Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authorship Criteria

This journal follows ICMJE recommendations that authorship be based on the following criteria:

• Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
• Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
• Final approval of the version to be published; AND
• Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. If the article has been submitted on behalf of a consortium, all author names and affilliations should be listed at the end of the article.

The list of authors and contributors should conform to the guidelines as set out in the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Copyright Policy

Once the article is accepted for publication, it is mandatory for author to submit original/print version of copyright form. The copyright holder will be named on all published articles. Download copyright from:

https://www.adrpublications.in/image/pdf/copyright%20JOCommunicable%20Diseases.pdf

Patient Privacy and Ethical Clearance

Patient identity should not be disclosed without prior consent of patient. All research on human subjects should follow institutional/regional ethical standards as well as the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 (Available at: http://www.wma.net/e/policy/17-c_e.html).

If patient identity is revealed anywhere in the article, it should be stated in text that patient consent has been obtained.

It has been made mandatory for clinical trials from India to be registered with “Clinical Trials Registry – India” http://ctri.nic.in/  since 2009. It is a free and online public record system for registration of clinical trials conducted in India.

Misconduct Allegation Policy

All manuscripts are published under good faith that all rules and regulations have been complied. 

In the event that a journal’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article in their journal, the publisher or editor shall follow COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.

COMPLAINT PROCESS
In case of complaint, please feel free to contact us by phone or email:

Phone: 91-7827161002
Email:info@adrpublications.in

Malpractices
It is the policy of Advanced Research Publications not to accept any kind of duplication of submission or publication of article, plagiarism, unclear authorship.

If, after publication, any of the malpractices is proved, the article will be retracted and the author (and the co-authors if any) will be banned in further submissions to JoCD.

In case of suspected plagiarism, we would contact the author. We expect a response within a given date.  If no response is received within a given time frame, then the editor will contact the author’s institution for further investigation.

 In case of a request to add or remove an author at any stage, authors have to provide explanation and signed statement of agreement for the requested change from all authors listed in the article and from the author to be removed or added.

Permissions 

Author must attach a copy of permission to use any already published material with the manuscript.

Submission

You are welcome to submit your manuscript on our online submission system. Advanced Research Publications does not charge for submission and processing of the manuscript.

The registration and submission of manuscripts is open for all, from all corners of the world. We are using Online Journals System (OJS) for submission and publication of articles in ADR. This system facilitates communication between authors, editors and reviewers in order to ensure a transparent and rapid review process and allows submission of articles with tracking of progress till proof stage.

In order to submit your article, you need to go to website of the journal you would like to submit your article to. Click on submissions and register yourself if you are new user. Visit https://www.adrpublications.in/image/pdf/How_to_Submit_Manuscript.pdf for a brief description of submission procedure. Articles can be submitted online: (link)

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 Microsoft Word.
• URLs for the references have been provided.
• All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points or given in a separate file.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Manuscript Preparation

Cover Letter

The author should apply one page cover letter that:

• Concisely summarizes why your paper is a valuable addition to the scientific literature
• Specifies the type of article you are submitting (for example, research article, systematic review, meta-analysis, case study)
• Gives the complete details of the corresponding author (address for correspondence, contact number in case of urgent query, email id, orcid id).

Manuscript Organization

The length of a submitted paper should be commensurate with the importance, or appropriate to the complexity, of the work. The manuscript should have 2000 - 2500 words. The manuscript has to be submitted in the single column and should have the following layout or divisions:

Structure

Your manuscript should be compiled in the following order:

• Title
• Authors
• Affiliations
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Materials and methods
• Result
• Sources of funding
• Conflict of interest statement
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Figures and figure legends
• Tables with caption

The title, authors, and affiliations should all be included on a title page as the first page of the manuscript file.

Title Page
The title page should carry type of article (e.g. original article, case report); a concise title of the article, which is relevant and provides some information into content; all author names with complete affiliations and email ids; one corresponding author with complete affiliation, e-mail id, orcid id. Title page should list all authors in the following order:

• First names (or initials, if used),
• Middle names (or initials, if used), and
• Last names (surname, family name)