References

Authors are accountable for ensuring that the information in each reference is comprehensive and accurate. All references must be numbered consecutively and citations of references in text should be identified using numbers in square brackets (e.g.,

"as discussed by Oyebode [9]"; "as discussed elsewhere [9, 10]"). All references should be cited within the body of the text. The following serves as an exemplar of the appropriate format for references:

Journals

List all authors when six or fewer; when seven or more, list first six and add et al

Standard article:

Vijayashree MS, Viswanatha B, Sambamurthy BN. Clinical and Bacteriological Study of Acute Tonsillitis. IOSR-JDMS 2014; 13(1): 37-43.

Osazuwa F, Osazuwa E, Osime C, Igharo EA, made PE, Lofor P, et al. Aetiologic agents of otitis media in Benin City, Nigeria. Am J Med Sci 2011; 3:95-98.

Article from a Website:

Barbara G. Workshop on Writing and Publishing. Journal Articles. Capital Medical University. 2017. Retrieved on 13th September 2017 from www.authoraid.info/uploads/filer_ public/c1/74/c174fbe2.../core_slide

Books

List all authors or editors when six or fewer.
When seven or more, list the first six and add et al.

Barrow GI, Feltham RKA. Cowan and Steel's Manual for the Identification of Medical Bacteria. 1993; 3rd Ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Pp:156.

 

Cheesbrough M. Medical Laboratory Manual for Tropical Countries Vol. I1 Microbiology.

Revised Reprint. 1989. Elsevier Health

Sciences, London. Pp: 160-171.

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing. CLSI Approved Standard M100-S15. 2013. Wayen, USA.

Bluestone CD, Klein JO. Microbiology. In: Bluestone CD, Klein JO, eds. Otitis Media in Infants and Children. 2001; 3rd Ed. WB Saunders, Philadelphia, PA. Pp79-1014.

It is the responsibility of authors to ensure the accuracy of cited references.

Preparation of Figures and Tables

Upon submission of an article, authors are expected to include all figures and tables in the manuscript. Figures and tables should not be submitted in separate files but should be situated consecutively at the precise locations where they are expected to be in the body of the manuscript. Figures should be supplied in either vector art formats (Illustrator, EPS, WMF, FreeHand, CorelDraw, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) or bitmap formats (Photoshop, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, etc.). Bitmap images should be of 300 dpi resolution at least unless the resolution is intentionally set to a lower level for scientific reasons. If a bitmap image has labels, the image and labels should be embedded in separate layers.

Every table must have a descriptive title, and if numerical measurements are given, the units should be included in the column heading.

Conflicts of Interest

Conflicts of interest (COls, also known as 'competing interests') occur when issues outside research could be reasonably perceived to affect the neutrality or objectivity of the work or its assessment.

Authors are expected to declare all potential interests in "Cover letter", "Title page" and in

"Acknowledgement" section of the manuscript. If there are none, the authors should state "The author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this article." Submitting authors are responsible for co-authors declaring their interests. Declared conflicts of interest will be considered by the editor and reviewers, and included in the published article.

Authors must declare current or recent funding (including for article processing charges) and other payments, goods or services that might influence the work. The involvement of any party other than the authors who 1) has an interest in the outcome of the work; 2) is affiliated with an organisation possessing such an interest; or 3) was employed or remunerated by a funder, in the commissioning, conception, planning, design, conduct, or analysis of the work, the preparation or editing of the manuscript, or the decision to publish must be declared.

Clinical Study

When reporting the results of clinical studies, the Archives of Medicine & Health Review complies with the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) regarding trials registration.

Therefore, authors are requested to register the clinical trial presented in the manuscript in a public trials registry and include the trial registration number at the conclusion of the abstract.

Ethical Guidelines

All submitted manuscripts must have been conducted in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki (1964). When study carries a risk of harm to human subjects, a statement confirming that the study was conducted with the human subjects' understanding and consent, as well as a statement that the responsible Ethical Committee has approved the experiments are required. For experiments involving animals, authors must state the care of the animals and the licensing guidelines under which the study was performed, and report these in accordance with the ARRIVE (Animals in Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments) statement. In studies that utilise retrospective laboratory or clinical data where ethics clearance was not necessary, authors should indicate this clearly. At any point during the review process, editors may request for evidence of ethical approval. If you have approval from a National Drug Agency (or similar) please state this and provide details, this can be particularly useful when discussing the use of unlicensed drugs.

Authorship criteria

Authorship credit should be based solely on substantial contributions to each of the three components mentioned below:

• Concept and design of the study or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data;

• study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;

• Drafting the article or revising it critically for significant intellectual content; and

• Final approval of the version to be published.

Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship. Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content of the manuscript. The order of naming the contributors should be based on the relative contribution of the contributor towards the study and writing the manuscript. Once submitted, the order cannot be changed without the written consent of all the contributors.

Authors' contribution details

Contributors ought to provide a description of the contributions made by each of them towards the manuscript. The authors' contributions will be printed alongside the article.

Footnotes

Footnotes are only permitted on the title page and in tables, but not within the text. Footnote symbols should be used in the following order, horizontally and/or vertically; *,*,+,$,9;**,**,*1,99,94;**,***,***,559,999. etc. Numbers or letters are not acceptable.

Legend for Figures.

Type each legend for illustrations double-spaced, starting on a separate sheet, with Arabic numerals corresponding to the figures. This should commence with a concise title, then a brief, cryptic description of the legend. All abbreviations and symbols ought to be explained in the legend. The magnification and stain for any microphotograph should be provided at the end of the legend for the figure, where appropriate.