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The Manuscript Instructions Use
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Editorial Statements
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JCDR strongly
supports research that will benefit medical science and
discourages the publication of articles that merely represent
pre-established and repetitive facts. However, at times,
the journal does allow publication of articles that may
have been reported in Western literature but have not
been reported from the developing and the underdeveloped
world. This is with a dual aim, to promote medical publication
from these countries and to recognize the fact that disease
and disease behaviour may vary widely between populations.
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JCDR provides
services, if required by authors, in view of supporting
them to write good quality articles. In return it charges
nominal fees. Details of which can be found under author
services.
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The philosophy
of publishers behind JCDR is to promote research publication
from less privileged parts of the world. The publishers
do not propose to earn profit from the journal services.
Hence most services provided are at par or below the costs
to the publishers.
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JCDR welcomes
and encourages authors who do not wish to use these services.
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There is no charge
what so ever for submission of manuscripts that is prepared
by the authors themselves.
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The publisher
(PSF, India) rewards articles published in this journal
for which authors did not avail any paid service from
JCDR.
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JCDR editorial
board and publisher take proactive steps in remaining
unbiased to authors who avail or do not avail paid services.
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Under no circumstances
/ incentive will JCDR publish an article without merit
and peer review.
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The criteria
for acceptance, format of manuscript and peer review process
for authors who use or do not use paid services remains
identical.
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The time table
of events after submission of an article detailed below
refers to those authors who do not utilize the paid services
of JCDR.
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| Editorial
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Time table
The Editorial board at JCDR follows a rigid time table and
as far as possible tries to adhere to it.
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Time from receiving manuscript to initial (provisional)
approval/disapproval by editorial board |
5
days |
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Time from
approval to completion of peer review |
3
week |
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Time for authors
to send back the correction or explanations to comments
by peer reviewers |
3
week |
| 4 |
Time for final
acceptance by the editorial board based on peer review
process |
1
week |
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Time for authors
to send in the final corrected draft |
2
week |
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Time for JCDR
to set up the article in its format |
4
days |
| 7 |
Time for authors
to do the final proof reading |
3
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The
manuscripts will be reviewed for possible publication on
the understanding that they are being submitted only to
one journal at one time and have not been published, simultaneously
submitted, or accepted for publication elsewhere.
- As the
first step, the editors review all the submitted manuscripts.
Manuscripts that are not original enough, indicate serious
scientific flaws, or do not convey significant messages
are rejected (read editorial statements).
- All the
manuscripts that are submitted are duly acknowledged.
- Each manuscript
is initially reviewed by 3 members of the editorial team.
They inform the author if the article has been accepted
for peer review or has been rejected. If rejected, the
corresponding author will be informed via an email.
- If approved
for peer review the article is then placed under the supervision
of one (out of the initial three) member of the editorial
team. The manuscripts are then de-identified and sent
to two or more expert reviewers. The comments of the reviewers
are forwarded to the author for explanation or draft improvement.
- After
receipt of the answers or revised draft from the authors
in response to the peer review comments, the coordinating
editor takes the final decision regarding the acceptance
of the manuscript. The whole process is completed within
6-7 weeks.
- Language
edit: The manuscripts that are accepted are edited for
grammar, punctuation, style, and format. Page proofs will
be sent to the author and have to be returned within three
days. Any correction or modification made to the manuscript
after that period may not be included.
- Note:
the emails containing original manuscripts, which have
been rejected, will be removed from our system within
30 days of editorial board communicating its decision.
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| Guiding
Principle Behind Manuscript Preparation |
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You must prepare your manuscripts in accordance with the
“Uniform requirements for Manuscripts submitted to
Biomedical Journal” developed by the International
Committee of Medical Journal Editors in October 2001. The
general and specific requirements of the JCDR are summarised
below. Before sending a manuscript, contributors are requested
to check for the latest instructions.
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| Types
Of Manuscript And Word Limits |
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Original
articles : Randomly controlled trials, intervention
studies, studies of screening and diagnostic tests, outcome
studies, cost effectiveness analyses, case-control series,
and surveys with a reasonably high response rate. Up to
3000 words excluding the abstract and the references.
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Review
articles (including those related to the Ethics
forum, the Education forum, E-Medicine, and so on): Systemic
critical assessment of literature and data sources. Up
to 4000 words excluding the abstract and the references.
