Guide for Authors

Guide for Authors

Journal of Medical and Life Science (JMALS) will take action where misconduct is suspected, along the lines of the general principles outlined in Guidelines on Good Publication Practice, produced by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).  https://publicationethics.org/

Authorship 
Authors are required to meet the criteria for authorship as recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html

The specific contributions of each author must be described in an Author Contribution statement. 

Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Editorial Office and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal, or rearrangement. In the case of the addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an already published article will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.

  1. The submission of a paper implies the author’s assurance that the paper has not been published and that it has not been submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere.
  2. All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted article and are responsible for the validity and originality of data contained therein.
  3. The submission should include the email and regular address of the corresponding author and all co-authors. Electronic submissions should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief as an MS Word file.
  4. Authors are required to declare any competing financial or other interest concerning their work. All competing interests that are declared will be listed at the end of published articles.

Style for Manuscript

All papers must be written in clear, concise, and should follow the format. The original typescript should be submitted electronically in 8.5-inch × 11-inch format. The text of the paper should include:

Title and author/s, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgments (if any), references, tables, and figures. All papers must be written in UK English. If English is not your first language, please ask an English-speaking colleague to proofread your paper.

Title and authors

The title should describe the contents fully and shall be as short as possible without the use of abbreviations. Please include full name(s) (do not use initials), position, department, name of institution, full postal address, and email address for each author. The author to whom the correspondence is to be sent should be indicated.

Abstract

An abstract of no more than 250 words describing the content and results of the paper should precede the text of the paper.

Keywords

No more than 6 keywords for your manuscript are listed after the abstract.

Introduction

The introduction must be clear and concise. It should provide a clear statement of the problem and should be understandable to colleagues from a broad range of scientific disciplines.

Materials and methods

Materials and methods must include study design, methods adopted/used along with references, and statistical information. It must be enough to allow experiments to be reproduced. Any previously published research work can also be cited and notification should be mentioned clearly.

Results

Results of research articles or manuscripts should be presented with clarity. This should describe the design of the experiment and the obtained results. All tables, figures, graphs, statistical analyses, and sample calculations should be presented in this section.

Discussion

The discussion part of the research paper includes the significance of the results related to the study, comparative analysis with similar or related works along proper citation. Avoid stating too many citations and ensure to include recent references.

Acknowledgments

This section should be thanks to people, the granting body, university departments, and college departments, and should be in a brief manner.

Reference Style Name

References: Vancouver (Numbered) 

JMALS is using the Vancouver (Numbered) style.

  1. The style is Vancouver style. You can use a “Reference manager” such as EndNote and apply this easily.
  2. A number is allocated to a source in the order in which it is cited in the text. If the source is referred to again, the same number is used.
  3. In the text use numerals (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) in curved brackets ( ).
  4. The reference numbers appear in the order as in the text.

For journals:

Yameny, A., Alabd, S., Mansor, M. MiRNA-122 association with TNF-α in some liver diseases of Egyptian patients. Journal of Bioscience and Applied Research, 2023; 9(4): 212-230. doi: 10.21608/jbaar.2023.329927.

For books

Johnson, R. E., Hanstbarger, W. M. (1966). Hand Book of Insecticides. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Print reference:

Stannard W, Rutman A, Wallis C, O'Callaghan C. Central microtubular agenesis causing primary ciliary dyskinesia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2004;169:634-7. 

Online references:

Edelstein M, Pitchforth E, Asres G, Silverman M, Kulkarni N. Awareness of health effects of cooking smoke among women in the Gondar region of Ethiopia: A pilot survey. BMC Int Health Hum Rights [Internet]. 2008 Jul 18 [cited 6th June 2014];8:10. Available from: https://bmcinthealthhumrights.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-698X-8-10.

How to deal with Endnote- English language

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yIdUpJfprxcUP4Wk6FfWTU-mgKZKnLQF/view

Figures

Figures and graphs should be black and white, or in color, embedded in a Word file, and numbered sequentially; they must be placed at the end of the article, rather than interspersed in text. Prepare all figures, especially line diagrams, to the highest possible standards.

