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Author Guidelines

Preparing for submission Submitted manuscripts should follow the recommendations stated in Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. Please review these guidelines.

In his/her covering letter, the corresponding author should reveal whether the submitted article – or very similar work - has been previously published, or is under consideration elsewhere.

Language All articles should be written in English - British or American as long as consistency is observed. SI units should be used. Please subject the manuscript to professional language editing before submitting the final version if you are not a native speaker

Conflict of interest and funding Authors are responsible for disclosing financial support from the industry or other conflicts of interest that might bias the interpretation of results.

Statistic validity If complicated statistical data are provided, the authors may be requested to submit a statement issued by a certified statistician regarding the validity of methods used.

Ethics and consent When reporting experiments on patients or animals, please indicate whether the procedures followed were approved by your local ethics committee and/or in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 ( http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm).

Publication fee Publishing in ljm is free for 2010!

However, if the author's university or institute officially maintains a central fund to cover costs for Open Access Publishing, or the article describes results from research funded by an Open Access-positive funder, a publication fee will be charged as follows: Publication of an Article (up to 8 typeset A4 pages) €575, excl. VAT. Articles exceeding 8 typeset pages incur an additional charge of €30 per page.

Publication of a Short Communication (up to 4 typeset A4 pages) incurs a charge of €400, excl. VAT. Articles exceeding 4 typeset pages may incur an additional charge of €30 per page.

For a list of universities/institutes and funders supporting Open Access publication, please see here.

Manuscript layout Wherever possible, the paper should follow the traditional layout:

Title page, List of abbreviations (if any), Abstract, Text of the main body of the manuscript - Introduction, Material & Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements (if any), Conflict of interest, References, Figure legends, Figures/illustrations (if any), Tables and captions (if any), Supportive/supplementary material (if any).

Begin each section, including figure and table legends, on separate sheets; insert running page numbers.

Title page Organize the title page in the following way: 1) title of manuscript, 2) name of author(s), 3) name of department(s) and institution(s), and 4) name and full postal and email address of the corresponding author who also acts as 'Guarantor' for all parts of the paper. Please observe that the journal adheres to a 'double blind' review process and thus, the identity of the authors should remain unknown until the paper is accepted; the submitted paper should not include author name, affiliation and corresponding author address. Please see Ensuring a Blind Review

The title should be informative and accurate and at the same time trigger the interest of the reader. A short running head will be derived from the title to appear on each page of the article.

Abstract Articles must include a structured abstract of 200-300 words providing sufficient information for a reader to be able to decide whether or not to proceed to the full text of the article. After the abstract, please give 5-10 key words; avoid using the same words as in the title.

Section headings Please do not number section headings. Use a maximum of three levels of headings made clear by orthographic indicators, i.e. capitals, italics, bold etc.

References should follow the standard biomedical format. ARTICLES FAILING TO FOLLOW THIS STYLE MAY BE RETURNED TO THE AUTHORS FOR CORRECTION.

Number the references consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify references in the text by Arabic numerals and in parentheses, e.g. (14).The references should be listed in at the end of the manuscript as regular text.

Information from papers in manuscript but not yet accepted should be cited in the text as 'unpublished observation(s)' or 'personal communication'.

For a key of how to abbreviate medical journal names, please consult the List of Journals Indexed in Index Medicus accessible at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=journals


Journals

  1. Morrison S, Free KW. Writing multiple-choice test items that promote and measure critical thinking. J Nurs Educ. 2001;40:17-24.
  2. Boulton FE, Nightingale MJ, Reynolds W. Improved strategy for screening prospective blood donors for anaemia. Transfus Med. 1994;4:221-5.
  3. Kibaya RS, Bautista CT, Sawe FK, Shaffer DN, Sateren WB, Scott PT, et al. Reference ranges for the clinical laboratory derived from a rural population in Kericho, Kenya. PLoS ONE 2008; 3: e3327. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003327.

Books

  1. Tesch R. Qualitative research: analysis types and software tools. New York: Falmar Press; 1999.
  2. Arora M, Shrihari JS, Reddy KS. Mental health and substance abuse. In: Gupta P, Ghai OP, editors. Textbook of preventive and social medicine. 2nd ed.. New Dehli (India): CBS Publishers; 2007. p. 645-72.

Website

  1. Jolly P. Jolly P. Charting outcomes in the match: Characteristics of applicants who matched to their preferred specialty in the 2007 NRMP Main Residency Match [monograph on the Internet]. Association of American Medical Colleges; 2007 [downloaded 2008 April 16]. Available from: https://services.aamc.org/Publications/showfile. cfm?file=version95.pdf&prd_id=197&prv_id=238&pdf_id=95

 

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.

  1. 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).
  2. The article, or any part thereof, is in no way a violation of any existing original or derivative copyright.
  3. The article contains nothing obscene, indecent, objectionable or libelous.
  4. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  5. When available, the URLs to access references online are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference. The URLs are ready to click (e.g., www.libyanjournalofmedicine.net)
  6. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and the manuscript file is complete - thus all tables, figures, legends and supplemental material (if applicable) are placed at the end of the manuscript following the references. Upon acceptance - each figure and supplemental material is supplied separately in the original source file.
  7. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  8. The journal adheres to a 'double blind' review process and thus the identity of the authors should remain unknown. The instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  9. The same elements have been keyed in exactly the same way throughout the manuscript.
  10. Only one space has been entered after the full-stop at the end of a sentence.
  11. The text has not been justified; a ragged right-hand margin has been used.
  12. A double hyphen (--) has been used to indicate a dash in text.
  13. Do not use the lowercase l for 1 (one) or the uppercase O for 0 (zero)!
  14. The space bar has only been used as a word separator. TAB has been used when indenting paragraphs or separating columns in tables.
  15. 'Italics' or single quotes have been used for emphasis. Avoid using underlines!
  16. Upon acceptance, figures and illustrations have been provided as separate files, in addition to appearing in the main manuscript file. See guidelines for preparing illustrations/figures.
  17. Upon acceptance, multi-panel figures (those with parts a, b, c, d etc) have been submitted as a single composite file that contains all parts of the figure. See separate guidelines for preparing figures.
  18. Upon acceptance, supplemental files are submitted in accordance with instructions and information is given on a separate page at the end of the main article.
 

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Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to Co-Action Publishing. However, authors are required to transfer copyrights associated with commercial use to the Publisher. Revenues from commercial sales are used to keep down the publication fees. Moreover, a major portion of the profits generated from commercial sales is placed in a fund to cover publication fees for researchers from developing nations and, in some cases, for young researchers.

 

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Libyan Journal of Medicine ISSN 1819-6357 (online), 1993-2820 (print)

This journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Responsible editor: Omran Bakoush