Guide for Authors
As part of the submission process to NRMJ, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and the submission will be returned to the authors if it does not adhere to these guidelines.
Main text
The Main Text of the research article should use the following order:
-Title page
Title of the manuscript must be informative and not more than 30 words. Affiliations should be stated after the author’s name. The author for correspondence should be indicated by an asterisk with an E-mail address provided (one author only). Starting from January 2022, each author should provide his/ her ORCID no. (If it exists).
Running head: a short title of no more than 6 words
Keywords: provide up to 6 words
-Abstract
Indicates briefly the aims and how the work was done, the novel results obtained and conclusions.
-Introduction
Describes the state of the current work in the relevant field and avoids narrative sentences without benefit. Give a clear statement of the objectives and hypotheses being tested. States the novel results obtained from the current work, which were not reached in similar recent previous works.
-Materials and methods
Sufficient information must be given in this section to allow the reader to understand the new experimental design (if any), and the statistical methods used in data analysis. All assays should have adequate replication and, where relevant, should have been repeated for confirmation. Commercial equipment and products used in the assays should name the product, company and country of origin. State the analytical methods used e.g. analysis of variance (ANOVA), and ensure that the method chosen is appropriate for the data.
-Results
Results should be presented in an orderly fashion. Make use of the tables and figures, when necessary and without duplication. Data tables presenting, for example, mean values should include the appropriate standard deviation (SD).
-Discussion
The discussion is presented separately or combined with the Results, and no subheadings are allowed in this section. It should not normally exceed 5 pages in length. Focuses on the work presented, scientific interpretation of results and their relationships with the other relevant recently published works.
-Conclusion
In few sentences, try to stand out the new methodologies used (if any), main novel results obtained that differ from the previous recent works and thus deserve publication. Finally, state the author's future prospectus to apply the current results, to benefit the public, improve the economy, and/ or to save the environment.
-Acknowledgments
Authors may acknowledge any grants or assistance associated with the work reported or for the development of the manuscript (if any).
-Conflict of interest
The authors should state any conflict of interest that may exist.
-Funding source
The authors must provide the name and number (i.e. project no.) of any financial funding source for their article.
-Ethical approval
The research work that involves the human or animals should provide Ethical approval from the concerned Ethical Committee of the author's institution, in addition to the patient's consents (if appropriate).
-References
References used must be recent.
Guidelines for citing in text:
Use the author-year method of citing publications. i.e., “Various investigators (Smith, 1990; Smith et al., 1988, 1995(a, b); Smith and Jones, 1994) have reported similar findings”.
-Guidelines for the reference list:
List all references in alphabetical order by authors’ surnames. Single-author works should be listed before works with multiple authors. Works by the same author(s) should be ordered chronologically. List the specific pages of books. Do not abbreviate titles of journals and write full names. Double-check the accuracy of volume, issue and page numbers, year of publication, and check that each reference is cited in the text. If a work cited is in preparation, submitted but not accepted for publication, cite the work in parentheses in the text, e.g., (J. Jones, unpublished data) or (J. Jones, personal communication), not in References list. Starting from January 2022, the DOI link of the cited References should be included, if it exists.
-Roman script references
Titles of books and articles in Roman script should be recorded in their original language. If this language is deemed by the author of the article but is highly inaccessible to most readers, they should be followed at the author’s discretion by an English translation in parentheses. When the publisher of the book or journal provides the title or contents in English, in addition to the original language, we prefer the translation unless it contains glaring mistakes. The entire reference will be followed by the language in parentheses, i.e. (Hebrew), (Russian), (Norwegian), etc.
-Tables
Self-explanatory tables should be provided with an appropriate legend, and without abbreviations. Identify tables using a number, e.g. Table 2. Mention tables in the text in numerical order (Table 1, and then Table 2 etc.). Use superscript lower case letters for footnotes, e.g. a, b and c. Save the file in an editable format, e.g. DOCX, not embedded in the manuscript as an image.
-Figures
Identify the figures using a number, e.g. Fig. 2, number in a separate series from the Tables. Mention figures in the text in numerical order (Fig. 1, and then Fig. 2 etc.). Subdivisions within figures should be labeled with lowercase letters, e.g. (a), (b) and (c). Colored figures should be used when details cannot be adequately observed on black and white photographs. Legends should be included at the end of the main document, self-explanatory and without abbreviations.
-Supplementary materials
Supplementary materials such as files and/ or images can be published with the article on the journal's website for improvement. These supplementary items will be published online exactly the same format as they were submitted (i.e., Excel or PowerPoint files). The corresponding author may submit each supplementary material with the manuscript; accompanied with a concise footnote or caption. The author can make changes to the submitted supplementary material(s) during reviewing of his/ her manuscript; however, an updated file(s) must be provided.
Starting from 1st July, 2023; the following three files should be provided by the corresponding author upon submission of the manuscript:
-Suggesting two potential reviewers
The corresponding author is requested to provide the names; affiliations, and institutional e-mail addresses of two potential reviewers; specified in the field of the submitted manuscript. The author should not suggest reviewers who are his/ her colleagues; and who have co-authored or collaborated with him/ her during the last two years. It is preferred to suggest two potential reviewers who inhabit different countries and/ or regions from those of the authors. It is not acceptable to include the names of the existing editorial team members of the NRMJ. The NRMJ Editor will not invite reviewers who have any potential competing interests with the authors.
-Submission declaration and verification
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously; is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, its publication has been approved by all the contributing authors, and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible institutions where the work was carried out. Moreover, if the manuscript is accepted; it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or other language, without the written consent of the copyright holder.
-Author's contributions
The authors are encouraged to submit an author individual statement file, which outlines their individual contributions to the submitted manuscript, including their CRediT roles; mainly Conceptualization; Data curation, Funding acquisition, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Validation, Roles/Writing - original draft, Writing; reviewing, and editing. The authorship statement should be formatted using the initials of the author's names first followed by their contribution roles. This information will be included in the published article.
Plagiarism Check
NRMJ uses iThenticate software to screen manuscripts for unoriginal material (Plagiarism). By submitting your manuscript to NRMJ, you are agreeing to undergo any necessary originality checks for your manuscript before the peer-review process.
Publication Charges
Upon receiving the acceptance for publication letter, a sum of L.E 500 is delivered manually to the National Information and Documentation Centre, El-Tahrir St., Dokki, Gizaa; Department of Scientific Publishing.
For none-Egyptian authors, a sum of 100$ is required to be paid via the following bank account:
Bank: Central Bank of Egypt, 54 El Gomhria St., Cairo, Egypt.
Bank code: CBEGEGCXXXX
Bank account: 9/450/81639/5
Organization code: 11101201
IBAN: EG090001000100000009190447778
Beneficial: Academy of Scientific Research and Technology.
Copyright Policy
NRMJ allows the author(s) to hold the copyright, and to retain publishing rights without any restrictions. The journal allows the readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles and allows the readers also to use them for any other lawful purposes.
-Advertising policy
NRMJ does not accept advertising.