An article will be evaluated for publication with the understanding that it has only been submitted to the Journal of Clinical Dentistry and Research at that time, has not been simultaneously submitted to any other journals, or has not yet been accepted for publication elsewhere. The journal anticipates that one of the authors will be designated to represent the other in all communications with the journal on the paper. All received manuscripts are appropriately acknowledged. Editors initially assess each paper upon submission to see whether it is appropriate for formal review. Before going through with official peer review, manuscripts that lack sufficient originality, have substantial scientific or technical faults, or don’t have a clear message are rejected. A manuscript may be rejected at this stage itself if it is unlikely to be of interest to readers of the Journal of Clinical Dentistry and Research.
The Journal of Clinical Dentistry and Research sends manuscripts that are deemed acceptable for publication to two or more expert reviewers. The contributor is asked, but not required, to list the names of two or three qualified reviewers who have expertise in the area of the work being submitted. The reviewers shouldn’t share the same academic institutions as the contributor(s). The editor, however, is the only one who has the authority to choose these reviewers. The review process for the journal is double-blind, meaning that neither the reviewers nor the writers are aware of the other’s identity. Each manuscript is also allocated to a member of the editing staff, who makes the final judgement on it based on the reviewers’ remarks. The corresponding author is informed of the reviewers’ remarks and recommendations (acceptance/rejection/manuscript modifications). If necessary, the author is asked to provide a revised version of the paper along with a point-by-point response to the reviewers’ criticisms. Up until the work is accepted by editors and reviewers, this process is repeated.
Grammar, punctuation, print style, and format are checked for in manuscripts that have been accepted for publication. The associated author receives page proofs. The amended proofs must be returned to the corresponding author within three days. It might not be possible to include corrections that come in after that time. The entire manuscript submission procedure, including sending and receiving proofs and making the final choice, is carried out online. The magazine publishes accepted articles as ‘Ahead of Print’ online as soon as possible in order to facilitate a quicker and more extensive dissemination of knowledge and information.
clinical trials database
The Statement on Publishing Clinical studies in Indian Biomedical Journals, which the Journal of Clinical Dentistry and Research has signed, supports the registration of clinical studies. Clinical trials that have been registered with a clinical trial registry that permits open public internet access will be published in the Journal of Clinical Dentistry and Research. It is okay to register for studies through the following websites: https://ctri.nic.in/Clinicaltrials/login.php; clinicaltrials.gov; isrctn.org; and http://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr. This applies to clinical trials that commenced subject enrolment in June 2008 or later. Clinical trials that started enrolling subjects before June 2008 would only be taken into consideration for publication in the Journal of Clinical Dentistry and Research if they had been retroactively registered with a clinical trial registry that allows public access to their results online without any restrictions or fees.
Authorship Standards
Only significant contributions to each of the three listed below should be given authorship credit:
Concept and design of the study, data collection, analysis, and interpretation; writing the article or critically editing it for key intellectual content; and
final approval of the published version.
Authorship is not justified by participation in data collection or funding acquisition alone. For authorship, general oversight of the research team is insufficient. Each contributor should have invested enough time in the project to publicly accept responsibility for relevant sections of the manuscript’s content. The order in which the contributors are listed should reflect their relative contributions to the study and the creation of the manuscript. Without the written approval of each author, the order cannot be modified once it has been submitted. Depending on the type of paper, its scope, and the number of authors, the journal mandates a maximum number of Participating institutions (see infra). If the number of writers exceeds these boundaries, the authors must justify their decision.
Contribution Information
Participants should list the specific contributions that each of them made to the manuscript. Concept, design, intellectual content definition, literature search, clinical studies, experimental studies, data acquisition, data analysis, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, manuscript editing, and manuscript review should all be included in the description, as appropriate. The integrity of the work as a whole, from conception to publication, should be guaranteed by one or more authors, who should be given the title “guarantor.”
