IJDOH Journal Submission (Click)

Instructions for Authors

General guidelines
  • All text must be written in English. For dental or medical terms such as proper nouns, generic names of medicines, and units of measurement, use the original term.
  • Abbreviation should be minimized. The use of acronyms and abbreviations is discouraged and should be kept to a minimum. When used, they are to be defined where first used, followed by the acronym or abbreviation in parentheses.
  • International Journal of Disability and Oral Health performs double-blinded review of the submitted manuscripts.
    Authors¡¯ names, their affiliations, or any other remarks that may identify the authors should not appear in the blinded main document, figures, appendix, and supplementary materials for review for a blinded review. In case those are found, the editorial office will ask the authors to re-upload the files after hiding them.
  • All text files should be in Microsoft Word format(.doc or .docx).
Title
  • Title includes the following items on the unblined full title page. Type of the paper / Title / All author names include corresponding author / Affiliations, and addresses of the authors.
  • Below the line, Contact information (Phone number, Fax number, E-mail address), Affiliations and address of the corresponding author / Acknowledgments of research grants should be written.
  • When title includes more than 12 words, it is necessary to write a precis of the title.
Abstract
  • At the bottom of the abstract, write 3-6 keywords (index terms).
  • Do not use reference citations.
  • Abbreviations should be minimized and, if used, must be defined within the abstract by full terminology followed by abbreviation in parenthesis.
Main script
  • The accepted manuscript should be organized in the following order.
    (Original Article - Title, Abstract, Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Reference, Table & Figure / Case Report - Title, Abstract, Introduction, Cases, Discussion, Summary)
References
  • All references must be cited in the main script.
  • It should be started on a separate page, numbering the references consecutively in the order in which they appear in the main script.
  • The style and punctuation for journal articles, books, or book chapters should follow the format of previous KADH journal.
  • Reference must be written in English.
Tables and Figures
  • Contents of tables and Legends of figures must be written in English.
  • Tables and Figures should be numbered using Arabic numerals.
  • Write a description using one complete sentence rather than a phrase or paragraph.