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Original
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. Up to
3000 words excluding the abstract and the references.
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Review
articles (including those related to the Ethics
forum, the Education forum, E-Medicine, and so on): Systemic
critical assessment of literature and data sources. Up
to 4000 words excluding the abstract and the references.
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Case
reports or briefs: Novel/interesting/extremely
rare cases or rare presentations can be reported. Cases
with clinical significance or implications will be given
priority. Up to 1200 words excluding references and abstract
and up to 15 references.
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Images
in medicine : A short history, photograph, differential
diagnosis, and discussion of a classic and/or rare case.
Should not be more than 1000 words excluding up to ten
references.
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Letter
to the Editor : Should reflect short, decisive
observation. Up to 500 words and five references.
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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.
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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.
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Observational
and experimental articles should be divided into sections,
such as Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Discussion,
References, Tables, Figures, Figure legends, and Acknowledgment.
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The language
should be UK English.
Abstract Page
The second page should carry the complete title of the manuscript
and an abstract. The length of the abstract should be restricted
to 350 words for case reports and brief reports and 450
words for original articles. The abstract for original articles should be structured
to include the Context (Background), Aims, Settings and
Design, Methods and Material, Statistical Analysis used,
Results and Conclusions. The abstract should be "unstructured" for case report, Images in Medicine.
Key
Words
Three to eight keywords should be
provided below the abstract. These should be
put in after reference to standard key words in MeSH terms. Keywords should preferably be different from those in title of Manuscripts.
Introduction
State the purpose of the article and summarise the rationale
for the study or observation. Introduction is not required for Images in Medicine/ Letter to Editor/Case Reports
Methods
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Describe the
selection of the observational or experimental subjects,
such as patients and laboratory animals. Include the controls
used for each experiment.
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Identify the
age, sex, and other important characteristics of the subjects.
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Identify the
methods, apparatus, and procedures in sufficient detail.
Provide references to established methods, and describe
briefly methods that have been published but are not well
known.
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Describe new
or substantially modified methods, give reasons for using
them, and evaluate their limitations. Identify precisely
all the drugs and chemicals used, including generic name(s),
dose(s), and route(s) of administration.
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Reports of random
clinical trials should provide information regarding all
major study elements, including the protocol, assignment
of interventions, and the method of masking.( http://www.consort-statement.org).
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Authors submitting review articles
should include a section describing the methods used for
locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesising data.
These methods should also be summarised in the abstract.
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While reporting
experiments on human subjects, you should indicate whether
the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical
standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation
(institutional or regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration
of 1975 that was revised in 2000. (http://www.wma.net/e/policy/17-c_e.html.)
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Do not use names
or initials of patients or hospitals and/or hospital telephone
numbers especially in illustrative material.
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While reporting
experiments on animals, indicate whether you adhered to
the guidelines of an institution or national research
council governing the care and use of laboratory animals.
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Data and records must be retained and produced for review upon request.
Fabrication, falsification, concealment, deceptive reporting, or misrepresentation of data constitutes scientific misconduct.
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In clinical trial study, Clinical Trial Registry - India (CTRI No.) ought to be provided by the author.
If not, then author must confer the explanation for same. At this time journal does not implement it obligatorily, but strongly encourage it.
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It is mandatory to state that whether the Institutional approval has been taken by the author for the study conducted.
Relevant documents should be made available by the author, in case asked by the concern personnel.
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Whenever possible,
quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators
of measurement error or uncertainty.
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Report losses
to observation resulting from conditions, such as dropouts
from a clinical trial.
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Include a general
description of methods in the Methods section.
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While summarizing
the data in the Results section, specify the statistical
methods used to analyse them.
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Avoid non-technical
uses of technical terms in statistics. Define statistical
terms, abbreviations, and most symbols.
Results
Present the results in a logical sequence in the text, tables,
and illustrations. Do not repeat in the text all the data
in the tables or illustrations. Instead, emphasise on or
summarise only important observations.
Discussion
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Emphasise the
new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions
that result from them.
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Do not repeat
in detail the data or other material provided in the Introduction
or Results section. Include in the Discussion section
the implications of the findings for the present and for
future research and their limitations. Relate the observations
to other relevant studies.
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Contributors
should refrain from commenting on economic benefits and
costs unless their manuscript includes economic data and
analyses.
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Avoid claiming priority and alluding
to work that has not been completed.
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State new hypotheses when warranted,
but clearly label them as such.
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Recommendations may be included
only if appropriate.
Acknowledgments
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specify
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The contributions
that should be acknowledged but do not justify authorship,
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Acknowledgment
of technical help; and
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Acknowledgment
of financial and material support, specifying the nature
of the support.
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Any paid support
received from NJLM in preparation of the manuscript.
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NJLM was initially an online only journal
later went into print. It
does not differentiate between tables and figures in
numbering them as images are made for both. All
tables and Figures should be numbered in Arabic numerals consecutively in the order of their
first citation in the text. ( example Table/Fig 1, Table/Fig 2......)
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Tables should
be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material.
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Tables with more
than 12 columns and 30 rows are not acceptable.
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Place the explanatory
matter in footnotes, not in the heading.
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Explain in footnotes
all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table.
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for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and
provide a credit line in the footnote.
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For footnotes,
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‡, §, ||, , **, ††, ‡‡
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Labels, numbers,
and symbols should be clear and of uniform size.
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When graphs,
scatter-grams or histograms are submitted, the numerical
data on which they are based should also be supplied.
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If photographs
of people are used, either the subjects must not be identifiable
or their pictures must be accompanied by written permission
to use the photograph.
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has been published, acknowledge the original source and
submit written permission from the copyright holder to
reproduce the material. A credit line should appear in
the legend for figures for such figures.
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for the publication. After the consent has been obtained,
it should be indicated in the article. A copy of the consent
should be attached with the cover letter.
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