Authors wishing to submit their manuscript to the journal are advised to read this detailed guide for authors and comply with all the requirements, particularly those relating to manuscript format. This is to speed up the reviewing process and reduce the time taken to publish a paper following acceptance

Authors can submit their papers online to the Journal Contemporary Dental Science website via this online submission link by clicking the “submission” tab

Once the manuscript has been submitted, all subsequent correspondences between the Editorial Office and the corresponding author will be by e-mail. 

 

Language editing and author services

We only accept manuscripts in English language (either American or British). Prior to manuscripts submission Authors who feel their English language manuscript may require editing are strongly advised to seek professional English language editing services to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific English.

Manuscript must be clearly written in good English, typewritten using Times New Roman font size 12 only, single-spaced with 2.5 cm (1 inch) from all four sides.

All manuscripts must be accompanied by an uploaded and signed “Authorship, Contribution and Copyright Agreement” form. This form is to be signed by both the corresponding author and all co-authors, declaring, among other statements, that they have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and that the article has NOT been published or submitted to any other journal for publication. In addition, the corresponding Author has to upload a signed copy of the "Declaration form"

Both “Authorship, Contribution and Copyright Agreement” and "Declaration form" are available for download by clicking the "Submission and Forms" tab at the journal's home page.

The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining permission from the copyright owner/s for the use of any copyrighted material in the submitted article.

 

Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted by one of the submitted manuscripts’ authors (corresponding author), using the submission bar at the Journal home page. Submissions by anyone other than one of the authors will not be accepted. The submitting corresponding author takes responsibility for the manuscript during submission and peer review process and is responsible of all communications with the journal. Only Word (.doc, .docx) files can be submitted, and there is no page limit (up till now).

The following files are to be submitted with each article (whenever applicable):

• Title page (Title, authors names, Affiliations, Corresponding author details)
• Supplementary Materials (Images/Graphs/Diagrams/Figures/Tables)
• Authorship, Contribution and Copyright Agreement form (signed)
• Declarations form (signed)
• Manuscript (with references)

The second and third forms are available at the “Submission and forms” section

 

Terms of submission

Manuscripts must be submitted on the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere and are only being considered by this journal. The submitting corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the article’s publication has been approved by all the other co-authors. It is also the submitting author’s responsibility to ensure that the article has all necessary institutional approvals. Only an acknowledgment from the editorial office officially establishes the date of receipt. Further correspondence and proofs will be sent to the author(s) before publication, unless otherwise indicated. It is a condition of submission that the authors permit editing of the manuscript for readability.

 

Peer review

All submitted articles are subject to assessment and peer-review to ensure editorial appropriateness and technical correctness. In order for an article to be accepted for publication, the Executive Editor will first consider if the manuscript meets minimum editorial standards and fits within the scope of the journal. If an article is within scope, then the Executive Editor will then assign the related Associate Editor who will ideally solicit at least two external peer reviewers (whose identities will remain anonymous to the authors) to review the and submit their recommendations. Final editorial decisions are at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief and the Executive Editor.

For more details, please go to Editorial and Peer Review under “Journal Overview” section

 

Detailed Manuscript Structure Guidelines

I- Original Articles

Each original article must contain:

1. Title page
2. Abstract
3. Keywords
4. Introduction
5. Materials and Methods
6. Results
7. Discussion
8. Conclusion
9. Conflict of Interest
10. Funding Statement (if any)
11. Acknowledgments (if any)
12. References
13. Tables
14. Figures

 

1- Title Page

The title page should include:

• Manuscript title
• Full author(s) name(s)
• The accurate name(s) of each author(s) and his/her degree, title and affiliation (e.g Professor, Department Head, Resident, intern, dental student, private practitioner..etc), including the country name and the e-mail address of each author.
• For the Corresponding author it is crucial to provide an email address and corresponding address that are kept up to date for convenience of correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication.

 

2- Structured Abstract

The abstract should be self-contained, citation-free, and should not exceed 300 words. It should be factual condensation of the entire work and must be written under the following subheadings:

• Background
• Objectives
• Methodology
• Results
• Conclusion

 

3- Keywords

It helps indexers and search engines find relevant papers. Keywords must be chosen carefully and should represent the content of the manuscript and be specific to the manuscript field or sub-field

 

4- Introduction

This section should be succinct, with no subheadings. It provides a survey of literature, purpose of the study, and summarize the rationale for the study etc.

 

5- Materials and Methods

The methods section should provide enough detail for others to be able to replicate the study. Commonly used procedures and methods need not be described but require a reference to the original source.

