Instruction for Authors

Submission of Manuscripts

All manuscripts must be submitted online through the related journal submission website of https://www.manuscriptmanager.net/. First-time users will have to register at this site. Registration is free but mandatory. Registered authors can keep track of their articles after logging into the site using their username and password. If you experience any problems, please contact the editorial office by e-mail at necdet@adadpublishers.com

The submitted manuscripts that are not as per the “Instructions to Authors” would be returned to the authors for technical correction, before they undergo editorial/peer-review. Generally, the manuscript should be submitted in the form of two separate files:

[1] Title Page/First Page File/covering letter:

This file should provide

1. The type of manuscript (Original Article, Review Article, Letter to Editor, Case Report, etc.) title of the manuscript, running title, names of all authors/contributors (with their highest academic degrees, designation, and affiliations), and name(s) of the department(s) and/ or institution(s) to which the work should be credited. All information that can reveal your identity should be here. Use only doc files. Do not zip the files.
2. The total number of pages, total number of photographs, and word counts separately for abstract and for the text (excluding the references, tables, and abstract), word counts for introduction + discussion in case of an original article;
3. Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these;
4. Acknowledgment, if any. 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; and 3) acknowledgments of financial and material support, which should specify the nature of the support. This should be included in the title page of the manuscript and not in the main article file.
5. If the manuscript was presented as part of a meeting, the organization, place, and exact date on which it was read. A full statement to the editor about all submissions and previous reports that might be regarded as redundant publication of the same or very similar work. Any such work should be referred to specifically and referenced in the new paper. Copies of such material should be included with the submitted paper, to help the editor decide how to handle the matter.
6. Registration number in case of a clinical trial and where it is registered (name of the registry and its URL)
7. Conflicts of Interest of each author/contributor. A statement of financial or other relationships that might lead to a conflict of interest, if that information is not included in the manuscript itself or in an authors’ form
8. Criteria for inclusion in the authors’ / contributors’ list
9. A statement that the manuscript has been read and approved by all the authors, that the requirements for authorship as stated earlier in this document have been met, and that each author believes that the manuscript represents honest work if that information is not provided in another form (see below); and
10. The name, address, e-mail, and telephone number of the corresponding author, who is responsible for communicating with the other authors about revisions and final approval of the proofs, if that information is not included on the manuscript itself.

[2] Blinded Article file:

The main text of the article, beginning from Abstract till References (including tables) should be in this file. The file must not contain any mention of the authors’ names or initials or the institution at which the study was done or acknowledgments. Page headers / running title can include the title but not the authors’ names. Manuscripts not in compliance with the Journal’s blinding policy will be returned to the corresponding author. Use only doc files. Do not zip the files. Limit the file size to 1 MB. Do not incorporate images in the file. If the file size is large, graphs can be submitted as images separately without incorporating them in the article file to reduce the size of the file. The pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the first page of the blinded article file.

[3] Images:

Submit good quality color images. Each image should be less than 2 MB in size. The size of the image can be reduced by decreasing the actual height and width of the images (keep up to 1600 x 1200 pixels or 5-6 inches). Images can be submitted as JPEG files. Do not zip the files. Legends for the figures/images should be included at the end of the article file. 

[4] The contributors’ / copyright transfer form (template provided below) has to be submitted in original with the signatures of all the contributors within two weeks of submission via courier, fax or email as a scanned image. Print-ready hard copies of the images (one set) or digital images should be sent to the journal office at the time of submitting the revised manuscript. High-resolution images (up to 5 MB each) can be sent by email.

Contributors’ form/copyright transfer form can be submitted online from the authors’ area on relevant journal submission system https://www.manuscriptmanager.net/).

Preparation of Manuscripts

Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with “Uniform requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals” developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (October 2008). The uniform requirements and specific requirements of Ada’D Publishers Journals are summarized below. Before submitting a manuscript, contributors are requested to check for the latest instructions available. Instructions are also available from the website of the journal (https://adadpublishers.com/instruction-for-authors).

Ada’D Publishers Journals accept manuscripts written in American English spelling and terminology.

