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Submission Guidelines

Article, Paper or Manuscript Submission
Authors must submit their manuscripts electronically through email.

Authors who submit their manuscripts through the email system are asked NOT to mail hard copies of the manuscript to the editorial office. They may, however, mail to the editorial office any artwork, letters, or files that cannot be submitted electronically. For potentially acceptable manuscripts, the period between receipt of all reviews and when an editorial decision is made is usually longer.

Submission Letter

Manuscripts must be accompanied by a cover letter and disclosure statement signed by all authors. The letter should contain statements indicating the following :

• All authors have made a substantial contribution to the information or material submitted for publication
• All have read and approved the final manuscript
• that they have no direct or indirect commercial financial incentive associated with publishing the article
• The source of extra-institutional funding, particularly that provided by commercial sources, is indicated
• The manuscript or portions thereof are not under consideration by another journal or electronic publication and have not been previously published, if so then this should be clearly stated.
• The number of authors should be limited to 6. If more than that number are listed, the senior author must justify the inclusion of each individual. One of the authors should be designated as correspondent and the complete address, telephone number, Fax number and e-mail address provided. Any deviation from these requirements requires justification.
• The authors can also recommend names of reviewers in addition to the TFI team.

The cover letter must also include the following paragraph:-

• "In consideration of the Editors of The Journal® taking action in reviewing and editing this submission, the author(s) undersigned hereby transfer(s), assign(s), or otherwise convey(s) all copyright ownership to the Thinkers Forum International, Inc.®, Copyright Owner of The Journal®, in the event that such work is published in that Journal. All authors have read and comply with the standard requirements for submission of articles and papers."

Conflict of Interest/Disclosure Policy

To comply with current standards for journals, authors submitting manuscripts to The Thinkers Forum International® are responsible for recognizing and disclosing conflicts relevant to their work.

• Authors must describe all sources of financial support for their research/study, and this information will be published with the article
• Authors must affirm that no funding agreement limits their ability fairly to complete and publish their research/study, and that they had full control of primary data
• Authors have read and signed the disclosure statement

Author's Responsibility

The corresponding author is responsible for indicating the source of extra-institutional funding, in particular that provided by commercial sources, internal review board approval of study, accuracy of the references and all statements made in their work, including changes made by the copy editor. Authors are expected to submit complete and correct manuscripts. Due to the large number of high quality articles being submitted and to avoid significant delay in publication, the Editors find it necessary to insist that the length of manuscripts, and number of references and illustrations conform to the requirements indicated herein. No paper will be reviewed until these requirements are met. Published manuscripts become the sole property of Thinkers Forum International® and copyright will be taken out in the name of Thinkers Forum International, who will be deemed free to re-publish the work however it may deem necessary. The author(s) on submission of their work implicitly and explicitly agree to grant this permission to Thinkers Forum International and its subsidiaries.

Permissions Clearance Advice for Authors and Editors

The material you want to use should have the appropriate permissions for usage. Unless it has been agreed otherwise, it is your responsibility to clear all copyright. Permissions for your manuscript and to pay any permission fees. It is important that you begin clearing permissions as early as possible. It can often be a slow process as you wait for replies to your permissions letters from busy publishers around the world. Permissions should be cleared before the final version of your manuscript is submitted for publication, in order to avoid delays and additional costs in the production process

Editorial Changes, Amendments & Corrections

Editorial amendments and changes may be made to submitted articles so as conform to journal style as long as they do not alter the author's meaning. Only the most critical changes to the accuracy of the content will be made. 

Original Articles should be arranged as follows:

• Title Page
• Abstract
• Introduction
• Materials and Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• References, Tables, Legends

The title page should contain a concise, descriptive title, the names and affiliations of all authors, and a brief descriptive runninghead not to exceed 80 characters. One to five key words should be typed at the bottom of the title page.

The abstract should not exceed 250 words and must conform to the following style: Purpose, Materials and Methods, Results and Conclusions.

