Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
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 and it is not before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- All metadata including emails, degrees, and affiliations of all authors is accurate, upload with the metadata, and is included with the submission
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format using the proper IJMS Template.
- The text is in 10-point font, 1.5 spacing, and when required employs italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses).
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Instructions for Authors.
- At least one author of the manuscript is a current medical student in any University in the world, or a physician up to two years after graduation.
- The submission supplementary files include (if any): EQUATOR Guidelines checklist filled, Figures, Tables, Photographs, Images, and/or Diagrams.
- The lead author affirms that this manuscript is an honest, accurate, and transparent account of the study being reported; that no important aspects of the study have been omitted; and that any discrepancies from the study as planned (and, if relevant, registered) have been explained.
- Conflict of interest, funding, and acknowledgments has been disclosed in the manuscript.
- If the article is not an Experience or a Letter to the Editor, the submission should include as a supplementary file a filled checklist based on the study design (STROBE, CARE, PRISMA, SANRA, CONSORT, etc)
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