Journal of International Oral Health

Frequency: Thrice in year from 2012 (Jan-April, May-Aug, Sept-Dec) Aim and scope : It is a journal aimed for research, scientific facts and details covering all specialties of dentistry with a good determination for exploring and sharing the knowledge in the medical and dental fraternity. The scope is therefore huge covering almost all streams of dentistry starting from original studies in epidemiology, behavioral sciences and health service research. Our journal appreciates research articles pertaining with advancement of dentistry. The articles should be officially acceptable and be coherent as it is judged by peer reviewers. It should be comprehensive, interesting and at the same time fact finder for our readers. The submitted articles should not have been published elsewhere.The article is presented in an intelligible fashion and is written in standard English. The research meets all applicable standards for the ethics of experimentation and research integrity. Guidelines for authors: Please read the instructions below carefully for details on the submission of manuscripts, the journal's requirements and standards as well as information concerning the procedure after acceptance of a manuscript for publication in JIOH. A. ETHICAL GUIDELINES JIOH adheres to the below ethical guidelines for publication and research. Authorship: Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that the manuscript have been read and approved by all authors and that all authors agree to the submission of the manuscript to the Journal. JIOH adheres to the definition of authorship set up by The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). According to the ICMJE criteria, authorship should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design of, or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data, 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content and 3) final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet conditions 1, 2 and 3. It is a requirement that all authors have been accredited as appropriate upon submission of the manuscript. Contributors who do not qualify as authors should be mentioned under Acknowledgements. Ethical Approvals: In all reports of original studies with humans, authors should specifically state the nature of the ethical review and clearance of the study protocol. Informed consent must be obtained from human subjects participating in research studies. Some reports, such as those dealing with institutionalized children or mentally retarded persons, may need additional details of ethical clearance. Experimental Subjects: Experimentation involving human subjects will only be published if such research has been conducted in full accordance with ethical principles, including the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki (version, 2002http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm) and the additional requirements, if any, of the country where the research has been carried out. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement that the experiments were undertaken with the understanding and written consent of each subject and according to the above mentioned principles. All studies should include an explicit statement in the Material and Methods section identifying the review and ethics committee approval for each study, if applicable. Editors reserve the right to reject papers if there is doubt as to whether appropriate procedures have been used. Ethics of investigation: Manuscripts not in agreement with the guidelines of the Helsinki Declaration as revised in 1975 will not be accepted for publication. Clinical Trials Clinical trials should be reported using the CONSORT guidelines available at http://www.consortstatement. org/newene.htm. A CONSORT checklist should also be included in the submission encourages authors submitting material (http://www.consortstatement.org/newene.htm#checklist).JIOH manuscriptsreporting from a clinical trial to register the trials in any of the following free, public clinical trials registries:www.clinicaltrials.gov, http://clinicaltrialsdev. ifpma.org/, http://isrctn.org/. The clinical trial registration number and name of the trial register will then be published with the manuscript.

Observational and Other Studies Observational studies such as cohort, case control and cross-sectional studies should be reported consistent with guidelines like STROBE. Meta analysis for systematic reviews should be reported consistent with guidelines like QUOROM and MOOSE. These guidelines can be accessed at www.equator-network.org Appeal of Decision: The decision on a manuscript is final and cannot be appealed. Permissions: If all or parts of previously published illustrations are used, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder concerned. It is the author's responsibility to obtain these in writing and provide copies to the Publishers. Copyright: Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that the work and its essential substance have not been published before and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. The submission of the manuscript by the authors means that the authors automatically agree to assign exclusive copyright to publisher. The work shall not be published elsewhere in any language without the written consent of the publisher. The articles published in this journal are protected by copyright, which covers translation rights and the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute all of the articles printed in the journal. No material published in the journal may be stored on microfilm or videocassettes or in electronic database and the like or reproduced photographically without the prior written permission of the publisher. Upon acceptance of a manuscript, authors are required to assign the copyright to publish their article.

B. SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS Manuscripts should be submitted electronically on www.dentmedpub.com or Author have to submit 3 hard copy by post to journal office with cover letter including all details of correspondence.

