Author Guidelines

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION OVERVIEW

Types of Publications

Journal of Dental and Biosciences (JDB) has no limit on the length of the manuscript, provided the test is short and comprehensive. The manuscript must be written completely experimentally and detailed so that the results can be reproduced. JDB requires all authors published all experimental control and make complete data sets if possible.

Manuscript submitted to JDB must not be published in any journals and media other than JDB Journal. Articles can be accepted by Journal articles:

• Original research manuscripts: this journal received research original articles that experimental results report scientifically written systematically and contain new information. The quality and impact of the study results will be considered during the peer-review period.
• Systematic Reviews: manuscripts written by reviewing the questions formulated with an explicit and systematic method to identify, select and critically assess relevant research, and to collect and analyze data from studies included in the review. Furthermore, a systematic review provided a quick update and accurate information about the latest advances in certain fields' research.
• Case reports: the articles report in detail about symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients. Case reports describe unusual or new events and therefore remain one of the cornerstones of medical progress and provide many new ideas in medicine.

Submission process

All manuscripts must be submitted by the OJS online web system of JDB. The Author submitting the articles is the corresponding or the first author who can be responsible for the manuscripts during the peer-review process. 

Accepted File Formats

The authors are invited to submit electronically 15 pages maximum of full paper through journal website. The submitted paper should follow the format available on the author guideline. The authors must use the Microsoft word template JDB.

Cover Letter

A cover letter could be included in each manuscript submission process. It should be written in detail and significance, findings in the context of the existing study and why it is within the scope of the journal. All authors proposed in the manuscript must be approved within the signed agreement. 

Manuscript Preparation

Front Matter

These sections should appear in all manuscript types. Articles can be written in Indonesian or English. If the author writes in Indonesian, the title, affiliation, and abstract are made in two versions (English and Indonesian)

• Title: The title of your manuscript should be concise, specific and relevant. It should identify if the study reports (human or animal) trial data, or is a systematic review, meta-analysis or replication study. When gene or protein names are included, the abbreviated name rather than full name should be used.
• Author List and Affiliations: Authors' full first and last names must be provided. The initials of any middle names can be added. The PubMed/MEDLINE standard format is used for affiliations: complete address information including city, zip code, state/province, and country. At least one author should be designated as the corresponding author, and his or her email address and other details should be included at the end of the affiliation section.
• Abstract: The abstract should be a total of about 200 words maximum. The abstract should be a single paragraph and should follow the style of structured abstracts but without headings: 1) Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; 2) Methods: Describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied. Include any relevant preregistration numbers, and species and strains of any animals used. 3) Results: Summarize the article's main findings; and 4) Conclusion: Indicate the main conclusions or interpretations. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article: it must not contain results which are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.
• Keywords: Consists of 3-5 phrases, written in order of appearance in the title. Sort according to the variable or phrase you want to highlight, the separator uses a comma, the first phrase is uppercase and the next phrase is lowercase

Research Manuscript Sections

• Introduction: The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. It should define the purpose of the work and its significance. The current state of the research field should be reviewed carefully and key publications cited. Please highlight controversial and diverging hypotheses when necessary. Finally, briefly mention the main aim of the work and highlight the principal conclusions. As far as possible, please keep the introduction comprehensible to scientists outside your particular field of research. References should be numbered in order of appearance and indicated by a numeral or numerals in square brackets, e.g., [1] or [2,3], or [4–6]. See the end of the document for further details on references. The article written using size A4 (210 x 297 mm) with a 10-size Times New Roman font consisting of maximum 15 pages. All paragraphs’ spacing had to be set to 1pt (after), the line spacing set to single, the left-right flat text (justified) with moderate text margin (left-right: 254 mm; top-down: 191 mm).
• Methods: State ethical clearance when required. Clearly explain the details of research methods and the statistical analysis used in the study. Subheadings that aid clarity of data presentation are allowed.
  Subject recruitment
  Type the methods of subject recruitment, including Ethical issues of the research. Inform consent gained.  Number of subjects included, etc.
  Specific methods used
  Briefly state the methods used in the study. Laboratory consumables used should state the company and catalog number, company and Country of the consumables.
  Data analysis
  Should state the statistical analysis used in the study. The set of p-value of <0.05 with a 95% confidence interval was considered statistically significant should be stated.
• Results: Provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn. Avoid repetition of presenting similar data. The results are presented in the form of figures and tables, accompanied by supporting narratives that provide references to the tables and figures. Figures and tables are included in the body of manuscript. Each figure and table should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numbers. Figure titles and table content should be written in 9pt font. Presented tables/figures has to be self-explanatory.
  To prevent the decline in figure or table quality, it is best to be attached in separate files (jpeg. min 300 dpi format for image and Microsoft Word or Excel format for tables). Examples of figure and table writing formats:
  
• Discussion: Authors should discuss the results and how they can be interpreted in perspective of previous studies and of the working hypotheses. The findings, limitation, and implications should be discussed in the broadest context possible. Future research directions may also be highlighted. Avoid the repetition of studies explained in the introduction.
• Conclusions: The conclusion contains the answers to the research problem formulation, not by including the statistical results, but in the form of a conclusion from the statistical results. Conclusions must be able to describe the results of the research which are described in the research objectives. This section is not required, but can be added to the articles if the discussion is long and complex.

Back Matter

• Acknowledgements: Individuals with contribute 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. This may include administrative and technical support, or donations in kind (e.g., materials used for experiments).
• Conflicts of Interest: Should state whether there are possible conflicts of interest related to this study or state “the authors declare no conflict of interest”.
• References: References must be numbered in order of appearance in the text (including table captions and figure legends) and listed individually at the end of the manuscript. In the text references should be numbered in order of appearance and indicated by a numeral or numerals in square brackets, e.g., [1] or [2,3], or [4–6]. Authors are encouraged to use journal articles published in the last 10 years as the primary references. There must be at least 15 references and 20 in total. Library writing uses the Vancouver System [square brackets] format and is recommend preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as EndNote, References Manager, Mendeley or Zotero. Include the references’ DOI. 
  Examples:
  
  1. Bhuyan R, Bhuyan SK, Mohanty JN, et al. Periodontitis and Its Inflammatory Changes Linked to Various Systemic Diseases: A Review of Its Underlying Mechanisms. Biomedicines 2022; 10 (10): 1–18. DOI 10.3390/biomedicines10102659
  2. Hutauruk R, Suniarti DF, Djohan W. Potential of Javanese Turmeric Ethanol Extract in Inhibiting Streptococcus sanguinis and Porphyromonas gingivalis Biofilm Formation. Int J Appl Pharm 2019; 11: 18–22.  DOI 10.22159/ijap2019.v11s1.154
  3. Newman MG, Carranza FA, Takei HH, et al. Clinical Periodontology. 13th ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2019.