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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The manusctipt must be original (not been previously published nor is being considered for publication by another journal).
  • The manuscript must be written according to the "Manuscript Template" stated at "Author Guidelines"
  • Article without Authors names
  • 1- Title page be submitted along with the manuscript.
  • 2- Covering letter must be submitted along with the manuscript.
  • 3- Statement of permission and conflict of intersets must be submitted along with the manuscript.
  • 4- Letter from the ethical committee must be submitted along with the manuscript.
  • All the following documents must be submitted along with the manuscript; 1- Title page. 2- Covering letter. 3- Statement of permission and conflict of intersets. 4- Letter from the ethical committee.
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

Author Guidelines

Kufa Medical Journal set the following guidelines for authors wishing to publish their manuscripts in this journal. 

General roles:

Download Guide for Authors in PDF format.

Allegations of Misconduct

Kufa Medical Journal is so keen to research misconduct and uses all means available to prevent publishing miscounted research. Though there is no standard definition of research misconduct, the Council of Editors defines research misconduct broadly in three categories of action and conducts. KMJ uses this definition while dealing with this issue and follows strictly the COPE follow chart in dealing with research misconduct.  In addition, for each component of the research misconduct, KMJ has many assurance policies as follows

-      Mistreatment of research subjects

-      Falsification and Fabrication of data

-      Piracy and Plagiarism

 

Protection of Human rights

Kufa Medical Journal does not publish manuscripts that do not declare a statement From the Ethical Approval Committee\Council. Normally, the journal encourage authors use written and\or verbal consent\s before they start their research and before data collection.

 

Protection of Animal rights

Kufa Medical Journal does not publish manuscripts that do not declare a statement about the protection of animal rights. Normally, the journal requires that a statement is declared that research has been reviewed by an institutional review board either the material method section of the manuscript or in the acknowledgment section of the manuscript. KMJ encourages authors to report the registry number of the council certification.

 

Falsification and Fabrication of data

Fabrication is defined as making up of data without actually collecting or synthesizing scientific data. Falsification is defined as the manipulation of research material in order to reach a favorable result. Fabrication and falsification could happen at any stage of research (in the field) up to the publication of a manuscript where misuse of citation can happen (referencing a citation when the citation does not support the argument). KMJ tries to identify any kind of fabrication or falsification in all levels of manuscript processing, from initial screening to comprehensive evaluation of a revised manuscript and even after a manuscript has been published. Report of any fabrication and falsification is an ethical duty of our authors, co-authors, reviewers, editors, and readers. In any event of falsification or fabrication, KMJ keeps its right to retract or withdraw the fabricated or falsified article. The journal strictly follows the COPE follow the chart in dealing with fabrication and falsification.

 

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is defined as the appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.  Another category of plagiarism is self-plagiarism when the author published his own idea, data, and text in different journals when no need for such duplication exists. KMJ uses all means to detect plagiarism. As a matter of quality assurance, a similarity of more than 20% total and more than a 5% similarity index from any of the references in the text of a manuscript will be returned to the author to get rid of the similarities and reduce the plagiarism.  KMJ strictly follows the COPE follow the chart in dealing with plagiarized articles. 

 

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