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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.
  • You must read and acknowledge that you've completed the requirements below before proceeding.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format. Use the Microsoft Word template to prepare your manuscript.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a New Roman, font size 11-point font; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • Make sure that issues about publication ethics, research ethics, copyright, authorship, figure formats, data and references format have been appropriately considered.

Author Guidelines

AIMS AND SCOPE

The Borneo Journal of Medical Sciences (BJMS) (eISSN: 2710-7353) is an open-access, peer-reviewed, online academic journal affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) since 2007. BJMS publishes three issues annually – in January, May, and September. At present, there is no Article Processing Charge incurred for publishing of materials with BJMS.   

BJMS aims to provide a platform for researchers and medical practitioners to share theories, views and disseminate valuable and important research information from, but not limited to Borneo. The journal welcomes original research articles, review articles, case reports, editorials, concept papers, short communications and clinical quizzes, concerning basic and clinical research on any medical and health-related issues. 

SCHEDULE OF PUBLICATION 

Three issues per year (January, May and September). 

SUBMISSION FEE/PROCESSING FEE 

Presently, there is no submission fee/ article processing charge (APC) for any of the manuscripts. 

 SUBMISSION 

The manuscript should be written in clear and concise British English, adhering to standard English style and usage. If you are a non-native English speaker, it is advisable to seek professional assistance with the language to ensure clarity and correctness. The manuscript should be submitted through the online submission system. 

The manuscript should be submitted online, in MS Word format, Times New Roman, font 11, double-spaced. Headings such as Abstract, Introduction, Methods and materials, Discussion, Conclusion, Conflict of interest, Acknowledgement, and References should be UPPER CASE. 

Manuscripts are considered for publication on the condition that they are exclusively submitted to BJMS and have not been published elsewhere, although they may have been presented at scientific meetings. The manuscript must be accompanied by the BJMS assignment form, signed by all authors. 

Initially, the manuscript will be assessed from an editorial perspective. If considered appropriate by the Editor, it will proceed to the peer-review process. The corresponding author will be informed of the evaluation, along with any editorial remarks. The preferred word processing program is Microsoft Word. The copyright of the article belongs to the authors, who retain ownership of their work published in the journal. Their work is distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

The manuscript will undergo a plagiarism check after submission and before acceptance. 

Copyright Notice

We, the authors certify to participate 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 our name listed as a contributor. We believe the manuscript represents valid work. Neither this manuscript nor one with substantially similar content under our authorship has been published or is being considered for publication elsewhere, except as described in the covering letter. Any such involvement, publishers of BJMS are not responsible and the authors are held for any untoward practices if any.

Authors also state that, the work is original and is not infringing with the rights of others and copyrights. Author also further declares that, each co-author have contributed significantly and have accepted to be co-authors for their significant contribution for the work.

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. We attest that, if requested by the editors, 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.

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 us their written permission to be named. If we do not include an Acknowledgment that means we have not received substantial contributions from non-contributors and no contributor has been omitted.

All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0)  license, enabling users to read, download, copy, distribute, and adapt the material for non-commercial purposes, provided proper credit is given to the original authors and the source. This model supports transparency, accessibility, and the global exchange of medical knowledge.

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