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Manuscript submission check list
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Dear author, thanks for considering the Pan African Medical Journal for your submission
  
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Submissions through the Manuscript Submission System (MSS) are encouraged, however, if you have a slow or unstable internet connection, submit your manuscript by email to submission@panafrican-med-journal.com, either as separated documents or grouped in a zipped folder.
  
Please read carefully before you proceed to manuscrip submission. Review the journal instructions for authors if necessary.

Review the points of the check list before you proceed to manuscript subscription. If you have additional questions about this process, contact the editorial team at editor@panafrican-med-journal.com.

1. E-mail addresses

Have the list of e-mail addresses for all the co-authors ready. You will need to provide these so that we can inform the co-authors when the manuscript has been received and when it is published.

2. Instructions for Authors and peer review policy

Read detailed Instructions for Authors for the journal and the peer review policy.

Download the Pan African Medical Journal peer review process

3. Covering letter

Have the covering letter for your submission ready, explaining why we should publish your manuscript and elaborating on any issues relating to our editorial policies detailed in the instructions for authors.

4. Manuscript files

Have all the files for the manuscript in an acceptable format ready.

Manuscripts not formatted according to the Pamj style will be returned to the authors. For all research papers, make sure your manuscript includes the following sections: Background, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, List of tables and Figures, Conflicts of interests, Authors’ contribution, Acknowledgments (if any) and References. Pay special attention to citations in the manuscript. Pamj citation format is [1], [1-2], [X1,X2….] and NOT X1, X3, or anything else. . Manuscript not following these basic formatting rules will be returned illico presto. A basic sample for reference is provided below:

  1. Kirikou Thomas, Doe John, Shaba Kevin, Kashawa Tuma. A sample of the pamj reference style as shown on the journal website. J Hist Fant. 2006; 76(11):204-212
  2. Kirikou Thomas, Doe John, Shaba Kevin, Kashawa Tuma. Another sample of the pamj reference style: as shown on the journal website. J Hist Fant. 2006; 76(12):212-228
Authors names are separated by coma. Article title starts after the author name series, precededdes by a dot and terminated by a dot. Journal abbreviation or name dot year; volume number and in brackets issue number, then page numbers if applicable. The format is:

Author1 LastName FirstName, Author2 LastName FirstName, Author3 LastName FirstName, AuthorX LastName FirstName. Artitle title. Journal name or abbreviation. Year or date; Volume(Issue): StartPage-EndPage.

Main manuscript
  • Formats: Microsoft Word (Version 4.0 and above).
  • Tables: Any table should be able to old on a single page and should be included at the end of the manuscript. Download sample of correctly formatted tables (Microsoft Word 2002-2003, *.DOC): Table 1, Table 2.
Download PAMJ manuscript template here
  • Figure files
    • Formats: PNG, JPEG only. MUST BE SUBMITTED AS SEPARATE FILES, not embedded in the main manuscript. Submit the best quality possible
    Files must be named with the three letter file extension appropriate to the file type (eg: .jpeg, .png). You will be asked to provide figure labels during the submission process. (The label is the small comment that usually goes with the figure. Example: Figure 1: Prevelance of diabetes in the study population aged 18 years and above. Findings of the TRICARE Diabetes Study, Uganda, 2006.)
    If you use excel to generate your graph, avoid 3D, crowded axes, colored background, strong grid etc.. Use Tahoma font (size 10 maximum) for all items in your graphs (Title, legend, axes etc..). Expand your Excel graph to obtain a large image, copy and paste it in Paint (Microsoft Paint), crop any white border and save the image as PNG or JPEG. Loot at an acceptable formatted Excel graph here

5. Are you one of the authors of this article?

If not, you cannot submit the article on behalf of someone else. The submitting author takes responsibility for the article during submission and peer review.

7. Authors contribution and agreement

Do you confirm that all the authors of the manuscript have read and agreed to its content, that readily reproducible materials described in the manuscript will be freely available to any scientist wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes.

8. Ethical approval

Do you confirm that you have ethical approval for any human or animal experimentation (for more information see Instructions for Authors)? Do you confirm that the manuscript is original, has not already been published in a journal and is not currently under consideration by another journal?

Manuscript not in compliance with the all of the above will simply be returned to the corresponding author. By clicking the button below, you are confirming these points and agreeing to these and all other terms of the Pan African Medical Journal Copyright and License Agreement, which we suggest you read.

  
Yes (Check this box to accept), I am the submitting author of this article and I accept the conditions of submission and the Pan African Medical Journal Copyright and License Agreement.
  
  
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