Submission guidelines

Author Instructions

Honorary Editor

Dr. Vijay Viswanathan, MD, PhD, FICP

We accept contributions in the form of Original Articles, Reviews, Updates, Recent Advances, Case Reports, Letters to the Editor, Clinico-pathological conferences, Short reports, etc.

Manuscript Submission

Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

Permissions

Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Author information

  • The name(s) of the author(s)

  • The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country

  • A clear indication and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author

  • If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)

If address information is provided with the affiliation(s) it will also be published.

For authors that are (temporarily) unaffiliated we will only capture their city and country of residence, not their e-mail address unless specifically requested.

Abstract

Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.

Keywords

Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.

Text
Text Formatting

Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.

  • Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.

  • Use italics for emphasis.

  • Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.

  • Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.

  • Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).

Headings

Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

References
Citation

Reference citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets. Some examples:

  • Negotiation research spans many disciplines [3].

Reference list
Article from a Journal

List the first 3 authors with initials. The remaining authors may be given et al., e.g. Glogar D. H., Konar R. A., Muller J., et al; Fluorocarbons reduce myocardial ischaemic damage after coronary occlusion, Science. 1981; 211: 1439-41. (Note Punctuations).

Articles from a Book

Yokoyana K, Suyama T, Naito R Development of Fluosol D. A., And its perspective as a blood substitute. In: Oxygen and life, proceeding of the second Pristley conference. Royal Society of Chemistry, London, 1908; 142-52. (Note punctuations) The whole of the literary matter in The Journal is copyright and should not be reproduced without the written permission of the Editor.

Online document

Doe J. Title of subordinate document. In: The dictionary of substances and their effects. Royal Society of Chemistry. 1999. http://www.rsc.org/dose/title of subordinate document. Accessed 15 Jan 1999.

Tables

  • All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.

  • Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.

  • For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.

  • Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.

  • Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.

Role of the Corresponding Author

One author is assigned as Corresponding Author and acts on behalf of all co-authors and ensures that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately addressed.