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Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. 

Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining necessary permission to publish any material included within the submission, such as photos, documents and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study's country.

All submissions will be assessed by the editorial board, to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review.  

An editor may desk reject a submission if it does not meet minimum standards of quality. Before submitting, please ensure that the study design and research argument are structured and articulated properly. The title should be concise and the abstract should be able to stand on its own. This will increase the likelihood of reviewers agreeing to review the paper. When you're satisfied that your submission meets this standard, please follow the checklist below to prepare your submission.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • Have you read and verified Author Guidelines?
  • Is this manuscript seen, reviewed, and approved by all contributing authors?
  • Is your manuscript compliant with Ethical standards?
  • This submission has neither been previously published nor is currently under consideration by any other journal.
  • All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.
  • Tables: Are references in tables cited in numerical order? Are tables labelled as original or with details of their source? Are tables cited in text 
  • Figures: Are labelled as original or with details of their source? Have figure legends and headings and are cited in text
  • Permission has been obtained to publish all photos, datasets and other material provided with this submission.
  • Does your submission include data from patients or research study participants? If yes, have you obtained appropriate patient and/or research study participation consent?
  • The authors disclose the use of AI-assisted tools solely for language editing and manuscript refinement during the preparation of this article.
  • Authors must declare whether ethical approval was obtained prior to conducting the study; if obtained, complete details of the approving Institutional Ethics Committee/Review Board and approval number should be provided in the manuscript.

Original Research Articles

Original Research Articles (Download Template for Original Research Articles)

The approximate length of the article should preferably be 3000 words (excluding Abstract and References). Original research articles should include a structured abstract (of 250 words maximum) under four subheadings: (i) Background (ii) Materials & Methods, (iii) Results, and (iv) Conclusions, followed by 5-8 keywords arranged alphabetically. The main article should include the sections in the following order: Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgment (if any), Conflicts of Interest, and References. There should be not more than 5 tables/ figures. The permission from Ethics Committee/ Institutional Review Board (IRB) is mandatory for all studies on human subjects and animals and this should be mentioned in the Material & Methods section. Registration of clinical trials is mandatory and the registration number/CTR number should be mentioned. 

Copyright Notice

DISCLAIMER

On behalf of all the contributors, I certify that we have participated sufficiently in the intellectual content, conception and design of this work or the analysis and interpretation of the data (when applicable), as well as the writing of the manuscript, to take public responsibility for it and have agreed to have our name listed as a contributor. We believe the manuscript represents valid work. Neither this manuscript nor one with substantially similar content under our authorship has been published or is being considered for publication elsewhere, except as described in the covering letter.

We certify that all the data collected during the study is presented in this manuscript and no data from the study has been or will be published separately. We attest that, if requested by the editors, we will provide the data/information or will cooperate fully in obtaining and providing the data/information on which the manuscript is based, for examination by the editors or their assignees. Financial interests, direct or indirect, that exist or may be perceived to exist for individual contributors in connection with the content of this paper have been disclosed in the cover letter. Sources of outside support of the project are named in the cover letter.

We hereby transfer(s), assign(s), or otherwise convey(s) all copyright ownership, including any and all rights incidental thereto, exclusively to the Journal, in the event that such work is published by the Journal. The Journal shall own the work, including,

Copyright;

  • the right to grant permission to republish the article in whole or in part, with or without fee;
  • the right to produce preprints or reprints and translate into languages other than English for sale or free distribution;
  • the right to republish the work in a collection of articles in any other mechanical or electronic format.

All the contributors have given the rights to me, as the corresponding author, to make necessary changes as per the request of the journal, do the rest of the correspondence on our behalf and I will act as the guarantor for the manuscript on our behalf.

All persons who have made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript, but who are not contributors, are named in the Acknowledgment and have given us their written permission to be named. If we do not include an Acknowledgment that means we have not received substantial contributions from non-contributors and no contributor has been omitted.

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