Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

JJAOS-NM welcomes submissions in all natural and medical scientific disciplines from researchers worldwide. Information on submitting your manuscript is included below.

Initial Submissions

• Your manuscript text file should be in English; start with a title page that shows author affiliations and contact information, identifying the corresponding author with an asterisk (*).
• Your manuscript must be submitted as one whole document (i.e., a Word file), complying with the required structure (title, Abstract, Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, References).
• Figures and Tables must be embedded inside the text immediately after citing them in the manuscript.
• The main text should be no more than 3,500 words (including Abstract, Methods, References and figure legends).
• JJAOS-NM discourages excessive self-citation (i.e., should not exceed 10-20%).

Structure of the manuscript

For the main body of the text, there are specific requirements:

• English Font type: Adobe Caslon Pro.
• Font size: 12.
• Headline font size: 14 Bold.
• Subheadings font size: 12 Bold.
• Table and figure title's font size: 12 Bold.
• Figure legends (these are limited to 350 words per figure).
• Tables (maximum size of one page).

Submitting manuscript sections in the following order will facilitate passing the initial submission stage:

1. Title

• The title should be written in English, with maximum 20 words.

Author Affiliations: Include, in this order, department/laboratory/section/division, institution, city, state with ZIP code (for US institutions) or country with postal code (for non-US institutions).

• Use superscripts to match authors with institutions. Multiple affiliations are allowed. Affiliations, where the work was conducted should be listed.
• We strongly encourage authors to supply an ORCID identifier for each author.

1. Abstract

• The abstract should be structured including; background, methods, results, and conclusion/implications of the study.
• The abstract should be written in English and no more than 250 words.
• Make sure it serves as a general introduction to the topic and as a brief, non-technical summary of the main results and their implications.

1. Main Body

• Results (with subheadings).
• Discussion (without subheadings).
• Conclusion.

1. Contact and competing interest information for all authors.
2. Data sharing plans (for all data, documentation, and code used in analysis).
3. Funding information and whether an open access license has been selected.
4. Acknowledgements (optional).

8. References

• You should follow the main body of text with English references According to the method of the Vancouver referencing style (https://library.unimelb.edu.au/recite/referencing-styles/vancouver).
• References are numbered in the order they first appear in the text. Citation numbers must be in round brackets e.g. "…was the most significant. (4)".
• Assigned numbers are re-used each time a particular reference is cited.
• Only the author's initials are given, regardless of the presentation of the author's name on the journal article.
• List the first six authors followed by et al.
• Capitalisation practice should also be consistent
• Capitalise only the first word of the article title, proper nouns and acronyms.
• The titles of journals should be abbreviated as they appear in the NLM Catalog.
• Volume, issue and page numbers are given but not labeled.
• To indicate a page range use 123-9, 126-34 or 111-222. If you refer to only one page, use only 111.
• Include the name of the full text database used to source the article (e.g. ProQuest, ScienceDirect and PsycARTICLES).
• Include the DOI of the article.
• If no DOI is available, include the complete internet address.
• When including the internet address of articles retrieved from searches in full-text databases, please use the Recommended URLs for Full-text Databases, which are the URLs for the main entrance to the service and are easier to reproduce.

Format of references

• Journal article from a full text database:

#. Author A, Author B. Title of article. Abbreviated Title of Journal. year;vol(no):page numbers. doi:10.XXX/XXXXX.XX.

Example:

1. Palsson G, Hardardottir KE. For whom the cell tolls: debates about biomedicine (1). Curr Anthropol. 2002;43(2):271+. doi:10.1086/338302.

2. Gillespie NC, Lewis RJ, Pearn JH, Bourke ATC, Holmes MJ, Bourke JB, et al. Ciguatera in Australia: occurrence, clinical features, pathophysiology and management. Med J Aust. 1986;145:584-90.

• Journal article from the internet:

#. Author A, Author B. Title of article. Abbreviated Title of Journal. year;vol(no):page numbers. doi:10.XXX/XXXXX.XX. 

 Example

Scholz T. Evidence based medicine: from science to patient. J Tissue Sci Eng. 2012;3:e113. doi: 10.4172/2157-7552.1000e113.

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