This is a national scientific journal of the Czech Surgical Society, to which also contribute Slovak and other international experts.
In addition to the original surgical work, both clinical and experimental articles are provided.
Doctors of all surgical specialties are welcome to publish.
The journal also publishes reports national and international surgical meetings, presents new books and announces updates form Czech Surgical Society.

The first issue of our journal entitled "Perspectives in Surgery and Gynaecology" was published on the occasion of the 1st Congress of the Czechoslovak Society of Surgical Gynaecology in Prague on April 2-4, 1921. Since 1936, after the Czechoslovak Gynaecology Society was established, both scientific issues were fully separated and the journal has been called Perspectives in Surgery.Perspectives in surgery is a peer reviewed journal of the Czech Surgical Society acknowledged by the Government Council for Science and Research. It is registered in 6 international databases, especially in the U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (PubMed / MEDLINE). Our ajournal is mainly focused on original papers, review articles, case and other reports related to the field of surgery published in Czech, Slovak and English language.It is published monthly and available for members of the Czech Surgical Society as a part of their membership. However, even non-members can subscribe for receiving printed version of the journal. Czech Medical Society JEP is an official owner of the journal and publication is provided by service organization of the Czech Surgical Society "Chirurgie-servis z.s.".To meet the criteria of high-quality scientific journal and in order to improve the service for authors, reviewers and editorial board, Perspectives in Surgery has been using a new online management and publishing system since January 2018.

Chief editor
chief.editor@perspinsurg.com

Authorship, ethical considerations and reporting guidelines

Authorship
Only those who have contributed substantially to the overall concept of the manuscript, data interpretation or the revision of the text, and who agree with the final version, can be mentioned as authors. The editorial board does not insist on “Imprimatur” from the head of the department; this task is up to the author/s and their individual workplace requirements. Groups of persons (technical help, writing assistance, scientific advisors and material support) whose contributions do not justify authorship may be listed in an acknowledgments section.
The published article becomes the property of Perspectives in Surgery; overprints of text or figures are possible only with citation of their origin.

Conflict of interest
Only a manuscript that has not been published in another journal can be accepted for publication. This must be declared, together with the disclosure of potential conflicts of interest, by the first or corresponding author, on behalf of all authors. A statement addressing these requirements must be added to the manuscript as a separate attachment, and will be published under each article. You can download the disclosure form here.
In the case of studies that were funded by a grant/s, details of funding, including the identification number and name of the funding organization, must be supplied in the field “Supporting Agencies“ in the online submission form.

Ethical considerations
If an article involves a clinical trial with human subjects, the Methods section must include a statement that the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the institution in which the trial was performed, and that the trial was performed in accord with the ethical standards of the 1975 Helsinki Declaration. All prospective interventional clinical trials must be registered in one of the publicly accessible, non-profit, electronically searchable databases (e.g. www.clinicaltrials.gov).
It is the author's responsibility to protect the anonymity of patients. Figures may not include names, dates of birth, hospital numbers or other private data, and the patient’s eyes should be masked.
For animal experiments, the measures taken to ensure compliance with established regulations and guidelines should be briefly explained in the Methods section, and the origin of these guides should be quoted (e.g., the institution's Animal Care Committee, Act No. 246/1992; other).

Reporting guidelines

Please check the following guidelines prior to submitting your manuscript, to ensure that the current standards for research are maintained.

Prospective (randomized) interventional trials: CONSORT checklist (www.consort-statement.org) uploaded as a separate file; the inclusion of a flow diagram is strongly recommended.
Observational (cohort) studies: STROBE checklist (www.strobe-statement.org) uploaded as a separate file.
Systematic reviews: PRISMA Checklist (www.prisma-statement.org) and flow diagram uploaded as separate files.
Case reports: CARE checklist (www.care-statement.org) uploaded as a separate file.
Visit www.equator-network.org for more information regarding reporting guidelines.

Pre-review process
Each article is independently reviewed by two experts and their comments are sent to the author. The author take into account comments resp. responds to experts. The result of the pre-review process is the recommendation to publish the article/resp. not to publish.