AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS
To submit manuscripts, you should have a pre-registered Author account. Click http://www.pubstemcell.com/onlinejournal/registration_form.asp and sign up by duly filling the data* in the “Author registration form”. Once you are registered as an author, for subsequent article submissions you can use the same login and password, which are permanent (In case of forgotten password and when not sure whether you already have created a login and password, send an e-mail to webmaster@pubstemcell.com. Technical support will be provided Mondays through Saturdays, 9.00 AM to 6.00 PM, Indian standard time.)
Upon successful completion of registration, a confirmation email providing both login and password, which are automatically generated by the system will be sent to the same email address that was provided by the author in the “Author registration form”. As mentioned above, the author from whose ID the submissions are accomplished is automatically considered as the corresponding author. All correspondence from JSRM editor’s desk will be directed to author’s email address and all correspondence from authors should be made to editor@pubstemcell.com.
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The submissions are acceptable in two kinds of files ONLY:
- MS word document files
- JPEG image files
1. The MS word document files apply for two documents
(i) First page file & (ii) Article file; The FONT should be Gill sans MT Regular, size 10
(i) The “First page file” is created to help in the peer review process and should be given a file name as “last name of corresponding author followed by space, then initials then space then date of submission with the date in two numerical, month in three alphabets and year in two numerical followed by “fp” for title page” For ex. Robert J Smith submitting an article on 08th Jan 2008 will give a title to the title page document as “robert sj 08jan08fp” and the first page file should contain: (i) Title (ii) Authors, (iii) Affiliation of authors, (iv) Persons other than authors** who are acknowledged for contribution, (v) ***Sponsors/grants with whose financial help, the study was accomplished, (vi) Corresponding authors full name, full postal address with Zip code, Country name, Telephone, Fax numbers with International access code, E mail ID, and an alternate Email ID.
The names* of ALL the authors to be given in the same order as it should appear in the paper. If two or more authors had contributed equally, please make a mention. **Acknowledgements for the contributions and mentioning names of the contributors, institutional affiliations of those acknowledged. ***Name(s) of funding agencies, with their address.
*Please note that the Last names ONLY be given with initials following. For ex: Robert J. SMITH be written as “Smith RJ”
(ii) The “Article file” should be given a file name as “last name of corresponding author followed by space, then initials then space then date of submission with the date in two numerical, month in three alphabets and year in two numerical followed by “ar”. For ex. Robert J Smith submitting an article on 08th Jan 2008 will give a title to the article file as “robert sj 08jan08ar” and the file will include:
(a) The title, abstract and key words (when applicable) in one page, (b) full text of the main article (c) All tables (d) References list (As per Index medicus) (e) Legend of figures and tables
2. Figures should be numbered sequentially as like cited in the text. The legends should be complete, specific and brief. This should appear on a separate page after the reference section. All the abbreviations should be explained in the legends.
Images can be clinical, pathologic, molecular study, Immunohistochemistry and others. They should be of high quality (
300 dpi resolution, clear and in good focus,
1200 pixel width and proportionate height). Photograph should be in JPEG format and line diagrams and charts should be in the format of GIF. Please save images with .jpg or .gif extension of the article file name as said above for eg. robert sj 08jan08fig1.jpg to ensure it can be ready by all platform and graphics packages.
3.
Each table should be double-spaced on a separate page and numbered consecutively in order of first citation in the manuscript text. The title of the table should be brief (not more than 16 words) and footnotes should be self explanatory of the table.
Content limitation* for each type of article submitted: Total no. of authors, be limited to twelve.
(03) Original Article:
Original research articles should be novel and present a work of substantial significance to the readers. It should not be exclusively based on earlier published research. The manuscript should be structured under the following headings: an Abstract, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, conclusion and References. The abstract can contain a maximum of 300 words; the main text of the Manuscript can contain 4000 words; Tables and figures Maximum 10; Keywords upto 5 ; References upto 50.
