These guidelines are in accordance with the
“Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals”, pub-lished by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors at:
http://www.icmje.org.
Criteria for Publication: To be accepted for publication in EMJ, research articles must satisfy the following criteria:
Results reported have not been pub-lished elsewhere.
Experiments, statistics, and other anal-yses are performed to a high technical external peer reviewers, will evaluate sub-missions against these criteria.
Criteria for Authorship: The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME) has laid down the following principles for authorship:
Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analy-sis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for im-portant intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published.
Authors should meet conditions 1, 2, and 3.
When a large, multicenter group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These
individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship/contributorship defined above, and editors will ask these individ-uals to complete journal-specific author and conflict-of-interest disclosure forms.
When submitting a manuscript authored by a group, the corresponding author should clearly indicate the preferred cita-tion and identify all individual authors as well as the group name. Journals gener-ally list other members of the group in the Acknowledgments. The NLM indexes the group name and the names of indi-viduals the group has identified as being directly responsible for the manuscript; it also lists the names of collaborators if they are listed in Acknowledgments.
Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute author-ship.
All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and all those who qualify should be listed.
Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public re-sponsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
Publication Ethics: We strictly adhere to the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE) code of conduct.
Plagiarism: All works used should be acknowledged with appropriate referencing where applicable. Plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, is a serious offense and will be dealt with strictly. All submitted manu-scripts are scanned using an anti-plagiarism software. Actions taken may range from disqualification of the submitted manu-script to fines and permanent bans.
Reporting guidelines: EMJ encourages authors to follow the reporting guidelines during manuscript preparation. The rele-vant guidelines are listed.
ARRIVE (for reporting of animal research)
The Equator Network (Enhancing the Quali-ty and Transparency of health Research) provides a comprehensive list of reporting guidelines.
More details on these and other reporting guidelines are also available on the website of US National Library of Medicine.
Human Subjects: Methods sections of pa-pers on research using human subject or samples must include ethics statements that specify the name of the approving institutional review board or equivalent committee(s). If approval was not obtained, the authors must provide a detailed state-ment explaining why it was not needed.
Please note that the authors may be asked to upload the documentation of approval.
Animal Research: Methods sections of manuscripts reporting results of animal research must include required ethics statements that specify:
The full name of the relevant ethics com-mittee that approved the work, and the associated permit number(s) (where ethical approval is not required, the manuscript should include a clear statement of this and the reason why)
Relevant details for efforts taken to reduce animal suffering
Privacy and Confidentiality: Privacy is the control over the extent, timing, and circum-stances of sharing oneself (physically, be-haviorally, or intellectually) with others.
Confidentiality pertains to the treatment of information that an individual has disclosed in a relationship of trust and with the ex-pectation that it will not be divulged to others without permission in ways that are inconsistent with the understanding of the original disclosure. Privacy and confidential-ity must be maintained at all phases of the research and the same must be stated in the methods section of the manuscript.
Proper written, informed consent should be taken where applicable, and the subjects should be made aware of the complete
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protocol and nature of dissemination of data. The authors may be required to up-load relevant documentation where appli-cable.
Please refer to the Health Insurance Porta-bility and AccountaPorta-bility Act (HIPAA) for more information.
Types of Articles: EMJ welcomes following types of articles:
Original articles (typically not longer than 5000 words): These are based on primary observations. The results should not have been published elsewhere either fully or in part. An abstract (not longer sig-nificance will be considered for publica-tion. An abstract (not longer than 250 words) is required for submission.
Reviews (typically not longer than 6000 words plus 5 figures/tables): A review is a well referenced, sharply focused, critical assessment of literature provided by ex-perts in the subject matter covered by this review. Authors may and should ex-press their individual opinion about a topic of controversy or suggest new ap-proaches for future research. It is re-quired that these opinions are expressed in a manner which makes them clearly identifiable and distinguishable from lit-erature data. An abstract (not longer than 250 words) is required for submis-sion.
Case reports (typically not longer than 1800 words plus 2 high quality fig-ures/tables): Case reports describe clini-cal case histories of interest. EMJ will consider for publication case reports of extraordinary significance with discus-sion and case of very rare diseases with review of contemporary literature for educational purposes. An abstract (not longer than 100 words) is required for submission.
Opinions and Debates (typically not longer than 1500 words plus 2 figures):
This section provides a possibility for publishing opinions, perspectives and debates. These articles present an argu-ment that is not necessarily based on
practical research. They can report on all aspects of the subject including sociolog-ical and ethsociolog-ical aspects. Opinions and provides a platform for students from all disciplines of biology and medicine to exhibit their creativity and writing skills.
