All
manuscripts should be addressed to the Editorial Office
of the African Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences,
Institute for Advanced Medical Research and Training (IMRAT),
College of Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan,
Nigeria.
Manuscripts are accepted subject to the understanding
that no substantial part has been or will be published
elsewhere. This does not refer to abstracts of oral communications
that are printed in proceedings of societies or symposia.
Authors should send three complete copies of the manuscripts
(maximum of A4-size typed pages including bibliography,
illustrations and tables) and retain one copy for reference.
Apart from the three typescript copies on white bond paper,
submission of a 3.5’ diskette is required at submission
stage. Authors should ensure that the diskette is clearly
labelled with the paper title and name(s) of author(s).
The diskette must be IBM compatible on Word Processing
format up to version 6.1.
Manuscripts being submitted must be accompanied by a covering
letter affirming that the paper is submitted only to this
Journal. In the case of a paper with more than one author,
all must sign the covering letter confirming that they
participated sufficiently in the work.
A non-refundable processing fee of N5000.00 (£80.00,
$160.00) per article will be charged authors who do not
subscribe to the Journal while subscribers will pay N2500.00
only. In addition, authors of papers submitted from Nigeria
should send 4 large and 2 official size envelopes with
N400.00 worth of postage stamp for subsequent correspondence.
The Editor does not accept responsibility for damage or
loss of papers submitted.
Manuscripts, in English Language, should be submitted
typed double-spaced and with at least 2.5 cm margins around.
On a single separate sheet, there must be the following:
(a) title, (b) author’s name and initials, (c) department/s
in which the work was done, (d) the name and address of
the author to whom correspondence should be addressed,
(e) author’s present address if different from the
department/s in which the work was done, (f) if paper
was presented at a meeting, please indicate name of organization,
city month and year, Note author e-mail address and phone number should be included.
Titles should be short, specific and clear. Omit phrase
such as “The use of, “observations on”.
Authors should provide a short running title and up
to six keywords. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a
paragraph not exceeding 200 words. The summary will be translated
into French by the journal office at a cost to the author.
Currently, the fee for translation is N1500.00 ($40.00)&(£20) non-refundable, which shall be forwarded by a bank draft
to accompany the manuscript when found acceptable for
publication. Figures and photographs must be submitted
as glossy prints, untrimmed and unmounted. Each should
be numbered with pencil lightly on the back with the top
indicated. The numbers of photographs and illustrations
should be kept to a minimum. The legends for figures and
tables that should be numbered with Arabic numerals should
appear on a separate page.
The author must pay for publication of colour transparencies
submitted at the time of acceptance.
All details on charts and graphs must be clearly legible
when reduced to the size used in this journal.
The onus of preparing a paper in a suitable form for publication
rests with the author. The need for editorial revision
for badly prepared typescripts or diagrams may lead either
to rejection of the article or delay in publication.
Authors should indicate by a statement in the body of
their paper that they complied with the standard requirements
of the Ethics Committee of the institution in which the
work was done. A Letter of Ethics Committee approval must
also accompany the manuscripts at the time of submission.
Where an Ethics Committee is not readily available, the
Helsinki Declaration principles as revised should be followed
strictly.
Workshop and conference reports should not exceed 3 to
10 double-spaced quarto-sized pages. Viewpoints which
could be papers expressing personal or group opinion on
political, socio-economic and other matters as they relate
to the practice of medicine should be limited to 10 quarto-sized
typed pages. Letters to the Editor may be comments on
papers published in the Journal or clinical observations,
replies to comments, or other matters of importance and
relevance to medicine and related professions. It should
not exceed 500 words with a few references and one or
two tables and figures.
This Journal has agreed to accept manuscripts prepared
in accordance with the Vancouver style and the Editor
will consider only papers conforming to this style.
References should be numbered in the order in which they
are cited in the text. At the end of the article, the
references should be listed as numbered in the text. Each
reference should give the names and initials of all authors
(unless there are more than six, when only the first three
should be given, followed by et al.). The authors’
names should be followed by the title of the article,
the journal title (abbreviated according to the style
of Index Medicus), the year of publication, the volume
number and the first and last page numbers. Titles of
books should be followed by the publisher, place of publication,
and year. Examples of format for references are as follows:
Edington JM, Osunkoya BO, Smith JA.
Immunopathology of Burkitt’s lymphoma. West
Afr Med J 1986; 85: 76 – 87.
Brown A. Primary Health Care and the Medical Curriculum
Edinburgh: Universities Press. 1977.
Lewis A. Primary liver cell carcinoma. In: Ajose A.
Odeku
EL, Eds. Priorities in Health Planning. Ibadan:
University Press, 1983; 110 - 117
Reference to tables should be in Arabic
numerals, e.g. Table 3, and tables should include titles,
which make their meaning clear without reference to
text. Tables should be typed separately from the text.
Proof corrections are expensive and correction of proofs
other than printers’ errors should be kept to
a minimum. Authors must return proof corrections within
3 days of receipt. Failure to do this will result in
the paper being published with the Editor’s corrections
only. Papers accepted for publication remain the copyright
of the Journal.
Offprint may be ordered directly from the Editorial
office of the Journal. This must be paid for at the
time of final acceptance of paper.
Four journal pages will be printed at no cost to the
author. Extra pages will attract page-printing charges
at the rate of N500.00 (£20, $30) per page. (approximately
5 quarto-size pages of manuscript).
