Innovative Journal of Medical Imaging
Published by SPJ Publications
eISSN: 3048-5568
eISSN: 3048-5568
All manuscripts submitted to the Innovative Journal of Medical Imaging are managed through a rigorous double-blind peer-review process, ensuring a smooth and transparent editorial workflow. On this platform, authors, reviewers, editors, and the editorial office collaborate efficiently to maintain high standards of scientific publishing.
A manuscript submission checklist is essential for finalising an article before sending it to the journal for review.
Manuscript Submission: Manuscripts must be submitted online via the journal’s submission portal. The submitting author is responsible for the manuscript throughout the submission and peer-review process, ensuring all eligible co-authors are listed, have acknowledged authorship criteria, and approved the final submission. First-time users must register, while returning users can log in with their credentials or via ORCID ID. Authors are required to provide funding information during submission to ensure compliance with all funder requirements.
Manuscript Preparation: Title Page: Manuscripts should include a concise, specific, and informative title containing primary keywords, abbreviations, and any relevant formulae. A running title of no more than 40–50 characters should also be provided. Authors’ full names, affiliations (formatted according to PubMed/MEDLINE standards), and the corresponding author’s contact information must be included. Keywords (3–6 MeSH terms) should follow the title page, along with the word count, number of figures and tables, conflict of interest statement, financial support declaration, and author contribution details per ICMJE criteria. For case reports, confirmation of informed consent for publication must be included.
A concise cover letter must accompany the manuscript, highlighting the significance of the work, its relevance to existing literature, and its suitability for the journal’s scope. It should include the journal name, manuscript title, type of manuscript, authors’ full names and affiliations, corresponding author contact details, ORCID ID, disclosure of any use of AI tools, and declaration of conflicts of interest or funding sources.
Title Page Information
The Title page should include:
An Original Research Article should contain 2000–4500 words excluding the abstract, acknowledgements, tables, figure legends, and references. It must include a structured abstract of 150–250 words with the following headings: Background, Aim/Objectives, Materials and Methods, Results, and Conclusion. Authors should provide 3–10 keywords using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms. The article should follow the structure: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, and References. It may include up to eight combined figures (minimum resolution 300 DPI; acceptable formats: JPEG, PNG, TIFF) and up to eight editable tables. References must follow the Vancouver style and range between 15–70 sources.
A Review Article should be 2500–6000 words, excluding the abstract, acknowledgements, tables, figure legends, and references. It must contain an abstract of 150–250 words, followed by keywords, an introduction, discussion, a conclusion, and references. Up to eight combined figures (300 DPI, JPEG/PNG/TIFF) and up to eight editable tables are allowed. References should follow Vancouver style, with 15–100 citations permitted.
A Meta-analysis or Systematic Review should be 2500–6500 words excluding the abstract, acknowledgements, tables, figure legends, and references. The title must explicitly include “meta-analysis” or “systematic review.” A structured abstract of 150–250 words is required, consisting of Background, Objective, Material & Methods, Results, and Conclusions, followed by 3–6 MeSH keywords. The article should be organised into the following sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Ethics Approval, Acknowledgement, Funding, Conflicts of Interest, and Author Contribution. Authors may include up to eight combined figures (minimum 300 DPI; JPEG, PNG, TIFF) and up to eight editable tables. Vancouver-style references (15–100 citations) are required.
A Case Report or Case Series should contain 1000–2500 words, excluding the abstract, acknowledgements, tables, figure legends, and references. It should begin with an unstructured abstract of no more than 150 words, followed by the sections: Introduction, Case Presentation/Series, Discussion, Conclusion, and References. Authors may include up to 15 combined figures (300 DPI; JPEG/PNG/TIFF) and up to eight editable tables. References must follow Vancouver style, with 8–25 citations permitted.