Copies of any permission(s)

It is the responsibility of authors/ contributors to obtain permissions for reproducing any copyrighted material. A copy of the permission obtained must accompany the manuscript. Copies of any and all published articles or other manuscripts in preparation or submitted elsewhere that are related to the manuscript must also accompany the manuscript. The material should be sent to any of the two addresses given above.

Types of Manuscripts

Original articles:

These include randomized controlled trials, intervention studies, studies of screening and diagnostic tests, outcome studies, cost-effectiveness analyses, case-control series, and surveys with high response rates. The text of original articles amounting to up to 3,500 words (excluding Abstract, References, and Tables) should be divided into sections with the headings: Abstract (Structured format: Objectives, Materials, and Methods, Statistical analysis, Results, Conclusions) up to 350 words, Key-words (3–7 MeSH words), Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, References (up to 40 references), Tables and Figure legends

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

Materials and Methods: It should include and describe the following aspects:

Ethics: When reporting studies on human beings, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (available at http://www.wma.net/e/policy/17-c_e.html). For prospective studies involving human participants, authors are expected to mention the approval of (regional/ national/ institutional or independent Ethics Committee or Review Board, obtaining informed consent from adult research participants, and obtaining assent for children aged over 7 years participating in the trial. The age beyond which assent would be required could vary as per regional and/ or national guidelines. Ensure confidentiality of subjects by desisting from mentioning participants’ names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in illustrative material. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether the institution’s or a national research council’s guide for or any national law on the care and use of laboratory animals were followed.

Evidence for approval by a local Ethics Committee (for both human as well as animal studies) must be supplied by the authors on demand. Animal experimental procedures should be as humane as possible and the details of anesthetics and analgesics used should be clearly stated. The ethical standards of experiments must be in accordance with the guidelines provided by the CPCSEA and World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki on Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Humans for studies involving experimental animals and human beings, respectively). The journal will not consider any paper which is ethically unacceptable. A statement on ethics committee permission and ethical practices must be included in all research articles under the “Materials and Methods” section.

Study design:

Selection and Description of Participants: Describe your selection of the observational or experimental participants (patients or laboratory animals, including controls) clearly, including eligibility and exclusion criteria and a description of the source population. Technical information: Identify the methods, apparatus (give the manufacturer’s name and address in parentheses), and procedures in sufficient detail to allow other workers to reproduce the results. 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.

Reports of randomized clinical trials should present information on all major study elements, including the protocol, assignment of interventions (methods of randomization, concealment of allocation to treatment groups), and the method of masking (blinding), based on the CONSORT Statement (http://www.consort-statement.org).

Reporting Guidelines for Specific Study Designs

Initiative	Type of Study	Source
CONSORT	Randomized controlled trials	http://www.consort-statement.org
STARD	Studies of diagnostic accuracy	http://www.consort-statement.org/stardstatement.htm
PRISMA	Systematic reviews and meta-analyses	http://www.prisma-statement.org/PRISMAStatement/Default.aspx
STROBE	Observational studies in epidemiology	http://www.strobe-statement.org
MOOSE	Meta-analyses of observational studies in epidemiology	http://www.consort-statement.org/Media/Default/Downloads/Other%20Instruments/-MOOSE%20Statement%202000.pdf

Statistics: Whenever possible quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals). Authors should report losses to observation (such as dropouts from a clinical trial). When data are summarized in the Results section, specify the statistical methods used to analyze them. Avoid non-technical uses of technical terms in statistics, such as ‘random’ (which implies a randomizing device), ‘normal’, ‘significant’, ‘correlations’, and ‘sample’. Define statistical terms, abbreviations, and most symbols. Specify the computer software used. Use upper italics (P 0.048). For all P values include the exact value and not less than 0.05 or 0.001. Mean differences in continuous variables, proportions in categorical variables and relative risks including odds ratios and hazard ratios should be accompanied by their confidence intervals.

Results: Present your results in a logical sequence in the text, tables, and illustrations, giving the main or most important findings first. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables or illustrations; emphasize or summarize only important observations. Extra- or supplementary materials and technical detail can be placed in an appendix where it will be accessible but will not interrupt the flow of the text; alternatively, it can be published only in the electronic version of the journal.

