Manuscript Guidelines

Welcome and thank you for considering the Journal of Nephrology and Dialysis Medicine to submit your work. By submitting a manuscript, authors ensure that they strictly follow the guidelines and ethics of the journal.

Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript, through the online submission system. Authors facing technical difficulties may send the article as an email attachment to the editorial office at editor@nephrojournal.com. The submitting author takes responsibility for the article from submission until publication (during peer review and in-house process).

Documents Required at Submission

A cover letter explaining the main purpose of the work must accompany the manuscript. It should explain the suitability of the manuscript to this particular journal based on topic, theme, and methodological or theoretical approach, briefly describing the research being reported, why it is important, and why the readership of the journal would be interested in it.

Authors may suggest 3–6 potential peer reviewers for the manuscript, provided they are not current collaborators and not members of the same research institution. Suggested reviewers should not have published with any of the authors within the past five years. Suggested reviewers may be considered alongside potential reviewers recommended by Sectional Editors.

Our editorial staff will respond to any submission inquiry within two working days.

Authors must carefully choose the appropriate article type for their manuscript before submitting.

Complete the following before submitting.

A list of references must be provided at the end of the scientific text, including full information for all works cited in the running text. Entries are listed in the same order in which they were cited in the text, with reference numbers given as superscripts.

In-text example: "The author has discussed the implications of these proposals on the National Health Service in another paper¹. Other writers have commented on related issues, notably Lane^2,3 and Lewis⁴."

Reference Format Examples

Number all figures consecutively as referenced in the text. Multi-panel figures should reference parts as (a), (b), (c), etc. Label figures with an Arabic numeral and a title; the label (Figure x, in italics) and title appear on the same line below the figure. Use a sans-serif font (Helvetica, Arial, or Futura) between eight and fourteen points for in-figure text. Follow the title with a legend explaining symbols and a caption explaining the figure, citing the source below the label. If the figure carries an embedded title, crop it out.

Number all tables sequentially (Table 1, Table 2…) as referenced in the text. Label with an Arabic numeral and an italicized title on separate lines above the table. Cite the table's source in a note below it. Explain every abbreviation and special symbol (excluding standard statistical symbols). Use superscript lowercase letters (^a, ^b, ^c) for notes, ordered left to right and top to bottom, with each table's first footnote as ^a.

Average manuscript life cycle at Journal of Nephrology and Dialysis Medicine:

Average time taken for the manuscript to appear online: Four to Five weeks.

Journal of Nephrology and Dialysis Medicine is an open access journal. Publication is treated as the last phase of the research process, with the fee paid from the author's research budget or by a supporting institution's grants. The article-processing charge (APC) covers:

• Peer-review management by the editorial staff and board
• Preparation of the manuscript in various formats for online publication
• Hosting, archiving, and maintaining the manuscript
• Manuscript preparation such as copyediting, formatting, and adjusting the layout
• Developing and maintaining electronic tools for peer review and publication
• Immediate, worldwide open access to the full article text

The Journal of Nephrology and Dialysis Medicine is committed to using modern communication methods — video files, spoken audio files, audio synchronized with text, and flash multimedia — for conveying scholarly content. Authors can submit review articles, research articles, experimental techniques, case reports, anatomic overviews, and more in visual format.

All multimedia articles are peer-reviewed as part of the mainstream submission process, and all published multimedia articles are accessible through the journal or through YouTube. Videos can be cited the same way as a written article in a traditional open access publication, and every multimedia article has an open discussion forum freely accessible to anyone.

Accepted File Formats

Authors must include all details of multimedia files — size, player type, etc. — in a separate document, and should check the following before submitting:

• Compatible with commonly used browsers and mobile devices
• Audio is clear and easy to hear, especially voices
• Picture is focused with sufficient lighting
• Video is clear with steady camera work
• Images are of sufficient quality and adequately captioned

The Journal of Nephrology and Dialysis Medicine publishes all its articles under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction of the information in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal an exclusive license to publish.

Copyright aims to protect the specific way an article has been written to describe an experiment and its results. The journal is committed to protecting and defending authors' work and reputation, and takes allegations of infringement, plagiarism, ethics disputes, and fraud very seriously. Copyright on any research article is retained by the author(s); authors grant the journal a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher, and grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its original authors, citation details, and publisher are identified.