Submissions

Author Guidelines

Format Submission

MIJ only accepts manuscripts in doc and docx (MS Word: Main body) format. MIJ will only accept articles submitted in the form of a template, which consists of a title page template and the manuscript content itself. The following rules must be followed:

Templates: Main body

Manuscript components

Ploaded separately, must not contain any infromation that may identify the authors, must not contain the title page. Must include: Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Figures and Tables with Captions, Funding Information, Author Contributions, Conflict of Interest and other Ethics Statements.

• Title:
  The title of the manuscript should be concise, specific and relevant. If it is a systematic review or meta-analysis then this should be included in the title. Please do not include abbreviated or short forms of title, such as running title or heading. These will be removed by the Editor.
• Author List and Affiliations:
  The full name of the author must be provided. You can add any middle initials. A standard PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliation.
  Full address information including city, zip code, state/province, and country. At least one of her authors should be named as the corresponding author, and her email address and other details should be provided at the end of the affiliation section. Once accepted, author names and affiliations cannot be updated. Author: One author must be designated as the corresponding author.
• Abstract:
  No more than 200 words. The abstract should consist of one paragraph and follow the structured abstract style, but should not have headings. 1) Background: It puts the question in a broader context and emphasizes the purpose of the research. 2) Method: Briefly describe the main method or treatment used. Provide the relevant pre-registration number and the species and strain of the animal used. 3) Results: Summarize the main results of the article. 4) Conclusion: State the main conclusion or interpretation. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article. Do not include unjustified findings that are not presented in the text, and do not overstate the main conclusions.
• Keywords:
  After the summary, you should add 3-10 relevant keywords. Keywords should be specific to your article, but reasonably general within your area of ​​expertise.
• Introduction:
  Should briefly place the study in the broader context and emphasize why it is important. The purpose and significance of the study should be stated, including the specific hypotheses to be tested. A thorough review of the state of research and citation of major publications is required. Controversial or conflicting hypotheses should be highlighted where appropriate. Finally, we briefly state the main purpose of this paper and highlight its main conclusions. This preface should also be understandable to researchers working outside the research topic.
• Materials and Methods:
  New methods and protocols should be described in detail, while best practices can be briefly described and formally cited. You must state the name and version of the software you used and whether the computer code you used is available. Any pre-registration code must be included.
• Results:
  A brief description of the results of the study carried out, present them as briefly and clearly as possible. Apply the results of the statistical analysis to the presentation of the results if possible.
• Discussion:
  Authors should discuss their results and how they can be interpreted in the light of previous studies and working hypotheses. The results and their implications should be discussed in the broadest possible context and the limitations of the study should be emphasized. The direction of future research can also be mentioned. This section can be combined with Results.
• Conclusions:
  Briefly outline the key findings of the article.
• References:
  Must be formatted according to APA style. It is necessary to include the name of the author(s), the title of the journal or book, the title of the article or chapter (if required), the year of publication, the volume and issue (where applicable) and the pagination. DOI (Digital Object Identifier) numbers are mandatory.The bibliographic software package EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, Reference Manager is recommended.
• Author Contributions:
  Each author is expected to have made significant contributions to the conception and design of the work or design or modify the content of the work AND is personally responsible for the author's own contributions and that any issues relating to the accuracy or completeness of any part of the work are duly investigated, even if the author is not personally involved.
  In this section, the initials of the authors should be placed and added in the relevant categories from the template below.
  

  "Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; Methodology, X.X.; Software, X.X.; Validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; Formal Analysis, X.X.; Investigation, X.X.; Resources, X.X.; Data Curation, X.X.; Writing – Original Draft Preparation, X.X.; Writing – Review & Editing, X.X.; Visualization, X.X.; Supervision, X.X.; Project Administration, X.X.; Funding Acquisition, Y.Y.”

  
  Explanation of all terms: CRediT taxonomy
• Funding:
  All research funding sources should be disclosed. State clearly what grants you received to support your research and whether you received funding to cover publication costs. Please note that some funders will not refund the Article Handling Charge (APC) if the funder and grant number are not clearly and accurately identified on the document. Authors can enter their funding information individually into the submission system when submitting their manuscript. When available, such funding information will be deposited with her FundRef after final publication of the manuscript. Please add it:
  In this section, "This study received no external funding" or "This study was funded by [sponsor name], grant number [xxx]" and "APC has received [XXX] It is funded by.” Please double check that the information is correct and use the standard spelling of the funding agency name at https://search.crossref.org/funding, errors may affect future funding.
• Acknowledgments:
  this section allows authors to approve support not covered in the Contributions or Sponsorships section. This may include administrative and technical support and in-kind donations (such as experimental materials).
• Conflicts of Interest:
  Authors should identify and disclose any personal circumstances or interests that may influence the presentation or interpretation of the reported study. If there is no conflict of interest, "The authors declare no conflict of interest." The role of funding bodies in the selection of research projects. research design. In collecting, analyzing or interpreting data. when writing a manuscript. Alternatively, the decision to publish the results should be explained in this section. IJMS does not publish research funded in part or in full by the tobacco industry. Particular attention should be paid to fully declaring funder involvement for all industry-funded projects. If no role is indicated, please state that the sponsor had no role in the planning, conduct, interpretation or writing of the study.

Examples of disclosures are provided below:
Conflict of interest:

“Author A has received a research grant from Company A. Author B receives speaking fees from her company X and owns stock in company Y. Author C. She was involved with Company Z as a consultant and expert witness. Author D is the inventor of patent X.”

