BANGLADESH JOURNAL of DENTAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION

www.bjdre.org Home About the Journal Journal Committe Instruction to Contributors Archives (BADI)® BJDRE official publication of Bangladesh Academy of Dentistry International (BADI)® ISSN (Online): 2308-9733 ISSN (Print): 22259015 ORCiD@BJDRE,BADI® ZENODO@BJDRE,BADI® OpenAIRE | EXPLOR@BJDRE,BADI® Instruction for Authors The Bangladesh Journal of Dental Research & Education (BJDRE) publishes original scholarly work in all fields of dentistry and oral health. Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts that contribute to clinical practice, dental education, and public health research. All manuscripts must be submitted through the journal’s online submission system (OJS) available on the journal website. Authors must register before submitting a manuscript. Registration and submission are free of charge. BJDRE follows an Open Access publishing model, and all published articles are freely accessible to readers worldwide. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which allows users to read, download, distribute, and reuse the work provided proper credit is given to the authors and the journal. All submitted manuscripts undergo double-blind peer review. Manuscripts are also screened using plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and research integrity. Authors should ensure that their manuscript complies with the journal’s formatting requirements and reference style before submission. Authors are encouraged to provide complete author affiliations, contact information, and ORCID IDs (optional) during submission. Authorship Criteria: BJDRE Follow the ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria: Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and Final approval of the version to be published; and Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. 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. 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). Ensure the manuscript follows the journal’s Author guidelines, particularly adhering to the required Structured Abstract format which includes sections for Introduction or Background, Method, Results, and Conclusion. Check that references are formatted according to the journal’s citation style (Vancouver system) found in the Author Guidelines, The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided. 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. Author Guidelines All manuscripts must be submitted online through the website BJDRE Online OJS Submission. First-time users will have to register at this site. Registration is free but mandatory. Registered authors can keep track of their articles after logging into the site using their user names and password. Authors do not have to pay for the submission, processing, or publication of articles. If you experience any problems, please contact the editorial office by email at badi.bd.bjdre@gmail.com. Conditions for submission of a manuscript: All manuscripts will be published under the Open Access policy All manuscripts are subject to peer review. All manuscripts will be checked for plagiarism with commercial plagiarism software. Manuscripts are received with the explicit understanding that they are not under simultaneous consideration by any other publication. Articles in Bangladesh Journal of Dental Research & Education (BJDRE) are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License CC BY-4.0. (Click here to know details) Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal. It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission to reproduce illustrations, tables, etc. from other publications. Full affiliation with an e-mail address, contact details, and ORCID ID (Optional) of each author ( https://orcid.org/) should be submitted. Ethical aspects and ethical approval: Authors should explicitly mention the ethical approval of their work by concerned authorities. Manuscripts based on studies involving human subjects should have been conducted in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the '1964 Declaration of Helsinki' revised in the year 2000. Studies involving trials on animals should also get appropriate ethical approval. Authors should disclose a conflict of interest if any exists. Ethical aspects of the study will be carefully considered. Any manuscript that includes a table, illustration, or photograph that has been published earlier should accompany a letter of permission for re-publication from the authors of the publication and editor/publisher of the Journal where it was published earlier. Permission of the patients and /or their families to reproduce photographs of the patients where identity is not disguised should be sent with the manuscript. Otherwise, the identity will be blackened out. Manuscript Submission Files Authors must upload the following files during submission. A.Title Page/ covering letter: This file should provide The type of manuscript (original article, case report, review article, Letter to editor, etc.) title of the manuscript, running title, names of all authors/ contributors (with their highest academic degrees, designation, and affiliations), and name(s) of the department(s) and/ or institution(s) to which the work should be credited, ORCID id is optional but appreciated to submit. All information that can reveal your identity should be here. Use doc files. The total number of pages, total number of photographs, and word counts separately for abstract and for the text (excluding the references, tables, and abstract), word counts for introduction + discussion in case of an original article; Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these; Acknowledgment, if any. One or more statements should specify 1) contributions that need acknowledging but do not justify authorship, such as general support by a departmental chair; 2) acknowledgments of technical help; and 3) acknowledgments of financial and material support, which should specify the nature of the support. This should be included in the title page of the manuscript and not in the main article file. Conflicts of Interest of each author/ contributor. A statement of financial or other relationships that might lead to a conflict of interest, if that information is not included in the manuscript itself or in an authors' form The name, address, e-mail, ORCID Id (Optional), and telephone/mobile number of the corresponding author, who is responsible for communicating with the other authors about revisions and final approval of the proofs, if that information is not included in the manuscript itself. B. Article file: The main text of the article, beginning from Abstract till References (including tables) should be in this file. The file must not contain any mention of the authors' names or initials or the institution at which the study was done or acknowledgments. Page headers/running titles can include the title but not the authors' names. Use doc files. Limit the file size to 2 MB. If the file size is large, graphs can be submitted as images separately without incorporating them in the article file to reduce the size of the file. The pages should be numbered consecutively C. Images: Submit good quality color images. Each image should be less than 2 MB in size. The size of the image can be reduced by decreasing the actual height and width of the images (keep up to 1600 x 1200 pixels (300 dpi or more) or 5-6 inches). Images can be submitted as jpeg files. Legends for the figures/images should be included at the end of the article file. Manuscript Style & Format: Language: Manuscripts must be submitted in English. File Format: Manuscript files can be in the following formats: DOC, DOCX. Microsoft Word documents should not be locked or protected. Font: Use Times new roman, Arial or Calibri font. Layout and spacing: Manuscript text should be double-spaced. Do not format text in multiple columns. Manuscript Organization: Abstract- The Abstract (Up to 300 Words) Should be structured and Follow IMRaD Format - Introduction shall contain- Context (Background), Aims, Settings, and Design, Methods and Material, Statistical analysis used, Results and Discussions. Abstracts should not include: Citations, Abbreviations, if possible Keywords: Below the abstract should provide 5 to 7 Keywords. Type of article and main body: Original articles: These include randomized controlled trials, intervention studies, studies of screening and diagnostic tests, outcome studies, cost-effectiveness analyses, case-control series, Cross-sectional study and surveys with high response rates. The text of original articles amounting to up to 3000 words (

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