(02) Review Article:
JSRM welcomes Reviews that focus on recent clinical and research advances in the allied topics of interest to the readers. The Abstract of a review article can have a maximum of 250 words; the main text of the Manuscript 3000 words; Tables and figures - Maximum 6; Keywords upto 5; References-no maximum limitation.
(04) Brief Communication/Case report:
Brief communications can involve short analytical reports; experimental procedures and observations of high quality. Case reports can also be submitted under this category. But incomplete or preliminary findings should not be submitted. In case of a Case Report, a short abstract not exceeding 100 words is mandatory. The Main text can contain 1000 words; Tables and figures Maximum 3; Keywords upto 3 and References upto 10.
(06) Letters to the editor:
Letters to the editor in general express the feedback or asking for clarification or comment on earlier published articles in JSRM or a current topic on which a publication of any sort would have appeared in JSRM including the editorial. This can include a short summary of the work of the author also as a reference but not a detailed analytical data of the work. The editorial board may give in reply or get the response of the original author of the paper quoted and publish it as a reply to such letters. The letter can have a maximum 600 words and References upto 10.
(07)Proceedings of a meeting
JSRM welcomes proceedings of meetings. Those interested should contact editor@pubstemcell.com\
(08) Others:
Book Reviews:
Reviews on published books in the field of Stem cells, Regenerative medicine and other allied fields are welcome but publication of the same rests under the sole discretion of the editorial board.
Opinions:
These are articles discussing on topics on personal/opinion based standpoint rather than in the form of a more general review. Opinions should be brief and the length should not exceed 1000 words and references upto 25 are allowed. Publication of the same rests under the sole discretion of the editorial board.
*The editorial team reserves the right to amend limitations on the above as well as relax the limitations based on the relevance of such relaxation.
Informed consent and ethics:
When reporting the experiments on human subjects, indicate whether the procedures were followed under guidance of institutional ethical committee (IEC).
References:
References should be typed doubled spaced. References are to be numbered in the order of citation within the article. Citations in the main text should appear as superscript Arabic numerals. All the authors must be listed. Individual references should be formatted as like in the following style.
Journal articles:
Klein S, Svendsen CN. Stem cells in the injured spinal cord: reducing the pain and increasing the gain. Nature Neurosci. 2005; 8: 259-260.
Books:
Doubell TP, Mannion RJ, Woolf CJ. In Textbook of Pain. Churchill Livingstone, London, 4th ed. 1999, pp165-182.
Articles in books:
Elias M, Elias P: Motivation and activity. In Birren JE, Schaie KE (eds), Handbook of the Psychology of Aging.
New York, Van Nostrand, 1976, pp 357-359.
To qualify for authorship, all authors need to have sufficiently contributed in the research with regards to the research idea, design of study collection of data, data analysis or interpretation of results. Authors who have contributed in manuscript preparation or giving critical comments/revising with respect to scientific content are also eligible to be included as authors. All authors should have also read the manuscript being published and take public responsibility for the contents. The corresponding author needs to take responsibility for the whole article’s integrity, till the time of publication. In the rare case when editors request data that was used in preparation of the manuscript, the authors should provide them to be examined by the editors themselves or anyone they appoint.
Copyright
Upon submission of any article, the corresponding author will be sent a Copyright transfer form facilitating the transfer of copyright of the manuscript to JSRM which is the publisher.It is the duty of the corresponding author to ensure that that all the authors of the manuscript sign the Copyright transfer form and the scanned copy of the duly signed form must be returned to JSRM. Only on receipt of the Copyright transfer form will the manuscript be eligible for publication.
Conflict of Interest:
It is mandatory for each author to disclose all relevant potential financial and other interests that might be construed as resulting in influencing the results and contents of the manuscript. On submission, the the corresponding author will be sent the Conflict of Interest Declaration form and It is the duty of the corresponding author to ensure that that all the authors of the manuscript sign the Conflict of interest declaration form and the scanned copy of the form must be returned to JSRM. Only on receipt of the Conflict of interest Declaration form will the manuscript be eligible for publication.
*JSRM takes all measures to protect the personal details and privacy of the registered users, but may not be held responsible for any breach from third parties which might be beyond our control.
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