About the Journal

A manuscript will be reviewed for possible publication with the understanding that it is being submitted to The Saint's International Dental Journal alone at that point in time and has not been published anywhere, simultaneously submitted, or already accepted for publication elsewhere. The journal expects authors to authorize one of them to correspond with the Journal for all matters related to the manuscript. All manuscripts received are duly acknowledged. On submission, editors review all submitted manuscripts initially for suitability for formal review. Manuscripts with insufficient originality, serious scientific or technical flaws, or lack of a significant message are rejected before proceeding for formal peer-review. Manuscripts that are not of interest to The Saint's International Dental Journal readers are liable to be rejected at any stage before final acceptance. 

Manuscripts found suitable for publication in The Saint's International Dental Journal are sent to two expert reviewers for blind peer review. During submission, the corresponding author is requested to provide the names of two or three qualified reviewers who have experience in the subject matter of the submitted manuscript, but this is not mandatory. Reviewers should not be affiliated with the same institutions as the contributor/s. However, the selection of these reviewers depends on the sole discretion of the editor. The journal follows a double-blind review process, in which reviewers and authors are unaware of each other's identities. Each manuscript is also assigned to a member of the editorial team, who makes the final decision on the manuscript based on the reviewer's comments. Comments and suggestions received from the reviewers (acceptance/rejection/revision of the manuscript) and editor are conveyed to the corresponding author. If necessary, the author is requested to provide point-by-point feedback on the reviewer's comments and present a revised manuscript version. This process is repeated until the reviewer and editor are satisfied with the manuscript.

Manuscripts accepted for publication are copy edited for grammar, punctuation, print style, and format. Page proofs are sent to the corresponding author. The corresponding author is expected to return the corrected proofs within three days. It may not be possible to incorporate corrections received after that period. The Process of Submitting the manuscript to the final decision and sending and receiving proofs are completed online. To achieve faster and greater dissemination of knowledge and information, the journal publishes articles online as ‘Ahead of Print’ immediately on acceptance. The Saint's International Dental Journal Editors Reviewed all Submitted Manuscript Initially. Manuscript Found insufficient Originality, absence of new messages, serious scientific flaws are rejected without sending for Peer Review.

If the manuscript confirms the journal's scope and is found suitable by the editor of SIDJ, it is sent for a double-blind peer review process; the manuscript will be sent to two or more expert peer reviewers for review without revealing the manuscript author's identities. Within a period of Eight to Ten Weeks, the Corresponding Author and Co-Authors will be informed about the reviewer's comments with acceptance/rejection of manuscript. Once the manuscript is accepted for publication it will be copy edited for Grammar and Language Corrections, punctuation, print and style format as per Journal Instructions and Guidelines.

Scope of the journal

The journal will cover technical and clinical studies related to health; manuscript well focused on pre-cancerous, oral cancer, related to betel nut chewing habit, ethical and social issues in the field of comprehensive, multi-specialty basic and advanced dental care including its allied sciences like ENT, General Surgery, General Medicine, Plastic Surgery, Onco-Surgery, etc. It encourages authors to submit Original Research, Reviews, Case Reports, Short Communication, CPC (Clinico-Pathologic), Letter To Editor, Book Review, Clinical or experimental Researches, subject-specific boundaries (Allied Sciences), etc. & will Intend to provide a more comprehensive scientific platform by upgrading the general standards but also promoting research works. Articles with Experimental & Translational Research, Innovative/Clinical Trials with clinical interest and implications will be given preference.  Subject that can contribute new knowledge about improving oral and general health inlcuding interactions between both at individual and community levels are encouraged.

ORCID sidj -https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5090-1470 

Authors are strongly encouraged to read all the "Instructions for Authors"  before submitting the manuscript to the journal SIDJ. If a manuscript is not adequately prepared as per guidelines of SIDJ, it will return/sent back to authors for Technical Modifications before being sent for Editorial Review. The manuscript should be structured with Covering Letter, Title Page, Contributors Form, Copyright Form, Main Manuscript, Images, and Tables as per instructions templates. Editorial Staff/Journal Editors will not be involved in processing of their own academic work. The Editorial staff/editor's written submission will be assigned to at least two independent external reviewers for review. Decisions will be made by other editorial board members who have no conflict of interest with author.

