Instruction to Authors

InstructionToAuthors

IJLPR accepts review and research article in the field of Life Science and Pharmaceutical Science.

All manuscripts are subjected to RAPID peer review process and those of high quality (which were not previously published and are not under consideration for publication by another journal) would be published without any delay in subsequent issue. Manuscript can be submitted to the email id given in “Submit Manuscript” button/icon or link present in the journal webpage. Kindly refer Submit Manuscript” button/icon or link for details of submission of manuscript. Once we receive the manuscript, a manuscript number will be mailed to the corresponding author within one week or early.

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Research Articles
Review Articles
Case Study


Research Articles should be divided into the following sections

  1. Title
  2. Abstract
  3. Keywords
  4. Introduction
  5. Material and Methods
  6. Statistical Analysis
  7. Results and Discussion
  8. Conclusion
  9. Funding Acknowledgement
  10. Acknowledgement
  11. Authors Contribution Statement
  12. Conflict of Interest
  13. References


Model Manuscript

1. TITLE

The title should appear on a separate page which should then followed by the author name, the institution name and address by indicating suitable superscripts for respective authors. Title page should contain title of the paper in bold face, title case (font size 14), names of the authors in normal face, upper case (font size 12) followed by the address(es) in normal face lower case. An asterisk (*) must be placed after the corresponding authors name as superscript whose email id, fax, telephone number can be given at the bottom left corner of the title. Corresponding author has the responsibility to ensure that all co authors are aware and approved the contents of the submitted manuscript. Ensure that all authors affiliation is properly mentioned.

2. ABSTRACT

Abstract is a summary of your work. This make any reader to decide if to read the whole paper or not. Thus pay much attentionin drafting the abstract. This section can be on the same title page. For research paper, abstract should detail the background, existing problems, your novelty of the study, experimental approach, major findings and conclusion. Begin your abstract with some background, purpose of your study, historical or early studies and the context and the existing problems. Use past tense when you write about early studies and back ground. Give about what is already known and what not known about the field related to your study and your research question. Then you need to provide novelty of your study and how you are going to address that problem. This is then followed by what methods, analytical techniques, participants and other relevant information's in brief. Try also to give critical information about the method such as sample size, medication doses, study duration etc. which may attract the reader to get in to your full paper. Further you can give 3-4 sentences about the result. Summarize the result and give the outcome of your result. It may be the biggest part of your abstract. Use present tense when you write about your methods and results. Later provide some few sentences about your discussion of those result and conclusive sentences. Avoid the abbreviation, diagram and reference in the abstract. It should be single - spaced and should not exceed 350 word.

3. KEYWORDS

Key words are the essence of your whole paper. It helps your paper to get searched faster and increases more citations. So include most relevant keywords. 5-6 keywords that are highly specific to your study. You may also add 2-3 more words that are broadly related to your study.

4. INTRODUCTION

The manuscript should include a brief background of your study, existing problems, early studies which have reported solutions to that problems, your novelty in the study to address those problems, stating the purpose of the investigation. Only information essential to the arguments should be presented. You need to mention aim and objective of the study at the last part of introduction. Introduction should have, why you have selected the topic , what importance does it have in research , reason for using a particular research methods , how your research will fill the gap or lacunae that other early research failed to do so. Start your introduction broadly and slowly narrow down to your aim and objective. Initial part of the introduction should concentrate on background of your research, early and current study done and try to set the context for your study. Give appropriate reference or cite reference for those early done studies. Do not give much background (Since you are not writing a review paper), that may be more than sufficient and also can distract the reader. After providing sufficient background, you can narrow to the specific area within that broad back ground and slowly narrow to your research question and discuss the early studies lacunae. Problems should be included in clear sentences. Include some sentences about importance and seriousness of your research question or problems. The introduction should end with aim and objective of your study or your research question or your hypothesis. Your aim and objective is critical. So pay much attention for this aim and objective. Introduction should not be more than 1000 words. Simple present tense should be preferably followed in this section but for discussing early studies for the back ground you can use past tense.

