Submissions

Author Guidelines

Indonesian Journal of Endocrinology Metabolism and Diabetes (InaJEMD or Indones J Endocrinol Metab Diab)

General principles

1. Manuscripts submitted to Indonesian Journal of Endocrinology Metabolism and Diabetes (InaJEMD) should neither be published before nor be under consideration for publication in another journal.
2. InaJEMD only accept the clinical, basic science, community medicine, or public health manuscripts in the field of endocrinology, metabolism, and diabetes. Others are accepted if only correlate to endocrinology, metabolism, and diabetes.
3. Manuscripts must be submitted in English.
4. Authors whose native language is not English should be seek a proofreading consultant, before submitting their manuscripts. Make sure that issues about publication ethics, research ethics, copyright, authorship, figure formats, data and references format have been appropriately considered.
5. Ensure that all authors have approved the content of the submitted manuscript.
6. We accept eight types of articles:
   - Original article
   - Review article
   - Systematic review
   - Case report
   - Case series
   - Case illustration
   - Special article
   - Clinical practice
   - Point of view
   - Editorial
   - Community/public health study

Writing guideline
Manuscripts are written on A4 pages, double-spaced in all parts of the manuscript, with margin of 2.54 cm of all   sides, using Times New Roman 12. Articles must be submitted in the following structural order: title page and authorship, abstract, main text, conflicts of interest, acknowledgments, funding disclosure, references, tables, figures, and legends (if any).

Editorial/Point of View should be presented in sections:
To stimulate thought about any cutting-edge topics that relate to endocrinology and metabolism. 

1. Word count: up to 1200 words.
2. Illustrations/tables: no illustration and/or tables.
3. References: up to 10-30

Article Research (Original Article/Community Study/Public Health research) should be presented in sections:
These represent a substantial body of laboratory or clinical work. Extended reports should not exceed 3000 words plus references; articles that exceed this word limit may be returned for revision before peer review. Additional data may be presented as supplementary information, which will be published online only should the article be accepted (this can be in any format: text, tables, images, etc.).

1. Title of The Article
2. Abstract: No more than 250 words summarizing the problem being considered, how the study was performed, the salient results and the principal conclusions under subheadings background and purpose of the study, methods, results, and conclusion. Please define abstract in two version languages (Bahasa Indonesia and English).
3. Key words: No more than 5 words or short phrases. 
4. Introduction: Without subtitle, state the rationale for the study, identify a problem main problem/the study purpose, establish a gap in the current knowledge/state the novelties, and articulate a hook that convinces readers that this gap is of consequence. Brief description of the background that led to the study (current results and conclusions should not be included).
5. Methods: Please state the study design.  Details relevant to the conduct of the study. Wherever possible give numbers of subjects studied (not percentages alone). Statistical methods should be clearly explained at   the   end   of   this   section   and   its analyses must be explained on the methods used. Relying   solely   on statistical hypothesis testing, such as p values should be avoided; instead, important information about effect size and precision of estimates should be provided. 
6. Results: Work should be reported in standard international units. Undue repetition in text and tables should be avoided. Commenting on validity and significance of results is appropriate.
7. Discussion: The nature and findings of the study are placed in context of other relevant published data. Caveats to the study should be discussed. Avoid undue extrapolation from the study topic.
8. Conclusion
9. Acknowledgments and affiliations: Individuals with direct involvement in the study but not included in authorship may be acknowledged. The source of financial support and industry affiliations of   all those involved must be stated.
10. References: (usually below 30). Please   see   References for   further style guidance. Consist of references of minimal 10 years recently and in the form of essay.
11. Figure legends Maximum 6 tables and/or figures: Please see Illustrations and tables for further style guidance.

Article of References (Review Article, Special Article, Clinical Practice, Literature review, Systematic review) should be presented in sections:Although these are usually commissioned, authors are invited to discuss directly with the Editor possible topics for review.

1. Word count: Usually be less than 3000 words.
2. Title of The Article
3. Abstract: No more than 250 words, summarising the problem being considered, how the study was performed. The abstract should not be structures formally.  Please define abstract in two version languages (Bahasa Indonesia and English).
4. Key words: No more than 5 words or short phrases. 
5. Introduction: No more than 4 paragraphs. Without subtitles, state the rationale for the study some references, state the novelties and main problem. Brief description of the background that led to the study (current results and conclusions should not be included). Subtitles in keeping with needs.
6. Conclusion
7. Acknowledgments and affiliations: Individuals with direct involvement in the study but not included in authorship may be acknowledged. The source of financial support and industry affiliations of all those involved must be stated.
8. References: No limit, but usually below 50. Consist of references of minimal 10 years recently.
9. Figure legends maximum 6 tables and/or figures.