1. Submission of Manuscript via  https://review.jow.medknow.com/sidj

2. Editorial Review if Article is as per SIDJ Instructions else manuscript is returned to the author for a technical correction.

3. Editorial Review- 5-7 Days (If sent for Revised should be submitted again as the time given as per instructions SIDJ)

4. Peer Review- 28 Days (If sent for Revised should be submitted again as the time given as per instructions SIDJ)

• Publication on acceptance shall depend on the manuscript's date of acceptance and category (original research, review, case reports, etc.)
• The author can track the entire process through their log in the dashboard, and in case of queries, they can email the editor through their login page of the journal software ( editor query)
• Any query to the editor shall be responded to by email in 5 -7 working days

Plagiarism includes the duplicate publication of the author’s own work, in whole or in part without proper citation or mispresenting other’s ideas, words, and other creative expressions as one’s own. The Journal follows strict anti-plagiarism policy. All manuscripts submitted to The Saint's International Dental Journal will undergo plagiarism check with commercially available software. Based on the extent of plagiarism, authors may be asked to address any minor duplication or similarity with the previously published work. If plagiarism is detected after publication, the Journal will investigate. If plagiarism is established, the journal will notify the authors’ institution and funding bodies and will retract the plagiarised article. To report plagiarism, contact the journal office (email: [email protected])

Clinical trial registry

The Saint's International Dental Journal favors registration of clinical trials and is a signatory to the Statement on publishing clinical trials in Indian biomedical journals. The Saint's International Dental Journal would publish clinical trials that have been registered with a clinical trial registry that allows free online access to public. Registration in the following trial registers is acceptable: http://www.ctri.nic.in/; http://www.anzctr.org.au/; http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/; http://isrctn.org/; http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/index.asp; and http://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr. This is applicable to clinical trials that have begun enrollment of subjects in or after June 2008. Clinical trials that have commenced enrollment of subjects prior to June 2008 would be considered for publication in The Saint's International Dental Journal only if they have been registered retrospectively with clinical trial registry that allows unhindered online access to public without charging any fees.

Authorship Criteria

Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to each of the three components mentioned below: 

1. Concept and design of study 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.

Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship. Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content of the manuscript. The order of naming the contributors should be based on the relative contribution of the contributor towards the study and writing the manuscript. Once submitted the order cannot be changed without written consent of all the contributors. The journal prescribes a maximum number of authors for manuscripts depending upon the type of manuscript, its scope and number of institutions involved (vide infra). The authors should provide a justification, if the number of authors exceeds these limits.

Contribution Details

Contributors should provide a description of contributions made by each of them towards the manuscript. Description should be divided in following categories, as applicable: concept, design, definition of intellectual content, literature search, clinical studies, experimental studies, data acquisition, data analysis, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, manuscript editing and manuscript review. Authors'contributions will be printed along with the article. One or more author should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article and should be designated as 'guarantor'. 

Conflicts of Interest/ Competing Interests

All authors of articles must disclose any and all conflicts of interest (Financial,Affiliations, Intellectual Property, Personal, Ideology, Academic etc) they may have with publication of the manuscript or an institution or product that is mentioned in the manuscript and/or is important to the outcome of the study presented. Authors should also disclose conflict of interest with products that compete with those mentioned in their manuscript.

Submission of Manuscripts

All manuscripts must be submitted on-line through the website  https://review.jow.medknow.com/sidj. First time users will have to register at this site. Registration is free but mandatory. Registered authors can keep track of their articles after logging into the site using their user name and password. Authors do not have to pay for submission, processing or publication of articles. If you experience any problems, please contact the editorial office by e-mail at editor.sidj [AT]gmail.com/ editor [AT]sidj.org 

The submitted manuscripts that are not as per the “Instructions to Authors” would be returned to the authors for technical correction, before they undergo editorial/ peer-review. Generally, the manuscript should be submitted in the form of two separate files:

[1] Title Page/First Page File/covering letter:

