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Types Of Manuscript And Word Limits

Original articles : Randomly controlled trials, intervention studies, studies of screening and
diagnostic tests, outcome studies, cost effectiveness analyses, case-control series, and
surveys with a reasonably high response rate. Up to 3000 words excluding the abstract and
the references.

Review articles (including those related to the Ethics forum, the Education forum, E-
Medicine, and so on): Systemic critical assessment of literature and data sources. Up to
4000 words excluding the abstract and the references.

Case reports or briefs: Novel/interesting/extremely rare cases or rare presentations can be

reported. Cases with clinical significance or implications will be given priority. Up to 1200
words excluding references and abstract and up to 15 references.

Images in medicine : A short history, photograph, differential diagnosis, and discussion of

a classic and/or rare case. Should not be more than 1000 words excluding up to ten
references.

Letter to the Editor : Should reflect short, decisive observation. Up to 500 words and five
references.

Clinicians Corner : Short narrative of a real life experience in the medical sphere during
practice. Should contain a clear, informative, educative, or enlightening message. Up to
600 words.

Announcements : of conferences, meetings, courses, awards, and other events of interest

to the readers should be submitted with the name and address of the person from whom
additional information can be sought. Up to 100 words.

Authorship Criteria
To ensure authorship for the submitted manuscripts, the contributors should meet the following
three conditions:

Conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data has been
done by the author

Either drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content has been
done by the author

The final approval of the version to be published has been given by the author. Each
contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to be allowed to take public
responsibility for suitable portions of the content.

Naming Order for Contributors

The order of naming the contributors should be based on the relative contribution of the
contributor towards the study and the writing of the manuscript. Once submitted, the order cannot
be changed without the written consent of all the contributors.

Authorship

No addition of author(s) will be entertained post submission. Exception to this will be made only
with proper justification supported by institution/university head.

Number of Contributors

In the event of a study carried out in a single institute, the number of contributors should not
exceed eight. For case-reports, images, letters to the editor, and review articles, the number of
contributors should not exceed five. There should be a written justification if the number of
contributors exceeds five. If the JCDR feels necessary it may ask for description of the
contribution of authors towards the manuscript.

Guarantor

One or more author should take responsibility for the integrity of the work from the inception to the
publishing of the article. This author will be designated as the guarantor.

Prerequisite for review articles

A review article can be written only by individuals who have done substantial work in a particular
field. A short summary of the work done by the contributor(s) in the field of review should
accompany the manuscript. The journal expects the contributors to provide post-publication
updates on the subject of review. The update should be brief and should include the expected
advancements in the field after the publication of the article. The update should be sent as a letter
to the editor as and when major developments occur in the particular field.

Declaration of Conflict of Interest

All manuscripts for articles, original research reports, editorials, reviews, that are submitted to the
journal must be accompanied by a conflict of interest disclosure statement or a declaration by the
authors that they do not have any conflicts of interest to declare.
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) states in its Guidelines on Good Publication
Practice (2003) that:

‘Conflicts of interest arise when authors, reviewers, or editors have interests that are not fully
apparent and that may influence their judgments on what is published. They have been described
as those which, when revealed later, would make a reasonable reader feel misled or deceived.’

JCDR believe that, to make the best decision on how to deal with an article, Journal should know
about any competing interests that authors may have, before an article can be reviewed and
accepted for publication.

Other interest-

Author must be truthful and must declare if the article has been published in some other
language during the time of submission
Author must disclose if some part of work has already been published or under
consideration elsewhere.
If the research submitted is the thesis or PhD work, author should reveal the name of the
"Primary researcher" and the "Supervisor".

Statement of Human and Animal Rights

While reporting scientific project involving human subjects or experimental animals authors should
indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the
responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) or regulations for
laboratory animals. The statement has to be mentioned in "Materials and Methods" section, right
after the presentation of the study groups. We believe animal experimentation should be avoided
whenever possible in favor of alternative research strategies.

