INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
1- Ethical/legal considerations: A submitted manuscript must be an original contribution not previously published (except as an
abstract or preliminary report), must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere, and, if accepted, must not be published
elsewhere in similar form, in any language, without the consent of MMJ. If the work being submitted has been published previously in
another language, please disclose this information with the submission of the manuscript.
2- Authorship: To qualify for authorship, a contributor must have fulfilled each of the following criteria: 1) substantial contributions
to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for
important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published. All persons designated as authors should qualify
for authorship, and all those who qualify should be listed.
Each person listed as an author is expected to have participated in the study to a significant extent. Although the editors and
referees make every effort to ensure the validity of published manuscripts, the final responsibility rests with the authors, not with the
Journal, its editors, or the publisher.
3- Conflicts of interest: Authors must state all possible conflicts of interest in the manuscript, including financial, consultant,
institutional and other relationships that might lead to bias or a conflict of interest. If there is no conflict of interest, this should also be
explicitly stated as none declared.
4- Patient anonymity and informed consent: It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that a patient’s anonymity be carefully
protected and to verify that any experimental investigation with human subjects reported in the manuscript was performed with
informed consent and following all the guidelines for experimental investigation with human subjects required by the institution(s)
with which all the authors are affiliated and with the Helsinki Declaration. Animal studies should be carried out within recognised
guidelines for the care of laboratory animals.
5- IRB Approval: When reporting experiments on human or animals, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance
with the ethical standards of the responsible committee.
PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPT
Manuscripts that do not adhere to the following instructions will be returned to the corresponding author for technical revision
before undergoing peer review.
Title page: Title page must be submitted as part of the manuscript. This should include:
(a) complete manuscript title; (b) authors’ full names, highest academic degrees, and affiliations (dept., institution, city, state,
country) (c) short running title (less than 4 words); (d) name and address for correspondence, fax number, telephone number, and
e-mail address; (e) address for reprints if different from that of corresponding author; (f) Conflict of interest; and (g) disclosure of
funding received for this work.
Structured Abstract: A concise abstract of no more than 300 words is required for all original clinical and basic science
contributions, including review articles. No reference citations should be included in the abstract. To facilitate rapid indexing and
assimilation into the medical literature, abstracts should be organized according to the outlines listed under the Article Types
section.
ARTICLE TYPES
1- Original Articles:
Abstract
Objectives: Brief, clear statement of the main goals of the investigation.
Background: Concise; designed for orientation of the reader who is unfamiliar with this line of investigation.
Methods: Summary of techniques and materials used.
Results: Include statistical measures where appropriate.
Conclusion: Include only those directly supported by data generated from this study. Emphasize clinical relevance wherever possible.
2- Reviews and Meta-Analyses:
Objective: Brief, clear statement of the goals of the review.
Data analysis: Specify (Data Sources: Specify database, search methodology, languages covered, and time frame,
Study Selection: Criteria used to select articles for detailed review, Data Extraction: Means of assessing quality, validity, and comparability of extracted data and Data Synthesis: Specify statistical techniques used for data analysis).
Recent Findings: include summary of the most recent findings.
Conclusions: Concise statement of primary inferences with any recommendations.
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3- Case Studies:
Abstract
Objectives
Clinical Presentation & Differential Diagnosis
Intervention
Conclusions
Length: As a rule of thumb, this limits contributions to 1-2 images and less than 3 typewritten pages (double-spaced).
Key Words, Running Heads: On the same abstract page, list in alphabetical order, key words (maximum of seven) for indexing,
using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) from Index Medicus, and provide a running head of three or four words to be used as the right-hand page running heads in the typeset article.
Text: Manuscripts should be formatted according to the American Medical Association Manual of Style (9th ed.). See Article Categories for additional formatting requirements.
K Number all pages, beginning with the title page as #1.
K Double-space the manuscript (including references, figure legends, and tables) with minimum 1-inch margins and 12 fonts Times New Roman.
K State all measurements in metric units, and if desired, add English units in parentheses.
K Begin each table on a separate page.
K Organize the manuscript according to the article categories into:
Original articles: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgment (grants and research support) and
References. Authors are required to target a manuscript length of 3500 words or less (this count is for the main text only; it
excludes the abstract, references, acknowledgments, figures, and tables).
Reviews and Meta-Analyses: Introduction & Objectives, Data analysis, Findings, Conclusions Acknowledgment (grants and
research support) and References.
Case Studies: Introduction, Case Report, Discussion, Conclusion, References. Authors are required to target a manuscript length
of (1500) words or less (introduction–conclusion) and References: 5–10.
References: The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references. Key the references (double-spaced) at the end of the
manuscript. Cite the references in text in the order of appearance (in numbers). Cite unpublished data—such as papers submitted
but not yet accepted for publication and personal communications, including e-mail communications—in parentheses in the text. If
there are more than six authors, name only the first three authors and then use et al. Refer to the List of Journals Indexed in Index
Medicus for abbreviations of journal names, or access the list at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html. Sample references are
given below:
K Journal article [follow AMA style]
1. Zikora S, Berentei Z, Kulcsar Z, et al. Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms by Functional Reconstruction of the Parent Artery: The
Budapest Experience with the Pipeline Embolization Device. Am J Neuroradiol 2010; 31:1139–1147.
Book:
2. Nadol JB, Schuknecht HF. Surgery of the Ear and Temporal Bone. New York: Raven Press; 1993. pp. 205–256.
Chapter in a Book:
3. Jackson CG, Woods CI, Chironis PN. Glomus jugulare tumors. In: Sekhar LN, Janecka IP, editors. Surgery of Cranial Base
Tumors. New York: Raven Press, 1993. pp. 747–762.
Journal Article in Press:
4. Adams JC. Clinical implications of inflammatory cytokines in the cochlea: a technical note. Oto Neurotol 2002; (in press).
Journal Article in a Foreign Language:
5. Vlahovich B, Frerebeau P, Billet M, et al. Importance of per-operative angiography in cerebral vascular malformation [in French].
Neurochirurgie 1969; 15:191–201.
Internet:
6. Health Care Financing Administration. 2001 statistics at a glance. Available at: http://www.hcfa.gov/stats/stathili.htm [Accessed
1 July 2001]. [For referencing Internet documents and web sites generally, see AMA Manual of Style, p. 45.]
Abstract, Comment, Letter to the Editor:
7. Manheimer E, Berman BM. Acupuncture: does it alleviate pain and are there serious risks? A review of reviews. Pain 2011;
152:2179–2180 (letter).
Unpublished Meeting/Conference Presentation:
8. Laws ER Jr, Smith M. Fibrin tissue adhesive: a role in transsphenoidal neurosurgery for pituitary tumors. Presented at the 42nd
Annual Meeting of the Neurosurgical Society of America, Tuckertown, Bermuda, May 10–13, 1998.
Figure legends: Legends must be submitted in its order for all figures. They should be brief and specific, and they should appear on a separate manuscript page after the references.
Figures: The following information summarizes our guidelines for image preparation.
DIGITAL ARTWORK GUIDELINE CHECKLIST
Here is the basics to have in place before submission:
K Artwork should be saved as TIFF files types. Figures cannot be embedded in Microsoft programs (Word, PowerPoint, etc.) as
this decreases resolution size.
K Artwork is created as the actual size (or slightly larger) it will appear in the journal.
K Diagrams, drawings, graphs, and other line art must be vector or saved at a resolution of at least 1200 dpi.
K Photographs, radiographs and other halftone images must be saved at a resolution of at least 300 dpi.
K Photographs and radiographs with text must be saved as postscript or at a resolution of at least 600 dpi.
K Each figure must be saved and submitted as a separate file.
K Figures should not be embedded in the manuscript text file.
Color figures: The journal accepts for publication color figures that will enhance an article. Authors who submit color figures will receive an estimate of the cost for color reproduction. If they decide not to pay for color reproduction, they can request that the
figures be converted to black and white at no charge.
Tables: Create tables using the table creating and editing feature of your word processing software (e.g.,Word, etc.). Do not use
Excel or comparable spreadsheet programs. Put tables on separate pages after figure legends page and number them in order of their mention in the text. Provide a brief title for each table, and define any abbreviations in table footnotes.
Reprints: Authors will receive a reprint order form and a price list with the page proofs. Reprint requests should be faxed to the
publisher with the corrected proofs, if possible.
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