RESOURCES FOR AUTHORS

1.1. Original Research

Original research articles are primary research performed by author(s) that provide significant results and discussion. These studies could be based on previously published peer-reviewed articles and provide evidence-based solutions for a research questions. You can refer previously published research articles or template.

1.2. Review Article

Review articles provide comparison, analysis and overview of a collection of significant past researches in the specific field that helps in comprehensive understanding the field. Citations are very important for review articles as the data is collected from various sources. Review articles help scientist to understand the comparative studies and form research strategies to advance the scientific discovery. You may check previously published review articles or template.

1.3. Case Study (Case Report/Clinical Study)

Case studies are based on observation and treatment of the patients. These studies are conducted by scientists and/or healthcare providers to understand the cause, diagnosis, epidemiology, mechanism, and treatment of diseases. Case studies help scientists from various disciplines to design their future studies towards understanding and treatment of diseases. You may check previously published case studies or template.

1.4. Perspective

Perspective are usually brief communication written to provide authors’ perspectives while addressing latest research, hypothesis, opinions, results and changes in specific fields, which may have significant impact. Fresh perspectives help scientist to understand different views and to shape their own current and future research. You may check previously published perspective articles or template.

1.5. Editorial

Editorial pieces are short forms of content written by member of the editorial board of the Journal. Editorials mostly contain opinion of the editor, but it reflects the viewpoint of the journal for respective research study. Editorials guide scientist for their future research strategies or provide a summarized overview of scientific studies and their prospects. You may check previously published editorial articles or template.

1.6. Other Types (Methodology/Protocol, Commentaries, Conference Proceedings, Clinical Images)

Qualiten Press also publishes other types of scientific content like research methodologies, clinical essays, commentaries, conference proceedings and clinical images. These kinds of content are usually short form of communication and provide precise information about scientific discoveries. You may check previously published protocol, commentaries, clinical images articles or template.

4.1. Title

Title of the article should be informative, concise, and captivative. It should be limited to 10-15 words and should reflect the objective and outcome of study. Ensure title does not contain unnecessary words for elongation.

4.2. Authors List & Affiliations

Qualiten Journals publish the authors according to the series provided in the manuscript during submission. Authors should discuss among themselves how they would like to appear on the list. Lists could be arranged as per the significance of the contribution for the manuscript.

4.3. Abstract

Abstract is 200-300 words long paragraph which summarizes the content of the article. It should describe the initial question of the study, methodology and conclusion of the work. It should be written in a way which give an overall summary of the content and can be easily understood by readers without going through whole content.

4.4. Keywords

Keywords are important component of the article and should include words that represent the basis of research, scope of study, specific methodology used in the study, etc. Keywords are used for various reasons like helping readers to determine the focus of your article, tagging the article for better search within Qualiten journals and for optimizing the article for global search engines like Google, Bing, etc.

Correct tagging of the article would also help us in quickly finding the subject experts and inviting them for peer review of your article. Keywords help us in interlinking and listing the article on archiving and indexing websites like PubMed.

4.5. Abbreviations

Authors should provide the list of abbreviations used in the content for reader’s reference. Abbreviations for scientific procedures, scientific terminologies, or organizations could be used, but authors should not use commonly used words or helping verbs as abbreviation. Abbreviation list helps reader to get information at one place for all the abbreviations in the paper instead of searching in whole content to identify the full form of abbreviation.

4.6. Main Body

Organization of article’s main body differ as per type of article. Review articles, perspectives, editorials, protocols, conference proceedings have flexibility in organization and can contain headings and subheadings as per Author’s choice. Clinical Images article usually contain images and figure legends. They do not have a descriptive main body. Please check “Types of Manuscripts” section above. Qualiten Press staff will check the manuscript during submission and will communicate with corresponding author if it requires any changes.

Original Research article’s main body can be of 3000 words or more and it should contain detailed focus of the research, methodology used to get the data, analysis of the data, result outcomes, discussion and conclusion of study. Main body could contain citations of the previous researches which are the foundations of the recent one.