This file should provide

1. The type of manuscript (original article, case report, review article, Letter to editor, Images, etc.) title of the manuscript, running title, names of all authors/ contributors (with their highest academic degrees, designation and affiliations) and name(s) of department(s) and/ or institution(s) to which the work should be credited, . All information which can reveal your identity should be here. Use text/rtf/doc files. Do not zip the files.
2. The total number of pages, total number of photographs and word counts separately for abstract and for the text (excluding the references, tables and abstract), word counts for introduction + discussion in case of an original article;
3. Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these;
4. Acknowledgement, if any. One or more statements should specify 1) contributions that need acknowledging but do not justify authorship, such as general support by a departmental chair; 2) acknowledgments of technical help; and 3) acknowledgments of financial and material support, which should specify the nature of the support. This should be included in the title page of the manuscript and not in the main article file.
5. If the manuscript was presented as part at a meeting, the organization, place, and exact date on which it was read. A full statement to the editor about all submissions and previous reports that might be regarded as redundant publication of the same or very similar work. Any such work should be referred to specifically, and referenced in the new paper. Copies of such material should be included with the submitted paper, to help the editor decide how to handle the matter.
6. Registration number in case of a clinical trial and where it is registered (name of the registry and its URL)
7. Conflicts of Interest of each author/ contributor. A statement of financial or other relationships that might lead to a conflict of interest, if that information is not included in the manuscript itself or in an authors' form
8. Criteria for inclusion in the authors’/ contributors’ list
9. A statement that the manuscript has been read and approved by all the authors, that the requirements for authorship as stated earlier in this document have been met, and that each author believes that the manuscript represents honest work, if that information is not provided in another form (see below); and
10. The name, address, e-mail, and telephone number of the corresponding author, who is responsible for communicating with the other authors about revisions and final approval of the proofs, if that information is not included on the manuscript itself.

[2] Blinded Article file: The main text of the article, beginning from Abstract till References (including tables) should be in this file. The file must not contain any mention of the authors' names or initials or the institution at which the study was done or acknowledgements. Page headers/running title can include the title but not the authors' names. Manuscripts not in compliance with the Journal's blinding policy will be returned to the corresponding author. Use rtf/doc files. Do not zip the files. Limit the file size to 1 MB. Do not incorporate images in the file. If file size is large, graphs can be submitted as images separately without incorporating them in the article file to reduce the size of the file. The pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the first page of the blinded article file.

[3] Images: Submit good quality color images. Each image should be less than 2 MB in size. Donot incorporate the image in main manuscript and should be submitted separately. Size of the image can be reduced by decreasing the actual height and width of the images (keep up to 1600 x 1200 pixels (300 dpi or more) or 5-6 inches). Images can be submitted as jpeg files. Do not zip the files. Legends for the figures/images should be included at the end of the article file. 

[4] The contributors' / copyright transfer form (template provided below) has to be submitted in original with the signatures of all the contributors within two weeks of submission via courier, fax or email as a scanned image. Print ready hard copies of the images (one set) or digital images should be sent to the journal office at the time of submitting revised manuscript. High resolution images (up to 5 MB each) can be sent by email.

Contributors’ form / copyright transfer form can be submitted online from the authors’ area on  https://review.jow.medknow.com/sidj.

Preparation of Manuscripts

Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with "Uniform requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals" developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (October 2008). The uniform requirements and specific requirement of The Saint's International Dental Journal are summarized below. Before submitting a manuscript, contributors are requested to check for the latest instructions available. Instructions are also available from the website of the journal (http://www.sidj.org) and from the manuscript submission site  https://review.jow.medknow.com/sidj.

Abstract- 

The Abstract (Upto 300 Words) Should be structured and Follow IMRaD Format - 

·        Introduction shall contain-  Context (Background), Aims, Settings and Design,

·        Methods and Material, Statistical analysis used,

·        Results and

·        Discussions.

Below the abstract should provide 3 to 5 Keywords (Should be in Vancover System). If possible, check whether the keywords are included in the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) of the National Library of Medicine.

The Saint's International Dental Journal accepts manuscripts written in American English.

Copies of any permission(s)

It is the responsibility of authors/ contributors to obtain permissions for reproducing any copyrighted material. A copy of the permission obtained must accompany the manuscript. Copies of any and all published articles or other manuscripts in preparation or submitted elsewhere that are related to the manuscript must also accompany the manuscript. 