Case (Case Reports/Case Series/Case Illustration) should be presented in sections: Word count: the length will be indicated by or will be discussed with the editor but will usually.

1. Title of The Article
2. Abstract: No more than 250 words, summarizing the problem being considered, how the study was performed. The abstract should not be structures formally.  Please define abstract in two version languages (Bahasa and English).
3. Key words: No more than 5 words or short phrases.
4. Introduction: No more than 4 paragraphs. Without subtitles, state the rationale for the study some references, state the novelty and main problem/the report purpose. Brief description of the background that led to the study (current results and conclusions should not be included).
5. Case Illustration
6. Discussion: The nature and findings of the study are placed in context of other relevant published data. Caveats to the study should be discussed.  Avoid undue extrapolation from the study topic.
7. Conclusion
8. Acknowledgments and affiliations: Individuals with direct involvement in the study but not included in authorship may be acknowledged. The source of financial support and industry affiliations of all those involved must be stated.
9. References: (no limit, but usually below 50).   Please   see References for further style guidance. Consist of references of minimal 10 years recently and in the form of essay.
10. Figure legends Maximum 6 tables and/or figures: Please see Illustrations and tables for further style guidance.

Tables and figures: Total of tables and figures are advisable not to exceed 6 in number. Tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals with brief captions clearly indicating the purpose or content of each table. Provide a footnote to each table, identifying in alphabetical order all abbreviations used. Explain all nonstandard, abbreviations and explanatory matters in footnotes, and for explanatory matters use the following symbols “*, **”.

Figures: should be either professionally drawn or photographed, and submitted in a format (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, or EPS) in the following resolutions [grayscale or colour in RGB (red, green, blue mode) at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). For x-ray films, scans, and other diagnostic images, as well as pictures of pathology specimens or photomicrographs, send sharp, glossy, black-and-white or colour photographic prints, usually 127 x 173 mm (5 x 7 inches). Figures should be made as self-explanatory as possible; titles and detailed explanations belong in the legends-not on the figures themselves. Photomicrographs should have internal scale markers. Symbols, arrows, or letters used in photomicrographs should contrast with the background. When symbols, arrows, numbers, or letters are used to identify parts of the illustrations, identify, and explain each one clearly in the legend. Explain the internal scale and identify the method of staining in photomicrographs. Photographs of potentially identifiable people must be accompanied by written permission to use the photograph.

• Study Ethics: All submitted papers containing animal experiments and/or involving human subjects should have obtained approval from an independent ethics committee. The copy of approval should be provided to the editorial office as mentioned above.
• Informed consent/Patient Consent Form: The author must indicate, in the main text of the manuscript, whether informed consent was obtained, including consent to publish the study a patient enrolled in. The author may be requested   by the journal's editor to submit the consent form.   In some circumstances, informed consent requirements may be exempted from studies. The decision to require or waive   informed   consent must come from the ethics committee that reviewed and approved the study. For studies in which informed consent is waived, the author must submit   the official approval letter from the ethics committee that indicates the waiver.
• Conflict of interest: Conflicts of interest should be transparent as detail as possible. Funding sources for the work should be described specifically with explanations of the role of those sources and the authors should declare that the supporting sources was not involved in specific role. The authors should declare that the authors had access to all the study and the sponsors did not intervene the data or the work.

• Acknowledgments: Personal acknowledgments should be limited to appropriate professionals who contributed to the paper by making substantial contributions to conception, design, acquisition of data,  or  analysis and interpretation of data, or who was involved in  drafting  the manuscript  or  revising  it  critically for  important  intellectual content, but who does not meet the criteria for authorship, including technical help and financial or material support, also general support by a department chairperson.

 References: References are advisably not to exceed 30 in number but not less than 10 and should in general be limited to minimal 10 years recently, except for references to methods used: they must be cited no matter how old they are. More than 25 references may be accepted when it is necessary. Cite references in numeric order according to the first mention in the text and write them according to The Vancouver (Superscript) rules for example “ABC.^1”. References cited in figures or tables (or in their legends and footnotes) should be numbered according to the place in the text where that table or figure is first cited. For sequences of consecutive numbers, give the first and last number of the sequence separated by a hyphen for example “ABC.^22-25”

The Authors can access this link for article guideline: https://bit.ly/authorguidelinesinajemd