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II. Guidelines for Manuscript writing
a. The Title Page:
The title page should include the title of the article, name of the corresponding author, email and full affiliation.
b. Authorship form:
The authorship form should be obtained from the journal’s secretary or from the journal’s website, signed from all authors (whether they are supervisors or co-authors). An image (scanned or taken by a mobile) of an authorship form should be in JPEG format and should be uploaded as an authorship form.
Manuscript should be in a regular one-column format, not a 2-column format.
Font should be Times New Roman with font size of 12, space should be 1.15. All paragraphs should be justified with an indent.
Title should be centralized and each word capitalized except for articles and prepositions (a, an, the, of, in, at, of,…etc)
ABSTRACT: Provide an abstract containing 150 - 250 words. Briefly state the purpose, material and methods, results and conclusions. Subtitles within the abstract should be bold such as the illustrated example.
Keywords: authors are asked to provide up to five keywords, to be used as an aid to indexing.
Authors: information and Affiliations should be in the first page and will be added only after final reviewing. Affiliations should be referenced in text using superscript numbers without brackets as below. Names and affiliations of all authors should be correct as they wish to write them.
N.B: for papers extracted from thesis: it should be written in footnote before author affiliation and this should be done after final reviewing:
Paper extracted from Master / Doctor thesis titled “…… … …… …………… ……… ….. ………………… ……………. ………………… …….. …………”
* Correct affiliation (place of work and position, city, country) should be written for each author as the example below
Example:
Main Text:
Main text should include the following sections: Introduction, Material and Methods, Results and Discussion. The article should finish with Conclusion, followed by Acknowledgements where necessary.
Subtitles, (ABSTRACT, INTRODUCTION, MATERIAL AND METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION, REFERENCES) should be in bold, uppercase, not underlined and not numbered.
All text should be in the form of paragraphs beginning with an indent, with no underlining in text.
The journal is following Vancouver style.
Figures:
Figures should be kept to a reasonable number and they should be of high quality in JPG format with a size of 5x8.
PNG format is not allowed and they should be transformed into JPG as follows:
Write click on the figure and choose “save picture as”, then choose JPEG from options and replace the PNG format with JPEG.
You should never manipulate your images to change or improve your results.
Figures should be referred to in the text as (Fig. 1)
Below the figure, the title of the figure should be written as illustrated in the example.
For microscopic images, be sure to:
Include scale bars
Consider labeling important items
Indicate the meaning of different colors and symbols used, either on the image or below it.
Number, Title and Description of the figure is written clearly below the figure.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any figures or illustrations that are protected by copyright.
Figures that do not meet these standards will not be accepted and may delay publication until we receive high-resolution images following the standards.
Figure 1: Porosities masked by a blue binary color using computed image analysis software
Tables:
All tables should be black and white and not shaded.
Title of the table should be clearly written above the table as illustrated in the example.
Titles of columns and rows should be bold. However the rest of the content are not bold.
All contents of the table is centralized.
Statistical notes about the table are placed directly under the table as in example.
References:
70% of the total number of references should be within last 5 years. 30% of the total number of references should be within the last 2 years.
References should be referred to in text, as a superscript between brackets before the full stop.
Multiple successive references should be written with a dash; for example (14, 15, 16) should be written (14-16).
In the reference section, references are written as follows:
v Citation of an article is written as: Author name, title of article, name of journal, year; volume: page number.
Do not write issue number
Page number format example: write 556-9 (don not write: 556-559), write 1134-55 (do not write 1134-1155).
If there are more than 6 authors in the reference, “et al” is written after the 6th author as in the example.
Goo CL, Tan KB. Fabricating CAD/CAM Implant- Retained Mandibular Bar Overdentures: A Clinical and Technical Overview. Case Rep Dent. 2017; 2017:9373818
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