Competing interests and Conflicts of Interest
All authors are required to disclose any and all potential conflicts of interest they may have with the publishing of the manuscript, as well as any relationships they may have with organisations or products that are referenced in the manuscript and/or have an impact on the study’s findings. Conflicts of interest with items that compete with those described in the text should also be disclosed by authors.
Manuscript Submission
All submissions must be submitted vi aemail to editor@jclindentres.com.
For submission and processing of the manuscripts, the journal does not charge.
Please email the editorial office at editor editor@jclindentres.com if you have any issues.
Before going through editorial/peer review, papers that have been submitted but do not follow the “Instructions to Authors” will be sent back to the authors for technical correction. The paper should typically be provided as two distinct files:
[1] First page of the file/cover letter, title page:
This document ought to offer
The kind of manuscript (original piece, case study, review piece, letter to editor, image submission, etc.) The title of the manuscript, the running title, the names of all authors and collaborators (together with their highest academic titles, affiliations, and degrees), and the department(s) and/or institution(s) to which the work should be credited are all required. There should be nothing on this page that might reveal your identity. Make use of text/rtf/doc files. Avoid zipping the files.
total pages, total photos, word counts separately for the abstract and the text (excluding the references, tables, and abstract), and for an original piece, word counts for the introduction and discussion;
sources of funding in the form of grants, tools, medications, or any combination of these;
Recognition, if any. A statement or statements should list the following: 1) contributions that are acknowledged but do not warrant authorship, such as general departmental support; 2) technical assistance; and 3) financial and material support, with a statement describing the type of support. This shouldn’t be in the main article file; it belongs on the title page of the manuscript.
The company, location, and precise date that the text was read if it was part of a presentation at a meeting. A thorough explanation to the editor of all submissions and reports that could be viewed as repetitive publication of the same or extremely comparable material. Any such work must be properly mentioned and cited in the new paper. To assist the editor in deciding how to address the situation, copies of such materials should be submitted with the paper.
If a clinical study is registered, its registration number as well as the registry’s name and website are provided.
Each author’s and contributor’s potential conflicts of interest. If the information is not provided in the manuscript itself or on an authors’ form, a declaration of any financial or other relationships that could create a conflict of interest should be made.
Criteria for Authors/Contributors List Inclusion
If the information is not provided in another form (see below), a declaration that the manuscript has been read and approved by all authors, that the prerequisites for authorship outlined earlier in this document have been satisfied, and that each author believes the manuscript represents their own original work.
If such information is not contained on the manuscript itself, the name, address, e-mail and telephone number of the corresponding author, who is responsible for contacting the other authors regarding modifications and final approval of the proofs.
[2] Blinded File: Article: This file should contain the whole article’s primary text, from the Abstract through the References (including any tables). The authors’ names or initials, the institution where the study was conducted, or any acknowledgements must not appear anywhere in the file. The title but not the writers’ names can be included in page headers and running titles. The corresponding author of any manuscript that does not adhere to the Journal’s blinding policy will receive it back. Employ rtf/doc files. Avoid zipping the files. Keep the file to 1 MB in size. Don’t include any photos in the document. Graphs can be provided as independent pictures rather than being included in the article file if the file size is large. This will help the file size. Starting with the first page of the blinded article file, the pages should be numbered in order.
[3] Images: Send in colour photos in acceptable quality. Less than 2 MB should be allowed for each image. Reducing the image’s actual height and breadth (while maintaining a maximum resolution of 1600 × 1200 pixels, or 5 to 6 inches) will lower its overall size. Jpeg files can be used to submit images. Avoid zipping the files. The article file should end with legends for the figures and graphics.
[4] Within two weeks of submission through courier, fax, or email as a scanned image, the contributors’ / copyright transfer form (template provided below) must be submitted in its original form with the signatures of all contributors. When submitting a revised manuscript, print-ready hard copies of the photographs (one set) or digital images should be supplied to the journal office. Email can be used to send large photos (up to 5 MB apiece).
