Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • Please provide the following:



    1. Cover Letter

    2. Publication Ethics; Include a Publishing Ethics Declaration containing the following:


      • Conflicts of interest (if any)

      • Funding information

      • A summary of each author's contribution to the manuscript


    3. All submissions must meet the following requirements:


      • 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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or PDF document file format.

      • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

      • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

      • Authors are required to format all references according to the Vancouver citation style, both in-text and in the reference list.

      • The manuscript must conform to regulations, the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in About the journal and Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

When submitting a manuscript to the journal, the author should enclose a letter that includes the following elements:



  • Cover Letter.

  • Specific details about the manuscript (title, length, number of tables and figures);

  • A request for manuscript publication;

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor it is before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor);

  • Recommendations for potential reviewers or reviewers to avoid (optional)

  • Notice of any interests or activities that might be seen as influencing the research (e.g. an author has his own stock in a company that manufactures a drug used in his study);

  • A copy of the permission granted to reproduce or adapt any copyrighted material from another source.

  • The corresponding author should assure the editor that all authors are in agreement with the content of the manuscript before submitting an original or revised submission.

  • The author should include his/her telephone number, e-mail address, and mailing address for future correspondence. In all correspondence, the author should include the complete manuscript title, and his/ her name.

Copyright Notice

YJMS publishes Open Access articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. If author(s) submit their manuscript for consideration by YJMS, they agree to have the CC BY license applied to their work, which means that it may be reused in any form provided that the author(s) and the journal are properly cited. Under this license, author(s) also preserve the right of reusing the content of their manuscript provided that they cite the YJMS.

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