The material and methods section should:

• Describe clearly the selection of the observational or experimental subjects (patients or laboratory animals, including controls).
• Identify the age, sex, and other important characteristics of the subjects.
• Identify the methods, apparatus (including manufacturer's name and address in parentheses or footnote), and procedures in sufficient details.
• Give references to established methods, including statistical methods
• Provide and describe study design (retrospective, perspective, clinical trial, observational study ---etc)
• Describe new or substantially modified methods, give reasons for using them, and evaluate their limitations.
• Identify precisely all drugs and chemicals used, including generic name(s), dose(s), and route(s) of administration.
• When reporting experiments on human subjects, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (available at http://www.wma.net/e/policy/17-c_e.html). Make sure not to use patients' names or initials, especially in illustrative material. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether the institution's or a national research council's guide for, or any national law on the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.  

If a method or tool is introduced in the study, including software, questionnaires, and scales, the license this is available under and any requirement for permission for use should be stated. If an existing method or tool is used in the research, the authors are responsible for checking the license and obtaining any necessary permission. If permission was required, a statement confirming permission was granted should be included in the Materials and Methods section.

 

6- Results

The results should be presented in logical sequence in text, tables and illustrations emphasizing and summarizing only important observations with no discussion of the significance of the data.

 

7- Discussion

It should present the significance of the data under the prevalent understanding of the phenomenon. Discussion will relate the observations to other relevant studies. Speculative discussion is allowed but it should be concise and corroborated by the presented data. It should not repeat in detail data or other material given in the Introduction or the Results section. It should include the implications of the findings and their limitations, including implications for future research. Authors should avoid claiming priority and alluding to work that has not been completed.

 

8- Conclusions and Recommendations

It summarizes the study and is drawn from the results and discussion. It should clearly explain the main conclusions of the article, highlighting its importance and relevance. Recommendations, when appropriate, may be included. 

 

9- Conflicts of Interest (if any)

Authors must declare all relevant interests that could be perceived as conflicting. All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Authors should explain why each interest may represent a conflict. Submitting corresponding authors are responsible for co-authors declaring their interests. If no conflicts exist, the authors will state this: “We hereby declare that none of the authors has any competing financial or conflict of interest”.

 

10- Funding Statement (if any)

Authors must state how the research and publication of their article was funded, by naming financially supporting body(s) (written out in full) followed by associated grant number(s) in square brackets (if applicable), for example: “This work was supported by xxxxx xxxx [grant numbers xxxx].

 

11- Acknowledgments (if any)

All acknowledgments, if any, should be included at the very end of the manuscript before the references. Anyone who made a contribution to the research or manuscript, but who is not a listed author, should be acknowledged (with their permission).

Please be noted that all images, tables, figures...etc (with legends and footnotes) should be merged in the manuscript

 

12- References

• Identify references in text, tables, and legends by using Arabic numbers in square brackets in superscript eg. ^[4]
• If the number of authors is more than three, list the first six authors followed by et al.
• Use the style of the examples below, which are based on the formats used by the NLM in Index Medicus.

Please be noted of the following:

• Authors should submit their references formatted in Vancouver style.
• All references should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text.
• Citations of references in the text should be identified using Arabic numbers in square brackets e.g., “in recent results presented by John et al [4]”.
• References cited only in tables or figure legends should be numbered in accordance with the sequence established by the first identification in the text of the particular table or figure.
• The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus.
• Use complete name of the journal for non-indexed journals.
• Do not use abstracts as references.
• Information from manuscripts submitted but not accepted should be cited in the text as "unpublished observations" with written permission from the source.
• Avoid citing a "personal communication" unless it provides essential information not available from a public source, in which case the name of the person and date of communication should be cited in parentheses in the text. For scientific articles, contributors should obtain written permission and confirmation of accuracy from the source of a personal communication.
• For seven or more authors, list only first six and add"et al".
•  

The final bibliography should be, as mentioned above, written in Vancouver Style as stated below:

a- Standard journal article

Kulkarni SB, Chitre RG, Satoskar RS. Serum proteins in tuberculosis. J Postgrad Med 1960; 6:113-120.

 

b- Chapter in a book

Phillips SJ, Whisnant JP. Hypertension and stroke. In: Laragh JH, Brenner BM, editors. Hypertension: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management. 2nd ed. New York: Raven Press; 1995. pp 465-478.

 

C- Volume with supplement

Shen HM, Zhang QF. Risk assessment of nickel carcinogenicity and occupational lung cancer. Environ Health Perspect 1994; 102 Suppl 1:275-282.

 

D- Issue with supplement

Payne DK, Sullivan MD, Massie MJ. Women's psychological reactions to breast cancer. Semin Oncol 1996; 23(1, Suppl 2):89-97.

 

E- Books and Other Monographs

Personalauthor(s) Ringsven MK, Bond D. Gerontology and leadership skills for nurses. 2nd ed. Albany (NY): Delmar Publishers; 1996.

Editor(s), compiler(s) as author Norman IJ, Redfern SJ, editors. Mental health care for elderly people. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1996.

 

 

13- Tables and Figures (or Images)

An image can refer to the following: Graphs, photographs, maps, charts, paintings, drawings, diagrams, etc.

