AUTHOR SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Categories
All manuscript categories and their content must be related to the field of medicine.
Peer-Reviewed Research
Peer review articles subject an author’s scholarly work, research or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are in the same field. It functions to encourage authors to meet the accepted standards.
These should include an abstract, an introduction and up to six figures and tables. The full text will be published on the online version and the abstract will be published both online and printed formats.
Word limit- 4500 words
Key words- 2-3
Case reports
Original Articles
Special Section
Format and Style of Manuscripts / Articles
Document format : Open Office, Microsoft word, RTF
Font: Times New Roman
Font size: 12
Alignment: justified
Spacin: 1.5
Margins: Left- 40mm, Top, bottom and right – 20mm
Chapter headings: Centre aligned, bold
Subheadings: Left aligned in bold
Font: Times New Roman
Font size: 12
Alignment: justified
Spacin: 1.5
Margins: Left- 40mm, Top, bottom and right – 20mm
Chapter headings: Centre aligned, bold
Subheadings: Left aligned in bold
Referencing
Should be in Vancouver style. In-text citations should be indicated in superscript. References should be in Arabic numerals in the order in which they are first cited in the text. The surname of the author(s) should be followed by their initials. The complete name of the journal or the book in italics is required. Include year, volume, issue number in parentheses (if available), first and last page numbers should ne included.
example -
1) Abu HM, Di Fabio F, Teng MJ, Godfrey DA, Primrose JN, Pearce NW. Surgical management of benign and indeterminate hepatic lesions in the era of laparoscopic liver surgery. Digestive Surgery. 2011;28(3):232–6
References to articles or books accepted for publication but not yet published must include the title (or name of the publisher) and the year of expected publication. Unpublished work (personal communication) may be cited by inserting a reference as superscript in the text. Authors must submit a letter of permission from the cited persons to cite such communications.
All abbreviations must be first described and then expressed in parenthesis .
The title should be brief and descriptive of the content Abstract must be written in complete sentences in past tense. Aim of the study must be expressed in the
background where relevant.
Keywords- Keywords are ideas and topics that define what your content is about. They are the words and phrases that searchers enter into search engines, also called "search queries." Number of accepted keywords are listed under each category.
Tables and figures
Ethical Consideration
Ethical approval should be obtained for original research where necessary.
Plagiarism
There is a zero-tolerance policy maintained by the journal towards plagiarism.
Submission process
Submission is by emailing to the official email of the journal before the advertised due date.
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Each submission must accompany completed Submission form
Official email – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Each submission must accompany completed Submission form
Editorial and peer-review process
Review process might take few weeks and the decision will be notified via email Final decisions are Acceptance, Revisions, Resubmit, Decline Revisions will be notified via email and will be accepted and published given that the revisions are made as per recommendations and submitted before due date.
The final decision is taken by the panel of senior editorial advisory board.
The final decision is taken by the panel of senior editorial advisory board.
Publishing criteria
The criteria to publish include originality, transparency, readability factual accuracy, clear authorship roles and involvement and conflict of interest disclosure.
Each author must have contributed directly to the intellectual content of the manuscript Final decision to publish lies with the senior editorial advisory board.
Each author must have contributed directly to the intellectual content of the manuscript Final decision to publish lies with the senior editorial advisory board.