General Guidelines

Study Registration and Reporting Standards: JMHRS requires all studies to follow recognized registration and reporting standards to ensure transparency, accuracy, and reproducibility of research.

Study Type

Registry / Platform

Reporting Guideline

Requirements

Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs)

ClinicalTrials.gov,
ISRCTN,
CTRI,
WHO ICTRP

CONSORT

Registration proof must be provided. Unregistered trials will not be published.

Observational Studies

OSF

STROBE

Ensure ethical approval and methodological transparency.

Qualitative Research

OSF

COREQ

Provide clear description of methodology and participant consent.

Systematic Reviews / Meta-Analyses

PROSPERO

PRISMA

Registration proof required, follow PRISMA checklist.
  • Ethical Considerations: Ethics approval, informed consent, funding disclosure, and COI statements required.
  • Submission Process: Online submission via JMHRS online portal.
  • Never start new sentence or paragraph with figures. For example, “9 patients were admitted” should be written as “Nine patients were admitted”.
  • Plagiarism Policy: JMHRS follows a zero tolerance policy for plagiarism. Manuscripts are screened using Turnitin plagiarism detection software prior to peer review, and submissions exceeding a 18% similarity index are subject to rejection or revision.
  • Authorship: Only individuals who meet the ICMJE authorship criteria should be listed as authors. All contributors not meeting authorship criteria must be acknowledged.
  • Publication Fees: Article Processing and Publication Charges.
    Article Processing Charges (APC): No
    National Authors (Pakistan): Rs 10000 per accepted article
    International Authors: 150 USD per accepted article