Journal of Nepal Medical Association

JOURNAL OF NEPAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (Estd. 1963 AD)

Guidelines for Authors

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

Journal of Nepal Medical Association is an internationally peer reviewed biomedical journal of Nepal Medical Association indexed in MedLine/PubMed. This is the first and oldest medical journal from Nepal since 1963 AD. The JNMA abide by:
1. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors for Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
2. World Association of Medical Editors for best editorial practice
3. Council of Science Editors for best editorial practice
3. Committee on Publication Ethics for practicing good publication ethics

Please download Guideline for Author from HERE [You need to have Acrobat Reader installed in your computer]

SUBMISSION DOCUMENTS

Please submit all the following documents while submitting your new manuscript to JNMA:

1. Forwarding letter

2. Authorship

3. Declaration

4. Manuscript

5. Ethical Approval letter*

Any submission without above four documents will be considered invalid and do not expect to repsond your queries or email regarding your submission. The manusript document will guide you as what are the things need to be considered while preparing a research article.

Submit your manuscript electronically at editor@jnma.com.np, send your authorship, declaration and ethical approval letter by post to JNMA.

*This is for research article only. Ethical approval letter should be taken before starting the research. Any research without ethically approved from recognized ethical review board is of no value. The Ethical Review Board at Nepal Health Research Council is the apex body for looking after the ethics in research in Nepal. However, ERB has established institutions review committee in most of the medical college, tertiary care center hospitals and research center throughout the country. If you do not belong to such IRC centers, please contact ERB, NHRC for ethical approval of your research. For international author - please provide ethical approval letter from your institutional ethical committee or national body responsible for ethics in research.

TEMPLATES

Majority of the submitted manuscript lack proper formatting, on the top of that heading and subheading are not correctly written. Therefore, we encourage you to use appropriate template for your manuscript.

1. Original Article

2. Case Report

3. Review Article

4. Short Communication

5. Perspective

6. Letter to the Editor

ADDED DOCUMENTS

Please go through JNMA checklist and reference preparing document for your manuscript. However, we use CITING MEDICINE for reference, but due to widespread use of Vancouver its PDF files has been provided to brush up your knowledge. Incorrect reference and erroneous citation will invalid your paper at JNMA.

1. JNMA Checklist (must read)

2. Vancouver Style

MUST HAVE INFORMATION

To minimize the rejection (or return for revision) of your article please do the followings:

1. All the documents has to be submitted at once (as listed above).

2. Please use template for your respective manuscript to avoid error in the heading and subheadings

3. Please address all the point described in the JNMA checklist, references and manuscript preparation guidelines etc

4. Please do not submit the article that we do not published (check author guideline for different type of article we accept)

5. If you are not good at computer e.g. sound knowledge of OS and MS office, start learning from today. Because of its lack, it results in poor writing and failure to express your message more appropriately which may leads to premature rejection.

6. Email is the preferred methods of communication therefore, please check your email once a day after you submit article to JNMA, we may contact you anytime for immediate information to speed up the review process.

7. Please do not contact editorial member's personal telephone numbers but JNMA office.

If you have more queries, please contact us anytime. Help us to provide more information on this page.

- Dr. Angel Magar, Executive Editor, Journal of Nepal Medical Association.