Instructions for Authors
Online Submissions
Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (JMID) accepts online submissions; those wishing to submit a manuscript must register on our website. Please click here to register or to log in as an author.
The corresponding author must register to submit a manuscript and check the status of submitted items. If the manuscript is incomplete, it will be sent back to the author for completion.
Article Processing Charges (APCs)
Publication charge (For DOI no., Conversion of XML file, submission system and website and online publication, typesetting and copy editing by professional editors and courier charge) is 150 dollars (USD). Publication charge for hard copy will be extra. Authors are requested to send publication charge directly to publishers account after formal acceptance letter received.
Letter to editor in response to some published studies in journal will be published free of charge.
Overview of the publication and peer review processes
JMID aims to help all authors have an easy and efficient editorial process. Therefore, it is journal policy that our editorial team will evaluate all submitted items. First, the editorial team will evaluate the manuscript to decide whether it is ready for peer review. If it is ready for peer review, the manuscript will be assigned to one of our section editors, all of whom are experts in their fields.
Then the manuscript will be sent to three reviewers who are experts in the field of study relevant to the manuscript. They will evaluate whether the manuscript is scientifically well-designed and intelligible and whether the quality of writing is acceptable. The editorial team will decide whether or not to accept the submission based on the reviewers' recommendations. When a final decision is made, a decision letter will be sent to the corresponding author. Possible final decisions include:
· Acceptance without revision
· Acceptance with minor revisions
· Re-assessment after a major revision
· Declined
The authors will be informed if there are issues with the manuscript's formatting or the language quality. The authors will also be informed about how to get assistance to correct these issues.
Related Topics
According to the Uniform Requirements, all manuscripts should be prepared for manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals (http://www.icmje.org/). Manuscripts must only be submitted to the JMID; they may not be submitted for publication elsewhere.
Ethical Approval
All manuscripts submitted for publication should contain a declaration specifying that all prospective human studies have been approved by the Ethics Committee. The study should be performed following the ethical standards of the 2008 Declaration of Helsinki. In addition, the declaration should include a statement acknowledging that all participants gave informed consent before they participated in the study. If a study involves animals, it must have been approved by the animal ethics committee and performed according to the care and use of laboratory animals' standards. A statement regarding these ethical issues should be included in the Method Section of the manuscript. This statement must include the name of the ethics approval body and the approval date.
Submission Process
JMID aims to publish submissions worldwide, but all manuscripts must be written in American English. During the submission process, the manuscript should be assigned to the appropriate submission type.
Before submission, the corresponding author must register for a JMID account via the JMID website. The corresponding author will be responsible for all submission and revision procedures. When submitting a manuscript to JMID, the author must accept all of the terms and conditions of the journal publication.
Cover Letter
All manuscripts submitted to JMID must include a cover letter declaring that the manuscript has not been submitted (currently not under review) or accepted for publication elsewhere. In addition, this letter must state that all authors have made a remarkable contribution to the work and have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Potential Reviewers
The corresponding author should provide the names, email addresses, work institution, and area of expertise for two potential reviewers. These reviewers should be qualified to review the manuscript.
Manuscript preparation
Type of papers:
The following types of papers are considered for publication:
1. Original research articles.
2. Review articles.
3. Short communications.
4. Case reports.
Letters to the Editor:
Manuscript:
Title of the manuscript should be appropriate to the nature of the paper. All submitted manuscripts should include: Title page and Abstract. For original research papers, text should be organized as follows: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, and References. For case reports, text should be organized as follows: Introduction, Case Details, Discussion, and References. Review articles should be organized as: Introduction and then the rest of the article may be appropriately subdivided according to the authors' choice. Because short communications are brief, Results and Discussion sections should be combined in one section as "Results and Discussion".
Review Process:
All manuscripts are reviewed by the editor and members of the Editorial Board and also by qualified outside reviewers. Decisions will generally be made as rapidly as possible, and the journal strives to return reviewers’ comments to authors as soon as possible. The editorial board will re-review the manuscripts that are accepted pending revisions. If accepted, then will be published online immediately also will be printed among other accepted articles in the next issue of the journal. The decision to accept or reject a paper for publication in the Journal rests fully with the Editorial Board.