Articles in this section include but are not limited to stories from college life, elec-tive reports etc. Essays are published at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief and may undergo peer-review. An abstract is not required for submission.
Letters to the editor (typically not longer than 500 words plus 5 references). This section only considers letters on articles published previously in EMJ. Letters are published at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief and may undergo peer-review.
An abstract is not required for submis-sion.
In all cases manuscripts should be written in clear and concise English. Every manuscript should preferably include discussion of most relevant and recent (recent 5 years) literature related to the topic. The manu-script should be written in font size 12-14, double-spaced in all portions, abstract, text, acknowledgments, references, individual tables, and legends. Margins should be about 2,5 cm (1 inch). All pages must be numbered consecutively, beginning with the title page. Please don’t send the title page as separate file.
Title Page: The title page should include following information:
Article type: original article, short report, review, case report, opinion, debate, es-say, or letter to the editor.
Title of the article (bold letters, font size 14 or larger).
Disclaimers (if applicable).
Corresponding author: The name, affilia-tion, mailing address and e-mail address of the author responsible for corre-spondence about the manuscript on be-half of all authors. The corresponding au-thor’s e-mail address will be published.
The corresponding author is the guaran-tor for the integrity of the manuscript as a whole.
Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these (if applicable).
A statement of financial or other rela-tionships that might lead to a conflict of interest.
Word count for the text (including ab-stract, acknowledgments, figure legends, and references).
Number of figures , Number of tables.
Abstract: An abstract should follow the title page. It should not be longer than about 250 words and must reflect the content of the article accurately. The abstract should be structured as follows:
Key words: Following the abstract, provide 3 to 10 key words arranged in alphabetical order. Terms from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) list of Index Medicus should be used; if suitable MeSH terms are not yet available for recently introduced terms, non-MESH terms may be used.
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Manuscript structure:
For original articles:
Background
Objective
Patients/Materials and Methods
Results achieve highest possible text clarity.
References: References should be num-bered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in upper case. References cited only in tables or figure legends should be numbered in accordance with the se-quence established by the first identifica-tion in the text of the particular table or figure. References to articles and papers should mention: (1) name(s) initials of all author(s), (2) title of paper; (3) title of the journal abbreviated in the standard manner (see Index Medicus); (4) year of publication;
(5) volume; (6) first and final page numbers of the article (references to online articles should have the same structure and addi-tionally the appropriate web address fol-lowing page numbers). (7) PMID number (these numbers appear under each abstract in PubMed). References which are not
References to books and monographs should include: (1) name(s) followed by the initials of the author(s) or editor (s); (2) chapter (if relevant) and book title; (3) edition, volume, etc.; (4) place; (5) publish-er; (6) year; (7) page(s) referred to.
Example: MacKie RM. Lymphomas and leukaemias. In: Textbook of Dermatology (Champion RH, Burton JL, Ebling FJG, eds), 5th edn, Vol. 3. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1992; 2107-2134
Figures: Figures may be inserted into the text file or may be uploaded separately as additional files as JPEG or TIFF files. Manu-scripts with low quality images will not be considered for publication. Drawn Figures will not be redrawn by the EMJ. Letters, numbers, and symbols on Figures should be clear and even throughout and of sufficient size, that when reduced for publication each item will still be legible. Figures should be made as self-explanatory as possible.
Please provide Figure legends on a separate page with Arabic numerals corresponding to the illustrations. If photographs of pa-tients are used, either the subjects must not be identifiable or their pictures must be accompanied by written permission to use the photograph for publication.
Sending the Manuscript to the Journal: The manuscript should be uploaded directly onto the EMJ website. If you have any diffi-culty with the above, the manuscript can be sent by email to [email protected].
Cover letter: Manuscripts submitted by e-mail must be accompanied by a cover let-ter, which should include the following information.
A statement that the same or very similar work has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. A conference presentation with a published abstract is not considered a publication in this regard.
A statement of financial or other relation-ships that might lead to a conflict of interest
A statement that the manuscript has been read and approved by all the authors
In the case of manuscripts uploaded directly to the EMJ website these statements will be required by the uploading system. Any additional information for the editor may be provided in the “Comments for the Edi-tor” box in Step 1 of the uploading proce-dure.
Processing charges: There are no submis-sion/per-page charges. However, the Board may impose charges at a later point of time in order to cover the fees associated with open access publishing.
Submission Preparation Checklist: As part of the submission process, authors are
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than under-lining (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 in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensur-ing a Blind Review have been followed.
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Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's
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ci-tation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
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