Author Guidelines
Aim of the Journal:
The International Forensic Medicine and Toxicology journal aims to serve as a leading platform for publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed research, case reports and reviews in the field of forensic medicine and toxicology. The journal is dedicated to advancing scientific understanding, clinical practice, and policy development in these fields by communicating novel research findings, comprehensive reviews, and innovative case reports. Journal objective is to bridge the gap between forensic science and medical practice, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration among forensic scientists, medical professionals, toxicologists, legal experts, and public health officials. The journal seeks to contribute to the improvement of forensic investigations, legal outcomes, and public safety by fostering evidence-based, cutting-edge research.
Scope of the Journal:
The International Forensic Medicine and Toxicology journal welcomes original research articles, review articles, case reports, technical reports, and expert commentaries that focus on any aspect of forensic medicine, toxicology, and related disciplines. The scope is broad, encompassing a wide range of topics aimed at enhancing the field of forensic science and its application to medical and legal investigations.
Submissions to the journal may cover, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- Forensic Pathology: Studies on postmortem findings, trauma interpretation, cause of death determination, and novel autopsy techniques.
- Forensic Toxicology: Research on the detection, analysis, and interpretation of toxic substances, drugs, and poisons in biological samples, and their medico-legal implications.
- Clinical Forensic Medicine: Investigations on the medico-legal examination of living individuals in cases of injury, sexual assault, abuse, or torture, including ethical issues and clinical applications.
- Forensic Genetics: Advances in DNA technology, genetic markers, and their application to forensic identification, paternity testing, and population genetics studies.
- Forensic Anthropology and Odontology: Studies related to human skeletal analysis, identification of remains, and dental evidence in legal investigations.
- Forensic Entomology: Research focused on insect activity on human remains and its relevance to postmortem interval estimation and environmental factors.
- Environmental and Occupational Toxicology: Research on the effects of chemical exposures, environmental pollutants, and hazardous materials on human health with forensic relevance.
- Poisoning and Overdose Studies: Case reports and research on acute and chronic poisoning incidents, drug overdoses, and forensic implications.
- Emerging Technologies in Forensics: New forensic techniques such as digital forensics, artificial intelligence in forensic analysis, and innovations in toxicology testing methods.
- Legal and Ethical Aspects of Forensic Medicine: Discussions on medico-legal responsibilities, ethical issues in forensic practice, and the role of forensic evidence in the judicial system.
- Educational Advances in Forensic Medicine: Innovative educational tools and training techniques aimed at improving forensic medicine education for medical professionals, law enforcement, and legal practitioners.
Following categories of manuscripts are considered for publication
- Review Article
- Research Article
- Case Study
- Clinical Trial
- Community Case Study
- Data Report
- Opinion
- Commentary
- News & Highlights
- Mini Review
- Short Research Communication
- Letter to the Editor
- Methods &Protocols
- Book Review
- Negative Results
Young authors including early career scientists, assistant professors, Ph.D., M.S., M.D., D.M., DNB and M.Ch. students are highly encouraged to submit their manuscript. Our academic editors’ team will assistancein writing and editing of manuscript.
Terms of submission
The scientific information provided in manuscripts must be relevant and useful for the scientific and agricultural community, and also not currently under consideration or published by another journal/magazine/newsletter/or any other print and e-platform. The manuscript must be approved by all the co-authors for the contents and submission for publication in the journal. There is no page limit for manuscript. Long research articles and extensive reviews are also published by journals.
Peer Review
Manuscripts are sent for peer review to independent reviewers/ academic editors.
Preparation of Manuscript
Manuscript can be submitted by any of the contributing author(s). Manuscript files should be submitted only in Microsoft Word format (doc or docx).
Title and Authorship Information
The following information should be included with manuscript title
- Full author(s) name (First Name: Middle Name: Last Name)
- Affiliation(s) where the research work was carried out and institutional mailing addresses of all author(s)
- Email addresses of all author(s) including corresponding author(s)
Title should be short & informative, to be typed in only the first letter of the first word capital; also, after colon or hyphen, first letter of the first word capital. Latin names are to be given in italics. Names of authors to be typed in first letters capital. Author for correspondence should be indicated with an asterisk (*)
Each manuscript must include Graphical abstract, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Conflict of Interest (if any), Acknowledgement (if any), Funding statement (if any), Abbreviations (if any), and References.
In Case Study, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Case Presentation, Discussion and Conclusion, should be included.
Authors of each manuscripts should also clearly mention the categories of manuscript as following:
Category of manuscript: Review Article, Research Article, Case Study, Clinical Trial, Community Case Study, Data Report, Opinion, Commentary, News & Highlights, Mini Review, Short Research Communication, Letter to the Editor, Methods &Protocols, Book Review, Negative Results.