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Case
reports or briefs: Novel/interesting/extremely
rare cases or rare presentations can be reported. Cases
with clinical significance or implications will be given
priority. Up to 1200 words excluding references and abstract
and up to 15 references.
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Images
in medicine : A short history, photograph, differential
diagnosis, and discussion of a classic and/or rare case.
Should not be more than 1000 words excluding up to ten
references.
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Letter
to the Editor : Should reflect short, decisive
observation. Up to 500 words and five references.
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Clinicians
Corner : Short narrative of a real life experience
in the medical sphere during practice. Should contain
a clear, informative, educative, or enlightening message.
Up to 600 words.
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Announcements
: of conferences, meetings, courses, awards,
and other events of interest to the readers should be
submitted with the name and address of the person from
whom additional information can be sought. Up to 100 words.
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| Authorship
Criteria |
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To ensure authorship for the submitted manuscripts, the
contributors should meet the following three conditions:
Naming
Order for Contributors
The order of naming the contributors should be based on the
relative contribution of the contributor towards the study
and the writing of the manuscript. Once submitted, the order
cannot be changed without the written consent of all the contributors.
Number
of Contributors
In the event of a study carried out in a single institute,
the number of contributors should not exceed eight. For case-reports,
images, letters to the editor, and review articles, the number
of contributors should not exceed five. There should be a
written justification if the number of contributors exceeds
five. If the JCDR feels necessary it may ask for description
of the contribution of authors towards the manuscript.
Guarantor
One or more author should take responsibility for the integrity
of the work from the inception to the publishing of the article.
This author will be designated as the guarantor.
Prerequisite
for review articles
A review article can be written only by individuals who have
done substantial work in a particular field. A short summary
of the work done by the contributor(s) in the field of review
should accompany the manuscript. The journal expects the contributors
to provide post-publication updates on the subject of review.
The update should be brief and should include the expected
advancements in the field after the publication of the article.
The update should be sent as a letter to the editor as and
when major developments occur in the particular field.
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| Submitting
Manuscript |
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Please use our Manuscript Management Portal
: JCDR Pre Publishing
for submitting manuscripts and knowing their post-submission
status. For any problems related to submission please feel free
to write to
editor@jcdr.net.
During Sept - Oct 07 if the author faces any difficulty at the
JCDR Pre Publishing,
they can alternatively submit manuscript via email at submit@jcdr.net
. While doing so the author should clearly
mention what problems they faced at the JCDR Pre Publishing. This
feedback will help us improve the Manuscript Management
Portal further.
We do not accept print submission.
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| Preparation
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Observational
and experimental articles should be divided into sections,
such as Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Discussion,
References, Tables, Figures, Figure legends, and Acknowledgment.
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Use double spacing
throughout.
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The language
should be British English.
Title Page
The title page should carry the following details:
- The covering letter must include the following information:
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An Undertaking
that the material has not been published or submitted
elsewhere
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A statement
of financial or other relationships that might lead to
a conflict of interest.
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Whether or not
support was received from this journal in preparation
of the manuscript.
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Whether the
authors wish to be considered for a reward if the article
is accepted.
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The type of
manuscript, for e.g, original article, case Report, and
so on
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The title of
the article, which should be concise, but informative;
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The Running
title or short title not more than 50 characters;
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The complete
name [ avoid initials ] by which each contributor is known, with his or her
highest academic degree(s) and institutional affiliation;
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The name of
the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work
should be attributed;
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The name, address,
phone number, and e-mail address of the contributor who
is responsible for corresponding about the manuscript;
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The total number
of pages, the total number of photographs, and word counts
for the abstract and the text (excluding the references);
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The source(s)
of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or
all of these;
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Acknowledgement,
if any; and
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The organisation,
place, and exact date on which the manuscript was read,
if ever.
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Name of
Three Referees with email IDs whom you will like
to suggest as referee for your manuscript.
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Name of
Two referees whom you will not like to send
your manuscript for assessment
Abstract Page
The second page should carry the complete title of the manuscript
and an abstract. The length of the abstract should be restricted
to 200 words for case reports and brief reports and 350
words for original articles. The abstract should be structured
to include the Context (Background), Aims, Settings and
Design, Methods and Material, Statistical Analysis used,
Results and Conclusions. Three to ten keywords should be
provided below the abstract.
