Call for Papers

Pacific Journal of Medical and Health Sciences invites unpublished, original, research-based, empirical, applied or conceptual papers, articles, reviews, and case studies for its forthcoming issue to be published shortly. Please see Guidelines for Authors for more information.

Submission of Manuscripts

Please submit your manuscript via email: edit.med@pacific-university.ac.in

Guidelines for Authors

Subject areas for publication include, but are not limited to, the following fields:

Anatomy, Anesthesia, Biochemistry, Biomedical Sciences, Cancer, Cardiology, Community Medicine, Dermatology and Venereal Diseases, Diabetes, Endocrinology, Epidemiology and Public Health, Forensic Science, Gastroenterology, Geriatric Medicine, Hematology, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Microbiology, Nephrology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Otorhinolaryngology, Paediatrics, Pathology, Psychiatry, Pulmonary Medicine, Radiology, Toxicology, Dentistry, Nursing, Health Informatics, Occupation Safety and Health.

Preparation of the Manuscript

Manuscripts must be in MS word format only.

Templates for writing original papers, case reports and review articles have been provided below. These can be followed for writing the articles as per the text of observational and experimental articles should be divided into sections with the headings:

1. Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, legends, and Acknowledgment.
2. Times New Roman font 12 size
3. Use 1.5 spacing throughout.
4. Number pages consecutively,
5. Beginning with the title page.

Title Page should carry

1. Type of manuscript
2. The title of the article, which should be concise, but informative (Times New Roman font 14 size bold).
3. The name by which each contributor is known (Last name, First name and initials of middle name).
4. The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed.
5. The name, address, phone numbers and email address of the contributor responsible for correspondence about the manuscript.

Abstract Page   The second page should carry the full title of the manuscript and an abstract (of no more than 150 words for case reports, brief reports and 250 words for original research article should be structured and states the Context (Background), Aims, Methods and Material, Results and Conclusions.
Below the abstract should provide following:

Introduction    State the purpose of the article and summarize the rationale for the study or observation.

Methods   Describe the selection of the observational or experimental subjects (patients including controls) clearly. Identify the age, sex, Identify the methods, apparatus (give the manufacturer's name and address in parentheses), and procedures in sufficient detail. Give reference statistical methods; provide references and brief descriptions for methods that have been published but are not well known.

Ethics   While reporting experiments on human subjects indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of experimentation (institutional or regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (available at http://www.wma.net/e/policy/17) initials, or hospital numbers, especially in illustrative material.
When reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether the institution's or a nation's national law on the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.

Statistics   When possible, quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals, dropouts from a clinical trial). Put a general description of methods in the Methods section. When data are summarized in the Results section, analyze them. Avoid nontechnical uses of technical terms in statistics, such as 'random' (which implies a randomizing device), 'normal', 'significance’ statistical terms, abbreviations, and most symbols. Use upper italics (P < 0.05).

Results   Present the results in logical sequence in the text, tables, and illustrations. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables or illustrations; observations.

Discussion   Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions that follow from them. Do not repeat in detail data or other material section. Include in the Discussion section the implications of the findings and their limitations, including implications for future research. In particular, contributors should avoid making statements on economic benefits and costs unless their manuscript includes economic data and analyze to work that has not been completed.

Acknowledgments   As an appendix to the text, one or more statements should specify

1. Contributions that need acknowledging but do not justify authorship, such as general support by a departmental chair;
2. Acknowledgments of technical help
3. Acknowledgments of financial and material support, which should specify the nature of the support. This should be the last page of the manuscript

References    Authors should follow the Vancouver style of referencing.