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Conditions

All manuscripts submitted for publication in LMJ are subjected to review by two independent reviewers before accepted for publication.

Submission process           

LMJ accept submission of original papers written in English only as soft copies sent via E-mail: labmedjournal@gmail.com.   
As soon as the article is accepted, it is published in Laboratory Medicine Journal immediately as a provisional PDF file online.
The paper is then subsequently published in both fully browse able web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article is then available through Laboratory Medicine Journal Website and also in the hard copy of the journal.

Editorial policies

Submission of a manuscript to the Laboratory Medicine Journal implies that all authors have read and agreed to its content, and that readily reproducible materials described in the manuscript is going to be freely available online to any scientist wishing to use it for non-commercial purposes.
A submission letter or email signed and agreed by all authors should be submitted along the manuscript.
Authors who publish in the Laboratory Medicine Journal can retain copyright to their work.
All manuscripts reporting experimental research on human subjects require approval from ethical committee. Although statement to this effect must be included in the Methods section of the manuscript, a copy of Ethical Committee Approval may be requested from the author(s).          

Preparing main manuscript text

File formats

The following word processor file formats are acceptable for the main manuscript document:

Microsoft Word (version 5 and above)

WordPerfect (version 5 and above)

Portable document format (PDF) 

Note that figures must be submitted as separate image files, not as part of the submitted PDF.

Article types

Laboratory Medicine Journal accepts Review paper, Original research paper, Case report, and Letter to the editor.
When submitting your manuscript for publication please makes sure that you have assigned the type of your article in the title page.

The manuscript parts

Title page

Abstract

Background

Material and methods

Results

Discussion

References

Figure legends (if any)

Tables and captions (if any)

Title page

This should list the title of the article, the full names, institutional addresses, and E-mail addresses for all authors. The corresponding author should indicate his detailed address, telephone, fax, and E-mail.

Abstract
The abstract of the manuscript should not exceed 300 words and must be structured into subheadings, Background, the context and purpose of the study; Material and Methods used in the study; Results, listing the main findings; Conclusions, brief summary and potential implications of the study.

Background

The background section should be written from the standpoint of researchers without specialist knowledge in that area. It must illustrate the background to the research and its aims. The section should end with a very brief statement of what is being reported in the article.

Material and methods

This should be divided into subsections if several methods are used and described. Separate subheading may be used for material and methods when necessary.

Results

The results section may be broken into subsections with short, informative headings.

Discussion
The author(s) is expected to highlight the most significant findings of his work. Discussion section should include a justification of odd results and data conflicting with previous literature. Only important findings should be discussed in this section.

Abbreviations

If abbreviations are used in the text either they should be defined in the text where first used, or a list of abbreviations can be provided, which should precede the acknowledgements.

Acknowledgements

The acknowledgements should be kept to a minimum. Authors are expected to obtain permission to acknowledge from all those mentioned in the Acknowledgements.

References

The editorial office prefer the using of  Reference manager (above 10) system, or End Note .The reference must be finalized and the bibliography must be fully formatted before online submission.
Only articles and abstracts that have been published, in press, or are available through public (E-print/preprint servers) may be cited; unpublished abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications should not be included in the reference list, but may be included only in the text. Notes/footnotes are not allowed.
Citations in the reference list should contain all named authors, regardless of how many there are. There should usually be no more than 50 references per article.
Author using online submission are encouraged to use a recent version of End Note (version 5 or 6) or Reference Manager (version 10) when formatting their reference list, as this allows references to be automatically extracted.
References in the text should be made by Vancouver style. Authors are asked to check the accuracy of all references before submitting a manuscript.

Figure legends

The figure legends should be included in the main manuscript text, immediately following the references, rather than being a part of the figure file. The following information should be provided, for each figure: Figure number (in sequence, using Arabic numerals - i.e. Figure 1, 2, 3 etc); Short title of figure (maximum 15 words); detailed legend, up to 300 words.

Preparing figures

Illustrations should be provided as separate files, not embedded in the text file. Each figure should include a single illustration, which should be submitted as a separate graphics file. There is no charge for the use of color figures. Each figure should be closely grouped to minimize the amount of white space surrounding the illustration.

Preparing tables

Each table should be numbered in sequence using Arabic numerals (i.e. Table 1, 2, 3 etc.). Tables should also have a title that summarizes the whole table, maximum 15 words. Detailed legends may then follow, but should be concise.

Larger datasets can be uploaded separately as additional files. Additional files will not be displayed in the final, published form of the article, but a link will be provided to the files as supplied by the author.

Preparing additional files

If additional files are provided (e.g. movie files, original data files), each should be described in this section of the manuscript, providing the following information:

File name

File format (including name and URL link)

Title of this dataset

Description of this dataset

Additional data files may be referenced generically within the body of the article. e.g. "See additional data file 1 for the original data used to perform this analysis". Additional files are considered integral to a research article published by ASJ. There is no distinction between the main article and 'supplementary material'. Files will be virus-scanned on submission.

Style and language

LMJ only accept manuscripts written in English only and the font of text by Book Antique size 12 and double space with normal margine of page layout. The spelling should be US English or British English, but not a mixture. Gene names should be in italic, but protein products should be in plain type.

Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be used as sparingly as possible. They can be defined when first used or a list of abbreviations can be provided preceding the acknowledgements and references.

Laboratory Medicine Journal

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