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Instructions for author

Preparing your Submission

 

Checklist: What to Include

Authors will be asked to confirm the following elements are included during submission. Any omissions may cause delays.

Word Document:

The title should be brief and relevant. It should not announce the results of the article and they should not be phrased as questions.

The full names of the authors should appear on the title page in the form that is wished for publication. Other group members (non-author contributors) should be listed under Acknowledgements or in Supplementary Material.

See relevant Article Type for individual specification.

In accordance with BMRC guidelines, the Archives of NIMH requires all clinical trials to be registered in a public trial’s registry at the beginning of the research process (prior to patient enrolment).

All authors are required to follow the BMRC guidelines on the protection of research participants. All procedures involving human subjects/patients should be approved by relevant local, regional or national review body and approval number should be included in the Methods sectio

Reports on research involving human participants must include a statement in the Methods section which states that required written [or verbal] informed consent was obtained from all subjects/patients.

 

At the end of the manuscript list the affiliations and countries at the time the work described in the paper was carried out. Identify one corresponding author with an email address appropriate for publication

References should be numbered in the order that they appear in the text and listed at the end of the manuscript using the Vancouver style.

Required Statements:

 Authors should also include a Declaration of Interest statement in their manuscript, detailing all conflicts of interest. Conflicts of interest are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on an author’s presentation of their work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.

Authors must include a Funding Statement in their manuscript. Within this statement please provide details of the sources of financial support for all authors, including grant numbers.

Authors may acknowledge individuals or organizations who provided non-financial advice and/or support.

All authors should meet all four criteria for authorship. Please provide a very brief description of the contribution of each author to the research including their roles in formulating the research question(s), designing the study, carrying it out, analyzing the data and writing the article.

In the interests of research transparency, authors are required to maintain accurate records of data associated with their manuscript, and to supply or provide access to these data on reasonable request for purposes of reproducing results or replicating procedures.

Other Documents:

 Tables should be numbered (e.g. Table 1, Table 2…) and referenced in the text of the manuscript. Authors must indicate the desired position of the table in the manuscript.Please ensure tables are a reasonable size. Tables over two typeset pages (around 1,400 words) will be moved to supplementary material. If you use data from another published or unpublished source, obtain permission and acknowledge that source fully.

 Figures should be numbered (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3…) and referenced in the text of the manuscript. Authors must indicate the desired position of the figure in the manuscript. Authors must obtain permission from the original publisher if they intend to use figures from other sources, and due acknowledgement should be made in the legend.

  1. Material related to a paper but not essential to a general understanding of the paper will be published as an online data supplement. This material includes, but is not restricted to:
  1. Additional data presented as tables or figures
  2. Details of a search strategy employed in a literature review
  3. Details of the literature retrieved but not further discussed in the body of the manuscript
  4. Technical details of specialist (but not novel) methodology, statistical analysis and supporting references

A signed publication agreement must be submitted online when submitting a revised version of the manuscript, or immediately after acceptance if no revision is required.

Article Types:

Five types of manuscripts may be submitted.

  1. The word count should be between 3,000 and 4,000 words and may include up to 25 essential references.   
  2. Structured abstract of up to 250 words with the headings: Background; Objectives; Methods; Results; and Conclusions.
  3. Main text should include the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion.
  4. Introductions should be no more than one paragraph. Longer introductions may be permissible but should be split with subheadings if they exceed two paragraphs.
  5. Discussion section should always include limitations of the paper to ensure balance, use of subheadings is encouraged in this section.  A Conclusions section is not mandatory in the main text.
  6. In total, up to five tables and figures may be included in the print version of each paper. Additional tables and figures may be included as online only supplementary material.
  1. There is no word limit or maximum number of references, tables or figures.
  2. The abstract and main text should be structured in the same way as original articles (above).
  3. We require authors to follow some standard protocol for systematic reviews before data extraction on an accessible, searchable site.
  1. A short communication is suitable for recording the results of complete small investigations or giving details of new models or hypotheses, innovative methods, techniques, images in clinical practice, letter to editors or short reports.
  2. The word count should not exceed 1,200 words (excluding references, tables and figure legends) and may include one figure or table and up to 10 essential references.
  3. Short reports require an unstructured summary paragraph not exceeding 100 words.
  1. We want to publish cases worthy of discussion, particularly around aspects of differential diagnosis, decision making, management, clinical guidelines and pathology.
  2. For case reports we recommend a maximum of 2000 words. Images in articles should be no more than 500 words.
  3. Please anonymize the patient’s details as much as possible, e.g., specific ages, ethnicity, occupations.
  1. The word count should not exceed 1,500 words and may include one figure or table and up to 5 essential references.
  2. Editorials require an unstructured summary paragraph not exceeding 50 words.
  3. A brief biographical detail (up to 25 words) for each author must be submitted with the manuscript.  

Other Considerations:

General outline for article presentation and format

  1. Use double spacing
  2. Font size should be 12 in Arial or Times New Roman
  3. Margins should be customized as 5 cm from above and 2.5 cm from rest of the sides.
  4. Title page should contain all the desired information
  5. Do not underline, italicize, place quotation marks or use all capital letters in your title.
  6. References according to the journal’s instructions – abide by the rules of Vancouver system.

