Policies

 

The Authors are advised to strictly follow the international publication rules.

 

Policy and ethics in research

The work described in your article must have been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/index.html; EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/legislation_en.htm; Uniform Requirements for manuscripts submitted to Biomedical journals http://www.icmje.org.

 

Conflict of interest

At the time of submission of the article, PJLS requires full disclosure of all potential conflicts of interest.

 

Submission declaration and verification

It must be certified that the submitted work is original and has never been published or considered for publication elsewhere in any language. It should also be assured that after acceptance, the article will not be published elsewhere in the present form or any other form.

 

Changes to authorship

The author(s) names can be removed, changed or rearranged before or after the acceptance of the manuscript following the rules mentioned below: A request from the corresponding author should be sent to the Journal Managing Edit or  mentioning the reason for the concerned deletion, changing or rearrangement of the author name. In this respect, confirmation in the form of an email, fax or a letter showing the agreement of all the authors must also be sent to the Journal Managing Editor.

 

Copyright

The content of the journal cannot be used without the permission of editor-in-chief. In case of violating the copy right rules, proper action will be taken against the concerned body. The author(s) may use their published manuscript for personal or institutional circulation but cannot use for commercial or public purposes. If any material taken from other copyrighted works is included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article.

 

Role of the funding source

You are requested that please identify the source that provided financial support for the conduct of the research, and role of the financial source/sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data, in writing the manuscript and its submission for publication.

 

 

Referees

To expedite the review process, author(s) must submit names of 3-5reviewers, who are qualified to review their work.The author(s) must provide their email address, affiliation and contact information, and mention why you selected him/her to review your work. The authors must have no collaboration with any of the suggested reviewers. It would be better if the authors select the reviewers from different regions.