Manuscript Submission Guidelines

Formatting

Font: Preferably, Times New Roman, 12-point font.
Spacing: Double-spaced.
Margins: 1-inch margins on all sides.
Page Numbers: Include page numbers in the footer.
Headings: Use a consistent style for headings and subheadings.

Language

Papers must be written in clear, grammatically correct English. Manuscripts that are difficult to understand will be rejected prior to peer review. If English is not the author’s first language, please seek assistance from a professional language editing service.

Article Structure

Manuscript should be well structured; they must comprise:

Title page

Title: Concise and descriptive.
Author(s): Full names, affiliations, and contact details.
Corresponding Author: Name, email, and postal address. Indicate with special character.
Keywords: 3-6 relevant keywords.

Abstract

150-250 words summarizing the research's purpose, methods, results, and conclusions.

Introduction

Background: Context and relevance of the study.
Objectives: Clearly state the research question or hypothesis.

Methods

Study Design: Detailed description of the methodology.
Participants: Inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Procedures: Step-by-step explanation of how the study was conducted.
Data Analysis: Statistical methods used.

Results and discussion

Findings: Present data clearly, using tables and figures as needed.
Statistical Analysis: Include results of statistical tests.
Interpretation: Explain the significance of the findings.
Comparison: Relate findings to existing research.
Limitations: Acknowledge any limitations of the study.

Conclusion

Summarize the main findings and implications.

Author Contributions

Please identify each author’s contribution(s) to the submission, using the guidelines of the Contributor Roles Taxonomy Project (CRediT), should be provided. Categories include Conceptualization; Methodology; Software; Validation; Formal analysis; Investigation; Resources; Data Curation; Writing - Original Draft; Writing - Review & Editing; Visualization; Supervision; Project administration; Funding acquisition; Other. See the CRediT website for more details.

The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the descriptions are accurate and agreed by all authors.

Acknowledgments

Include individuals or companies that have assisted with your study, such as advisors, administrative support, and suppliers who may have donated or provided materials used in the study. If there are no acknowledgments, still include this section and insert: “The authors have no acknowledgments to report.”

Funding

Include all funding sources for the study. If there is no funding involved, still include this section and insert: “The authors have no funding to report.”

Conflict of Interest

All affiliations or financial involvement (e.g., employment, consultancies, honoraria, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, grants, patents received or pending, royalties) with any organization or entity with a financial interest in, or in financial competition with, the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript must be fully disclosed in the submitted manuscript.

All financial and material support for the research and work must be clearly identified in the manuscript, including support that might constitute or give the appearance of influencing the findings. Please report all support for the work reported in your manuscript without a time limit. For all other items, the time frame for disclosure is the past 36 months.

All authors are expected to provide disclosures to the corresponding author before submission for inclusion in the “Conflict of Interest” statement. Items included in the disclosure statement should cover: consulting fees or paid advisory boards (for the past three years or the known future), equity ownership/stock options (publicly or privately traded firms, excluding mutual funds), lecture fees when speaking at the invitation of a commercial sponsor (for the past three years or the known future), employment by the commercial entity that sponsored the study, grant support from industry, patents and/or royalties, expert witness activities, and other activities performed for a commercial sponsor.

Additionally, authors who are Editorial Board members of the journal must include this information in the Conflict of Interest section using the following format: “[AUTHOR] is an Editorial Board Member of this journal but was not involved in the peer-review process of this article nor had access to any information regarding its peer review."

If there is no conflict of interest to declare, include the statement "The authors have no conflict of interest to report."

Data availability statement

Authors must provide a data availability statement in their article detailing whether data are available and, if so, where they can be found.

Choose one of the following five options:

  • The data that support the findings of this study are openly available.
  • The data that support the findings of this study will be openly available following a delay.
  • The data that support the findings of this study are available upon request from the authors.
  • Any data that support the findings of this study are included within the article.
  • No new data were created or analyzed in this study.

Supplementary Materials

  • Supplementary materials, including audio files, videos, datasets, and additional documents (e.g., appendices, additional figures, tables), are intended to complement the main text of the manuscript. These supplementary materials should be submitted as a separate section after the references list. Concise descriptions of each supplementary material should be included to explain their relevance to the manuscript.

Data

  • We encourage authors to make the dataset on which their paper is based available for access. Authors may upload all data related to the results reported in the manuscript as supplementary materials with the submission or provide a URL to a public repository. Data should be presented in a format that facilitates readability and reuse.
  • Where restrictions apply, submissions should be accompanied by a statement outlining the conditions of access and permitted reuse of the data.

