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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.

  • Article conforms to the terms present at the "guidelines for authors" tab
  • I declare that article has NOT been published or submitted elsewhere for publication.
  • I guarantee that the work is original and does not infringe copyright or other party’s property rights.
  • I declare that all authors have read and approved this submission and I have given appropriate credit to everyone who participated in this work.
  • The Authorship, Contribution and Copyright Agreement form & Declarations forms have been both uploaded with the manuscript in pdf format
  • Name/s and affiliation/s are uploaded separately from the main manuscript for double blind peer review purposes
  • The manuscript is uploaded with no authors' names or affiliations in word format
  • In case of the use of human/animal specimen, patients/volunteers, patient images, or case reports: (i) I declare that ETHICAL APPROVAL has been taken from Institutional Review Board/Local Ethical Committee and will present when asked by the editor. (ii) I declare that PATIENTS CONSENT have been taken and will present when asked by the editor. If the patient has died, then consent for publication must be sought from the next of kin of the patient. (iii) I am sure that ETHICAL APPROVAL and PATIENTS CONSENT statements have been documented in the article.
  • Images have a resolution of 300-600 dpi for the gray and color scale and are included in the context of the manuscript (even if they are attached separately in the supplement component part of the submission)
  • All relevant declarations of conflicts of interest have been clarified and submitted.
  • Similarity check (Plagiarism) does not exceed 20% (iThenticate based)

Author Guidelines

For detailed Author Guidlines please see the  "For authors" section in the journal home page and comply with all the requirements. Also, by pressing the "Submission and Forms"  tab you can either download a sample template or download and sign the mandatory forms (Authorship, Contribution and Copyright Agreement/Declarations form)

Copyright Notice

Upon submission of an article, authors will be asked to complete the “Authorship, Contribution and Copyright Agreement” which will assign, convey and transfer all rights, interest and copyright ownership of said work for publication.

Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations

Authors’ rights

Articles published in Journal of Contemporary Dental Sciences are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license (Creative Commons Attribution License), unless otherwise agreed with Qassim University Publishers. When sharing or reusing any article, attribution must be given to the original source, using the statement "The final, published version of this article is available at https://jcds.qu.edu.sa/index.php/JCDS/index. Reuse for commercial purposes requires permission from the publisher.

Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously 
  2. Article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
  3. The article publication is approved by all authors and by the responsible authorities where the work was performed, in addition to any other involved copyrighted materials.
  4. In case the article is accepted, it will not be published elsewhere, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder (JCDS).
  5. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service (Crossref Similarity Check).
  6. As a part of research process, Authors are encouraged to share their published article/s thus contributing in scientific progress in their specielty.
  7. After prior approvals from JCDS, Authors are able to use the published  work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  8. Responsible sharing in line with copyright enables publishers to sustain high quality journals and the services they provide to the research community. JCDS supports responsible sharing and responsible sharing platforms and we adhere to the voluntary sharing principlesof the STM Association.
  9. The STM Association has created www.howcanishareit.comwhich helps to explain how authors and users can share articles published in academic journals. It includes the Can I Share Itlook-up tool which provides academic researchers with an easy way to check where a journal article can be shared in line with the paper’s access and usage rights.
  10. If accepted for publication, we encourage authors to share their formal publication via its Digital Object Identifier (DOI).