References should not exceed 20 readily available citations for all original articles (except Review Articles). Self-citations should be kept to a minimum. References should be cited by superscript numbers as they appear in the text, and they should not be alphabetized. References should include the names and initials of the first 6 authors, the complete title, the abbreviated journal name, the volume, the beginning page number and the year. References to book chapters should include names and initials of the first 6 chapter authors, chapter title, book title and edition, names and initials of the first 6 book editors, city of publisher, publisher, volume number, chapter number, page range and year. In addition to the above, references to electronic publications should include type of medium, availability statement and date of accession.

The statistical methods should be indicated and referenced. Enough information should be presented to allow an independent critical assessment of the data.

Digital illustrations and tables should be kept to a necessary minimum and their information should not be duplicated in the text. No more than 10 illustrations should accompany the manuscript for clinical articles. Magnifications for photomicrographs should be supplied and graphs should be labelled clearly. Reference to illustrations, numbered with Arabic numerals, must be provided in the text. Blurry or unrecognizable illustrations are not acceptable. Tables should be numbered and referred to in the text. In general, they should present summarized rather than individual raw data.

Letters to the Editor should be useful. The length should not exceed 500 words. Only Letters concerning articles previously published in the Journal are considered.

Review Articles should not be submitted without prior approval. Queries for these articles should be accompanied by a detailed outline of the proposed article, an abstract not to exceed 750 words and an estimate of the length of the manuscript to be submitted. The format is the same as that of an Original Article.

Video Clips may be submitted for posting on The Journal web site. They are subject to peer review. Video files must be compressed to the smallest possible size that still allows for high resolution and quality presentation. The size of each clip should not exceed 5MB. File size limitation is intended to ensure that end-users are able to download and view files in a reasonable time frame. If files exceed the specified size limitation, they will not be posted to the web site and returned to the author for resubmission.

Manuscript/Author Checklist

1. Manuscript word count is provided.
2. Manuscript does not normally exceed 2,500 words for Original Article or 500 words for Letter to the Editor.
3. No more than 10 illustrations submitted.
4. Format and Style Requirements : Font Type is Arial, Font Size is 12
5. Standard abbreviations are defined in a key at the end of the manuscript, and are consistent throughout the text.
6. Generic names and values are used. Trade names are avoided. 
7. Submission letter and disclosure statement have been signed by all authors.
8. In general, allow 1-5 months for review and evaluation process,
   The number of authors is limited to 6; if more than that number the senior author has justified inclusion of each individual. 
9. Research or project support/funding is noted.
10. Internal review board approval of study is indicated.
11. References are accurate, complete and in numerical order as they appear in the text, only the first 6 authors are listed. 
12. No more than 20 references are cited, including references from the last 3 years.
13. A corresponding author and complete address, telephone and FAX numbers and e-mail address are provided.
14. Written permission from publishers to reproduce or adapt previously published illustrations or tables is included. 
15. Informed consent forms for identifiable patient descriptions, photographs and pedigrees are included.
16. Analytical reporting checklist completed.
17. Gender and minorities are identified in collection and analyses of data. 
18. All permissions for manuscript reproduction and publication are deemed to have passed onto Thinkers Forum International and subsidiaries. 
19. Have you retained an electronic copy of the manuscript for your records?
20. Have you cross-checked all the references? All the references that appear in the text must also appear in the reference list and vice versa.
21. Have you applied for and received permission to reproduce previously published material and is all the relevant correspondence included with the manuscript? 
22. Are any acknowledgements to previously published work correct and complete?
23. Have you included the title page showing the book's full title, the author(s)/editor(s) title(s), name(s), position(s), qualifications and full postal address(es)? 
24. Is there a complete and accurate list of contents?
25. If this is an edited volume, have you supplied a list of contributors showing their titles, names, positions, qualifications and full contact details including e-mail addresses? 
26. Have you supplied, where applicable, a preface, foreword, general introduction and section introductions, list of abbreviations, acknowledgements, dedication, epigraph(s) and/or a chronology?
27. Journal's double-blind-peer-reviewed policy assures that the reviewers do not know the name of the author and vice versa
28. When reviews are completed, you will be notified whether your manuscript was accepted as is; accepted with corrections; accepted with revision; rejected.
29. As you compose your final copy, remember revising and editing is the most important stage in this submission process. Please follow reviewers' notes on how to improve the content and to correct grammar, spelling, and so forth. Your final copy will be read and verified against the reviewers' copy. If there is a conflict between reviewers, use designated review as your guideline.
30. Use English letters only as all other letters and diacritic characters are deleted automatically. Symbols signifying a trademark (TM), a service mark (SM) or a registration with the Patent Office (R in a circle) are primarily for the use of the owner to indicate rights; use of the symbols is not required in journalistic publications. The same applies to the use of copyright symbol in text.
    • Mathematical, physical, chemical formulas can be put in the Appendix as a webpage. Preferred option is to rewrite mathematical notation. 
    • In addition, spell out the words percent, degrees (temperature), feet, inches, and cents... 
31. Whilst all care is taken, it is the author's responsibility to ensure that any factual, stylistic and grammatical errors are corrected prior to publication. Your article mirrors your scholarship.
32. Reviewers have invested time and effort in your manuscript and so should you. 

