1. Guidelines for Preparing a Manuscript
All manuscripts must be submitted online through the website. First time users will have to register at this site. Registered authors can keep track of their articles after logging into the site using their user name and password.
If you experience any problems, please contact the editorial office by e-mail at ijsrdms@gmail.com.
2. Ethics of Research and Publication
The ethical policy of IJSRDMS is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and complies with International Committee of IJSRDMS Editorial Board codes of conduct. Readers, authors, reviewers and editors should follow these ethical policies once working with IJSRDMS. The ethical policy of IJSRDMS is liable to determine which of the typical research papers or articles submitted to the journal should be published in the concerned issue. The publishing decision is based on the suggestion of the journal's reviewers and editorial board members. The ethical policy insisted the Editor-in-Chief, may confer with other editors or reviewers in making the decision. The reviewers are necessary to evaluate the research papers based on the submitted content in confidential manner. The reviewers also suggest the authors to improve the quality of research paper by their reviewing comments. Authors should ensure that their submitted research work is original and has not been published elsewhere in any language. Applicable copyright laws and conventions should be followed by the authors. Any kind of plagiarism constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. For information on this matter in publishing and ethical guidelines please visit http://publicationethics.org.
3. Validity of Statements
Published articles must comply with the policies announced in the journal. The structure of the article should be based on the rules of article writing structure and publishing ethics of the journal. In all articles, ethical standards and plagiarism are fully checked.
4. Authorship Criteria
To ensure authorship for the submitted manuscripts, the contributors should meet the following three conditions:
5. Aim and Scope
Please check scope of journal: https://www.ijsrdms.com/journal/aim_scope
6. Access Model
The International Journal of Scientific Researtch in Dental and Medical Sciences is open access which means Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers.
7. Ethics in Publishing
Please see our information on Ethics in Publishing.
8. Study Design and Ethical Approval
Good research should be well justified, well planned, appropriately designed, and ethically approved. To conduct research to a lower standard may constitute misconduct. The authors are responsible for the whole scientific content as well as the accuracy of the bibliographic information.
9. Data Analysis
Data should be appropriately analyzed, but inappropriate analysis does not necessarily amount to misconduct. Fabrication and falsification of data do constitute misconduct.
10. Conflicts of Interest
Conflicts of interest comprise those which may not be fully apparent and which may influence the judgment of author, reviewers, and editors. They have been described as those which, when revealed later, would make a reasonable reader feel misled or deceived. They may be personal, commercial, political, academic or financial. “Financial” interests may include employment, research funding, stock or share ownership, payment for lectures or travel, consultancies and company support for staff.
11. Peer-review
This journal uses Double-blind peer review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity. Authors have the right to communicate to the editor if they do not wish their manuscript to be reviewed by a particular reviewer because of potential conflicts of interest. No article is rejected unless negative comments are received from at least two reviewers. At this stage, in addition to checking the quality of the article and plagiarism, it is also checked that the title of the article is not outside the scope of the journal and that there are no unrelated citations in the articles.
12. Redundant Publication
Redundant publication occurs when two or more papers, without full cross reference, share the same hypothesis, data, discussion points, or conclusions. In such cases, the manuscript will be rejected.
13. Plagiarism
Plagiarism ranges from the unreferenced use of others’ published and unpublished ideas, including research grant applications to submission under “new” authorship of a complete paper, sometimes in a different language. It may occur at any stage of planning, research, writing, or publication: it applies to print and electronic versions. All the manuscript submitted to IJSRDMS are checked by authenticate for possible plagiarism. The authors are expected to check their manuscript for plagiarism before submission.
If plagiarism is detected during peer review, the submission can be rejected. If plagiarism is detected after publication we reserve the right, as necessary, to issue a correction or retract the article. We reserve the right to notify the institutions of authors about the plagiarism that was found before or after publication.
14. Corrections and Retractions
To maintain the integrity of academic record, IJSRDMS may have to publish correction or retraction of paper published in journal. According to agreed academic community norms, corrections or corrections of published articles are made by publishing an Erratum or Retraction article, without altering the original article in any other way than by adding a prominent connection to the Erratum / Retraction article. The original article remains in the public domain and should be commonly indexed to the subsequent Erratum or Retraction. We may have to delete the material from our website and archive sites in the exceptional event the material is considered to infringe those rights or is defamatory.