A Letter to the Editor should be 300–800 words excluding acknowledgements, tables, figure legends, and references. It should not contain an abstract. Authors may include a maximum of two figures or tables (300 DPI; JPEG/PNG/TIFF). The letter should cite 3–8 references in Vancouver style.
A Short Communication or Commentary should be 600–1500 words excluding the abstract, acknowledgements, tables, figure legends, and references. Authors may include up to two figures or tables (minimum 300 DPI; JPEG/PNG/TIFF). It should cite 5–15 references following Vancouver style.
An Editorial or Guest Editorial should be 400–1200 words excluding acknowledgments, tables, figure legends, and references. These articles do not include an abstract. Authors may include only one figure or table (minimum 300 DPI; JPEG/PNG/TIFF). References are optional but may be included, up to a maximum of 10 in Vancouver style.
Authors must clearly state conflicts of interest, funding sources, author contributions, acknowledgements, including disclosure of any AI use, ethical approval (when applicable), and informed consent for case reports or human studies. When relevant, a Data Availability Statement and a Clinical Trial Registry number must be provided, particularly for clinical trial manuscripts. All references, as well as any figures and tables cited in the article, should be properly referenced, and abstracts must not be cited. Supplementary materials such as datasets, additional tables or figures, or multimedia files may also be submitted for online-only publication.
Note: Referencing AI-generated material as the primary source is not acceptable.
All manuscripts should be submitted in Word (.docx) format using 12-point Times New Roman, single-spaced text, and 1-inch margins. Figures and tables must be high-resolution (≥300 DPI) and provided in JPEG, PNG, or TIFF format. Tables should be prepared using Word’s table function. All figures, tables, and supplementary materials should be cited in numerical order in the text and accompanied by captions and footnotes. Authors may submit supporting datasets, additional tables, or multimedia files for online-only publication. References must follow Vancouver style and be numbered according to their first appearance in the text.
Supplementary Materials: It describes any supplementary material published online alongside the manuscript, such as figures, tables, spreadsheets, videos, etc. The author should indicate the name and title of each element as follows: Figure F1: title, Table T1: Title, etc. Funding and Acknowledgements: Include administrative and technical support, or donations in kind of people, grants, funds, etc., should be placed in a separate section on the title page of the manuscript. Additionally, provide the funding information in a separate section. In case the funding institution is not listed, it can be entered as text. Funding information will be published as searchable metadata for the accepted article, whereas acknowledgements are published on the page.
Author Contributions: Authors are required to include a statement of responsibility, to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of the data, or drafting the work, and substantively revising it as per ICMJE Authorship Criteria. Authorship must include and be limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work.
Data Availability Statement: Provide details regarding where data supporting reported results can be found, including links to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study, or you might choose to exclude this statement if the study did not report any data.
Conflicts of Interest: The Journal mandates authors to disclose any financial or conflicting interests affecting the study's outcome at the time of manuscript submission, including any involvement in employment, consultation, ownership, or testimony. If no role is stated, sponsors must be excluded. Conflict-of-interest information will be communicated in a published statement. Please visit the COPE guidelines on Conflict of Interest/Competing Interests for more details. If no conflicts exist, the authors should state that they declare no conflicts of interest.
Citation: Reference and Citation in supplementary files are permitted and provided that they also appear in the main text and the reference list in order.
Journal is committed to accepting open scientific exchange and enabling our authors to achieve best practices in sharing and archiving research data. Authors of published articles in the Journal are encouraged to share their research data. Every journal guideline can be found on the journal's “Instructions for Authors.” The Policy of data sharing concerns the minimal dataset support and findings of a published study. Collected data should be publicly available and cited under the guidelines of the journal.
At the time of submission, the availability of data limits should be mentioned in the manuscript. All observations on the submitted manuscript should be published by the authors as unpublished data or supplementary information. Submission of data to the journal indicates that all raw data and resources specified in the publication will be publicly accessible to any researcher who wants to use them for non-commercial reasons without violating participant confidentiality. It is recommended that authors ensure their datasets are either included in the primary publication or other supporting files or deposited in publicly accessible repositories. Journal accepts all sequence names, and the accession numbers provided by the databases must be provided in the materials and methods section of the article.
