Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- Don't submit before checking you followed the journal guidelines while submitting, and you fixed the title of the text file or the short title of the manuscript, otherwise, the journal will disregard or reject your submission A Submision_form.pdf.
- The manuscript must be accompanied by a Cover Letter. It is signed by the corresponding author confirming that the paper has not been published elsewhere and will not be submitted to another journal. It also explains the importance of the study and why the author(s) chose the Journal of the Faculty of Medicine Baghdad.
- Ethics Approval and Consent form Author(s) are required to fill out the
- The submission file is Microsoft Word
- An Arabic and English Abstract should be provided between (250 to 300 words), with Arabic and English author names, emails, ORCID, and affiliations.
- To help you create keywords from an abstract, use MeSH on Demand URL (https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/MeSHonDemand) as a tool that can automatically generate keywords.
- The text is single-spaced; and uses a 14/16-point font; all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author's Guidelines.
- Each author/ Contributor(s) must register/create an ORCID ID when making a new submission.
- The author must provide a proofreading for the manuscript with an official document.
- Proofreading Certificate: to improve the language clarity of the manuscript, we recommend the language editing services provided by following this external partner https://www.globaledico.com/ with a special code for 12% discounts from the total (JFacMedBaghdad) to be filled in the Name section. Notes: for the payment for GlobalEdico use this link https://revolut.me/globaledico . Send a Word document that includes these sections only (Abstract Introduction & Discussion) of your Manuscript.
- If an artificial intelligence (AI) tool is used when writing the manuscript, creating images or graphic elements of the work or collecting and analyzing data, the author must describe how and which tool was used in the Materials and Methods section. Authors are solely responsible for the content of their manuscripts, including portions created using artificial intelligence tools, and are therefore responsible for any breach of publication ethics. The accepted Ratio for Using AI tools is less than (5%).
- The research undertaking and submission request forms are available in the Author's Guidelines and should be completed formally and submitted before the journal takes any action
- About 80% of references are recent and within the last 5 years.
- All the references must be provided with DOIs. For DOIs use the following link https://apps.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery
- If DOI number is founded the author can add URL instead.
- All the references must be written in a Vancouver referencing style
Copyright Notice
For all articles published in the Journal of the Faculty of Medicine Baghdad, the copyright is retained by the authors. Articles are licensed under an open-access Creative Commons CC BY NC 4.0 license, meaning that anyone may download and read the paper for free. In addition, the article may be reused and quoted provided that the original published version is cited. These conditions allow for maximum use and exposure of the work while ensuring that the authors receive proper rights.
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