Article Format:
- Manuscripts must be typed in font size 12 (Times New Roman).
- Double-spaced throughout, including the Reference section.
- All pages should be numbered (Page Numbers) starting from the title page.
- Continual line numbering (Line Numbers) should be used throughout the manuscript.
- Manuscripts should only be submitted in English.
- Title Page: Title page should have the following: (a) the title of the paper, (b) names of authors, (c) author affiliations: institutions and their postal addresses, (d) telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the corresponding author. Superscript numbers should be used to link authors with institutions, and an asterisk (*) should be used to refer to the corresponding author.
- Structured Abstract: The Abstract should be written in a way that readers can easily understand the objective of the investigation and the results achieved. The Abstract should not exceed 350 words. Abstract should be on a separate page immediately after the title page. Following the abstract, you should provide a maximum of 5 key words in alphabetical order.
- Background
- Aim
- Methods
- Results
- Conclusion
- Background
- Case Description
- Conclusion
- Introduction: The introduction should provide a clear statement of the problem and the reason for investigation. Statements should be fully supported by proper references. Although the Introduction should be concise, it should be useful not only to those who are very familiar with the topic of the paper but also to non-experts. There should be no statements pertaining to the results at the end of the Introduction.
- Materials and Methods: Procedures described in the paper should have sufficient details to enable other experimenters to be able to replicate the findings. However, only new procedures should be described in detail and all the methods that follow earlier publications should be cited. Any important modifications of published procedures should be mentioned clearly. Capitalize trade names and include the manufacturer's full name and address. Subheadings should be used.
- Ethical Approval: Must be provided (if there) at the end of the Materials and Methods section.
- Results: Should be presented with clarity and precision. The results should describe findings in the authors' experiments. The Results section may include subheadings. Discussion, speculations and detailed interpretations of the data should not be included in the Results as such details belong to the Discussion section.
- Discussion: Should mainly focus on interpreting the findings of the results that obtained in the current study. Also comparisons to the past studies on that particular topic should me made wherever appropriate. Statements made should be adequately referenced. State the main conclusions and/or summary in a few sentences at the end of the paper.
- Acknowledgments: Any acknowledgments to people, grants, funds, etc, if required, should be in brief and should be included in a separate headed section at the end of the manuscript but before the reference section.
- Conflict of interest: At the end and under a subheading "Conflict of interest", all Authors are required to certify if there are any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could influence or bias their work. If no conflicts of interest exist, this should be stated as "The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest".
- Authors' Contributions: The contributions of all authors must be described in order to know each author’s individual contributions to the work. The corresponding author is responsible for providing the contributions of all authors at submission. We expect that all authors have reviewed, discussed, and agreed to their individual contributions prior and during submission of their article. Contributions will be published with the final article, and they should accurately reflect contributions to the work.
- Funding: JMID requires authors to specify any sources of funding (institutional, private and corporate financial support) for the work reported in their manuscript. This information, in the form of the name of the funding organisation/s and the grant number, should be included at the end of the manuscript under the heading ‘Funding’, and provided at the time of submitting the paper. If there was no funding, the following wording or similar words could be used: “This research received no specific grant”.
- Data Availability: Your data availability statement should describe how the data supporting the results reported in your paper can be accessed. Few examples:
- All data supporting the findings of this study are available within the manuscript.
- The data that support the findings of this study are not openly available due to reasons of sensitivity and are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
- The data that support the findings of this study are available from the authors but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license from the (XXXXX) for the current study, and so are not publicly available. Data are, however, available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission from the (XXXXX).
- Tables: Number all the Table(s) in the order of their citation in the manuscript. Include a title for each Table. All Table(s) should be included at the end of the manuscript following the References, and each Table in a separate page. If a Table must be continued, repeat the title on a second sheet, followed by “(cont).”
- Figures: Figures and graphics should be prepared using applications that generate high resolution images. Figures should be uploaded separately during the Submission Process. The Figure's legend should be written at the end of the manuscript and should include sufficient description so that the Figure can be understood without having to read the text of the manuscript. Number all the Figures (graphs, charts, photographs, and illustrations) in the order of their citation in the text.