Upon submission of an article, authors should include all figures and tables embedded within the manuscript text of the article in the Microsoft Word format file of the manuscript. Figures and tables should not be submitted in separate files. If the article is accepted, authors may be asked to provide the source files of the figures in high resolution. The tables and figures pages should be consecutively numbered

 

14- Figures and tables specifications:

Images must be prepared in accordance with the instructions mentioned on the PubMed Central website: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/pub/filespec-images/

Figures and tables should be supplied in either vector art formats (Illustrator, EPS, WMF, FreeHand, CorelDraw, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) or formats (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PSD or PNG). A minimum of 300 dpi resolution is required for the grayscale (or black and white) and at least 600 dpi for color scale.

 

Images Copyright:

For any image that the authors have not made themselves, the authors will need to have written permission to reproduce that image, even if the image is posted on the internet. It is the authors responsibility to obtain permission to use the images, not the publishers. Permission must be obtained in writing before the article can be submitted.

For complete information, please visit the Copyright Agency Limited website:  

http://www.copyright.com.au/get-information/about-copyright 

Please be noted that all images, tables, figures...etc (with legends and footnotes) should be merged in the manuscript

 

 

Date formatting

JCDS recommends writing dates out fully to avoid confusion with different all-numeral date styles. For example, 12/09/2020 could be 9 December 2020 or 12 September 2020 depending on the reader, therefore, the date should be written out in full. For example, the date December 9, 2020 can be used rather than 12/09/2020 or 09/12/2020.

 

 

II- SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS / META-ANALYSIS

Systematic Reviews or Meta-Analysis should be systematic, critical assessments of literature and data sources pertaining to clinical or basic sciences topics that includes a statistical technique for quantitatively combining the results of multiple studies that measure the same outcome into a single pooled investigation. Data must be searched for and selected systematically for inclusion and critically evaluated, and the search and selection process must be mentioned. The text should NOT exceed 4000 words excluding abstract, references, tables and figures.

 

Each of the sections of these articles should include specific sub-sections as follows:

• Title and Authorship Information

 

• Structured Abstract:(Not exceed 300 words):
  • Background
  • Objectives 
  • Methodology
  • Results
  • Conclusion

 

• Introduction:
  • Rationale
  • Objectives
  • Research question

 

• Methods:
  • Study design
  • Participants, interventions, comparators
  • Systematic review protocol
  • Search strategy
  • Data sources, studies sections and data extraction
  • Data analysis

 

• Results:
  • Provide a flow diagram of the studies retrieved for the review
  • Study selection and characteristics
  • Synthesized findings
  • Risk of bias

 

• Discussion:
  • Summary of main findings
  • Limitations
  • Conclusions

 

• Declaration Statements:
  • Conflict of Interest
  • Funding Statement (if any)
  • Acknowledgements (if any)

If any of the sections are NOT relevant to your article, please write 'Not applicable'. For all other information’s including title page, declaration statements, typing and reference style, please follow the original articles instructions.

 

III- CASE REPORTS/CASE SERIES

The case report/series will only be considered if they represent unique first time or rarest-of-the-rare observations and should have clinical significance, new adverse effect(s) of a drug or other unique observations, etc. Patient consent for publication must be obtained from the patient in written or, if this is not possible, the next of kin before submission. The author(s) must have been involved in the care of the patient.

Case Report /case series should contain a single paragraph abstract and text should not exceed 2500 words (excluding abstract, references, tables and figures) .

 

Each case report must contain:

• Abstract (should not exceed 150 words)
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Case Presentation
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Patient consent
• Conflict of Interest
• Funding Statement (if any)
• Acknowledgements (if any)
• references

For all other information on manuscript formatting, typing and reference style, please follow the instructions for original articles.

 

 

IV- RAPID/SPECIAL/SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Rapid/Special/Short communication should be complete work, such as complete results of a short pilot study, not merely a preliminary report and should not exceed 1500 words with one figure and/or one table. An editorial decision will be provided rapidly without reviews. For writing and references style, follow the same instructions listed above.

 

 

V- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Opinions on topics and articles recently published in the journal will be considered for publication if they are objective and constructive in nature and provide some academic or clinical interest to the readers. These letters may also be forwarded to the author of the cited article for possible response. The editor reserves the right to shorten these letters, delete objectionable comments, make other changes, or take any other suitable decision to comply with the style and policies of the journal. For writing and references style, follow the same instructions listed above.

 

VI- EDITORIALS

Editorial will be written either by a member of the editorial board or someone invited by the editor as solicited by the Editor-in-Chief. It should have fewer than 1200 words or so WITHOUT abstract, no figures or tables. Editorials are generally concise scientific review on one or two of the hot topics pertaining to medical sciences. It may also be an opinion-based that discusses the key findings of research article(s) and places it in a broader context within the field. For writing and references style, follow the same instructions listed above.

 

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JCDS journal does not collect information from non-registered users. The data collected from registered users (names and email addresses) of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

This includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it enables collecting aggregated data on submissions and publications, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.

This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics.

The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here.

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