About the Journal

Focus and scope

The Anesthesia journal accepts original manuscripts relating to the field of Vascular and cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, including: original research articles, case report and literature review articles in the scope of :

  • Cardiovascular Anesthesia
  • Thoracic Anesthesia
  • Pain Management in cardiothoracic anesthesia
  • Cardiac Intensive Care
  • Regional Anesthesia in cardiothoracic anesthesia
  • Echocardiography
  • Mechanical assist device
  • Heart lung machine/ Cardiopulmonary bypass
  • Cardiothoracic and vascular surgery

 

Publication Ethics

Indonesian Journal Vascular and Cardiothoracic Anesthesia have aim to be a leading peer-reviewed platform and an authoritative source of information. The following statement clarifies the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the editor, the reviewer, and the publisher. This statement is following the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE). We manage to perform a righteous peer-review with strict policies to assure a high standard of quality scientific studies published in this journal.

Duties of Authors:

  1. Reporting Standards: Authors should present an accurate account of the original research performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Researchers should present their result honestly and without fabrication, falsification, or inappropriate date manipulation. A manuscript should contain knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. Manuscripts should follow the submission guidelines of the journal.
  2. Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original work. The manuscript should not be submitted concurrently to more than one publication unless the editors have agreed to co-publication. Relevant previous work and publications, both by other researchers and the authors’ own, should be properly acknowledged and referenced. The primary literature should be cited where possible. Original wording taken directly from publications by other researchers should appear in quotation marks with the appropriate citations.
  3. Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publications: The author should not in general submit the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently. It is also expected that the author will not publish redundant manuscripts or manuscripts describing the same research in more than one journal. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Multiple publications arising from a single research project should be clearly identified as such and the primary publication should be referenced.
  4. Acknowledgment of Sources: author should acknowledgment all sources of data used in the research and cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given.
  5. Authorship of the Paper: The authorship of research publications should accurately reflect individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting. Authorship to the conception, design, execution, or interpretations must be listed as co-authors. In cases where major contributors are listed as authors while those who made less substantial, or purely technical, contributions to the research or to the publication are listed in an acknowledgment section. Authors also ensure that all the authors have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript and their inclusion of names as co-authors.
  6. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors should clearly disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
  7. Fundamental Errors in Published Work: If the author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in the submitted manuscript, then the author should promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
  8. Hazard and Human or Animal Subjects: The research being reported should have been conducted ethically and responsibly and should comply with all relevant legislation. The author should clearly identify in the manuscript if the work involves chemicals, procedures, or equipment that have any unusual hazard inherent in their use. All work must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki for Human experiments. Research involving animals should be conducted with the same rigor as research on humans. Authors should implement the 3Rs principles (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement). Authors must describe the details journals regarding study design and statistical analysis, experimental procedures, experimental animals, housing, and husbandry.
  9. Registration of Clinical Research: Clinical registration of the trail in a public registry is required. Registration of a trial must be at or before the enrollment of participants. This policy is in concert with that of the ICMJE.
  • Data access and retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data of their study together with the manuscript for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable.
  • Subject consent forms: Subject have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying details (written or photographic) should be omitted if they are not essential, but subject data should never be altered or falsified in an attempt to attain anonymity. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, and a consent from should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of subjects is inadequate protection of anonymity. When informed consent has been obtained, it should be indicated in the published article.
  • Ethics committee approval: authors must sign a declaration that the research was conducted within the guidelines below and under the terms of all relevant local legislation. The Editors reserve the right to judge the appropriateness of the use and treatment of humans or animals in experiments for publication in the journal

  Duties of Editor

  1. Publication Decisions: Based on the review report of the editorial board, the editor can accept, reject or request modification to the manuscript. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision. Editors have to take responsibility for everything they publish and should have procedures and policies in place to ensure the quality of the material they publish and maintain the integrity of the published record.
  2. Review of Manuscripts: Editor must ensure that each manuscript is initially evaluated by the editor for originality. The editor should organize and use peer review fairly and wisely. Editor should organize and use peer review processes in the information for authors and also indicate which parts of the journal are peer-reviewed. Editors should use appropriate peer reviewers for papers that are considered for publication by selecting people with sufficient expertise and avoiding those with conflicts of interest.
  3. Fair Play: The editor must ensure that each manuscript received by the journal is reviewed for its intellectual content without regard to the sex, gender, race, religion, citizenship, etc. of the authors. An important part of the responsibility to make fair and unbiased decisions is the upholding of the principle of editorial independence and integrity. Editors are in a powerful position by making decisions on publications, which makes it very important that this process is as fair and unbiased as possible.
  4. Confidentiality: The editor must ensure that information regarding manuscript submitted by the authors is kept confidential. Editors should critically assess any potential breaches of data protection and patient confidentiality. This includes requiring properly informed consent for the actual research presented, and consent for publication where applicable.
  5. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: The editors of the Journal will not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for his own research without the written consent of the author. Editors should not be involved in decisions about papers in which they have a conflict of interest.

