Submissions

Author Guidelines

Author's Guide

The " Pak Heart J: Pakistan Heart Journal " is a quarterly, peer reviewed official journal of Pakistan Cardiac society and follows the uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to Biomedical journals as approved by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors as revised in 1997 published in N Eng J Med 1997; 336:309-15. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has produced and updated the "Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts (URM) Submitted to Biomedical Journals". Detailed information can be downloaded from www.icmje.org.

All material submitted for publication should be sent exclusively to the Pakistan Heart Journal. Work that has already been reported in a published paper or in described in a paper sent for accepted elsewhere for publication should not be submitted. Multiple or duplicate submission of the same work to other journal should be avoided as this fall into the category of publication fraud and is liable for disciplinary consequences, including reporting to Pakistan Medical & Dental Council and Higher Education Commission. A complete report following publication of a preliminary report, usually in the form of an abstract, or a paper that has been presented at scientific meeting, if not published in full in a proceedings or similar publication, may be submitted.

Submission of Article

Pak Heart J is one of the first Pakistani medical journal that provides easy and user friendly ONLINE SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES on its web site. Submissions are allowed only on line.

Visit http://www.pakheartjournal.com and REGISTER yourself as AUTHOR by filling a form.

Log in with your username and password.

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 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 Open Office or Microsoft Word document file format.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
• Title Page: A separate title page containing following information is prepared and it should be uploaded as a Title Page file

1. The complete title of the manuscript
2. The name of all the authors
3. The department or institution to which they are affiliated
4. Address for correspondence with telephone numbers, cell phones, e-mail,
5. Source of Funding, Conflict of Interest, and Disclosure(s)

• Manuscript: The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• ERC/IRB Approval Letter: All the studies must be approved by the relevant Ethics Committee/Institution Review Boards of the respective institutions and approval letter should be uploaded as a supplementary file along with the manuscript. Informed consent of the patients participating in the study should be undertaken. And should be uploaded as a supplementary file for case reports and case series
• Suggested Reviewers: Recommend at least two (2) colleagues and mentors who will provide an impartial and timely review. Recommended reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Please do not add yourself or co-authors. Please note that the Editors are not obligated to invite any recommended reviewers to assess your manuscript.

Please upload following details of the recommended reviewers as a supplementary file in a separate word document;

1. Full Name, designation, and affiliation
2. Contact number and email address

• Authorship Responsibility & Copyright Transfer Form: Please download the "Authorship Responsibility & Copyright Transfer Form" and upload as a supplementary file along with the manuscript. Authorship Responsibility & Copyright Transfer Form is available from the journal website.