Author’ s Guidelines
1. Submitting the Article The journal publishes articles written in English. All articles will be accompanied by the signed copyright form which can be returned by e-mail, fax( as scanned documents). All the responsibility for the originality of the material sent belongs to the author( s) alone. Each article will be evaluated by the peer-review committee composed of two independent peer-reviewers, in a blinded fashion, according to the peer-review protocol. All articles will be sent to the editor-in-chief at the following e-mail address: stomatology. edu @ gmail. com. The articles will also be sent at the e-mail address of the co-editors-in-chief from your area( Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific).
2. Articles sent for publishing Stomatology Edu Journal( Stoma Edu J) publishes:- original articles;- reviews;- case reports;- consensus declaration coming from an association or from a group of specialists;- letters to the editor. All articles must be up to 3,000 and 5,000 words for meta-analysis( the word count is for the manuscript text only). Letters to the editor must not exceed 400 words of text and have no more than 3 authors. Letters to the editor can be related to an article already published in the journal or it can represent original scientific contributions or events news / presentations etc. of interest for the reader. If, following the peer-review process, the article requires only minor changes( language changes etc.) then the manuscript is accepted for publication in its revised form without further input from the author. In case the changes are considered more important( scientific errors or an incorrect use of the language that can affect the quality of the scientific message) the author will be contacted by a member of the editorial committee and it will only be published after he approves the changes considered necessary by the peer reviewers. In some cases, based on the written approval of the author( s), the peerreviewers and the chief-editor or the publisher the article may be published alongside the comments of the reviewer( s).
3. Authors Each author must be able to prove his active participation in the study by contributing to the concept, protocol, data gathering or analysis, their interpretation or by critically revising the manuscript. Any other persons who have contributed to the paper, like study participants or colleagues, will be mentioned in the“ Contribution” section.
4. Permissions and Ethics For citations, tables, figures etc. which are not original, these must be accompanied by the written permission for their use and the full reference must be provided. Photographs of identifiable persons must be sent alongside the written permission of the person( s) and all regions that may allow the identification of the subject must be covered. The author must have obtained, for all studies including human subjects, the permission of the subjects to be part of the study whilst keeping their anonymity. By sending the article, the author declares that he obtained this permission from all his subjects. All studies must respect the Helsinki Declaration( 1975). For human and animal studies, the authors must have obtained the approval of the ethics committee from the University / Institute / etc. where the study was done. 5. Writing the article The article must be written in conformity with the general recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. http:// www. icmje. org / icmje-recommendations. pdf The Stomatology Edu Journal( Stoma Edu J) uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author name( s) are not allowed to be revealed to one another for a manuscript under review. The identities of the authors are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa. To facilitate this, please include the following separately: Title page( with author details): This should include the title, authors ' names and affiliations, and a complete address for the corresponding author including an e-mail address. Blinded manuscript( no author details): The main body of the paper( including the references, figures, tables and any Acknowledgements) should not include any identifying information, such as the authors ' names or affiliations. The articles must be sent either as a Microsoft Word 2000 document(*. doc) or as a Microsoft Word 2003 document(*. docx). The article will be written using Times New Roman font, size 12 for the characters with one and half( 1 1 / 2) spaces between paragraphs. The manuscript must be sent in its final form. The pages will be numbered with the manuscript containing the following sections: title, authors, abstract, keywords, the text of article, contributions, acknowledgments, references, the figures and the tables legend. Please also check the Author’ s Guidelines for the Abstract. A. The title of the manuscript will have a maximum of 100 characters without spaces, written in title case, centered capitals, and in 12 point bold Times New Roman font at the top of page. Abbreviations should be avoided within the title. B. The author( s) will send their full name( s) and surname( s), the highest academic position, their full titles and their affiliations. All names are listed together and separated by commas. Provide exact and correct author names as these will be indexed in official archives. Affiliations should be keyed to the author ' s name with superscript numbers and be listed as follows: Laboratory, Department, Institute, Organization, City, State abbreviation( USA, Canada, Australia), and Country( without detailed address information such as city zip codes or street names). The correspondent author will send his / her full name and surname, the highest academic position, his / her full title, his / her affiliation, his / her institution address, his / her telephone, fax and e-mail. The authors will send this information in the same format as that in the published articles. C. The Structured Abstract The abstract can have a maximum of 250 words. After the abstract, the author( s) must mention a maximum of 5 keywords. Keywords must be selected from Medline Mesh. The abstract for Original Scientific Articles should be no more than 250 words using the following structure: Introduction; Methodology; Results; Conclusion. The abstract for Review Articles should be no more than 250 words with the authors covering all the following information regarding the subject presented under the following subheadings: Background, Objective, Data Sources, Study Selection, Data Extraction, Data Synthesis. The abstract for Case Reports should be no more than 250 words using the following structure: Aim, Summary and Key learning points: provide
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