A Submitted manuscript must be an original contribution, not previously published, and, not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We prefer the articles and other material to be sent in a formatted text file like 'Microsoft word'.

• Email submission must be send to editorijmu@akspublication.com

The manuscripts, which do not adhere the following instructions will be returned to the corresponding author for technical revision before undergoing the process of peer review.

Cover letter

It must include name and address along with contact number (preferebly cell number) and email address of corresponding author. The author must also submit the "Copyright transfer/Anti-plagiarism declaration/Conflict of interest" form.

Title Page

It includes (a) complete manuscript title; (b) authors' full names (Prof./Dr./Mr./Ms._________________), highest academic degrees, and affiliations; (c) running title; (d) details of manuscript (type: Original work/ Review article/ Case report/ Brief communication/ Letter to editor/ etc., number of text pages with references, number of tables, and figures); and (e) details of each author.

Abstract and Key Words

The author must submit a short abstract or summary of about 300-500 words indicating aims & objectives, methodology, results and interpretation. For brief communication, the word limit is 250. In addition to it, authors should provide four to six key words.

Text

Headings should be appropriate to the nature of the paper. For original research papers, text should be organized as Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion and References. For case reports, the author should organize the text as Introduction, Case details, Discussion, Conclusion and References. Other papers e.g. review articles may be subdivided as the authors desire. Brief communications are brief, but complete articles published in a special section of this journal. Manuscript submitted as brief communication should not exceed four printed pages including references, figures, tables and legends. The author may submit maximum 3 figures and/or tables. Manuscript must include an abstract, key words, an introduction, methodology or description of procedure, results, discussion, conclusion and a list of references. We also welcome letters to editor and consider for publication on the basis of space availability. Letters should be 1000 words maximum, including title, text and maximum five references. Tables and figures are not permitted. Individuals can write letters to the editor in response to topic discussed in the journal and to raise other topics of interest to medical professionals. Letters will be reviewed by editors, and the editors reserve the rights to edit letters for length and content.

The journal uses a system of primary, secondary and tertiary headings. As per this system, all letters of primary headings are in caps (e.g. DISCUSSION). Only the first letter of the secondary heading and proper nouns are in capital (e.g. Laboratory evaluation of renal function). Only the first letter of tertiary headings is capitalized (e.g. Creatinine Clearance Calculation). All headings are boldfaced and only tertiary headings are italicized.

References should be mentioned in the 'Vancouver style' like author's name & initials, followed by: a) references from books, (chapter's name, title of the book, the place of publication, name of publisher, year and page numbers) and, b) references from journals (paper's title, title of the journal, year, Volume, number and page numbers). This is the numbered system. The references are numbered sequentially as they occur in the text and are ordered numerically in the reference list. Do not order the references alphabetically in the reference list. The following are examples:

• Reference from books, e.g. Padubidri VG, Daftary Shirish N. The Pathology of conception. Shaw’s Text book of Gynaecology 12th edition. BI Churchill Livingstone, New Delhi 1983: 154-68.
• Reference from journals, e.g. Friedenstein AJ, Gorskaja JF, Kulagina NN. Fibroblast precursors in normal and irradiated mouse hematopoietic organs. Exp Hemato. 1976 Sep;l4(5):267-74. The author should use et al, if there are more than three authors. For e.g. Molofsky AV, Pardal R, Iwashita T, el al. Bmi-1 dependence distinguishes neural stem cell self-renewal from progenitor proliferation. Nature. 2003 Oct 30;425(6961):962-7.

Tables and Figures

The tables and figures should be submitted in JPEG format. The figures and tables should be placed in order at the end of the manuscript (following references).

Ethical policy

For the research papers containing results of human and/or animal studies, a high standard of ethics should be applied in carrying out investigations. The papers should include a statement that: "The research protocol was approved by local ethical committee and informed consent obtained from each subject prior to inclusion in the study".

Plagiarism detection

All the submitted manuscripts to IJMU are checked for plagiarism through 'Grammarly Premium Software'. Authors can also screen their work before submission. Authors must keep in mind that the submission should neither be previously published nor under consideration to another journal. If a paper is based on a thesis or dissertation that has been made available on electronic database, it will be considered as previously published paper.

Scientific misconduct and complaint statement

IJMU is listed in the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. The journal follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommendations for the conduct, reporting, editing, and publication of scholarly work. Complaint regarding the misconduct can be sent to editorijmu@akspublication.com

We take all possible misconduct seriously. If an editor in chief (EIC) /deputy editor/quality control editor suspects misconduct in research, publication, or professional behavior, EIC discusses the case in confidence with the editorial board members. First, we validate the allegation, .and if misconduct is a possibility, we contact the corresponding author and request to provide a detail response. If the author's response is sufficient enough to prove or disprove the allegation, we may publish a correction as a letter to the editor or correction notice in the next issue. If the issue cannot be resolved by discussion with the author(s), and the editor in chief /editorial board member still has concerns about the misconduct, we may report the case to the appropriate authorities likes authors institute and/research ethics committee of the parent institute. We request the institute to conduct a formal inquiry, and till the outcome of the inquiry, we may publish an expression of concern and stating that matter is under investigation. We usually follow the matter periodically with the instituter for the update on the issue. If, while reviewing an article, an editor or reviewer found fraudulent data or any other form of misconduct, the editor in chief may contact the journal and /publisher in which the previous publication appeared to raise the concern.

Conflict of interest

If there are no conflicts of interest, the author should state there are none. Sometimes, the authors will have financial or other ties to commercial entities related to products, services and other aspects of manuscript. Failure to disclose such potential conflicts will be considered as unethical. Therefore, the authors must disclose any financial or personal relationship with other people or organizations that could influence their study. The authors should do so in the manuscript at the end of the text under a subheading "Conflict of interest notification".

Authors' Contribution Statement

The corresponding author should submit a statement specifying the authors' particular role in the study/article. This statement should indicate their role in:

• Conception and design of the research
• Collection of the data
• Analysis and interpretation of the data
• Statistical analysis
• Drafting the manuscript
• Critical revision of the manuscript
• Final approval of the manuscript
• Obtained funding
• Overall responsibility

The overall responsibility line should list the single individual who guarantees the scientific integrity of the work as a whole. If someone has contributed to the manuscript but does not meet these criteria, they should be listed in the "acknowledgements section" rather than on the author byline. The letter accompanying the manuscript should include the statement, 'All authors meet the criteria for authorship stated in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals.'