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Author Instructions

acquisition of funding, general supervision of a research group, general administrative support, writing assistance, technical
editing, language editing, proofreading, etc.) should be acknowledged in the section of Acknowledgement in the manuscript
rather than being listed as authors.

If a large multiple-author group has conducted the work, the group ideally should decide who will be authors before the
work starts and confirm authors before submission. All authors of the group named as authors must meet all the four criteria
for authorship.

5. Reviewers Exclusions

You are welcome to exclude a limited number of researchers as potential editors or reviewers of your manuscript. To ensure
a fair and rigorous peer review process, we ask that you keep your exclusions to a maximum of three people. If you wish
to exclude additional referees, please explain or justify your concerns—this information will be helpful for editors when
deciding whether to honor your request.

6. Editors and Journal Staff as Authors
Editorial independence is extremely important and OAE does not interfere with editorial decisions. Editorial staff or
editors shall not be involved in the processing their own academic work. Submissions authored by editorial staff/editors
will be assigned to at least two independent outside reviewers. Decisions will be made by other editorial board members
who do not have conflict of interests with the author. Journal staffs are not involved in the processing of their own work
submitted to any OAE journals.
7. Conflict of Interests

OAE journals require authors to declare any possible financial and/or non-financial conflicts of interest at the end of their
manuscript and in the cover letter, as well as confirm this point when submitting their manuscript in the submission system.
If no conflicts of interest exist, authors need to state “The authors declare no conflicts of interest”. We also recognize that
some authors may be bound by confidentiality agreements, in which cases authors need to sate “The authors declare that
they are bound by confidentiality agreements that prevent them from disclosing their competing interests in this work”.
8. Editorial Process

8.1 Initial check
8.1.1 Initial manuscript check
New submissions are initially checked by the Managing Editor from the perspectives of originality, suitability, structure
and formatting, conflicts of interest, background of authors, etc. Poorly-prepared manuscripts may be rejected at this stage.
If your manuscript does not meet one or more of these requirements, we will return it for further revisions. The Academic
Editor, i.e., the Editor-in-Chief in the case of regular submissions, the Guest Editor in the case of special issue submissions,
or an Editorial Board member in the case of a conflict of interest, will be notified of the submission and invited to check
and recommend reviewers.

8.1.2 Publishing ethics
All manuscripts submitted to Mini-invasive Surgery are screened using iThenticate powered by CrossCheck to identify
any plagiarized content. Your study must also meet all ethical requirements as outlined in our Editorial Policies. If the
manuscript does not pass any of these checks, we may return it to you for further revisions or decline to consider your study
for publication.

8.2 Editorial assessment
Once your manuscript has passed the initial check, our editorial team will assign it to an Academic Editor, i.e., the Editor-
in-Chief in the case of regular submissions, the Guest Editor in the case of Special Issue submissions, or an Editorial
Board Member in case of a conflict of interest, who will be notified of the submission and invited to check and recommend
reviewers. The Academic Editors may reject manuscripts that they deem highly unlikely to pass peer review without
further consultation.

8.3 Process
Mini-invasive Surgery operates a single-blind review process. The technical quality of the research described in the
manuscript is assessed by a minimum of two independent expert reviewers. The Academic Editor is responsible for the
final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of the manuscript. For controversial manuscripts, the Editor-in-Chief is
responsible for making the final decision.

8.4 Decisions
Your research will be judged on technical soundness only, not on its perceived impact as judged by editors or referees.
There are three possible decisions: Accept (your study satisfies all publication criteria), Invitation to Revise (more work is