Authors
Each article type published by Vejovis Journal follows a specific format that is detailed in the instructions for authors; please choose an article type from the list to view the instructions for authors.
The instructions for authors includes information about preparing a manuscript for submission to Vejovis Journal criteria for publication and the submission process.
Recommendations on Publication Ethics Policies for Authors
The purpose of a policy on ethical principles
Our journal aspire to select, through peer review, the highest quality science.
To achieve this, the entire peer review and publication process must be
thorough, objective, and fair. Almost every aspect of this process involves
important ethical principles and decisions, which are seldom explicitly stated
and even less often shared with the readership. Our Journals' reputations depend
on the trust of readers, authors, researchers, reviewers, editors, patients,
research subjects, funding agencies, and administrators of public health policy.
Our policy on publication ethics is following the WAME Publication Ethics
Committee
https://wame.org/recommendations-on-publication-ethics-policies-for-medical-journals
Preparing the manuscript text
Style and language
Vejovis Journal accepts manuscripts written only in English.
Spelling should either be US English or British English, but not a mixture.
There is no limit on the length of articles submitted, but authors are
encouraged to be concise. There is also no restriction on the number of figures,
tables or additional files that can be included with each article.
Manuscripts for articles submitted to Vejovis Journal will have an unique ISBN and this should follow the ICMJE (http://icmje.org) uniform requirement for manuscript submitted to biomedical journals and follow standard IMRAD format.
- Title page
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Patients and Methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Learning points (if any)
- List of abbreviations used (if any)
- Competing interests Authors' contributions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Legends for Illustrations and figures (if any, the figures and legends need to be submitted separately, do not imbed them in the manuscript)
- Tables
- Additional files
The title page should contain the following:
- Title of the article
- List the full names of all authors, their affiliation, institutional addresses and email addresses name and address of corresponding author, with email, fax and phone number
- Word count for the abstract and the text
- Number of figures and tables
- Previous presentations in a conference (if any)
- Funding source (if any)
Abstract
The Abstract should be less than 250 words and must be structured into separate
sections:
- Introduction
- Study design
- Material and methods
- Results
- Conclusions
Introduction should outline the context and purpose of the study (include aim
and objectives here); Study design should state what design has been employed
e.g. retrospective, prospective, case control, cohort etc. Material and Methods,
should state as to how the study was performed and what are the statistical
tests used; Results, section reports the main findings; Conclusions, brief
summary and potential implications. Please minimize the use of abbreviations and
do not cite references in the abstract.
Keywords
Three to five keywords representing the main content of the article should be
provided. You can use MESH terms here, please do not repeat terms that are
already used in the title of the manuscript.
Introduction
The Introduction section must clearly state and illustrate the background to the
research (why?) and its aims and objectives, in a way that is interpretable to
researchers without specialist knowledge. It is recommended to include the
review of literature here to indicate why this study was necessary and what it
aimed to contribute to the field. The section should end with a brief statement
of what is being reported in the article.
It is recommended that this section may also be broken into subsections with
short, informative headings.
Methods
The methods section should include the design of the study, the setting, the
type of participants or materials involved, a clear description of all
interventions and comparisons, and the type of analysis used, including a sample
size and power calculation if appropriate.
For studies involving animal or human participants a statement detailing ethical
approval and consent should be included in the methods section.
Results
In this section report the results of your study. Results of statistical
analysis should include, where appropriate, relative and absolute risks or risk
reductions, and confidence intervals. It is recommended that this section may
also be broken into subsections with short, informative headings.
Discussion
Please discuss your results in this section. It is recommended that this section
may also be broken into subsections with short, informative headings. Discussion
should be limited to the results being reported in the manuscript, please try
not to go beyond the results and please try to refrain from being speculative.
Conclusions
This should state clearly the main conclusions of the research and give a clear
explanation of their importance and relevance.
Learning points
Please innumerate 3-5 learning points, in form of short sentences highlighting
the research contribution.
Competing interests and conflict of interests
Please read the journal policy on declaration of conflict of interest (financial
and non financial). A competing interest exists when your interpretation of data
or presentation of information may be influenced by your personal or financial
relationship with other people or organizations. Authors must disclose any
financial competing interests; they should also reveal any non-financial
competing interests that may cause them embarrassment were they to become public
after the publication of the manuscript. All financial or non financial
interests will be published along with the article. If the authors declare no
competing interests a statement of this effect will also be published.
Authors' contributions
In order to give appropriate credit to each author of a paper, the individual
contributions of authors to the manuscript should be specified in this section.
Please read the ICMJE guidelines on uniform submission to know more about
authorship credits and who can be an author. If some of the contributors do not
meet authorship criteria be acknowledged in acknowledgement section.
The authorship credit be reported in following format
CD carried out the literature search and prepared the draft manuscript, GB
carried out the experiments and interpreted the results, DT designed the study
and performed the analysis, KT conceived the study, participated in design and
edited the final manuscript. It is important to state that all authors read and
approved the final manuscript for submission.