5. MATERIALS AND METHODS

This section must contain specific details about the materials studied, instruments used, specialized chemicals source under “Materials” subheading. Complete details with experiment conditions and related experimental details needed to be well drafted under “Methods” subheading which allows other research workers to reproduce the methods seamlessly. The design and protocol of the study should be well explained. Every method need to be explained in detail and no briefing of the methods is appreciated. Kindly use past tense in your method section, since you are elaborating the experiments which you have done already. This method section should also explain how the measurements, observations, calculation are made. Each methods need to have citing references (Trival methods and well known methods need not to have references but it is preferable that all methods to have citing reference). Each methods need to be in appropriate sequence and of same as your result section. Place subheading of the methods concerning general information initially and then place sections of detailed experiments (For eg: population characteristics , sources , bacterial strains genotypes, powder physical characteristics etc can be the initial subheadings , which were then followed by subheadings relevant to other critical study such as histopathology studies , XRD , DSC studies etc). Study period, location, type of study need to be mentioned in the methods. Subjects used in the study should be described in detail (for eg: In Use of patients – their age , sex and other datas relevant to the study etc) Ensure to cite references for each methods you had. The methods should be clear and much detail need to be given, so as to ensure reproducing the same. Each and every parameters, conditions etc should be mentioned (Eg: column type , temperature , flow rate, flow condition , column model etc for HPLC analysis). Do not discuss or list the advantages or disadvantages of the methods as this would distract the readers from the main theme of your study. Excess or unrelated information should be avoided. Ensure that for each study, controls need to be present for comparison with the test. Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and provide a credit line in the footnote. If any animal study was carried out, then the necessary institutional animal ethical committee approval should be taken and should be mentioned in the manuscript (preferably with Approval number). Animal care need to be maintained as per any international protocol (Eg: Helinsky declaration of animal care for biomedical research etc) and appropriate sentences and citing of suitable reference need to be made. If any human study was carried out, then necessary human ethical committee or appropriate approval should be taken and should be mentioned in the manuscript. Institutional approval permission need to be taken and mentioned in the manuscript. A written consent should be taken from the human subjects or patients involved in the study, ensuring their acceptance in the study and publication of relevant datas/photos/images in the journal and should be mentioned in the manuscript. The journal will not be responsible if any of the above if not followed and the editor’s decision would be final if any litigations arises during processing or after publishing.

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6. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

Provide a paragraph under “statistical Analysis” before Result section. Include the statistical test used (such as ANOVA , Dennett’s test , chi square test etc. Mention the software (version) used for analysis. Use upper italics (P < 0.05) below the table where you have tabulated the data’s .The statistical method used to analyses data has to be also mentioned in the abstract. Sample size (n value) , p value (eg: p<0.05) need to be mentioned below the data table. The statistical analysis method used to analyses the data should also be mentioned in the abstract.

7. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

(1) Results

They are the findings of your methods and sequenced logically and importance but not interpreted (as interpretation is done in discussion). It needs to have observed data’s in paragraph under suitable subheadings. Relevant tables , figures , charts , images etc can be used to present the observed results. It should be in order or in similar sequence as that of your method section. Any observations that are not related to main aim and objective or the scope of the study or irrelevant to the study need to be excluded from the results to avoid distraction of readers or reviewers. Use relevant subheadings to represent similar or related observations. Do not rewrite all the same data’s presented in the table again in a paragraph which is a duplication of data’s. Rather better to summarize the table data’s or mention some significant data’s in the paragraph that you would draft below the respective table. You should not include any citing of references in the result section (Since you are giving your results , not of others ).

(i) Tables

They convey complex and large amount of datas in a simple way. So, make it to communicate those datas clearly. It should be attractive to readers, such that it should persuade to take much time in understanding the datas rather than confusing. Make it a professional look which gives a better impression for your paper. Tables should be used wherever necessary and should have rows and columns to correlate the variables. It should be cell- based type (Microsoft word tables or Excel tables). Create tables using Microsoft word table format for having defined columns and rows. Do not use tabs or space bars or lines during preparation of tables. Do not send us tables as graphics or images or pictures. Avoid using empty columns or rows unless it is needed. Tables should be as compact as possible. Unnecessary rows and columns can be avoided. The table should be double spaced and separated from the text. The font can be of same size used in the text of the manuscript. Do not divide the table in to sub tables and not to use vertical or horizontal rules/lines. Table should be numbered accordingly in numeric order. The table should be numbered in roman numeral followed by the title. Explain the abbreviation, letters or symbols used in the table in the footnotes of the table. You can highlight any datas of significant importance to get the reader’s attention but mention that in foot notes.
The title or caption of the table should be one-line title in bold text with font size 12. Abbreviations can be used if needed and abbreviations that are used only in a table should be defined in the footnotes to that table and should be designated with superscript/subscript letters. The units used should be in SI nomenclature or the nomenclature common to a particular field. Unusual units or abbreviations can be defined in the legend. For research paper, datas inside the table (table that has control and test datas ) need to have + SD values for tables concerning with experiments, trials , study groups etc. Ensure that you need to have statistical values such as p and n values beow the table . A small paragraph need to be given below each table, explaining the contents inside the table. Avoid inserting the table in the middle of the sentence. Also ensure that your table need to have concise title / caption or legend, categorically divided datas for clear understanding and clarity , enough spaces between columns and rows , mentioning of appropriate units , legible fonts and its size.

