Policies

These pages are generated from the journal's configuration — the same objects the submission platform enforces. They describe what the software actually does, not what the editorial office intends.

• Peer review

  How review is run, declared on the three NISO Z39.106 axes rather than in the words "double blind".

• Ethics and patient consent

  Consent for publication of a video, de-identification, authorship and conflicts of interest.

• Corrections, retractions and appeals

  What happens when something published turns out to be wrong — including what happens to the video.

• Data, video and the corpus

  What happens to the recording, and the separate consent that governs it.

• Preservation and archiving

  Where the content survives the publisher.

• Transparency

  The journal answered against the 16 Principles of Transparency and Best Practice.

• Indexing status

  Where every application stands, dated and honest.

• Journal statistics

  Turnaround times and acceptance rate, computed from the record.