To,

The Editor

Sub: Submission of Manuscript for publication

Dear Sir,

We intend to publish an article entitled “ ” in your esteemed journal as a Review Article.

On behalf of all the contributors I will act and guarantor and will correspond with the journal from this point onward.

Prior publication

Support

Conflicts of interest

Permissions

We also agree to provide post-publication update on the article.

We have done sufficient work in the filed to justify authorship for this article.

We hereby transfer, assign, or otherwise convey all copyright ownership, including any and all rights incidental thereto, exclusively to the journal, in the event that such work is published by the journal.

We would like to suggest following referees for the article.

Thanking you,

Yours’ sincerely,

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Corresponding contributor:

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Encl :	Three copies of the manuscript

Three copies of the photograph

Contributor’s form signed by all the contributors

Checklist

Contributors' form (to be modified as applicable and one singed copy attached with the manuscript)

Manuscript Title: ________________________________________________________________________________

I/we certify that I/we have participated sufficiently in the intellectual content, conception and design of this work or the analysis and interpretation of the data (when applicable), as well as the writing of the manuscript, to take public responsibility for it and have agreed to have my/our name listed as a contributor. I/we believe the manuscript represents valid work. Neither this manuscript nor one with substantially similar content under my/our authorship has been published or is being considered for publication elsewhere, except as described in the covering letter. I/we certify that all the data collected during the study is presented in this manuscript and no data from the study has been or will be published separately. I/we attest that, if requested by the editors, I/we will provide the data/information or will cooperate fully in obtaining and providing the data/information on which the manuscript is based, for examination by the editors or their assignees. Financial interests, direct or indirect, that exist or may be perceived to exist for individual contributors in connection with the content of this paper have been disclosed in the cover letter. Sources of outside support of the project are named in the cover letter.

I/We hereby transfer(s), assign(s), or otherwise convey(s) all copyright ownership, including any and all rights incidental thereto, exclusively to this journal, in the event that such work is published by the journal. The journal shall own the work, including 1) copyright; 2) the right to grant permission to republish the article in whole or in part, with or without fee; 3) the right to produce preprints or reprints and translate into languages other than English for sale or free distribution; and 4) the right to republish the work in a collection of articles in any other mechanical or electronic format.

We give the rights to the corresponding author to make necessary changes as per the request of the journal, do the rest of the correspondence on our behalf and he/she will act as the guarantor for the manuscript on our behalf.

All persons who have made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript, but who are not contributors, are named in the Acknowledgment and have given me/us their written permission to be named. If I/we do not include an Acknowledgment that means I/we have not received substantial contributions from non-contributors and no contributor has been omitted.

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Checklist (to be tick marked, as applicable)

Manuscript Title __________________________________________________________________________________

Covering letter

Signed by all contributors

Previous publication / presentations mentioned

Source of funding mentioned

Conflicts of interest disclosed

Authors

Middle name initials provided

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 material and methods, citing previous study as ‘our study’, names on figure labels, name of institute in photographs, etc.)

Presentation and format

Double spacing

Margins 2.5 cm from all four sides

Title page contains all the desired information (vide supra)

Running title provided (not more than 50 characters)

Abstract page contains the full title of the manuscript

Abstract provided (not more than 150 words for case reports and 250 words for original articles)

Structured abstract provided for an original article

Key words provided (three or more)

Key messages provided

Introduction of 75-100 words

Headings in title case (not ALL CAPITALS, not underlined)

References cited in superscript in the text without brackets

References according to the journal’s instructions.

Language and grammar

Uniformly British English

Abbreviations spelt out in full for the first time

Numerals from 1 to 10 spelt out

Numerals at the beginning of the sentence spelt out

Tables and figures

No repetition of data in tables/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, written permission enclosed)

Credit note for borrowed figures/tables provided

Type of article: Review Article

Title of the article:

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Corresponding Author:

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Concepts
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Literature search
Clinical studies
Experimental studies
Data acquisition
Data analysis
Statistical analysis
Manuscript preparation
Manuscript editing
Manuscript review
Guarantor

Summary of work done by the contributors

Title of the article:

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Type of article: Original

jayashree

2014-01-24

DKPH