Submitting Manuscript

Please use our Manuscript Management Portal : JCDR Pre Publishing for submitting manuscripts
and knowing their post-submission status. For any problems related to submission please feel
free to write to editors@jcdr.net

We do not accept print submission.

Preparation Of Manuscript

Observational and experimental articles should be divided into sections, such as

Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Discussion, References, Tables, Figures,
Figure legends, and Acknowledgment.

Use double spacing throughout.

The language should be UK English.

Title Page

Please download and use JCDR New Title Page format.

Abstract Page

The second page should carry the complete title of the manuscript and an abstract. The length of
the abstract should be restricted to 200 words for case reports and brief reports and 350 words for
original articles. The abstract should be structured to include the Context (Background), Aims,
Settings and Design, Methods and Material, Statistical Analysis used, Results and Conclusions.
Three to ten keywords should be provided below the abstract.

Key Words

These should be put in after reference to standard key words in Mesh terms.

Introduction

State the purpose of the article and summarise the rationale for the study or observation.

Methods

Describe the selection of the observational or experimental subjects, such as patients and
laboratory animals. Include the controls used for each experiment.

Identify the age, sex, and other important characteristics of the subjects.

Identify the methods, apparatus, and procedures in sufficient detail. Provide references to
established methods, and describe briefly methods that have been published but are not
well known.

Describe new or substantially modified methods, give reasons for using them, and evaluate
their limitations. Identify precisely all the drugs and chemicals used, including generic
name(s), dose(s), and route(s) of administration.

Reports of random clinical trials should provide information regarding all major study
elements, including the protocol, assignment of interventions, and the method of masking.
(Click Here).

Authors submitting review articles should include a section describing the methods used for
locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesising data. These methods should also be
summarised in the abstract.

Ethics

While reporting experiments on human subjects, you should 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 that was revised in 2000. (Click Here)
 Do not use names or initials of patients or hospitals and/or hospital telephone numbers
especially in illustrative material.

While reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether you adhered to the guidelines of
an institution or national research council governing the care and use of laboratory animals.

Statistics

Whenever possible, quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of
measurement error or uncertainty.

Report losses to observation resulting from conditions, such as dropouts from a clinical
trial.

Include a general description of methods in the Methods section.

While summarizing the data in the Results section, specify the statistical methods used to
analyse them.

Avoid non-technical uses of technical terms in statistics. Define statistical terms,

abbreviations, and most symbols.

Results

Present the results in a logical sequence in the text, tables, and illustrations. Do not repeat in the
text all the data in the tables or illustrations. Instead, emphasise on or summarise only important
observations.

Discussion

Emphasise the new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions that result from
them.

Do not repeat in detail the data or other material provided in the Introduction or Results
section. Include in the Discussion section the implications of the findings for the present
and for future research and their limitations. Relate the observations to other relevant
studies.

Contributors should refrain from commenting on economic benefits and costs unless their
manuscript includes economic data and analyses.

Avoid claiming priority and alluding to work that has not been completed.

State new hypotheses when warranted, but clearly label them as such.

Recommendations may be included only if appropriate.

Acknowledgments

As an appendix to the text, one or more statements should specify

1. The contributions that should be acknowledged but do not justify authorship,

2. Acknowledgment of technical help; and
3. Acknowledgment of financial and material support, specifying the nature of the support.
4. Any paid support received from JCDR in preparation of the manuscript.

References

The references / biblography should be in Vancouver style. For full details on this refer to
the following link to university of Queensland ( Click Here )

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 the complete name of the journal for non-indexed journals.

Avoid using 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 that is

otherwise unavailable from public sources. In such an event, the name of the person and
the 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.

Tables & Figures

JCDR was initially an online only journal later went into print. It does not differentiate
between tables and figures in numbering them as images are made for both. All tables and
Figures should be numbered in Arabic numerals consecutively in the order of their first
citation in the text. ( example Table/Fig 1, Table/Fig 2......)

