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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • Please ensure that the submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file needs to be a Microsoft Word document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • Please submit the Cover letter, stating clearly the contribution of each individual author with their valid e-mail address for communication.
  • Please submit a filled in Copyright transfer form, signed and dated by all the contributing authors, with their emails for all the articles.
  • You will also be required to submit a blinded copy of your manuscript, along with the complete manuscript.
  • Please submit an Ethical Review Letter with submission of an original article.
  • Please submit a Patient consent form, signed by the patient or guardian of the patient (if the patient is a minor) and upload it as Supplementary File before proceeding.
  • The Harvard system needs to be followed for references and citations as per the Journal Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Authors are advised to read the Author Guidelines properly and comply with them before submitting their manuscripts to prevent delay in the review process.

The Nepalese Journal of Ophthalmology (Nepal J Ophthalmol) is a bi-annual peer-reviewed academic journal of the Nepal Ophthalmic Society (NOS).

This journal aims to provide opportunity of sharing knowledge and experience amongst the ophthalmic professionals as well as help disseminate findings of research/achievements in ophthalmic field at home and abroad.

Original articles, short communications, case reports and review articles on electronic submission are welcome from the academia.

Research works involving human subjects and animals should meet international norms and the terms of Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association. Approval from the institutional/ethical review board and informed consent from the subject of study must have been obtained for all experimental studies and articles based on these studies. The Nep J Oph Editorial Board may request the principal author/corresponding author for providing such documents during the process of publication of the manuscript under certain circumstances. We will provide you proof pages before they are published requesting you to check the contents and the style and return back to the editorial office.

Review articles and editorial notes are sometimes invited from national and internationally renowned authors.

The acceptance for publication of the submitted manuscript is judged by the editorial board through anonymous peer review. The peer reviewers are acknowledged in the subsequent issues of the journal.

Please also adhere to the Reference guidelines given below (Harvard Reference system) in the manuscript before submission.

Processing Fees:
Nepalese Journal of Ophthalmology does charge article processing charges to authors once accepted for publication as:

NOS members NPR 1000; Non NOS member Nepalese NPR 1500; SAARC Countries INR 1000; Rest of the World USD 25; and Colour pages are charged additional NPR 2500. The rates are per page charges.

Peer Review:
The Nepalese Journal of Ophthalmology has a double blind process for the review. The articles submitted are reviewed by the national and international experts in the respective fields after the initial screening by the editorial board. We ensure that the peer reviewer is not from the same institute as that of the any of the authors and does not have any conflict of interest to the work. It will be sole right of the editorial board to decide the reviewers for the manuscript. The review process from the reviewer is usually one month and if there is not respons, it will be sent to another reviewer. The whole process of review will take from 6 weeks to 4 months, depending on the significance of the article.

The article is sent to at least two reviewers, with one of them being an international expert. Once the reviewers comments are received, the authors are asked to resubmit their manuscript by incorporating the reviewers comments. if both the reviewers reject the article, the editorial board will reject it. However, the final decision of the paper acceptance is reserved by the editorial board. 

Authors are advised to read the instructions carefully and comply with them before submitting their manuscripts.

Copyright:
It is mandatory that a copyright transfer agreement form signed by the principal author and all the co-authors confirming the consensus of all the authors be submitted to the editorial office by fax (00977-25-520251 or 530119) or a scanned copy of the original agreement form by e-mail to editor@nepjoph.org.np and nepjoph@bpkihsacademics.edu.np at the time of manuscript submission 

or before publication of the accepted manuscript. Under certain circumstances the Editorial Board may ask for confirming signatures of the other authors as well. The agreement form can be downloaded from the journal’s website: www. nepjoph.org.np and uploaded at the time of paper submission. Without the form, the article will not be processed for review. The copyright agreement form can be found here. Please insert signatures and dates from all authors and upload it at the time of paper submission.

Creative Commons License
Articles in the Nepalese Journal of Ophthalmology are Open Access articles under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND). This license permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, is not changed in any way, and is not used for commercial purposes.

Disclaimer:
The expressions and opinions in the articles are solely of the authors and do not represent those of the editorial board or of the Nepal Ophthalmic Society. Advertisements or products mentioned in the journal cannot be considered as endorsement by the editorial board or the Nepal Ophthalmic Society. Website: www.nepjol.info/index.php/nepjoph/index

Patient Consent form for Case Reports:
Please submit the patient consent form, signed by the patient or Guardian of the patient is a minor. Without it, the article will not be processed further. Please upload it in the supplementary file during the submission of case report.

Plagiarism
The journal will check all submitted articles for plagiarism using the Crossref Similarity Check software.

Instructions

Manuscript preparation and submission
Only those manuscripts written in scientifically correct English are eligible for review process. The Editorial Board may help with some grammatical corrections. However, the authors requiring substantial help are encouraged to get the required assistance by the linguistic experts before submission of the manuscript.

Commercial or proprietary interest to products or companies mentioned in or related to the subject matter of the article being submitted must be disclosed in the covering letter, which may be published at the discretion of the Editor in Chief.

The manuscript mustn be be submitted online using the submission system. Register here.

Manuscripts should ideally be double-spaced with 2.5 cm margins to all sides with page numbering starting from the title page.

