Journal of Diabetology (Official Journal of Diabetes in Asia Study Group) has the aim to provide a forum for clinicians who are involved in the care of people with diabetes to exchange information, promote better management and stimulate research.

The Journal would publish original research and scholarly Its scope is to publish original research and scholarly reviews about prevention and management of diabetes, relating both to general and region specific issues. Papers relating to region specific issues would be given priority if they fulfill the acceptability criteria of Journal of Diabetology.

Journal of Diabetology will encourage submitting manuscripts through e-mail for evaluation. Author(s) should sent their manuscript to the Editor's E-mail address: editor@journalofdiabetology.org

Double copies of the manuscript should be sent, each with a set of original figures and tables, covering letter from the author responsible for correspondence regarding the manuscript along with a soft copy (CD) to the:

Editor, Journal of Diabetology
Address: Plot No. 1-2, II-B Nazimabad No. 2, Karachi-74600, Pakistan.
The Journal's phone / fax number is +92-21-36707179 +92-21-36608568
Email: editor@journalofdiabetology.org

    -- Title page & Author’s List

    -- Author’s contributions

    -- Abstract

    -- Introduction

    -- Methods

    -- Results

    -- Discussion

    -- Conclusions

    -- Acknowledgements

    -- References

    -- Figure legends (if any)

    -- Tables (if any)

    -- Not more than 4000 words

    -- Title page & Author’s List

    -- Author’s contributions

    -- Abstract

    -- Review

    -- Conclusions

    -- Acknowledgements

    -- References

    -- Figure Legends (If any)

    -- Table (If any)

    -- Not more than 5000 words

    -- Title page & Author’s list

    -- Authors' contributions

    -- Abstract

    -- Introduction

    -- Case presentation

    -- Conclusions

    -- Consent

    -- Acknowledgements

    -- References

    -- Not more than 1500 words

    -- Title page and Author’s list

    -- Authors' contributions

    -- Abstract

    -- Findings

    -- Acknowledgements

    -- References

    -- Figure Legends (If any)

    -- Table (If any)

    -- Not more than 1500 words

Authors should have regard to the following steps and contributions ordinarily required to develop, execute and report a scientific project:

    -- Conception and design

    -- Contribution in field, experimental, clinical, data collection or compilation work

    -- Provision of scholarly input during the process

    -- Data analysis and interpretation

    -- Preparation of draft manuscript, doing revisions or providing critique

    -- Overall and/or sectional scientific management

If the contributions are of a more technical or secretarial nature than intellectual or scholarly, they can be acknowledged as a final footnote to the paper in the usual way. However, this note should be brief and represent significant input without which the work would not have materialized.

The title page of the manuscript should include: (1) concise and informative title (less than 50 words); (2) running title(less than 50 characters, including spaces); (3) name and initial of each author up to ten authors may be cited; (4) complete affiliation for each author, with name of the department (s) and institution (s) to which the work should be attributed; (5) name, address, telephone number and email address (necessary) of one author responsible for correspondence; (6) source (s) of support in the form of grants equipment, drugs, or all of these; (7) word count; (8) category in which the article is being submitted original articles or review articles.

Provide on a separate page, a structured abstract of Original and Review article should be of no more than 250 and Case report and short communication should not exceed 200 words. Abstracts of articles should contain four paragraphs labeled as: Background/Objective, Methods, Results, and Conclusions. They should briefly describe respectively, the problem being addressed in the study, how the study was performed, the important results and the conclusion drawn by the authors. The abstract should not contain abbreviations or references. Three to five key words should be supplied below the abstract.

The introduction should be clear with concise account of the background of the problem and the rationale behind the investigation. References with direct bearing on the work submitted should be cited. Data or conclusions from the previously reported work should not be included. Clearly mention the objective(s) of the study without adding any sub-heading.

This should contain the body of the article, and may also be broken into subsections with short, informative headings

This section may be broken into subsections with appropriate sub-headings. All details should present regarding the case, as well as a discussion with references to the literature. The case report should contain a description of the patient's relevant demographic information (without adding any details that could lead to the identification of the patient), any relevant medical history of the patient, the patient's symptoms and signs, any tests that were carried out, and a description of any treatment or intervention.

This should be a concise statement of the work and findings in a single section.

This should be detailed to give the reader a clear idea of the work done. Describe your selection of the observational or experimental subjects and clearly identify their age, sex and other important characteristics. Identify the methods, apparatus (give the manufacturer's name and address in parenthesis) and procedures in sufficient detail. Mention setting, study design, sampling method, sample size, inclusion/exclusion criteria wherever applicable without adding any sub-headings. Give important references. Describe new or substantially modified methods, reasons for using them and evaluate their limitations. Identify precisely all drugs and chemicals used, including generic name(s), dose(s) and route(s) of administration.
Authors submitting review manuscripts should include a section describing the methods used for locating, selecting, extracting and synthesizing data. These methods should also be summarized in the abstract.

Describe statistical methods with enough detail to enable a knowledgeable reader to understand. When possible, quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurements error or uncertainty (such as standard deviation when mentioning mean values of quantitative variables, or confidence intervals where / if odds ratio is mentioned, etc.). Mention the statistical test used for analysis to obtain the P values. Discuss the eligibility of experimental subjects. Give details about randomization. Describe the method for and success of any blinding of observations. Specify any general use computer programs used.

