– editors have no conflict of interest with respect to articles they reject/accept;
– only accept a paper when reasonably certain;
– when errors are found, promote the publication of correction or retraction;
– preserve the anonymity of reviewers.

International Journal of Regional Anaesthesia follows the Editorial responsibilities as noted by COPE guidelines: Click Here

5. Publishing ethics issues
– Monitoring/safeguarding publishing ethics by editorial board;
– Guidelines for retracting articles are as per the COPE guidelines
– Maintain the integrity of the academic record;
– Journal is always willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
– no plagiarism, no fraudulent data.

Open Access Policy

Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing
This is an open-access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
Self-archiving of pre-print and post-print and publisher’s version/PDF is allowed freely.

Publication Policies

Ethics: Although the staff at the International Journal of Regional Anaesthesia journals department and the journal editors may be able to note a breach of publication policy or ethical conduct after publication, we rely heavily on the reviewers to detect such problems before publication. International Journal of Regional Anaesthesia publication policies are described in the Instructions to Authors, which are available online. Some of the items for which you should be alert include:

Plagiarism – Plagiarism is not limited to the Results and Discussion sections; it can involve any part of the manuscript, including figures and tables, in which material is copied from another publication without attestation, reference, or permission. Note that wording does not have to be exact to be copyright infringement; the use of very similar words in almost the same sequence can also be infringement. Data themselves are not copyrightable, but their presentation is.
Missing or incomplete attestation – Authors must give appropriate credit to ideas, concepts, and data that have been published previously. This is accomplished by the inclusion of references. Missing, incomplete, or incorrect references must be brought to the editor’s attention.
Dual submission and/or publication – Be wary of attempts to submit/publish similar material more than once. This is often difficult to detect “before the fact,” but checking literature citations, as well as having a critical eye, is helpful.
Conflicts of interest – If you are aware of any commercial affiliations, consultancies, stock or equity interests, or patent-licensing arrangements on the part of the authors, bring them to the attention of the editor.
Note that similar conflicts of interest on your part must also be brought to the attention of the editor, who may, at his discretion, subsequently cancel your invitation to review the manuscript. If one of the manuscript authors is at your institution, there could be a perceived conflict of interest, and you should immediately contact the editor so that another individual can be invited to review the manuscript in your place.

In summary, you must communicate suspicions of policy or ethics problems directly to the editor, who in turn will contact the editor in chief. Under no circumstance should you contact the author directly. International Journal of Regional Anaesthesia has policies for investigation and resolution of such problems and these must be followed.

For any queries contact at editor.regional.anaesthesia@gmail.com