We encourage our authors to follow the ‘Sex and Gender Equity in Research – SAGER – guidelines’  for sex and gender equity in research and to include sex and gender concerns where appropriate. To avoid conflating the terms sex (biological property) and gender (formed by social and cultural factors), authors should use them carefully.

Types of Manuscripts

Original articles:

These include randomized controlled trials, intervention studies, studies of screening and diagnostic test, outcome studies, cost effectiveness analyses, case-control series, and surveys with high response rate. The text of original articles amounting to up to 3000 words (excluding Abstract, references and Tables) should be divided into sections with the headings Abstract, Key-words, Introduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, References (Include 70-80 % Pubmed & Scopus Index Journals & should be concise & comprehensive , Current with in 10 years), Tables and Figure (Maximum 5--6) legends.

Introduction: State the purpose and summarize the rationale for the study or observation. The introduction should give a general overview of the study and explain why it is important.

Materials and Methods: It should include and describe the following aspects:

Ethics: When reporting studies on human beings, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (available at https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/). For prospective studies involving human participants, authors are expected to mention about approval of (regional/ national/ institutional or independent Ethics Committee or Review Board, obtaining informed consent from adult research participants and obtaining assent for children aged over 7 years participating in the trial. The age beyond which assent would be required could vary as per regional and/ or national guidelines. Ensure confidentiality of subjects by desisting from mentioning participants’ names, initials or hospital numbers, especially in illustrative material. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether the institution’s or a national research council’s guide for, or any national law on the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
Evidence for approval by a local Ethics Committee (for both human as well as animal studies) must be supplied by the authors on demand. Animal experimental procedures should be as humane as possible and the details of anesthetics and analgesics used should be clearly stated. The ethical standards of experiments must be in accordance with the guidelines provided by the CPCSEA and World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki on Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Humans for studies involving experimental animals and human beings, respectively). The journal will not consider any paper which is ethically unacceptable. A statement on ethics committee permission and ethical practices must be included in all research articles under the ‘Materials and Methods’ section.

Study design:

Selection and Description of Participants: 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. Technical information: Identify the methods, apparatus (give the manufacturer's name and address in parentheses), and procedures in sufficient detail to allow other workers to reproduce the results. Give references (Include 70-80 % Pubmed & Scopus Index Journals & should be with in 10 years ) to established methods, including statistical methods (see below); provide references ( Include 70-80 % Pubmed & Scopus Index Journals & should be with in 10 years) and brief descriptions for methods that have been published but are not well known; describe new or substantially modified methods, give reasons for using them, and evaluate their limitations. Identify precisely all drugs and chemicals used, including generic name(s), dose(s), and route(s) of administration.

Reports of randomized clinical trials should present information on all major study elements, including the protocol, assignment of interventions (methods of randomization, concealment of allocation to treatment groups), and the method of masking (blinding), based on the CONSORT Statement (http://www.consort-statement.org).

Reporting Guidelines for Specific Study Designs

The reporting guidelines for other type of studies can be found at https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/. 

Statistics: Whenever possible quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals). Authors should report losses to observation (such as, dropouts from a clinical trial). When data are summarized in the Results section, specify the statistical methods used to analyze them. Avoid non-technical uses of technical terms in statistics, such as 'random' (which implies a randomizing device), 'normal', 'significant', 'correlations', and 'sample'. Define statistical terms, abbreviations, and most symbols. Specify the computer software used. Use upper italics (P 0.048). For all P values include the exact value and not less than 0.05 or 0.001. Mean differences in continuous variables, proportions in categorical variables and relative risks including odds ratios and hazard ratios should be accompanied by their confidence intervals.

Results: Present your results in a logical sequence in the text, tables, and illustrations, giving the main or most important findings first. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables or illustrations; emphasize or summarize only important observations. Extra- or supplementary materials and technical detail can be placed in an appendix where it will be accessible but will not interrupt the flow of the text; alternatively, it can be published only in the electronic version of the journal.

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 its support. Use graphs as an alternative to tables with many entries; do not duplicate data in graphs and tables. Where scientifically appropriate, analyses of the data by variables such as age and sex should be included.

