Scope of the journal:
The Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology (SJG) is a peer-reviewed
publication. Authors are invited to submit articles in the field of
gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition, with a wide spectrum of
coverage including basic science, epidemiology, diagnostics,
therapeutics, public health, and standards of health care in relation to
the concerned specialty. Review articles are usually by invitation.
However review articles of current interest and a high standard of
scientific value could also be considered for publication.
Submission of manuscripts
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Manuscripts must be submitted electronically as it will save time and
maintain channels of instant communication.
FOR ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: please log on to:
www.journalonweb.com/sjg
- New authors are required to register as an “author”, which is a simple
two-step procedure. For online submission articles should be prepared in
two files (first page file and article file). Images should be submitted
separately.
- First Page File: This should include all the aspects that will be
outlined in the first page.
All information which can reveal your identity should be here. Use only
text/rtf/doc files. Do not zip the files.
- Article file: The main text of the article, beginning from the
Abstract till References (including tables) should be in this file. Do
not include any information (such as acknowledgement, your names in page
headers, etc.) in this file. Use only text/rtf/doc. Do not zip the
files. Limit the file size to 400 kb. Do not incorporate images in the
file. If file size is large, graphs can be submitted as images
separately without incorporating them in the article file to reduce the
size of the file.
- Images: Submit good quality color images. Each image should be less
than 400 kb in size. Size of the image can be reduced by decreasing the
actual height and width of the images (keep up to 1024x760 pixels or 5
inches). All image formats (jpeg, tiff, gif, bmp, png, eps, etc.) are
acceptable; jpeg is most suitable. Do not zip the files. Color images in
tiff/ bnp/ png/ eps are usually larger than 400 kb.
- Legends: Legends for the figures/images should be kept ready for
copy-paste during the submission process.
Copyright form and images (if any) should be sent to the publisher. Only
one set of images is required which should be sent at the time of
submission of revised article. Contributors' form to be sent only once
within 2 weeks of submission of manuscript
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Editorial Process |
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The manuscripts will be reviewed for possible publication with the
understanding that they are being submitted to the Saudi Journal of
Gastroenterology and have not been published, simultaneously submitted,
or already accepted for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts received
are duly acknowledged.
The Editors review all submitted manuscripts initially for consistency
in terms of the scope and message of the journal. Manuscripts are then
sent to two or more expert reviewers without revealing the identity of
the contributors to the reviewers. Articles may be rejected after being
reviewed by the editors if considered to be outside the scope,
reader-interest, or publishing standards of the journal. Within a period
of eight to ten weeks, contributors will be informed about the Editorial
Board decision. Articles accepted would be copy-edited for grammar,
punctuation, print style, and format. Page proofs will be sent to the
corresponding author, which must be returned within three days.
Corrections received after that period may not be included. The
contributor may provide names of two or three particularly qualified
reviewers who have had experience in the subject of the submitted
manuscript, but who are not affiliated with the same institutes as the
contributor/s.
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Manuscripts preparations:
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The format of the SJG complies with the "Uniform Requirements of
Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals" published by the
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors" (The Vancouver
style). For latest updates see the website http://www.icmje.org. - Original articles: Randomized controlled trials, intervention
studies, studies of screening and diagnostic tests, outcome studies,
cost-effectiveness analyses, case-control series, and surveys with high
response rate. Up to 3000 words excluding references and abstract.
- Review articles: Systemic critical assessments of literature and data
sources. Up to 4000 words excluding references and abstract.
- Case reports: new/interesting/very rare cases can be reported. Cases
with clinical significance or implications will be given priority,
whereas, mere reporting of a rare case may not be considered. Up to 1000
words excluding references and abstract and up to 10 references.
- In focus: Critical assessments of literature and data sources of a
particular aspect of a given subject. Articles are usually by invitation
and restricted to 1000 words excluding references (up to 7) and
abstract.
- New Horizon: Review of a new or evolving disease, subject,
investigative tool, or treatment modality. Up to 2000 words excluding
references and abstract.
- Quiz: Interesting presentation of a disease with adequate clinical,
radiological, endoscopic, or histological images. Up to 500 words
including references (up to 3). Abstract not required.
