Case reports or briefs : Novel/interesting/extremely rare cases or rare presentations can be reported. Cases with clinical significance or implications will be given priority. Up to 1200 words excluding references and abstract and up to 15 references.

To ensure authorship for the submitted manuscripts, the contributors should meet the following three conditions:

• Conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data has been done by the author.
• Either drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content has been done by the author.
• The final approval of the version to be published has been given by the author.

Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to be allowed to take public responsibility for suitable portions of the content.

Naming Order for Contributors
The order of naming the contributors should be based on the relative contribution of the contributor towards the study and the writing of the manuscript. Once submitted, the order cannot be changed without the written consent of all the contributors.

Number of Contributors
For case-reports the number of contributors should not exceed five. There should be a written justification if the number of contributors exceeds five. If the JCDR feels necessary it may ask for description of the contribution of authors towards the manuscript.

Guarantor
One or more author should take responsibility for the integrity of the work from the inception to the publishing of the article. This author will be designated as the guarantor.

Please use our Manuscript Management Portal : JCDR Pre Publishing for submitting manuscripts and knowing their post-submission status. For any problems related to submission please feel free to write to editors@jcdr.net
We do not accept print submission.

• No introduction to be provided as a separate section.
• Use double spacing throughout.
• The language should be UK English.

Title Page
Please download and use JCDR New Title Page format.

Abstract Page
The second page should carry the complete title of the manuscript and an abstract. The length of the abstract should be restricted to 200 words for case reports and should include a brief introduction of the disease/pathology followed by few lines summarising the case.

Key Words
These should be put in after reference to standard key words in Mesh terms. Three to five keywords should be provided below the abstract. The keywords should be the ones not used in title.

Case report

• Identify the age, sex, and other important characteristics of the patient.
• The report should include chief complaint, history of present illness, medical/surgical history. The provisional and differential diagnosis (along with the basis of it), investigation advised and the findings, treatment advised, follow up. The laboratory/ microbiological findings can be tabulated. Images of radiographs to be provided (deidentified). Photomicrographs or images of genetic evaluation to be provided wherever required.
• Do not use names or initials of patients or hospitals and/or hospital telephone numbers especially in illustrative material.

Discussion

• A paragraph introducing the disease/pathology. Extensive review shouldnot be done.
• Emphasise the new and important aspects of the case and the conclusions that result from it.
• Do not repeat in detail the data or other material provided in the case report. Include in the Discussion section the implications of the findings for the present and for future research and their limitations. Compare the case with others reported in literature in terms of signs/symptoms, diagnostic investigations and the findings, treatment done and follow up.
• State new hypotheses when warranted, but clearly label them as such.
• Recommendations may be included only if appropriate.

Acknowledgments
As an appendix to the text, one or more statements should specify

1. The contributions that should be acknowledged but do not justify authorship.
2. Acknowledgment of technical help.
3. Acknowledgment of financial and material support, specifying the nature of the support.
4. Any paid support received from JCDR in preparation of the manuscript.

References

• The references / biblography should be in Vancouver style. For full details on this refer to the following link to university of Queensland (http://www.library.uq.edu.au/training/citation/vancouv.pdf )
• References cited only in tables or figure legends should be numbered in accordance with the sequence established by the first identification in the text of the particular table or figure.
• The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus.
• Use the complete name of the journal for non-indexed journals.
• Avoid using abstracts as references.
• Information from manuscripts submitted but not accepted should be cited in the text as “unpublished observations” with written permission from the source.
• Avoid citing a “personal communication” unless it provides essential information that is otherwise unavailable from public sources. In such an event, the name of the person and the date of communication should be cited in parentheses in the text.
• For scientific articles, contributors should obtain written permission and confirmation of accuracy from the source of a personal communication.

Tables & Figures

• JCDR was initially an online only journal later went into print. It does not differentiate between tables and figures in numbering them as images are made for both. All tables and Figures should be numbered in Arabic numerals consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text. ( exampleTable/Fig 1, Table/Fig 2......)
• Tables should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material.
• Tables with more than 12 columns and 30 rows are not acceptable.
• Place the explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading.
• Explain in footnotes all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table.
• Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and provide a credit line in the footnote.
• For footnotes, use the following symbols in this sequence: *, †, ‡, §, ||, , **, ††, ‡‡
• Labels, numbers, and symbols should be clear and of uniform size.
• When graphs, scatter-grams or histograms are submitted, the numerical data on which they are based should also be supplied.
• If photographs of people are used, either the subjects must not be identifiable or their pictures must be accompanied by written permission to use the photograph.
• If a figure has been published, acknowledge the original source and submit written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce the material. A credit line should appear in the legend for figures for such figures.
• The Journal reserves the right to crop, rotate, reduce, or enlarge the photographs to the desired size.
• Markers to be used in case of radiographs/photomicrographs showing the pathology/finding.
• If the pathology/disease is a rare one, a compilation of all the other reported cases can be done in a tabulated form that will include the relevant information.

Protection of Patients’ Rights to Privacy
Identifying information should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, sonograms, CT scans, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes. The patient, parent, or guardian provides a written consent for the publication. After the consent has been obtained, it should be indicated in the article. A copy of the consent should be attached with the cover letter.

Last Updated : 31 October 2014

First Published : 05 February 2007