Key Messages
Provide three to six short key messages for all the original
articles and one or two for the case reports. These messages
should highlight the study, report, or review. The messages
will be printed along with the text in highlighted boxes.
Key
Words
These should be
put in after reference to standard key words in pubmed.
Introduction
State the purpose of the article and summarise the rationale
for the study or observation.
Methods
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Describe the
selection of the observational or experimental subjects,
such as patients and laboratory animals. Include the controls
used for each experiment.
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Identify the
age, sex, and other important characteristics of the subjects.
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Identify the
methods, apparatus, and procedures in sufficient detail.
Provide references to established methods, and describe
briefly methods that have been published but are not well
known.
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Describe new
or substantially modified methods, give reasons for using
them, and evaluate their limitations. Identify precisely
all the drugs and chemicals used, including generic name(s),
dose(s), and route(s) of administration.
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Reports of random
clinical trials should provide information regarding all
major study elements, including the protocol, assignment
of interventions, and the method of masking.( http://www.consort-statement.org).
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Authors submitting review articles
should include a section describing the methods used for
locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesising data.
These methods should also be summarised in the abstract.
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While reporting
experiments on human subjects, you should indicate whether
the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical
standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation
(institutional or regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration
of 1975 that was revised in 2000. (http://www.wma.net/e/policy/17-c_e.html.)
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Do not use names
or initials of patients or hospitals and/or hospital telephone
numbers especially in illustrative material.
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While reporting
experiments on animals, indicate whether you adhered to
the guidelines of an institution or national research
council governing the care and use of laboratory animals.
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Whenever possible,
quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators
of measurement error or uncertainty.
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Report losses
to observation resulting from conditions, such as dropouts
from a clinical trial.
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Include a general
description of methods in the Methods section.
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While summarizing
the data in the Results section, specify the statistical
methods used to analyse them.
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Avoid non-technical
uses of technical terms in statistics. Define statistical
terms, abbreviations, and most symbols.
Results
Present the results in a logical sequence in the text, tables,
and illustrations. Do not repeat in the text all the data
in the tables or illustrations. Instead, emphasise on or
summarise only important observations.
Discussion
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Emphasise the
new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions
that result from them.
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Do not repeat
in detail the data or other material provided in the Introduction
or Results section. Include in the Discussion section
the implications of the findings for the present and for
future research and their limitations. Relate the observations
to other relevant studies.
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Contributors
should refrain from commenting on economic benefits and
costs unless their manuscript includes economic data and
analyses.
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Avoid claiming priority and alluding
to work that has not been completed.
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State new hypotheses when warranted,
but clearly label them as such.
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Recommendations may be included
only if appropriate.
Acknowledgments
As an appendix to the text, one or more statements should
specify
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The contributions
that should be acknowledged but do not justify authorship,
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Acknowledgment
of technical help; and
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Acknowledgment
of financial and material support, specifying the nature
of the support.
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Any paid support
received from JCDR in preparation of the manuscript.
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JCDR is an online only journal. It
does not differentiate between tables and figures in
numbering them as images are made for both. All
tables and Figures should be numbered in Arabic numerals consecutively in the order of their
first citation in the text. ( example Table/Fig 1, Table/Fig 2......)
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Tables should
be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material.
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Tables with more
than 12 columns and 30 rows are not acceptable.
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Place the explanatory
matter in footnotes, not in the heading.
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Explain in footnotes
all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table.
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Obtain permission
for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and
provide a credit line in the footnote.
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For footnotes,
use the following symbols in this sequence: *, †,
‡, §, ||, , **, ††, ‡‡
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Labels, numbers,
and symbols should be clear and of uniform size.
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When graphs,
scatter-grams or histograms are submitted, the numerical
data on which they are based should also be supplied.
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If photographs
of people are used, either the subjects must not be identifiable
or their pictures must be accompanied by written permission
to use the photograph.
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If a figure
has been published, acknowledge the original source and
submit written permission from the copyright holder to
reproduce the material. A credit line should appear in
the legend for figures for such figures.
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The Journal
reserves the right to crop, rotate, reduce, or enlarge
the photographs to the desired size.
Protection of Patients’
Rights to Privacy
Identifying information should not be published in written
descriptions, photographs, sonograms, CT scans, and pedigrees
unless the information is essential for scientific purposes.
