Guide for Authors

Sending English Article from non-Iranian authors is welcome. In these cases, the article will be translated to Persian and the Persian article along with an English abstract will be published in this journal if the article is accepted.

 

English article should be composed from the sections of  abstract, keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, acknowledgement and references. The paper shall be written with Times New Roman font, single line spacing and 12 font size. Page margins are formed regarding the A4 page size and are 2.5 cm wide from the right, left, top and bottom. End of the lines should be aligned to the right and there should be no syllable segmentation.

 

The article should be written according to the following style

 

 

Article headline

(TIMES NEW ROMAN, 14 FONT SIZE, BOLD, ALL CAPS, CENTERED)

 

 

 

 

Author’s Name and Surname1, Author’s Name and Surname2 (10 font size)

1Organization information that the author is committed to

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2Organization information that the author is committed to

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ABSTRACT (12 Font Size, bold, all caps, centered)- Abstract should be written Up to 250 words and with 11 font size, Times New Roman, justified, single line spacing. Objectives, methods and findings are summarized in this section.

 

Keywords: Keywords regarding the work are stated in this section. Said section should contain maximum 5 words that are written with 11 font size and separated with semi-colon.

 

INTRODUCTION (Title Times New Roman, 12 font size, bold)

Your paper's introduction is an opportunity to provide readers with the background necessary to understand your paper

 

MATERIALS AND METHODS

 All materials and methods that have been used in the work must be stated clearly and subtitles should be used when necessary.

 

Subtitle

 First degree titles (2.) should be written left aligned, all caps and bold. Second and 3rd degree subtitles (2.1, 2.1.1) should be written left aligned, bold and with title case. A blank line should be placed between the paragraphs and there should not be any paragraph indentation.

 

 RESULTS 

  All of the tables, images and figures should be centered. Figures and images should be numbered together (Figure 2) and figure definitions should be placed under the figure or image; as for the tables, they should also be numbered (Table 2) and the table header should be placed at the top of the chart. Table, image and figure headers should be written with upper case initial letters, bold and should be centered. References (if any) of the tables, figures and images should be presented just under the tables, figures and images in the form of author surname and publication date.

 Subtitle

  

Table 2. Table Header

 

DISCUSSION

"The purpose of the discussion is to interpret and describe the significance of your findings in light of what was already known about the research problem being investigated, and to explain any new understanding or fresh insights about the problem after you've taken the findings into consideration."

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

 Please acknowledge your research grant, organization, scholarship (where relevant)

 

REFERENCES

 Resources that have been presented inside ( ) in the text with numbers should be listed according to their order in the text. References that have been presented in the references list should be prepared in a format according to the reference type shown below:

 

 

If the reference is an article;

Surname and initials of the author or authors (use the comma "," between the authors' names). Full article title. Abbreviated name of the journal. Year of publication; Volume (Journal Issue): Number of Pages. If the number of authors is more than 6, use the phrase ", .et al" after the name of the sixth person.

1-      Usein CR, Damian M, Tatu‐Chitoiu D, Capusa C, Fagaras R, Tudorache D, et al., Prevalence of virulence genes in Escherichia coli strains isolated from Romanian adult urinary tract infection cases. J Cell Mol Med. 2001; 5(3): 303-10.

If the reference is a book;

Surname and initials of the author or authors. Book title. Edition number. City of printing: Publisher; Year of publication, page number

2-      Philips SJ, Whisnant JP. Hypertension and Stroke. 2nd ed. New York: Raven Press; 1995, P: 85-93.

If the reference is a Conference paper;

Surname and initials of the author or authors. Conference article title, conference name; Conference date; Conference Venue: Name of Publications; Release date. Page number.

3-      Jamshidi J, Pouresmaeili F. Association of vitamin D receptor gene BsmI polymorphisms with bone mineral density in a population of Iranian women, European Human Genetics Conference 2012; June 23-36, 2012; Nurnberg, Germany: nature publishing group; 2012. P: 390.

If the reference is a Thesis;

Surname and initials of the author. Title. University and Faculty; History of Defense.

4-      Kaplan SJ. Post-hospital home health care: the elderly access and utilization (dissertation). St Louis (MO): Washington University; 1995.

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