Template for Short Communication
Short Communication should be no more than 2500 words, and could include three figures or tables. It should have at least 8 references. Should be typed in 12 points Times New Roman font.
Short communications must report completed work, not preliminary findings: they are an alternative format for describing smaller pieces of work.
Title
The title should be specific to the study yet concise, and should allow sensitive and specific electronic retrieval of the article. It should be comprehensible to readers outside your field.
Avoid specialist abbreviations if possible.
Authors and Affiliations
Provide the first names or initials (if used), middle names or initials (if used), surnames, and affiliations—department, university or organization, city, state/province (if applicable), and country—for all authors. One of the authors should be designated as the corresponding author and provide the ORCID ID .
Abstract
The abstract should not exceed 150 words. The abstract is conceptually divided into four sections. Background: include here a statement of the main research question. Methods the techniques used without going into methodological detail, Results of the most important findings with measures of error and not just p values. Conclusions concisely summarize the study’s implications. Please do not include any citations in the abstract.
Keywords
Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). . If names of microorganisms are used, they should precede the key words, and be followed by the latter in alphabetical order. All keywords should be relevantly connected with the subject matter (avoid common terms like: bacteria, medium, soil, temperature etc.) as they will be used for indexing purposes.
Introduction
The introduction should put the focus of the manuscript into a broader context. As you compose the introduction, think of readers who are not experts in this field. Include a brief review of the
key literature. If there are relevant controversies or disagreements in the field, they should be mentioned so that a non-expert reader can delve into these issues further. Describe the novelty of the study. The introduction should conclude with a brief statement of the overall aim of the experiments and a comment about whether that aim was achieved.
Methods
This section should provide enough detail to allow full replication of the study by suitably skilled investigators. Protocols for new methods should be included, but well-established protocols may simply be referenced.
Research design Study subjects
Sample size determination Intervention
Measurements Laboratory analysis Statistical analysis Ethical clearance Results
The results section should provide details of all of the experiments that are required to support the conclusions of the paper. There is no specific word limit for this section. The section may be divided into subsections, each with a concise subheading. Large datasets, including raw data, should be submitted as supporting information files; these are published online alongside the accepted article. We advise that the results section be written in past tense.
Discussion
The discussion should be concise and tightly argued.
Summarise the mayor findings
Compare your results with previous work Discuss the scientific of your findings Limitations of the study
Clinical implication of the study Conclusion
Conclusions firmly established by the presented data, hypotheses supported by the presented data, and speculations suggested by the presented data should be clearly identified as such.
Acknowledgments
People who contributed to the work but do not fit criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments, along with their contributions. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure that anyone named in the acknowledgments agrees to being so named. Details of the funding sources that have supported the work should be confined to the funding declaration provided on submission.
Conflict of interest
Disclose any personal financial interests related to the subject matters discussed in the manuscript here.
Contributors
Describe the authors contribution for this work References should be in Vancouver style
The minimal number of references should be 15 and 85% of them should be recent (published during the last 10 years, with the majority during the last 5 years). Abbreviate journal names according to the Index Medicus system
Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list..
Please read guide to authors carefully to prepare a list of references. Use of the DOI is highly encouraged.
Reference style
Text: Indicate references by number(s) in square brackets in line with the text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given and superscript. Example:
'... as demonstrated. [3,6]. Barnaby and Jones [8] obtained a different result ....'
List: Number the references (numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which they appear in the text.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
1. Somi MH, Dolatkhah R, Sepahi S, Belalzadeh M, Naghashi S, Jafarabadi MA. A 12-year trend analysis of the incidence of gastrointestinal cancers in East Azerbaijan: last updated results
of an ongoing population-based cancer registry. BMC Cancer 2019;19:782.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-6008-3.
Figure Legends
The aim of the figure legend should be to describe the key messages of the figure, but the figure should also be discussed in the text. An enlarged version of the figure and its full legend will often be viewed in a separate window online, and it should be possible for a reader to understand the figure without switching back and forth between this window and the relevant parts of the text. Each legend should have a concise title of no more than 15 words.
Tables
Tables can be placed either next to the relevant text in the article, or on separate page(s) at the end.
Total no more than 3 figures and tables.
Processing
Short communications under go the same review process as full-length papers and are not printed more quickly.