4.7. Disclosures

Authors should clearly report in the manuscript, existence of any conflicts of interest that may influence (or create bias) in the study or publication. If there is no conflict of interest, then a “no conflict of interest” statement is included in manuscript.

4.8. Grant Support/Funding Disclosure

Authors should acknowledge and disclose specific sources of funding (such as grants, donations, contracts) that supported the study and facilitate the publication of manuscript. Any other financial interests or other competing interests should also be disclosed fully in the manuscript.

4.9. Ethical Permissions

Ethical permission statements are required in manuscript for studies involving human participants or animal subjects. Authors must follow the institutional, local jurisdiction and international guidelines throughout the research processes whenever human and animal subject are involved. Also, there study must be permitted by authorized agency or government body.

Studies involving human and animal subjects go through additional scrutiny during peer-review process at Qualiten Journals. Authors should refer to our “Ethics for Authors – Human and Animal Subjects” page.

4.10. Acknowledgements

Acknowledgement gives author opportunity to show their gratitude for individuals and organizations who helped in any way to complete the research successfully. All non-author individuals or agencies involved in supporting the study through funding, provision of materials or instruments, performing minor roles in study design, experimentation, analysis and writing are acknowledged in the manuscript in acknowledgement section.

4.11. Author Contributions

Multiple authors may contribute in planning study, conducting the study, collecting and analyzing data, inferring results, writing the manuscript, maintaining integrity and approving the final version of the article for publication. Specific contributions of individual authors are reported in “Authors Contributions” section of the article. If authors do not have this section available during submission, it can be submitted later, after peer review process is complete as it is not a requirement for peer review process. However, information on authors’ contributions is required prior to publication of accepted articles. Authors can refer our Author Contribution Guidance document.

4.12. References

References are provided to cite the basis of the study and references from where specific background content of the article is built. Majority of references should be taken from previously published peer-reviewed sources. Proper citations allow readers to gain insight about the materials you have used, and it also improve the credibility of the work. Authors should ensure their references are credible and trustworthy otherwise readers and other scientists could be misguided. Any standard format for referencing is okay, but online link should be provided. As example some formatting is shown below:

4.13. Headings and Subheadings

Authors should provide Proper headings and subheadings to help readers and reviewers to quickly navigate the articles and find relevant sections. Headings and subheadings should be concise, and it should be supportive and descriptive of the content.

5.1. Figures

Science and medical research involve generation and collection of graphical data. Authors should include figures and images at appropriate places within the text of articles to make it more interesting and easier to understand for the readers. Figures should be meaningful and relevant to texts and results. A short figure legend describing the figure should accompany each figure. You may check image organization template for guidance.

Image editing in order to clearly represent the observed data or facts is ethically acceptable. However, image manipulation to falsify the observed data or facts is unethical and fall in the category of data fabrication. Any kind of deception, whether by data fabrication, data falsification or image manipulation must be avoided. All provided figures should have metadata, which help us in evaluating the credibility of the figure. Authors may require providing original images in case where images are highlighted or lightly edited to show significant part.

We recommend authors to embed and place figures at appropriate locations in the text of manuscript (preferably in Microsoft Word file) because it helps Qualiten staff to prepare a formal document for peer review and facilitates reviewers to refer figures easily during peer review process. Besides embedding figures in manuscript file; original figures and images should be submitted in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator JPEG, PNG, TIFF or related formats.

5.2. Tables

Tables can provide large quantity of data precisely and to present it concisely in columns and rows. Tables are also an effective tool for comparative studies. Authors should ensure to provide precise title and brief description (if needed) for the tables to make it more understandable for the readers.

We recommend authors to place tables at appropriate locations in the text of manuscript (preferably in Word files such as .docs file) because it helps Qualiten staff to prepare a formal document for peer review and facilitates reviewers to refer tables easily during peer review process. Besides embedding tables in manuscript file, tables should also be submitted in separate Microsoft Excel file (such as .xlsx file).

5.3. Multimedia

Authors can also submit different multimedia along with the article including Audio or any visual that is required for the full understanding of the article. All the multimedia provided along with the article should be original and created specifically for/during the study. Authors should provide us with the original multimedia data with attached metadata and material used to create the metadata.