Submissions

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.

	That this manuscript is being submitted only to the International Journal of Translational Medical Research and Public Health (IJTMRPH), that this manuscript shall not be submitted elsewhere while under consideration, that it has not been published elsewhere, and, should it be published in IJTMRPH, that it shall not be published elsewhere either in similar form or verbatim without permission of the editors. (Note: These restrictions do not apply to abstracts or to press reports of presentations at scientific meetings and conferences);
	That in compliance with the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines, all authors listed on this manuscript have made substantive intellectual contributions to the manuscript with regard to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analyses and interpretation of data, drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and that they all have given final approval of the version to be submitted for publication;
	That all authors have discussed and decided the authorship issues, including the order in which the authors would be listed in the published paper, before submission;
	That all authors have complied with the necessary local and international regulations regarding the conduct of research, including the declaration of conflict of interest, disclosure of financial interest, and institutional review or ethics board approval, where necessary, in the preparation of this manuscript. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines;
	That all authors have obtained the necessary ethics approvals in adherence with the local and international policies and used the standardized form of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and other ethical guidelines outlined by the journal and guiding the universal conduct of research and shall make all efforts to submit any approvals, if needed;
	That the manuscript document has been created using the journal's Manuscript Template and that all tables and figures are included in ONE Word document file and a cover letter;
	That all authors understand that IJTMRPH is an open-access journal and that, if accepted for publication, we fully understand that we shall be required to pay an article-processing charge which is posted on the journal website before the publication of our paper;
	That the authors have available funds to cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) should the submission be accepted;
	I agree, on behalf of all the authors, that I am not allowed to withdraw the manuscript once the peer- review process has commenced, unless for the written and documented purposes of addressing serious ethical violations identified after submission and in agreement with the Editor-in-Chief;
	I agree on behalf of all the authors to pay the required article processing charges, or the relevant administrative processing fees to cover the cost of submission, peer-review, and administrative resources, and if not paid within two weeks from request, we grant the journal an unreserved and express right to publish the paper in any form it sees fit for the purpose of recouping the above mentioned charges;
	That the manuscript must include a cover letter and completed author forms, such as a copyright statement and a disclosure statement, these forms are available on the journal’s homepage.
	That the authors should disclose at submission whether they used AI-assisted technologies such as LLMS, chatbots, or image creators in the production of the submitted manuscript and describe in both the cover letter and in the “Ethical Standard “ section how they used them. Chatbots (such as ChatGPT) and other AI-assisted tools should not be listed as authors because they cannot be responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of the work, and these responsibilities are required for authorship.