All manuscripts must be submitted through the ANJLMS Online Journal System (OJS) as a Microsoft Word document. The ANJLMS follows established international standards for ethical, transparent, and responsible scholarly publishing.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that manuscripts comply with the journal's formatting, ethical, reporting, and referencing requirements before submission.
All submissions to ANJLMS must be accompanied by a separate submission document form. The form should contain the full title of the article, the names of all authors with their academic designations, departmental and institutional affiliations, and email addresses.
The corresponding author must confirm that all listed authors have reviewed and approved the manuscript for submission and agree with the authorship sequence.
The author(s) must declare that the manuscript is original, has not been published previously, is not under consideration elsewhere, and does not contain plagiarized material. Conflicts of interest and sources of funding must also be disclosed.
Manuscripts should be prepared using Times New Roman font. The article title should be clearly distinguished from the main text. Line spacing should be single throughout the document, with justified alignment. Page numbers and continuous line numbers should be included where required.
Each major section—abstract, keywords, introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusion, references, tables, and figures—should be clearly identified. Tables and figures must be numbered consecutively.
The title page should include the article title, article category, abstract word count, manuscript word count, total number of references, and the number of tables and figures.
Where applicable, authors should not include identifying information in the blinded manuscript. Author names, affiliations, and contact details should be provided through the OJS metadata and submission documents.
The article title must be clear, concise, and informative and should accurately reflect the content of the manuscript. Avoid unnecessary abbreviations and use sentence case where appropriate.
Authors must provide an appropriate abstract according to the selected article type. Keywords should accurately represent the main content of the manuscript and should preferably use recognized scientific terminology.
Authors must select the appropriate article category at submission. The manuscript word count should include the main text and should clearly exclude or identify the abstract, references, tables, and figure legends where applicable.
The total number of references, figures, and tables should also be stated where requested.
Manuscripts must be written in clear, concise academic English. Authors should ensure appropriate grammar, terminology, spelling, punctuation, and scientific presentation before submission.
Authors are strongly encouraged to seek professional language editing where necessary.
The abstract should provide a concise summary of the background, objectives, methods, principal results, and conclusions of the study.
Provide relevant keywords representing the principal subject areas of the manuscript.
Describe the background and rationale of the study, clearly state the research problem and objectives, and provide relevant recent literature.
Describe the study design, participants or materials, procedures, ethical approval, data collection methods, and statistical analysis sufficiently to permit reproducibility.
Present findings clearly and logically using text, tables, and figures where appropriate. Avoid interpretation in the Results section.
Interpret the principal findings in relation to existing literature, discuss limitations, and explain implications for research and practice.
State the principal conclusions and their relevance to the objectives of the study.
Include statements relating to ethics approval, informed consent, funding, conflicts of interest, authors' contributions, data availability, and other relevant declarations.
References should be accurate, complete, consistently formatted, and cited consecutively according to the journal's selected reference style.
Review articles should provide a comprehensive, critical, and current synthesis of a clearly defined research topic. The literature search and selection methodology should be described where applicable.
The manuscript should normally include an abstract, keywords, introduction, thematic discussion, conclusion, declarations where applicable, and references.
Case reports should describe clinically or scientifically important cases and clearly explain the novelty, relevance, diagnostic findings, treatment or intervention, outcome, and lessons learned.
Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Case Presentation, Discussion, Conclusion, Declarations where applicable, and References.
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses should provide transparent and reproducible evidence synthesis. Authors should follow appropriate reporting standards, including PRISMA where applicable.
The search strategy, databases, eligibility criteria, study selection, data extraction, risk-of-bias assessment, and synthesis methods must be clearly described.
Systematic reviews must clearly define the research question, search strategy, eligibility criteria, study selection process, data extraction, quality assessment, and method of evidence synthesis.
Clinical trials should be prospectively registered in an appropriate public registry where required. Randomized controlled trials should follow applicable CONSORT reporting standards.
Short communications should present concise and important findings, observations, methodological advances, or scholarly commentary that can be communicated effectively in a shorter format.
Editorials may address important scientific developments, emerging concepts, policy issues, or recently published research relevant to the scope of ANJLMS.
Letters should be concise, focused, evidence-based, and directly relevant to the journal's readership or previously published work.
Tables must supplement the text rather than duplicate it. They should be numbered consecutively and supplied with clear titles and explanatory footnotes where necessary.
Figures, photographs, charts, diagrams, and other visual materials must be of sufficient quality for publication and should be cited consecutively in the manuscript.
Scientific measurements should be reported using the International System of Units (SI) wherever applicable.
The final version of the manuscript may be sent to the corresponding author for proof reading before publication. Authors should carefully review the proofs and communicate corrections promptly.
ANJMLS invites high-quality manuscript submissions across all tracking scopes:
Fully subsidized by the MSAR Institute:
Journal Name: Al-Najam Journal of Medical and Life Sciences
Short Name: ANJMLS (2026-2027)
ISSN (Online & Print): 3136-6066 & 3136-6058
Frequency: Quarterly (March, June, September, December)
Access Status: Fully Open Access (Immediate Free Access)
Licensing: Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 International
Copyrights: Fully Retained by the Authors Under CC BY-NC 4.0
Archiving: PKP PN (LOCKSS/CLOCKSS Protocols)
Institution Name: MSAR Institute (SMC-Private) Limited
CUIN Registry: 0343102
Corporate Site: msarinstitute.org
Registered Office: Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