Tables

Tables are to be numbered with English numerals in the order of their citation in the text and included in the main document at the end of the text following the references section. Tables should be submitted as MS Word, not as PDF or embedded images or any other forms.

Proofs and Reprints

Electronic proofs will be sent (e-mail attachment) to the corresponding author as a PDF file. Page proofs are considered to be the final version of the manuscript. Except for typographical or minor clerical errors, no changes will be made to the manuscript at the proof stage. Authors can freely download the PDF file from which they can print unlimited copies of their articles.

Submission: 
All manuscripts and materials must be submitted through the web-based tracking system. Submissions should be in English. The site contains instructions and advice on how to use the system. Authors should NOT in addition then post a hard copy submission to the editorial office, unless they are supplying artwork, letters, or files that cannot be submitted electronically, or have been instructed to do so by the editorial office. For those authors who have no option but to submit by mail please send three copies of the article, plus an electronic version on disk or CD-ROM to the following Dr. Ahmed Yameny Editor-in-chief.  349 Mostafa Kamel Street, Alsa,a Victoria, Alexandria, Egypt.  Mobile: (002)01002112248 - 01222708665. WhatsApp: (002)01146051753

E-Mail:  jmals.eg@Gmail.com dr.ahmedyameny@yahoo.com

List of Journal topics.

Manuscripts reporting original results in any field of Medical and life science including (but not limited to):. The thrust research areas include medicine, pathology, hematology,  biochemistry, biology, clinical pathology, microbiology, pharmaceutical research,  parasitology, molecular biology, immunology, bioinformatics, biotechnology, anatomy, biodiversity, pharmacology, taxonomy, embryology, ecology, physiology, histology,  genetics, genetic engineering, phytochemistry, Biophysics, Community, Toxicology and any other related areas in the subject are suitable for publication.

Fees: 

In a free access model, the publication costs of an article are paid from an author's research budget, or by their supporting institution, in the form of Article Processing Charges. These Article Processing Charges replace subscription charges and allow publishers to make the full text of every published article freely available to all interested readers. 

Fees or article processing charge(APC): Charges an open access fee of 60 USD per article, L.E. 1200 for Egyptians, there are no submission charges (fees must be paid after acceptance) -in some cases, it may be free for some cases after approval of the editorial board.  

Owner and Director-in-Charge of the Journal: Dr. Ahmed Abdelhalim Yameny.

For payment methods can contact us Tel; 002(01002112248), 002(01222708665),

E-Mail: jmals.eg@Gmail.com , dr.ahmedyameny@yahoo.com 

 - COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING: 

The content of the manuscript must be the author's own, and it has not been copyrighted from other previously published works. Written permission should be provided during submission to reuse any figures, tables, and data sets from previously published content.

This is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. 

All articles are open-access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-SA) license  

- PROCESS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF AND DEALING WITH ALLEGATIONS OF RESEARCH MISCONDUCT:

The publisher and editors follow COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.

The publisher and editors will reject any manuscript when research misconduct occurs, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others.

The editors are reviewing all handled allegations from whistleblowers carefully, the Journal takes seriously allegations of misconduct pre-publication and post-publication.

 Editors will seek a response from authors suspected of misconduct. If they are not satisfied with the response, they will raise their concerns to the relevant employers, or institution, or appropriate body. 

-Plagiarism Policy:

Plagiarism in any form constitutes a serious violation of the principles of scholarship and is not acceptable. Examples of plagiarism include

  1. Word-for-word copying of portions of another's writing without enclosing the copied passage in quotation marks and acknowledging the source in the appropriate scholarly convention.
  2. The use of a particularly unique term or concept without acknowledging the original author or source.
  3. The paraphrasing or abbreviated restatement of someone else's ideas without acknowledging that another person's text has been the basis for the paraphrasing.
  4. False citation: material should not be attributed to a source from which it has not been obtained.
  5. False data: data that has been fabricated or altered in a laboratory or experiment; although not factually plagiarism, this is a form of academic fraud.
  6. Unacknowledged multiple authors or collaboration: the contributions of each author or collaborator should be made clear.
  7. Self-plagiarism/double submission: the submission of the same or a very similar paper to two or more publications.