Reporting standards 

Author's reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention 

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism 

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication 

An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources 

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper 

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects 

If the work involves chemicals, human, animals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest 

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or another substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

 

Author Guidelines

South East Asia Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence based Medicine (SEAJCEEBM) welcomes contributions which promote the exchange of ideas and rational discourse between Clinical epidemiologist and medical researchers all over the world. Specific topics of interest include: all aspects of clinical epidemiology, clinical medicine, infectious diseases, and clinical pharmacology. Articles should be written in clear, concise English following the recommendations for scientific writing found in Scientific Style and Format. Only material that has not been published previously (either in print or electronically) and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, with the exception of an abstract published in conference proceedings, will be considered for publication. 

Types of paper

  1. Original Articles

Original Articles report on original quantitative or qualitative research. Papers should be clear, precise and logical. The main structure is Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion.

Manuscript

Papers should be clear, precise and logical and should not normally exceed 3,000 words.

Original research papers should be set out as follows:
• Covering letter-the letter must contain: why the submission is appropriate for publication in South East Asia Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence based Medicine (SEAJCEEBM); what is known about the topic discussed; what your study adds; and confirmation that the paper has not been published elsewhere.

 

  • Title page- bearing title, all authors' initials, surname, and the name and location of the institution(s) where the work was done. The author to whom proofs and correspondence should be sent should be clearly indicated with correct address, e-mail, telephone and fax details.
  • Abstract. This should be structured under the following headings:

Objectives, Study design, Methods, Results, Conclusions.

  • Keywords. 4-6 keywords should follow the abstract
  • Manuscript body

This should be structured under the following headings:

  • Introduction
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Statements of: Ethical approval, funding and competing interests.
  • References

 

  • Tables and figures

Tables and figures should be kept to a minimum. Tables must be comprehensible without reference to the text if possible. References can be cited in the tables if needed. Authors should indicate at approximately what point in the text the table should appear.

Figures, graphs, drawings etc should not be over complex and must be intelligible when reduced in size for printing. They should be on separate sheets, numbered and with legends.

Tables. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.

 

  1. Review articles.

Review articles should concentrate on the most recent developments in the field. Literature searches for all Reviews should be systematic and comprehensive. Reviews may or may not include a meta-analysis or statistical summary of the individual study results. The text body of Reviews should be structured in Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion.

Systematic Review papers presenting exhaustive, critical assessments of the published literature on relevant public health topics or questions will be considered. Such reviews should be prepared in strict compliance with MOOSE or PRISMA guidelines or with Cochrane's complementary guidelines for systematic reviews of health promotion and public health interventions, as appropriate. Public Health encourages authors to use alternative databases covering scientific literature from low- and middle-income countries not indexed in the traditional international databases (i.e. Medline, Web of Science). All systematic reviews need to be submitted with a supporting statement of which guideline has been used in the preparation of the review.

Narrative Review papers will be considered. Whilst no formal guidelines for such reviews exist, authors should be very clear in what criteria they have used for the selection of studies and describe the methods used to undertake the review in the body of the paper. Generally speaking, narrative reviews will only be considered where the author(s) are clearly experts in the research field under consideration or the public health issue under consideration is not amenable to systematic review. The reviews needs to be submitted with a supporting statement justifying the appropriateness of undertaking a narrative review. Review papers should include a Structured Abstract: Tables/Illustrations can be included up to a maximum of 5, though larger tables may be included only on the electronic version of the paper. References: up to a maximum of 100.

  1. Short communication

A short communication is preferred for the submission of important preliminary observations or data that does not warrant publication as a full paper. A short Introduction should put the area into context and define the aim. The Method section should explicitly describe how the studies were identified. A structured abstract will be required during the online submission process. Keywords will also be required. However, specific sections, such as Methods, should not be used in the manuscript itself. • A short communication can include one table or figure and up to 10 references. Preliminary data published as a short communication will not preclude subsequent publication of more complete results if the work is significantly expanded.

  1. Letters

Readers are encouraged to submit Letters to the Editors and these can include responses to previously published papers or original data. Authors will be given the opportunity to comment and respond to any correspondence we intend to include in the `Letters to the Editors' regarding their previously published manuscript.

 

Manuscript text body Text formatting

  • Use a regular plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.Use italics for emphasis.
  • Use the automatic line numbering functions to include continuous line numbers.
  • Use the automatic page numbering function to number pages.
  • Do not use field functions.
  • Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
  • Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
  • Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
  • Apart from the first word of the article title, headings, captions of figures and tables and text sentences should begin with lower case letters. Exceptions are names and fixed expressions.
  • No bold or underlined characters may be used throughout the text (except bold type for headings).
  • Do not use footnotes and endnotes throughout the text. Footnotes are permitted only for tables. Please do not add any appendices to the text body but submit these as separate files (Electronic Supplementary Material).
  • Submit your file in docx format preferably (Word 2007 or higher)
  • Structure and headings Manuscript text file should include the title of the article.
  • For the text body of Original articles and Reviews please use the following main headings Introduction / Methods / Results / Discussion /References; highlight them by using large bold fonts. All other headings should be formatted as subheadings of these main headings.
  • The Introduction presents the actual state of knowledge, the problems dealt with, objectives, and hypotheses.
  • Methods presents material, methods, and the population studied
  • Results presents the core results of the analysis
  • Discussion should explain what the results mean, present limitations and should end with clear conclusion.
  • Table and figure captions (if applicable)
  • Abbreviations should be defined at first mention in the text body and used consistently thereafter. Abbreviations should not be used in the title and in captions of figures and tables.
  • Footnotes and endnotes are not allowed in the text body. However, footnotes (not endnotes) are allowed for the tables and figures Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data).
  • References Citation Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Cite all last name(s) for publications with one or two authors. For publications with three or more authors, cite the last name of only the first author, followed by “et al.”

 

Plagiarism

All submitted manuscript will be checked using Turnitin plagiarism detection system. 

Submission Declaration and Verification

Submission has not been previously published or is under consideration of another journal (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint).

Copyright Transfer Agreement

The Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if accepted for publication, copyright of the article shall be assigned to Journal of Asian ICE-EBM and ICE-EBM Network. Copyright encompasses exclusive rights to reproduce and deliver the article in all form and media, including reprints, photographs, microfilms and any other similar reproductions, as well as translations. South East Asia Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence based Medicine (SEAJCEEBM) and the Editors make every effort to ensure that no wrong or misleading data, opinions or statements be published in the journal. In any way, the contents of the articles and advertisements published in this Journal are sole and exclusive responsibility of their respective authors and advertisers.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

 

Article Processing Charges

South East Asia Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence based Medicine (SEAJCEEBM) is an open access international journal. This Open Access journal does not charge any processing or publishing fees for every article published.