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| International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health GUIDE FOR AUTHORS Article Submission All articles should be submitted through ScopeMed page International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health :: eJManager.com The editors and the publisher disclaim any responsibility or liability for statements and opinions expressed in review articles, original papers, short communications, letters to editor, editorials and supplements published in the Journal. Neither the editors nor the publisher guarantee, or endorse any products or services advertised in this publication, nor guarantee any claims made by the manufacturer of such product or service. Publication Charges Publication charge (For DOI no., Conversion of XML file, submission system and website and online publication, typesetting and copy editing by professional editors' charges) is 150 dollars (USD). Publication charge for hard copy will be extra. Authors are requested to send publication charge directly to publishers account after formal acceptance letter received. Letter to editor in response to some published studies in journal will be published free of charge. Editorial Process The Author should ascertain that the manuscript is sent to one journal at a time. Manuscript sent to another journal simultaneously with International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health (IJMSPH) will not be reviewed. The manuscript should be original work of authors and correspondence author will act as guarantor. The Editors-in-Chief in consultation with the Managing Editor, Section Editors and Advisory Board Members will review all submitted manuscripts initially. Manuscripts with insufficient originality, serious scientific and technical flaws, or lack of significant message will be rejected. All manuscripts received will be duly acknowledged. In majority of the cases, peer reviewing is done by two or more peer reviewers. Editor-in-Chief will take the final decision regarding the suitability of manuscript for publication. The contributors will be informed about the reviewers' comments and acceptance/rejection of manuscript. On an average, the submission to first decision period will be around 30-60 days. Accepted article will be published online on the next month of acceptance. Articles accepted by peer reviewers should be a copy edited for grammar, punctuation, print style, and format. At this stage the Managing and Technical Editors will also do a Plagiarism Check. (IJMSPH is strictly against plagiarisms. Please read our Plagiarism Policy). Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author, just before the publication of article in the journal, which has to be returned within three days. Correction received after that period may not be included. The contributor may provide names of three qualified reviewers who has experience in the subject of the submitted manuscript, but who are not affiliated with the same institutes as the contributor/s. As a routine we will not send the manuscript to that particular reviewer. It is kept in database for review of future articles. Plagiarism Policy By submission to IJMSPH entails that authors automatically attest that, none of the parts of manuscripts is plagiarized from any other source. Proper reference should be provided whenever anything is extracted from a source. Technical editors use Plagiarism detection "iThenticate" is to ensure the originality of the article. If any article is proved to be plagiarized, IJMSPH committee would take immediate and strict actions against the authors ranging from rejection of the manuscript to preclusion of the authors from any future publication in the journal. For serious fraud or plagiarism, the journal may also report to the authors/s affiliating institution. Commitment to Publish Negative Study Being committed to the highest level of medical publication IJMSPH is in obligation to Publish Negative Studies as set by ICJME. Any study of an important topic, relevant to our readers, is seriously taken into consideration for publication, provided the results for the primary or any additional outcome are statistically significant. Authors will be encouraged to submit such articles to our journal. Policy on Communication on the General Media (based on COPE and ICJME guidelines) Pre-Publication release of studies when detected by IJMSPH journal will be rejected summarily. However, the appropriate authorities responsible for public health will decide whether to disseminate information to physicians and the media in advance, incase if important clinical implications have to be released even before the journal is published. If the author and the appropriate authorities wish to have a manuscript considered by IJMSPH, the Editor-in-chief should be informed before any public release when the policy of limiting prepublication publicity is waived clear and urgently important clinical implications for the public’s health that the news must be released before full publication in a journal. If the author/journalist wishes to use the article journal for general media, explicit permission from the Editor-in Chief should be taken. Such a release should coincide with its publication online or in print. IJMSPH follows the ICJME policy on this. We Follow the COPE guidelines for Retraction of articles: It Can be found at: http://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf Ethical approval When reporting experiments on human subjects, IJMSPH mandatorily needs a declaration stating whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards as laid by the ICMR-Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research on Human Participants (Available at: http://icmr.nic.in/ethical_guidelines.pdf )/ its equivalent (example Helsinki Declaration,2000) were followed or not. For Studies related to Stem Cell research therapy it should be in accordance with ICMR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Therapy (Available at: http://icmr.nic.in/stem_cell/stem_cell_guidelines.pdf ). When reporting experiments on Animals CPCSEA Available at: http://envfor.nic.in/divisions/awd/cpcsea_laboratory.pdf or its equivalent is to be followed. Authors should mention about the ethical principles they followed during conduction of research and preparation of the manuscript. Manuscripts related to human subjects should mention about Informed consent, Permission from Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC). In the manuscript involving children more than 7 years, information related to “Assent” should also be mentioned. Authorship Criteria Contribution of each author "Authors' contributions" should be mentioned at the end of the manuscript following the Acknowledgment section. Article Format:
- Double-spaced throughout, including the Reference section. - All pages should be numbered (Page Numbers) starting from the title page. - Continual line numbering (Line Numbers) should be used throughout the manuscript. - Manuscripts should only be submitted in English. Type of papers: The following types of papers are considered for publication: 1. Research articles. 2. Review articles. 3. Short communications. 4. Case reports. Research Article This may include intervention studies, outcome studies, experimental designs, clinical trials, clinical studies, case control studies, cohort studies, cross sectional surveys etc. Original article should be subdivided into – 1. Title Page: (Title, Full Authors' Names, Affiliations and Corresponding Author's details) 2. Abstract (Structured Abstract with the following subheadings: Background, Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusion) 3. Keywords (3-5 keywords) 4. Introduction 5. Materials and Methods 6. Results 7. Discussion 8. Conclusion 9. Acknowledgments 10. Funding 11. Authors' contributions 12. Conflict of interest 13. Data availability 14. References 15. Tables and Figures Short Communication 1. Title Page: (Title, Full Authors' Names, Affiliations and Corresponding Author's details) 2. Abstract (Structured Abstract with the following subheadings: Background, Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusion) 3. Keywords (3-5 keywords) 4. Introduction 5. Materials and Methods 6. Results and Discussion 7. Conclusion 8. Acknowledgments 8. Funding 10. Authors' contributions 11. Conflict of interest 12. Data availability 13. References 14. Tables and Figures Review Article 1. Title Page: (Title, Full Authors' Names, Affiliations and Corresponding Author's details) 2. Abstract (One paragraph without subgeaings) 3. Keywords (3-5 keywords) 4. Introduction 5. Headings and Subheadings 6. Conclusion 7. Acknowledgments 8. Funding 9. Authors' contributions 10. Conflict of interest 11. Data availability 12. References 13. Tables and Figures Case Report 1. Title Page: (Title, Full Authors' Names, Affiliations and Corresponding Author's details) 2. Abstract (Structured Abstract with the following subheadings: Background, Case Description, Conclusion) 3. Keywords (3-5 keywords) 4. Introduction 5. Case Details 6. Discussion 7. Conclusion 8. Acknowledgments 9. Funding 10. Authors' contributions 11. Conflict of interest 12. Data availability 13. References 14. Tables and Figures References
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