(ii) Figures

Figures should be used wherever necessary and should be near to the place were they are mentioned inside the result section. The figures can be of GIF/TIFF/JPEG/PDF. The figures should be comprehensible for the readers and should help them in understanding the paper. Consider labeling important parts inside the figure (for easy understanding).Unnecessary figures should be avoided. Avoid unnecessary colouring and excessive details. The title should be one-line title. Abbreviations can be used if needed and abbreviations that are used only in the figures should be defined in the footnotes to that figure. Mention or foot note the meaning of different colors or symbols used. The title should describe the contents, so each illustration can be understood on considering apart from the text. All figures should be numbered in roman numerals and should be cited in the text accordingly. The image/photograph should be cropped to show essential details. Magnification can be indicated by inserting the scale bar. The image/photograph should be clear and of high quality. Poor blurred or out of focus letters/symbols are not acceptable. The units used should be SI nomenclature or the nomenclature common to a particular field. Unusual units or abbreviations can be defined in the legend. The text or numeric content inside the figures need to be clear and legible . For graphs , mention or label both x and y axis , mention the units (appropriately), provide appropriate legends .For Map , mention latitude and longitude , scale bars , labeling of important items , map legends etc.
Avoid any manipulation of images or figures towards improving or proving your result. You can process your figures to certain extent for clarity or brightness or contrast improvement. Datas or information in the figure should not to be corrected in view of supporting your findings .It should faithfully support your original one.

(2) Discussions

Discussion is what does your results says or means. You need to relate your discussion to your aim and objective. The discussion part should be done by discussing your obtained results. It is encouraged and appreciated that most of the result on discussing need to be supported by early studies (Citing of suitable references).Make sure that you cite atleast not less than 15 references in the discussion. You can get help from google scholar or pubmed to get relevant references to cite for the discussion of your results. Make sure that you interpret and discuss most of your result, such that you make use of your most results. Discussion part of already published papers in top rated journal specific for your work will give you an idea of how to draft a good discussion for your paper. Thus your result need to have major interpretations or finding of your study and their meaning behind, their relation to early studies citing with suitable references , unexpected findings or results you’ve got or any unexplained results (if any), any limitations of your study and future scope of your study. Kindly note that your discussion should not have any results which you have not performed (you need to discuss what you have done and its results) and avoid any baseless , unfounded, unwarranted and unreasonable speculations. Thus your discussion need to have the following,

  • Major findings of your study
  • Interpretations and meaning of those findings and its importance.
  • Cite suitable reference of similar studies to your findings, to support your study and interpretations and relate your study to those similar studies.
  • Alternate explanations for your study (If any). Try to consider all possible explanation for your results rather than giving only those that bias your objective of your study.
  • State clinical relevance or medical usage of your study (Preferebly)
  • At the end, mention the limitations of your study and future scope of your study.
  • Do not over interpret the results .(Please refer any top journal published paper of similar study and their interpretation style and depth of their discussion)
  • Avoid any unnecessary discussion that may change the direction of your aim and objective . Stay focused.
  • Avoid critizing any other study, but professionally you can contrast your discussion from their findings. Try avoiding attacking those studies and do not preach or advice the readers .

8. CONCLUSIONS

Restate the research question or problem or your aim and objective. Sum up your results and discussion, implications or significance of your study and finally end with future scope and importance of your work and a take home message. Conclusion part should not be more than 300 words.

9. FUNDING ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We appreciate to give an acknowledgement paragraph about the funding or grant received, financial assistance provided for conducting the study. Journal encourages to include funding or grant number which may help to get your paper accepted favorably but this is not mandatory.

10. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This section can be kept at the end of the manuscript before reference section and should not be more than 50 words. This section can be used to acknowledge those who had helped for your study, but do not qualify for authorship or to acknowledge funding , donated resources or significant contribution to the research.

11. AUTHOR CONTRIBUTION STATEMENT

This section states the contribution of each authors. Contribution to the paper may be of conceived and designing of the study , collection of datas ,analysis of datas ,writing of paper and more. Mention each author and their contribution for the paper.
Example : Mrs. Susheela P conceptualized and gathered the data with regard to this work Dr. Rosaline Mary and Dr. Radha.R analyed these data and necessary input were given towards the designing of the manuscript all authors discussed the mehtodology and results and contributed to the final manuscript. Please click this link to see more examples Click here

12. CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Manuscript should have the declaration of conflict of interest andno conflict should exist. Mention “Conflict of interest declared none” under this subheading.

13. REFERENCES

A. In the text:
Our Journal recommends and adheres to Vancouver style for Reference listing For the complete guide to the Vancouver Style, please consult this online book: Citing Medicine, 2nd ed. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=citmed.TOC&depth=2
you can also refer to the following

(i) In text citations: (citing of references in the manuscript text)

  • Superscript without any square or round brackets should be used to cite the reference in the text after full stop or periods or before any colons or semi colons.
    Example :
    ? ......preferred option. 3
    ? .....preferred option3 ;
  • For citing more than one reference at a time, cite each reference number separated by a comma, or by a dash for a sequence of consecutive numbers. There should be no spaces between commas or dashes For example: 1,5,6-8.
  • The original number used for a reference is reused each time the reference is cited

B) In the References section:
References at the end of your manuscript.
Our Journal recommends and adheres to Vancouver style for reference listing under references which are as follows

  • Full citations should be listed in numerical order and in the same order in which they are cited in text under sub title – REFERENCES at the end of your manuscript.
  • Abbreviate Journal titles in the style used in the NLM catalog. Click here to visit the NLM catalog
  • For printed Journal references following , format should be followed
    Petitti DB, Crooks VC, Buckwalter JG, Chiu V. Blood pressure levels before dementia. Arch Neurol. 2005 Jan 6;62(1):112-6.
  • For Electronic Journal references , following format should be followed
    Stockhausen L, Turale S. An explorative study of Australian nursing scholars and contemporary scholarship. J Nurs Scholarsh [Internet]. 2011 Mar [cited 2013 Feb 19];43(1):89-96. Available from: http://search.proquest.com. ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/ docview/858241255?accountid=12528
  • For Chapters in book , following format should be followed,
    Blaxter PS, Farnsworth TP. Social health and class inequalities. In: Carter C, Peel JR, editors. Equalities and inequalities in health. 2nd ed. London: Academic Press; 1976. p. 165-78.
  • For Website , following format should be followed
    Diabetes Australia. Diabetes globally [Internet]. Canberra ACT: Diabetes Australia; 2012 [updated 2012 June 15; cited 2012 Nov 5]. Available from: http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/en/Understanding-Diabetes/Diabetes-Globally/

    YOU MAY REFER COMPLETE REFERENCING STYLE FOR OUR JOURNAL BY
    CLICKING THIS "COMPLETE REFERENE STYLE"   TABLES

    Tables must be numbered with Arabic numerals in the order in which they are cited in the text. They should have a brief descriptive title placed at the top. Footnotes can be included below the table. Table caption should be 12 point Times Roman italic.

    The figures (photographs, drawings) must be numbered with Arabic numerals. Footnotes can be included below the figure.

    Figures that include more than one image should be labeled as a, b, c, etc. (lower case, use black or white bold according to the figure.). The figure must include brief descriptive title and a subtitle must be provided for each image.

    Figure should appear soon after the citation in the text or if it is too large at the end of the manuscript.

    Legends/Captions for figures
    Text type should be 12 point Times Roman italic (eg; Figure 1. Caption). A caption should be provided for each figure. The legend should be typed into the manuscript, directly beneath the figure. Legends are to be listed in numerical order, labeled as “Figure 1”, “Figure 2”, etc.


