Authors' Guidelines

Authors' Guidelines

Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript by sending Email to CRT@hillpublish.com. Submissions by anyone other than one of authors will not be accepted.

Manuscript preparation
All manuscripts should be written in standard grammatical English using computer software, arranged in the following order and saved as single DOC (Word) file or PDF file as One Column.

Manuscripts should be written in English. Title, author(s), and affiliations should all be included on a title page as the first page of the manuscript file, followed by a 100-300 word abstract and 3-5 keywords. The order they follow is: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords.

Main Text
The main text should include Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion.  The Introduction should be succinct, clearly stating the purpose and rationale of the study. In Materials and Methods, the procedures should be described in sufficient detail to allow duplication by an independent observer. Results and Discussion may be combined or divided. They should be written concisely and logically with emphasis on novel findings.

References
Reference published in MIRJ should be listed at the end of the manuscript and numbered in order of citation in the text, including citations in tables and figure legends. References should conform to the style of the Journal.

This journal follows the Vancouver style for citations and references. This guide provides an overview of the Vancouver referencing style, which is the required format for all submissions to our journal.

In-text Citations:

Use Arabic numerals in parentheses to cite references in the text. For example:

"The study showed significant results [1]."

Reference List:

The reference list should be numbered in the order in which the citations appear in the text. Each reference should include all necessary details for readers to locate the source.

1. Journal Article

Format:

Author(s). Title of the article. Journal Name. Year; Volume(Issue): Page numbers.

Example:

Smith J, Doe A. The impact of climate change on health. J Environ Health. 2020; 82(3): 45-50.

2. Book

Format:

Author(s). Title of the book. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher; Year.

Example:

Brown P. Understanding Epidemiology. 2nd ed. New York: Health Press; 2018.

3. Website

Format:

Author(s). Title of the webpage. Website Name. Year. Available from: URL.

Example:

World Health Organization. Global health observatory data repository. WHO. 2021. Available from: https://www.who.int/data/XXX.

4. Conference Proceedings

Format:

Author(s). Title of the paper. In: Editor(s), editor(s). Title of the conference proceedings; Year; Location. Place of publication: Publisher; Year. Page numbers.

Example:

Lee C, Kim S. Innovations in medical technology. In: Johnson M, editor. Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Technology; 2021; San Francisco, CA. New York: Tech Press; 2021. p. 200-205.

Tables

All tables have to be created with Word "Insert Table" function and should be cited consecutively in the main text by Arabic numbers (Table 1, Table 2, etc). Each table has to have a descriptive title on the top of the table. Provide explanations for any nonstandard abbreviations in footnotes to the table.

Figure 

Figure legends including figure number, a short title and detailed description should be embedded at the end of text file. All figures should be cited consecutively in the main text by Arabic numbers (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc).  All figures must be prepared in 500dpi resolution and embedded in the Word File at the end of the manuscript and labeled with the corresponding figure numbers. The text in all figures must be in Arial Font and clearly readable. Photographs of a person should render them unidentifiable or include their written permission.