- Debate: Review of updated literature considering the pros and cons of
a particular treatment, diagnostic or therapeutic approach, or strategy.
Each debate section consists of two articles written by authorities
representing both sides of the spectrum. Strictly by invitation. Up to
2000 words each article, excluding references and abstract.
- Letter to the Editor: Should be short, decisive observation. They
should not be preliminary observations that need a later paper for
validation. Up to 400 words and 4 references.
- Announcements of conferences, meetings, courses, awards, and other
items likely to be of interest to the readers should be submitted with
the name and address of the person from whom additional information can
be obtained. Up to 100 words.
Use double spacing throughout. Number pages consecutively, beginning
with the title page.
Title Page
The title page should carry:
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Type of manuscript (Original/Review/Case)
- The title of the article, which should be concise, but informative;
- Running title or short title not more than 50 characters;
- The name by which each contributor is known (Last name, First name
and initials of middle name), with his or her highest academic degree(s)
and institutional affiliation;
- The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work
should be attributed;
- The name, address, phone numbers, facsimile numbers and e-mail
address of the contributor responsible for correspondence about the
manuscript;
- The total number of pages, total number of photographs and word
counts separately for abstract and for the text (excluding the
references and abstract).
- Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, etc.; and
- If the manuscript was presented as part at a meeting, the
organisation, place, and exact date on which it was read.
Abstract Page
The second page should carry the full title of the manuscript and an
abstract (of no more than 150 words for case reports, brief reports and
250 words for original articles). Abstracts of case reports and review
articles should not be structured. The abstract of all other manuscripts
should be structured and state the Context (Background/ Aims, Settings
and Design, Methods and Material, Statistical analysis used, Results and
Conclusions. Below the abstract should provide 3 to 10 key word.
Introduction
State the purpose of the article and summarize the rationale for the
study or observation.
Methods
Describe the selection of the observational or experimental subjects
(patients or laboratory animals, including controls) clearly. Identify
the age, sex, and other important characteristics of the subjects.
Identify the methods, apparatus (give the manufacturer’s name and
address in parentheses), and procedures in sufficient detail. Give
references to established methods, including statistical methods;
provide references and brief descriptions for methods that have been
published but are not well known; describe new or substantially modified
methods, give reasons for using them, and evaluate their limitations.
Identify precisely all drugs and chemicals used, including generic
name(s), dose(s), and route(s) of administration.
Reports of randomised clinical trials should present information on all
major study elements, including the protocol, assignment of
interventions (methods of randomisation, concealment of allocation to
treatment groups), and the method of masking (blinding), based on the
CONSORT statement (Moher D, Schulz KF, Altman DG: The CONSORT Statement:
Revised Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Reports of
Parallel-Group Randomized Trials. Ann Intern Med. 2001;134:657-662, also
available at http://www.consort-statement.org).
Ethics
When reporting studies on human, indicate whether the procedures
followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the
responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or
regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000
(available at http://www.wma.net/e/policy/17-c_e.html). Do not use
patients’ names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in
illustrative material. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate
whether the institution’s or a national research council’s guide for, or
any national law on the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
Evidence for approval by a local Ethics Committee (for both human as
well as animal studies) must be supplied by the authors on demand.
Animal experimental procedures should be as humane as possible and the
details of anaesthetics and analgesics used should be clearly stated.
The ethical standards of experiments must be in accordance with the
guidelines provided by the CPCSEA (animal) and ICMR (human). The journal
will not consider any paper which is ethically unacceptable. A statement
on ethics committee permission and ethical practices must be included in
all research articles under the ‘Materials and Methods’ section.
Statistics
Whenever possible, quantify findings and present them with appropriate
indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence
intervals). Report losses to observation (such as dropouts from a
clinical trial). Put a general description of methods in the Methods
section. When data are summarized in the Results section, specify the
statistical methods used to analyse them. Avoid non-technical uses of
technical terms in statistics, such as ‘random’ (which implies a
randomising device), ‘normal’, ‘significant’, ‘correlations’, and
‘sample’. Define statistical terms, abbreviations, and most symbols. Use
upper italics (P = 0.046).
