Authors' Guidelines

Dear author, 

Welcome to Thieme!

We are pleased that you intend to publish an article in a Thieme journal.

Thieme is an international medical and science publisher of books, journals, electronic products and services. For many decades now, Thieme represents reliable quality and integrity. With your publication, you will benefit from a peer review on the highest level and you will reach a broad professional audience.

To make the submission process as efficient as possible, some important information is given below.

We are looking forward to the submission of your manuscript!

Please note: We only accept manuscripts that have not yet been published or submitted elsewhere.

If the content of your article has already been presented orally at a conference, please note this with reference to the type, place, and date of the meeting. The corresponding author must make sure that the remaining authors agree with the publication of the article in the version presented. With the acceptance of the manuscript, the publisher acquires rights of use for the duration of the legal protection period.

Publication Languages

English or German.

This following section does inform you about:

• Thieme’s Journal Policies
• Artificial Intelligence and Authorship
• General Information for Authors
• Special Authors' guidelines for “Sportverletzung Sportschaden” (SVSS)
• Submission – online submission system

Thieme's Journal Policies

For the Thieme Group, the integrity of our content and publishing process is of the utmost importance. When preparing your manuscript for submission, please ensure that you have read and understood Thieme's  Journal Policies in all its parts. Our specific guidelines and policies for authors on research integrity and ethics are based on the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and, where appropriate, the International Council of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME) and other relevant industry agencies.

Artificial Intelligence and Authorship

Thieme aligns itself with the COPE Position Statement on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Authorship.

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools must not be listed as authors, as they do not fulfil all criteria for authorship. They cannot take responsibility for the integrity and the content of paper, and they cannot take on legal responsibility. Instead, GenAI use must be transparently documented in the Acknowledgements or Material and Methods sections.

General Information for Authors

In addition to the specific author guidelines for SVSS (see below), please note the following general author information.

Journal Authors Lounge

Our Author Lounge will provide you with all the useful information you’ll need- from finding a journal to publishing and promoting your article.

In the author's lounge, we have summarized all the information step by step on the following aspects:

1. Find a journal
2. Prepare your manuscript
3. Open Access
4. Submission
5. Peer Review
6. Publication
7. Promotion

Please follow the Link Author Lounge.

Authors’ guidelines specific for “Sportverletzung Sportschaden / Sports Injuries and Sports Traumatology” (SVSS)

The necessary components of your manuscript and formal guidelines are listed in the following document (PDF)

General author guidelines (pdf-file for download)

The formal requirements your manuscript must meet are explained in our general author guidelines for original contributions, review articles or scientific case reports. You can download our general author guidelines as a PDF document Please, follow the link ARL_Wiss_Publikation_engl.pdf

In this document, we have compiled the formal requirements for the following points:

• Figures: rights of use / copyright / personal rights
• Scientific vocabulary
• Code names / fake names / fictional personal data
• Bibliography (If you are working with citation management software (Endnote, Zotero, Mendeley), please use the output style "Thieme-English". It is available in the relevant software or can be downloaded here.
• Open Access
• Legal aspects
• Ethical aspects
• Financial support
• Submitting your manuscript
• Peer review of your manuscript
• Author’s proofs and approval
• Electronic reprint for personal use
• Check List — Structure of your article

The most important general guidelines are summarized next:

Figures

Unfortunately, we cannot accept images that have already been published in books, journals, or electronic products of other publishers. That is because it is almost impossible to obtain the necessary rights of use even when licensing fees are paid. Therefore, please do not pay any licensing fees (e.g. to "RightsLink" / Copyright Clearance Center). Standard license contracts from “Creative Commons" are unfortunately also insufficient for our purposes. Please contact us if you have any questions regarding the use of images.

We cannot accept or store illustrations in which personal data of third parties are included. Please submit images in completely anonymous form, free of personal data only! Such data may not only be directly visible in the image (e.g., a patient name or a date of birth in an X-ray image); they can also be included in the metadata of the image, which is accessible with the appropriate software. They may also be obscured by a cropping feature (such as Powerpoint or Word), but can be made visible underneath. If you have questions about data protection regulations, please contact us before submitting your manuscript.