    Examples of Subheading Style:

    1. FIRST LEVEL HEADING

    (14 point, bold, caps, Verdana font, numbered)

    1.1. Second Level Subheading

    (12 point bold, Title case, Times New Roman, numbered)

    1.1.1. Third level subheading
    (10 point bold, Title case, numbered)

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    Review Articles should be divided into the following sections

    1. Title
    2. Abstract
    3. Keywords
    4. Introduction
    5. Conclusion
    6. Funding Acknowledgement
    7. Acknowledgement
    8. Authors Contribution Statement
    9. Conflict of Interest
    10. References


    Model Manuscript

    1. TITLE

    The title should appear on a separate page which should then followed by the author name, the institution name and address by indicating suitable superscripts for respective authors. Title page should contain title of the paper in bold face, title case (font size 14), names of the authors in normal face, upper case (font size 12) followed by the address(es) in normal face lower case. An asterisk (*) must be placed after the corresponding authors name as superscript whose email id, fax, telephone number can be given at the bottom left corner of the title. Corresponding author has the responsibility to ensure that all co authors are aware and approved the contents of the submitted manuscript. Ensure that all authors affiliation is properly mentioned.

    2. ABSTRACT

    Abstract is a summary of your work. This make any reader to decide if to read the whole paper or not. Thus pay much attentionin drafting the abstract. This section can be on the same title page. For research paper, abstract should detail the background, existing problems, your novelty of the study, experimental approach, major findings and conclusion. Begin your abstract with some background, purpose of your study, historical or early studies and the context and the existing problems. Use past tense when you write about early studies and back ground. Give about what is already known and what not known about the field related to your study and your research question. Then you need to provide novelty of your study and how you are going to address that problem. This is then followed by what methods, analytical techniques, participants and other relevant information's in brief. Try also to give critical information about the method such as sample size, medication doses, study duration etc. which may attract the reader to get in to your full paper. Further you can give 3-4 sentences about the result. Summarize the result and give the outcome of your result. It may be the biggest part of your abstract. Use present tense when you write about your methods and results. Later provide some few sentences about your discussion of those result and conclusive sentences. Avoid the abbreviation, diagram and reference in the abstract. It should be single - spaced and should not exceed 350 word.

    3. KEYWORDS

    Effective and specific keywords helps your review to get higher indexing thus gets your review in the top list during search by the right researcher . Key words are the essence of your whole paper. It helps your paper to get searched faster and increases more citations. So include most relevant keywords. 5-6 keywords that are highly specific to your study. You may also add 2-3 more words that are broadly related to your study.

    4. INTRODUCTION

    Initially, introduce your review and provide a detailed background specific for your review. Detail about early similar reviews published and specify the lacuna or drawbacks of those reviews. Cite suitable references when you discuss those early reviews. Mention the importance of the lacunas that those review missed and introduce your scope of review that supports or address that lacunas. Make sure that to include sentences, why your review is relevant to current and existing scenario. Ensure that you provide current knowledge about the review. You need to highlight the important and critical points you would be reviewing in your review. Subheadings (specific for your review): Your review may require many terms , specific field classifications or categories . Make as many as subheadings to have indepth review for the said topic and extensively review each subheadings. Ensure that, you cite suitable references when you include early published researches or reviews. Avoid comments or reviews that state, what that particular research or review already stated in their paper. You may give the same, but try to add your perspective, your observation on those reviews and researches , its gaps or lacunas and make your review much more interesting. Figures or tables used for your review need to have reference citation. Ensure to get permission for its use ( if it needs permission ). We prefer to have maximum figures, pictures , images and tables for your reviews.

    5. CONCLUSIONS

    Do not include any new information in this conclusion. A good conclusion connects major review points , critical discussion points and significance of your review. It also displays future scope of the review, impact on research and research trends of those reviewed research.

    6. FUNDING ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    We appreciate to give an acknowledgement paragraph about the funding or grant received, financial assistance provided for conducting the study. Journal encourages to include funding or grant number which may help to get your paper accepted favorably but this is not mandatory.

    7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    This section can be kept at the end of the manuscript before reference section and should not be more than 50 words. This section can be used to acknowledge those who had helped for your study, but do not qualify for authorship or to acknowledge funding , donated resources or significant contribution to the research.

    8. AUTHOR CONTRIBUTION STATEMENT

    This section states the contribution of each authors. Contribution to the paper may be of conceived and designing of the study , collection of datas ,analysis of datas ,writing of paper and more. Mention each author and their contribution for the paper.
    Example : Mrs. Susheela P conceptualized and gathered the data with regard to this work Dr. Rosaline Mary and Dr. Radha.R analyed these data and necessary input were given towards the designing of the manuscript all authors discussed the mehtodology and results and contributed to the final manuscript. Please click this link to see more examples Click here

    9. CONFLICT OF INTEREST

    Manuscript should have the declaration of conflict of interest andno conflict should exist. Mention “Conflict of interest declared none” under this subheading.

