The manuscript must have separate documents for:

• Cover letter,
• Research Article/Case Review/Original Research/Review Article file (without author/ institution)
• Figure/Table/Graph/Flowchart (with descriptive legends) doc.

 

Manuscript Components

Microsoft Word 97-2013 or higher document file must be used to submit a manuscript. The text must be double spaced with 1” margins and justified to the left-hand margin. Avoid using “styles” or document templates. The “Normal” Word format is recommended. (Times New Roman-12 point text is expected) Please number all pages.

Title

The title of the manuscript should appear at the top of the first page. The title must clearly state what the article is about.

Cover Letter

A cover letter is a letter addressed to the Editor-in-Chief of the journal stating why the journal should consider your article for publication.

Title Page

It includes Article title, keywords, abstract and article text.

Corresponding Address: Submitted on web during submission. No author details must be mentioned on the article file.

Short title: A short title that is running head of no more than 45 characters, including spaces to be provided.

Author Names

Do not include author names in the manuscript in order to preserve anonymity during the review process. Authors' names need to be included during submission metadata while submitting the file on the journal's web site.

Abstract

All articles must include a structured abstract of approximately 200 to 250 words and only include material appearing in the main body of the manuscript. Authors are required to indicate the relevance in a statement of clinical significance within the abstract of the manuscript as well as at the end of the main body of the text.

Structured abstracts vary according to the type of article. All abstracts must be organized into a structured format appropriate to the type of article using the headings listed in the following table:

Keywords

A list of minimum 3 to upto 5 keywords contained in the article must be listed below the abstract. They should contain the type of research such as systematic review, randomized clinical trial, cohort study, case-control study, laboratory research, or "other". (These will be used to search for your article on PubMed and other Internet resources.)

(During the electronic submission process authors will be asked to copy and paste the abstract and the keywords into corresponding text boxes on the submissions pages.)

 

Body of the Manuscript

The body of the manuscript must be organized into a format appropriate for the type of article using bold headings as listed in the following table:

Primary Research	Literature Reviews	Case Reports	Clinical Techniques
Introduction	Background	Background	Background
Materials & Methods	Review Results	Case Description	Technique
Results	Discussion	Discussion	Discussion
Conclusion	Clinical Significance	Clinical Significance	Clinical Significance
Clinical Significance	Acknowledgment	Acknowledgment	Acknowledgment
References	References	References	References

Abbreviations: Spell out all abbreviations (other than those for units of measure) the first time they are used; idiosyncratic abbreviations should never be used.

Drugs Name: Generic rather than trade names of drugs should be used.

 

References

References are numbered in the text, either in line with the text within brackets (1) or using superscript¹ , in the order in which they appear. A reference which is cited more than once is given the same number. The references are then listed at the end of the text in numerical order by their order of appearance in text. Do not arrange the list alphabetically. References in tables and figures are numbered as though the tables and figures were part of the text. References should be restricted to closely pertinent material. Accuracy of the citation is the author’s responsibility. References should conform exactly to the original spelling, accents, punctuation, etc. Authors should ensure that all references listed have been cited in text. Personal communications, unpublished manuscripts, manuscripts submitted but not yet accepted, and similar unpublished items should not appear in the reference list. Such citations may be noted in text. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain permission to refer to another individual’s unpublished observations. Manuscripts that are in press may be cited as such in the reference list; the name of the journal or publisher and location must be included. References to the editions of DSM should not be included in the reference list. DOI of the references should be included wherever available.

Type references in the Vancouver style shown below. Abbreviations of journal names should conform to the style used in “NLM Catalog: Journals referenced in the NCBI Databases” (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals); journals not indexed there should not be abbreviated.

1. Zinbarg RE, Barlow DH, Liebowitz M, et al: The DSM-IV field trial for mixed anxiety-depression. Am J Psychiatry 1994; 151:1153-1162
   
   
2. Beahrs JO: The cultural impact of psychiatry: the question of regressive effects, in American Psychiatry After World War II: 1944-1994. Edited by Menninger RW, Nemiah JC. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press, 2000, pp 321-342
   
   
3. Burrows GD, Norman TR, Judd FK, et al: Short-acting versus long-acting benzodiazepines: discontinuation effects in panic disorders. J Psychiatr Res 1990; 24(suppl 2):65-72
   
   

 

Tables

The Journal does not publish tables that have been submitted elsewhere or previously published. Tables that duplicate material contained elsewhere in the manuscript (in text, figures, or other tables) will not be used. Authors should delete tables containing data that could be given succinctly in text. A copy of each table must be submitted with the manuscript in an editable format and must be accessible for copyediting. Tables cannot be embedded within the document or provided as figure art. Authors providing tables in such a manner will be required to resubmit tables in a format that allows for copyediting. In terms of data presentation, values expressed in the same unit of measurement should read down, not across; when percentages are presented, the appropriate numbers must also be given. In preparing the tables, each cell should contain only one item of data. In rows, subcategories should be in separate cells; in columns, Ns and %s or Means and SDs should be in separate cells. For optimum readability and presentation, tables should not exceed 120 characters in width. For other guidelines, consult recent issues of the Journal.

 

Figures

Figures express trends or relationships between data. Consult recent issues of the Journal and the following guidelines for format. Figures that contain numerical data that could be expressed more succinctly or clearly in tabular form should be converted to tables. Submission of previously published figures is discouraged. Multiple figures for the same article should be prepared as a set, consistent in color and size across all figures.