| Author’s Check-List |
| 1. Typed double-spaced in 12-point font on A4 sized paper with 2.5 cm margins on the top, bottom, right, and left, and prepared with an MS-word file |
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| 2. Began each component on a separate page |
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| 3. Title page contained (1) manuscript title, (2) type of manuscript (category), (3) authors’ names and affiliations, (4) information about funding sources, (5) corresponding author’s name, address (institutional affiliation, city, zip code and country), and e-mail address, (6) short running head of fewer than 8 words |
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| 4. Abstract in unstructured format within 300 words |
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| 5. Keywords with no more than 6 |
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| 6. References in proper format, numbered in order as cited in the text |
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| 7. Total number of references less than 100 in review, meta-analysis; 50 in original article, meeting or conference report, investigation report, special topic; 30 in brief report, case report, perspective, editorial, letter to the editor, and debate |
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| 8. Tables in separate pages for each with their titles |
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| 9. Figures as a separate files in TIFF or JPEG format or embedded in the manuscript, minimum 300 dpi |
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| 10. Each necessary permission statement signed by the appropriate source |
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| 11. Approval of IRB (when reporting results of human subjects or animal experiments |
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| 12. Elucidation of research or project support/funding |
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