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Information for Authors
Manuscripts
The JPAD agrees to accept manuscripts prepared in accordance with the “Uniform
Requirements for Manuscript Submission to the Biomedical Journals” approved by
the International Committee of Medical Journals Editors. Three copies of all
material for publication should be sent to Dr. Ijaz Hussain, Editor, JPAD,
Department of Dermatology, Mayo Hospital, Lahore, e-mail:drijazhussain@gmail.com
Manuscripts should be printed on one side of paper only, with a 2.5 cm margin on
either side, be double spaced, and bear the title of the paper, name and address
of each author, together with the name of the hospital, laboratory or
institution where the work has been carried out. The name and full address of
corresponding author should be given on the first page. Pages should be
numbered. Authors should keep a copy of the manuscript.
In addition to the hard copy, an exact copy of the manuscript, containing all
parts of the paper, must be submitted on high-density disk. The editor reserves
the right to make corrections, both literary and technical, to the papers.
Papers received are supposed to have been submitted exclusively to the Journal
of Pakistan Association of Dermatologists and all authors must give a signed
consent to publication in a letter sent with the manuscript. Authorship implies
a significant contribution. In case of clinical trials, the names of
pharmaceutical sponsors should be mentioned.
Types of articles
JPAD welcomes original and review articles, case reports, quizzes, items of correspondence etc. addressing any aspect of dermatology.
The original article should be of about 2000 words, with no more than 6 tables or illustrations. Letters should not normally exceed
400 words and have more than 10 references.
Parts of the paper
The manuscript should be prepared as below.
Title: In addition to the full title of the paper, a short version not more than
50 characters, for a running head, be provided.
Author(s) details: Name(s) of the author(s) should be given as initial(s)
followed by surnames, and should be clearly linked to the respective addresses
by the use of symbols e.g. *, †,‡ etc.
Abstract: All articles other than correspondence should have an abstract. The
original articles should have a structured abstract comprising of 4 subheadings:
background, methods, results and conclusions. Keywords £ 5 should be provided to
aid indexing.
Main text: The main text should appear in the following sequence: introduction,
methods, results, discussion, acknowledgments, references, tables and legends
for illustrations. Each section should begin on a new page. Generic names of the
drugs should be used. Full names with abbreviations must be used given with the
first mention, thereafter the abbreviation will be used. Abbreviations should be
used for unwieldy names or where the names occur frequently. For all
quantitative measurements the International System of Units (SI) should be used.
References
Only papers closely relevant to the author’s work should be referred to.
References should be in the Vancouver style i.e. references should be written as
unbracketed superscript numbers in the order in which they appear in the text
e.g. ‘our previous reports1 and that of Cohen et al.2…..’. At the end of the
article, references should give the name(s) and initials of author(s). If there
are more than four authors, include the first three authors followed by et al.,
title of paper, title of the journal abbreviated in the standard manner (as
published in the Index Medicus), year of publication, volume number, and first
and final numbers of the article, e.g. Grattan C, Powell S, Humphreys F.
Management and diagnostic guidelines for urticaria and angio-oedema. Br J
Dermatol 2001; 144: 708-14. References to books should give the name(s) followed
by initials of author(s) or editor(s), chapter (if relevant), book title,
edition, place, publisher, year, and pages referred to e.g. Friedman WF, Child
JS. Congenital heart disease in the adult. In: Fauci AS, Braunwald E,
Isselbacher KJ et al., editors. Harrison’s principles of internal medicine. 14th
edn. New York: McGraw-Hill; 1998. p. 1300-9.
Tables
There should be as few tables as possible and these should include only
essential data. These should be printed on separate sheets and should be given
Arabic numbers. No horizontal or vertical rules should be used. Avoid wordy,
over-full tables. Legends should be provided.
Illustrations
Three sets of illustrations should be sent with each manuscript. Illustrations
should be referred to in the text as ‘Figures’ and be given Arabic numbers. Each
figure should be marked on the back with the name of the author(s), the title of
the paper and the reference number used in the text. Orientation of the
illustration should be indicated by marking the top with arrow. Photographs
should be unmarked glossy prints. Diagrams should be on separate sheets and a
legend should be provided for each illustration.
Proofs
Page proofs will be sent, without the original manuscript, to the corresponding
author for proof correction and should be returned to the editor within three
days. Major alterations from the text cannot be accepted. Any alterations should
be marked, preferably in red.
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