Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• Please complete all the requirements given in Author Guidelines Below
• The submission has IRB / Ethical Approval Letter.
• Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
• The manuscript conforms to the existing ethical guidelines (HEC Pakistan, COPE, ICMJE, WMA Declaration of Helsinki etc.) and is free of any unethical practice or any form of plagiarism.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.