For authors

There is no manuscript template. You answer a structured form and the article is generated from your answers — which is also how the chapter track, the coded clinical metadata and the deposit records are produced, from one act of authorship rather than four.

What you will need before you start

The recording, edited, with room audio removed and narration added as a separate voiceover.
Written consent from the patient for publication of the case and the video, on a form that says so. The patient must have been shown the edited recording before you submit it.
Your institution's ethics position — the approval reference if one was issued, or the statement that your committee does not review single cases.
The endoscopic detail: indication, preparation, instrument, optical modes, lesion classification under the relevant published lexicon, resection outcome, adverse events under the ASGE lexicon, follow-up.
ORCID iDs for every author. Required, not encouraged.

Article types

Video case report — up to 1200 words, video up to 8 minutes. A single instructive case. The video carries the technique; the text carries the indication, the decision, the outcome and what the reader should take away.
Video technique article — up to 1800 words, video up to 12 minutes. A described, reproducible technique demonstrated across one or more cases, with the equipment, the settings and the decision points stated explicitly enough to be followed.
Adverse event and rescue — up to 1500 words, video up to 10 minutes. A complication and its management, shown. Submissions in this category are reviewed with the same rigour and are not treated as lesser work; the journal actively solicits them, because the literature's silence about what goes wrong is a patient-safety problem rather than an editorial one.

The video

Submissions are made through this platform. The manuscript is generated from a structured form rather than uploaded as a document, so there is no template to download and no formatting to match.
Narration may be in Arabic or English. English subtitles are produced by the journal and are mandatory.
Background music is not accepted at any point in the recording. Room audio must be removed and replaced with a post-hoc voiceover, because operating-room audio routinely carries names.

Resolution. Submit at 1080p or better. We publish at up to 1080p. This is not a formality: the major video journals in this field currently stream endoscopic procedures at 360p to 720p, which is not enough to show a submucosal plane, and we are not going to do that.

Chapters are the point

You mark each procedure step once — a start time, a phase, a description. Those marks become the chapter track a reader jumps through on the published page, the step list in the video caption, the Technique section of the article, and the temporal annotations in the corpus record. Marking them carefully is the single highest-value thing you can do for the readability of your article, and it is the thing that makes a fifteen-minute recording usable to somebody who wants only the closure.

De-identification

Every recording is checked for identifiers before it can be accepted: burned-in patient details from the processor, faces and badges in out-of-body frames, monitors visible in the room, dates, and identifiers written into the video file's own metadata by the endoscopy stack. The check is signed by one person and counter-signed by a second, and the platform will not accept a sign-off that is not counter-signed by someone else. Nothing publishes without it.

What happens after you submit

A technical check by the editorial office — completeness, consent, video usability.
De-identification review, signed and counter-signed.
Assignment to a handling editor, then editor triage. A submission may be rejected here without review.
Peer review — 2 completed reports are required before any decision to accept.
Decision, revision if requested, then acceptance, production, your proof, and publication.

Targets the journal holds itself to: Technical check — 3 days; De-identification review — 3 days; Awaiting handling editor — 2 days; Editor triage — 5 days; Under peer review — 21 days; Decision pending — 7 days; Revision requested — 45 days; In production — 7 days; Author proof — 5 days; Under investigation — 30 days. Our actual performance against them is published.

Charges

There is no article processing charge and no submission fee. The journal is underwritten by the Saudi Gastroenterology Association, so that "free" has a stated source rather than being a claim. No article charge for the first 24 months. Thereafter a fellowship-funded route remains free; an optional charge applies to unfunded submissions. The current position holds until 2028-12-31.

Your rights

You keep copyright. The article is published under CC BY 4.0, which lets anyone reuse it with attribution. Reuse of the video in a machine-learning corpus is a separate question and a separate consent: see data and corpus. Declining it does not affect the handling of your article in any way.