Restrict tables and figures to those needed to explain the argument of the paper and to assess its support. Use graphs as an alternative to tables with many entries; do not duplicate data in graphs and tables. Avoid non-technical uses of technical terms in statistics. Define statistical terms, abbreviations and most symbols.

Results should be presented in logical sequence in the text, emphasize or summarize only important observations. Do not repeat data in the text. Wherever possible, mean results with confidence limits, or with standard errors of the means, and the number of observations should be given. The significance should be given as values of probability. Statistical tests used should be named.

Tables should be printed on separate sheets and appear after references. They should be self-explanatory, clearly designed, and should not duplicate the text. Figures should be provided only if they improve the article and to ensure good quality. Computer generated drawings would be acceptable, only if they are proficiently designed. Maximum number of tables or figure should not exceed five in Original article.

Ensure that all measurements are included and all the tables are cited in the text. If a table or illustration has been reproduced from a published work the source must be given in full, written permission should be granted by the author and by the publisher. Each illustration should have a label pasted on the reverse side, with its reference number in the text.

Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study and a comprehensive interpretation of the results obtained against the background of existing knowledge. Quotations should be restricted to those with immediate relevance to the author’s findings. Avoid a review - like approach.

At an appropriate place in the article, specify in one or more statements (a) contributions that need acknowledging but do not justify authorship, such as general support by a departmental chair; (b) acknowledgements of technical help; and (c) acknowledgements of financial and material support, which should specify the nature of the support.

When reporting experiments on human subjects, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 1983. Do not use patient's names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in illustrative material.

The reference list should be at the end of the manuscript, after the main text and acknowledgments (if applicable) and before the tables. Original articles are limited to 50, Review articles are allowed 70 and Case report and short communication are allowed 20-25 references. All references must be numbered consecutively, in square brackets, in the order in which they are cited in the text. Reference citations should not appear in titles or headings. Each reference must have an individual reference number.

Only articles and abstracts that have been published or are in press, or are available through public e-print/preprint servers, may be cited; unpublished abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications should not be included in the reference list, but may be included in the text. Notes/footnotes are not allowed. Obtaining permission to quote personal communications and unpublished data from the cited author(s) is the responsibility of the author. Journal abbreviations follow Index Medicus/MEDLINE. When an article has more than six authors, only the names of the first six authors should be given followed by 'et al'. References to journals should give: name(s) of author(s), title of article, title of journal, year, volume number, page numbers. For example:

Article within a journal
1. Koonin EV, Altschul SF, Bork P. BRCA1 protein products: functional motifs. Nat Genet 1996, 13:266-267.

Book chapter, or article within a book
2. Schnepf E: From prey via endosymbiont to plastids: comparative studies in dinoflagellates. In Origins of Plastids. Volume 2. 2nd edition. Edited by Lewin RA. New York: Chapman and Hall; 1993:53-76.

Whole conference proceedings
3. Smith Y (Ed): Proceedings of the First National Conference on Porous Sieves: 27-30 June 1996; Baltimore. Stoneham: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1996.

Complete book
4. Margulis L: Origin of Eukaryotic Cells. New Haven: Yale University Press; 1970.

PhD thesis
5. Kohavi R: Wrappers for performance enhancement and oblivious decision graphs. PhD thesis. Stanford University, Computer Science Department; 1995.

Link / URL
6. The Mouse Tumor Biology Database [http://tumor.informatics.jax.org/mtbwi/index.do]

Proofs will be sent via email as a MS WORD file formatted in Journal of Diabetology style. The edited proofs must be emailed within 7 days of receipt. All changes made to the manuscript by the author should be clearly visible. Also highlight all changes in yellow to ensure all edits are picked up. Alterations to the text and figures (other than the essential correction of errors) are unacceptable at proof stage and authors may be charged for excessive alterations. Authors should therefore supply an email address to which proofs can be emailed. If absent, authors should arrange for a colleague to access their email, retrieve the emailed manuscript and check and return them to the Journal on their behalf.

Submitted manuscripts are reviewed for originality, significance, adequacy of documentation, reader interest and composition.
Manuscript not submitted according to Journal format or instruction, will be returned to the author for correction prior to beginning the peer review/process. Revised manuscripts are judged on the adequacy of responses to suggestions and criticisms made during the initial review.
All accepted manuscripts are subject to editing for scientific accuracy and clarity by the office of the Editor.

No article processing charge needs to be paid by the author
The online publication costs for Journal of Diabetology are covered by the journal, so authors do not need to pay an article processing fee.

All manuscripts should be accompanied by a covering letter from the author responsible for correspondence regarding the manuscript. Mention submission type in your cover letter. The covering letter should contain the following copyright disclosure statement.

1. All copyright ownership for the article is transferred to the Journal of Diabetology upon acceptance.
2. We, the undersigned co-authors of this article, have contributed significantly to the manuscript and share the     responsibility for the above.
3. The undersigned stipulate that the material submitted to Journal of Diabetology is original and has not been     submitted to any other Journal.
4. Indicated in the acknowledgement all financial or other relationships which could be construed as a conflict of     interest and that all sources of financial support for this study have been disclosed. This statement must be signed by all the co-authors.