- Abbreviations, Units, etc.: Authors should follow internationally agreed conventions while abbreviating various terms.
- References: In the text, a reference should be identified by an author‘s name followed by the year of publication. When there are more than two authors; only the first author’s name should be mentioned, followed by ‘et al’. In the event that an author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by lower case letters like ’a‘ and ’b‘ after the date to distinguish various works from the same author. Examples: Ahmed (2000), Wang et al. (2003), (Sparrow, 2010), (Skinner and Laidlaw, 2004), (Chege, 1998; Chukwura, 1987a,b; Tijani, 1993, 1995), (Kaiser et al., 2001). There is no limit to the number of references but only the most pertinent references should be used. The entire list of references should be given at the end of text in this order: (a) author or authors (b) year of publication (c) title of article (d) abbreviated name of the Journal (e) volume (f) page/s. References should be numbered in alphabetical order. Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of the references. See below for examples:
- Journal Articles: Chin, J.C., Dai, Y. and Watts, J.E. 1995. Antibody response against Pseudomonas aeruginosa membrane proteins in experimentally infected sheep. Vet. Microbiol. 43, 21-32.
- A Book: Durbin, R., Eddy, S.R., Krogh, A. and Mitchison, G. 1999. Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids. Cambridge University Press.
- A Chapter in a Book: Leach, J. 1993. Impacts of the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) on water quality and fish spawning reefs of Western Lake Erie. In Zebra mussels: biology, impacts and control, Eds., Nalepa, T. and D. Schloesser. Ann Arbor, MI: Lewis Publishers, pp: 381-397.
- Conference Proceedings: Stock, A. 2004. Signal Transduction in Bacteria. In the Proceedings of the 2004 Markey Scholars Conference, pp: 80-89.
- A Thesis: Strunk, J.L. 1991. The extraction of mercury from sediment and the geochemical partitioning of mercury in sediments from Lake Superior, M. S. thesis, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI.
- Work accepted for publication but not yet published should be referred to as "in press".
- References concerning unpublished data and "personal communications" should not be cited in the reference list but may be mentioned in the text.
Research Article
This may include intervention studies, outcome studies, experimental designs, clinical trials, clinical studies, case control studies, cohort studies, cross sectional surveys etc. Original article should be subdivided into –
1. Title Page: (Title, Full Authors' Names, Affiliations and Corresponding Author's details)
2. Abstract (Structured Abstract with the following subheadings: Background, Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusion) with no more than 350 words.
3. Keywords (3-5 keywords)
4. Introduction
5. Materials and Methods
6. Results
7. Discussion
8. Conclusion
9. Acknowledgments
10. Funding
11. Authors' contributions
12. Conflict of interest
13. Data availability
14. References
15. Tables and Figures
Short Communication
1. Title Page: (Title, Full Authors' Names, Affiliations and Corresponding Author's details)
2. Abstract (Structured Abstract with the following subheadings: Background, Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusion) with no more than 350 words.
3. Keywords (3-5 keywords)
4. Introduction
5. Materials and Methods
6. Results and Discussion
7. Conclusion
8. Acknowledgments
8. Funding
10. Authors' contributions
11. Conflict of interest
12. Data availability
13. References
14. Tables and Figures
Review Article
1. Title Page: (Title, Full Authors' Names, Affiliations and Corresponding Author's details)
2. Abstract (One paragraph without subheadings) with no more than 350 words.
3. Keywords (3-5 keywords)
4. Introduction
5. Headings and Subheadings
6. Conclusion
7. Acknowledgments
8. Funding
9. Authors' contributions
10. Conflict of interest
11. Data availability
12. References
13. Tables and Figures
Case Report
1. Title Page: (Title, Full Authors' Names, Affiliations and Corresponding Author's details)
2. Abstract (Structured Abstract with the following subheadings: Background, Case Description, Conclusion) with no more than 350 words.
3. Keywords (3-5 keywords)
4. Introduction
5. Case Details
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion
8. Acknowledgments
9. Funding
10. Authors' contributions
11. Conflict of interest
12. Data availability
13. References
14. Tables and Figures
