. Once the
manuscript has been uploaded, our system automatically generates an electronic
pdf, which is then used for reviewing. All correspondence, including
notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revisions, will be
managed through this system. Authors can follow the progress of their paper
using this system to final decision. For any problems please contact the
Editorial Office at ajied@zu.edu.eg.
Due to editorial policy to accept high quality articles, the journal accept only 50% of received articles.
Authorship
All authors
should have made substantial contributions to all of the following:
(1) the conception and design of the
study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data
(2) drafting the article or revising it
critically for important intellectual content
(3) final approval of the version to be
submitted.
Article types
The
following types of manuscripts are routinely accepted:
1-
Original Articles:
This should include an abstract, keywords,
introduction, patients/material and methods, results, discussion and references.
They should be no longer than 5000 words (word count excludes tables, figures
,legends
and references).
2-
Reviews:
An abstract
and keywords are required. The text should be divided into sections by suitable
headings. Tables and figures may be used as appropriate for the text. They
should be no longer than 6000 words.
3-
Opinions, Commentaries and Letters to the
editor: These take
the same form as a review.
4-
Short Communications: These should be no more than 2,500 words, with
up to 15 references and a maximum of 3 figures or tables.
5-
Case Reports: Case reports
should present only cases of exceptional interest including presentation,
diagnosis and management of disease. They should contain short summaries, an
introduction, the case report, discussion, a reference list, tables and figure
legends.
6-
Images in Infectious and Endemic Diseases: These
consist of interesting cases with high quality images with a short text and no
more than 10 references.
Preparation of the manuscript
Please
ensure that the followings are included in your submission: -One author
designated as the corresponding author: His E-mail address ,full postal address
Telephone and fax numbers -Keywords -Cover letter addressed to the Editor,
introducing the manuscript and confirming that it is not being submitted
concurrently elsewhere -All figure captions -All tables (including title,
description, footnotes) -All necessary files have been uploaded -Manuscript has
been spell checked -All text pages have been numbered -References are in the
correct format for this journal -All references mentioned in the Reference list
are cited in the text and vice versa -Permission has been obtained for use of
copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web) -Color figures are
clearly marked as being intended for color reproduction or to be reproduced in
black-and-white.- Manuscripts :Please type all pages with double spacing and
wide margins on one side of the paper. Title page, abstract, tables, legends to
figures and reference list should each be provided on separate pages of the
manuscript. Use font such as Times New Roman or Arial. The text should be in
single-column format. Number the pages. Keep the layout of the text as simple as
possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the
article. In particular, do not use the options to justify text or to hyphenate
words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. Do not
embed 'graphically designed' equations or tables, but prepare these using the
facility in Word or as a separate file in Excel. When preparing tables, if you
are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a
grid for each row. Do not prepare tables in PowerPoint. To avoid unnecessary
errors you are strongly advised to use the spellchecker. The title page should
include: the title, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), an address
for correspondence, and telephone/fax numbers for editorial queries. All
articles should include an Abstract of no more than 300 words and 3-6 key words
for abstracting and indexing purposes. Please write your text in good English.
Use decimal points (not commas); use a space for thousands (10 000 and above).
Provide the
following data in your submission (in the order given).
1-
Title page
(separate page): Title should
be concise and informative. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
Author names and affiliations. Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a
double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation
addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all
affiliations with an Arabic number immediately after the author's name and in
front of the appropriate address. Corresponding author: This should be indicated
after authors affiliations. Clearly indicate who is willing to handle
correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also
post-publication. . Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area
code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal
address.
2-
Abstract: (separate
paper). A concise and informative abstract is required (maximum length 300
words). The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the
principal results and major conclusions. Do not cite references in the abstract.
Non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided in the abstract, but if
essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.
The abstract should be divided into: Background and study aims,
patients/material and methods, results and conclusion. Keywords Immediately
after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords.
3-
Abbreviations: Define
abbreviations that are not standard in this field at their first occurrence in
the article (even if mentioned in the abstract). Ensure consistency of
abbreviations throughout the article
4-
Introduction: State the
objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed
literature survey or a summary of the results. The aim of the work should be
described at the end of introduction section.
5-
Patients/Materials
and methods: Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced.
Methods already published should be indicated by a reference. Only relevant
modifications should be described. Include in figure legends and table texts,
technical details of methods used, while describing the methods themselves in
the main text.
6-
Results: This should
explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined
Results and Discussion section is often appropriate in a Short Communication but
not in an Original Article. Ensure that the chapter results stands by itself and
explain all results of your work. Note that all tables and figures should be
presented in separate papers.
7-
Discussion: Discuss your
results and avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.