Discussion/Conclusion: Include summary of key findings (primary outcome measures, secondary outcome measures, results as they relate to a prior hypothesis); Strengths and limitations of the study (study question, study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation); Interpretation and implications in the context of the totality of evidence (is there a systematic review to refer to, if not, could one be reasonably done here and now?, what this study adds to the available evidence, effects on patient care and health policy, possible mechanisms); Controversies raised by this study; and Future research directions (for this particular research collaboration, underlying mechanisms, clinical research).
Do not repeat in detail data or other material given in the Introduction or the Results section. In particular, contributors should avoid making statements on economic benefits and costs unless their manuscript includes economic data and analyses. Avoid claiming priority and alluding to work that has not been completed. New hypotheses may be stated in Conclusion if needed, however they should be clearly labeled as such. About 30 references (Include 70-80 % Pubmed & Scopus Index Journals & should be with in 10 years) can be included. These articles generally should not have more than six authors.

Review Articles:

Should be submitted as per SANRA guidelines of Narrative Review. Should have structured abstract which should explain the importance and aim of the review. It is expected that these articles would be written by individuals who have done substantial work on the subject or are considered experts in the field. A short summary of the work done by the contributor(s) in the field of review should accompany the manuscript.

The prescribed word count is up to 3000 words excluding tables, references and abstract. The manuscript may have about 30 references (Include 70-80 % Pubmed & Scopus Index Journals & should be with in 10 years ). The manuscript should have an unstructured Abstract (250 words) representing an accurate summary of the article. The section titles would depend upon the topic reviewed. Authors submitting review article should include a section describing the methods used for locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesizing data. These methods should also be summarized in the abstract.

The journal expects the contributors to give post-publication updates on the subject of review. The update should be brief, covering the advances in the field after the publication of the article and should be sent as a letter to editor, as and when major development occurs in the field. Conclusion should be as per implications and relevance of the discussion and review literatures.

Case reports:

New, interesting and rare cases can be reported. They should be unique, describing a great diagnostic or therapeutic challenge and providing a learning point for the readers. Cases with clinical significance or implications will be given priority. These communications could be of up to 1000-1500 words (excluding Abstract and references) and should have the following headings: Abstract (unstructured), Key-words, Introduction, Case report, Discussion, Reference, Tables and Legends in that order. Submit good quality color images. Each image should be less than 2 MB in size. Donot incorporate the image in main manuscript and should be submitted separately. Size of the image can be reduced by decreasing the actual height and width of the images (keep up to 1600 x 1200 pixels (300 dpi) or 5-6 inches). Images can be submitted as jpeg files.

The manuscript could be of up to 1000-1500 words (excluding references and abstract) and could be supported with up to 10 references & maximum of 3- 4 Pictures ( Include 70-80 % Pubmed & Scopus Index Journals & should be with in 10 years). Case Reports could be authored by up to four authors.

Clinico-Pathologic Conferences (CPC):

Should be Interesting, upto 1000 words (excluding references and abstract) Unusual, challenging with new updates. CPC should include Clinical Work with differential diagnosis. The complete  clinical pictures, diagnostic evaluation, management and followup must be mentioned in submitted manuscript. Abstract is not compulsory for CPC instead author can mention key points of submitted CPC (i.e. interesting points of CPC in 100 -200 words). CPC should include Title, Interesting Points, Clinical presentation in support of pictures (maximum 5-6), Diagnosis, Management & follow up with Discussion. Can be Authored up to Four Authors. 

Letter to the Editor & Correspondence:

These should be short and decisive observations. They should preferably be related to articles previously published in the Journal or views expressed in the journal. They should not be preliminary observations that need a later paper for validation. The letter could have up to 500 words, 1 figure and 5 references (Include 70-80 % Pubmed & Scopus Index Journals). It could be generally authored by not more than four authors.

Others:

Editorial, Guest Editorial, Commentary and Opinion are solicited by the editorial board.

Conclusion:

Manuscript end with conclusion or with summary point should briefly cover the key points of mansucript as SIDJ specific format.  it should include new information so that it could deliver educational and teaching messages to SIDJ clinicians and readers.

References should be Comprehensive & Current (Include 70-80 % Pubmed & Scopus Index Journals & should be with in 10 years)

Atleast 70-80% of article cited should be within recent 5-10 years of submission of the manuscript with minimum of 5 studies quoted in the current year.