The title page should contain the following information: title of the manuscript, manuscript category (original article, brief communication, case report or review article), full name(s) of author(s), with their affiliated institution(s) and their full address(es), word count of abstract, word count of text, number of references, number of illustrations and/or figures, number of tables, number of pages, commercial interest, a running title with not more than 50 characters, name and address of the corresponding author including fax number, e-mail address and telephone number.

The title page should also include the role of each author during the preparation of the manuscript.

Please provide the email address of the main as well as the co-authors on the title page. We encourage authors to obtain ORCIDs and include them on the manuscript and during the submission process.

In case of multiple authors please see whether the person(s) who get(s) the authorship has/have contributed significantly in designing the study, analyzing data, manuscript writing and was/ were involved in treatment of study subjects. Financial contributors and simple advisors can be acknowledged in the last paragraph of the manuscript after conclusion. The number of authors should not generally exceed six. Only one person can be the first author.

Abstract
The abstract must be structured incorporating the following headings in not more than 250 words: Introduction, Objectives, Materials and methods or Subjects and methods and Conclusion for original articles, whereas the abstracts for case reports are described in terms of background, case(s), observations and conclusions.

Immediately after the abstract, key-words up to 5 in number are required for indexing and abstracting purposes.

Text
The text section of original articles must contain an Introduction, Materials and methods (or Subjects and methods), Results, Discussion and Conclusion. Generally, the word count should not exceed 6000 for review articles and 2500 for original ones. Brief communications and letters to editor usually should not exceed 1000 words, 10 citations and one table or two pictures. Review articles and guest editorials are usually commissioned from experienced scientists. Abbreviations must be defined immediately following first use in the abstract, the main text, and in figures and tables. The authors are advised not to use any unusual abbreviations. Drugs’ names should be affirmed in standard chemical or generic nomenclature. Unit of measure should conform to International System (SI) units.

Referencing
Plagiarism in any form is not accepted. Any works done by others, if cited in your text must be properly referenced. References should be limited to those cited in the text following the Harvard referencing system.

Harvard referencing system
The Nep J Oph expects authors to use the alphabetical or name-date method known as the Harvard system. In this system, the author’s surname and year of publication are cited in the text, e.g. Albanese et al (2003), and a reference list (of these citations) is included at the end of the assignment, in alphabetical order by author. The reference list also includes additional details such as the title and publisher. Authors are required to include the DOIs of articles where possible. The Crossref Simple Text Query form can be used for this.

Example of listing Harvard referencing system
Albanese MA, Snow MH, Skochelak SE, Huggett KN, Ferrell PM (2003). Assessing personal qualities in medical school admissions. Academic Medicine; 78 (4) : 313-321. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-200303000-00016

References to sources may be cited in the text in different ways depending on the nature of the sentence/paragraph that is being written. Various examples are given below.

Author’s name cited in the text
Dewey (1991) believed the process of behavior changes was critical to reflective learning.

Author’s name not cited directly in the text
As humans we all try to make sense of the world in any way we can, gathering information of varying accuracies, constantly developing intuitive theories, and interpreting situations in a manner that fits the theories we have previously developed (Gilovich, 1993).

More than one author cited in the text
Bransford et al (1999) outlined the …… important characteristics of expertise.

More than one author not cited directly in the text
In a recent review that was published in the Lancet the authors identified major impediments to improving mental health services in countries such as ….. (Saraceno et al, 2007).
Or
Our conceptual framework for understanding education in the teaching clinics is to adopt an experiential learning model (Kolb, 1984; Jarvis, 1995; Smith & Irby, 1997).

Two authors for the same work
Reliability coefficients in many OSCEs show considerable variation and unevenness in magnitude (Pedhazur & Schmelkin, 1991).

More than two authors for a work
Ginsburg et al (2004) have recently examined differences between the formal admissions policy implemented for residency selections and the informal understanding…..

Several works by one author in different years
(Upadhyay 1993, 1997)…….

Several works by one author in the same year
Earlier research by Badhu (1997a) found that……..but later research suggested again by Badhu (1997b) that………

Corporate authors
B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), 1996
(B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, 1996)
BPKIHS, 1996 (in case of second citation)

Chapters of edited books
For chapters of edited books the required elements for a reference are:
Chapter author(s) surname(s) and initials. Year. Title of chapter followed by ‘In’

Book editor(s) initials and surnames with ed. or eds. after the last name.

Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher. Chapter number or first and last page numbers followed by full-stop.

Smith J. (1975). A source of information. In W. Jones, ed. One hundred and one ways to find information about health. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 2.

Samson C. (1970). Problems of information studies in history. In S. Stone, ed. Humanities information research. Sheffield: CRUS, 1980, p. 44-68.

(Note: for more details of the Harvard Referencing system, please refer to http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm).

The Editorial Board would also like to thank you for sharing your time with us. We expect your continued support in this academic endeavour. And we feel privileged to have the opportunity of presenting the Nepal J Ophthalmol to the ophthalmic academia.

Dr Eli Pradhan
Editor-in-Chief
Nepalese Journal of Ophthalmology
Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology
GPO Box 561, Gaushala, Bagmati Bridge
Tel: 01-4493775, 4493684
Fax: 977-1-4474937
E-mail: editor@nepjoph.org.np

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  • As part of submitting an article for publication, you will need to provide personally identifying information which will be used for the peer review process, and will be published. This can include ‘Affiliation’, ‘Competing interests’, ‘Acknowledgements’.

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  • Author names, affiliations and emails are required for publication and will become part of the permanent cited record.

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(Updated: 18 May 2018)