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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. The length of an
abstract should be in the range of 200-400 words. The abstract should be unstructured. Abstract is only needed in original research article,
review article, and perspective 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

• Introduction. 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
and/or research, research ethics information, such as ethics approval identifiers and the name of Institutional Ethics Review Board
or Institutional Review Board, should be indicated in this section.

• Results. This section focuses on the results and findings of the experiments performed. After (statistical) analysis, all results,
including tables and figures, must be neatly presented. If necessary, this section can be sub-divided into multiple topical sub-sections.
• Discussion. This section should provide the significance of the results and identify the impact of the research in a broader context.
It should not be redundant or similar to the content of the results section.
• Conclusion. Use this section for interpretation only, and not to summarize information already presented in the text or abstract.

It is acceptable to merge both Results and Discussion as a single section.