File format und general requirements

Please submit your material in the following form:

• Text and tables: MS Word (*.doc, *.docx)
• Figures: each figure as separate image file (*.jpg, *.tif, *.png), for drawings and graphics also MS Word or Powerpoint. Minimum resolution: 300 dpi at 8,5 cm width (1000 pixel width)
• Videos: preferred file format *.mp4, *.avi or *.mov, file size max. 5 MB per video
• Audio files: preferred file format *.wav
• The text may contain enumerations in max. 3 levels.
• Boxes: please always provide a title

Forms

Please indicate possible conflicts of interest by downloading, filling in and sending the following signed form to the publisher:

Conflict of interest declaration (PDF)

The personal rights of people who are recognizable on images must be protected. Please provide a written consent form for publication signed by every recognizable person. For persons under 18 years of age / persons supervised, please provide the signature of both parents / the legal guardian /supervisor. A suitable declaration of consent form can be obtained in our authors’ lounge.

Special Authors' guidelines for Sports Injuries and Sports Traumatology (SVSS)

Aims and Scopes

Our journal SVSS aims to support the knowledge distribution in the field of sports injuries and sports traumatology by publishing original research that contributes to the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of these fields.

The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to:

• Basic research, prevention, and rehabilitation
• Depiction of injuries/prevention in trend sports
• Physiotherapy, science and applied research
• New products, aids, devices and equipment
• Sports traumatology:
  • Back-to-Sports research
• The most important areas of sports physiotherapy:
  • fundamentals, biomechanics, manual therapy, functional therapy, training therapy in sports, equipment, trends

SVSS publishes original papers, reviews and case reports and letters to the editor.

Original articles

Original papers present novel findings, are well-structured, and include comprehensive data and analysis. They follow a format that includes an abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and references (for details on structure see section Special Authors' guidelines for SVSS below).

Reviews

Review articles provide comprehensive, critical assessments of existing literature in the field of sports injury and sports traumatology. They aim to summarize current knowledge, identify gaps, and propose future research directions. These articles are valuable for synthesizing information and guiding both clinical practice and further research.

Case Report

Case reports will be published as short communications. Therefore, strict guidelines and limitations are necessary. The case should be presented in a manner that clearly highlights its uniqueness. Extensive introductions and discussions should be avoided. Specific guidelines and limitations are described here.

Letter to the Editor

They may also present unique clinical cases, preliminary research findings.

Special Authors' guidelines for SVSS - formal requirements

You can download the SVSS-specific guidelines as a PDF document Please, follow the link  document (PDF). The necessary components of your manuscript and formal guidelines are listed in this document. In this document, we have compiled the specific requirements for “Original Article”, “Review”, “Case Report”, and “Letter to the Editor” which cover the following points:

• Authors and Institutions
• Abstract (submitted in English AND German)
• Keywords
• Text size
• Main Document Structure and Size
• Conflict of Interest
• Acknowledgement
• Legends
• Figures Limitations
• Tables
• References for cited literature

Submission – online submission system

Please use our online submission system: SVSS Editorial Manager

For technical questions, e.g. for image usage or EditorialManager manuscripts please contact sport@thieme.de

After submission, manuscripts pass through a double anonymized peer review process.

During submission

In case of submitting a revision of your manuscript

Save your peer-reviewed word-file on your local hard drive. Make your changes transparent by using “Track Changes” in MS Word. (To activate the “Track Changes” function in Word, go to “Tools” → “Track Changes” → “Highlight Changes”. Activate all check boxes in the “Highlight Changes” window.)

Authors and Institutions

Entry only in specified input fields during submission - do not include in main text document.

Title

Entry only in specified input fields during submission - do not include in main text document.

Abstract

Entry only in the specified input field during submission in Editorial Manager - do not include in main text document. Please do not upload it as a separate file during the file upload, except for corrections in revisions

Keywords

Entry only in specified input fields during submission in Editorial Manager.

Main text manuscript

Upload a docx-file of the manuscript with reference list (without summary, figures and tables) as one word document. Item is: Main Document.

For Revision: Use the Word feature „track changes“ to mark your modifications

Figures

Upload in Editorial Manager individually.

The File item: Image

Figure legends including figure number should be entered in the appropriate field during the file upload – look for “Caption/Legend” during file upload.

Tables

Upload in Editorial Manager individually.

The File Item is: Table

Videos

The File Item is: supplementary file

Author’s correction, imprimatur, specimen copy

The corresponding author will receive the galley proofs as a PDF file. He is fully responsible for the correctness of the final version that he / she releases for publication. After sending in the copyright transfer agreement, changes by the authors are no longer possible.

After publication, the corresponding author receives a free electronic reprint (PDF file). Authors may use it for the professional exchange with colleagues and are free to upload the file on their personal homepage. Please note that all further use of this PDF is subject to approval by the publisher. Especially any commercial use or deposition of the file in repositories (e.g. document servers of libraries and other institutions) is prohibited.