Instruction for authors
Types of Papers:
The following types of articles will be considered for publication:
1.Review articles
Review articles should not exceed 5000 words (excluding abstract, legends and references) and should try not to exceed 75 references. The review should begin with an introduction and end with a conclusion or a perspective.
2.Original articles:
Original articles should not exceed 4000 words and as a rule should try not to exceed 50 references and 10 tables/figures. The abstract, legends and references aren’t included in the word.
3.Brief Communication
Brief Communications should not exceed 2000 (excluding abstract, legends and references) and have 25 references and 4 tables/figures.
4.Case reports
Case reports written-up single cases which present original observations, new insights and/or information based on novel technology. The text is to be composed in Abstract, Introduction, Clinical history and Discussion.
Instructions for Complying with Ethical Standards
1.Funding
In this paragraph all sources of funding for the research reported should be declared. The role of the funding body in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript should be declared. If not applicable, please add the following sentence: “This study was not supported by any funding.”
2.Conflict of Interest
All financial and non-financial competing interests must be declared in this section. If not applicable, please add the following sentence: “The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.”
3.Ethical approval
For studies with animals, the following statement should be included in the text: “All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed.”
For retrospective studies, please add the following sentence: “For this type of study formal consent is not required.”
For studies involving patients, please add the following sentence: “All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.”
If applicable (where such a committee exists): “All procedures performed in studies involving animals were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institution or practice at which the studies were conducted.”
If articles do not contain studies with human participants or animals by any of the authors, please select one of the following statements: “This article does not contain any studies with human participants performed by any of the authors.” “This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.” “This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.”
Title page
Title page contains the following information.
1.Title
The title should be concise and informative.
2.Author information
The name(s) of the author(s)
The affiliation(s) of the author(s)
E-mail address of the corresponding author
The 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)
3.Abstract
The abstract contains 150 to 300 words which should be divided into the following sections:
Objectives
Methods
Results
Conclusions
Abbreviations, footnotes, and references should not be used in the abstract.
Please note: For some articles (particularly, systematic reviews and original research articles), 300 words may not be sufficient to provide all necessary information in the abstract. Therefore, the abstract length can be increased from the 300-word limit (to up to 450 words) if the topic dictates, and to allow full compliance with the relevant reporting guidelines.
Submission of persian abstract is mandatory as well.
4.Keywords
Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes. MeSH provides tools to help author's select MeSH descriptors as key words for articles.
5.Acknowledgements
An Acknowledgment section may be included to acknowledge, for example, people who have assisted with aspects of the work (but who do not qualify as authors), disclaimers, collaborations, etc.
6.Competing Interests
Authors are required to disclose financial or non-financial interests that are directly or indirectly related to the work submitted for publication.
Manuscript file
1.Text Formatting
Manuscripts should be submitted in Word format.
Use a normal, plain font (12-point Times Roman) for text.
Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).
Manuscripts with mathematical content can also be submitted in LaTeX.
2.Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
3.Footnotes
Footnotes can be used to give additional information and are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data)
References
1.Citation
Reference citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets. Some examples:
2.Reference list
The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text.
The entries in the list should be numbered consecutively.
3.Journal article
Gamelin FX, Baquet G, Berthoin S, Thevenet D, Nourry C, Nottin S, Bosquet L (2009) Effect of high intensity intermittent training on heart rate variability in prepubescent children. Eur J Appl Physiol 105:731-738. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-008-0955-8
Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal’s name according to the ISSN List of Title Word Abbreviations
4.Book
South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London
Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257
6.Online document
Cartwright J (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007
7.Dissertation
Asadabadi A (2018) Screening of human pathogenic big six sero-groups among Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli obtained from sheep, goats and calves. Dissertation, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
Tables
All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
Color Art
Figures should be submitted separately from the text.
All figures are numbered using Arabic numerals.
Color illustrations should be submitted as RGB.
Avoid effects such as shading, outline letters, etc.
Do not include titles or captions within your illustrations.
Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type.
No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be placed at the end of the caption.
Identify all elements found in the figure in the figure caption; and use boxes, circles, etc., as coordinate points in graphs.