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Submission Preparation Checklist

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 manuscript has not been previously published and is not under consideration by another journal (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for all references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced, uses a 12-point font, employs italics rather than underlining (except for URL addresses), and includes all illustrations, figures, and tables embedded within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end of the document.
  • The manuscript adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines found in the “About the Journal” section.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions for ensuring a blind review have been followed.
  • If submitting a Case Report or Clinical Images, a properly accomplished Affidavit of Consent to Publish is available for upload as a supplementary file in Step 4 of the five-step submission process.
  • If submitting a Research Report, a Research Ethics Committee (REC)/Institutional Review Board (IRB) Certificate of Approval is available for upload as a supplementary file in Step 4 of the five-step submission process.

Author Guidelines

Read the full SPMC JHCS Author Guidelines.

Copyright Notice

Submissions must not have been previously or concurrently submitted to other publications.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
  1. Copyright and licensing: Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication. The work is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License that allows non-commercial sharing and reuse with appropriate acknowledgement of the authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Non-exclusive distribution: Authors may enter into separate, additional, non-commercial contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of their work (e.g., posting in an institutional repository or inclusion in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Editorial and publication rights: Authors grant the journal permission to rewrite, edit, modify, store and/or publish the submission, including abstracts, supplementary materials, and any necessary errata, in any medium or format, and in publicly available publications or databases.
  4. Originality and rights assurance: Authors warrant that the submission is original, that they hold the rights to the work, and that it does not infringe upon or violate the copyright or other rights of any third party.