When data are summarized in the Results section, give numeric results not only as derivatives (for example, percentages) but also as the absolute numbers from which the derivatives were calculated, and specify the statistical methods used to analyze them. Restrict tables and figures to those needed to explain the argument of the paper and to assess its support. Use graphs as an alternative to tables with many entries; do not duplicate data in graphs and tables. Where scientifically appropriate, analyses of the data by variables such as age and sex should be included.

Discussion: Include a summary of key findings (primary outcome measures, secondary outcome measures, results as they relate to a prior hypothesis); Strengths and limitations of the study (study question, study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation); Interpretation and implications in the context of the totality of evidence (is there a systematic review to refer to, if not, could one be reasonably done here and now?, what this study adds to the available evidence, effects on patient care and health policy, possible mechanisms); Controversies raised by this study; and Future research directions (for this particular research collaboration, underlying mechanisms, clinical research).

Do not repeat in detail data or other material given in the Introduction or the Results section. In particular, contributors 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. New hypotheses may be stated if needed, however, they should be clearly labeled as such. About 30 references can be included. These articles generally should not have more than six authors.

Review Articles:

It is expected that these articles would be written preferably by individuals who have done substantial work on the subject or are considered experts in the field. The prescribed word count is up to 4,000 words excluding tables, references, and abstract. The manuscript may have about 75 references. The manuscript should have an unstructured abstract (up to 400 words) representing an accurate summary of the article. The section titles would depend upon the topic reviewed. Authors submitting review articles should include a section describing the methods used for locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesizing data. These methods should also be summarized in the abstract. The journal expects the contributors to give post-publication updates on the subject of review. The update should be brief, covering the advances in the field after the publication of the article, and should be sent as a letter to editor, as and when major development occurs in the field.

Case Reports/Case Series:

New, interesting, and rare cases can be reported. They should be unique, describing a great diagnostic or therapeutic challenge and providing a learning point for the readers. Cases with clinical significance or implications will be given priority. These manuscripts could be of up to 2,500 words (excluding Abstract and references) and the manuscript should have an unstructured abstract (up to 350 words), Keywords, Introduction, Case report, Discussion, Conclusion, Reference, Tables, and Legends in that order. The case reports could be supported with up to 25 references. The number of images/figures/tables/graphs is to be limited to 7 only.

Letter to the Editor:

These should be short and decisive observations. They should preferably be related to articles previously published in the Journal or views expressed in the journal. They should not be preliminary observations that need a later paper for validation. The letter could have up to 700 words and 5 references. It could be generally authored by not more than four authors.

Editorial: Editorials are solicited by the editorial board or Editor-in-Chief; should be up to 1,500 words and with no more than 15 references.

Article Types

The following graph shows what types of articles are accepted for publication, and what requirements they may have.

Article Type	Abstract Limit	Keywords Limit	Title Limit	Tables/Figures Limit	References Limit
Original Article (up to 3,500 words)	Up to 350 words (Structured: Objectives, Materials and Methods, Statistical analysis, Results, Conclusions)	3 to 7  keywords	Up to 35 words	Approximately  5 tables/figures	Up to  40 references
Brief Report (up to 1,800 words)	Up to 250 words (Structured: Objectives, Materials and Methods, Statistical analysis, Results, Conclusions)	3 to 7  keywords	Up to 35 words	Approximately  5 tables/figures	Up to  20 references
Review Article (up to 4,000 words)	Up to 400 words (Unstructured abstract)	3 to 7  keywords	Up to 35 words	Approximately  5 tables/figures	Up to  75 references
Case Report (up to 2,500 words)	Up to 350 words (Unstructured abstract)	3 to 7  keywords	Up to 35 words	Approximately  7 tables/figures	Up to  25 references
Editorial (up to 1,500 words)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Up to  15 references
Letter to Editor (up to 700 words)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Up to  5 references
In Response (up to 300 words)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Up to  5 references

References:

References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text (not in alphabetic order). Identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in superscript with square bracket after the punctuation marks. References cited only in tables or figure legends should be numbered in accordance with the sequence established by the first identification in the text of the particular table or figure. Use the style of the examples below, which are based on the formats used by the NLM in Index Medicus. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus. Use the complete name of the journal for non-indexed journals. Avoid using abstracts as references. Information from manuscripts submitted but not accepted should be cited in the text as “unpublished observations” with written permission from the source. 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 commonly cited types of references are shown here, for other types of references such as newspaper items please refer to ICMJE Guidelines (http://www.icmje.org or http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html).

