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Choosing a Journal for Paper Submission and Methods of Submission

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  1. Department of Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Pondicherry, 605006, India

    Vikram Kate

  2. Department of Orthopedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, India

    Madhuri Parija Halder

  3. Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Pondicherry, 605006, India

    Subhash Chandra Parija

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

    Subhash Chandra Parija

  2. Department of Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

    Vikram Kate

Scenario

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  1. 1.

    While submitting a manuscript to an indexed journal, you find that the PDF of the article is not built and the web page requests you to upload all the mandatory files before building the PDF. Which of the following is the appropriate step?

    1. (a)

      Change the name of the manuscript and upload title page and main text separately.

    2. (b)

      Upload study highlights and data sharing statement.

    3. (c)

      Upload consent form and copyright transfer form.

    4. (d)

      Check the instructions to the author of that journal for mandatory files that need to be uploaded.

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Kate, V., Halder, M.P., Parija, S.C. (2017). Choosing a Journal for Paper Submission and Methods of Submission. In: Parija, S., Kate, V. (eds) Writing and Publishing a Scientific Research Paper. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4720-6_11

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