Instructions for Authors

Clinical Oncology: Case Reports (COCR), an International Peer-review, Journal welcomes all cancer surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, gynecologic oncologists, and pediatric oncologists from drug discovery to the designing and their effects. COCR welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published approximately 15 days after acceptance.

Submit your manuscripts directly in Editorial Tracking system: Online Submission System

A manuscript number will be emailed to the corresponding author within 72 hours.

Article Publication Charges (APC):

The average Article processing time (APT) is 20-25 days and  all the accepted articles will be online within 3 to 5 working days

Note: The Journal provides a 30% waiver to all developing countries authors on publication charges.

Note: All the published articles are in double-columned pages.

Note: APC includes peer-reviewing, editing, publishing, archiving, and other costs associated with the publication of the articles.

If the author wants to make their article on subscription mode they can opt for that by stating in the cover letter during the submission process, which includes (Pre- quality, review, Graphics, and HTML). If the author wants to withdraw the article after 78 Hours of receiving it, the author needs to pay 50% of the article processing fees. Since, the review process requires the input of Editors, Reviewers, Associate Managing Editors, Editorial Assistants, Content Writers, Editorial Managing Systems & other online tracking systems to ensure that the published article is of good quality and is in its best possible form.

^*Note: For accepted articles under NIH Grant, and Japan, the Article Processing Charges are 3219^* Euros.

Submission of an Article: In order to reduce delays, authors should adhere to the level, length, and format of the SciTechnol Journals at every stage of processing right from manuscript submission to each revision stage. Submitted articles should have a 300-word summary/abstract, separate from the main text. The summary should provide a brief account of the work by clearly stating the purpose of the study and the methodology adopted, highlighting major findings briefly. The text may contain a few short subheadings of no more than 40 characters each.

Benefits: Benefits of Open Access include greater visibility, accelerated citation, immediate access to the full-text versions, higher impact and authors retain the copyright to their work. All open-access articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. It also allows immediate deposit of the final published version in other repositories without restriction on re-use.

Article Publication Charges (APC):

Formats for SciTechnol contributions: SciTechnol accepts various formats of literary works such as research articles, reviews, abstracts, addendums, announcements, article commentaries, book reviews, rapid communications, letters to the editor, annual meeting abstracts, conference proceedings, calendars, case reports, corrections, discussions, meeting-reports, news, orations, product reviews, hypotheses, and analyses.

Cover Letter: All the submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter consisting of 500 words or less and briefly stating the significance of the research, agreement of authors for publication, number of figures and tables, supporting manuscripts, and supplementary information.

Also, include current telephone and fax numbers, as well as postal and E-mail addresses of the corresponding author to maintain communication.

Article Preparation Guidelines:

• Authors are expected to attach an electronic cover letter completely mentioning the type of manuscript (e.g., Research article, Review article, Brief Report, Case study, etc.) Unless invited on a special case, authors cannot classify a particular manuscript as Editorials Letters to the editor, or concise communications.
• Confirm that each individual named as an author meets the uniform requirements of the Research Journal of Clinical Pediatrics criteria for authorship.
• Please make sure that the article submitted for review/publication is not under consideration elsewhere simultaneously.
• Clearly mention financial support or benefits if any from commercial sources for the work reported in the manuscript, or any other financial interests that any of the authors may have, which could create a potential conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest with regard to the work.
• A clear title of the article along with complete details of the author/s (professional/institutional affiliation, educational qualifications, and contact information) must be provided on the title page.
• The corresponding author should include address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address on the first page of the manuscript and authors must address any conflict of interest with others once the article is published.
• Number all sheets in succession, including references, tables, and figure legends.
• The title page is page 1. On the first page, type the running head (a short title for the top of each page), title (which cannot include any acronyms), names of the authors and their academic degrees, grants or other financial supporters of the study, address for correspondence and reprint requests, and corresponding author's telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address.

Guidelines for Research Articles:

• Research articles are articles written based on the empirical/secondary data collected using a clearly defined research methodology, where a conclusion/s is drawn from the analysis of the data collected.
• The information must be based on original research that adds to the body of knowledge in Aging and Geriatric Medicine.
• Article/s should provide a critical description or analysis of the data presented while adding new and rapidly evolving areas in the field.
• Include an abstract of a maximum of 300 words with 7 to 10 important keywords.
• The abstract should be divided into Objectives, Methods, Results, and Conclusion.
• Research articles must adhere to a format constituting the introduction followed by a brief review of relevant literature, methodology applied (to collect the data), discussion and References, Tables, and Figure Legends.

