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Guidelines for Authors

Arba Minch College of Health Sciences reserach review committe is a blind reviewed proposal once a year by reasearch and publication core process. The committee is cross-disciplinary in nature. The team is the place for exchange of information and research results that describe significant advances in field of laboratory, MCH, Pharmacy andHMIS

The team is committed to:

  • Comment original research and review articles and short communications,

  • Serve as a communication medium among professionals, researchers and practitioners, &

  • Initiate researchers to focus on community oriented issues that contribute for the sustainable development in the region (Southern Ethiopia).

A maximum of 6 authors can participate in any proposa paper submission. Submission of a proposal represents that the manuscript is original contributions, has not been published previously and is not considered for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed, and the Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to refuse any manuscript including desk rejection particularly if the proposal submitted is not as per the guideline, and to make suggestions and/or modifications before submision.

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Proposal Review: The editor will acknowledge receipt of proposal and send copies of proposals to reviewers. Authors will be contacted after the review process, which generally takes 15 days.

The review process considers the originality of the work, relationship to literature, appropriateness of the methodology (i.e. built on an appropriate base of theory, concepts, or other ideas), results and conclusions, the implications for the research, practice and/or society and quality of communication.

General Guidelines


Authors should adhere to the following while submitting the manuscript: Papers are accepted only in English.
Proposals should be compiled in the following order: Cover page/title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgments; appendixes (as appropriate) and references.
 

The cover page of the manuscript should include author‟s full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail addresses. Author/s profile should be in a separate page. All document information identifying the author/s should be removed from any other part of the manuscript to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. One author should be identified as the corresponding author using asterisk.


Abstracts of up to 200 words (11 font sizes, italic) are required for all papers indicating the objectives, purpose of the research, methods used, major results, conclusions & implications.
Each paper should have four to six keywords separated by comma with 11 font size and italic.
Title and main text heading should be centered and typed in bold capitals. Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.


All submissions must be limited to 10-12 A4 pages in length (including the cover page and brief profile of the author/s) typed on one side in 12 point font double spaced in Microsoft Word format. Leave margins of 2.5 cm/ 1 inch at the top and sides and 4 cm at the bottom of each page.


All figures and tables must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (figure 1, figure 2, table 1, and table 2). In multi-part figures and tables, each part should be labeled (figure 1(a), figure 1(b)). Figures & tables must be included in the text.

Manuscript Preparation

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Title: The title of the manuscript should be selected carefully. It should be concise (maximum of 10 words in 14 font size), specific and descriptive enough to contain key words or phrases indicating the contents of the manuscript.

 

Introduction: This part of the paper should provide background information on the subject, justification or underlying hypothesis for doing the work and the major objectives of the research or investigation; it should provide a brief review of literature, limited to information essential to orient the reader.

 

Materials and Methods: under this heading a brief and concise description of the conditions under which the investigation was carried out and the materials, the procedures, techniques and experimental design used.

 

Acknowledgement: It may be given immediately following the results and discussion or conclusion section but preceding the reference section.

 

References: are listed alphabetically by the author‟s last name. References should be selected on their relevance and as much as possible, recent references should be cited and the number kept to minimum. References should be presented in the author-year style. Therefore, the references in the text for one or two authors are given as shown in the following:

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