• Authors are requested to choose category of article (Original Research Article, Short Communication, Review Article, Case report/study, Case Series, Letter to the Editor) under which they want to publish.
• Page number should appear in the lower left corner of each page, beginning with the title page.
• Author’s / Co-author’s name or any other identification should not appear anywhere in the body of the manuscript to facilitate blind review.

The manuscript should be within the word limit according to the category of article as mentioned below. This word limit does not include Abstract and referencing.

• Original Research Article: From 2500 to 3000 words (excluding references and abstract)
• Short Communication: upto 2000 words
• Review Article: From 3000 to 6000 words (excluding references and abstract)
• Case Report/Series/Study: 3000 words
• Letter to editor: 1500 words

Manuscript preparation Instructions

Please communicate with us electronically and send your manuscript as an attachment in MS word. Don’t send article in PDF format. Our electronic submission system will be notified very soon through which the authors can submit their articles step by step electronically without any attachment through email.

Manuscripts should be prepared using font size 12, Times New Roman, Single Spacing;

Page Layout: Margins (Normal- 1” from all sides), Size A4 and aligned left.

All pages should be numbered sequentially. Page number should appear at lower left corner of each page.

Manuscripts should be written in good scientific language, nomenclature and standard international units should be used.

Authors are requested to write category of article (Original Research Article, Short Communication, Review Article, Case Report) under which they want to publish it.

Originality: All articles submitted for publication in JABLM should be original material. The submission should have been made exclusively to JABLM and must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The corresponding author should certify to this effect. Any author/s found to falsify or mislead the editors will be disqualified from future submissions to JABLM.

Original Research Article

Original Research Article should be submitted under following headings in one file.

1. Title
2. Name of Authors (write FULL NAME in sequence)
3. Affiliation Details (Present working address with post along with the institution where the work has been undertaken. Email ID of all the authors.
4. Abstract
5. Key words
6. Running Title
7. Introduction
8. Methods including statistical methods
9. Result
10. Discussion
11. Conclusion
12. Acknowledgement(if applicable)
13. References

Title page:

The title should be a brief phrase describing the contents of the paper. The Title Page should include the authors’ full names and affiliations along with the institution where the work has been undertaken, the name of the corresponding author along with contact number and e-mail information. Present addresses of authors should appear as a footnote. Each authors contribution should be mentioned as a footnote under the following categories on the Title page:

Conceptualization, study design, literature survey, planning for statistical analysis, data interpretation and conclusion, preparation of the draft. Mere sample collection or performance of laboratory tests should not entitle a person as an author. All authors should finally accept the final draft and authorship order.

Abstract

The Abstract should be informative and completely self-explanatory, it should be briefly presented and structured as Background, stating the scope of the experiments, Methodology, Results and Conclusions. The Result section should include the major statistical outcome data like P values in exact. The abstract should have a maximum length upto 300 words. Abstract should be written in the past tense. Standard nomenclature should be used and abbreviations should be avoided. No literature should be cited.

Key Words

Following the abstract, a maximum number of six relevant key words that will provide indexing references should be listed.

Running Title

A running title of maximum 50 characters should be provided.

Introduction

The Introduction should be concise and define the scope of the work in relation to other work done in the same field. It should contain the lacunae in the existing knowledge, the research question and hypothesis suggested thereof.

Methods

Study design, sample selection process, place of the study and study period should be mentioned clearly. Materials and Methods should be complete enough and clearly describe the experiments and techniques used in the study so that the other researchers can reproduce them.  However, only truly new procedures should be described in detail; previously published procedures should be cited, and important modifications of published procedures should be mentioned briefly. Names of companies and their countries from which the major reagents and equipments are procured should be mentioned.

Statistical Methods

The details of statistical tests used and the level of significance with confidence intervals should be stated. If more than one test is used it is important to indicate which groups and parameters have been subjected to which test. If any software in used, its name and version should be mentioned.

Results

Results should be combined and presented with clarity and precision. Tables and Figures can be used in such way so that they can be clearly visible. The results should be written in the past tense when describing findings in the author(s)’s experiments. Previously published findings should be written in the present tense.

Discussion

The Discussion should interpret the findings in view of the results obtained in this and in past studies on this topic.

This section should deal with the interpretation, rather than recapitulation of results. It is important to discuss the new and significant observations in the light of previous work. Discuss also the weaknesses or pitfalls in the study under the limitations of the study section. Outcome of the hypothesis and research question stated in the Introduction part should be discussed in this portion. New recommendations can be put forth. Avoid unqualified statements and conclusions not completely supported by the data. Repetition of information given under Introduction and Results should be avoided.

Conclusion

State the conclusions in a few sentences in lucid manner at the end of the paper. Conclusions must be drawn considering the strengths and weaknesses of the study.

Acknowledgement(s)

Acknowledgment should be brief and made for specific scientific/technical assistance and financial support only and not for providing routine departmental facilities and encouragement or for help in the preparation of the manuscripts (including typing or secretarial assistance).

Financial support and Funding: The information about any funding received from state, national or international funding agency should be mentioned here.

Tables and Figures.

Tables should be kept as minimum as possible and placed at appropriate place in the text and be designed to be as simple as possible. Tables should be self-explanatory. All the tables/figures should be kept at appropriate place in the text of article where you have mentioned about these tables/figures. All the tables/figures should be mentioned in text of article. All the Tables and figures to be numbered by Arabic numericals in the chronology of their appearance. Figures can be attached as JPEG or MS word file.

References

The references are to be cited in Vancouver style for books and journals. Each reference should be assigned a number, consecutively in the order of mention in the text.

References are to be cited in the text by superscribed number and should be in the order in which they appear. The original number should be reused each time the same reference is cited in the text. The number should be placed in the text inside bracket and in bold like [1]. When multiple references are cited at a given place in the text, use a hyphen to join the first and last numbers that are inclusive and use commas to separate non-inclusive numbers (eg, 2-5,7,10).

No reference should be given in the ABSTRACT.

The list of references should be given at the end of the paper. If there are 3 or less authors, mention name of all the authors. Where there are more than 3 authors, use et al after the third author.

References mentioned in text of article must be shown in REFERENCE section and vice-versa.

General Instructions

Papers must be submitted with the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere (except as part of a published lecture/presentation, or thesis) and are not currently under consideration by another journal.

The Corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the article’s publication has been approved by all the other co-authors.

It is also the authors’ responsibility to ensure that the articles emanating from a particular institution are submitted with the approval of the necessary institution.

Electronic submission of manuscripts is mandatory. Further correspondence and proofs will be sent to the corresponding author before publication.

It is a condition for submission of a paper that the authors permit editing of the paper as and when decided by the editorial board.

The inclusion and deletion of author(s) name will not be permitted after the preparation of proofs.

All enquiries concerning the publication of submitted/accepted papers should be addressed to the Editorial Board.