SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors are required to comply with the following guidelines:

  • Submissions must be original, previously unpublished work. They cannot be under consideration with  another publisher.
  • All metadata, including emails, ORCIDs, degrees, and affiliations of all authors, is accurate and  included at the time of submission
  • Files must be submitted as  OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document documents. 
  • Do not submit PDF files.

Use Toufik’s Medical Journal Template to create your submissions, ensuring it adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements. Basic requirements include:

  • Text: at least 10-point font in Arial or Times New Roman. Use italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses) when required.
  • Spacing: 1.5 spacing
  • Submission of Figures, Tables, Photographs, Images, and/or Diagrams as supplementary files.

Authors must affirm  that their manuscript is an honest, accurate, and transparent account of the study being reported; that no important aspects of the study have been omitted; and that any discrepancies from the study as planned (and, if relevant, registered) have been explained.
All conflicts of interest, funding, and acknowledgments must be disclose in the manuscript.

Note: Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines will not be considered for publication.

ARTICLE TYPES

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

This includes papers of clinical, translational, and basic science research. The document should be about 3500 words with around 30 references.

An exception applies when the article is a systematic reviews and meta-analysis; the manuscript should contain around 4500 words (without including the Abstract and References), with up to 100 references.

REVIEW ARTICLES

The suggested outline of the Discussion of reviews of medical disorders includes an Introduction, Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Management and Prevention (See Review Template).

All Reviews should include a brief section entitled “Search strategy and selection criteria” stating the sources (including databases, keywords and free-text search terms and filters, and reference lists from journals or books) of the material covered, and the criteria used to include or exclude studies. Citations to papers published in non-peer-reviewed supplements are discouraged.

The following specific criteria should be considered for Review Manuscripts:

For narrative reviews, the abstract should be unstructured (just a paragraph), not exceeding 250 words. For systematic reviews and/or meta-analysis, the abstract should be structured into four sections (Background, Methods, Results, Conclusion), not exceeding 250 words
The manuscript should contain around 4500 words (without including the Abstract and References), with up to 100 references.
Figures and tables (up to a maximum of five) can be helpful to aid the reader.
Meta-analysis are considered Original Articles in Toufik’s Medical Journal

CASE REPORT

Case reports are intended to inform, entertain, and inspire. Present a diagnostic conundrum, and explain how it was solved. The main aspects that should be presented are: presentation, history, examination, investigations, management, and outcome. In the Discussion, educate the reader about the reported case. Case reports should enlighten readers about a condition or presentation that they find interesting. Rarity and overspecialization are not necessary (See Case Report Template).

The following specific criteria should be considered for Case Report Manuscripts:

The abstract should be structured into three sections (Background, Case, Conclusion), not exceeding 250 words.
The manuscript should contain 1500 words (without including the Abstract and References), with up to 10 references.
Figures (up to a maximum of two) can be helpful.
Highlights about the case, 3 to 5 bullets calling the attention about the importance of the case.
An Informed Consent Form is available for authors. Authors should not upload the consent to the Journal but they should seek consent from the patient or a representative for publication.

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Short Communications should present a complete study that is more limited in scope than a full-length paper. This indicates that all the requirements specified for Original Articles mentioned above are also required upon submitting a Short Communication to Toufik’s Medical Journal, with the following exceptions:

The abstract should be structured into four sections (Background, Methods, Results, Conclusion), not exceeding 250 words.
The manuscript should contain 2000 words (without including Abstract and citations) and maximum 25 references (See Short Communication Template).
A maximum of two Figures and one Table.