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Author Guidelines

Submission to the Journal

There is no restriction on the length of the papers. Electronic files regarding the full details of the experimental procedure (conference slides, video sequences, software, etc), which can not be published in a normal way, can be deposited as supplementary material.

Authors can distribute an unlimited number of E-reprints via E-mail free of charge. Accepted papers will be published immediately. Authors are kindly asked to prepare and submit manuscripts according the following instructions.

Publication categories

IJPT publishes regular research papers, reviews, mini-reviews and case reports which deal with all aspects of experimental and clinical pharmacology.

Criteria for manuscript

Submitted manuscripts must meet the following criteria:

• the material must be original
• the writing must be clear, concise and unambiguous
• the data are valid
• the conclusions drawn by the authors must be reasonable and supportable
• the information must be relevant and interesting.

Corresponding Author (CA)

Corresponding author (CA) is the responsible person for electronically submitting a manuscript for publication consideration. CA must provide complete mailing addresses and e-mail addresses for all the contributing authors. The CA will be identified as such in the published article.

Preparing manuscript for submission

Contributors should prepare their manuscripts in accordance with the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals.

Use Système International (SI) measurements only. Use non-proprietary (i.e. generic) drug names, unless the specific trade name of a drug is directly relevant to the discussion. Avoid unnecessary abbreviations.

Single-space the text throughout. This includes the title page, abstract, text, acknowledgments, references, tables and figure legends. Use Times New Romans and a 12-point font size.

On the title page DO NOT include the  names and affiliations of authors. Authors' full address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail address must be provided during submission process by corresponding author. In addition to full title, a short title not more than 60 characters is appreciated.

Include a structured abstract of no more than 250 words. A list of three to five keywords must be given, and placed after the Abstract.

For experimental investigations of human or animal subjects, state in the Methods section of the manuscript that an appropriate institutional review board approved the project. Provide the approval numbers as necessary. For investigations of human subjects, state in the Methods section the manner in which informed consent was obtained.

Referencing format

Number the references in the order that they appear in the text of the manuscript. When listing references, follow the uniform requirements style (the Vancouver style) that is based largely on an ANSI standard style adapted by the NLM for its databases (e.g., MEDLINE). Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ] throughout the text, and placed before the punctuation; for example [4], [2, 3] or [1-3], and all the references should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript.

Tables, figures and illustrations

Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Conference slides, video sequences, software, etc., can be included and published as supplementary material.

Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles for all tables supplied. All table columns should have an explanatory heading.

All tables and figures should be numbered in the order of their citation in the text. Include legends for all figures, schemes and tables. The legends should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table and after a figure or a scheme.

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.

1. The authorship statment form has been downloaded, completed and signed by all the contributing authors and a scanned version of it (in GIF, PNG, JPEG or PDF format) will be submitted as a supplementary file later during this submission process.
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
3. All URL addresses in the text (e.g., http://ijpt.iums.ac.ir) are activated and ready to click.
4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. The text, if submitted to a peer-reviewed section (e.g., Articles), has had the authors' names removed. If an author is cited, "Author" and year are used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of author's name, paper title, etc. The author's name has also been removed from the document's Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu.
7. A structured abstract of no more than 250 words has been included with the text. A list of three to five keywords has been given, and placed after the Abstract.
8. Reference numbers have been placed in square brackets [ ] throughout the text, and placed before the punctuation, and numbered in the order that they appear in the text of the manuscript.
9. Listed references (i.e. bibliography at the end) are based on the uniform requirements style (the Vancouver style).

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