Annals of Ayurvedic Medicine (AAM) (An Official Organ of Society of Ayurvedic Physicians of India (SAPI)) invites contributions from authors for their prospective publication in AAM. The contributed material should be related to Ayurvedic Medicine with element of new reporting, new findings and novelty. We welcome articles in English. These should be relevant to the aims of Society of Ayurvedic Physicians of India (SAPI). The manuscripts should be typed in English in double spacing with wide margins and should be numbered beginning with the title page. Research papers should be divided in to Abstract (up to150 words), Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and References.

The journal follows a 'double blind' peer review policy. To ensure this following should be observed carefully

Cover Letter : Should contain only (1) Title of the paper, the names ,affiliations and  the addresses of the authors, (2) Short title not exceeding 40 letters, (3) Name and the mailing address of the corresponding author to whom correspondence should be sent.

Main Article: Should contain the title , Abstract  , Key words and the main text only. Figures, Tables and graphs should also be included within this file. The main article should not reveal the author name or identity in any way. It should also not contain any other component in the text which may reveal the authors identity. 

General Instructions

1. Authors are suggested to refrain from translating fundamental words of Ayurveda in superficial English parallels. Following is a good example how these translations can adversely affect the whole flow of text : Acharya Sushruta has quoted health definition, “Health is the complete state of equilibrium of Dosha (humors), Agni (digestive power), Dhatu (body constituents) and Mala (proper excretion of waste products) along with mental, sensory and spiritual pleasantness’ and happiness of an individual.” In this text we need not to add prefix to sushruta and we need to understand that Dosha are not humors, agni is not digestive power, Dhatu are not body constituents and mala are not merely the excreta and essentially they mean for much more than what can be explained by their near English translations.

2. Annals of Ayurvedic Medicine currently is not able to use diacritical marks in the text. The authors therefor are requested not to use these marks while preparing the text.

3. Annals of Ayurvedic Medicine currently is also not able to use the Hindi/ Sanskrit script written in Devanagari form. In case if any such reference seem highly important in adding value to to the article , it may be done by putting it as a  scanned image.

4. While presenting Table, Figure and Graph kindly be careful that these are properly designed and have a proper caption above or below . Such table, graph and figure should be numbered appropriatately as Table-1 , Table- 2 etc. and should be referred in the text where they are intended to be read. In the designing the table, spacing between the words, italicisation of ayurvedic words, proper spellings of latin names should be given extra care .     

Supplementary files: any file which is required to be added as a supplement

Table should be given a short informative title and should properly be referred in the text, should be numbered and should be presented at the end of the manuscript. Figures (if any)  should be submitted electronically in JPG format or otherwise as requested. Each should also be provided with a figure number, a suitable title, any legends used within the figure and should be properly referred in the text.

References:

1.The AMA referencing style should be uniformly used for references. References should be cited in the text by arabic number in superscript after the fullstop or after a statement is made in the text for which reference is made.The authors are encouraged to read the manual related to AMA style of referencing before they begin writing their article. 

2. If there are two or more references in text they should be separated with a coma without any space.    

2. Kindly be remineded for the completeness of the references in all aspects. It should include year of publication, and page no also. If a reference has DOI , this should also be included in reference.

3. Please use only those references which are directly connected to your work. Inderect referenceing is discouraged by AAM.

4. Use recent references only unless old references are manadatory to used.

5. Do not use references from social sites, predatory journals and wikipedia .

6. While referenceing dont use any soft ware like end note etc.   This creates trouble in final typesetting and formatting of the article.

7. Avoid self citations unless it is felt completely essential.

8. Do not use Dr, Prof, Vd , Pt. as prefixes to references. 

Example:

Standard abbreviations for the journals as are recommended at Index Medicus journal abbreviations: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html should be used in referencing.

Disclosure of Interest

Please add disclosure of interest as per ICMJE Recommendations. Please visit: https://www.icmje.org/disclosure-of-interest/.

Replying to revisions

If revision is invited for your submission, keep is as a chance to maximise the possibility of its publication by replying meticulously to all points raised by editor and reviewres .  Do following to increase your chances-

1. Read all comments care fully , save them in a separate word file. Segregate the running paragraphs into points easy to answer by breaking the paragraph in to sentences.

2. Reply to each point and to each reviewer . There should not be a generic reply stating that the "appropriate cahnges have been made"  

3. Dont forget your revised manuscript to repgflect the changes you have made in response to comments. Most reveiwers are keen to actually check how the authors have responded to their comments. You can do this by highlighting the text or making the changes in track change mode.

4. While writing the reply to revsion letter, dont disclose your identity. This reply will be shared with reveiwer and since the journal follows a double blind peer reveiw policy , the author's identity should not be revealed to reviewrs and vice versa.