Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- Read plagiarism policy of the journal and prepared the article according to it.
- Covering letter prepared separately in the Microsoft Word document format according to the template provided on the login page of website. All author related details are there in this file only.
- Article file (Abstract + Article text) prepared separately in Microsoft Word format according to the template provided in the login page of the website. This file doesn't contain any author related information like name, institute, email, mobile and address.
- All references are written according to Vancouver style.
- Where available, DOI links for the references have been provided (including references of journal article).
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point Times New Roman font; employ italics, rather than underlining (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.
Original Research Articles
Section default policy
Technical Note
A technical note is a short article giving a brief description of a specific development, method, technique or procedure, or it may describe a modification of an existing method, technique, procedure or device applicable to medicine or public health.
Correspondence
Correspondence articles are letters addressed to the Editor with a short comment on topical issues or reader's reaction corresponding to an informal publication previously published in the journal.
Perspective
Perspective, opinion, and commentary articles are scholarly articles which express a personal opinion or a new perspective about existing research on a particular topic.
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Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to Medsci Publications.
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