• Careless or sloppy revision will disqualify your submission from further consideration. 
• We do not encourage/offer any direct dialogue between authors and editors while revision is in progress - in a double-blind-review it is difficult to coordinate any dialogue... 
• Your final copy must be free of reviewers notes and have all parts: title, author(s) and academic affiliation, author's biography, abstract, text, references... We need 2-3 weeks to offer decision: rejected or accepted for publication.

Submission Deadline
 
TFI Journal publishes one issue per annum.

Each issue has three submission deadlines:-

• Article submission : January - May
• Review & Amend: May - July (or as and when received)
• Compilation: July -  Aug
• Printing: Aug-Sept
• All accepted submissions will be published in a specified issue 
• We may refuse to consider any submission under short deadline constraints 
• Publication may be delayed by one month when reviews and/or revisions are late
• For the exact publication date monitor specific issue

 
Publication 

• Delivery & Distribution is electronically and online availablity on website

 
Editorial Policy
 

• TFI retains copyright of anything published in the print journal, uploaded to website and/or in any and all forms of media. 
• This quarterly does not guarantee that the information on our website, e-mail communication, or journal itself will be accurate, complete, continuously available, or error-free.
• All information is provided "as is." 
• This journal is not responsible for lost, late, damaged postal mail or e-mail and any resulting publishing consequences. 
• Corrections & Clarifications, any errors of consequence and factual matter will be published in Errata. Please compose 3-5 line text and send to the editor ASAP. 
• This journal does not keep, store or archive submitted paper copies or disks
• Submissions are not returned 
• In a virtual organization environment, it is author's responsibility to monitor manuscript submission process 
• Remember that journal's associates answering your e-mail or postal mail are not reviewers or editors. They can not pass any judgment or wave any submission requirements. 
• We do not reveal reasons for our publication decisions beyond the one stated in blind reviews.
• The Copy Editor's decision is final 
• We reserve the right to remove from publication any submission at any time for any reason. 
• We welcome comments and suggestions:
  Help: in order to weed out "spam" from legitimate email type AEX in the subject field. 
  

Checklist for Submitting 

• Read Submission Procedure
  • Prepare manuscript according to Format and Style Requirements
  • Adhere to Submission Deadline 
  • Notice that there are NO article processing charges or any other publication fees 
  • Title your e-mail or postal submission correspondence: TFI Journal

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Rights Retained By Journal Authors
When the author signs the exclusive Licence to Publish for a journal paper, he/she retains certain rights that may be exercised without reference to the TFI:-

• Reproduce/republish portions of the article (including the abstract) 
• Photocopy the article and distribute such photocopies and distribute copies of the PDF of the article that the TFI makes available to the corresponding author of the article upon publication of the article for personal or professional use only, provided that any such copies are not offered of sale. 
• Republish the article in the theses of the Author(s) in printed form and make available the PDF of the article mentioned above in the theses of the author(s) via any internal website that the university(ies) of the author(s) may have for the deposition of theses 
• Make available the PDF of the article mentioned above via the personal website(s) of the author(s) or via the Intranet of the organisation(s) where the author(s) works 
• Adapt the article and reproduce adaptations of the article for any purpose other than the commercial exploitation of a work similar to the original 
• Reproduce, perform, transmit and otherwise communicate the article to the public in spoken presentations (including those which are accompanied by visual material such as slides, overheads and computer projections)

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