Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- 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 corresponding author must fill-in all the required fields in the metadata of ALL contributors (complete name with middle initial, email address, country, complete affiliation - department and institution, no acronym). Submissions that fail to comply with the above requirements will be declined. The author will have to submit again.
- All the listed authors have been sufficiently involved in this submission to take public responsibility for its validity and final presentation as an original publication.
- All authors understand that the Corresponding Author is responsible for communicating with the other authors about the status of their submitted manuscripts, results of peer reviews and/or comments, submission of revisions as appropriate, and final approval of galley proofs.
- The manuscript upon submission should not contain any identifying information (authors’ names, affiliations, contact details, etc.). These details should be provided in the Author Signature Form.
- The sequence of author(s)’ names should be specified beforehand. This is stated in the Author Signature Form. In case of change in this sequence or addition/removal of the author(s), all the other authors in addition to the Corresponding Author need to sign off on the request for change of authorship.
- By default, only two (2) authors are allowed to be designated as first or lead authors. These would normally be the first 2 as written in the published article. More than that will require a strong justification to be signed by all the authors of the manuscript.
- The submission must include the accomplished ICMJE Disclosure of Interest (Updated February 2021) for each author. Download the Form here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NJVxMgeJilJSJFJBKI6ygQFt0bJihO8K/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118348432341627575380&rtpof=true&sd=true
- Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). > Copyright ownership is shared between authors and Acta Medica Philippina once an article is published in the journal. Commercial use needs the permission of both the Journal and the article author(s). A fee is charged by the journal for such commercial use. > This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under identical terms.
- The submission must include the accomplished Author Signature Form that you may download from this link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eX5izscLiHCOJgtkTgNg3G3qFtdeHxF7/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118348432341627575380&rtpof=true&sd=true While the Corresponding Author Form can be downloaded from this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D3G7kEL-me3Oa2vEARckzECYhBvl8DxW/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=118348432341627575380&rtpof=true&sd=true
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