Special issues guidelines

Journal of Bone and Joint Infection (JBJI) offers an efficient new way of publishing special issues, which are commonly the result of a session or multiple sessions at conferences, but they can also be from a small group of people that came to the conclusion that a special issue on a given subject or theme would be appropriate. The individual papers are peer-reviewed according to the same quality criteria as regular submissions and published as soon as they are available in regular issues, but they are then labelled as part of the special issue and linked electronically.

The specific advantages are the following:

• Publication date is not delayed by the latest paper that is behind in the peer-review process: every individual contribution to the special issue is published as soon as it is available.
• All contributions are efficiently linked and coherently presented on dedicated special issue web pages (an appropriate logo is welcome as a *.jpg file), easily accessible from the JBJI library (chronological volumes and issues).

Special issue proposal

To make arrangements for a special issue (SI), please contact the editors-in-chief and provide the following information:

• title of the special issue;
• start date & end date for submissions;
• a statement of the purpose of the special issue, whether it arises out of a conference, and whether it will include only invited papers or is open for all submissions within its scope.