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.
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 is in OpenOffice, or Microsoft Word document file format.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
All Figures are available in JPEG format.
Where available, web links (e.g. DOIs) for the references have been provided.
The document has been anonymized as described in the Author Guidelines.
Authors names and affiliations are submitted in a separate document.
Author Guidelines
Article types
The following article types are considered for publication in SJORANM:
Original research articles
Reviews
Case reports
Letters and Communications
The following guidelines applies to all submitted article types.
Text
The entire document should be single-spaced and must contain page numbers in order to facilitate the review process. The text uses a 12-point font. Italics should be used instead of underlining (except with URL addresses).
Figures and Tables
Illustrations, figures, and tables locations are inserted within the text at the appropriate points with the notation e.g. "Figure 1 here". Illustrations/Figures/Tables and corresponding legends are inserted at the end of the document in order of appearance. Tables are introduced in .jpeg/.png format. For figures, only .jgep, .tiff, .png formats are allowed.
Authors
All names are listed together and separated by semicolons. Provide exact and correct author names, listed with surname(s) first, followed by a comma and name(s). Affiliations should be keyed to the author's name by numbers in brackets, sequentially ordered as they appear in the authors' list, and be listed as follows: Laboratory, Institute, Department, Organization, City, and Country (without detailed address information such as city zip codes or street names).
The Corresponding Author(s) should be marked with an asterisk. Provide the exact contact email address of the corresponding author(s) after the list of affiliations.
References
The citation style must be consistent. References are each numbered, ordered sequentially as they appear in the text, tables, boxes, figure legends. When cited in the text, reference numbers are in round brackets.
References should give authors, article title, journal name, journal issue and the year of publication in parentheses, followed by DOI if known.
Do not use linked fields (produced by EndNote and similar programs). Please use the one-click button provided by EndNote to remove EndNote codes before saving your file.
Conflict of interest Statement
Any conflict of interest issue must be included at the very end of the document.
Documents Anonymization
To ensure the integrity of anonymous peer-review, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:
The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.
The authors of the document have removed personal information from the file properties by taking the following steps:
Microsoft Word for Windows:
Go to File
Select Info
Click on Check for Issues
Click on Inspect Document
In the Document Inspector dialog box, select the check boxes to choose the type of hidden content that you want inspected.
Click Remove All
Click Close
Save the document
Microsoft Word for MacOS:
Go to Tools
Click Protect Document
Select Remove personal information for this file on save
Click OK and save the file
PDF:
Go to File
Select Properties
Remove any name in the author field
Click OK
Save the document
Research Articles
This section is for academic research articles. All articles must be submitted online through this website, and undergo a peer-review process. Submission must comply with submission guidelines (see "For authors" section).
Reviews
This section is for academic reviews. All reviews must be submitted online through this website, and undergo a peer-review process. Submission must comply with submission guidelines (see "For authors" section).
Case reports
This section is for academic case reports. All case reports must be submitted online through this website, and undergo a peer-review process. Submission must comply with submission guidelines (see "For authors" section).
Letters and Communications
This section is for academic letters and communications. All documents must be submitted online through this website, and may undergo a peer-review process depending on the Editorial Board decision. Submission must comply with submission guidelines (see "For authors" section).
Copyright Notice
By submitting their work to SJORANM, the authors agree with the journals copyright police.
Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, articles are free to use after publication under a CC BY license (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International). This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes.
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