Suggest Two or more Reviewers JIOH attempts to keep the review process as short as possible to enable rapid publication of new scientific data. In order to facilitate this process, please suggest the names and current email addresses of two potential unbiased reviewers whom you consider capable of reviewing your manuscript. However, its not necessary that we send manuscript for review to same reviewers. The suggested reviewers may receive another manuscript also of his/her area of expertise. We suggest that recommended reviewer should be having 3 publications in Indexed Journals. E-mail Confirmation of Submission: After submission you will receive an email to confirm receipt of your manuscript. Please check your junk/ spam mails carefully and enable for journal mail address. Kindly let us know if you dont receive any mail of confirmation within 7 days.

Review Procedures all manuscripts(except invited reviews and some commentaries) are submitted to an initial review by the Editor or Associate Editors. Manuscripts which are not considered relevant to the practice of dentistry or of interest to the readership of JIOH will be rejected without review. Manuscripts presenting innovative hypothesis-driven research with methodologically detailed scientific findings are favored to move forward to peer review. All manuscripts accepted for peer review will be submitted electronically or by hard copy to at least 2 reviewers for peer review, and comments from the reviewers and the editor are returned to the lead author. Manuscript Status: The Journal will inform you by e-mail once a decision has been made. However author can check the status in the system www.dentmedpub.com after authors login. Manuscript charges: The Journal will charge manuscript technical processing fee from author / institution. Details are available on http://www.ispcd.org/jioh-copyright-form-and-processing-fees.html. Author/Institution are not paying to publish but for manuscript technical processing fees which includes use of manuscript management system, conversation of word file to digital form after acceptance, maintenance of editorial office technical staff, Open Access model of journal, Indexing agencies costs etc. Many of the manuscript are rejected even though they agree to pay.

C. MANUSCRIPT FORMAT AND STRUCTURE Language: All submissions must be in English; both British and American spelling conventions are acceptable. Authors for whom English is a second language must have their manuscript professionally edited by an English speaking person before submission to make sure the English is of high quality. It is preferred that manuscript is professionally edited. Structure All manuscripts submitted to JIOH should follow the guidelines regarding structure as below. Title Page The title page should have the following information: 1. Article title. Authors should include all information in the title that will make electronic retrieval of the article both sensitive and specific. a title should be of no more than 50 words, a running head of no more than 50 characters. 2. Authors names, institutional affiliation and each authors highest academic degree. 3. The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed. 4. Disclaimers, if any. 5. Contact information for corresponding authors. The name, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address of the author responsible for correspondence about the manuscript (the corresponding author; this author may or may not be the guarantor for the integrity of the study). The corresponding author should indicate clearly whether his or her e-mail address can be published. 6. The name and address of the author to whom requests for reprints should be addressed or a statement that reprints are not available from the authors. 7. Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these. 8. A running head. Some journals request a short running head or footline, usually no more than 40 characters (including letters and spaces) at the foot of the title page. Running heads are published in most journals, but are also sometimes used within the editorial office for filing and locating manuscripts. 9. Word counts. A word count for the text only (excluding abstract, acknowledgments, figure legends, and references) allows editors and reviewers to assess whether the information contained in the paper warrants the amount of space devoted to it, and whether the submitted manuscript fits within the journals word limits. A separate word count for the Abstract is useful for the same reason. 10. The number of figures and tables. It is difficult for editorial staff and reviewers to determine whether the figures and tables that should have accompanied a manuscript were actually included unless the numbers of figures and tables are noted on the title page. Conflict of Interest Notification Page To prevent potential conflicts of interest from being overlooked or misplaced, this information needs to be part of the manuscript.

Abstract: All manuscripts submitted to JIOH should use a structured abstract under the headings: Objectives - Methods Results - Conclusions. Structured abstracts are preferred for original research and systematic reviews. The abstract should provide the context or background for the study and should state the studys purpose, basic procedures (selection of study subjects or laboratory animals, observational and analytical methods), main findings (giving specific effect sizes and their statistical significance, if possible), principal conclusions, and funding sources. It should emphasize new and important aspects of the study or observations.

