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General Guidelines
JJOAS-N 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).
- JJOAS-N 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: Times New Roman.
- Font size: 12.
- Headline font size: 14 Bold.
- Subheadings font size: 12 Bold.
- Table and figure title's font size: 10 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- Main Body
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results (with subheadings).
- Discussion (without subheadings).
- Conclusion
- Contact and competing interest information for all authors.
- Data sharing plans (for all data, documentation, and code used in analysis).
- Funding information and whether an open access license has been selected.
- Acknowledgements (optional).
- References