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Author ’ s Guidelines

1 . Submitting the Article
All articles will be accompanied by the signed copyright form which can be returned by fax , e-mail ( as scanned documents ). All the responsibility for the originality of the sent material belongs to the author ( s ) alone .
Each article will be evaluated by the peer-review committee composed of two independent peerreviewers , in a blinded fashion , according to the peer-review protocol .
All articles will be sent to the editor-in-chief at the following e-mail address : stomatology . edu @ gmail . com
2 . Articles sent for publishing
Stomatology Edu Journal ( Stoma Edu J ) publishes : - original articles ; - reviews ; - case reports ; - consensus declaration coming from an association or from a group of specialists ; - letters to the editor . All articles must be between 10.000 and 60.000 characters with spaces in length . Letters to the editor can have a maximum length of 2500 characters with spaces . Letters to the editor can be related to an article already published in the journal or it can represent original scientific contributions or events news / presentations etc . of interest for the reader .
If , following the peer-review process , the article requires only minor changes ( language changes etc .) then the manuscript is accepted for publication in its revised form without further input from the author . In case the changes are considered more important ( scientific errors or an incorrect use of the language that can affect the quality of the scientific message ) the author will be contacted by a member of the editorial committee and it will only be published after he approves the changes considered necessary by the peer reviewers . In some cases , based on the written approval of the author ( s ), the peerreviewers and the chief-editor or the publisher the article may be published alongside the comments of the reviewer ( s ).
3 . Authors
Each author must be able to prove his active participation in the study by contributing to the concept , protocol , data gathering or analysis , their interpretation or by critically revising the manuscript . Any other persons who have contributed to the paper , like study participants or colleagues , will be mentioned in the “ Contribution ” section .
4 . Permissions and Ethics
For citations , tables , figures etc . which are not original , these must be accompanied by the written permission for their use and the full reference must be provided . Photographs of identifiable persons must be sent alongside the written permission of the person ( s ) and all regions that may allow the identification of the subject must be covered .
The author must have obtained , for all studies including human subjects , the permission of the subjects to be part of the study whilst keeping their anonymity . By sending the article , the author declares that he obtained this permission from all his subjects . All studies must respect the Helsinki Declaration ( 1975 ).
For human and animal studies , the authors must have obtained the approval of the ethics committee from the University / Institute / etc . where the study was done .
5 . Writing the article
The article must be written in conformity with the general recommendations of the ICMJE ( www . icmje . org ). The journal publishes articles written in English . The articles must be sent either as a Microsoft Word 2000 document (*. doc ) or as a Microsoft Word 2003 document (*. docx ). The article will be written using Arial font a size 12 for the characters with one and half ( 1 1 / 2 ) spaces between paragraphs . The manuscript must be sent in its final form . The pages will be numbered with the manuscript containing the following sections : Title , Authors , Abstract , keywords , the text of article , thanks and / or contributions , bibliography , the figure and the table legend . Please also check the Author ’ s Guidelines for the Abstract .
A . The Title of the manuscript will have a maximum of 100 characters without spaces and will represent the main idea of the article .
B . The author ( s ) will send their full name ( s ) and surname ( s ), the highest academic position , their full tittles and their affiliations . The correspondent author will send his / her full name and surname , the highest academic position , his / her full title , his / her affiliation , his / her institution address , his / her telephone , fax and e-mail . The authors will send this information in the same format as that in published articles .
C . The abstract can have a maximum 250 words . After the abstract , the author ( s ) must mention a maximum of 5 keywords .
The abstract for Original Scientific Articles should be no more than 250 words using the following structure : Introduction ; Methodology ; Results ; Conclusion .
The abstract for Review Articles should be no more than 250 words with the authors covering all the following information regarding the subject : Background , Objective , Data Sources , Data Selection , Data Extraction , Data Synthesis ( in one to three paragraphs without using the subtitles mentioned here ).
The abstract for Case Reports should be no more than 250 words using the following structure : Aim , Summary and Key learning points : provide up to 5 short statements of the report .
The abstract for Clinical Articles should be no more than 250 words using the following structure : Aim , Methodology , Results and Conclusions . Abbreviations are not accepted in the title or the abstract . D . The Article Text For original articles : Introduction - a presentation of the most important aspects in the studied domain without doing a review of the literature . The purpose of this part is to present and backup the hypothesis on which the study was based .
Methods - this section will include all required information so that the reader can verify the validity of the study including , but not limited to , subjects , measurements , statistics and ethics . The methods used should be discussed ( why

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