About the Journal

Journal of RDC is a peer-reviewed Institutional journal published by Royal Dental College. It aims to disseminate original research, reviews, case studies, and scholarly discussions in the field of Dentistry.

Information For Authors

????????????????Manuscripts must be prepared in accordance with "Uniform requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journal" developed by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (October 2001). The uniform requirements and specific requirement of Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology are summarised below. Before sending a manuscript, contributors are requested to check for the latest instructions available.

The Editorial Process

The manuscripts will be reviewed for possible publication with the understanding that they are being submitted to one journal at a time and have not been published, simultaneously submitted, or already accepted for publication elsewhere.

The Editors review all submitted manuscripts initially. Manuscripts with insufficient originality, serious scientific flaws, or absence of importance of message are rejected. The journal will not return the unaccepted manuscripts.

Other manuscripts are sent to two or more expert reviewers without revealing the identity of the authors to the reviewers. Within a period of eight to ten weeks, the contributors will be informed about the reviewers' comments and acceptance/rejection of manuscript. Articles accepted would be copy edited for grammar, punctuation, print style, and format. Page proofs will be sent to the first author, which has to be returned within five days. Correction received after that period may not be included. All manuscripts received are duly acknowledged.

Types of Manuscripts and word limits

Original research articles

Randomised controlled trials, intervention studies, studies of screening and diagnostic test, outcome studies, cost effectiveness analyses, case-control series, and surveys with high response rate. Up to 3500 words excluding references and abstract.

Review articles

Systematic critical assessments of literature and data sources. Up to 3500 words excluding references and abstract.

Case reports

New / interesting / very rare cases can be reported. Cases with clinical significance or implications will be given priority, whereas, mere reporting of a rare case may not be considered. Up to 2500 words excluding references and abstract and up to 15 references.

ShortCommunication
Up to 1500 words excluding references and abstract and up to 5 references.

Case reports

New / interesting / very rare cases can be reported. Cases with clinical significance or implications will be given priority, whereas, mere reporting of a rare case may not be considered. Up to 2500 words excluding references and abstract and up to 15 references.

Review articles

Systematic critical assessments of literature and data sources. Up to 3500 words excluding references and abstract.

Invited Reviews

Systematic critical assessments of literature and data sources. Up to 3500 words excluding references and abstract.

Know the Field

Up to 1000 words excluding references and abstract.

Announcements of conferences, meetings, courses, awards, and other items likely to be of interest to the readers should be submitted with the name and address of the person from whom additional information can be obtained. Up to 100 words. 

Letter to the Editor

Letters to the Editor will be considered for publication that are pertinent to articles recently published in Royal Dental College Journal. Please ensure that your letter is addressed to the appropriate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal concerned. All letters should be received within 30 days of the published paper appearing in a RDCJournal. Word count should not exceed 800 words of text and 5 references, 1 of which should be to the recent article, and no more than 3 cited authors. The text should include the full name, academic degrees, and a single institutional affiliation for each author and the e-mail address for the corresponding author. Letters should not duplicate other material published or submitted for publication and should not include unpublished data. Letters not meeting these specifications are generally not considered for publication.

Authorship criteria

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and all those who qualify should be listed. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, from inception to published article.

Authorship credit should be based only on

1. Substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
2. Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
3. Final approval of the version to be published.

Conditions 1, 2, 3 and 4 must all be met. Acquisition of funding, the collection of data, or general supervision of the research group, by themselves, do not justify authorship.

The number of authors allowed for original study should not exceed more than 6. For case report and review article the number of authors should not exceed 4. For short communication, the maximum authors allowed should not be more than 3.

Sending the Manuscript to the Journal

Articles should submit their articles through email to rdcjournal25@gmail.com.

First Page File: Prepare the title page, covering letter, acknowledgement, etc., using a word processor program. All information which can reveal your identity should be here. Do not zip the files. Template available

Article file: The main text of the article, beginning from Abstract till References (including tables) should be in this file. Do not include any information such as acknowledgement, your names in page headers, in this file. Do not zip the files. Limit the file size to 400 kb. Do not incorporate images in the file. If the file size is large, graphs can be submitted as images separately without incorporating them in the article file to reduce the size of the file.

Images: Submit good quality colour images. Each image should be less than 400 kb in size. Size of the image can be reduced by decreasing the actual height and width of the images (keep up to 1200 x 800 pixels or 5 inches). All image formats (jpeg, tiff, gif, bmp, png, eps, etc.) are acceptable; jpeg is most suitable. Do not zip the files

Legends: Legends for the figures/images should be included at the end of the article file.

The copyright: All authors should submit the duly signed copyright form along with date. The signed copyright right form should be sent as either a pdf or jpg format.

If the article is accepted for publication, authors will transfer, assign or otherwise convey all copyright ownership, including any rights incidental thereto, exclusively to the Journal.

Preparation of the Manuscript

We have provided readymade templates for writing original research articles, case reports, and review articles. These can be utilised for writing the articles as per the instructions.

The text of observational and experimental articles should be divided into sections with the headings: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, References, Tables, Figures, Figure legends, and Acknowledgment. Do not make subheadings in these sections.

The manuscripts should be typed in A4 size (212 × 297 mm) paper, with margins of 25 mm (1 inch) from all the four sides. Use 1.5 spacing throughout. Number pages consecutively, beginning with the title page. The language should be British English.

First Page File

The title page should carry

1. Type of manuscript
2. The title of the article, which should be concise, but informative;
3. Running title or short title not more than 50 characters;
4. Name of the authors and the co-authors (the way it should appear in the journal), with his or her highest academic degree(s) and Institutional affiliation;
5. The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed;
6. The name, address, phone numbers, facsimile numbers, and e-mail address of all the contributorsand also of the author responsible for correspondence about the manuscript;
7. The total number of pages, total number of photographs and word counts separately for the abstract and for the text (excluding the references and abstract).
8. Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these; and
9. If the manuscript was presented as part of a meeting, the organisation, place, and exact date on which it was read.

Abstract Page

The second page should carry the full title of the manuscript and an abstract. The word count for original articles should be within 250 words and 200 for case reports and review. The structured abstract should contain Context or Background or Introduction; Aims, Settings and Design, Methods and Materials, Statistical analysis used, Results and Conclusions. Below the abstract, provide 3 to 10 key words arranged alphabetically.  

Original article:

The word count should be within 250 words

Context, Aims, Settings and design, Materials and methods, Statistical analysis, Results, Conclusion, Keywords

Case Report:

The word count should be within 200 words

Introduction/ Background, Case presentation, Conclusion, Key words

Review:

The word count should be within 200 words

Background, Objective, Methods, Conclusion, Keywords

Acknowledgments:

Mentioned in the last page forContributions that do not justify authorship like

• For General support by departmental person
• For Technical help
• For Financial and material support

References

Use the Vancouver citation style throughout

Standard journal article:Example- Boyne PJ, Cole MD, Stringer D and Shafqat JP: A technique for osseous restoration of deficient edentulous maxillary ridges. J Oral Maxillofac Surg 1985;43: 87?91.

Volume with supplement: Example: Geraud G, Spierings EL, Keywood C. Tolerability and safety of frovatriptan with short- and long-term use for treatment of migraine and in comparison with sumatriptan. Headache. 2002;42 Suppl 2:S93-9.

Issue with supplement: Filipek, B., Yandamuri, S., Obaid, A., et al. (2024). Phenotypes of B cells producing autoantibodies in MOGAD patients (N1.002). Neurology, 122(17 Suppl 1):S6. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000208259.