Article Submission

All the manuscripts must be submitted online through the website _______________________. Authors do not have to pay for submission, processing or publication of articles. The manuscript will be reviewed for possible publication with the understanding that it is being submitted to JPDM alone at that point in time and has not been published anywhere, simultaneously submitted or already accepted for publication elsewhere. The journal expects that the ‘corresponding author’ authorised by all the contributors will communicate with the journal for all matters related to the manuscript. The order of naming contributors should be based on the relative contribution of the contributor towards the study and writing the manuscript. Once submitted the order cannot be changed without written consent of all the contributors. Conflicts of interest/competing interests, if any, must be disclosed. All manuscripts received will be duly acknowledged by e-mail. Submitted manuscripts will initially be reviewed by the Editors. Manuscripts with insufficient originality, serious scientific/technical flaws or lack of a significant message are rejected before proceeding for formal review. Manuscripts that are found suitable for publication in JPDM are sent to two or more expert reviewers. The selection of these reviewers is at the sole discretion of the Editor. The journal follows a double blind review process, wherein the reviewers and the authors are unaware of each other’s identity. Every manuscript will be assigned to a member of the editorial team, who based on the comments from the reviewers takes a final decision on the manuscript. The authors will be asked to modify the manuscript if needed. The comments and suggestions received from the reviewers are conveyed to the corresponding author. Manuscripts (single word document file with) typed in British English. Text should be made in MS Word. Size 12 of ‘Times New Roman’ font with double spacing is recommended for the main text. Title page should be in a separate word file with NAME OF THE ARTICLE, NAME AND DETAILS OF CONTRIBUTORS and NAME, EMAIL & MOBILE NUMBER OF CORRESPONDING AUTHOR. For Headings, Size 16 and 20 can be used. Images, graphs and tables should be included in the main text. References from articles in journals, books and other monographs should be in the formats used by the Vancouver system. References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text (not in alphabetic order). Scanned image of signed Copyright transfer statement by corresponding author should be attached as a separate file.