Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

• This submission meets the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
• This submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
• All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.
• All tables and figures have been numbered and labeled.
• Permission has been obtained to publish all photos, datasets and other material provided with this submission.

Manuscript Submission. The soft copy of the complete manuscript should be submitted by e-mail to editorijvp@gmail.com The Figure files exceeding the size limit may be split for e-mail. The cover letter must state any conflicts of interest (both financial and personal), affirm that the manuscript has neither been published previously and nor being considered concurrently by another publication, and affirm that all authors and acknowledged contributors have read and approved the manuscript. Submissions will be ineligible for review if previously published in any form (print or online) other than as an abstract. This includes any public posting of raw manuscripts or pre-reviewed material.

• Manuscript Preparation. Manuscripts should be prepared in the style of the Journal and in accordance with “The Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals” developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (see http://www.icmje.org). Standard abbreviations can be found in the CSE Style Manual (7th ed., 2006). Type the manuscript on white bond paper, 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches) or ISO A4 (212 x 297 mm), with margins of at least 25 mm (1 inch). Use double spacing throughout including title page, abstracts, text, acknowledgments, references, tables, and legends for illustrations. Begin each of the following sections on separate pages: title page, abstract and key words, text, acknowledgments, references, individual tables, and legends. Number pages consecutively beginning with the title page. Manuscripts not prepared in accordance with the submission guidelines detailed below will be returned to the authors without review.
• Title Page. The title page should carry 1) the full title and a suggested short title of the article (up to 54 characters); 2) the name by which each author is known and institutional affiliation; 3) the name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed; 4) name, address and e-mail id of author responsible for correspondence about the manuscripts, bearing (*) on his surname; 5) e-mail ids of all co-authors which will be used to get their individual confirmation of agreement and approval of the submitted manuscript; the response to such mail will be mandatory by all co-authors, and only after receiving the confirmation from all authors, the manuscript will be considered for further processing. This step has been incorporated only to eliminate any misunderstanding and conflict among the authors about the manuscript. 6) disclaimers, if any; 7) source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs or all of these; 8) an accurate word count of the text from the start of the introduction to the end of the discussion; and 9) a conflict of interest statement.
• The second page should carry an abstract, in prose form (not structured), of up to 250 words. The abstract should state the purposes of the study or investigation, the basic procedures, the main findings and the principal conclusions. It should emphasize new and important aspects of the study or observations. It should be understandable without reference to the rest of the paper and should contain no citation to other published work. Do not include references in abstract.
• Key Words. Below the abstract authors should provide and identify as such 3 to 10 key words or short phrases to assist indexing the article and that may be published with the abstract. At least 3 of the keywords should refer to the anatomical site, disease and techniques used in the study. Key words must be arranged alphabetically.
• Main Text. The text of observational and experimental articles is usually divided into sections with the headings: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, and Acknowledgments (in this order) that need not begin on new pages. Commonly abbreviated terms should be spelled out in their first appearance and then may be referenced in abbreviation through the remainder of the manuscript.
• State the purpose of the article and summarize the rationale for the study or observation. Give only strictly pertinent references and do not review the subject extensively. Do not include data or conclusions from the work being reported.
• Materials and Methods. Describe your selection of the observational or experimental subjects (animals, birds or laboratory animals, including controls) clearly. Identify the age, sex and other important characteristics of the subjects where appropriate. As the relevance of such variables as age, sex and ethnicity to the object of research is not always clear, authors should explicitly justify them when they are included in a study report. The guiding principle should be the clarity about how and why a study was performed in a particular way. The authors should describe experimental and statistical methods in enough detail that other researchers can replicate results and evaluate claims. Give references to established methods, including statistical methods (see below); provide references and brief descriptions for methods that have been published but are not well known; describe new or substantially modified methods, give reasons for using them and evaluate their limitations. Identify precisely all drugs and chemicals used, including generic name(s), dose(s) and route(s) of administration. The sequences of oligonucleotides, if not previously published, should be provided. Novel DNA or protein sequences should be deposited to an appropriate database (eg, Genbank, EMBL, SWISS-PROT), with the accession numbers included in the manuscript. When providing supplier information for materials sources, company name and location (city and state, or city and country) should be provided.
• Present your results in logical sequence in the text, tables and illustrations. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables or illustrations; emphasize or summarize only important observations.
• Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions that follow from them. Do not repeat the data or other details given in the Introduction or the Results section. Include in the Discussion section the implications of the findings and their limitations, including implications for future research. Relate the observations to other relevant studies.
• Link the conclusions with the goals of the study but avoid unqualified statements and conclusions not completely supported by the data. In particular, authors should avoid making statements on economic benefits and costs unless their manuscript includes economic data and analyses. Avoid claiming priority and alluding to work that has not been completed. State new hypotheses when warranted, but clearly label them as such. Recommendations, when appropriate, may be included. References to unpublished data should not be included.
• List all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship, such as a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance or a department chair who provided only general support. Financial and material support should also be acknowledged.

References. References should begin on a new page, be double-spaced and numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text (not in alphabetic order), including citations in tables and figure legends. Identify references in text, tables and legends by superscripted Arabic numerals. Complete author citation is required (use of "et al" is not acceptable). All references should be complete and accurate. Avoid using abstracts as references. References to papers accepted but not yet published should be designated as ‘in press’. Avoid using unpublished observations and information from manuscripts submitted but not accepted. Avoid citing a ‘personal communication’ unless it provides essential information not available from a public source, in which case the name of the person and date of communication should be cited in parentheses in the text. The Uniform Requirements style for references is based largely on an American National Standards Institute style adapted by the NLM for its databases. Authors should consult NLM’s Citing Medicine for information on its recommended formats for a variety of reference types. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in the list of Journals Indexed for MEDLINE, posted by the NLM on the Library’s Web site. Articles published online but not yet assigned to an issue may be cited using the DOI. Online citations should include the date of access.