Submissions

General Guidelines for Writing a Manuscript: 

 Submission of manuscript to IJHS:

Although the journal operates on the OJS/PKP platform, manuscript submission is currently managed via the official editorial email to ensure direct editorial handling. The journal is in the process of enabling full OJS-based submissions. Authors should submit their manuscript electronically in Microsoft word doc format to the editor to ans.submit@gmail.com

After peer review, accepted papers will be acknowledged and processed further, if the papers are rejected, the decision will be communicated to the corresponding author by editor-in-chief.

 Manuscript categories:

Edeitorial

Original Research Articles

Review Articles/reports/ providing a comprehensive review on a scientific topic.

Short communications

Case report/study

Technical Notes

 Preparation of Manuscript:

The manuscript should be limited up to 30 printed pages (one side only), typed on A-4 size paper with double spacing.  The manuscript should be in standard order as: Title, abstract(about 300 words with keywords) , Introduction, materials and methods, Results, Conclusion, Acknowledgement and Reference(in case of research article) and Title, abstract(about 300 words with keywords) , Introduction and author have to give its review in detailed references with the same. Page number should appear in the lower right hand corner of each page

 Title:

The title page should contain title (12 font), the author's name(s) (11 font), affiliation of the author(s) (10 font), ` The font type should be in times new roman, justified, Single column.

 Abstract

abstract(11 font) should contain minimum three keywords, Headings and all data should be in 11 font. The font type should be in times new roman, justified, single column.

 Introduction

The Introduction should be brief and define the scope of the work in relation to other work done in the same field. Data should be in 11 font. The font type should be in times new roman, justified, double column.

 Materials and Methods
Materials and Methods should be complete enough and clearly describe the experiments and techniques used in the study. However, only truly new procedures should be described in detail; previously published procedures should be cited, and important modifications of published procedures should be mentioned briefly. Data should be in 11 font. The font type should be in times new roman, justified, double column.

Institutional Review Board Approval and Informed Consent  All prospective and retrospective human studies must have appropriate institutional review board approval, and signed informed consent from all human participants is required. All animal studies must have an appropriate institutional review board or animal care committee approval.

Protection of Patients’ Right to Privacy For all research involving human subjects, informed consent to participate in the study should be obtained from participants (or their parent or guardian in the case of children under 16) and a statement to this effect should appear in the manuscript. Identifying information, including patients’ names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, CT scans, photographs, sonograms, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published.

Informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt that anonymity can be maintained. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note.

Reporting Guidelines: Reports of randomized clinical trials should present information on all major study elements, including the protocol, assignment of interventions (methods of randomization, concealment of allocation to treatment groups), and the method of masking (blinding), based on the CONSORT Statement. The reporting guidelines for other types of studies can be found at https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/.

 Data Analysis/Statistical Methods
The details of statistical tests used and the level of significance should be stated. Tubular and graphical data should be understandable.

 Results
Results should be combined and presented with simplicity and accuracy. Tubular and graphical data should be understandable.

 Discussion

It is important to discuss the new and significant observations in the light of previous work. Discuss also the weaknesses or pitfalls in the study.

 Conclusion 
State the conclusions in a few sentences in logical manner at the end of the paper. Conclusions must be drawn considering the strengths and weaknesses of the study in brief.

 Acknowledgement(s)
Author(s) may acknowledge the support obtained from institution/Universities/Govr/non gont. bodies in the study. Acknowledge only persons who have contributed to the scientific content or provided technical support. Sources of financial support should be mentioned.

Disclosure and conflict of interest
All authors should declare the conflicts of interest.

 Figures and Tables:

Authors, always remember that they should provide the original figures and tabular data that should be in grayscale, If it has detailed description on colour in figure, in that case provide colour figures only . Each figure and table should include a appropriate number and caption.

Format of figure should be JPEG, GIF only with best resolution. Figures and Tables should be clearly visible and can be given within the manuscript.

Permissions
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review

Author’s / Co-author’s name or any other identification should not appear anywhere in the body of the manuscript to facilitate blind review.

 References:

References should be Numerically ordered and it should be included after appropriate paragraph/sentence.

Examples Citing a journal:

1. Patil, P. S, (1920), Title of paper, Journal of health and biomed. Vol-17,issue2, pg 19-27

2. Chamle N and Damle l.(2001), Title of paper, Journal of health and biomed. Vol-17,issue2, pg 19-27 DOI:xxxxxxxx

3. Vasim, Antony, D.2011, title of Manuscript. Journal name. 17(6):51-65.DOI: xxxxxx

Citing a book:

Pamela K. Levangie, Cynthia C. Norkin; ‘Joint structure and function’, 4th edn: 12, p.541.

Address for Correspondence

All correspondence to the editor should be done by email at the following ID.

Email:  ans.submit@gmail.com