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(9) Corrigendum

Authors should contact the editors of Journal of Clinical and Basic Psychosomatics (editor.jcbp@accscience.com) if certain errors made by
the authors are found. The editors will evaluate the impact of the errors and decide on the appropriate course of action. Any corrections to a
paper are published at the sole discretion of the editors.

Language
All submissions must be written entirely in good American English. Spelling and use of punctuations should conform to conventions in American
English. Clarity and conciseness are critical requirements for publications; therefore, submissions that are not clearly written will be returned
to authors. Authors must ensure that their manuscripts are submit-ready or publish-ready before making submission. The articles published
in Journal of Clinical and Basic Psychosomatics are in adherence with the publishable standards of academic and scientific writing.

Please note that utilizing a language editing service is not a guarantee of acceptance.

Letter capitalization

Use sentence case capitalization in all aspects of the submission. In sentence case, most major and minor words are lowercase (proper nouns,
including name of organizations and name of guidelines, are an exception in that they are always capitalized for the first letter of each word,
except for minor words, such as conjunctions and short prepositions). The first letter of the first word should always be uppercase.

Manuscript title

The title should capture the conceptual significance for a broad audience. The title should not be more than 50 words and should be able to
give readers an overall view of the paper’s significance. Titles should avoid using uncommon jargons, abbreviations and punctuation.

Abstract

The purpose of abstract is to provide sufficient information and capture essential findings and/or messages of the paper. For full-length article,
the length of an abstract should be in the range of 200-300 words. The abstract should be unstructured. Abstract is needed in original research
article, review article, perspective article, case report and special feature article.

Keywords
Each submission should be accompanied by 3-6 keywords. Avoid using abbreviations and acronyms in keywords, unless they are established
standard keywords. Separate keywords with semi-colons (i.e, term1; term2; term3).

Abbreviations and acronyms
Define abbreviations and acronyms upon their first appearance, separately, in the abstract, main text, table legends, and figure captions and
legends.

Sections in article
(1) Section headings
Section headings should be in boldface. Examples of section headings of different levels are shown in the following:
Primary level : 1. Heart disease
Secondary level : 1.3. Risk factors for heart disease
Tertiary level : 1.3.2. Hypertension
Authors are suggested NOT to introduce further sub-sections after the tertiary level section (e.g., 1.3.2.1. High-salt diet).
(2) Special sectioning requirements for an original research article

• The introduction should provide a background that gives a broad readership an overall outlook of the field and the research performed.
It tackles a problem and states its important regarding with the significance of the study. Introduction can conclude with a brief
statement of the aim of the work and a comment about whether that aim was achieved.

• Materials and Methods. This section provides the general experimental design and methodologies used. The aim is to provide
enough detail to for other investigators to fully replicate the results. It is also required to facilitate better understanding of the results
obtained. Protocols and procedures for new methods must be included in detail for the reproducibility of the experiments. Informed
consent should be obtained from patients or parents before the experiments start and should be mentioned in this section. For human