INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
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.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- Ethical Approval of the study is attached
- Undertaking statement of the contribution of the authors in the study in terms of work done for study
- Letter of Submission declaring four clauses mentioned in the instructions
Author Guidelines
The JPPS agrees to accept manuscripts prepared in accordance with the “Uniform Requirements submitted to the Biomedical Journals” published in the British Medical Journal 1991; 302:334-41.
All material submitted for publication should be sent exclusively to the Journal off Pakistan Psychiatric Society. Work that has already been reported in a published paper or is described in a paper sent or accepted elsewhere for publication should not be submitted. However, a complete report following publication of a preliminary report, usually in the form of an abstract, or a paper that has been presented at a scientific meeting, if not published in full in a proceedings or similar publication, may be submitted. Press reports of meetings will not be considered as breach of this rule, but such reports should not be amplified by additional data or copies of tables and illustrations. In case of doubt, a copy of the published material should be included with a manuscript to help the editors decide how to deal with the matter.
ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
If tables, illustrations or photographs, which have already been published, are included, a letter of permission for re-publication should be obtained from author(s) as well as the editor of the journal where it was previously published.
Written permission to reproduce photographs of patients, whose identity is not disguised, should be sent with the manuscript; otherwise the eyes will be blackened out.
MATERIAL FOR PUBLICATION
The material submitted for publication may be in the form of an Original research, a Review Article, Special article, Commentary, Short communication, a Case Report, Recent Advances, New techniques, Debates, Book/CDs Review on Clinical/Medical Education, Adverse Drug Reports or a Letter to the Editor. Original articles should normally report original research of relevance to clinical medicine, and may appear either as papers or as short communications. The paper should be of about 2000 words, with no more than six tables or illustrations; short communications should be of about 600 words, with one table or illustration and no more than five references. Clinical case reports and brief or negative research findings may appear in this section. Review article should consist of structured overview of some relatively narrow topic providing background and recent development with reference of original literature. An author can write a review article only if he/she has written a minimum of three original research article and some case reports on the same topic.
Letters
should normally not exceed 400 words, have no more than 05 references,
and be signed by all the authors; preference is given to those that take
up points made in contributions published in the journal. Editorials
are written by invitation.
Authors should keep one copy of their
manuscript for reference, and send three copies (laser copies or inkjet,
photocopies are not accepted) to the Editor. The author should also
submit an electronic copy of the manuscript typed in MS Word. Any
illustrations or photographs should also be sent in duplicate. People
from outside Pakistan can also email their manuscript.
Each
manuscript should include a title page (containing e-mail address, fax
and phone numbers of the corresponding author), abstract, text,
acknowledgements (if any), references, tables, and legends. Each
component should begin on a new page, in the following sequence: title
page; abstract and at least three key words; text; acknowledgements;
references; tables (each table, complete with title and footnotes,
should be merged in the manuscript); and legends for illustrations.
The
manuscript should be typed in double spacing on 8 1/2"X 11" (21.5cm X
28.0 cm) white bond paper with one inch (2.5cms) margin on both sides.
It should not exceed 20 pages, excluding tables and references. There
should be no more than 40 references in an Original Article and no more
than 60 in a Review Article. If prepared on a word processor / computer,
the diskette, properly protected, or CDs should be sent with the
manuscript.
TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Tables and illustrations should be merged within the text of the paper, and legends to illustrations should be typed on the same sheet. Tables should be simple, and should supplement rather than duplicate information in the text; tables repeating information will be omitted. Each table should have a title and be typed in double space without horizontal and vertical lines on an 8 1/2" X 11" (21.5 X 28.0 cms) paper. Tables should be numbered consecutively with Roman numerals in the order they are mentioned in the text. Page number should be in the upper right corner. If abbreviations are used, they should be explained in footnotes and when they first appear in text. When graphs, scattergrams, or histograms are submitted, the numerical data on which they are based should be supplied. All graphs should be made with MS Excel and be sent as a separate Excel file even if merged in the manuscript. For scanned photographs highest resolution should be used.
S.I. UNITS
System International (S.I) Unit measurement should be used. All drugs must be mentioned in their generic form. The commercial name may, however, be mentioned within brackets, if necessary.