 

Duties of Reviewers

  1. Confidentiality: Information regarding manuscripts submitted by authors should be kept confidential and treated as privileged information. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.
  2. Acknowledgment of Sources: Reviewers must ensure that authors have acknowledged all sources of data used in the research. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument citation. The reviewers should notify the journal immediately if they come across any irregularities, have concerns about ethical aspects of the work, are aware of substantial similarity between the manuscript and a concurrent submission to another journal or a publishes article, or suspect that misconduct may have occurred during either the research or the writing and submission of the manuscript: reviewers should, however, keep their concerns confidential and not personally investigate further unless the journal asks for further information or advice.
  3. Standards of Objectivity: The review of submitted manuscripts must be done

Objectively and the reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments. The reviewers should follow journals’ instructions on the specific feedback that is required of them unless there are good reasons not to. The reviewers should be constructive in their reviews and provide feedback that will help the authors to improve their manuscript. The reviewer should make clear which suggested additional investigations are essential to support claims made in the manuscript under consideration and which will just strengthen or extend the work.

  1. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscript in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationship or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers. In the case of double-blind review, if they suspect the identity of the author(s) notify the journal if this knowledge raises any potential conflict of interest.
  2. Promptness: The reviewers should respond in a reasonable time frame. The reviewers only agree to review a manuscript if they are fairly confident they can return a review within the proposed or mutually agreed time frame, informing the journal promptly if they require an extension. In the event that a reviewer feels it is not possible for him/her to complete a review of the manuscript within the stipulated time then this information must be communicated to the editor so that the manuscript could be sent to another reviewer.
  3. Contribution to editorial decisions: Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions, and through editorial communications with authors, may assist authors in improving the manuscripts. Peer review is a heart a scientific endeavor.

 

Article Processing Charges

There is no article processing charge for publication in the Indonesian Journal Vascular and Cardiothoracic Anesthesia (INVACTA)

 

Plagiarism Check

This journal does not accept any plagiarism in any manuscripts or it will be rejected immediately. Plagiarism screening will be conducted by INVACTA Editorial Board using Turnitin Plagiarism Checker. The manuscript is passed if the similarity is less than 20%. Any manuscript that does not meet this requirement must be revised by its authors prior to the re-submission. The plagiarism check is continued until the manuscript passed the requirement.

 

Manuscript Template

 

All manuscript submitted to the journal must be written in English and Indonesian between ten and twelve pages in length in a one-column format. The author’s responsibility to ensure that the language of submitted material is of appropriate clarity and quality and must be free of typing errors. Manuscripts must be typed on a word processer and submitted in the form of a soft copy file (doc / docx), not allowed in pdf form.

The obligatory Time New Roman Font should be size 14 pt for the title and 12 pt for all other section of text. Headline should be written in bold type with any Latin names presented in italics. Manuscripts must be of A4 format typed with one and a half space between lines and a 2.5 cm 1 inch)- wide margin.

Each section must be written consistently. Subtitles are not allowed in each section except in the review section of the Review article. Sentences with a list of numbers or letters in each section are not allowed. It should be written in paragraphs. Authors are strongly advised to follow the manuscript templates provided below. Please use the following manuscript template to start submitting to our journal.

 

Author Guideline

 General Conditions

  1. The editorial board of the Indonesian Journal Vascular and Cardiothoracic Anesthesia accepts articles on Vascular and Cardiothoracic Anesthesia in the form of Research Reports, Case Reports, Literature Reviews, and Letters to the Editor.
  2. Manuscripts that are considered for publication are complete manuscripts that have not been published in other national magazines.
  3. Manuscripts that have been published in the proceedings of scientific meetings can still be accepted if they receive written approval from the organizing committee, given a description of the name, place and time of the meeting.
  4. The copyright of the entire content of the published manuscript belongs to the publisher, and the entire content may not be produced in any form without the permission of the publisher.
  5. All statements in the manuscript are the responsibility of the author.
  6. The publisher has the right to make edits to the manuscript in terms of style, form and clarity without changing the content.
  7. Unpublished manuscripts will be returned to the author upon prior request.
  8. The manuscripts are written by following the rules of good and correct Indonesian.
  9. Medical terms should be used in the prevailing Indonesian language as much as possible.

