“International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus” requires articles to be provided electronically. Manuscript should be typed in double-spacing on one side of A4 (206 x 294 mm) or US 8 x 11 inch paper with a wide margin on the left. Text should be in 12 pt font size, double spaced, and all pages should be numbered consecutively in the right lower corner including references, tables and figure legends. The manuscript and figures along with two copies of the manuscript and two reviewers’ sets of figures, should be submitted to:
Dr. Khalid Al-Rubeaan, M.D FRCP (C)
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus
P.O.Box 18998, Riyadh 11415, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Tel. +9661 4454 852
Fax. +9661 4454 841
Email: contact@ijdm.net
Website: www.ijdm.net
Failure to submit an article in accordance with these instructions will result in a delay in processing a manuscript and its subsequent publication. The Editorial Board does not necessarily agree with the views expressed in articles published in the Journal.
A manuscript is reviewed for publication in “International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus” on the understanding that it has not been submitted simultaneously to another journal, has not been accepted for publication elsewhere, and has not already been published. On acceptance, a manuscript becomes the copyright of International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus. Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to make the final decision regarding publication and to make literary amendments where considered necessary.
A covering letter signed by all authors must accompany submissions, stating that all authors have contributed, reviewed and approved the manuscript and are fully conversant with its contents. Authors must disclose in the covering letter any potential or actual personal, financial or political interest they may have in the material. It should be disclosed if an abstract of the work has previously been published or if any articles using the same data set or relating to the same topic have been published or submitted by any of the authors elsewhere. The approval of the protocol by an ethical committee should be confirmed for human investigations. The Journal reserves the right to make editorial and stylistic changes in the text. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned.
Authors must provide the amended manuscript electronically. Illustrations and equations should be in separate files on the disk and appear in the manuscript. Submit all pictures in color wherever possible. If submitting artwork in electronic form provide standard TIFF or EPS formats. Photographic images must be submitted in non-compressed files with at least 300 dpi resolution.