Results
Present the results in logical sequence in the text, tables, and
illustrations. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables or
illustrations; emphasise or summarise only important observations.
Discussion
Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions
that follow from them. Do not repeat in detail data or other material
given in the Introduction or the Results section. Include in the
Discussion section the implications of the findings and their
limitations, including implications for future research. Relate the
observations to other relevant studies.
In particular, contributors should avoid making statements on economic
benefits and costs unless their manuscript includes economic data and
analyses. Avoid claiming priority and alluding to work that has not been
completed. State new hypotheses when warranted, but clearly label them
as such.
Acknowledgements
As an appendix to the text, one or more statements should specify -
contributions that need acknowledging but do not justify authorship,
such as general support by a departmental chair;
- acknowledgments of
technical help; and
- acknowledgments of financial and material
support, which should specify the nature of the support. This should be
the last page of the manuscript.
References
References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they
are first mentioned in the text (not in alphabetic order). Identify
references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in
superscript. References cited only in tables or figure legends should be
numbered in accordance with the sequence established by the first
identification in the text of the particular table or figure. Use the
style of the examples below, which are based on the formats used by the
NLM in Index Medicus. The titles of journals should be abbreviated
according to the style used in Index Medicus. Use complete name of the
journal for non-indexed journals. Avoid using abstracts as references.
Information from manuscripts submitted but not accepted should be cited
in the text as “unpublished observations” with written permission from
the source. Contributors should obtain written permission and
confirmation of accuracy from the source of a personal communication.
The commonly cited types of references are shown here, for other types
of references such as electronic media, newspaper items, etc. please
refer http://www.icmje.org.
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Standard journal article: Seshadri L, George SS, Vasudevan B, Krishna
S. Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and human papilloma virus
infection in renal transplant recipients. Indian J Cancer
2001;38:92-5.List the first six contributors followed by et al.
- Personal author(s): Ringsven MK, Bond D. Gerontology and leadership
skills for nurses. 2nd ed. Albany (NY): Delmar Publishers; 1996.
- Chapter in a book: Phillips SJ, Whisnant JP. Hypertension and stroke.
In: Laragh JH, Brenner BM, editors. Hypertension: pathophysiology,
diagnosis, and management. 2nd ed. New York: Raven Press; 1995.
pp465-78.
Tables
- Tables should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual
material.
- Tables with more than 10 columns and 25 rows are not acceptable.
- Number tables, in Arabic numerals, consecutively in the order of their
first citation in the text and supply a brief title for each.
- Place explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading.
- Explain in footnotes all non-standard abbreviations used in table.
- Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables
and provide a credit line in the footnote.
- For footnotes use the following symbols, in this sequence: *, †, ‡, §,
||, , **, ††, ‡‡
Illustrations:
- Images: Submit good quality color images. Each image should be less
than 100 kb in size. Size of the image can be reduced by decreasing the
actual height and width of the images (keep up to 400 pixels or 3
inches). All image formats (jpeg, tiff, gif, bmp, png, eps, etc.) are
acceptable; jpeg is most suitable. Do not zip the files.
- Legends for Illustrations
Type or print out legends (maximum 40 words, excluding the credit line)
for illustrations using double spacing, with Arabic numerals
corresponding to the illustrations. When symbols, arrows or letters are
used to identify parts of the illustrations, identify and explain each
one clearly in the legend. Explain the internal scale and identify the
method of staining in photomicrographs.
Protection of Patients’ Rights to Privacy
Identifying information should not be published in written descriptions,
photographs, CT scans, etc., and pedigrees unless the information is
essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or
guardian) gives written informed consent. Informed consent for this
purpose requires that the patient be shown the manuscript to be
published. When informed consent has been obtained, it should be
indicated in the article and copy of the consent should be attached with
the covering letter.
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Reprints
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Journal does not provide any free printed reprints. Reprints can be
purchased at the time of submitting the proofs.