Review Articles:

• Review articles are written based mostly on secondary data that falls in line with the theme of the journal. They are brief, yet critical discussions on a specific aspect of the subject concerned. Reviews generally start with the statement of the problem with a brief abstract of 300 words and a few keywords. Introduction generally brings the issue forward to the readers followed by analytical discussion with the help of necessary tables, graphs, pictures and illustrations wherever necessary. It summarizes the topic with a conclusion. All the statements or observations in the review articles must be based on necessary citations, providing complete references at the end of the article.

Commentaries:

• Commentaries are opinion articles written mostly by veteran and experienced writers on a specific development, recent innovation, or research findings that fall in line with the theme of the journal. They are very brief articles with the title and abstracts that provide the gist of the topic to be discussed, with few keywords. It straight away states the problems and provides a thorough analysis with the help of illustrations, graphs, and tables if necessary. It summarizes the topic with a brief conclusion, citing the references at the end.

Case Study:

• Case studies are accepted with a view to adding additional information related to the investigative research that advances in the field of Aging and Geriatric Medicine.
• It should add value to the main content/article submitted, by providing key insights about the core area. Case reports must be brief and follow a clear format such as the Cases and Methods Section (That describes the nature of the clinical issue and the methodology adopted to address it), a discussion section that analyzes the case, and a Conclusion section that sums up the entire case.

Editorials:

• Editorials are concise commentaries on a currently published article/issue on Aging and Geriatric Medicine. The editorial office may approach for any such works and authors must submit it within three weeks from the date of receiving an invitation.

Clinical Images:

• Clinical Images are nothing but photographic depictions of Aging and Geriatric Medicine and it should not exceed more than 5 figures with a description, not exceeding 300 words. Generally, no references and citations are required here. If necessary, only three references can be allowed.
• Do not add separate figure legends to clinical images; the entire clinical image text is the figure legend. Images should be submitted with the manuscript in one of the following formats: .tiff (preferred) or .eps.

Letters to the Editor/Concise Communications:

• Letters to the editor should be limited to commentaries on previous articles published with specific reference to issues and causes related to them.  It should be concise, comprehensive, and brief reports of cases or research findings. It does not follow a format such as abstract, subheads, or acknowledgments. It is more a response or the opinion of the reader on a particular article published and should reach the editor within 6 months of article publication.

Acknowledgment: This section includes acknowledgment of people, grant details, funds, etc.

Note: If an author fails to submit his/her work as per the above instructions, they are pleased to maintain clear titles namely headings, subheadings, and respective subtitles.

References: Only published or accepted manuscripts should be included in the reference list. Meetings abstracts, conference talks, or papers that have been submitted but not yet accepted should not be cited. All personal communications should be supported by a letter from the relevant authors.SciTechnol uses the numbered citation (citation-sequence) method. References are listed and numbered in the order that they appear in the text. In the text, citations should be indicated by the reference number in brackets. Multiple citations within a single set of brackets should be separated by commas. A range should be given where there are three or more sequential citations. Example: "... now enable biologists to simultaneously monitor the expression of thousands of genes in a single experiment [1, 5-7, 28]." Make sure the parts of the manuscript are in the correct order for the relevant journal before ordering the citations. Figure captions and tables should be at the end of the manuscript. Authors are requested to provide at least one online link for each reference as follows (preferably PubMed). Because all references will be linked electronically as much as possible to the papers they cite, proper formatting of the references is crucial. Please use the following style for the reference list:
Examples: 

Published Papers:

1. Laemmli UK (1970) Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature 227: 680-685.
2. Brusic V, Rudy G, Honeyman G, Hammer J, Harrison L (1998) Prediction of MHC class II- binding peptides using an evolutionary algorithm and artificial neural network. Bioinformatics 14: 121-130.
3. Doroshenko V, Airich L, Vitushkina M, Kolokolova A, Livshits V, et al. (2007) YddG from Escherichia coli promotes export of aromatic amino acids. FEMS Microbiol Lett 275: 312-318.
   Note: Please list the first five authors and then add "et al." if there are additional authors.

