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Physiotherapy - The Journal of Indian Association of Physiotherapists favors registration of clinical trials and is a signatory to the Statement on publishing clinical trials in Indian biomedical journals. Physiotherapy - The Journal of Indian Association of Physiotherapists would publish clinical trials that have been registered with a clinical trial registry that allows free online access to public. Registration in the following trial registers is acceptable: http://www.ctri.nic.in/; http://www.anzctr.org.au/; http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/; http://isrctn.org/; http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/index.asp; and http://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr. This is applicable to clinical trials that have begun enrollment of subjects in or after June 2008. Clinical trials that have commenced enrollment of subjects prior to June 2008 would be considered for publication in Physiotherapy - The Journal of Indian Association of Physiotherapists only if they have been registered retrospectively with clinical trial registry that allows unhindered online access to public without charging any fees.
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All authors of articles must disclose any and all conflicts of interest they may have with publication of the manuscript or an institution or product that is mentioned in the manuscript and/or is important to the outcome of the study presented. Authors should also disclose conflict of interest with products that compete with those mentioned in their manuscript.
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The name, address, e-mail, and telephone number of the two prospective reviewers - however the journal reserves the right to get the papaer reviewed by other reviewers too.
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Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with "Uniform requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals" developed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (October 2008). The uniform requirements and specific requirement of Physiotherapy - The Journal of Indian Association of Physiotherapists are summarized below. Before submitting a manuscript, contributors are requested to check for the latest instructions available. Instructions are also available from the website of the journal (http://www.pjiap.org) and from the manuscript submission site http://www.journalonweb.com/pjiap).
Physiotherapy - The Journal of Indian Association of Physiotherapists accepts manuscripts written in American English.
Evidence for approval by a local Ethics Committee (for both human as well as animal studies) must be supplied by the authors on demand. Animal experimental procedures should be as humane as possible and the details of anesthetics and analgesics used should be clearly stated. The ethical standards of experiments must be in accordance with the guidelines provided by the CPCSEA and World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki on Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Humans for studies involving experimental animals and human beings, respectively). The journal subscribes to the ethical guidelines of research on human participants as prescribed by ICMR [https://www.icmr.nic.in/guidelines, https://www.icmr.nic.in/sites/default/files/guidelines/ICMR_Ethical_Guidelines_2017.pdf] and on animals as prescribed by CPCSEA [http://cpcsea.nic.in/Auth/index.aspx]. The journal will not consider any paper which is ethically unacceptable. A statement on ethics committee permission and ethical practices must be included in all research articles under the 'Materials and Methods' section.
Observational studies including cohort, case-control, and cross-sectional studies
https://www.strobe-statement.org/index.php?id=available-checklists
http://www.consort-statement.org
Quality improvement projects
http://squire-statement.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.ViewPage&PageID=471
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
http://prisma-statement.org/PRISMAStatement/Checklist.aspx
STARD
Studies of diagnostic accuracy
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/radiol.2015151516
https://www.care-statement.org/checklist
https://www.agreetrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/AGREE-Reporting-Checklist-2016.pdf
The reporting guidelines for other type of studies can be found at https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/.
New, interesting and rare cases can be reported. They should be unique, describing a great diagnostic or therapeutic challenge and providing a learning point for the readers. Cases with clinical significance or implications will be given priority. These communications could be of up to 1000 words (excluding Abstract and references) and should have the following headings: Abstract (unstructured), Key-words, Introduction, Case report, Discussion, Reference, Tables and Legends in that order.
The manuscript could be of up to 1000 words (excluding references and abstract) and could be supported with up to 10 references. Case Reports could be authored by up to four authors.
Continuing Professional Education :
Word limit - 3000 to 5000 . a series of 2-3 articles that is educational in nature on a focused topic . Author wishing to contribute to this section must first send a letter of interest with a 500 word abstract outlining the purpose, scope and a general outline of the articles, to the editor.
Student Corner: Word limit 2000 words The aim of this section is to promote critical thinking and encourage the practice of scientific writing. It would consists of Manuscripts in which a student (either undergraduate or postgraduate student) or junior colleague after 5 years of graduation is the first or corresponding author of the paper. Articles can fall under the category of clinical viewpoint or academic viewpoint aimed at improving the profession by highlighting current issues. We can consider articles on all aspects of physiotherapy practice, education and research.
Editorial, Guest Editorial, Commentary and Opinion are solicited by the editorial board.
Journal charges no article Submission fee. Article publication fee is NIL if the first author or corresponding author is an IAP member .
FOR non members of IAP publication fee of Rs 1000/- shall be charged. Though publication fee shall not be the only criteria for publication. The editorial board reserves the right to fee waiver in deserving cases.
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