The reference list at the end of the manuscript must be numbered in the order of appearance and should be cited as follows-

  (i) Names and initials of up to six authors. When there are seven or more, list the first three and add et al.
 (ii)Year of publication
(iii) Full title of paper followed by a full stop (.)
(iv)Title of journal in the standard MEDLINE/ indexing Abbreviation (in italics)
(v) Volume number  followed by a comma (,)
(vi) First page in full and the last digit of the last pages (last two digits in case where the second digit is different)

References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text (not in alphabetic order). Identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in superscript with square bracket after the punctuation marks. References cited only in tables or figure legends should be numbered in accordance with the sequence established by the first identification in the text of the particular table or figure. Use the style of the examples below, which are based on the formats used by the NLM in Index Medicus. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus. Use complete name of the journal for non-indexed journals. Avoid using abstracts as references. Information from manuscripts submitted but not accepted should be cited in the text as "unpublished observations" with written permission from the source. Avoid citing a "personal communication" unless it provides essential information not available from a public source, in which case the name of the person and date of communication should be cited in parentheses in the text. References should follow the standards summarized in the National Library of Medicine’s Citing Medicine, 2nd edition.
The commonly cited types of references are shown here, for other types of references such as newspaper items please refer to ICMJE Guidelines (http://www.icmje.org or http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html).

Citation Rules and Policies (COPE  citation manipulation)

Authors should ensure in their manuscript that material taken from other sources (including their own published writings) the source should be clearly cited, and that appropriate permission has been obtained.       

Authors should not engage in excessive self-citation of their own work.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Authors should not copy references from other publications if they have not read the cited work.                                                                                                                                                                                         

Authors should not preferentially cite their own or their friends’, peers’, or institution’s publications.                                                                                                                                                                                     

Authors should not cite advertisements or advertorial material.

Articles in Journals

1. Standard journal article (for up to six authors): Parija S C, Ravinder PT, Shariff M. Detection of hydatid antigen in the fluid samples from hydatid cysts by co-agglutination. Trans. R.Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg.1996; 90:255–256.
2. Standard journal article (for more than six authors): List the first six contributors followed by et al. 

Roddy P, Goiri J, Flevaud L, Palma PP, Morote S, Lima N. et al., Field Evaluation of a Rapid Immunochromatographic Assay for Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection by Use of Whole Blood. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2008; 46: 2022-2027.

3. Volume with supplement: Otranto D, Capelli G, Genchi C: Changing distribution patterns of canine vector borne diseases in Italy: leishmaniosis vs. dirofilariosis.Parasites & Vectors 2009; Suppl 1:S2. 

Books and Other Monographs

1. Personal author(s): Parija SC. Textbook of Medical Parasitology. 3rd ed. All India Publishers and Distributors. 2008.
2. Editor(s), compiler(s) as author: Garcia LS, Filarial Nematodes In: Garcia LS (editor) Diagnostic Medical Parasitology ASM press Washington DC 2007: pp 319-356.
3. Chapter in a book: Nesheim M C. Ascariasis and human nutrition. In Ascariasis and its prevention and control, D. W. T. Crompton, M. C. Nesbemi, and Z. S. Pawlowski (eds.). Taylor and Francis,London, U.K.1989, pp. 87–100.

Electronic Sources as reference

Journal article on the Internet: Parija SC, Khairnar K. Detection of excretory Entamoeba histolytica DNA in the urine, and detection of E. histolytica DNA and lectin antigen in the liver abscess pus for the diagnosis of amoebic liver abscess .BMC Microbiology 2007, 7:41.doi:10.1186/1471-2180-7-41. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/7/41

Tables

• Tables should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material. Should not contain tonal or shaded areas. should be of 900 to 1200 dpi.

• Tables with more than 10 columns and 25 rows are not acceptable.

• Number tables, in Arabic numerals, consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and supply a brief title for each.

• Place explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading.

• Explain in footnotes all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table.

• Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and provide a credit line in the footnote.

