Latest Update: 1 January 2024, Previous Update: 1 August 2021
(With additional sections required for manuscript preparation)

   

Guide for Authors

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Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine have taken every possible considerations to include the suggestions and recommendations provided by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors in the conduct and reporting of research and other material published in medical journals.

For more information you may visit ICMJE site. 

The Submission Process

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items.

Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to the author or the submission being declined.   

 

• The authors have read, fully agree and in compliant to the Publication Ethics, Best Practices and Malpractice Policies, the Editorial Process and Peer Review Policies and the Terms and Conditions of Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine;
• The authors have read, fully agree and in compliant to the malpractice policies including those related to scientific misconduct, plagiarism and copyright infringements;
• The manuscript being submitted has not been previously published, it is not under review or not currently being considered for publication in any other journal;
• The authors have provided necessary approvals for research conducted involving human or animal subjects from the authorized local, regional or national institutions or agencies;
• The authors agree that as part of the initial checks before peer review,  Similarity Check by iThenticate will be used to screen all submissions;
• The authors agree that all individuals who have made extensive contributions as stated in the Contributorship Policy have been included as authors in the manuscript. This also includes policies on adding or removing authors after submission;
• The authors have provided the disclosure statement and declared all possible conflicts of interests in the study;
• The submission file is in Microsoft Word document format;
• A minimum of two (2) Microsoft Word documents must be uploaded during submission - i) Document 1 - Cover Letter and Document 2 - Manuscript;
• References used throughout the manuscript is the most current APA (American Psychological Association) style;
• A cover letter to the Editor in Chief stating the significance of the manuscript. The cover letter must also include the manuscript title, full names of all authors (surnames must be underlined), affiliations of all authors and their full addresses and two (2) suggested reviewers with their full names, e-mail addresses, affiliations and their expertise or research areas;
• The authors confirm to have obtained necessary permissions for the use of images, formulas, chemical structures and any other copyright materials from their rightful owners in the manuscript;
• The authors agree to the Terms and Conditions of the journal and the publisher;
• The authors agree that the accepted manuscript will be published based on the open access policies as stated by the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.

 

Preparation of TWO (2) Files for Submission

You are required to follow the guidelines below for manuscript submission to the Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine. 

You submission must include a minimum of TWO (2) Microsoft Word documents.  During the online submission process, please choose Document 1- Cover Letter and Document 2 - Manuscript respectively.

Document 1: Cover Letter 

The cover letter to the Editor in Chief must include the following information: 

 

1. A brief statement on the significance of the manuscript;
2. Manuscript title;
3. Full names of all authors (surnames must be underlined), affiliations of all authors and their full addresses including postcode and country. All affiliation must be provided with a superscript number after the authors' names and in the front of their respective address.
4. The corresponding author must be indicated with the (*) sign at the end of the corresponding author's name. It is also the responsibility of the corresponding author to obtain full permission, approval for the content of the manuscript and consent from all the co- authors regarding the submitted work. All authors are fully responsible for the submitted manuscript;
5. Two (2) suggested reviewers with their full names, e-mail address, affiliation and their expertise/research areas. 

Document 2: Manuscript 

The journal is taking steps to ensure the manuscript preparation process is relevant to the current needs, while ensuring all necessary requirements are met. 

 

1. Your manuscript must be submitted in a single Microsoft Word document, together with all figures, diagrams and images.
2. With some exceptions for review articles, case reports and editorials, in general, your manuscript must be organized to include the following sections:

• Title: A title that is concise;
• Abstract: An abstract that is less than 300 words;
• Keywords: A maximum of 5 keywords;
• Introduction: An introduction that appropriately addresses the manuscript theme;
  
• Materials and Methods: Comprehensive, detailed, including citations where needed;
• Statistical Analysis: Accurate, precise and suitable for the study;
  
• Results: Clearly explained;
  
• Discussion: Comprehensively discuss the findings of the study;
  
• Conclusion: A comprehensive conlusion;
• Author Contributions: Starting from 1 July 2021, newly submitted manuscripts and publications will be required to state the contributions of each person named in the study. Please refer to Contributorship Policy;
• Ethics Approval: Please include statement, references numbers, information or state not applicable;
• Funding: Please include statement, name of funding agencies, references numbers, other information or state not applicable;
• Disclosures / Conflicts of Interest: Please provide details here. If there is none, it must be stated that “The authors declare no conflicts of interest in this work”;
• Acknowledgements: This section can include acknowledgements to any other parties, agencies, institutions or individuals. If one or more individuals, organizations or agencies are named in this section, authors are responsible to have obtained the necessary permission to include these names on the manuscript;
• References: Please ensure the format according to the latest APA (American Psychological Association) Style. A reference manager software should preferably be used;
  
• Figures, Images, Tables and Diagrams: Must be embedded in the manuscript and must be included after references:
• Images must be in image format (JPEG/GIF/BMP) in high resolution. Low resolution and/or low quality images will delay the start of the peer-review process. If manuscripts are accepted, authors are responsbile to provide high resolution images for final production;
• Figures must not have borders lining them;
• All figures must be supported by a well explained caption. Captions must be provided as text separately below the image and not saved as part of the images;
• Tables must be provided in an editable format without vertical lines.

1. You are free to have sub-sections for some of the sections above.
2. The necessary approvals and references for research conducted involving human or animal subjects from the authorized local, regional or national institutions or agencies must be stated.
3. You are encouraged to include a graphical abstract, however, this is not compulsory. The graphical abstract should be attached as a separate file in image format (JPEG/GIF/BMP). Choose the option Graphical Abstract during online submission.
4. The whole document must include page and line numbers.
5. All abbreviations must be spelled out the first time its mentioned in the manuscript.
6. You must state the chemicals or drugs used, experimental models and other relevant information. Place of purchase, city and country must be included.
7. It is encouraged that authors do not include their names and affiliations on this file.