References

These should be to accessible sources. Please ensure that all work cited in the text is included in the reference list, and that the dates and authors given in the text match those in the reference list. References must always be given in sufficient detail for the reader to locate the work cited. Please note that your paper is at risk of rejection if a disproportionate share of the references cited are your own.

Citations in text

  • Use surname of author and year of publication: Jones (2002). Insert initials only if there are two different authors with the same surname and same year of publication.
  • Two or more years in parentheses following an author's name are cited in ascending order of year, and two or more references published in the same year by the same author are differentiated by letters a, b, c, etc. For example: Brown (1999, 2002, 2003a, b).
  • Different references cited together should be in date order, for example: (Smith 1959; Thomson & Jones 2008; Green 2015).
  • If a paper has been accepted for publication but has not been published the term "(in press)" should be used instead of a date.
  • If a paper has been submitted but not definitely accepted the term "(submitted)" should be used. If the paper is still being prepared the term "(in preparation)" should be used.
  • The abbreviation "et al." should be used in the text when there are more than two co-authors of a cited paper.
  • If you decide to use online referencing software, then you can use the Harvard referencing option.
  • Please double-check: every citation in the text must match up to an entry in the reference list and vice-versa.

Reference Links

We use digital object identifiers (DOIs) to link references to the source material. This can only be done if the data provided in the references are correct. Please be very careful, especially when copying references, to ensure that surnames, journal/book titles, publication year and pagination are all correct. Please include DOIs where available.

List of References

References should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper. Although "et al." is preferable in the text, in the list of references all authors should be given.

Reference styles

  • Journal articles
    Author, A., Author, B., Author, C., et al.(2019). The title of the paper.  Tit. 2(2), 121–127.
  • Conference Paper
    Author, A., Author, B., Author, C., et al. (2008). The title of the conference paper.  Int. Conf. Systems, City Name, Country, May 2008, pp. 121–127.
  • Book, book chapter and manual
    Author, A. and Author, B. (2004). The title of the book chapter, in Editor Name, A. (Ed.): TheTitle of the Book, pp. 121–127. Cambridge, MA: XYZ Press.
  • Author A., Author B., and Author, C. (2005). The Title of the Book. Cambridge, MA: XYZ Press.
  • Websites
    Article title, https://asp-jmms.com/index.php/ajmms/index, accessed 27 November 2014.
  • Thesis
    Author, A. (2005). The title of the thesis. PhD thesis, XYZ University.

References in languages other than English

These should be accompanied by an English translation of the article title:

Artwork

Figures should appear in numerical order, be described in the body of the text and be positioned close to where they are first cited. Each figure should have a caption which describes the illustration, and that can be understood independently of the main text. The caption should be given in the text, and not on the figure itself.

Tables

Tables are placed within the text at the appropriate places, rather than at the end. Tables must be provided in an editable format e.g., Word, Excel. Tables provided as jpeg/tiff files will not be accepted.

Nomenclature and Units

All terminology and notation used should be widely understood. Abbreviations and acronyms should be spelled out in full at their first occurrence in the text.

SI units are strongly recommended. If non-SI units must be used, SI equivalents (or conversion factors) must also be provided. Please use the spellings "litre" and "metre" (a "meter" is a measuring instrument).

Identifying products

When mentioning a drug, product, hardware, or software program in a manuscript, it is important to provide detailed information about the product in parentheses. This should include the name of the product, the producer, and the city and country of the company. For example, if mentioning a Discovery ST PET/CT scanner produced by General Electric in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, the information should be presented as follows: "Discovery ST PET/CT scanner (General Electric, Milwaukee, WI, USA)." Providing this information ensures that the product is properly identified and credited.

Citing data

Any data assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) by a data repository should be cited in the article’s reference list. Data citations should include the following minimum information: author(s), title, publisher (repository name), DOI.

Diversity & Inclusivity (use of inclusive language)

Incorporating inclusive language in manuscripts recognizes the array of differences among individuals, demonstrates respect for all, displays sensitivity to varying perspectives, and fosters equal opportunities.

Articles should avoid any insinuation of one person's superiority over another based on factors such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability, or health status. Consistently using inclusive language is of paramount importance. Authors must ensure their writing is free of partiality, clichés, slang, and allusions that assume a dominant culture or cultural presumptions.

To achieve gender neutrality, it is recommended that authors employ plural nouns ("clinicians, patients/clients") as the default whenever feasible, rather than using gender-specific pronouns ("he," "she," or "he/she"). Descriptors related to personal characteristics like age, gender, cultural background, culture, sexual orientation, disability, or health status should only be included if they are relevant and valid.