    10. REFERENCES

    A. In the text:
    Our Journal recommends and adheres to Vancouver style for Reference listing For the complete guide to the Vancouver Style, please consult this online book: Citing Medicine, 2nd ed. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=citmed.TOC&depth=2
    you can also refer to the following

    (i) In text citations: (citing of references in the manuscript text)
    • Superscript without any square or round brackets should be used to cite the reference in the text after full stop or periods or before any colons or semi colons.
      Example :
      ? ......preferred option. 3
      ? .....preferred option3 ;
    • For citing more than one reference at a time, cite each reference number separated by a comma, or by a dash for a sequence of consecutive numbers. There should be no spaces between commas or dashes For example: 1,5,6-8.
    • The original number used for a reference is reused each time the reference is cited
    B) In the References section:
    References at the end of your manuscript.
    Our Journal recommends and adheres to Vancouver style for reference listing under references which are as follows
    • Full citations should be listed in numerical order and in the same order in which they are cited in text under sub title – REFERENCES at the end of your manuscript.
    • Abbreviate Journal titles in the style used in the NLM catalog. Click here to visit the NLM catalog
    • For printed Journal references following , format should be followed
      Petitti DB, Crooks VC, Buckwalter JG, Chiu V. Blood pressure levels before dementia. Arch Neurol. 2005 Jan 6;62(1):112-6.
    • For Electronic Journal references , following format should be followed
      Stockhausen L, Turale S. An explorative study of Australian nursing scholars and contemporary scholarship. J Nurs Scholarsh [Internet]. 2011 Mar [cited 2013 Feb 19];43(1):89-96. Available from: http://search.proquest.com. ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/ docview/858241255?accountid=12528
    • For Chapters in book , following format should be followed,
      Blaxter PS, Farnsworth TP. Social health and class inequalities. In: Carter C, Peel JR, editors. Equalities and inequalities in health. 2nd ed. London: Academic Press; 1976. p. 165-78.
    • For Website , following format should be followed
      Diabetes Australia. Diabetes globally [Internet]. Canberra ACT: Diabetes Australia; 2012 [updated 2012 June 15; cited 2012 Nov 5]. Available from: http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/en/Understanding-Diabetes/Diabetes-Globally/

      YOU MAY REFER COMPLETE REFERENCING STYLE FOR OUR JOURNAL BY
      CLICKING THIS "COMPLETE REFERENE STYLE"   TABLES

      Tables must be numbered with Arabic numerals in the order in which they are cited in the text. They should have a brief descriptive title placed at the top. Footnotes can be included below the table. Table caption should be 12 point Times Roman italic.

      The figures (photographs, drawings) must be numbered with Arabic numerals. Footnotes can be included below the figure.

      Figures that include more than one image should be labeled as a, b, c, etc. (lower case, use black or white bold according to the figure.). The figure must include brief descriptive title and a subtitle must be provided for each image.

      Figure should appear soon after the citation in the text or if it is too large at the end of the manuscript.

      Legends/Captions for figures
      Text type should be 12 point Times Roman italic (eg; Figure 1. Caption). A caption should be provided for each figure. The legend should be typed into the manuscript, directly beneath the figure. Legends are to be listed in numerical order, labeled as “Figure 1”, “Figure 2”, etc.


      Examples of Subheading Style:

      1. FIRST LEVEL HEADING

      (14 point, bold, caps, Verdana font, numbered)

      1.1. Second Level Subheading

      (12 point bold, Title case, Times New Roman, numbered)

      1.1.1. Third level subheading
      (10 point bold, Title case, numbered)

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      Case Report should be divided into the following sections

      1. Title
      2. Abstract
      3. Keywords
      4. Introduction
      5. Discussion
      6. Conclusion
      7. Funding Acknowledgement
      8. Ethical statement
      9. Acknowledgement
      10. Authors Contribution Statement
      11. Conflict of Interest
      12. References


      Model Manuscript

      1. TITLE

      Give a suitable and clear title in consulting with your supervisors or your team to get the essence of your case report and this helps to get short listed from any search done by a researcher. It should be a short description of your case report include list of authors name and institutional address in the title page.