It may be necessary for the original author(s) to make minor corrections to published articles by making a comment on the published Article. It will only be acceptable if the modifications do not affect the article's results or conclusions.
15. Corrections
Changes to published articles that affect the article's meaning and conclusion but do not invalidate the article in its entirety may be corrected, at the discretion of the editor(s), by publishing an Erratum indexed and linked to the original article. Changes in authorship of published articles are corrected through an Erratum.
16. Retractions
If the scientific information in an article is significantly compromised on rare occasions it may be appropriate to retract published articles. In these cases IJSRDMS must comply with the COPE guidelines. Retracted papers are indexed and the original article is referred to.
17. Human and Animal Studies
All manuscripts reporting the results of experimental investigations involving human subjects should include a statement confirming the informed consent was obtained from each subject or subject’s guardian. All animal or human studies should be used after approval of the experimental protocol by a local ethics committee.
The submitted manuscripts that are not as per the “Instructions to Authors” would be returned to the authors for technical correction, before they undergo editorial/peer-review. Generally, the manuscript should be submitted in the form of two separate files:
[1] Title Page/Covering Letter/Conflict of Interest
[2] Blinded Article File
The main text of the article, beginning from Abstract till References (including tables) should be in this file. The file must not contain any mention of the authors' names or initials or the institution at which the study was done or acknowledgements. Page headers/running title can include the title but not the authors' names. Manuscripts not in compliance with the Journal's blinding policy will be returned to the corresponding author. Use rtf/doc files. Do not zip the files. Limit the file size to 1 MB. Do not incorporate images in the file. If file size is large, graphs can be submitted as images separately without incorporating them in the article file to reduce the size of the file. The pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the first page of the blinded article file.
[3] Images
Submit good quality color images. Each image should be less than 2 MB in size. Size of the image can be reduced by decreasing the actual height and width of the images (keep up to 1600 x 1200 pixels or 5-6 inches). Images can be submitted as jpeg files. Do not zip the files. Legends for the figures/images should be included at the end of the article file.
[4] The Contributors' / Copyright Transfer Form (template provided below) has to be submitted in original with the signatures of all the contributors within two weeks of submission via email as a scanned image. Print ready hard copies of the images (one set) or digital images should be sent to the journal office at the time of submitting revised manuscript. High resolution images (up to 5 MB each) can be sent by email.
18. Informed Participant Consent
According to relevant laws and guidelines, permission and consent from participants are required for collecting and using personal information. It is not recommended to send signed consent forms to the journal because they may contain sensitive participant information. Rather, authors should provide a declaration stating that informed consents were acquired from participants. Additionally, related documents and proofs are stored to be presented upon request from legal authorities.
19. Types of Manuscripts
Original Research 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. Abstracts should be structured under 5 main headings: 1. Background and aim 2. Materials and Methods 3. Results 4. Conclusions 5. Keywords (250 Words). Body of the article should structured under 7 main headings: 1. Background and aim 2. Materials and methods (a good biomedical statistician's help should be taken while preparing this section) 3. Results 4. Discussion 5. Conclusion 6. Acknowledgements (if any) 7. References (should be in Vancouver Style). Up to 3500 words excluding the abstract and references. Number of Tables and Images combined should be around 5. Number of references should be not more than 40.
Review Articles
It is expected that these articles would be written by individuals who have done substantial work on the subject or are considered experts in the field. A short summary of the work done by the contributor(s) in the field of review should accompany the manuscript. The prescribed word count is up to 3000 words excluding tables, references and abstract. The manuscript may have about 90 references. Abstracts should be structured under 5 main headings: 1. Background and aim 2. Materials and Methods 3. Results 4. Conclusions 5. Keywords (250 Words), representing an accurate summary of the article. Body of the article should structured under 7 main headings: 1. Background and aim 2. Materials and methods (a good biomedical statistician's help should be taken while preparing this section) 3. Results 4. Discussion 5. Conclusion 6. Acknowledgements (if any) 7. References (should be in Vancouver Style). The section titles would depend upon the topic reviewed. Authors submitting review article should include a section describing the methods used for locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesizing data. These methods should also be summarized in the abstract. The journal expects the contributors to give post-publication updates on the subject of review. The update should be brief, covering the advances in the field after the publication of the article and should be sent as a letter to editor, as and when major development occurs in the field.