Making of Manuscripts
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors’ “Uniform requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals” (October 2008) must be followed while preparing manuscripts. Below is a summary of the general requirements and particular requirements for the Journal of Clinical Dentistry and Research. Contributors are asked to check for the most recent instructions before submitting a manuscript.
Manuscripts published in American English are accepted by the Journal of Clinical Dentistry and Research.
Copies of any authorizations
It is the authors’/contributors’ obligation to get authorization before reproducing any protected content. The manuscript must be submitted with a copy of the authorization received. The manuscript must be accompanied by copies of any and all related papers that have been published, as well as any further manuscripts that are either in the works or have been submitted elsewhere.
Manuscript Types
original content
These consist of high response rate surveys, case-control studies, intervention studies, studies of screening and diagnostic tests, outcome studies, cost effectiveness assessments, and studies of screening and diagnostic tests. Original articles should be separated into parts with the headings Abstract, Key-words, Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, References, Tables, and Figure legends. Original papers should have a maximum word count of 3000 words.
Introduce the study or observation by stating its goal and briefly outlining its justification.
Materials and Procedures The following elements ought to be mentioned and described:
Ethics: When reporting studies involving human subjects, make sure to mention whether the methods used complied with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (available at https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/), as well as the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional). The approval of (regional/national/institutional or independent Ethics Committee or Review Board, obtaining informed consent from adult research participants, and obtaining assent for children aged over 7 years participating in the trial) is expected to be mentioned by authors for prospective studies involving human participants. The age at which assent is necessary may change depending on regional and/or national regulations. By refraining from discussing participants’ names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in illustrated material, you can ensure the patients’ confidentiality. Indicate whether the institution’s guidelines, a national research council’s guidelines, or any applicable national laws on the care and use of laboratory animals were followed when reporting on experiments involving animals.
The authors must provide justification (for both human and animal experiments) for approval by a local ethics committee upon request. The treatment of animals involved in research should be as compassionate as possible, and the specific anaesthetics and analgesics used should be disclosed. For research involving experimental animals and humans, respectively, the ethical standards of experiments must be in compliance with the recommendations made by the CPCSEA and the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki on Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Humans. The journal will not review any papers that violate ethical standards. All research articles must have a statement about ethics committee approval and ethical standards in the “Materials and Methods” section.
study plan:
Participants’ Selection and Description: Include inclusion and exclusion criteria, a description of the source population, and a clear description of how you chose the observational or experimental participants (patients or laboratory animals, including controls). Technical details: To enable other employees to duplicate the results, specify the procedures, apparatus, and methods in sufficient detail (including the manufacturer’s name and address in brackets). Give citations for well-known techniques, such as statistical techniques (see below); give citations and succinct descriptions for techniques that have been published but are not well known; and describe new or significantly altered techniques, justify their use, and assess their limitations. Clearly identify all substances and medications utilised, including their generic names, dosages, and administration methods.
Based on the CONSORT Statement (http://www.consort-statement.org), reports of randomised clinical trials should include details on all significant study components, such as the protocol, allocation of interventions (methods of randomization, concealment of allocation to treatment groups), and the method of masking (blinding).
statistics: Quantify results whenever possible and include relevant measures of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals) with them. Losses attributable to observation should be reported by the authors, for example, clinical trial dropouts. Indicate the statistical techniques that were used to analyse the data when it is summarised in the Results section. Avoid using words like “random” (which implies a randomising mechanism), “normal,” “significant,” “correlations,” and “sample” in non-statistical contexts. Define the majority of symbols, abbreviations, and statistical terminology. Name the computer programme utilised. (P 0.048) Upper italicise. Include the precise value and not less than 0.05 or 0.001 for all P values. The confidence intervals for mean differences in continuous variables, proportions in categorical variables, and relative risks, including odds ratios and hazard ratios, should be included.