In the absence of conflict, authors should provide:

“The authors declare no conflict of interest.”

• References:
  They should be ranked according to the appearance of the references in the text. References in the text should be in square brackets e.g. [1], [1-3], [1,4,6]. APA style is required. You can find more about the style and examples here.
  To avoid typos and duplicate references, we recommend using a bibliographic software package such as EndNote, ReferenceManager, or Zotero to prepare your bibliography.
• Figures, Schemes, Graphs and Tables:
  They should be placed in the main text and should include a title and description. A reference should be added to them in the text, e.g. (Figure 1) or (Table 2).

Conflicts of Interest

According to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose.”

Corresponding authors should attach an abstract statement to the manuscript in a separate conflict of interest section immediately preceding the reference list. The declaration should aggregate and reflect any potential conflicts of interest disclosed on the form.

Examples of disclosures are provided below:

Conflict of interest:

“Author A has received a research grant from Company A. Author B receives speaking fees from her company X and owns stock in company Y. Author C. She was involved with Company Z as a consultant and expert witness. Author D is the inventor of patent X.”

In the absence of conflict, authors should provide:

“The authors declare no conflict of interest.”

Editorial procedure and peer review 

Pre-assessment

Immediately after submission, the editor-in-chief of the journal will conduct a preliminary technical review to assess: 

• The general suitability of the manuscript for the journal/section/special issue.
• High research quality and adherence to ethical standards in manuscripts.
• Stringent criteria for further review.

Scientific Editors (i.e. Editors-in-Chief for regular submissions, Guest Editors for special issue submissions, Editorial Board members for conflicts of interest and for regular submissions) will be notified by the Editors (as authorised by the Commander-in-Chief) and invited for pre-editing; during the pre-editing stage, Scientific Editors will assess the suitability of submissions. After considering not only the scope of the journal, but also the scientific soundness of the paper as a whole, including the relevance of the references and the correctness of the submission method, the scientific editors should either reject the manuscript, request revisions prior to peer-review, or proceed with peer review. Review processes and recommend appropriate reviewers.

Peer-Review

Once a manuscript passes the Pre-assessment, it is sent for review to at least two independent experts. We will use a single-blind review, the authors do not know the identity of the reviewers. Reviewers' comments are confidential and will only be disclosed with their explicit permission. 

For regular submissions, the in-house editorial assistant invites reviewers, including recommendations from scientific editors. These professionals may also include members of the journal's editorial board and guest editors. Author-suggested reviewers can also be taken into account. Reviewers must not have co-published papers with co-authors in the past three years and not currently collaborate or collaborate with the institutions of co-authors of the submitted manuscript. 

Editorial Decision and Revision

All articles, reviews and communications published in MIJ go through a review process and receive at least one review. The editor in charge of the submission, after reviewing the decisions of the reviewers, will communicate a decision to the authors, which will be one of the following:

• Accept after Minor Revisions:
  After revision, the manuscript is normally accepted based on the reviewers' comments. The author is given ten days for him to make minor corrections.
• Reconsider after Major Revisions:
  Acceptance of the manuscript depends on corrections. If some of the reviewer's comments cannot be corrected, the authors must respond point by point or provide a rebuttal. Usually, a maximum of two major corrections per manuscript are allowed. Authors will be asked to resubmit the revised manuscript by a set deadline, and the revised version will be returned to the reviewers for further comments. To avoid unnecessary time pressure and to ensure that all manuscripts are revised appropriately, authors should withdraw the manuscript if it would take longer than 2 months to prepare revisions and improve the manuscript.
• Reject and Encourage Resubmission:
  If additional experiments are needed to support the conclusions, and the manuscript does not pass peer review, the manuscript will be rejected and authors are encouraged to resubmit the paper after conducting further experiments. 
• Reject:
  This article is either seriously flawed or does not make a significant contribution. No offers for resubmission to the journal will be made.

All reviewers' comments should be answered thoroughly, point by point. In the response to the reviewer, the changes carried out in the text should be taken into account. If the author disagrees with the reviewer's opinion, he or she should provide a specific response.

In the revised text sent for re-review, all changes should be highlighted through the blue font of the text.

Authors' appeals

Authors can appeal a decision to reject a paper by sending an email to the journal editor. Objections should include detailed reasons, including specific responses to reviewer and editor comments using the objection form. Complaints must be filed within three months from the decisions. If these criteria are not met, the complaint will not be investigated further. The Editor-in-Chief forwards the manuscript and related information (including the identities of reviewers) to designated members of the Editorial Board. The Scientific Advisory Editor is invited to provide recommendations on the manuscript and may recommend acceptance, conduct further peer review, or uphold the original rejection decision. This decision is then approved by the Editor-in-Chief. The decision to refuse is at this point final and irrevocable.

Production and Publication

Upon acceptance, the manuscript will be professionally proofread, edited in English, proofread by the authors, final proofreading, pagination and published on the website www.medinnovations.eu.

Citation Policy

When authors adopt material from other sources (including their own publications), authors must ensure that the source is clearly cited and permission is obtained where necessary.

Authors should not overly self-cite their work.

Authors should not copy references from other publications unless they have read the cited work.

Authors should not preferentially cite their own publications or those of friends, colleagues or institutions.

MIJ Publication Ethics Statement

Authors may not quote the content of advertisements or articles. According to the COPE guidelines, “original texts directly quoted from publications by other researchers should be quoted and properly cited,” and this requirement also applies to authors’ own works. increase. COPE has produced a discussion document with best practice recommendations for citation operations.

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