Information For Authors

Submission Preparation Checklist

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 that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • Cover page
  • Contributor and Copyright Form
  • Journal Submission Checlist

Presubmission Instructions

Please go through the Journal Submission Checklist

Please attach a Cover Letter

Please read the author guidelines and from that, please attach an Author Contributors Form

Articles should be submitted after carefully reviewing the guidelines for writing articles to facilitate standardized reporting easily. It would be worthwhile to adopt standardized protocols while reporting different types of studies. The journal requires that you follow the guidelines and modify the article accordingly. The standard formats are given for the convenience of the authors. 

Checklists to follow while submitting articles

Cross-Sectional Studies STROBE Checklist

Cohort Studies STROBE Checklist

Case-control Studies STROBE Checklist

Case Report CARE Checklist

Randomized Control Trials CONSORT Checklist

Systematic Reviews PRISMA Checklist

Are you interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies and the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal before submitting, or if they are already registered, they can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

Authorship Criteria

The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following four criteria:

  • Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
  • Drafting the work or reviewing it critically for important intellectual content AND
  • Final approval of the version to be published AND
  • Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

In addition to being accountable for the parts of the work, an author should be able to identify which co-authors are responsible for specific other parts of the work. In addition, authors should have confidence in the integrity of the contributions of their co-authors.

All those designated as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, and all who meet the four criteria should be identified as authors. Those who do not meet all four criteria should be acknowledged

The corresponding author primarily communicates with the journal during the manuscript submission, peer-review, and publication process—correspondence to all listed authors.

For clarity, please refer to https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html

Conflict Of Interest

Authors are responsible for reporting any potential or actual conflict of interest upon first submission of a manuscript, with appropriate changes as appropriate in further revisions, if applicable. A conflict of interest statement should include all sources of financial support (for example, sponsors and grant numbers), other support for the study (such as collecting, analyzing, or interpreting data), writing or revising the manuscript, or any factor that limited (or will limit in the future) the investigators’ full access to the data and its analysis.

For any clarifications https://www.icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest/

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