8-
Acknowledgement: Collate
acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article and do not,
therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or
otherwise. When the work included in a paper has been supported by a grant from
any source, this must be indicated. A connection of any author with companies
producing any substances or apparatus used in the work should be declared in
this section. All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship as
defined above should be listed in an acknowledgements section. Examples of those
who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help,
writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Authors should disclose whether they had any writing assistance and identify the
entity that paid for this assistance.
9-
References: References
should be numbered consecutively (with parentheses) as they appear in the text
e.g. [5]. Type the reference list with double spacing on a separate sheet. This
includes family name and first name initial, up to 6 authors are required and
more authors are marked with et al. Examples: 1- Abdel-Wahab M, Esmat G,
El-Boraey Y, Ramzy I , Medhat E, Strickland G. The epidemiology of
schistosomiasis in Egypt: methods , training, and quality control of clinical
and ultrasound examinations . Am J Trop Med Hyg 2000 ; 62 (suppl) :17-20.
2- Wright W. Geographical distribution of schistosomes and their intermediate
hosts. Ansari N, ed. Epidemiology and control of schistosomiasis (bilharziasis)
.Baltimor ;University Park Press 1973 ;42-48.. Do not include
references to personal communications, unpublished data or manuscripts either
'in preparation' or 'submitted for publication'. If essential, such material may
be incorporated into the appropriate place in the text. Recheck references in
the text against reference list after your manuscript has been revised. All
references listed in the text should be included in the reference list and all
references in the reference list should be included in the text.
10-
Illustrations: Photographs
should be presented as high quality jpg. Illustrations will not be redrawn by
the Publisher: line figures should be suitable for direct reproduction. They
should be prepared with black on white background, or be black-and-white images;
; they should be completely and consistently lettered, the size of the lettering
being appropriate to that of the illustration, taking into account the necessary
reduction in size. Colour figures will be included
11-
Tables: Number
tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place
footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript
lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and
ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described
elsewhere in the article.
Editorial Review
All
manuscripts are subjected to peer review. If changes are requested, revisions
received later than 2 months after this request will be treated as new
submissions. When changes are made, the corresponding author should go into
resubmission under title of submission of revised manuscript, and a word
document should be uploaded that indicates changes and modifications done.
Off prints
The corresponding author, at no cost,
will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail. Authors can download
the PDF from the journal web page and in the same way the journal cover image
can be downloaded.
Policy and Ethics Declarations
Upon submission you will be required to declare funding, conflict of interest and to indicate whether ethical approval was sought. This information must also be inserted into your manuscript under the acknowledgements section. If you have no declaration to make please insert the following statements into your manuscript: Funding: None, Competing interests: None declared ,Ethical approval: Not required . Work on human beings that is submitted to AJIED should comply with the principles laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki; Recommendations guiding physicians in biomedical research involving human subjects. Adopted by the 18th World Medical Assembly, Helsinki, Finland, June 1964, amended by the 29th World Medical Assembly, Tokyo, Japan, October 1975, the 35th World Medical Assembly, Venice, Italy, October 1983, and the 41st World Medical Assembly, Hong Kong, September 1989. The manuscript should contain a statement that the work has been approved by the appropriate ethical committees related to the institution(s) in which it was performed and that subjects gave informed consent to the work. Studies involving experiments with animals must state that their care was in accordance with institution guidelines.
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
The articles published in the Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases (AJIED) are freely available to read, download, and distribute, immediately upon publication, given that the original source and authors are cited (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC-BY).
Publication decisions
The Editor-in-Chief of the journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The editor may be guided by the editorial policies of the journal and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editor may confer with the members of the Editorial Board or reviewers in making this decision. The Editor-in-Chief and the reviewers evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality
The Editor-in-Chief, the members of the Editorial Board, and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the authors of the manuscript, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Originality
The papers accepted for submission and publication in "The Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases (AJIED)" are supposed to be original and not previously published elsewhere except for abstracts presented in local and international conferences. The journal editorial board has the right to withdraw the articles if found published in full elsewhere or an issue of plagiarism was raised and the authors will not be allowed to submit any other papers to the journal in the future.
Plagiarism
All manuscripts submitted to the Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic
Diseases (AJIED) are subjected to plagiarism check.
Copyright
All authors must sign
a copyright statement indicating that their article is solely submitted for consideration of
publication in the Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases
(AJIED). Please note that your article will not be sent for external peer review
without a signed copyright statement.
Competing interests
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Role of the funding source all sources of funding should be declared. Authors should declare the role of study sponsors, if any, in the study design, in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; and in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. If the study sponsors had no such involvement, the authors should so state. hould so state.
Publication charges
No publication charges are needed.
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