INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Submission

The manuscript is to be submitted by the corresponding author. The manuscript should be submitted electronically via the online manuscript management system at www.nmafctjournal.com

The manuscript should be organised under the following sections:

• Title page,

• Abstract,

• Keywords,

• Introduction,

• Materials and Methods,

• Results,

• Discussion,

• Conclusions,

• Acknowledgement, and

• References.

Tables and Figures should be embedded at the appropriate places within the body of the manuscript. Variations from this outline may exist for articles on medical education, reports of workshops or conferences, reviews and meta-analyses, editorials, and commentaries.

Abstracts should be structured as follows: Title, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Conclusions.

Author Guidelines

Manuscripts should be submitted by one of the authors via the online Manuscript Tracking System (MTS).

Only electronic Word (.doc, .docx, .rtf) files can be submitted through the MTS. The font and size should be Times New Roman font size 12. Submissions by anyone other than the corresponding author will not be accepted.

The corresponding author is also responsible for the manuscript during the peer review process.

Terms of Submission

Manuscripts are submitted on the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere and are not currently under consideration by another journal. Manuscripts can be submitted even when abstracts from such papers has been presented at conferences and workshops. The submitting/ corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the article's publication has been approved by all the other co-authors. The journal reserves the right to edit a manuscript to conform with its styles and word counts. All inquiries concerning the publication of accepted papers should be addressed to the editorial office. AMHR takes no responsibility for legal disputes between and among co-authors.

Editorial/Peer Review

The journal's editors review all submitted manuscripts initially for suitability for formal review. The manuscript will be considered for peer review provided it is methodologically sound, of high ethical standards, and its conclusions are based on logical interpretation of the statistical analyses of data. Manuscripts found suitable for publication are sent to two or more expert reviewers. The editors ensure the reviewers are not affiliated with the same institutes as the author(s). However, the selection of these reviewers is at the sole discretion of the editors. The journal follows a double-blind review process, wherein the reviewers and authors are unaware of each other's identity. Every manuscript is also assigned to an editorial team member, who takes a final decision on the manuscript based on reviewer comments. If required, the author is requested to provide a point-by-point response to reviewers' comments and submit a revised manuscript. This process is repeated until reviewers and editors are satisfied with the manuscript.

Manuscripts accepted for publication are copy-edited for grammar, punctuation, print style and format. The entire process of manuscript submission to the final decision, and sending and receiving proofs, is completed online.

Article Processing Charges 

Archives of Medicine & Health Review is an open-access journal. In order to the enable publishers make the published material freely available to all interested online visitors, AMHR charges.

Units of Measurement and Abbreviations

All measurements must be in SI units, apart from blood pressure measurements, which should be in mm Hg. Abbreviations should be in parentheses, preceded by the words in full, at their first appearance in the text. Subsequently, the abbreviation may be used. Generic names should be used for drugs, and if necessary, the brand name may follow in brackets.

Organisation of manuscript

The Title Page

The title, authors and affiliations should all be included on a title page as the first page of the manuscript file. The title page should include the following:

Type of article
Paper title
Full author names
Full institutional mailing addresses Email addresses

Authors' contribution details (see section on "Authorship criteria")

Abstract

The Abstract comes after the title page in the manuscript file.

The Abstract should be structured as follows:

Title, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Conclusions. It should not exceed 300 words. Citations should not be included in the abstract. Any abbreviated words should be written in full at the first usage. Authors should provide a few keywords or phrases for the index at the foot of the abstract. The keywords should be separated by commas (.).

Introduction

The introduction should provide background information that contextualises the manuscript and allows readers outside the field to understand the purpose and significance of the study. It should summarise the problem addressed and explain why it is important. A brief review of the key literature and any relevant controversies or disagreements in the field are acknowledged. The concluding paragraph gives a brief statement of the overall aim or hypothesis of the work, and a comment about whether that aim was achieved and/ or the hypothesis confirmed or disproved.

Materials and Methods

This section must start with a statement stating clearly that the permission to conduct the research was obtained from the Institution Ethical Committee and, where applicable, informed written consent was also obtained in research involving humans (see additional note on "Ethical Guidelines" section). This section ought to provide ample detail to permit suitably skilled investigators to fully replicate the study. Specific information and/or protocols for novel methods ought to be included in detail. If materials, methods and protocols are well-established, authors may cite articles where those protocols are described in detail, but the submission should include sufficient information to be understood independently of these references.

Results, Discussion, Conclusions

These sections shall all be separate. Together, these sections should describe the results of the experiments, the interpretation of these results, and the conclusions that can be drawn. Authors ought to elucidate how the findings relate to the hypothesis underpinning the study and provide a concise explanation of the implications of the results, particularly in the context of previous related research and potential future avenues of investigation.

Acknowledgments

Those who contributed to the work but do not meet authorship criteria (see the section on "Authorship criteria") should be listed in the Acknowledgments with a description of the contribution. Authors are responsible for ensuring that anyone named in the Acknowledgments agrees to be named.

All acknowledgments (if any) should be placed at the very end of the paper preceding the references, and may encompass supporting grants, presentations, and the like.

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.