Main Text of Original Articles The text of observational and experimental articles should be divided into the following sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion. Long articles may need subheadings within some sections (especially Methods and Results) to clarify their content. Other types of articles, such as case reports, reviews, and editorials need to be formatted differently. Authors should number all of the pages of the manuscript consecutively, beginning with the title page, to facilitate the editorial process. Introduction: Provide a context or background for the study (that is, the nature of the problem and its significance). State the specific purpose or research objective of, or hypothesis tested by, the study or observation; the research objective is often more sharply focused when stated as a question. Both the main and secondary objectives should be clear, and any prespecified subgroup analyses should be described. Provide only directly pertinent references, and do not include data or conclusions from the work being reported. outline the historical or logical origins of the study and not summarize the results; exhaustive literaturereviews are not appropriate. It should close with the explicit statement of the specific aims/objective of the investigation and study hypothesis. Materials and Methods must contain sufficient detail such that, in combination with the references cited, all studies reported can be fully reproduced. As a condition of publication, authors are required to make materials and methods used freely available to academic researchers for their own use. Describe your selection of the observational or experimental participants (patients or laboratory animals, including controls) clearly, including eligibility and exclusion criteria and a description of the source population. It should be clarified that how and why a study was done in a particular way. When authors use such variables as race or ethnicity, they should define how they measured these variables and justify their relevance. The Methods section should include only information that was available at the time the plan or protocol for the study was being written; all information obtained during the study belongs in the results section. Inform consent and Ethical approval are must content where applicable. Authors submitting review manuscripts should include a section describing the methods used for locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesizing data. These methods should also be summarized in the abstract. Results: Present your results in logical sequence in the text, tables, and illustrations, giving the main or most important findings first. Do not repeat all the data in the tables or illustrations in the text; emphasize or summarize only the most important observations. Extra or supplementary materials and technical detail can be placed in an appendix where they will be accessible but will not interrupt the flow of the text. When data are summarized in the Results section, give numeric results not only as derivatives (for example, percentages) but also as the absolute numbers from which the derivatives were calculated, and specify the statistical methods used to analyze them. Restrict tables and figures to those needed to explain the argument of the paper and to assess supporting data. Use graphs as an alternative to tables with many entries; do not duplicate data in graphs and tables. Avoid nontechnical uses of technical terms in statistics, such as random (which implies a randomizing device), normal, significant, correlations, and sample. Where scientifically appropriate, analyses of the data by such variables as age and sex should be included. Also specify the software used with all relevant details of statistical analysis. Discussion: Usually start with a brief summary of the major findings, but repetition of parts of the abstract or of the results sections should be avoided. The section should end with a brief conclusion and a comment on the potential clinical program or policy relevance of the findings. Statements and interpretation of the data should be appropriately supported by original references.

Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions that follow from them in the context of the totality of the best available evidence. For experimental studies, it is useful to begin the discussion by briefly summarizing the main findings, then explore possible mechanisms or explanations for these findings, compare and contrast the results with other relevant studies, state the limitations of the study, and explore the implications of the findings for future research and for clinical practice. Link the conclusions with the goals of the study but avoid unqualified statements and conclusions not adequately supported by the data. In particular, avoid making statements on economic benefits and costs unless the manuscript includes the appropriate economic data and analyses. Avoid claiming priority or alluding to work that has not been completed. State new hypotheses when warranted, but label them clearly as such.

References: The list of references begins on a fresh page in the manuscript, using the Vancouver format. References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. For correct style, authors are referred to: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Details and their sequence in reference should be as follows: -Authors (use et al. after 6 authors, if there are more than six authors, complete names should not be written) -Article title (should be exact as existing) -Journal name (should be in standard PubMed abbreviations, full journal name should not be -Year -Volume -Page numbers (643-647 to be written as 643-7) (EXAMPLE: Scheinin A, Makinen KK, Ylitalo K: Turku sugar studies.5.Final report on effect of sucrose, fructose and xylitol diets in the caries incidence in man. Acta Odontol Scand 1976; 34; 176-216) To avoid common errors, please check your reference style using following check list: -Authors in correct sequence, and names checked from PubMed -Correct title of the article to come after the authors name. -Correct journal abbreviation as given in Pubmed -Year of the article given after the journal abbreviation -Year of publication is followed by the volume no -Page no comes last this should not be written as 643-647 but to be written as 643-7 -Coma followed by space after each author do not write and before the last author -Full stop after the last author followed by space and then the article title -Full stop followed by space after the article title -Single space between the journal abbreviation and the year, place no other punctuation marks -Semicolon ; after the year without any space written)

-Hyphen to separate the page no. -Colon : after volume no. without any space References should be numbered using Arabic numerals in box parentheses e.g. [1] in the order of appearance in the text as a superscript Various types of reference Book reference Example: Miyano T, Kobayashi H, Chen SC. Long term results of biliary atresia. In, Gupta DK (ed). Text Book of Neonatal Surgery, 1st edition. New Delhi, Modern Publishers, 2000;288-291. Websites or web pages /Homepage/Web site

