About the Journal

Focus and Scope

JNPS invites original research papers, review articles, case studies, reports, and technical notes that contain new insights into any aspect of prosthodontic rehabilitation. The journal is particularly interested in and welcomes papers in basic and clinical prosthodontic rehabilitation, implant dentistry, new and innovative techniques, and dental materials.

The submitted article must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The work shall not be published elsewhere without the written consent of the publisher.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement:

We also closely follow industry associations and their guidelines, which provide best practice recommendations for the conduct and reporting of medical research.

JNPS abides by:

  1. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME) for Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
  2. World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) for best editorial practice
  3. Council of Science Editors for best editorial practice
  4. Committee on Publication Ethics for practising good publication ethics

Publisher

Journal of Nepalese Prosthodontic Society is published by the Nepalese Prosthodontic Society (NPS).

Funding

All expenses of JNPS are incurred by the Nepalese Prosthodontic Society.

Publication Charge Policy

JNPS does not charge any fees for submission, article processing, publication, reading, or downloading articles published in JNPS.

Archiving Policy

The print version and digital version of the journal are archived in the NPS office. Further, JNPS is looking forward to making digital archives on the most trusted platform.

Privacy Policy

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. However, the email and phone number of the corresponding author will be made available in the correspondence details of the article.

Complaint Policy

For any concern or complaint regarding publication misconduct, please email jnepprossoc.2018@gmail.com with your name, affiliation, address, with phone number. According to the nature of the complaint, JNPS will take appropriate action.

Conflict of Interest

We require the author, peer reviewer, editors, and editorial staff to disclose any potential conflict of interest related to the article and publishing process. We request authors to use the Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form prepared by ICMJE, which is a Uniform Disclosure Form for Potential Conflicts of Interest, as a means of promoting a standardised approach to such declarations.

Protection of Research Participants and Patients' Rights to Privacy

When reporting studies on humans, 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 WMA Declaration of Helsinki - Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether the institutions or a national research council's guide for or any national law on the care and use of laboratory animals, were followed. Evidence of 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 METHODS section.

Case Report: Do not use patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in the illustrative material in the article. A copy of the Consent Form must be supplied by the authors on demand.

Selection Policies:

The author has to submit their manuscript according to the JNPS section policy.

All submitted articles will undergo international peer review with blinding for two peer reviewers, simultaneously. If the decision conflicts between the two, it will be sent to a third peer reviewer.

The typical review will take a minimum of 4-6 weeks, which includes 2 weeks for peer review and the remaining weeks for the peer review handling process. However, this may take a little longer due to unseen workloads.

When the article is received from a peer reviewer, there will be one of the following outcomes, and the decision choices include:

Accept Submission: The submission will be accepted without revisions.

Revisions Required: The submission will be accepted after minor changes have been made according to the reviewer's comments.

Resubmit for Review: The submission needs to be reworked, but with significant changes, it may be accepted. It will require a second round of review, however.

Resubmit elsewhere: When the submission does not meet the focus and scope of JNPS.

Decline Submission: The submission will not be published in the journal.

Peer review process:

The manuscripts are then sent to two expert peer reviewers, blinded to the contributor’s identity and vice versa, for meticulous review, inputs, and comments. The Editor-in-Chief takes the final decision on whether to accept or reject the article based on the editorial board and peer reviewers. The contributors are informed about the rejection/acceptance of the manuscript with the peer reviewer’s comments. Accepted articles have to be resubmitted after making the necessary changes or clarifying questions raised during the peer-review process.

The accepted articles are edited for grammatical, punctuation, print style, and format errors, and page proofs are sent to the corresponding author, who should return them within three days. Non-response to the galley proof may result in the delay of publication or even rejection of the article.

Publication frequency:

Biannual

Open Access Policy:

JNPS is an open-access journal. Published articles are available to anyone in the world to download for free directly from our website. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Articles in JNPS are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.
CC BY

The Journal does not charge authors any fee for submitting and publishing their manuscripts.

Online Submissions:

Articles can be submitted online via NepJol.

FORMATTING

The majority of the submitted manuscripts lack proper formatting; on top of that, headings and subheadings are not correctly written. Therefore, we encourage you to use appropriate JNPS formatting for your manuscript.

EDITORIAL

It is submitted by an editorial board or an invited piece on the most pertinent issues in the field of prosthodontics in Nepal or in the world. It undergoes fast fast-track peer review process. Up to 800 words, excluding 5 references.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

JNPS accepts Randomized controlled trials, interventional studies, studies of screening and diagnostic tests, case control series, and research conducted in the field of basic and clinical prosthodontic rehabilitation and dental materials science, with a maximum length of 3500 words (excluding abstract of 250 words and references).

