Journal of Applied Health Sciences and Medicine

Author Guidelines

Submission Checklist

Authors must check off whether their entry complies with all of the following requirements as part of the submission process; entries that don't follow these rules risk having their submissions returned to authors.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word or PDF.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Any format may be used for the first submission, and the editorial office will deliver templates to the relevant author upon completion of the acceptance process. The manuscript has no page limit.

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Manuscript Submission Overview

Types of Publications

Manuscript length is not restricted by Journal of Applied Health Sciences and Medicine as long as the content is clear and thorough. To enable the replication of the results, complete experimental details must be supplied. Journal mandates that authors release all experimental controls in the public domain and, when practical, provide complete datasets.

Submissions of manuscripts to this publication should not be under consideration for publication in another journal, nor should they have been published elsewhere. These are the primary categories of articles:
Articles: Submitted original research papers. All original research articles are accepted for consideration by the journal as long as they detail studies with high scientific rigor and contain a significant amount of fresh data. It is not necessary for authors to split their work into multiple linked manuscripts; nonetheless, brief communications with important but preliminary results will be taken into consideration. Peer review will take the study's impact and quality into account.
Reviews: These offer succinct and accurate summaries of the most recent developments in a particular field of study. PRISMA guidelines ought to be adhered to in systematic reviews.

Submission Process

Manuscripts for journal should be submitted online at submission. Throughout the submission and peer-review phases, the manuscript is under the control of the submitting author, who is typically the corresponding author. The author submitting the work must make sure that all co-authors who meet the requirements have been included to the author list and have read and approved the submitted version of the manuscript.

Reviewer Suggestions

The authors have to suggest three potential reviewers while submitting articles in the submission process. Please provide detailed contact information (office address, e-mail address). The editors may not necessarily approach these referees.

Peer review

Upon the submission of the articles, the editorial team will be looking for the scope of the journal and technical correctness. The state-of-art plagiarism tools can be used to access the originality of the articles then the reviewer will be assigned by the corresponding editor. The initial review process may take average of one month duration based on that first decision will be made to further revise/accept/reject the articles.

Proofs

The final copy of the articles will be sent to the corresponding author and it must be verified and return to the editorial office within two to three days.

Copyright / Open Access

All articles published in the publication are based on the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Authors hold the entire copyright of the articles.

Publishing Ethics

The publication of an editorial in a peer-reviewed journal is a basic building square within the advancement of a coherent and regarded organize of information. It could be a coordinate reflection of the quality of the work of the creators and the teach that back them.Peer-reviewed articles support and exemplify the logical method. Itis subsequently vital to concur upon guidelines of anticipated moral conduct for allparties included within the act of distributing: the creator, the journal editor, the peer analyst,the distributer and the society of society-owned or supported journals. The editors of this journal implement a thorough peerreview handle beside strict moral approaches and guidelines to guarantee to include high quality logical works to the field of scholarly publication.

Plagiarism

We do not encourage any kind of similarity/duplicate/copy from any other sources without consent. As per our journal policy, all submitted manuscripts will undergo initial plagiarism checks, if any similarity found more than the standard allowable limit the manuscript will be rejected or sent back to the authors. If any type of retraction, scientific misconduct found, the authors will be intimated to the corresponding affiliation and black listed and will not be allowed for future submission.

Editorial Procedures and Peer-Review

Initial Checks

All submitted manuscripts received by the Editorial systems will undergo suitability and scope of the corresponding journal whether it satisfies the journal criteria or not. Once it is found out of scope and not fulfilling the scientific guidelines for use of human subjects, experiments involving clinical trials with human, animals will be summerly rejected. As a matter of policy all the submitted manuscripts should follow theethical standard in such a way that solely submitted to this journal and same manuscripts submitted more than one journal leads to unethical publishing and it is unacceptable if the authors decided to submit manuscripts to other journals then the concern manuscripts should be withdrawn by the author from the Editorial systems.

Peer-Review

Once initial screening of the manuscripts is done then it is passed to the journal editor in order to allot two independent subject’s experts for peer-review. We follow single blind peer review systems. The author has provision to choose two reviewers for their choice and also exclude potential reviewers in the list. The allotted reviewers will not be known to authors at any cost, a strict confidentiality will be maintained.

Editorial Decision and Revision

Once the reviewer comments are received, the editor has the right to decide whether accept or reject the articles based on reviewers’ comments. The majority of the reviewer’s comments will be taken into account in some specific cases additional reviewers will be invited to give the feedbacks based on this final decision will be disclosed. Our editorial system follows the decision as given below

Accept with Minor Revisions:

As per reviewer suggestions, the manuscripts can be revised and resubmitted to the editorial systems after modification. The response to the reviewer comments should be suitably addressed point by point and if any rebuttal against reviewer comments or statements, then it has to be appropriately addressed by the authors.

Reconsider with Major Revisions:

After receiving consolidated reviewer reports, the editor will make a decision if further any major modification suggested by the reviewers in order to improve the quality of the article then the author will be given a chance to revise the article. Once again, the articles will be sent back to the reviewers for first round of review.

Upon receiving the comments, whether the revised manuscripts fulfil the concerns raised by the reviewers then it will be accepted. After revision still reviewers’ feedbacks are not satisfied then it will be sent back to the rejection desk.

Reject and Revised version Resubmission:

If any incomplete survey, scientific methods, insufficient data, inappropriate results, less scientific importance and novelty manuscripts will be rejected directly and the author will be encouraged to submit with latest revised version.

Reject:

If the article has more similarity index, serious flaws against publications ethics it will be completely rejected.