General guidelines of the
journal's style and language are given below:
Manuscripts for Research Articles submitted to Journal of
Physiotherapy and Research (IJPR) should be divided into the
following sections (in
this order):
1. Title page
2. Abstract
3. Keywords
4. Background
5. Methods
6. Results and discussion
7. Conclusions
8. List of abbreviations used (if any)
9. Competing interests
10. Authors' contributions
11. Acknowledgements
12. End notes
13. References
14. Illustrations and figures (if any)
Title page
The title page should: " provide the title of the article
" list the full names, institutional addresses and email
addresses for all authors " indicate the corresponding
author Please note: " abbreviations within the title
should be avoided.
Abstract
The Abstract of the manuscript should not exceed 350 words
and must be structured into separate sections: Background,
the context and purpose of the study; Results, the main
findings; Conclusions, brief summary and potential
implications (do not cite references in the abstract).
Keywords
Three to Ten keywords representing the main content of the
article.
Background
The Background section should be written in a way that is
accessible to researchers without specialist knowledge in
that area and must clearly state - and, if helpful,
illustrate - the background to the research and its aims.
The section should end with a brief statement of what is
being reported in the article.
Methods
The methods section should include the design of the
study, the type of materials involved, a clear description
of all comparisons, and the type of analysis used, to
enable replication.
Results and discussion
The Results and discussion may be combined into a single
section or presented separately. The Results and
discussion sections may also be broken into subsections
with short, informative headings.
Conclusions
This should state clearly the main conclusions of
the research and give a clear explanation of their
importance and relevance. Summary illustrations may be
included.
List of abbreviations
If abbreviations are used in the text they should be
defined in the text at first use, and a list of
abbreviations can be provided, which should precede the
competing interests and authors' contributions.
Competing interests
A competing interest exists when your interpretation of
data or presentation of information may be influenced by
your personal or financial relationship with other people
or organizations. Authors must disclose any financial
competing interests; they should also reveal any
non-financial competing interests that may cause them
embarrassment were they to become public after the
publication of the manuscript.
Authors are required to complete a declaration of
competing interests. All competing interests that are
declared will be listed at the end of published articles.
Where an author gives no competing interests, the listing
will read 'The author(s) declare that they have no
competing interests'.
Authors' contributions
In order to give appropriate credit to each author of a
paper, the individual contributions of authors to the
manuscript should be specified in this section. An
'author' is generally considered to be someone who has
made substantive intellectual contributions to a published
study. To qualify as an author one should 1) have made
substantial contributions to conception and design, or
acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of
data; 2) have been involved in drafting the manuscript or
revising it critically for important intellectual content;
and 3) have given final approval of the version to be
published. Each author should have participated
sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for
appropriate portions of the content. Acquisition of
funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the
research group, alone, does not justify authorship.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for
authorship should be listed in an acknowledgements
section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged
include a person who provided purely technical help ,
writing assistance, or a department chair who provided
only general support. Provide the scanned copy of the duly
filled Author's contribution form along with the
manuscript.
Acknowledgements
Please acknowledge anyone who contributed towards the
article by making substantial contributions to conception,
design, acquisition of data, or analysis and
interpretation of data, or who was involved in drafting
the manuscript or revising it critically for important
intellectual content, but who does not meet the criteria
for authorship. Please also include the source(s) of
funding for each author, and for the manuscript
preparation. Authors must describe the role of the funding
body, if any, in design, in the collection, analysis, and
interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript;
and in the decision to submit the manuscript for
publication. Please also acknowledge anyone who
contributed materials essential for the study. If a
language editor has made significant revision of the
manuscript, we recommend that you acknowledge the editor
by name, where possible. Authors should obtain permission
to acknowledge from all those mentioned in the
Acknowledgements section.
Endnotes
End notes should be designated within the text using a
superscript lowercase letter and all notes (along with
their corresponding letter) should be included in the End
notes section. Please format this section in a paragraph
rather than a list.