The Journal follows the NLM style guide (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html) and ICMJE guidelines for references style and we generally prefer Vancouver referencing style with some exception for the published and unpublished content.
How to cite references: Write the references list according to the appearance or citation of the references in the text. A single number will be used if a source is mentioned more than once. Citations that are not included in the main text but are included in the tables, figures, etc., should be placed to the end of the list. The abstract is not allowed to cite any sources. Citations in the text should be formatted as superscript numbers or put in square brackets, without links to the references, like: Kumar et al 16 found that… Or Kumar et al.[16]
How to write references: Reference should be written or listed numerically according to the type of publication or content under the heading References, which is mentioned below:
Journals or Periodicals: Article Published online or in Print with fewer than six authors
Author's surname is followed by the first initials. Article title. Title of the journal with a standard abbreviation. Year of publication; Volume (Issue number): Pages. DOI of the article.
Example:
Author surname is followed by the first initials after six authors name, add et al. Article title. Title of the journal with a standard abbreviation. Year of publication; Volume (Issue number): Pages. DOI of the article.
Example: Emmanuel SI, Nnamani CP, Ubajaka C, Ugwu JO, Ajayi OO, Edeh GC, Anigwe FC, et al. Pattern of presentation and treatment outcome of breast cancer among female patients in tertiary health institutions in Anambra State, Nigeria: A five-year review. IP Int J Med Paediatr Oncol. 2025;11(1):14-21. https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijmpo.2025.003
Book: Author surname is followed by the first initials. Book title. Edition (if applicable). Place: Publisher; Year. Example: Tushir S, Agarwal G. Textbook of dietary supplements and nutraceuticals for the students of B.Pharm 8th Semester. 1st ed. New Delhi: IP Innovative Publication Pvt Ltd; 2025.
Book Chapter: Author surname is followed by first initials. Title of the chapter. In: Surname editor Initial(s), editor. Book title. Edition (if available). Place: Publisher; Year. Pages. Example: Das BS. Re–Imagining gender: Reading transgender biographies from psychosocial perspectives. In: Chandra S. Reengagement of transgender persons: challenges and opportunities. 2nd ed. New Delhi: IP Innovative Publication Pvt Ltd; 2021. p. 19-33.
E-Book: Author surname is followed by first initials. Book title [Internet]. Place: Publisher; Year [cited date]. Available from: URL. Example: Faiz O, Moffat D. Anatomy at a Glance [Internet]. UK: Blackwell Science; 2002 [Cited 2025 8 Oct]. Available from: https://archive.org/details/AnatomyAtAGlance/page/n3/mode/2up
Conference Proceeding Papers: Author surname is followed by first initials. Title of paper. In: Surname editor Initial(s), editor. Title of the conference. Place: Publisher; Year. Pages. Example: Venkatesh A., role of human resources in organizational innovation for sustainability of new business. In: Lohara J. 2nd International Conference on Innovation and Sustainability of New Businesses. New Delhi: IP Innovative Publication; 2019. p- 216-9.
Newspaper Articles: Author surname is followed by first initials. (if available). Title of article. Title of newspaper. Date; Pages (if available): column (if available). Example: Coronavirus in India live updates: Delhi reports 57 new cases, zero deaths in last 24 hours. The Times of India. Sep 15, 2021.
Blogs: Author surname is followed by first initials. (if available). Title of blog [Internet].Publisher Name. Date-[cited date].Available from: URL Example: Manhas R, Saproo K. The Intelligent Libraries: Adapting to the AI Age [Internet]. IP Innovative Publication. 2024 Sep 7 - [cited 2025 Sep 26]. Available from: https://blog.ipinnovative.com/the-intelligent-libraries-adapting-to-the-ai-age/.