• For footnotes use the following symbols, in this sequence: *, †, ‡, §, ||,¶ , **, ††, ‡‡

• Tables with their legends should be provided at the end of the text after the references. The tables along with their number should be cited at the relevant place in the text

Illustrations (Figures)

• Upload the images in JPEG format. The file size should be within 1024 kb in size while uploading. Should be of 300 dpi or more.

• Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they have been first cited in the text.

• Halftone images a continous tone photograph which contains no text should be of 300 dpi or more

• Combo images (i.e. images contains Halftone and text or line art elements) should be of 500 to 900 dpi

• Labels, numbers, and symbols should be clear and of uniform size. The lettering for figures should be large enough to be legible after reduction to fit the width of a printed column.

• Symbols, arrows, or letters used in photomicrographs should contrast with the background and should be marked neatly with transfer type or by tissue overlay and not by pen.

• Titles and detailed explanations belong in the legends for illustrations not on the illustrations themselves.

• When graphs, scatter-grams or histograms are submitted the numerical data on which they are based should also be supplied.

• The photographs and figures should be trimmed to remove all the unwanted areas.

• If photographs of individuals are used, their pictures must be accompanied by written permission to use the photograph.

• If a figure has been published elsewhere, acknowledge the original source and submit written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce the material. A credit line should appear in the legend for such figures.

• Legends for illustrations: Type or print out legends (maximum 40 words, excluding the credit line) for illustrations using double spacing, 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 in the legend. Explain the internal scale (magnification) and identify the method of staining in photomicrographs.

• Final figures for print production: Send sharp, glossy, un-mounted, color photographic prints, with height of 4 inches and width of 6 inches at the time of submitting the revised manuscript. Print outs of digital photographs are not acceptable. If digital images are the only source of images, ensure that the image has minimum resolution of 300 dpi or 1800 x 1600 pixels in TIFF format. Send the images on a CD. Each figure should have a label pasted (avoid use of liquid gum for pasting) on its back indicating the number of the figure, the running title, top of the figure and the legends of the figure. Do not write the contributor/s' name/s. Do not write on the back of figures, scratch, or mark them by using paper clips.

• The Journal reserves the right to crop, rotate, reduce, or enlarge the photographs to an acceptable size. 

Protection of Patients' Rights to Privacy

Identifying information should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, sonograms, CT scans, etc., and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian, wherever applicable) gives informed consent for publication. Authors should remove patients' names from figures unless they have obtained informed consent from the patients. The journal abides by ICMJE guidelines:

1. Authors, not the journals nor the publisher, need to obtain the patient consent form before the publication and have the form properly archived. The consent forms are not to be uploaded with the cover letter or sent through email to editorial or publisher offices.
2. If the manuscript contains patient images that preclude anonymity, or a description that has obvious indication to the identity of the patient, a statement about obtaining informed patient consent should be indicated in the manuscript.

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and all those who qualify should be listed. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, from inception to published article. The name and order of the authors cannot be changed once the article is provisionally accepted.

Conditions 1, 2, 3 and 4 must all be met. Acquisition of funding, the collection of data, downloading references or general supervision of the research group, by themselves, do not justify authorship. Please read ICMJE guidelines in details at http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html

The order of authorship on the byline should be a joint decision of the co-authors. Authors should be prepared to explain the order in which authors are listed. Once submitted the order cannot be changed without written consent of all the authors. Unless all authors have read, reviewed and approved, the manuscript, it would NOT be processed. 

Sending a revised manuscript

The revised version of the manuscript should be submitted online in a manner similar to that used for submission of the manuscript for the first time. However, there is no need to submit the “First Page” or “Covering Letter” file while submitting a revised version. When submitting a revised manuscript, contributors are requested to include, the ‘referees’ remarks along with point to point clarification at the beginning in the revised file itself. In addition, they are expected to mark the changes as underlined or colored text in the article.

Reprints and proofs

Journal provides no free printed reprints. Authors can purchase reprints, payment for which should be done at the time of submitting the proofs.

Publication schedule

The journal publishes articles on its website immediately on acceptance and follows a ‘continuous publication’ schedule. Articles are compiled for ‘print on demand’ semiannual issues.