 

Script Form

  1. Manuscripts are typed in Times New Roman 12 font, double-spaced, 2.5 cm margins, and A4 paper size (210x297 mm).
  2. Clinical and basic medical research manuscripts are no longer than 30 pages.
  3. The literature review and case report should be no more than 20 pages.
  4. The reader’s letter is no longer than 1 page.

 

Completeness of the Manuscript

  1. Manuscripts typed in document format (doc or docx) to the specified email.
  2. The manuscripts are arranged in the order of 1) tile and author, 2) abstract and keywords, 3) contents, 4) acknowledgements, if any, 5) references and 6) table of figures with captions.
  3. Authors are expected to keep a copy of the entire manuscript.

 

Title and Author

  1. The title of the manuscript is written without using abbreviations. Indonesian title, no more than 20 words; English title no more than 16 words.
  2. The author’s name is written in full with the academic degree, department and institution name, as well as one correspondence address and e-mail address of the author.

 

Abstracts and Keywords

  1. Abstracts are written in both Bahasa Indonesia and English and should be no longer than 250 words.
  2. Research Abstract: no more than 250 words. It consists of IMRAD (introduction, method, result, and discussion). The introduction contains the background and purpose of the research, the method contains the subject and method, the result contains the most important result, and the discussion ends with a conclusion.
  3. Abstract of Case Report: consists of an introduction, case, discussion, and conclusion.
  4. Literature Review Abstract: consists of introduction, content, and conclusion.
  5. Keywords consist of 3-5 words in Indonesian and English.

 

 

Contents

  1. The content of the research paper: 1) introduction, 2) methods, 3) result and discussion, 4) conclusions and suggestions.
  2. Contents of a case report script: 1) introduction, 2) case report, 3) discussion, 4) conclusion.
  3. Content of the literature review: 1) introduction, 2) literature review content, 3) closing.
  4. Unusual abbreviations and footnotes are not permitted.
  5. Inclusion of reference numbers, figure numbers, and tables are arranged in the order in which they appear in the manuscript.
  6. Use superscript Arabic numerals to refer to the references.

 

Table and Drawings

  1. Tables and figures are presented on separate sheets and mentioned in the manuscript's narrative.
  2. The table's title is placed on top; each is annotated with the number written in Arabic numerals.
  3. Each abbreviation in the table is described according to the number registered with Arabic numerals
  4. Images are numbered with Arabic numerals, and the name/description is placed below the image.
  5. The captions on figures and tables should be informative enough to be easily understood.
  6. Tables and figures must be no more than six pieces.

 

Statistical Methods

The statistical methods used should be described in the methodology chapter. Rarely used methods should be described in detail and referenced.

 

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgements are limited to technical and/or financial assistance and support from institutional leaders.

 

Bibliography

  1. The bibliography is compiled in accordance with the Vancouver provisions, with a minimum of 10 pieces and a maximum of 30 pieces. It is in the form of recent references within the last 8 years.
  2. References are numbered in the order in which they appear in the text.
  3. Avoid the use of abstracts and personal communication unless necessary.
  4. Journal names are abbreviated as listed in Index Medicus.
  5. Example of writing a reference list: Article in a Book Journal “ et al “ if more than six authors. Example: Bateman BT, Mhyre JM, Ehrenfeld J, Kheterpal S, Abbey KR, Argalious M, et al. The risk and outcomes of epidural hematomas after perioperative and obstetric epidural catheterization: a report from the multicenter perioperative outcomes group research consortium. Anesth analg 2013; 116: 1380-5.
  6. Organizations as authors: for example, The Heart failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group. The current state of knowledge on etiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of peripartum cardiomyopathy. Eur J Heart Fail 2010; 12: 767-78.
  7. Without author name: for example, Cancer in South Africa (editorial). Afr Med J 1994; 84: 15.
  8. Books and Monographs Individual authors: Norris MC. Handbook of Obstetric Anesthesia. 2000. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
  9. Chapter in a book: e.g., Eldridge J. Obstetric anesthesia and analgesia. In: Alman KG, Wilson IH (eds). Oxford Handbook of Anesthesia, 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2014; 2014: 735-98. Authoring and publishing organizations: Institute of Medicine (US). Looking at the future of the Medicaid Program. Washington (DC) : The Institute, 1992.