Instructions to Authors

The JRMS is a peer-reviewed journal, published four times per year. Authors are invited to submit for publication articles reporting original work. Review articles are usually by invitation only. The instructions below aim to provide guidelines for manuscript preparation in accordance with the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors http://www.icmje.org.
 

Submission of Manuscripts

Articles submitted for publication must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submitted material may include original investigations, review articles (after invitation from the editorial board), case reports and short communications.

The last two will be published only if they provide new fundamental knowledge. Prior to the initial submission of an article, please carefully consider that all authors' names are included as no change to authors' details will be permitted after the initial submission. The corresponding author should acknowledge that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript.

The authors should also declare that the paper is the original work of the authors and not copied (in whole or in part) from any other work. The editors reserve the right to make editorial alterations to the manuscript, including the title and the format of the article (Original Article, Case Report, etc). Proofs will be sent to the author for final approval before being sent to press.
 

Technical Requirements of the Manuscript

1. All parts of the manuscript including tables, references and legends must be typewritten using Times New Roman Font (size 12) for body text, double-spaced, on A4 paper with margins of at least 2.5cm.

2. The manuscript should have the following sequence: title page, abstract and key words, text, acknowledgements, references, tables, charts and legends for illustration (each section to start on a separate page).

Pages should be numbered consecutively beginning with the title page and total number of words should not exceed 3000 words (excluding references, tables and figure legends).

3. One original and two photocopies of the entire manuscript should be submitted to the journal along with four sets of illustrations. The author is also required to submit a soft copy of the manuscript.

4. The manuscript should be accompanied by a covering letter signed by the author and all co-authors.

5. Abbreviations should be explained at first citation in the text.
 

Authorship

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content.

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, and the order of authorship adopted will be that at first submission.

Title Page

The title page should include a concise and informative title (no longer than 12 words) and should list the name, qualifications and institutional affiliation for each author.

The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed and any support in the form of grants and equipment should be listed. The corresponding authors' contact details should also be added. 
 

- Corresponding author . Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of review and publication as well as post-publication. Ensure that phone numbers (with country and area code ) are provided in addition to the email address and the complete postal address . contact details must be kept up to date by the corresponding authors .

- Present/permanent address .if an author has moved since the work described in the article was done ,or was visiting at the time , a"present address " (or "permanent address") may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name . The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main ,affliction address .superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnote .  

Abstract and Key words

Original articles and brief reports should contain a structured abstract no more than 250 words. The following are typical headings: Objectives, Methods, Results, and Conclusion. Case reports should contain an unstructured abstract no more than 150 words. Below the abstract authors should provide 3 to 5 key words.
 

Introduction

State the purpose of the article and summarize the rationale for the study or observation. Give only strictly pertinent references and do not include data or conclusions from the work being reported.
 

Methods

State your selection of the observations, the age, gender, and other important characteristics of the subjects. Mention the procedures in sufficient detail to allow other researcher to reproduce the results.

State the statistical the methods used in the study together with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals). Avoid use of technical terms in statistics, such as “random” (which implies a randomizing device), “normal”, “significant”, “correlation”, and “sample”, not actually used in the study.