Tables
Tables should be cited consecutively in the text. Every table must have a descriptive title and if numerical measurements are given, the units should be included in the column heading. Vertical rules should not be used.
Figures
The line drawings, illustrations or photographs will be accepted in Word files, GIF, JPEG, etc. Lettering, numbering, symbols and lines in the graphs/illustrations should be sufficiently clear and large.
Graphical Abstract (Optional)
Each manuscript may be submitted along with a graphical abstract. It should be designed in such a way so that visual representation will be interactive along with showing scientific summary of the article.
References
All references should be listed consecutively, as they appeared in the text at the end of the manuscript. References should be in Vancouver style. References should follow the standards summarized in the NLM’s Sample References webpage.
In-text citation style
In text citation should be done using numbers in square brackets. e.g., “Cutaneous malignant melanomas rarely occur in the eye [1].”; “Conjunctival malignant melanomas are even rarer [2, 3]”; “Most melanomas are dark in colour as they are pigmented [4-7]”
Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism checking facility will be provided to authors. It is the responsibility of authors to prepare their manuscript without plagiarism. Plagiarism report will be sent to the authors, and they should add necessary corrections in the manuscript if required. Any kind of plagiarism is not acceptable. Even after acceptance or publication, if plagiarism is reported in the manuscript, it will be retracted.
Article Processing Charges: 5000 INR per Manuscript. Authors should have to submit the charges after acceptance of manuscript.
Submission Preparation Checklist
Authors must submit their manuscript in a single Microsoft Word file format including figures and tables. Figures and table must be placed in appropriate part of the manuscript.
How to Submit Manuscript
Authors may submit their manuscript by using online manuscript management system or by sending us directly by email at editor@internationalmedicalpublishing.com
For any other query regarding manuscript preparation and submission, please contact us at editor@internationalmedicalpublishing.com
After Publication of manuscript
Authors may submit their CV to work as academic editor and reviewer in the journals published by International Medical Publishing Group, India. Submit your CV at editor@internationalmedicalpublishing.com
For any further quarry, contact us using following details:
Email:editor@internationalmedicalpublishing.com
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Ethical Standards
Statement of Human and Animal Rights
In the research work where, human subjects or material were involved, all authors should clearly declare that entire experiment work was done as per ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (both institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 and 2008. In case of animal experiments, authors should clearly reveal that all experimental procedures were done according to institutional and national guidelines for animal care and laboratory use.
Statement of Informed Consent
Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) provides written informed consent for publication. Authors should also identify individuals who provide writing assistance and disclose the funding source for this assistance. Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve; however, informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate to ensure anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect the patient, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should guarantee that alterations do not distort scientific meaning.
Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
Editor’s responsibilities
Editors are responsible for taking the decision to publish a submitted manuscript on the basis of quality, originality, scope and relevance. Editor and editorial staff will maintain the necessary confidentiality of the manuscript and will not use it for any other purpose.
Reviewer’s responsibilities
Reviewers should screen the manuscript for various quality parameters and provide the relevant comments to the editors, which helps them in decision making. Reviewers must carefully check the literature citation, writing quality, experiment setup and scientific relevance of results. A special emphasis will be given on plagiarism checking of manuscript. Reviewers will also maintain the necessary confidentiality of the manuscript and will not use it for any other purpose. Conflicts of interest regarding collaboration with authors of submitted manuscript must be disclosed to the editor, and then excluded from the review process.
Author’s responsibilities
Manuscript submitted to our journal should not be published in any other journal, and also not currently under consideration by another journal. The manuscript must be approved by all the co-authors for their scientific contents and submission for publication in the journal.
Authors should provide the details of their experimental workso that others may replicate the experiments. Authors should prepare their raw data and submit it to editors/reviewers upon request.
Any kind of fraud or unethical practices like Fabrication/ Falsification of Data, Plagiarism, Unacceptable Author Contribution, Citation Manipulation, Concurrent Submissions, and Redundant Publications are totally unacceptable. All authors must give a clear statement that no unethical practices are involved in this research work. All authors have a responsibility to disclose the conflicts of interests and financial support for work, if any.
After publication of the manuscript, if any error is found in research work, the chief-editor should be immediately informed. After deep discussion with the research team, the manuscript will be corrected or even withdrawn.
Literature source for ethical standard:
- Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
- Graf C, Wager E, Bowman A, Fiack S, Scott-Lichter D, Robinson A. Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics: a publisher's perspective. Int J Clin Pract Suppl. 2007 Jan;61(152):1-26.
- International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication. 2006.
- American Psychological Association. Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, Section 8 ‘Research and Publication’.
American Chemical Society. Ethical Guidelines.