Articles in Journals

1. Standard journal article (for up to six authors): 

Albuquerque Guedes AP, Oliveira-Reis B, Catelan A, Umeda Suzuki TY, Fraga Briso AL, Dos Santos PH. Mechanical and surface properties analysis of restorative materials submitted to erosive challenges in situ. Eur J Dent 2018;12:559-565

2. Standard journal article (for more than six authors): List the first six contributors followed by et al. 

Al-Marzooq F, Al Bayat S, Sayyar F, Ishaq H, Nasralla H, Koutaich R, et al., Can probiotic cleaning solutions replace chemical disinfectants in dental clinics?. Eur J Dent 2018;12:532-539

3. Volume with supplement:

Thosar N, Basak S, Bahadure RN, Rajurkar M. Antimicrobial efficacy of five essential oils against oral pathogens: An in vitro study. Eur J Dent 2013 Sep;7(Suppl 1):S071-S077.

Books and Other Monographs

1. Books with a Single Author: Jacobson A, Radiographic Cephalometry: From Basics to Videoimaging, 2nd ed. Birmingham: Quintessence Publishing Co, Inc; 2006
2. Editor(s), compiler(s) as author: Garcia LS, Filarial Nematodes In: Garcia LS (editor) Diagnostic Medical Parasitology Washington DC; ASM press; 2007:319-356
3. Book Chapter: D’Alpino PH, Svizero NR, Carrilho M, Self-adhering composites. In: Miletic V, ed. Dental Composite Materials for Direct Restorations. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2018:129–151

Electronic Sources as reference

Journal article on the Internet: Parija SC, Khairnar K. Detection of excretory Entamoeba histolytica DNA in the urine, and detection of E. histolytica DNA and lectin antigen in the liver abscess pus for the diagnosis of amoebic liver abscess. BMC Microbiology 2007, 7:41.doi:10.1186/1471-2180-7-41. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/7/41

Tables

· Tables should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material.

· Tables with more than 10 columns and 25 rows are not acceptable.

· Number tables, in Arabic numerals, consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and supply a brief title for each.

· Place explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading.

· Explain in footnotes all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table.

· Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and provide a credit line in the footnote.

· For footnotes use the following symbols, in this sequence: *, †, ‡, §, ||,¶ , **, ††, ‡‡

· Tables with their legends should be provided at the end of the text after the references. The tables along with their number should be cited at the relevant place in the text

Illustrations (Figures)

· Upload the images in JPG format. The file size should be within 1024 kb in size while uploading.

· Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they have been first cited in the text.

· Labels, numbers, and symbols should be clear and of uniform size. The lettering for figures should be large enough to be legible after reduction to fit the width of a printed column.

· Symbols, arrows, or letters used in photomicrographs should contrast with the background and should be marked neatly with transfer type or by tissue overlay and not by pen.

· Titles and detailed explanations belong in the legends for illustrations not on the illustrations themselves.

· When graphs, scatter-grams or histograms are submitted the numerical data on which they are based should also be supplied.

· The photographs and figures should be trimmed to remove all the unwanted areas.

· If photographs of individuals are used, their pictures must be accompanied by written permission to use the photograph.

· If a figure has been published elsewhere, acknowledge the original source and submit written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce the material. A credit line should appear in the legend for such figures.

· Legends for illustrations: Type or print out legends (maximum 40 words, excluding the credit line) for illustrations using double spacing, with Arabic numerals corresponding to the illustrations. When symbols, arrows, numbers, or letters are used to identify parts of the illustrations, identify and explain each one in the legend. Explain the internal scale (magnification) and identify the method of staining in photomicrographs.

· Final figures for print production: Send sharp, glossy, un-mounted, color photographic prints, with a height of 5 inches and a width of 6 inches at the time of submitting the revised manuscript. Print outs of digital photographs are not acceptable. If digital images are the only source of images, ensure that the image has a minimum resolution of 300 dpi or 1800 x 1600 pixels in JPG format.

· The Journal reserves the right to crop, rotate, reduce, or enlarge the photographs to an acceptable size. 

Protection of Patients’ Rights to Privacy

Identifying information should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, sonograms, CT scans, etc., and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian, wherever applicable) gives written informed consent for publication. Authors should remove patients’ names from figures unless they have obtained written informed consent from the patients. When informed consent has been obtained, it should be indicated in the article and a copy of the consent should be attached with the covering letter.

Sending a revised manuscript

The revised version of the manuscript should be submitted online in a manner similar to that used for the submission of the manuscript for the first time. However, there is no need to submit the “First Page” or “Covering Letter” file while submitting a revised version. When submitting a revised manuscript, contributors are requested to include, the ‘referees’ remarks along with point-to-point clarification at the beginning of the revised file itself. In addition, they are expected to mark the changes as underlined or colored text in the article.

Reprints and proofs

The reprints are not available from the publisher.

Publication schedule

The journal publishes articles on its website immediately on the acceptance and follows a ‘continuous publication’ schedule. Articles are compiled for ‘print on demand’ semiannual issues.

Manuscript submission, processing, and publication charges

All articles published in the Ada’D Publishers Journals are full open-access articles. All open-access content published in the Ada’D Publishers Journals is available freely online to everyone, increasing the visibility, usage, and impact of the author’s publications.    

The article processing charge (APC), also known as the publication fee, is a fee charged to authors to provide open access to work in the open access journals. This fee is paid by the author, the author’s institution, or their research funder for providing submission systems, editorial processes, including the organization of peer review, production editing, indexing, hosting servers, archiving, and marketing. The APC must be paid upon acceptance of the author’s article.

The publication fees or waiver status should not influence editorial decision-making. All submitted articles are subject to double-blind peer review and may be rejected. There is no charge if an article is rejected.

Copyrights 

The entire contents of the Ada’D Publishers Journals are protected under international copyrights. The Journals, however, grants to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy use distribute, perform and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works in any digital medium for any reasonable non-commercial purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship and ownership of the rights.

Commons User Licenses

The Ada’D Publishers Journals are published under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives)

 

Checklist

Covering letter

• Signed by all contributors
• Previous publication / presentations mentioned
• Source of funding mentioned
• Conflicts of interest disclosed

Authors

• Last name and given name provided along with Middle name initials (where applicable)
• Author for correspondence, with the e-mail address provided
• Number of contributors restricted as per the instructions
• Identity not revealed in the paper except the title page (e.g. name of the institute in Methods, citing the previous study as ‘our study’, names on figure labels, name of the institute in photographs, etc.)

Presentation and format

• Double spacing
• Margins 2.5 cm from all four sides
• Page numbers included at the bottom
• The title page contains all the desired information
• Running title provided (not more than 50 characters)
• The abstract page contains the full title of the manuscript
• Keywords provided (three or more)
• Headings in title case (not ALL CAPITALS)
• The references cited in the text should be after punctuation marks, in superscript without a square bracket.
• References according to the journal’s instructions, punctuation marks checked
• Send the article file without ‘Track Changes’

Language and grammar

• Uniformly American English spelling and terminology should be used in the manuscripts
• Write the full term for each abbreviation at its first use in the title, abstract, keywords, and text separately unless it is a standard unit of measure. Numerals from 1 to 10 spelled out
• Numerals at the beginning of the sentence spelled out
• Check the manuscript for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors
• If a brand name is cited, supply the manufacturer’s name and address (city and state/country).
• Species names should be in italics

Tables and figures

• No repetition of data in tables and graphs and in text
• Actual numbers from which graphs are drawn, provided
• Figures necessary and of good quality (color)
• Table and figure numbers in Arabic letters (not Roman)
• Labels pasted on the back of the photographs (no names written)
• Figure legends provided (not more than 40 words)
• Patients’ privacy maintained (if not permission was taken)
• Credit note for borrowed figures/tables provided

Write the full term for each abbreviation used in the table as a footnote