About the Journal
Advance in Clinical and Experimental Medicine is a collection of journals including open-access; quarterly peer-reviewed international journal including (Journal of Clinical and Analytical Medicine) and (Annal of Clinical and Analytical Medicine) that publishes a wide spectrum of research on public health, medical, dental, nursing, and other health disciplines. ACEM, JCAM and ACAM publish original research articles in the form of full-length papers or short communications, especially those with multidisciplinary nature. The journal welcomes review articles, case reports, letters to the editor, guest editorial, or commentaries.
The journals have fees of article processing will be required as determined by Editorial Board.
The potential audience of Advance in Clinical and Experimental Medicine is mainly the Global researchers, scholars, professionals, and decision-makers in various health disciplines, in addition to researchers from Asian and African countries with similar health problems.
Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals
Before submitting manuscripts, authors should check that they conform to the Uniform Requirements of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (www.ICMJE.org) .
CONFIDENTIALITY
Advance in Clinical and Experimental Medicine editors and publication staff keep all information about a submitted manuscript confidential and limited to those involved in the evaluation, review and publication process. Only the Editor-in-Chief, the Editor, the Managing and Assistant Editors and the two allocated Associate Editors are aware of the names of manuscript authors and their affiliations. ACEM, JCAM and ACAM have a double-blind review process so that authors’ names and affiliations are not revealed to reviewers nor are reviewers’ names revealed to authors.
AUTHORSHIP
Authorship must be based on all of the following 3 criteria: 1) Substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) Drafting the article or revising it critically, and 3) Final approval of the version to be published. All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgements section at the end of the article.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Trust in the peer review process and the credibility of published articles depends partly on the handling of conflict-of-interest issues in the writing, peer review, and editorial decision making process. Conflict of interest exists when an author (or the author’s institution), reviewer, or editor has financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence his/her actions. These people must disclose all relationships that could be viewed as potential conflicts of interest. Authors need to complete the Conflict-of-Interest Section in the ACEM, JCAM and ACAM standard covering letter. The editors may use this information as a basis for editorial decisions and may publish it in the Journal. Peer-reviewers are requested to declare any conflict of interest. BMB Subject Editors and reviewers have to declare any conflict of interest before taking responsibility for a manuscript.
INFORMED CONSENT
Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. ACAM does not publish identifying information in written descriptions or images unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or guardian) has given written informed consent for publication. This requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript before publication. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note. When informed consent has been obtained it should be indicated in the manuscript.
ETHICAL PERMISSION - HUMAN AND ANIMAL RIGHTS
All studies on human or animal subjects must contain a statement about ethical permission for the study including the date it was granted and the name of the committee and organization which granted it.
Such studies must be in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study.
When reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate whether the institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright of the accepted manuscripts will transfer from the authors to the Journal (for full details see the copyright transfer section in the standard covering letter below).
SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT POLICY
ACEM defines scientific misconduct as:
- Falsifying data: inventing data, selective reporting, or omission, suppression or distortion of data.
- Plagiarism: using the published or unpublished language, ideas, or thoughts of another writer without reference or permission, and presenting them as one’s own. Plagiarism includes duplicate publication (publication of an article in more than one journal or in another language) and redundant publication (more than 10% of an article overlapping with another of your submissions/publications).
- Authorship issues: exclusion of involved researchers, or inclusion of researchers who have not contributed to the work, or publication without permission from all authors.
- Disregard for generally accepted research practice: including manipulating experiments/statistics to get biased results, or improper reporting of results.
- Failure to follow legal requirements: violating local regulations and laws involving the use of funds, copyright, care of animals, human subjects, investigational drugs, recombinant products, new devices, or radioactive, biologic, or chemical materials.
- Inappropriate behaviour in cases of misconduct: including false accusations of misconduct; failure to report misconduct; not providing information relevant to a misconduct claim, and retaliation against people claiming or investigating misconduct.
ACEM takes all these forms of misconduct extremely seriously. It follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. The final decision on action is taken by the Editor-in-Chief.
Preparing the Manuscript
TYPES OF ARTICLES – Length and Subsections
Clinical and Basic Research articles: (Max. 4,000 words & 40 refs.). The manuscript should be divided into the following 6 major sections: 1) Potential application (how the paper contributes to this, list of max. 100 words); 2) Introduction; 3) Methods; 4) Results; 5) Discussion, and 6) Conclusion. The Methods section should include sufficient details of methods and equipment so that another individual could repeat the work. Clearly mention the period of research and the institution where it was conducted.
Editorials and Reviews: (Max. 2,000 words & 20 refs. and 5,000 words & max 100 refs. respectively). These should have a sequence of logical sections related to their content and purpose.
Special Contributions & Sounding Board articles: (Max. 5,000 words & 30 refs. and 2,000 words & 20 refs. respectively). These should have a sequence of logical sections related to their content and purpose.
Brief communications: (Max. 1,500 words & 15 refs.) The manuscript should be divided into the following 5 sections: 1) Introduction, 2) Methods, 3) Results, 4) Discussion and 5) Conclusion.
Technical Notes: (Max. 1,500 words & 15 refs.) This should have a sequence of logical sections related to its content and purpose.
Case Series & Case Reports: (Series: Max. 2,000 words and 15 refs; Reports: Max.1,500 words & 15 refs, or 2000 words & 25 refs. if literature review included). These should have the following four sections: Introduction, Case Report/s, Discussion, and Conclusion.
