Guidelines for Authors

Epidemiology International is an open-access peer-review journal that accepts articles of varying kinds such as research articles, review articles, case reports, perspectives, short communication, etc. depending on their suitability as per the journal’s focus and scope.

While submitting their articles to the journal, authors should make sure that they have the following two files:

• Title/ Cover Page – This file should contain the details of all authors (names, complete affiliations, and e-mail ids), details of corresponding author (name, complete affiliation, e- mail id, phone number, and Orcid id), title of article, type of article, number of tables, number of figures, sources of funding, and conflict of interest.
• Main Article – This file should contain the complete article with no details of the authors. The submission should be in the form of a Microsoft Word document.
  • In the case of a research article, this file should have the following basic structure:
    • Title
    • Abstract (structured – maximum 250 words)
    • Keywords
    • Introduction
    • Material & Methods
    • Results
    • Discussion
    • Conclusion
    • References
  • Case reports should have the following basic structure:
    • Title
    • Abstract (unstructured – maximum 250 words)
    • Keywords
    • Introduction
    • Details of the Case (clinical history, symptoms etc.)
    • Discussion
    • Conclusion
    • References
  • Review articles, short communication etc. should contain the title, abstract (unstructured – maximum 250 words), keywords, introduction and other headings as found appropriate by the authors, along with conclusion and references.
  • All tables and figures should have appropriate captions and should be cited in the article.
  • All references should be mentioned in the NLM format with sequential in-text citations (as Arabic numerals in superscript).

Publication Process

The submitted manuscript goes through a plagiarism check (using iThenticate). Once the file is found to be plagiarism-free, the authors are informed and are requested to share the licence form and pay the processing fees. On the completion of this process, the article is sent for review. The decision of the Editorial Board, with reference to an article, is considered to be final in every regard. The articles accepted in the review process are then sent for copyediting which is followed by formatting and proofreading. The files may be sent to the authors for changes in the plagiarism check, review, and copyediting processes, if needed. Once all these processes are complete, the file is sent for publication.