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Prepare your manuscript for Iraq Medical Journal.

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Checked 2026-07-16
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Article types

Research Article
Review
Systematic Review
Brief Report
Case Report

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 300 words.
  • The text of original articles amounting to utmost 3000 words (excluding Abstract, References and Tables) should include Title; the Abstract; Introduction; Materials & Methods; Results; Discussion; Conclusion; Acknowledgement; References, Tables and Figures (Not more than 4500 words).
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  • Provide enough information for the Abstract to be easily understood without reference to the text, and emphasize new and important aspects of the study.
  • Authors should describe the registration number at the end of the abstract and in the session of Materials and Methods of the text.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references in Vancouver style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • All the references should be cited in the article as superscript numbers.
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  • The latter should contain no more than 1000 words altogether including up to 10 references and 2 figures and/or tables.
  • Review: Therefore, the corresponding author of the review article must be one of the authors of at least three articles presented in Reference section.
  • Papers accepted but not yet published can be included in the reference list, but papers in preparation, unpublished observations, and personal communication should be noted in parentheses in the text.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
  • Cite all figures in the text, and number consecutively in the order cited in the text.
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  • Titles and detailed explanations should be given in the legends, not on the figures.
  • All abbreviations used in each figure should be explained in each legend.
  • Figure legends should provide a brief, self-sufficient explanation of the illustrations.
  • Cite all tables in the text, and number consecutively according to appearance in the text.
  • All abbreviations used in each table should be explained in the footnotes.
  • Details in the text, figures, photographs that might disclose identity of subjects should be omitted to preserve subjects anonymity.
  • Authors should remove patients' names from figures.
  • If data can be described in one or two sentences in the text, do not present them in a table.

Funding statement

  • Include or confirm the funding statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Ethics statement

  • Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • If identification of patients is unavoidable, written permission should be obtained.
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  • Ethics: Experimental studies on animals must include a statement that the studies meet appropriate ethical standards of the responsible committee.
  • The authors should also obtain written informed consent from subject included in the study, and state such information in the text.
  • Informed consent from the participants and from the parents or legal guardians of minors should be taken and stated in the study under the Materials and Method section.
  • Any data leading to direct patient identification, strictly should be omitted.

Blinded manuscript

  • Include or confirm the blinded manuscript required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Title page and author information

  • The title page should carry the following: Concise but informative title of the article.
  • In this step, the authors absolutely, cannot add any authors or large sentences to the article, besides; they are not allowed to change the corresponding author.

Reporting guidelines

  • If the article has several authors from different institutions, it should be clearly indicated with which department and institution each author is affiliated using superscript numbers.
  • The former must be received within 2 months of publication of the article to which they refer and should be no longer than 500 words.
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  • Review: The authors should state in the text whether the procedures followed in experiments on human subjects were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional review board) or with the Declaration of Helsinki 1964, and its later amendments.
  • Author Guidelines The Submitted Manuscript should follow the below: Having innovative and creative outcome.
  • Review: Review Articles: They should be written by authors considered experts on the subject.
  • The readers should be able to understand why the study was done.
  • Subjects should be described appropriately to show that the control and experimental groups contained matched subjects.
  • Logical implications of the present findings for practical applications or future studies are permissible, but unsubstantiated speculations must not be included.
  • Review: A PDF of the statement of approval of the study by institutional or regional review board should be attached.
  • The revised version of the manuscript should be included with reply to referee comments separately article to article.
  • In addition, the changes should be marked as underlined or colored text in the article.
  • Designate drugs by their generic names; but for particular chemicals or equipment, the brand names and locations of the supplier (city, state, and nation) should be given in parentheses.
  • Not exceed 300 words (approximately 1 page of A4) in length.
  • IMJ will put the author(s) in its blacklist and will not accept any other submission from that author(s) for at least 2 years for all Nab'a Al-Hayat foundation journals.
  • 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 Editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the Journal ethical standards.
  • This process takes no more than two weeks and the author(s) will be informed of the primary decision.
  • No article is rejected unless negative comments are received from at least two reviewers.

Statistical reporting

  • Include or confirm the statistical reporting required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Preprints and prior publication

  • Include or confirm the preprints and prior publication required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Case Report: Case reports must not exceed 1,000 words, 15 references and a reasonable amount of tables and/or figures (Not more than 2500 words).
  • Review: articles must include an abstract of no more than 300 words, a main text between 2000-3000 words excluding up to 90 references, and up to 6 tables and/or figures (altogether 5500-6000 words).

Manuscript structure

  • Author Guidelines The Submitted Manuscript should follow the below: Methods should preferably be advanced and reproducible.
  • Information presented in the previous sections should not be repeated.
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  • Include discussion of previous works that not only agree but also disagree with the present results.
  • Each column must carry an appropriate heading, and units in numerical measurements should be added to the column heading in parentheses.
  • They should not be divided into sections.
  • Key words, limited to five words or short phrases, taken from Index Medicus [Medical Subject Heading - MeSH] or composed by analogy on the same principles.

Language and text style

  • Author Guidelines The Submitted Manuscript should follow the below: manuscripts should written in Britih English.
  • Chemical formulas or abbreviations should not be used, but long common terms such as names of compounds or enzymes can be abbreviated.
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  • Abbreviations should be kept to an absolute minimum; but if necessary, they must be spelled out at first mention.

Study reporting guidelines

  • Systematic Review: Systematic reviews and meta-analysis are more welcomed and they should respectively follow the PRISMA (http://www.prisma-statement.org/) and MOOSE guidelines (http://www.consort-statement.org).
  • Randomized Controlled Trial Registry: Reports of randomized clinical trials should present information on all major study elements, including the protocol, assignment of interventions (methods allocation to treatment groups), and the method of masking (blinding), based on the CONSORT Statement (http://www.consort-statement.org).

Competing interests

  • Authors should also state if there are no conflicts of interest.
  • Conflicts of Interest (COI): All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence their work.
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  • Review: Conflicts of Interest Disclosure: All authors must state any actual or potential conflicts of interest with regard to the manuscript submitted for review under a heading of Conflicts of Interest (COI) Disclosure following the Acknowledgment section.
  • Authors have the right to communicate to the editor if they do not wish their manuscript to be reviewed by a particular reviewer because of potential conflicts of interest.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 300 words
Paper: 500 words
References: Vancouver
Declarations: Ethics, Acknowledgements

Source transparency

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