Case Reports
Novel/interesting/extremely rare cases or rare presentations can be reported. Cases with clinical significance or implications will be given priority. Case Reports must be structured under the following 7 headings: 1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Case Presentation 4. Discussion 5. Conclusion 6. Acknowledgement (if any) 7. References (should be in Vancouver Style). Up to 2000 words excluding references and abstract. Number of Tables and Images should be around 5. Number of references should be not more than 20.
Images in Medicine
Abstract, Introduction, Case Presentation, and References. Should not be more than 1000 words excluding up to ten references.
Letter to the Editor
Should reflect short, decisive observation. Up to 500 words and five references.
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.
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.
20. Clinical Trials
We follow the ICMJE's clinical trial registration policy. If the study involves clinical trials, authors should register the clinical trials in a publicly accessible primary registry that participates in the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) or in https://clinicaltrials.gov/ before the enrollment of patients. It is mandatory that authors include the trial registration number and a link to the registry when submitting their manuscripts. Data sharing statements must be included in clinical trials as specified by ICMJE.
21. Keywords
Please select keywords from the MeSH terms used by MEDLINE (https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov).
22. Number of Contributors
The number of contributors should not exceed Six.
23. ORCID Number
It is mandatory to provide ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) number of the corresponding author and all co-authors upon submission of the manuscript to the IJSRDMS. ORCID number of all co-authors should be provide in the Title page of the manuscript.It can be obtained for free on: https://orcid.org/register.
24. Guarantor
One or more authors 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.
25. Conflict of Interest
The authors are required to declare all competing financial and non-financial interests regarding the publication during submission of their work. All authors will declare any manuscript-related conflict of interest, including but not limited to commercial, personal, political, and intellectual aspects. All editors, editorial staff and reviewers will also report potential conflicts of interest associated with the submissions for which they work.
26. Acknowledgments
The authors are required to acknowledge anyone who has contributed to the work submitted, but may not meet the authorship criteria. It is mandatory to state any support with third party translations or editing, such as professional commercial writing/editing services. The authors will get permission from all of those mentioned in the section on Acknowledgments.
27. References
All references should be cited within the text; otherwise, these references will be automatically removed. Authors are responsible for ensuring that the information in each reference is complete and accurate. The references should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear in the text (Vancouver System). All references must be numbered consecutively and citations of references in text should be identified using numbers in square brackets (e.g., “as discussed by some authors [2]”; “as discussed elsewhere [1, 5, 12]”). Please include the DOI number.
Articles in Journals
Standard journal article (for three authors): Ehrmann EH, Messer HH, Adams GG. The relationship of intracanal medicaments to postoperative pain in endodontics. International Endodontic Journal. 2003; 36(12):868-75. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2591.2003.00735.x
Standard journal article (for more than six authors): List the first six contributors followed by et al.
Books and Other Monographs
Electronic Sources as reference
Journal article on the Internet: Parija SC, Khairnar K. Detection of excretory Entamoeba histolytica DNA in the urine, and detection of E. histolytica DNA and lectin antigen in the liver abscess pus for the diagnosis of amoebic liver abscess .BMC Microbiology 2007,7:41.doi:10.1186/1471-2180-7-41. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/7/41
28. Tables & Figures
29. After Acceptance
Use of the Digital Object Identifier
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) can reference and link electronic documents. When a document is first published electronically, its publisher assigns it a unique alphanumeric character string called a DOI. Because documents in the press haven't yet gotten their full bibliographic information, the assigned DOI is the best option for citing articles because it never changes. A correct DOI is shown here as an example:
https://doi.org/10.30485/ijsrdms.2023.386797.1445
Proof Correction
We respectfully request authors submit their proof modifications to us within two days to facilitate the fast publication process for the article. We will try to publish your content as quickly and accurately as possible. Please use this proof to ensure the text, tables, and figures are typeset, edited, complete, and proper. Only with permission from the Editor can the Editor consider making significant changes to the article as it has been accepted for publication. Ensuring all corrections are returned to us in one communication is essential. Before replying, please double-check, as the inclusion of any subsequent modifications cannot be guaranteed. You are completely responsible for editing.
30. Article Processing Charge (APC)
According to the new policy imposed by the journal administration from (01 June 2019), authors are requested to pay the publication charge as mentioned below:
31. Forms
When submitting a manuscript, all authors must Complete the following five forms and submit them to the journal with the original manuscript file, Otherwise the article will not be submitted to review process.
Covering Letter:
Copyright Transfer Form:
Conflict of Interest Statement Form:
Authorship Form:
Title Page: