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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Author Guidelines
Guidelines on Manuscript Preparation and Submission
Focus The focus area of this journal includes manuscripts of well-conceived and conducted research in Science, clinical, and updated fields. These include review articles, original research papers, case reports, short communication/letters to the editor, meta-analyses, and photo quizzes.
Types of Article Original articles should not be more than 3000 words with a maximum of six illustrations ( both figures and tables).
A review article should be between 3000 and 3500 words, including references, and may contain not more than six illustrations (figures and tables).
Case reports should not exceed 2900 words with not more than four illustrations.
Letters to the Editor should be at most 700 words long and may contain a maximum of two illustrations. L
Submission Authors are required to submit their articles online at the journal website or as an e-mail attachment to editor.jbcsr@gmail.com.
Preparation of Manuscripts Original manuscripts should be structured as follows, (with few variations for Review articles, Case reports, etc):
Title, Authors (complete name with surname underlined), Complete addresses of all authors, emails of all authors, and phone numbers of all authors, Abstract, 6 or fewer Keywords, Body of Text, any, Acknowledgement(s), References, Tables, and Figures.
The abstract should be structured and not more than 250 words. The abstract should include subheadings such as Background, Objectives, Materials and Methods, Results, and Conclusion. Abstracts for case reports need not be structured.
References References should follow the Vancouver style, numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text, situated at the end of the sentence in superscript after the full stop, within the manuscript. At the end of the article, the full list of references should give the surnames and initials of all authors if six or fewer. For more than six authors, the names of the first six authors should be followed by “et al” in italics.
The authors’ names are followed by the title of the article, then the title of the journal abbreviated according to the style of the Index Medicus or written in full, the year of publication, the volume number, and the first and last page numbers. Titles of books should be followed by the names of any editors, publisher, edition, place of publication, year of publication, and relevant pages.