Acknowledgements
Please acknowledge anyone who contributed towards the article by making
substantial contributions to conception, design, acquisition of data, or
analysis and interpretation of data, or who was involved in drafting the
manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content, but who
does not meet the criteria for authorship. Acknowledgment to the funding should
not be made here but should be on the title page on separate section. Authors
should obtain permission to acknowledge from all those mentioned in the
Acknowledgements section.
References
Only articles and abstracts that have been published or are in press, or are
available through public e-print/preprint servers, may be cited. All references,
must be numbered consecutively, in square brackets, in the order in which they
are cited in the text, followed by any in tables or legends. Each reference must
have an individual reference number, irrespective of how many time it appear in
manuscript, please do not repeat numbering or create duplicate. Please avoid
excessive referencing. If automatic numbering systems are used, the reference
numbers must be finalized and the bibliography must be fully formatted before
submission.
Unpublished abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications should not
be included in the reference list, but may be included in the text and referred
to as "unpublished observations" or "personal communications" giving the names
of the involved researchers. Obtaining permission to quote personal
communications and unpublished data from the cited colleagues is the
responsibility of the author. Journal abbreviations follow Index Medicus/MEDLINE.
Citations in the reference list should include all named authors, up to the
first 3 before adding 'et al.'.
Tables
Tables capture information concisely and display it efficiently; they also
provide information at any desired level of detail and precision. Including data
in tables rather than text frequently makes it possible to reduce the length of
the text.
Type or print each table with double-spacing on a separate sheet of paper.
Number tables consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and
supply a brief title for each. Do not use internal horizontal or vertical lines.
Give each column a short or an abbreviated heading. Authors should place
explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading. Explain all nonstandard
abbreviations in footnotes, and use the following symbols, in sequence:
*, †, ‡, §, ||, ¶, **, ††, ‡‡, §§, ||||, ¶¶, etc.
Identify statistical measures of variations, such as standard deviation and
standard error of the mean.
Be sure that each table is cited in the text.
If you use data from another published or unpublished source, obtain permission
and acknowledge that source fully.
Additional tables containing backup data too large to publish in print may be
appropriate for publication in the electronic version of the journal, deposited
with an archival service, or made available to readers directly by the authors.
An appropriate statement should be added to the text to inform readers that this
additional information is available and where it is located. Submit such tables
for consideration with the paper so that they will be available to the peer
reviewers.
Illustrations (Figures)
Figures should be either professionally drawn and photographed, or submitted as
photographic-quality digital prints. In addition to requiring a version of the
figures suitable for printing, some journals now ask authors for electronic
files of figures in a format (for example, JPEG or GIF) that will produce
high-quality images in the Web version of the journal; authors should review the
images of such files on a computer screen before submitting them to be sure they
meet their own quality standards.
Photomicrographs should have internal scale markers. Symbols, arrows, or
letters used in photomicrographs should contrast with the background.
Photographs of potentially identifiable people must be accompanied by written
permission to use the photograph.
Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they
have been cited in the text. If a figure has been published previously,
acknowledge the original source and submit written permission from the copyright
holder to reproduce the figure. Permission is required irrespective of
authorship or publisher except for documents in the public domain.
For illustrations in colour, ascertain whether the journal requires colour
negatives, positive transparencies, or colour prints. Accompanying drawings
marked to indicate the region to be reproduced might be useful to the editor.
Some journals publish illustrations in colour only if the author pays the
additional cost.
Authors should consult the journal about requirements for figures submitted in
electronic formats.
Figure legends
Include legends in the main manuscript text file. For each figure provide the
figure number in Arabic numerals, short title and a detailed legend upto 250
words. If reproducing the previously publishing figures or tables, it is authors
responsibility to take the permission from the copyright owners.
Typography
Font Arial
Please use double line spacing.
Type the text unjustified, without hyphenating words at line breaks.
Use hard returns only to end headings and paragraphs, not to rearrange lines.
Capitalize only the first word, and proper nouns, in the title.
All pages should be numbered.
Please do not use Footnotes, but endnotes may be used.
Please do not format the text in multiple columns.
Greek and other special characters may be included. If you are unable to
reproduce a particular special character, please type out the name of the symbol
in full. Please ensure that all special characters used are embedded in the
text, otherwise they will be lost during conversion to PDF.
Units of Measurement
Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be reported in metric
units (meter, kilogram, or liter) or their decimal multiples.
Temperatures should be in degrees Celsius. Blood pressures should be in
millimeters of mercury, unless other units are specifically required by the
journal.
Journals vary in the units they use for reporting hematologic, clinical
chemistry, and other measurements. Authors must consult the Information for
Authors of the particular journal and should report laboratory information in
both local and International System of Units (SI). Editors may request that
authors add alternative or non-SI units, since SI units are not universally
used. Drug concentrations may be reported in either SI or mass units, but the
alternative should be provided in parentheses where appropriate.
Abbreviations and Symbols
Use only standard abbreviations; use of nonstandard abbreviations can be
confusing to readers. Avoid abbreviations in the title of the manuscript. The
spelled-out abbreviation followed by the abbreviation in parenthesis should be
used on first mention unless the abbreviation is a standard unit of measurement.