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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).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs 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 Article

These articles include randomized controlled trials, observational studies, studies of diagnostic accuracy, systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The text of original articles amounting to up to 8000 words (excluding Abstract, references and Tables) should be divided into sections with the headings Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion and conclusion (optional), References, Tables and Figure legends.

Review

The prescribed word count is up to 10,000 words excluding tables, references and abstract. The manuscript should have an unstructured/structured Abstract (no more than 400 words) representing an accurate summary of the article. For a systematic review, it must have a structured Abstract. The section titles would depend upon the topic reviewed.

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