Manuscript submission, processing and publication charges  (Open Access Fees)

The journal charges following fee on acceptance- (Wolters Kluwer India Private Ltd, would be charging GST @18% on fees)

Case Report, Letter To Editor: US $ 120 (for overseas authors), INR 7800 (for authors from India)

Original Article, Review Article: US $ 120 (for overseas authors), INR 8600 (for authors from India)

Clinico-Pathologic Case Report : US $ 106 (for overseas authors), INR 7600 (for authors from India)

Article Processing Charges are for -

• World Wide Open Access of Full Text Manuscript 
• Developing & Maintainence of Electronic Tools for Peer Review & Publication
• Preparation of Manuscript in various formats for online & Print Version
• Enabling Electronic Citations in other journals via secure inclusion in crossref.

(As mandated by the Indian Government and based on the GST Law and procedures, Wolters Kluwer India Private Ltd, would be charging GST @18% on fees collected from Indian authors with effect from 1st July 2017. The said tax will be in addition to the prices maintained on the website to be collected from the authors and will be paid to the Indian Government..)

Proclamation of Manuscript after Publication -

• ORCID - https://orcid.org/
• LOOP - https://loop.frontiersin.org/
• Research Gate - https://www.researchgate.net/
• Mendeley - https://www.mendeley.com/?interaction_required=true
• Kudos - https://www.growkudos.com/about/researchers
• FigShare- https://figshare.com/
• DataCite- https://datacite.org/
• Google Scholar- https://scholar.google.com/  (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OyqcqZoAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1) 

Copyrights

The entire contents of the The Saint's International Dental Journal are protected under Indian and international copyrights. The Journal, however, grants to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, perform and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works in any digital medium for any reasonable non-commercial purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship and ownership of the rights. The journal also grants the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal non-commercial use under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International Public License.

Checklist

Covering letter

• Signed by all contributors
• Previous publication / presentations mentioned
• Source of funding mentioned
• Conflicts of interest disclosed

Authors

• Last name and given name provided along with Middle name initials (where applicable)
• Author for correspondence, with e-mail address provided
• Number of contributors restricted as per the instructions
• Identity not revealed in paper except title page (e.g. name of the institute in Methods, citing previous study as 'our study', names on figure labels, name of institute in photographs, etc.)

Presentation and format

• Double spacing
• Margins 1.0 cm from all four sides
• Page numbers included at bottom
• Title page contains all the desired information
• Running title provided (not more than 50 characters)
• Abstract page contains the full title of the manuscript
• Abstract provided (structured abstract of 250 words for original articles, unstructured abstracts of about 150 words for all other manuscripts excluding letters to the Editor)
• Key words provided (three or more)
• Introduction of 75-100 words
• Headings in title case (not ALL CAPITALS)
• The references cited in the text should be after punctuation marks, in superscript with square bracket.
• References according to the journal's instructions, punctuation marks checked
• Send the article file without ‘Track Changes’

Language and grammar

• Uniformly American English
• Write the full term for each abbreviation at its first use in the title, abstract, keywords and text separately unless it is a standard unit of measure. Numerals from 1 to 10 spelt out
• Numerals at the beginning of the sentence spelt out
• Check the manuscript for spelling, grammar and punctuation errors
• If a brand name is cited, supply the manufacturer's name and address (city and state/country).
• Species names should be in italics

Tables and figures

• No repetition of data in tables and graphs and in text
• Actual numbers from which graphs drawn, provided
• Figures necessary and of good quality (colour)
• Table and figure numbers in Arabic letters (not Roman)
• Labels pasted on back of the photographs (no names written)
• Figure legends provided (not more than 40 words)
• Patients' privacy maintained (if not permission taken)
• Credit note for borrowed figures/tables provided
• Write the full term for each abbreviation used in the table as a footnote

Contributors' form

Click here to download instructions

Click here to download copyright form

These ready to use templates are made to help the contributors write as per the requirements of the Journal.

Save the templates on your computer and use them with a word processor program. 
Click open the file and save as the manuscript file.

In the program keep 'Document Map' and 'Comments' on from 'View' menu to navigate through the file. 


Download Template for Original Articles/ABSTRACT Reports. (.DOT file)

Download Template for Case Reports.  (.DOT file)

Download Template for Review Articles.  (.DOT file)

Download Template for Letter to the Editor.  (.DOT file)