      2. ABSTRACT

      Kindly ensure that your abstract of your case study need to have the following; Abstract needs to have Introduction which consists of one or two sentences describing the context of the case and summarize the entire article. Case presentation where 3-4 sentences describing the history and results of any examinations performed and about why this case is being reported and its novelty or clinical relevance. About 3-6 sentences detailing a brief description of the patient’s medical and demographic details, their diagnosis, and interventions or complications, and the outcomes. The working diagnosis and management of the case are to be described within few sentences. Followed by Management and Outcome which describes the course of the patient’s complaint. Finally some discussion sentences which synthesizes and explains both correlations and apparent inconsistencies. Summarize the clinical impact and/or implications of this case and provide suggestions for the clinical area. Emphasize aspects of the case that may have broader implications, suggest precautions that should be taken, or be interesting topics for future research. If appropriate to the case, you can give one or two sentences describing the lessons to be learned.The word limit need to be within 250 words

      3. KEYWORDS

      Effective and specific keywords helps your case report to get higher indexing thus gets your case study in the top list during search by the right researcher . Key words are the essence of your whole paper. It helps your paper to get searched faster and increases more citations. So include most relevant keywords. 5-6 keywords that are highly specific to your study. You may also add 2-3 more words that are broadly related to your study.

      4. INTRODUCTION

      Since case report is reporting of any unusual rare case or unconventional or novel treatment etc, you need to mention and stress that content in the introduction with suitable early study reference citations. Initially mention the background of your study, followed by need of the study , then the rarity or novel modification of the diagnosis or treatment , then about the aim and objective of your case study. Ensure that to have minimum 500 words with sufficient citing of reference. This is the body of the case report. Required and sufficient information about the patients such as age, sex, demographic etc need to be included here. The existing medical condition, family and medical history of the case in appropriate chronological order should be presented. Enough chronological order need to be made while presenting the case and should satisfy the reader for its validity.This is then followed by diagnosis and prognosis of the presented medical condition. You need to present the clinical history, physical and clinical examination and investigations which may include biochemistry , laboratory and imaging findings . Differential and follow up diagnosis need to be presented. Description of any treatment or any intervention need to be presented. Final conclusion about the case diagnosis can also be presented. Author should also reveal any negative findings. Tables and figures can be presented with respective caption and description to have clarity about the diagnosis and also for the chronological presentation purpose. In case of any surgery case report, the detailed procedure of surgery along with pathologists report is needed for the presentation.

      • Case Report (Patients presenting complaint)
      • Medical History (Previous and current)
      • Family History
      • Observation
      • Special Tests and Investigation
      • Diagnosis
      • Prognosis
      • Treatment Plan/Intervention
      • Figures (Please provide suitable and appropriate images/picture to substantiate your diagnosis and therapy effect)
      • Followup

      (The above subheadings is mandatory for each case study, but in certain cases, specific subheading may not be appropriate. In such instance you can mention the subheading and include suitable sentences for that paragraph. But we appreciate to have all those subheadings)

      5. DISCUSSION

      • Need to discuss the importance of the case study)
      • Since case study is mostly reporting of rare case or change in conventional treatment you need to stress these points in the discussion
      • You need to discuss in detail about the paptients clinical findings , case history, interventions etc.
      • Since you would be discussing the case details , investigations or treatment etc , you need to cite suitable references to support the validity of your discussion (Note that you need to have 12 references in your discusions)
      All figures (patients clinical image/Scan/cell culture etc) and tables should have respective table and figure numbers and should be mentioned inside the manuscript at appropriate places.(Inclusion of figures/images is preferred and appreciated with respective markings to support your study.

      6. CONCLUSIONS

      Do not include any new information in this conclusion. A good conclusion connects major review points , critical discussion points and significance of your review. It also displays future scope of the review, impact on research and research trends of those reviewed research.

      7. FUNDING ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      We appreciate to give an acknowledgement paragraph about the funding or grant received, financial assistance provided for conducting the study. Journal encourages to include funding or grant number which may help to get your paper accepted favorably but this is not mandatory.

      8. ETHICAL STATEMENTS

      Need to mention that written consent was received from the patient for publishing the study.

      9. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      This section can be kept at the end of the manuscript before reference section and should not be more than 50 words. This section can be used to acknowledge those who had helped for your study, but do not qualify for authorship or to acknowledge funding , donated resources or significant contribution to the research.

