{"id":1248,"date":"2024-03-27T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T11:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juice.jfn.ac.lk\/rcfmj\/?page_id=1248"},"modified":"2024-03-28T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T07:16:00","slug":"information-to-authors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.juice.jfn.ac.lk\/rcfmj\/information-to-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Information to Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0px\">The Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna invites papers in biomedical, clinical, and health professions&#8217; education researches for the Research Conference of Faculty of Medicine, Jaffna 2024 (RCFMJ 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px\">1. The submitted paper should not have been published elsewhere or currently under review.<br>2. Studies should have obtained ethics approval and should be able to submit if requested.<br>3. Structure of the paper<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-right:50px;margin-left:50px\">3.1. The paper should have the following components<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-right:100px;margin-left:100px\">3.1.1. Abstract<br>3.1.2. Introduction<br>3.1.3. Methods<br>3.1.4. Results<br>3.1.5. Discussion (without subheadings)<br>3.1.6. Acknowledgement<br>3,1,7, Conflict of interest<br>3.1.8. References<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-right:50px;margin-left:50px\">3.2. Title: Follow the English grammar rules for capitalization; Capitalize only the first word of the title and proper nouns. Character limit = 150 (including spaces).<br>3.3. Author(s) surname(s) should be followed by initial(s)<br>3.4. Affiliation: Authors\u2019 professional affiliations in the order in which the authors\u2019 names are given (indicated by superscript Arabic numerals).<br>3.5. Please <strong>underline<\/strong> the name of the <strong>corresponding author.<\/strong><br>3.6. Abstract text is limited to a maximum of 250 words. Abstracts should be structured as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"margin-right:100px;margin-left:100px\">\n<li>Background and objective<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Methods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Results<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conclusions<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keywords not exceeding 5<gwmw style=\"display: none; background-color: transparent;\"><\/gwmw><gwmw style=\"display: none; background-color: transparent;\"><\/gwmw><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-right:50px;margin-left:50px\">3.7. The word limit for the main text is 1000-1500 (excluding abstract).<br>3.8. Tables and figures<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"margin-right:100px;margin-left:100px\">\n<li>Tables should be in editable format (Word).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tables and figures should be numbered with Arabic numericals in the order they are cited in the text.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Place the table number and heading above the table.<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Place the figure number and caption below the figure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px\">4. References<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"margin-right:50px;margin-left:50px\">\n<li>References should be listed and cited as per Vancouver referencing style.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Number of references is 10-15.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px\">5. Please keep the acknowledgment brief.<br>6. All the authors should declare their conflict of interest.<br>7. Format: MS Word document<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"margin-right:50px;margin-left:50px\">\n<li>Font: Times New Roman<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Font size: 12, single line spacing<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Title: <strong>Bold letters<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Affiliations: <em>Font size 10; in italics<\/em><em>&nbsp; <\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All the pages should be numbered<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px\">8. The manuscript should be submitted electronically to the following email <strong>rcfmjabs@univ.jfn.ac.lk<\/strong>.<br>The scientific committee of the RCFMJ 2024 will communicate only with the corresponding author. The corresponding author is responsible for informing the comments and decisions on the manuscript to co-authors and providing correct information of the co-authors (names, affiliations, and conflicts of interest).<br>9. If the paper is accepted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"margin-right:50px;margin-left:50px\">\n<li>the corresponding author or one of the co-authors available to present the paper at the conference.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the presenting author should register for the conference.<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>manuscript may be subjected to language editing to improve the presentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px\">10. You may be an author for more than one paper. However, one author can present a MAXIMUM of <strong>two (02) <\/strong>papers at the free paper sessions.<gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignwide is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-84285fa8 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"mailto:rcfmjabs@univ.jfn.ac.lk\">Submit<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna invites papers in biomedical, clinical, and health professions&#8217;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1248","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juice.jfn.ac.lk\/rcfmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juice.jfn.ac.lk\/rcfmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juice.jfn.ac.lk\/rcfmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juice.jfn.ac.lk\/rcfmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juice.jfn.ac.lk\/rcfmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.juice.jfn.ac.lk\/rcfmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/www.juice.jfn.ac.lk\/rcfmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1248\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juice.jfn.ac.lk\/rcfmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}