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Copyrights
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The whole of the literary matter is the copyright of the Editorial
Board. The Journal, however, grants to all users a free, irrevocable,
worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use,
distribute, perform and display the work (either in pre-print or
post-print format) publicly and to make and distribute derivative works
in any digital medium for any reasonable non-commercial purpose, subject
to proper attribution of authorship and ownership of the rights. The
journal also grants the right to make small numbers of printed copies
for their personal non-commercial use
Units:
Le Systeme internationale d'Unites (SI), are preferred. Equivalent
values in traditional units may be given if thought to be necessary.
Abbreviations and Symbols:
Use only accepted international abbreviations. Avoid abbreviations
in the title and abstract. The full term for which an abbreviation
stands should precede its first use in the text unless it is standard
unit of a measurement.
Galley Proofs & Reprints:
The research team of any study should assign one of the authors as a
corresponding author. The editorial office will send him proofs of the
manuscript for final proof reading and it will be his/her responsibility
to return the galley proof materials appropriately corrected within the
stipulated time. Proofs will not be accepted from any of the other
authors without an accompanying authorization letter from the
corresponding author. After the corresponding author has approved the
galley proof, he/she will be responsible for any publication errors
missed on the galley proof found after publication. No major change such
as deletion, shortening, or expansion of sentences in the text will be
accepted at this time. During the proofing process, no addition of
information is allowed, however, if there is new relevant information to
be added to the manuscript, this can be included as an addendum to the
article. The corresponding author is required to sign on each page of
the galley proof indicating his approval of any editorial amendments and
agree that the meaning of his article has not been altered. It is the
duty of the corresponding author to respond promptly to any query from
the editors as failure to do so may result in delay of publication or
simply rejection of the article. Papers will be published only when the
finally accepted manuscript approved by the corresponding author or
designated corresponding author is received in the editorial office. If
a manuscript is sent out for proofing and no response is received from
the corresponding author, this manuscript will be deferred for one issue
only. The proof will be then be resent after one month and if there is
still no response, the paper may be withdrawn from the journal. If the
editorial office is able to proofread the article and answer any
outstanding queries, it will be at the Editorial Board’s discretion to
proceed with the publishing of the paper including a statement that this
has not been proofread by the corresponding author. If there is
substantial number of unresolved queries, then the paper may be
withdrawn from the journal. Information for ordering reprints will be
included when sending the galley proof and these must be ordered at this
time, as they cannot be obtained after the journal is in-press.
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Contributors' Form / Copyright form |
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Manuscript Title
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Manuscript Number (for articles submitted online)
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I / We certify that I/we have participated sufficiently in the
intellectual content, conception and design of this work or the analysis
and interpretation of the data (when applicable), as well as the writing
of the manuscript, to take public responsibility for it and have agreed
to have my/our name listed as a contributor. I/we believe the manuscript
represents valid work. Neither this manuscript nor one with
substantially similar content under my/our authorship has been published
or is being considered for publication elsewhere, except as described in
the covering letter. I/we certify that all the data collected during the
study is presented in this manuscript and no data from the study has
been or will be published separately. I/we attest that, if requested by
the editors, I/we will provide the data/information or will cooperate
fully in obtaining and providing the data/information on which the
manuscript is based, for examination by the editors or their assignees.
Financial interests, direct or indirect, that exist or may be perceived
to exist for individual contributors in connection with the content of
this paper have been disclosed in the cover letter. Sources of outside
support of the project are named in the cover letter.
I/We hereby transfer(s), assign(s), or otherwise convey(s) all copyright
ownership, including any and all rights incidental thereto, exclusively
to the Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, in the event that such work is
published by the Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology. The Saudi Journal of
Gastroenterology shall own the work, including 1) copyright; 2) the
right to grant permission to republish the article in whole or in part,
with or without fee; 3) the right to produce preprints or reprints and
translate into languages other than English for sale or free
distribution; and 4) the right to republish the work in a collection of
articles in any other mechanical or electronic format.
We give the rights to the corresponding author to make necessary
changes as per the request of the journal, do the rest of the
correspondence on our behalf and he/she will act as the guarantor for
the manuscript on our behalf.
All persons who have made substantial contributions to the work
reported in the manuscript, but who are not contributors, are named in
the Acknowledgment and have given me/us their written permission to be
named. If I/we do not include an Acknowledgment that means I/we have not
received substantial contributions from non-contributors and no
contributor has been omitted.
Name Signature
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