Electronic Journal Articles Entrez Programming Utilities
National Library of Medicine

Books

1. Baggot JD (1999) Principles of drug disposition in domestic animals: The basis of Veterinary Clinical Pharmacology. (1st edition), W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, London, Toronto.
2. Zhang Z (2006) Bioinformatics tools for differential analysis of proteomic expression profiling data from clinical samples. Taylor & Francis CRC Press.

Conferences: Hofmann T (1999) The Cluster-Abstraction Model: unsupervised learning of topic hierarchies from text data. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Tables:

These should be used at a minimum and designed as simple as possible. We strongly encourage authors to submit tables in .doc format. Tables are to be typed double-spaced throughout, including headings and footnotes. Each table should be on a separate page, numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals, and supplied with a heading and a legend. Tables should be self-explanatory without reference to the text. Preferably, the details of the methods used in the experiments should be described in the legend instead of in the text. The same data should not be presented in both table and graph form or repeated in the text. Cells can be copied from an Excel spreadsheet and pasted into a Word document, but Excel files should not be embedded as objects.

Note: If the submission is in PDF format, the author is requested to retain the same in .doc format in order to aid in the completion of the process successfully.

Figures: The preferred file formats for photographic images are .doc, TIFF, and JPEG. If you have created images with separate components on different layers, please send us the Photoshop files. All images MUST be at or above the intended display size, with the following image resolutions: Line Art 800 dpi, Combination (Line Art + Halftone) 600 dpi, Halftone 300 dpi. See the Image quality specifications chart for details. The image file must be cropped as close to the actual image as possible. Use Arabic numerals to designate figures and upper case letters for their parts (Figure 1). Begin each legend with a title and include sufficient description so that the figure is understandable without reading the text of the manuscript. Information given in legends should not be repeated in the text.

Figure legends should be typed in numerical order on a separate sheet.

Tables and Equations as Graphics: If equations cannot be encoded in MathML, submit them in TIFF or EPS format as discrete files (i.e., a file containing only the data for one equation). Only when tables cannot be encoded as XML/SGML they can be submitted as graphics. If this method is used, it is critical that the font size in all equations and tables is consistent and legible throughout all submissions.

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Supplementary Information: Discrete items of the Supplementary Information (for example, figures, tables) referred to an appropriate point in the main text of the paper.
Summary diagram/figure included as part of the Supplementary Information (optional). All the Supplementary Information must be supplied as a single PDF file and file size should be within the permitted limits. Images should be a maximum of 640 x 480 pixels (9 x 6.8 inches at 72 pixels per inch) in size.

SciTechnol Policy Regarding the NIH Mandate: SciTechnol will support authors by posting the published version of articles by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central immediately after publication.

^*Note: For accepted articles under NIH Grant, and Japan, the Article Processing Charges are 3219^* Euros.

Proofs and Reprints: Electronic proofs will be sent as an e-mail attachment to the corresponding author as a PDF file. Page proofs are considered to be the final version of the manuscript. With the exception of typographical or minor clerical errors, no changes will be made in the manuscript at the proof stage. Authors will have free electronic access to the full text (HTML, PDF, and XML) of the article.

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Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process (FEE-Review Process):
Clinical Oncology: Case Reports is participating in the Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process (FEE-Review Process) with an additional prepayment of $99 apart from the regular article processing fee. Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process is a special service for the article that enables it to get a faster response in the pre-review stage from the handling editor as well as a review from the reviewer. An author can get a faster response of pre-review maximum in 3 days since submission, and a review process by the reviewer maximum in 5 days, followed by revision/publication in 2 days. If the article gets notified for revision by the handling editor, then it will take another 5 days for external review by the previous reviewer or alternative reviewer.

Acceptance of manuscripts is driven entirely by handling editorial team considerations and independent peer-review, ensuring the highest standards are maintained no matter the route to regular peer-reviewed publication or a fast editorial review process. The handling editor and the article contributor are responsible for adhering to scientific standards. The article FEE-Review process of $99 will not be refunded even if the article is rejected or withdrawn for publication.

The corresponding author or institution/organization is responsible for making the manuscript FEE-Review Process payment. The additional FEE-Review Process payment covers the fast review processing and quick editorial decisions, and regular article publication covers the preparation in various formats for online publication, securing full-text inclusion in a number of permanent archives like HTML, XML, and PDF, and feeding to different indexing agencies.