INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS

Manuscripts

Manuscripts should be typerwritten on one side of A4 paper only with double spacing and at least one inch margins. Separate pages: title page, text, acknowledgments, references, individual tables, and legends (as the format in this journal). Number pages consecutively, beginning with the title page. Type the page number in the upper right-hand comer of each page. An original and one additional copy of all materials including figures and tables together with the diskette(s), using the Microsoft Words Program, must be submitted for editorial review. Metric measurements should be used. Generic names for drugs should be used and if trade name is mentioned, it should be put in parenthesis.

The title page of the manuscript should be typed on a separate sheet and contain the following information.

1. Title of the paper.
2. Name of Author(s), including first name(s) with academic degree (s).
   
3. Name of department and institution in which the work was done.
   
4. Index word(s).
5. Short running title.

Illustrations and Tables

Glossy, black and white photographs of illustration are requested. Original drawing should be professionally drawn in black India ink. Typerwritten or freehand lettering is not acceptable. Illustration should be numbered, the tops indicated and the title of the article and the authors name in brief typed on a label pasted on its back. Do not mount the illustrations in the manusscripts.
Each table should be prepared on a separte sheet and should be numbered consecutively as mentioned in the text and each must have a heading. Illustrations are accepted with color prints or color slide (not the negatives).

References

References must be listed on a separate sheet in numeric order as referred to in the article, not alphabetically. Only references mentioned in the text should be listed and should be selective with not more than 30 references except under unusual circumstances. Number references consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify references in text, tables, and legends by arabic numerals (in superscript).

The references must be verified by the author (s) against the original documents.

Example forms of references are given below.

journal

1. Standard Journal Article:
   List all authors when six or less; when seven or more, list only first three and add et al. Soter NA, Wasserman SI, Austen KF. Cold urticaria: release into the circulation of   histamine and eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis during cold challenge. N   EnglJ Med 1976; 294:687-90.
2. Corporate Author:
   The Committee on Enzymes of the Scandinavian Society for Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Physiology. Recommended method for the determination of gamma glutamyltransferase in blood. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 1976; 36:119-25.
   
   Books and Other Monographs
   
   
3. Personal Author (s):
   Osler AG. Complement: mechanisms and functions. Englewood Cliffs: Pren tice - Hall, 1976.
4. 4. Corporate Author :
   American medical Association Department of Drugs. AMA drug evaluations. 3rd ed.   Littleton: Publishing Sciences Group, 1977.
5. Editor, Compiler, Chairman as Author :
   Rhooder AJ, Van Rooyen CE, comps. Textbook of virology: for students and practitioners of medicine and the other health sciences. 5th ed. Baltimore: Williams &
   Wilkins, 1968.
6. Chaper in Book:
   Weinstein L, Swartz MN. Pathogenic properties of invading microorganisms. In: Sodeman WAJr. Sodeman WA, eds. Pathologic physiology: mechanisme of disease. Philadelphia: WE Saunders, 1974:457-72.
7. Agency Publication :
   National Center for Health Stastistics. Acute conditions: incidence and associated   disability, UnitedStates,July 1968-:JuneI969. Rockville. Md.: National Center for Health statistics, 1972. Vital and health statistics. Series 10: Data from the National health Survey, No. 69 : (DHEW publication no. (HSM) 72-1036).
   
   Other Articles
   
   
8. Newspaper Article :
   Shaffer RA. Advances in chemistry are starting to unlock mysteries of the brain:   discoveries could help cure alcoholism and insomnia, explain mental illness. How the messengers work. Wall Street Journal 1977 Aug 12:(col. 1), 10(col.1).
9. Magazine Article:
   Roueche B. Annals of medicine: the Santa Claus culture. The New Yorker 1971 Sep 4:66-81.

Abbreviatious

Use only standard abbreviations of commonly used approved abbreviations. Avoid abbreviations in the title. The full term for which an abbreviation stands should precede its first use in the text unless it is a standard unit of measurement.