      10. AUTHOR CONTRIBUTION STATEMENT

      This section states the contribution of each authors. Contribution to the paper may be of conceived and designing of the study , collection of datas ,analysis of datas ,writing of paper and more. Mention each author and their contribution for the paper.
      Example : Mrs. Susheela P conceptualized and gathered the data with regard to this work Dr. Rosaline Mary and Dr. Radha.R analyed these data and necessary input were given towards the designing of the manuscript all authors discussed the mehtodology and results and contributed to the final manuscript. Please click this link to see more examples Click here

      11. CONFLICT OF INTEREST

      Manuscript should have the declaration of conflict of interest andno conflict should exist. Mention “Conflict of interest declared none” under this subheading.

      12. REFERENCES

      A. In the text:
      Our Journal recommends and adheres to Vancouver style for Reference listing For the complete guide to the Vancouver Style, please consult this online book: Citing Medicine, 2nd ed. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=citmed.TOC&depth=2
      you can also refer to the following

      (i) In text citations: (citing of references in the manuscript text)
      • Superscript without any square or round brackets should be used to cite the reference in the text after full stop or periods or before any colons or semi colons.
        Example :
        ? ......preferred option. 3
        ? .....preferred option3 ;
      • For citing more than one reference at a time, cite each reference number separated by a comma, or by a dash for a sequence of consecutive numbers. There should be no spaces between commas or dashes For example: 1,5,6-8.
      • The original number used for a reference is reused each time the reference is cited
      B) In the References section:
      References at the end of your manuscript.
      Our Journal recommends and adheres to Vancouver style for reference listing under references which are as follows
      • Full citations should be listed in numerical order and in the same order in which they are cited in text under sub title – REFERENCES at the end of your manuscript.
      • Abbreviate Journal titles in the style used in the NLM catalog. Click here to visit the NLM catalog
      • For printed Journal references following , format should be followed
        Petitti DB, Crooks VC, Buckwalter JG, Chiu V. Blood pressure levels before dementia. Arch Neurol. 2005 Jan 6;62(1):112-6.
      • For Electronic Journal references , following format should be followed
        Stockhausen L, Turale S. An explorative study of Australian nursing scholars and contemporary scholarship. J Nurs Scholarsh [Internet]. 2011 Mar [cited 2013 Feb 19];43(1):89-96. Available from: http://search.proquest.com. ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/ docview/858241255?accountid=12528
      • For Chapters in book , following format should be followed,
        Blaxter PS, Farnsworth TP. Social health and class inequalities. In: Carter C, Peel JR, editors. Equalities and inequalities in health. 2nd ed. London: Academic Press; 1976. p. 165-78.
      • For Website , following format should be followed
        Diabetes Australia. Diabetes globally [Internet]. Canberra ACT: Diabetes Australia; 2012 [updated 2012 June 15; cited 2012 Nov 5]. Available from: http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/en/Understanding-Diabetes/Diabetes-Globally/

        YOU MAY REFER COMPLETE REFERENCING STYLE FOR OUR JOURNAL BY
        CLICKING THIS "COMPLETE REFERENE STYLE"   TABLES

        Tables must be numbered with Arabic numerals in the order in which they are cited in the text. They should have a brief descriptive title placed at the top. Footnotes can be included below the table. Table caption should be 12 point Times Roman italic.

        The figures (photographs, drawings) must be numbered with Arabic numerals. Footnotes can be included below the figure.

        Figures that include more than one image should be labeled as a, b, c, etc. (lower case, use black or white bold according to the figure.). The figure must include brief descriptive title and a subtitle must be provided for each image.

        Figure should appear soon after the citation in the text or if it is too large at the end of the manuscript.

        Legends/Captions for figures
        Text type should be 12 point Times Roman italic (eg; Figure 1. Caption). A caption should be provided for each figure. The legend should be typed into the manuscript, directly beneath the figure. Legends are to be listed in numerical order, labeled as “Figure 1”, “Figure 2”, etc.


        Examples of Subheading Style:

        1. FIRST LEVEL HEADING

        (14 point, bold, caps, Verdana font, numbered)

        1.1. Second Level Subheading

        (12 point bold, Title case, Times New Roman, numbered)

        1.1.1. Third level subheading
        (10 point bold, Title case, numbered)

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