Check List for Manuscript Submission to Opentuyu.com
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(Submit completed forms by Fax: 956.389.2498 or email: familypractice@valleybaptist.net)
- Format
- Max 1000 words
- Arial 12 point
- Lay-out: one inch margins all around
- Spacing: double line
- Submit as a Microsoft Word file
- Please number your references in the manuscript (if using AMA style), but avoid superscripts.
- Abstract
- Max 50 words
- Names and abbreviations
- Generic drug names only
- No abbreviations except for units of measurement
- Conflict of Interest Form
- Each author must complete and sign a separate form
- Upload and submit with draft manuscript
- Assignment of Copyright Form
- Each author must complete and sign a separate form
- Upload and submit with manuscript
- Consent for Photograph Form
- Photograph(s) of a patient must have a form signed by the patient and the lead author
- Upload and submit with draft manuscript
- Tables, figures, photographs
- Must be numbered and referred to in manuscript (such as “see figure 1)
- Must not be embedded in the manuscript
- Must be uploaded in separate JPEG format and submitted with the manuscript
- Must be original. No previously copyrighted material will be accepted
- Review Process is a blind peer-review
- Do not include author names, affiliations or contact information on the manuscript
- Complete the author(s) info form, upload, and submit with the manuscript
- Quotations, references
- All quotations must have an appropriate reference in the manuscript, either AMA or APA style
- All references must be cited in full in the AMA or APA style
- Original only
- We will not publish previously published manuscripts
- We will not publish manuscripts funded by pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, medical education company, or other commercial entity, or by an author
- who has a financial relationship with any commercial entity with an interest in the subject matter.
- Review Process
- The lead author will be notified of acceptance within 6-8 weeks of submission
- An edited manuscript will be sent to the lead author for final approval before publication
- Authors are responsible for all statements made in the work, including any changes made by the editorial staff of opentuyu.com and authorized by the lead author
- All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two professionals (family physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant) before publication