Abstract structured (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Conclusion); Up to 3-7 keywords in alphabetical order separated with commas, capitalize each keyword. Main body: formatted as Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, and References.

Figures and Tables: 10

  • Introduction. This section should include a description of the problem that motivated the investigation. Clearly and completely explain the problem. Summarize relevant research and identify any bias in past studies. Clearly state the purpose of the study and the research hypothesis at the end of the introduction.
  • Methods. In addition to providing details about the overall design, the sample under study, the sample size, the type of interventions (or treatments) applied to the various components of the sample, and the principal outcome measure, this section also describes the materials or subjects used and the methods chosen to evaluate them. This section must contain the statistical approach and justification for the sample size determination.
  • Results. Present the findings succinctly and precisely, following the sequence in which the testing was explained in the Materials and Methods section. Describe the most important discoveries and patterns. Figures, tables, and text shouldn't be repeated. P values and actual data must be used to validate results that are marked as significant.
  • Discussion. The Discussion section should begin by stating whether or not the data support rejecting the stated null hypothesis. Don't duplicate the information provided in the Results section. Organize the discussion as follows: 1) Give a summary of the key conclusions, highlighting the new information this study offers. 2) Examine the study's results against the body of existing pertinent literature, highlighting any notable discrepancies and noting the findings' implications in that regard. 3) Talk about the limitations of the study and how they might affect interpretation.
  • Conclusions. Includes only a brief and brief summary of the findings. Concisely list conclusions that may be drawn from the research; do not simply restate the results. The conclusions must be pertinent to the objectives and justified by the data.

CASE REPORTS

Reports of clinical patient diagnosis and treatment that contribute to the body of prosthodontic knowledge by providing in-depth observations, treatment, and outcomes. These reports should document new, unique, or innovative treatments or describe prosthodontic patients with unusual dental conditions. The manuscript should not exceed 1,500 words in length (excluding references).

Abstract unstructured; Up to 3-7 keywords in alphabetical order separated with commas, capitalize each word.  At least three terms from the medical subject headings (MeSH) list of Index Medicus should be used.

Main body: formatted as Introduction, Case Report, Discussion, Conclusion, and References.

Figures and Tables: 10

  • Introduction: Write a summary of the literature that is pertinent to the issue encountered. Provide references to existing practices and procedures.
  • Case Report: Give a brief description of the patient, the issue they brought in, and any pertinent medical or dental history. Explain the different treatment alternatives and the rationale behind the treatment choice. Give a detailed account of the treatment received, the duration of the follow-up period, and any progress that was observed as a result of the treatment. The past tense and paragraph structure should be used when writing this part.
  • Discussion: Comment on the advantages and disadvantages of the chosen treatment and describe any contraindications for it.
  • Conclusion: Briefly summarize the patient treatment. Highlight the benefits and key limitations of the rendered treatment.

REVIEW ARTICLE

Review articles that summarize the current state of understanding on a topic and analyze or discuss research previously published by others, rather than reporting new experimental results.

They are very thorough literature reviews that identify historical and current trends in the research, important scholars in the field, foundational articles, major discoveries, gaps in the research (areas for further exploration), and current debates or controversies. It has to be about 3500 words without counting the abstract (250 words) and references (>50 and usually <100).

Abstract structured (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Conclusion); Up to 3-7 keywords in alphabetical order separated with commas, capitalize each keyword. At least three terms from the medical subject headings (MeSH) list of Index Medicus should be used.

Main body: formatted as Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, and References.

Figures and Tables: 10

SHORT COMMUNICATION / VIEWPOINT

Short communication is a research article that doesn't fit exactly into a research article, but the findings are interesting, e.g. pilot study. It undergoes a peer review process. Viewpoint is based on issues related to health sciences to raise the voice, awareness, new ideas, thoughts to provoke concepts, and personal expert opinion to improve health. Up to 800 words excluding 5 - 8 references.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Should be a short, decisive observation. Comment relating to a recent article, an elaboration of an important discovery, or simply a thought-provoking commentary of fewer than 1000 words without an abstract.

TABLES AND FIGURES

Table (each table complete with title and footnotes).

Figure legends: At initial submission, figures can be included in the manuscript or can be submitted in separate files. Should your manuscript reach the revision stage, figures and tables must be provided as separate files.

REFERENCES

References must be identified in the body of the article with superscript Arabic numerals. At the end of a sentence, the reference number falls after the period. The complete reference list, double-spaced and in numerical order, should follow the Conclusions section.

Reference formatting should conform to Vancouver style as outlined in “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals” (Ann Intern Med 1997;126:36-47).

FUNDING

You should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. You are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature.