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Author Guidelines
Standards for authorship, article types, acknowledgments, funding, and ethical compliance
Authorship Criteria
An author must have made substantial intellectual contributions to all of the following:
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Conception & Design
Contribution to conception, design, data acquisition, or data analysis and interpretation.
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Drafting & Revision
Drafting or critically revising the manuscript for important intellectual content.
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Final Approval
Final approval of the version to be published and accountability for all aspects of the work.
⚠️ Important Note
Funding acquisition, data collection, or supervision alone does not justify authorship. Such contributors should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. Authorship changes after submission require written consent from all authors.
Article Categories
Original Articles
Reports of original research data
Reviews
Comprehensive expert overviews
Case Reports
Educational clinical cases with documented informed consent
Commentaries
Short opinion pieces on contemporary issues
Methodology Articles
New or improved experimental methods
Letters to the Editor
Re-analyses, responses, or relevant communications
Competing Interests Include
✓Employment, consultancies, honoraria
✓Stock ownership
✓Advisory board memberships
✓Grants from commercial entities
✓Patents (held or pending)
✓Political, personal, or ideological influences
Human & Animal Rights
🧬 Human research must comply with the Declaration of Helsinki and include ethics committee approval.
🐾 Animal research must comply with ICLAS standards and NC3Rs ARRIVE guidelines.
🏥 Clinical trials must be registered in ICMJE-listed registries.
Informed Consent
Mandatory for human participants, identifiable images, and deceased participants (next of kin consent required).
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Plagiarism Policy
Originality standards and similarity-check procedures
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Original Submissions Only
All manuscripts must be original and not under consideration elsewhere at the time of submission.
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Similarity Check
All manuscripts are screened using CrossRef Similarity Check tools including Turnitin and iThenticate.
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Self-Plagiarism
Text replication from authors' own previous publications is unacceptable. Excessive self-citation is discouraged.
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Reproduced Figures
Permission must be obtained for any reproduced tables or figures from previously published work.
✦ Conference Abstract Exception
Abstracts (≤400 words) presented at conferences do not prevent submission of full manuscripts, but must be cited. Manuscripts containing copyright infringement or defamatory material will be rejected.
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Peer Review Policy
Double-blind review process, reviewer responsibilities, and decision flow
🔒 Double-Blind Peer Review
TechnoMed Journals follows a double-blind process — reviewers do not know the author's identity, and authors do not know the reviewer's identity.
Editorial & Review Process
STEP 01
Plagiarism Check
iThenticate screening
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STEP 02
Scope Review
Relevance assessment
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STEP 03
Ethics Check
Ethical compliance review
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Peer Review
Double-blind evaluation
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Revision
Author revision if needed
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Final Decision
Editor-in-Chief decides
Reviewer Responsibilities
✓Conduct objective, timely reviews
✓Maintain manuscript confidentiality
✓Declare conflicts of interest
✓Identify similar published or submitted work
Reviewer Suggestions by Authors
Authors must suggest two independent potential reviewers who:
• Have not collaborated within the past 5 years
• Are not from the same institution
• Have no conflicts of interest
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Publication Ethics Policy
Misconduct definitions, data availability requirements, and correction procedures
Publishing Misconduct — Zero Tolerance
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Fabrication & Falsification
Inventing or manipulating research data
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Plagiarism
Using others' work without attribution
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Image Manipulation
Altering images to misrepresent data
Consequences of Misconduct
Cases may result in: manuscript rejection, published article retraction, and/or institutional notification.
Data Availability Requirements
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Accurate Records
Authors must maintain accurate research records and provide raw data upon reasonable request.
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Database Deposit
Nucleotide/protein sequences must be deposited in appropriate databases with accession numbers in square brackets.
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Software Access
Software must be accessible to reviewers anonymously and publicly available upon publication for non-commercial use.
Corrections & Retractions
📌Erratum — error introduced by the publisher
📌Corrigendum — error introduced by the authors
📌Retraction Notice — for serious integrity issues
📌Original articles remain unchanged; notices are linked
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Formatting & Submission
Required files, abstract specifications, language standards, and reference style
Required Submission Files
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Title Page .DOC
Article title, full author names, affiliations, emails, and corresponding author.
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Main Manuscript .DOC
Tables (≤2 pages) at end, figure legends at end, structured abstract where applicable.
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Figures JPG/PNG
Separate files at ≥300 dpi. Not embedded in the manuscript file.
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Cover Letter .DOC
Justification for publication and disclosure of competing interests.
Abstract Requirements by Article Type
Language & Style Rules
✓English only — US or UK consistently, not mixed
✓Minimal abbreviations; SI units required
✓Special characters must be embedded (not images)
✓3–10 keywords required per submission
References — Vancouver Style
• Numbered consecutively in square brackets
• List up to first 6 authors, then "et al."
• Only published, in-press, or publicly available preprints allowed
• Tables & figures numbered consecutively (Table 1, Figure 1)
• Figure legends ≤300 words; titles ≤15 words
💳 Article Processing Charge (APC)
TechnoMed Journals charges only a journal publishing fee upon acceptance to support editorial handling, peer review management, typesetting, DOI assignment, website maintenance, and online hosting. There are no hidden charges; all revenue is used solely for journal operations.
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