Instructions for Authors

The Archives of Medical Reports is an open-access journal that publishes perspectives, original research, reviews, mini-reviews, and letters to the editor in various medical disciplines. The Archives of Medical Reports Editorial Board, a team of active scientists and scientists with varying expertise, evaluates contributions and sends them to external expert reviewers for further consideration.

Please submit your manuscript through our submission portal. Use this page to track the status of your submitted manuscripts. Before submitting an article, read the author guidelines provided for the Leejay Publications journals. These policies represent the rights and obligations of the author with whom you agree to submit and publish a manuscript in Leejay Publications journals.

Types of papers

Original Research Paper:

• Research articles should describe original experimental work.
• Maximum Word Count: 5,000 words (not including abstract, references or figure legends)
• References: 50 or less
• Figures and/or Tables: maximum combined total of 8 (maximum 6 panels per figure)
• Format: title page; structured abstract; keywords; abbreviations; introduction; materials and methods; results; discussion; conclusion; declarations; reference list; figures and legends.
• Results and Discussion: sections should be separate, not combined

Review

Reviews should be overviews of recent developments in research fields of general interest, focused on a single topic and with a fair representation of different aspects of the topic. Reviews should incorporate the work of several different researchers and should not contain unpublished original results of the author. Language should be simple, new concepts should be defined and specialized terminology must be explained.

• Maximum Word Count: 10,000 words (not including abstract, references or figure legends)
• References: 100 or less
• Figures and/or Tables: maximum combined total of 6 (maximum 6 panels per figure)
• Format: title page; unstructured abstract; keywords; abbreviations; introduction; main text and/or discussion (divided into sections); declarations; reference list; figures and legends.

Mini Review

Mini Reviews should be brief overviews of recent developments in research fields of general interest, focused on a single topic and with a fair representation of different aspects of the topic. Mini Reviews should incorporate the work of several different researchers and should not contain unpublished original results of the author. Language should be simple, new concepts should be defined and specialized terminology must be explained.

• Maximum Word Count: 5,000 words (not including abstract, references or figure legends)
• References: 60 or less
• Figures and/or Tables: maximum combined total of 4 (maximum 6 panels per figure)
• Format: title page; unstructured abstract; keywords; abbreviations; introduction; main text and/or discussion (divided into sections); declarations; reference list; figures and legends.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor relating to published work in Oral Oncology Reports or other topics of interest including unpublished original research are welcome. If accepted Letters are published online only.

Writing and Formatting

File format

We ask you to provide editable source files for your entire submission (including figures, tables and text graphics). Some guidelines:

• Save files in an editable format, using the extension .doc/.docx for Word files and .tex for LaTeX files. A PDF is not an acceptable source file.
• Lay out text in a single-column format.
• Use spell-check and grammar-check functions to avoid errors.

Title page

You are required to include the following details in the title page information:

• Author names. Provide the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author. The order of authors should match the order in the submission system. Carefully check that all names are accurately spelled. If needed, you can add your name between parentheses in your own script after the English transliteration.
• Add affiliation addresses, referring to where the work was carried out, below the author names. Indicate affiliations using a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the corresponding address. Ensure that you provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the email address of each author.
• Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence for your article at all stages of the refereeing and publication process and also post-publication. This responsibility includes answering any future queries about your results, data, methodology and materials. It is important that the email address and contact details of your corresponding author are kept up to date during the submission and publication process.

Abstract

You are required to provide a concise and factual abstract. The abstract should briefly state the purpose of your research, principal results and major conclusions. Some guidelines:

• Abstracts must be able to stand alone as abstracts are often presented separately from the article.
• Avoid references. If any are essential to include, ensure that you cite the author(s) and year(s).
• Avoid non-standard or uncommon abbreviations. If any are essential to include, ensure they are defined within your abstract at first mention.

Keywords

You are required to provide 1 to 7 keywords for indexing purposes. Keywords should be written in English. Please try to avoid keywords consisting of multiple words

Article structure

Introduction

The introduction should clearly state the objectives of your work. We recommend that you provide an adequate background to your work but avoid writing a detailed literature overview or summary of your results.

Material and methods

The materials and methods section should provide sufficient details about your materials and methods to allow your work to be reproduced by an independent researcher.

Results

Results should be clear and concise. We advise you to read the sections in this guide on supplying tables, artwork, supplementary material and sharing research data. 

Discussion

The discussion section should explore the significance of your results but not repeat them. You may combine your results and discussion sections into one section, if appropriate. We recommend that you avoid the use of extensive citations and discussion of published literature in the discussion section.

 Conclusion

The conclusion section should present the main conclusions of your study.

Figures & Tables

Original figures should be in high quality with the resolution of 600dpi and saved as filename.tif or filename.jpg.

Use a normal, uniform font (Times New Roman, 9 points, no bold, no italics) for all the words and numbers in tables. Cite the figure and tables in the manuscript

Declarations

Please note that all manuscripts must contain all of the following sections under the heading 'Declarations'. The Declarations section should follow the Conclusions section, and be included before the References.

If the statement below is not required, please mention it as Not Applicable

Ethics approval statement  

No ethical approval was required for the current study as it did not deal with any human or animal samples.

Consent to participate

Not applicable

Consent to publish

Not applicable

Data Availability Statement

The data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest

Funding

Not Applicable

Author contribution

Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation: XXXX, XXXX.  Formal analysis:XXX. Writing—review and editing: XXX. XXX. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript

Acknowledgements

Not Applicable

Reference style

All citations in the text should refer to:

Single author: the author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication.

Two authors: both authors' names and the year of publication.

Three or more authors: first author's name followed by 'et al.' and the year of publication.

Citations can be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references can be listed either first alphabetically, then chronologically, or vice versa. Examples: “as demonstrated (Allan, 2020a, 2020b; Allan and Jones, 2019)” or “as demonstrated (Jones, 2019; Allan, 2020). Kramer et al. (2023) have recently shown”.

The list of references should be arranged alphabetically and then chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.

Examples:

Reference to a journal publication:

Van der Geer, J., Handgraaf, T., Lupton, R.A., 2020. The art of writing a scientific article. J. Sci. Commun. 163, 51–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sc.2020.00372.

Reference to a journal publication with an article number: 

Van der Geer, J., Handgraaf, T., Lupton, R.A., 2022. The art of writing a scientific article. Heliyon. 19, e00205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e00205.

Reference to a book:

Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 2000. The Elements of Style, fourth ed. Longman, New York.

Reference to a chapter in a book:

Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B., 2023. How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: Jones, B.S., Smith, R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age. E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281–304.

Reference to a website:

Cancer Research UK, 2023. Cancer statistics reports for the UK. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/aboutcancer/statistics/cancerstatsreport/ (accessed 13 March 2023).

Reference to a dataset:

Oguro, M., Imahiro, S., Saito, S., Nakashizuka, T., 2015. Mortality data for Japanese oak wilt disease and surrounding forest compositions [dataset]. Mendeley Data, v1. https://doi.org/10.17632/xwj98nb39r.1.

Reference to software:

Coon, E., Berndt, M., Jan, A., Svyatsky, D., Atchley, A., Kikinzon, E., Harp, D., Manzini, G., Shelef, E., Lipnikov, K., Garimella, R., Xu, C., Moulton, D., Karra, S., Painter, S., Jafarov, E., & Molins, S., 2020. Advanced Terrestrial Simulator (ATS) v0.88 (Version 0.88) [software]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3727209.