The patient, parent, or guardian provides a written consent
for the publication. After the consent has been obtained,
it should be indicated in the article. A copy of the consent
should be attached with the cover letter.
Sending a revised manuscript
While submitting a revised manuscript, contributors should
send as an attachment to the e-mail the revised manuscript
with the changes indicated using the track change feature
of Microsoft Word and a counter comment to each comment..
Copyrights
The whole of the literary matter in the JCDR is copyright
of its publishers. For reproduction refer to disclaimer
and copyrights.
Ombudsman
For issues related to this journal, write to Dr. Hemant
Jain at editor-in-chief@jcdr.net.
Checklist
Check the items as applicable and send as an e-mail attachment
with the manuscript
Manuscript Title
Covering letter
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Signed by all contributors.
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Previous publication / presentations
mentioned.
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Source of funding mentioned.
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Conflicts of interest disclosed.
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Disclosure, if any paid service of
JCDR used.
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Desire to apply for rewards.
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Middle name initials provided.
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Author for correspondence identified,
with e-mail address provided.
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Author who will be guarantor of authenticity
or the study, with e-mail address provided.
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Number of contributors restricted
as per the instructions.
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Identity not revealed in paper except
title page
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Matter written in double space .
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Matter in Times New Roman font, Size
10.
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Title page contains all the desired
information .
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Running title provided (not more than
50 characters).
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Abstract page contains the full title
of the manuscript.
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Abstract of predefined length provided.
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Structured abstract provided for an
original article.
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Key words provided.
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Key messages provided.
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Introduction of 75-100 words.
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Headings in title case.
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References cited in superscript without
brackets.
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References according to the journal’s
instructions, punctuation marks checked
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Uniformly British English.
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Abbreviations spelt out in full at
the first instance. Abbreviated elsewhere.
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Numerals from 1 to 10 spelt out.
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Numerals at the beginning of the sentence
spelt out.
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No repetition of data in tables and
graphs and in text.
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Actual numbers from which graphs are
drawn have been provided.
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Table and figure numbers in Arabic
letters (not Roman).
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Figure legends provided (not more
than 50 words).
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Patients’ privacy maintained
(if not permission taken).
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Credit note for borrowed figures/tables
provided.
Contributors’ form
(to be copied, signed, scanned and attached as
an pdf file to the e-mail,
Click here
to download the pdf)
Manuscript Title: __________________________________________________________________________
I/we certify that I/we have participated adequately in the
intellectual content, conception and design of this work
or the analysis and interpretation of the data as well as
the writing of the manuscript. I/we take public responsibility
for the piece of work and have agreed to have my/our name
listed as a contributor. I/we believe the manuscript represents
valid work. Neither this manuscript nor any other manuscript
with substantially similar content under my/our authorship
has been published or is being considered for publication
elsewhere, except as described in the cover letter. I/we
certify that all the data collected during the study has
been presented in this manuscript and that no data from
the study has been or will be published separately. I/we
attest that, if requested by the editors, I/we will provide
required data/information and will cooperate fully in obtaining
and providing the data/information on which the manuscript
is based, for examination purposes by the editors or their
assignees. Financial interests, either direct or indirect,
that exist or may be perceived to exist for individual contributors
in connection with the content of this paper have been disclosed
in the cover letter. All sources of external support have
been mentioned in the cover letter.
I/We hereby transfer, assign, or otherwise convey all copyright
ownership, including any and all rights incidental thereto,
exclusively to the Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research,
in the event that such work is published by the Journal
of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. The Journal of Clinical
and Diagnostic Research shall own the work, including 1)
the copyright, 2) the right to grant permission to republish
the article in whole or in part, with or without a fee,
3) the right to produce preprints or reprints and translate
into languages other than English for sale or free distribution,
and 4) the right to republish the work in a collection of
articles in any other mechanical or electronic format.
We give the right to make necessary changes according to
the request of the journal, correspond on our behalf, and
to act as the guarantor for the manuscript to the corresponding
author.
All persons who have made substantial contribution to the
work reported in the manuscript, but are not contributors,
are named in the Acknowledgment and have given me/us their
written permission to be named. If I/we do not include an
Acknowledgment, it means that I/we have not received substantial
contribution from such persons and that the name of no contributor
has been omitted.
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