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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.

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice document file format (.DOC or .DOCX format).
The submission adheres to the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
The submission adheres to the Ethics and Malpractice Policy found in the About section.
A Conflict of Interest statement has been attached to the submission. Please refer to http://www.icmje.org/conflicts-of-interest/
Case series and case reports have completed and attached the MyJO Publication Consent Form.
During the submission process, the author has filled in the following data in the Metadata tab: co-author information, abstract, keywords, supporting agencies, and reference list.
Manuscripts having at least one Malaysian author must provide the abstract in Bahasa Malaysia version in addition to the English version.
Figures are submitted as separate files in JPG, TIFF, or PNG format and have a resolution of at least 300 DPI.
All figures are cited in the text and figure captions are provided at the end of the manuscript.
Copyright permission has been obtained and is included for any table, diagram, or illustration to be reproduced from other publications.
All references are cited in the text and included in the correct format in the reference list. Where available, URLs for the references are provided in the form of DOI.
The manuscript has been checked for spelling and grammar prior to submission.

Author Guidelines

Please download the Author Guidelines and read the document carefully to prepare your manuscript for submission. Manuscripts that do not adhere to the instructions will be returned to the corresponding author for technical revision before undergoing peer review, delaying processing times. Please note that manuscripts that do not comply with the guidelines after one technical revision will be automatically declined. If the manuscript is declined due to technical grounds, authors are welcome to resubmit to MyJO once they have revised the manuscript in compliance with the guidelines. Resubmitted manuscripts will be handled as new submissions.

MyJO endorses the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (ICMJE Recommendations) published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). We strongly recommend that authors review the ICMJE’s Preparing a Manuscript for Submission to a Medical Journal, as it provides a helpful framework to prepare clear and well-structured articles.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work twelve (12) months after publication simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the workâ€™s authorship and initial publication in this journal; excluding commercial use.

After 12 months from the date of publication, authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g. publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.