Manuscript Style 

Manuscripts must follow the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors’ revised “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts to be submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication”. (See http://www.ICMJE.org/)

 Preparation of manuscript:

All manuscripts submitted for publication to the JAMU should include the following: (1) First page file; (2) Article file; (3) Ethical clearance certificate; (4) Undertaking by authors & copyright transfer agreement. Details are given below.

1.  FIRST PAGE FILE

This should include a Covering letter, Title page and Author’s contribution in a single file.

• The covering letter should explain why the paper should be published in the JAMU, rather than a specialty journal. One of the authors should be identified as the corresponding author of the paper, who would be responsible for the contents of the paper as for communication with the Editorial office. Author should declare that the article was not published or under consideration, in part or whole, simultaneously in any other journal or proceedings.
• Title page should include (i) name(s) of author(s); (ii) highest degree; (iii) name(s) of the Department(s); (iv) designations (academic position) of authors in the department; (v) complete postal addresses, mobile number and e-mail id of all authors; (vi) name of corresponding author with all above mentioned details.    

Title page should also include: 

(i) Type of manuscript

(ii) Title

 (iii) Short title/Running Title 

 (iv) Number of Tables

 (v) Number of Figures

 (vi) Source of financial support in the form of grants

 (vii)  Registration  number in case of Clinical Trials.

• Specific author’s contribution should be given at the end in the Title page.

Title – 14 pt Times New Roman, bold, centered.

Author and co-authors

The full names, qualifications, affiliations, details of position/place of work of all authors should be listed at the beginning of the article. E-mail id of corresponding author is must. Your Manuscript should be typed, double-spaced on standard-sized – paper (8.5″ x 11″) with 1″ margins on all sides. You should use 12 pt Times New Roman fonts.  Authors should take care over the fonts which are used in the document, including fonts within graphics. Fonts should be restricted to Times New Roman, Symbol and Zapf Dingbats.

Author’s affiliation

12 pt Times New romans centered – giving each authors’ affiliation (i.e. Department/Organization/Address/Place/Country/email) followed by single line spacing.

Author for Correspondence:

10pt Times New roman centered – giving a valid e-mail of the corresponding (main) author is a must.

1. ARTICLE FILE

Manuscript Style

Manuscripts must follow the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors’ revised “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts to be submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication”. (See http://www.ICMJE.org/)

Preparation of manuscript:

• Title
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Materials and Methods
• Ethics
• Statistics
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements (If any)
• References
• Figure legends
• Tables
• Appendices (if necessary)
• Abbreviations (if necessary)

Title: The title of the article should be approximately 10-15 words (this may be changed with the authors’ approval). It should be in Title Case; the first character in each word in the title has to be capitalized. A research paper typically should include in the following order

Abstract – Limit of 250 Words

A brief summary of the research should include a brief introduction, a description of the hypothesis tested, the approach used to test the hypothesis, the results seen and the conclusions of the work. It can be a structured abstract like Introduction/ Background, Materials and methods, Results, Conclusion(s).

Key words

Please, write no more than six keywords. Write specific keywords. They should be written left aligned, arranged alphabetically in 12pt Times Roman, and the line must begin with the words Keywords boldfaced.

Introduction

Description of the research area, pertinent background information, and the hypotheses tested in the study should be included under this section.  The introduction should provide sufficient background information such that a scientifically literate reader can understand and appreciate the experiments to be described. The introduction MUST include in-text citations including references to pertinent reviews and primary scientific literature. The specific aims of the project should be identified along with a rationale for the specific experiments and other work performed.

Materials and Methods

Materials and/or subjects utilized in the study as well as the procedures undertaken to complete the work. The methods should be described in sufficient detail such that they could be repeated by a competent researcher. Please include the company sources for all uncommon reagents (kits, drugs, etc).  Illustrations and/or tables may be helpful in describing complex equipment or elaborate procedures. The statistical tool used to analyze the data should be mentioned. All procedures involving experimental animals or human subjects must accompany with statement on necessary ethical approval from appropriate ethics committee.

Ethical Considerations 

In all experimental and studies on human or animals, authors must state whether formal approval from an Institutional Review Board or Ethics Committee was obtained. In the absence of such committee, the Declaration of Helsinki (click here) guidelines must be followed and be clearly stated in the Methods section of the manuscript. All studies on human subjects must include a statement that the subjects gave informed consent. Patient anonymity should be preserved. Photographs need to be cropped to prevent human subjects being recognized. Experiments involving animals must be demonstrated to be ethically acceptable and should conform to national guidelines for animal usage in research.

Statistics

Whenever possible, quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty. Report losses to observation resulting from conditions, such as dropouts from a clinical trial, include a general description of methods in the Methods section. While summarizing the data in the Results section, specify the statistical methods used to analyse them. Avoid non-technical uses of technical terms in statistics. Define statistical terms, abbreviations, and most symbols.

Results

Data acquired from the research with appropriate statistical analysis described in the methods section should be included in this section.  The results section should describe the rational for each experiment, the results obtained and its significance. Results should be organized into figures and tables with descriptive captions.

The captions, although brief, should tell the reader the method used, explain any abbreviations included in the figure, and should end with a statement as to the conclusion of the figure. Qualitative as well as quantitative results should be included if applicable.

Discussion

This section should relate the results section to current understanding of the scientific problems being investigated in the field. Description of relevant references to other work/s in the field should be included here. This section also allows you to discuss the significance of your results – i.e. does the data support the hypotheses you set out to test? 

Conclusion

This section should end with new answers/questions that arise as a result of your work.

Tables and Figures

Tables:

• Tables should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material.
• Tables with more than 12 columns and 25 rows are not acceptable.
• Number tables, in Arabic numerals, consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and supply a brief title for each.
• Use only horizontal rules for the tables to separate the column headings.
• Place explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading.
• Explain in footnotes all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table.
• Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and provide a credit line in the footnote.
• For footnotes use the following symbols in this sequence: *, †, ‡, §, ||,¶ , **, ††, ‡‡
• Tables with their legends should be provided at the end of the text after the references. 

Figures:

• The maximum number of figures should be limited to four
• Upload the images in JPEG format. The file size should be within 4 MB in size while uploading.
• Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they have been first cited in the text.
• Labels, numbers, and symbols should be clear and of uniform size. The lettering for figures should be large enough to be legible width of printed column. Use only horizontal rules for the tables; to separate the column headings. No vertical rules should that all columns and rows are aligned.
• Symbols, arrows, or letters used in photomicrographs should contrast with the background and should be marked neatly with overlay and not by pen.
• Titles and detailed explanations should be written in the legends for illustrations, and not on the illustrations themselves.
• Send digital X-rays, digital images of histopathology slides, where feasible.
• If photographs of individuals are used, authors should take written permission to use the photograph.
• If a figure has been published elsewhere, acknowledge the original source and submit written permission from the copyright a credit line should appear in the legend for such figures.
• If the uploaded images are not of printable quality, the publisher office may request for higher resolution images which can be sent at the time of acceptance of the manuscript. Ensure that the image has minimum resolution of 300 dpi or 1800 x 1600 pixels.
• The Journal reserves the right to crop, rotate, reduce, or enlarge the photographs to an acceptable size.

Acknowledgements – Limit of 100 Words