FIGURES AND PHOTOGRAPHS
Figures and photographs should only be sent when data cannot be expressed in any other form. They must be unmounted, glossy prints in sharp focus, 5" X 7" (12.7X17.3 cms) in size. They may be in black and white or in color. Negatives, transparencies, and X-ray films should not be submitted. The number of the figure, the name of the author(s) should be printed on the back of each figure/photograph. The top of the figure must be identified by the author. These figures and photographs must be cited in the text in consecutive order. Legends must be typed on the same paper. Legends for photomicrographs should indicate the magnification, internal scale and the method of staining. Photographs in published articles will not be returned.
REFERENCES
References
should be numbered in the order in which they are cited in the text. At
the end of the article, the full list of references should give the
names and initials of all authors (unless there are more than six when
only the first six should be given followed by et al). The authors’
names are followed by the title of the article; title of the journal
abbreviated according to the style of the Index Medicus (see "List of
Journals Indexed," printed yearly in the January issue of Index
Medicus); year volume and page number; e. g.: Hall, RR. The healing of
tissues by C02 laser. Br J. Surg: 1971;58:222-225. Reference to books
should give the names of editors, place of publication, publisher, and
year. The author must verify the references against the original
documents before submitting the article.
PEER REVIEW
ABSTRACT
Abstracts of original article should be in structured format with following sub-headings:
i.
Objective. ii. Design. iii. Place & duration of study iv. Patients
& Methods. v. Result vi. Conclusion. Four elements should be
addressed: why did you start, what did you do, what did you find, and
what does it mean. Why did you start is the objective. What did you do
constitutes the methodology and could include design, setting, patients
or other participants, interventions, and outcome measures. What did you
find is the results, and what does it mean would constitute your
conclusions. Please label each section clearly with the appropriate
sub-headings. Structured abstract for an original article should not be
more than 250 words.
Review article, case report and other requires a short, unstructured abstract. Commentaries do not require abstract.
INTRODUCTION
This
should include the purpose of the article. The rationale for the study
or observation should be summarized; only strictly pertinent references
should be cited; the subject should not be extensively reviewed. Data or
conclusions from the work being reported should not be presented.
METHODS
Study
design and sampling methods should be mentioned. Obsolete terms such as
retrospective studies should not be used. The selection of the
observational or experimental subjects (patients or experimental
animals, including controls) should be described clearly. The methods
and the apparatus used should be identified (with the manufacturer’s
name and address in parentheses), and procedures described in sufficient
detail to allow other workers to reproduce the results. References to
established methods should be given, including statistical methods;
references and brief descriptions for methods that have been published
but are not well-known should be provided; new or substantially modified
methods should be described, giving reasons for using them, and
evaluating their limitations. All drugs and chemicals used should be
identified precisely, including generic name(s), dose(s), and route(s)
of administration.
RESULTS
These
should be presented in a logical sequence in the text, tables, and
illustrations. All the data in the tables or illustrations should not be
repeated in the text; only important observations should be emphasized
or summarized.
DISCUSSION
The
author’s comment on the results, supported with contemporary
references, including arguments and analysis of identical work done by
other workers. A summary is not required. Brief acknowledgement may be
made at the end.
CONCLUSION
Conclusion
should be provided under separate heading and highlight new aspects
arising from the study. It should be in accordance with the objectives.
Submission:
Submit your article in MS word format with following documents;
a) Letter of Submission
A letter of submission should declare the following,
i. The conception, conduction, Analysis, and reporting of the research is original idea/ effort of the authors.
ii. The manuscript has not been published or submitted to be published in part or full to any where else in any capacity.
iii. All the authors are mutually agreed to publish the manuscript.
iv. The understanding that authors stand informed that as the article is accepted by JPPS, copy rights would be transferred to JPPS.
b) Undertaking Statement
Undertaking statement should list each of the authors, his or her affiliation, his or her contribution in the study/manuscript, and his or signatures in tabular format (as shown on the web site).
c) A copy of Ethical Approval of the research from concerned competent authority.
Sample of Undertaking Form
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d) A demand draft of Rs. 6000/- in favour of Department of Psychiatry DHQ Hospital, Faisalabad as processing charges (non refundable)