How to write references for your reference list: Vancouver Style

  • Author
  • Title of journal article
  • Title of journal (this should be in italics)
  • Year of publication
  • Volume number
  • (Issue number)
  • Page numbers of the article

  • Example:

    Chhibber PK, Majumdar SK. Foreign ownership and profitability: Property rights, control, and the performance of firms in Indian industry. Journal of Law & Economics. 1999;42(1): 209–238.

    If the work you need to reference has more than six authors, you should list the first six authors, followed by ‘et al.’

    Example:

    Petrie KJ, Muller JT, Schirmbeck F, Donkin L, Broadbent E, Ellis CJ, et al. Effect of providing information about normal test results on patients’ reassurance: randomized controlled trial. British Medical Journal. 2007;334(7589): 352–254. Available from: doi:10.1136/bmj.39093.464190.55.

Most online articles will have a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and you should use this in your reference, if the article has a DOI you will not usually be required to add a date of access. If the article only has a URL then do include a date of access.

  • Author
  • Title of journal article
  • Title of journal (this should be in italics)
  • Year of publication
  • Volume number
  • (Issue number)
  • Page numbers of the article
  • Available from: URL (Include [Date of access]) or DOI (if available)

Examples:

Errami M, Garner H. A tale of two citations. Nature. 2008;451(7177): 397–399. Available from: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7177/full/451397a.html [Accessed 20th January 2015].

Wang F, Maidment G, Missenden J, Tozer R. The novel use of phase change materials in refrigeration plant. Part 1: Experimental investigation. Applied Thermal Engineering. 2007;27(17–18): 2893–2901. Available from: doi: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2005.06.011.

  • Author/Editor (if it is an editor always put (ed.) after the name)
  • Title (this should be in italics)
  • Series title and number (if part of a series)
  • Edition (if not the first edition)
  • Place of publication (if there is more than one place listed, use the first named)
  • Publisher
  • Year of publication

 

Example:

Simons NE, Menzies B, Matthews M. A Short Course in Soil and Rock Slope Engineering. London: Thomas Telford Publishing; 2001.

  • Name of Standard Body/Institution
  • Standard number
  • Title (this should be in italics)
  • Place of publication
  • Publisher
  • Year of publication

Example:

British Standards Institution. BS EN 1993-1-2:2005. Eurocode 3. Design of steel structures. General rules. Structural fire design. London: BSI; 2005.

  • Author/Editor (use the corporate author if no individual author or editor is named)
  • Title (this should be in italics)
  • Available from: URL
  • [Date of access]

Example:

European Space Agency. Rosetta: rendezvous with a comet. Available from:  http://rosetta.esa.int [Accessed 15th June 2015]

Title page

The title page should have the following information:

  1. Article title.
  2. Author(s) full names.
  3. The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed.
  4. Disclaimers, if any.
  5. Contact information for corresponding author: The name, telephone number, and e-mail address of the author responsible for correspondence about the manuscript.
  6. Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these.
  7. The number of tables and figures.

 

Statistics

Attention should be paid to providing a clear description of study designs and objectives, and evidence that the statistical procedures used were both appropriate for the hypotheses tested and correctly interpreted. The statistical analyses should be planned before data are collected and full explanations given for any post hoc analyses carried out. The value of test statistics used (e.g. t, F-ratio) should be given as well as their significance levels so that their derivation can be understood. Standard deviations and errors should not be reported as ± but should be specified and referred to in parentheses.

The number of decimal places to which numbers are given should reflect the accuracy of the determination and estimates of error should be given for statistics. Use of effect sizes with confidence intervals is encouraged but not mandatory. Authors are encouraged to include estimates of statistical power where appropriate. To report a difference as being statistically significant is generally insufficient, and comment should be made about the magnitude and direction of change.

Abbreviations and Symbols

  1. Use only standard abbreviations; use of nonstandard abbreviations can be confusing to readers.
  2. Avoid abbreviations in the title of the manuscript.
  3. The spelled-out abbreviation followed by the abbreviation in parenthesis should be used on first mention unless the abbreviation is a standard unit of measurement.

Review Process

All papers published in this journal are peer reviewed. All submissions are initially assessed for suitability by the Associate Editor(s). After the initial assessment, submissions are single-blind peer-reviewed by two independent, anonymous expert reviewers and the assigned Handling Editor. The Handling Editor will recommend a decision to the Editor-in-Chief who is responsible for making the final decision.

The editor(s) will decide whether the submission is suitable to be sent out for review. This review process can take up to 1–2 months. If you have concerns about the timetable, we encourage you to discuss these with the journal’s editor(s). The editor(s) will make a decision regarding your paper based on the reviewer reports. It is common for an article not to be accepted in first draft and you may be asked to revise and resubmit.

Once accepted, your manuscript will be prepared for publication. At this stage you will usually be asked to sign a form to define copyright terms. Submission of a manuscript for publication implies the transfer of the copyright from the author to the publisher upon acceptance. Accepted manuscripts become the permanent property of this journal and may not be reproduced by any means in whole or in part without the written consent of the publisher.

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