Open Journal of Clinical and Medical Images is an open access journal publishes articles covering all areas of medical sciences. For journal scope and areas covered, please follow the webpage: <>. All the published manuscripts are archived and available online at <>. Unique DOI is assigned for all the published manuscripts immediately after the publication for global recognition of author's work. In addition, the journal would allow free and unlimited access (open access) to the published material to attract more readers and increase the no. of citations. Published manuscripts are also promoted in different social and academia platforms for global coverage

Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance to the guidelines mentioned in "International Committee of Medical Journal Editors". Summary of all such guidelines and all other information required for authors are available here. Authors are requested to follow these instructions while preparing the manuscript for possible publication in the journal.

Manuscript Acknowledgement:

All the new submissions are acknowledged within 24 to 48 hours of submission in a belief that the content is unique, neither submitted simultaneously to other journal nor already published. If there is no acknowledgement, please contact us to the email id provided in the contact us web page. Cover letter must be attached along with the manuscript.

Editorial Process

All the new submissions are verified in the internal plagiarism software to avoid plagiarism issues and assigned to handling editor for review and possible publication in the journal. It is the journal editorial office or editor who assigns the manuscript to 1 or 2 external reviewers without providing author's information to avoid biased review. Handling editor will decide the fate of the manuscript based on the reviewer(s) comments.

Decision of the editor includes one of the following parameters:

1. Accept in the current form
2. Accept with minor changes (second review not required)
3. Accept with major changes (second review is mandatory)
4. Reject in current form and can be accepted for review after revision
5. Reject the manuscript

The journal follows 21 day review process and it all depends on availability of editors and reviewers. We start review process immediately after the submission to finish the review in time.

Manuscripts without insufficient data, lack of originality, scientific and technical flaws are rejected and informed to author for further improvement of the manuscript.

Accepted manuscripts are copy edited and sent to production team for PDF production. Journal takes 3 working days to produce the PDF. PDF will be sent to corresponding author prior to publication on the website.

Manuscript submission

Authors are requested to submit the manuscript along with cover letter via online manuscript submission system. New users have to register in the website before the manuscript submission. All the current and future articles will be tracked using the same credentials. There is no submission fee charged to authors. If you experience any technical issues while registration or uploading the manuscript, please bring them to our notice by contacting the email address provided in the contact us page.

Images: Provide images at the end of the manuscript or attach them separately in word file or image format. JPEG, JPG, PNG, TIFF images of high resolution are accepted. High resolution images helps in building attractive PDF. Provide legends to all the figures.

Figures: should be consecutively numbered according to the order they appear in the manuscript. Symbols, arrow marks or letters used in the images should be clearly visible to the readers. Cite the original content to avoid copy right complications after the publication. Journal reserves the right to crop or reduce the size of the images to the required size.

Tables: Provide tables along with the legends at the end of the manuscript. IF there are more than 4 tables, better provide them in new word or excel file. Tables should be consecutively numbered according to the order they appear in the manuscript. Table legends are must for all tables. There is no limit to the number of tables.

Equations and Formulae: For mathematical symbols, Greek letters and other special characters, use normal text or Symbol font. MathType is used only for formulae that cannot be produced using normal text or Symbol font.

Cover letter: Signed cover letter must be attached along with the submission. Include conflicts of interest, if any in the cover page. Download the cover letter from the following link: <>

Consent form: Patient consent form is required if the patient face is visible in the figures used in the manuscript. In all other cases, consent form is not required. Download the consent form from the following link: <>.

Manuscript preparation

Prepare your manuscript in word file. Activate page and line numberings. Differentiate headings and side headings properly. Don't add content in headers and footers. All the supplementary files should be provided in separate files. Maintain unique font throughout the manuscript. Increase the font size for headings and side headings.

Your manuscript should contain the following: Title, list of authors along with the affiliations, corresponding author information, abstract, keywords, figures, description, conclusion, references.

References:

Reference formatting has different kinds based upon the number of authors or books or the Journal publications etc., please follow the respective related reference formats:

Journal Article with less than 6 authors: Bonetti F, Pea M, Martignoni G, Zamboni G. PEC and sugar. Am J Surg Pathol. 1992; 16: 307-308.

Journal Article with more than 6 authors: Santi R, Franchi A, Villari D, Paglierani M, Pepi M, Danielli D, et al. Sclerosing variant of PEComa: report of a case and review of the literature. Histol Histopathol. 2012; 27: 1175-1181.

Book References: Gardner JG, Simmons MJ, Snustad PD. Principles of Genetics. 8th edn. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 2006.

Book Chapter: Honn KV, Tang DG, Chen Y. Adhesion molecules and site-specific metastasis. Neri Serneri SS, Gensini GF, Abbate R, Prisco D, editors. In: Thrombosis: An Update. Scientific Press. 1992; 269-303.

Link/URL: National Cancer Institute at National Institutes of Health. [Hyperlinked with www.cancer.gov]

Proceedings of a Conference: Gee JC, Joshi S, Pohl KM, Wells WM, Zollei L, editors. Information Processing in Medical Imaging. Proceedings of 23rd International Conference; 2013 June 28--July 3; CA, USA. New York: Springer, 2013.

PhD Theses/Dissertation: Simonneau A. Gold-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization Reactions through Activation of Alkynes [dissertation]. Springer Theses, 2014.

Datasets: Zheng LY, Guo XS, He B, Sun LJ, Peng Y, Dong SS, et al. Genome data from sweet and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). Giga Science. 2011.

Journal Article Epub ahead of print: Reardon DA, Wen PY. Targeted therapies: Further delineating bevacizumab's response spectrum. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2014 [In press].

Reprints

Reprints are provided to the authors/readers upon request. Charges for reprints depends on no. of copies. Please see the below:

For additional information on reprints, please contact journal editorial office. Reprints are provided on environment friendly paper. It takes 2 weeks to deliver the copes after the payment.

Copyrights

Journal follows open access model of publication and readers can access, read, download and share the information without subscription. All published manuscripts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. Author retains the copyright of the manuscript and we hold only the publication rights. Submitting the manuscript to the journal implies that author(s) agree to provide publication rights to the journal.