Author Instructions

Author Instructions

 

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors who do not adhere to these guidelines.

  •  The submission has not been previously published, nor it is before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  •  The submission file is in OpenOffice, or Microsoft Word document file format.
  •  Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  •  The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font (Times New Roman); employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  •  The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined below.

 

Authorship Criteria

To Justify authorship for the submitted manuscripts, the contributors should meet the following three conditions:

  • Conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data has been done by the author(s).
  • Either drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content has been done by the author(s).
  • The final approval of the version to be published has been given by the author(s). Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to be allowed to take public responsibility for suitable portions of the content.

Note:

These are the guidelines given out by respected international bodies for authorship. Based on our experience, we have added few points to the above which should also be taken into consideration while deciding upon the authorship list.

  • Some articles are based on thesis works. In such cases, we expect both the Guide/Mentor and the Principal Investigator to be part of the authorship. In otherwise scenario, corresponding author should attach a documental proof of consent whereby the individual has consented on the publication without his or her name as author.
  • Author from departments unrelated to the topic of the article, from geographically separate institutions as incidences of gift or purchase authorship are viewed with contempt unless compelling argument is put forth by the corresponding author.

 

 

Reviewer Suggestion:

During manuscript submission, authors are required to suggest at least two reviewers, with names and e-mails. The reviewers must be from different geographies other than the respective Institutions where research work has been carried out.

The authors are entitled to make a request to exclude specific reviewers during submission.

(Please refer to the COPE guidelines on informing "non-preferred" reviewers)

 Naming Order for Contributors

The order of naming the contributors should be based on the relative contribution of the contributor towards the study and the writing of the manuscript. Once submitted, the order cannot be changed without the written consent of all the contributors.

 Number of Contributors

In Original Articles (single institute-based or multi-centric studies), Research Protocols and, Systemic Reviews the number of contributors should not exceed five. In exceptional cases, where the study is multicentric the number of authors in original articles (excluding Research Protocols) may exceed and the journal may accept the request, if the corresponding author provides a substantial justification. However, the decision is at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief. For Case Reports, Case Series and, Pictorial essay the number of contributors should not exceed three. For Letter to Editor the number of contributors should not exceed two. For Review article the number of contributors should not exceed four.

Authorship Changed

No addition of author(s) will be entertained post submission. The exception to this will be made only with proper justification supported by institution/university head.

Guarantor

One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work from the inception to the publishing of the article. This author will be designated as the guarantor.

Declaration of Conflict of Interest

All manuscripts for articles, original research reports, editorials, reviews, submitted to the journal must be accompanied by a conflict-of-interest disclosure statement or a declaration by the authors that they do not have any conflicts of interest to declare.

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) states in its Guidelines on Good Publication Practice (2003) that:

‘Conflicts of interest arise when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that are not fully apparent and that may influence their judgments on what is published. They have been described as those which, when revealed later, would make a reasonable reader feel misled or deceived.’

Authors must also disclose if some part of the work has already been published, or is under consideration elsewhere, and if the article has been published in some other language during submission.

 

Submitting Manuscript

Please use our Manuscript Management Portal for submitting manuscripts and knowing their post-submission status. For any problems related to submission please feel free to write to 9vom365@gmail.com

New authors will have to register as author, which is a single-step procedure by clicking here. For online submission articles should be prepared in 2 files as mentioned below-

 

  1. Covering letter: Prepare the covering letter using an editable MS word file. The covering letter must contain authors details. Do not zip the files.
  2. Article text file: The main text of the article, beginning from Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction till References (including tables) and acknowledgement should be in this file. Do not include your names in page headers or any other place in this file. Use text/rtf/doc files. Do not zip the files. Tables should be included in the main manuscript file before the references.
    1. Images: Submit good quality colour images. Each image should be less than 400 kb in size. Size of the image can be reduced by decreasing the actual height and width of the images (keep up to 1024x760 pixels or minimum 300 dpi). All image formats (jpeg, tiff, gif, bmp, png, eps, etc.) are acceptable; jpeg is most suitable. Do not zip the files.
    2. Legends: Legends for the figures/images should be mentioned at the last of the article text file.

The copyright form must be submitted along with the article file as separate files during uploading on the manuscript management system with the signatures of all the contributors within two weeks from submission.

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