Tables should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material.

Tables with more than 12 columns and 30 rows are not acceptable.

Place the explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading.

Explain in footnotes all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table.
 Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and provide a credit
line in the footnote.

For footnotes, use the following symbols in this sequence: *, †, ‡, §, ||, , **, ††, ‡‡

Labels, numbers, and symbols should be clear and of uniform size.

When graphs, scatter-grams or histograms are submitted, the numerical data on which they
are based should also be supplied.

If photographs of people are used, either the subjects must not be identifiable or their
pictures must be accompanied by written permission to use the photograph.

If a figure has been published, acknowledge the original source and submit written
permission from the copyright holder to reproduce the material. A credit line should appear
in the legend for figures for such figures.

The Journal reserves the right to crop, rotate, reduce, or enlarge the photographs to the
desired size.

Protection of Patients’ Rights to Privacy

Identifying information should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, sonograms,

CT scans, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes. The patient,
parent, or guardian provides a written consent for the publication. After the consent has been
obtained, it should be indicated in the article. A copy of the consent should be attached with the
cover letter.

Sending a revised manuscript

Use instructions sent in email by the editor while asking for revision. It should be submitted at the
JCDR Pre Publishing Portal only.

Copyrights

The whole of the literary matter in the JCDR is copyright of its publishers. For reproduction refer to
disclaimer and copyrights.

Ombudsman

For issues related to this journal, write to Dr. Hemant Jain at drhemantjain@jcdr.net

Contributors’ form

(to be copied, signed, scanned and attached as an pdf file to the e-mail, Click here to download
the pdf)

Manuscript Title: _______________________________________________________________

I/we certify that I/we have participated adequately in the intellectual content, conception and
design of this work or the analysis and interpretation of the data as well as the writing of the
manuscript. I/we take public responsibility for the piece of work and have agreed to have my/our
name listed as a contributor. I/we believe the manuscript represents valid work. Neither this
manuscript nor any other manuscript with substantially similar content under my/our authorship
has been published or is being considered for publication elsewhere, except as described in the
cover letter. I/we certify that all the data collected during the study has been presented in this
manuscript and that no data from the study has been or will be published separately. I/we attest
that, if requested by the editors, I/we will provide required data/information and will cooperate fully
in obtaining and providing the data/information on which the manuscript is based, for examination
purposes by the editors or their assignees. Financial interests, either direct or indirect, that exist or
may be perceived to exist for individual contributors in connection with the content of this paper
have been disclosed in the cover letter. All sources of external support have been mentioned in
the cover letter.

I/We hereby transfer, assign, or otherwise convey all copyright ownership, including any and all
rights incidental thereto, exclusively to the Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, in the
event that such work is published by the Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. The Journal
of Clinical and Diagnostic Research shall own the work, including 1) the copyright, 2) the right to
grant permission to republish the article in whole or in part, with or without a fee, 3) the right to
produce preprints or reprints and translate into languages other than English for sale or free
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or electronic format.

We give the right to make necessary changes according to the request of the journal, correspond
on our behalf, and to act as the guarantor for the manuscript to the corresponding author.

All persons who have made substantial contribution to the work reported in the manuscript, but
are not contributors, are named in the Acknowledgment and have given me/us their written
permission to be named. If I/we do not include an Acknowledgment, it means that I/we have not
received substantial contribution from such persons and that the name of no contributor has been
omitted.

Name Signature Date signed

1 ______________________ __________________ _______________

2 ______________________ __________________ _______________

3 ______________________ __________________ _______________

4 ______________________ __________________ _______________

5 ______________________ __________________ _______________ (up to 5 contributors for

case reports/images/reviews)

6 ______________________ __________________ _______________

7 ______________________ __________________ _______________

8 ______________________ __________________ _______________ (up to 8 contributors for

original studies, single center)

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