Results: In the text, tables, and illustrations, provide your findings in a logical order, beginning with the primary or most significant findings. Only highlight or briefly summarise the most significant observations; do not repeat all the information from the tables or images in the text. Technical information and supplemental materials can be included in an appendix where they will be visible but won’t disrupt the text’s flow, or they can only be published in the journal’s electronic version. Give numerical results in the Results section not only as derivatives (for instance, percentages), but also as the absolute numbers from which the derivatives were computed, and be sure to mention the statistical techniques that were employed to analyse them. Only use tables and figures that are necessary to clarify the paper’s thesis and evaluate its support. Do not duplicate data in tables and graphs; instead, use graphs as a substitute for tables with several items. Analysis of the data by characteristics like age and sex should be provided where it is scientifically appropriate.
Discussion: Summarise the main findings (including primary and secondary outcome measurements and outcomes in relation to an earlier hypothesis); study’s strengths and weaknesses (including the research question, design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data); Interpretation and implications in light of the entirety of the evidence (is a systematic review to be referred to, if not, could one be realistically performed right what this study adds to the body of evidence, implications for patient care and health policy, potential mechanisms); Future research directions (for this specific research cooperation, underlying mechanisms, clinical research); and Controversies highlighted by this work.
Don’t elaborate on information that was provided in the Introduction or Results section. Contributors should specifically refrain from discussing economic costs and advantages unless their work does so with supporting data and analysis. Avoid claiming priority and making references to incomplete work. If necessary, new theories may be presented, but they must be identified clearly as such. 30 references or so can be used. Generally, there shouldn’t be more than six contributors on these publications.
Articles of Review:
These articles should be authored by people who have done a lot of research on the subject or are recognised authorities in the area. The manuscript should be accompanied by a brief summary of the work done in the field of review by the contributor(s).
Up to 3000 words, excluding tables, references, and the abstract, are allowed. There may be 90 or so references in the manuscript. A 250-word, unstructured Abstract that accurately summarises the article should be included in the paper. The topic under examination would determine the section titles. When submitting a review article, authors should include a section outlining the techniques they used to find, pick, extract, and synthesise the data. The abstract should also include a summary of these techniques.
The journal requests post-publication updates from authors on the topic under review. The update should be succinct, summarising the developments in the area since the article’s publication, and should be sent as a letter to the editor whenever a significant advancement in the subject happens.
Case studies:
It is possible to report novel, fascinating, and uncommon cases. They should be distinctive, outlining a significant diagnostic or therapeutic difficulty and offering the readers a takeaway. Priority will be given to cases that have clinical consequences or relevance. These communications, which can have a maximum word count of 1000 words (excluding the abstract and references), should have the following headers in the following order: abstract (unstructured), keywords, introduction, case report, discussion, references, tables, and legends.
The manuscript’s word count (excluding references and the abstract) is limited to 1000, and it can cite up to 10 sources. Up to four authors could contribute to a case report.
Observation to the Editor
These observations ought to be succinct and conclusive. They ought should, ideally, be connected to previously published articles in the journal or viewpoints therein expressed. They shouldn’t be merely exploratory findings that require confirmation in a subsequent study. The letter’s maximum word count is 500 words, with 5 references. Typically, no more than four authors can contribute to it.
Other:
The editorial board requests editorial, guest editorials, commentary, and opinions.
References References should be numbered chronologically in the text, not alphabetically, according to when they are first mentioned. Arabic numerals in superscript with square brackets following the punctuation marks serve as references in text, tables, and legends. References that are only mentioned in table or figure legends should be numbered in the order defined by the first identification in the relevant table or figure’s text. Use the formatting shown in the examples below, which were inspired by the formats the NLM used for Index Medicus. The Index Medicus style should be followed for abbreviating journal titles. Use the full name of the publication if it is not indexed. Don’t cite abstracts as sources. With the source’s express consent, information from manuscripts that were submitted but weren’t accepted should be acknowledged in the text as “unpublished observations”. A “personal communication” shouldn’t be cited unless it offers crucial information that isn’t available from a public source; in that instance, the sender’s name and the date of the message should be cited in the text.
Here are some examples of the references that are frequently used; for more information on other references, such as newspaper articles, see the ICMJE Guidelines (available at http://www.icmje.org or http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html).