Cancer-Pain.org [Internet]. New York: Association of Cancer Online Resources, Inc.; c2000-01 [updated 2002 May 16; cited 2002 Jul 9]. Available from: http://www.cancer-pain.org/. Complete works (reports, research papers, online books) Database on the Internet

Who's Certified [Internet]. Evanston (IL): The American Board of Medical Specialists. c2000 - [cited 2001 Mar 8]. Available from: http://www.abms.org/newsearch.asp Journal article on the Internet

Abood S. Quality improvement initiative in nursing homes: the ANA acts in an advisory role. Am J Nurs [Internet]. 2002 Jun [cited 2002 Aug 12];102(6):[about 1 p.]. Available from: http://www.nursingworld.org/AJN/2002/june/Wawatch.htmArticle Authors are responsible for checking that none of the references cite retracted articles except in the context of referring to the retraction. Avoid reference to "unpublished observations", and manuscripts not yet accepted for publication. References to abstracts should be avoided if possible; such references are appropriate only if they are recent enough that time has not permitted full publication. References to written personal communications (not oral) may be inserted in parentheses in the text. Avoid using abstracts as references. Avoid citing a personal communication. For scientific articles, obtain written permission and confirmation of accuracy from the source of a personal communication.

Important: Providing the references in correct style with accurate bibliographic details is authors responsibility. Editor has the full right to reject the manuscript on technical grounds if the references are wrong or it may be sent back to the author

Acknowledgements: Under acknowledgements please specify contributors to the article other than the authors accredited and all sources of financial support for the research.

Tables, Figures: Tables are part of the text and should be included, one per page, after the References. All graphs, drawings, and photographs are considered figures and should be sequentially numbered with Arabic numerals. Each figure must be on a separate page and each must have a caption. All captions, with necessary references, should be typed together on a separate page and numbered clearly (Fig.1, Fig. 2, etc.).

Preparation of Electronic Figures for Publication: Although low quality images are adequate for review purposes, online publication requires high quality images to prevent the final product being blurred or fuzzy. Please submit all images of manuscript in minimum 600 dpi original resolution at journal@ispcd.org in jpg/jpeg format. Permissions: If all or parts of previously published illustrations are used, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder concerned. It is the author's responsibility to obtain these in writing and provide copies to the Publishers. Authors not providing any such copies to Journal/Publisher indicates that there is no such published content in the manuscript. Colour Charges: Images are published in color only if the author pays the additional cost. Detail is available on Manuscript Technical Processing Fee Form. Figure Legends: All captions, with necessary references, should be typed together on a separate page and numbered clearly (Fig.1, Fig. 2, etc.). Type or print out legends for illustrations using double spacing, starting on a separate page, with Arabic numerals corresponding to the illustrations. When symbols, arrows, numbers, 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

Units of Measurement Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be reported in metric units (meter, kilogram, or liter) or their decimal multiples. Temperatures should be in degrees Celsius. Blood pressures should be in millimeters of mercury. Authors are requested to add alternative or non-SI units, since SI units are not universally used. Drug concentrations may be reported in either SI or mass units, but the alternative should be provided in parentheses where appropriate. Abbreviations, Symbols and Nomenclature: Use only standard abbreviations; use of nonstandard abbreviations can be confusing to readers. Avoid abbreviations in the title of the manuscript. The spelled-out abbreviation followed by the abbreviation in parenthesis should be used on first mention unless the abbreviation is a standard unit of measurement.

D. AFTER ACCEPTANCE Upon acceptance of a manuscript for publication, the manuscript will be forwarded to the Production Editor who is responsible for the production of the journal. Proof Corrections : The corresponding author will receive an email alert containing a link to a web site. A working email address must therefore be provided for the corresponding author. The proof can be downloaded as a PDF (portable document format) file from this site. This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen, and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. Hard copy proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is available; in your absence, please arrange for a colleague to access your email to retrieve the proofs. Proofs must be returned within three days of receipt. As changes to proofs are costly, we ask that you only correct typesetting errors. Excessive changes made by the author in the proofs, excluding typesetting errors, will be charged separately. Other than in exceptional circumstances, all illustrations are retained by the publisher. Please note that the author is responsible for all statements made in his work, including changes made by the copy editor.