Instructions to Authors for the Preparation of Manuscripts

Quality of Publication Ethics in the Instructions to the Authors of Iranian Journals of Medical Sciences

Providing a perfect instruction to authors can prevent most potential publication ethics errors. This study was conducted to determine the quality of ethical considerations in the instructions to the authors of Iranian research scientific journals of medical sciences (accredited by the Commission for Accreditation and Improvement of Iranian Medical Journals) in October 2011. Checklist items (n=...

International Electronic Journal of Medicine

International Electronic Journal of Medicine (IEJM) is an open access electronic journal that covers all aspects of medicine and medical sciences. We invite authors from all over the world to send their manuscripts to IEJM. Manuscripts submitted to IEJM go through a peer review process before publication in IEJM. We will ask our reviewers to finish the papers’ review within two weeks. Authors a...

Iranian Scholars’ Revision of Their Submitted Manuscripts: Signaling Impersonality in Text

Nonnative English-speaking scholars have often been reported to be at a disadvantage vis-à-vis their English native counterparts when it comes to writing a publishable research article (RA). When they submit their manuscripts to English-language journals, they sometimes receive comments criticizing their faulty English. One area of difficulty for these authors is the grammaticalization of neutr...

The Aast E X Macros for Manuscript Preparation

The AAS has developed an author markup package to assist authors in preparing manuscripts for articles that are intended for submission to the AAS-and ASP-aaliated journals. It is important that the markup used by authors in electronic manuscripts (sometimes called compuscripts) be consistent and standardized so that such manuscripts can be widely accepted by the journals, ultimately so that th...

Quality of Publication Ethics in Instructions to Authors

Advice columns of edited research articles: academic writing tips and comments of Iranian EFL teacher convenience editors to authors in medical sciences

Background & Aims: Increasing pressure for having scholarly publications in accredited English medium journals emphasizes the need to enhance academic writing ability by author-researchers in various fields, especially, in medical and hard sciences. In order to enhance the language of manuscripts, many authors seek assistance from editors prior to submission to high-status journals. Various typ...