Continuing Medical Education articles: (Max. 3,000 words & 30 refs.). These should have a sequence of logical sections related to their content and purpose, and be followed by a quiz with a key for the answers.
Interesting Medical Images: These need a brief Introduction to the image/s and a detailed caption for each one, followed by a Comment section of Max. 500 words and 5 references.
Letters to the Editor: (Max. 1,000 words & 5 refs) These are short communications either in response to a previous ACEM article, or on a new topic of interest.
JOURNAL LANGUAGE
The Journal publishes papers in English.
STYLE
The modern trend to simplify has also influenced scientific writing. Avoid long sentences, jargon and clichés. When tempted to use a difficult word or complex sentence, see if it can be replaced by simpler one. Always write for the generalist, rather than the specialist.
FORMAT
Use the Times New Roman font, 12 point in Microsoft Word. Use minimum formatting, since most formatting will be removed before typesetting. Restrict formatting to superscripts and subscripts and what is absolutely essential to reveal various heading levels. Use true superscripts and subscripts and not “raised/lowered” characters. For symbols, use the standard “Symbol” fonts on Windows or Macintosh. Using strange symbol fonts may give unpredictable results in print, even if the fonts are supplied by the author.
ABSTRACT
As the most widely read part of a paper, the abstract demands careful preparation. Editorials, Letters to the Editor and Interesting Medical Images do not need an abstract. Abstracts of Clinical & Basic Research studies and Brief Communications (max. 250 words and 150 words respectively) should be clearly divided into four Sections: Objectives, Methods, Results and Conclusion. Reviews, Sounding Board articles, Special Contributions, Technical Notes, Case Reports and CME articles should have a narrative abstract in a single paragraph (max. 150 words). The abstract is uploaded to the ACEM Editorial Manager website as a separate file.
KEYWORDS
Keywords are needed for Reviews, Sounding Board articles, Special Contributions, Clinical and Basic Research articles, Brief Communications, Technical Notes, Case Series/Reports and CME articles. Provide max. 8 keywords using terms from the medical subject heading (MeSH) database on the PubMed site (From: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh). Keywords are uploaded on the ACEM Editorial Manager website in the special section for this purpose.
ABBREVIATIONS & SYSTEM OF UNITS
Since abbreviations tend to make the text difficult to read, avoid them except when essential. In the Abstract and the article itself define each abbreviation when first used, e.g. coronary artery disease (CAD), and thereafter use the abbreviation alone without further explanation. Avoid beginning sentences with abbreviations. Abbreviations must be expanded in titles, subtitles and captions. Use abbreviations, rather than words, for units and percentages. (e.g., Km, mm, Kg, L, ml, % etc.). SI units are used in this Journal. (eg. pmol/L) The corresponding units may be included in parentheses.
REFERENCES
Details already available in the literature should not be included in the manuscript, but referenced sequentially in the manuscript. The reference number must be in superscript after a comma or full stop. In the article itself and the Reference section, list all the references in sequential numerical order. In the Reference section, list all authors up to a maximum of six. If there are more than 6 authors then write et al. after the sixth author. The Journal uses a variation of the Index Medicus style of referencing. Please adopt the exact style as shown in the examples below, including punctuation. Journal names should be abbreviated as per the Journals Database section in PubMed (From: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals).
Journal Citation
Millman JR, Pagliuca FW. Autologous pluripotent stem cell–derived β-like cells for diabetes cellular therapy. Diabetes. 2017;66(5):1111-1120.
Book Chapter
Brown J, Murphy KH. Adult-onset Still’s Disease. In: Maddison PJ, Woo P, Glass DN, Eds. Oxford Textbook of Rheumatology. 3rd ed. Oxford: Medical Publication, 2005. Pp. 1127–31.
Book
Smith MD. Introduction to Gynaecology. 6th ed. New York: Institutional Press, 2005. P.15.
Report
World Health Organization. Issues in Health Services Delivery. Geneva: World Health Organization. WHO/EIP/00I. Pp. 3–4.
Thesis
Rowe L. DNA damage-induced reactive oxygen species: A genotoxic stress response. PhD Thesis, 2009, Emory University, Georgia, USA.
Website
Smith AD. Pregnancy after 35. From: www.marchof-dimes.com/pregnancy. Accessed: Sep 2008.
LAYOUT
Photographs - The quality of photographs must be high enough for good reproduction and should stand reduction. Photographs must be in digital format (300 dpi). It is the author’s responsibility to obtain permission for reproductions from other sources. Number photographs consecutively and provide a brief but fully self-explanatory caption for each. Cite all photographs in the text and number them consecutively. All photographs are printed in colour in ACEM.
Drawings - All line drawings should be planned to fit the Journal’s page size (12 x 18cm). Lines should be dark enough and letters should be of professional quality in order to stand reduction. Do not use bold or all-capital lettering. Do not combine line drawings and photographs into one illustration. For best results, it is advisable to execute your drawings in a vector application such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw. The Editorial Office is able to accommodate a wide range of vector and bitmap formats executed on Windows or Macintosh platforms. Cite all drawings in the text and number them consecutively.
Tables and Charts - Each table should be on a separate page at the end of the manuscript. Long tables and those with calculations should preferably be in Microsoft Excel. Number them consecutively, give concise but self-explanatory titles to each and cite them in the text. All X and Y axes must be clearly labelled. Charts pasted into MS Word documents in un-editable “picture” formats are not acceptable.
