Author Guidelines
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
- Title should be concise (no more than 20 words) and spelled with initial capital letter instead of all capital letters at the first page of manuscript. Example: Status and Practice of Therapy Got in the World
- All submissions should be accompanied by a letter listing (1) full first names and (2) surnames (this must be typed in bold script to indicate that this is surnames), affiliations and addresses of the authors.
- A corresponding author’s name, mailing address, and e-mail address must be specified separately from the author’s names in the letter.
- A structured abstract must be provided and contains the following:
1) Objective: An introductory sentence indicating the objective and purpose of the study.
2) Design: A briefly worded description of the study design.
3) Materials and Methods: Quantity and quality of Materials and a description of experimental procedures including applicable statistical evaluation.
4) Results: A summary of the new, previously unpublished data and results.
5) Conclusion: A statement of the study’s conclusion.
- 3-5 key words which must being with small letter unless special necessity as well as a short title not exceeding 50 letters must be provided.
- Headline:
1) Main headline should be written in capital letters.
2) Subhead, if any, should be spelled with a capital initial and italicized.
- Paragraph: At the beginning of the first sentence, several letters of blank space should be made.
- Manuscripts should be double spaced, on A4 paper. These should be numbered sequentially in the lower middle place.
- Original articles: up to 3,000 words with minimum number of tables or illustrations and no more than 50 references.
- Submission of a paper must represent an original contribution not previously published (except in the form of an abstract or preliminary report); that is not being considered for publication elsewhere; and that if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form without the consent of the Editors.
- Extra charge for colour photograph.
MANUSCRIPT REQUIREMENTS
Papers submitted should be concise and written in English in a readily understandable style. If not, the papers may be rejected. We advise the authors to seek help of English-speaking people before submission. The typescript, where possible, should follow the conventional form, introduction and review of literature, materials and methods, results, discussion and summary. (When describing any drugs used, give generic names, not trade names.)
Acknowledgements should appear on a separate sheet at the end of the written section of the paper, before the section on References.
Tables and figures should be so constructed as to be intelligible without reference to the text. The approximate location of figures and tables in the text must be clearly indicated.
Illustrations should accompany the manuscript on a separate sheet, and legends should include all relevant details. All photographs, charts and diagrams should be referred to as “Figures” and numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first referred to in the text.
REFERENCING
References should be written as follows:
References are numbered in the order in which they appear in the text. At the end of the article the full list of references should give the names and initials of all authors (unless there are more than six, when only the first six should be given followed by et al). The authors’ names are followed by the title of the article. The title of the journal must be abbreviated according to the style of Index Medicus (see” List of Journals Indexed,” printed yearly in the January issue of Index Medicus); the year of publication; the volume number; and the first and last page numbers. References to books should give the names of any editors, the title of the book, place of publication, publisher and year.
Examples:
1) International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. BMJ 1991; 302: 338-41.
2) Haynes RB, Mulrow CD, Huth EJ, Altman DG, Gardner MJ. More informative abstracts revisited. Ann Intern Med 1990; 113: 69-76.
3) Gardner MJ, Altman DG, eds. Statistics with confidence. London: BMJ, 1989.
