Guide for Authors

for submitting original research articles

Publication ethics:

Authors must confirm that the manuscript is solely submitted to Journal of Veterinary Medicine – Giza and has not been previously published or considered for publication elsewhere.

All authors must have significant contribution in the manuscript and approve the final version.

Disclosure and conflict of interest:

All funding bodies must be disclosed as well as any conflict of interest.

Preparation and organization of manuscript:

The manuscript must be written in English (American or British but not a mixture) in a Word file with page and line numbering, Times New Roman font of 12 pt size is recommended

Title page in a separate file includes:

  • Title:concise, informative, clear.
  • Authors’ names:title is followed by authors’ names and affiliations.
  • Corresponding author:e-mail address, phone number, and fax of the corresponding author must be provided.

Manuscript in a separate file (without authors’ names) includes:

Word Limits

- There is no word limit for original articles.

- The word count of Review articles should not exceed 6000 words, excluding references, figure captions and footnotes/endnotes.

- The word count of Short communications should not exceed 1500 words, excluding references, figure captions and footnotes/endnotes..

- The word count of Case reports should not exceed 1000 words, excluding references, figure captions and footnotes/endnotes.

Abstract: unstructured abstract with no more than 250 words must be submitted. The abstract should outline the purpose of the study, utilized methodologies, significant results, and conclusion.

Keywords: three to six alphabetically ordered keywords separated by semicolon “;” should be supplied just after the abstract.

The manuscript must comprise the following numbered sections: Introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusion, acknowledgment, conflict of interest, and references. Sub-sections must be written in italic and numbered (1.1.; 1.2..; etc),

References:

References must be cited in the text in numbers between square brackets [  ] using Vancouver style. All references appeared in the text must be indicated in the references list and vice versa.

References list:  Number the references in the list in the order in which they appear in the text. Each reference must include the names of all authors unless in case of too many authors, mention only the first 6 ones followed by et al. then add reference title followed by valid journal abbreviation then year; volume: page numbers.

Tables: must be numbered and inserted at the end of text. Tables must be supplied in editable form and not as an image.

Figures: must be submitted with figure captions and inserted at the end of the text (after tables section). Figures must be original and have not been published elsewhere.

Article Processing Charge

The journal is published in an online and printed versions and all articles published in VMJ-G journal are fully open access and freely available online according to the following license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Publication Fee is 1000 Egyptian pounds for authors affiliated to Egyptian organization(s) for online publication (250 Egyptian pounds are added for printed version) and 250 US dollars for authors affiliated to non-Egyptian organization(s) for online publication (50 US dollars are added for printed version).

Copyright policy

The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright, and to retain publishing rights without any restrictions

Submission Process

The manuscript is submitted through the journal’s website which is affiliated to the Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB), and then sent blank (without authors names) to the reviewers included in the journal’s database

https://vmjg.journals.ekb.eg/