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MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the “Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submission to Cell, Gene and Therapy (CGT) ” proclaimed by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Language. Manuscripts should be in English (either British or American spelling). The past tense should be used throughout in describing the results, and the present tense in referring to previously established and generally accepted results. Authors who are unsure of correct English editing should have their manuscript checked by those proficient in the language; manuscripts that are deficient in this respect may be returned to the author for revision before scientific review.
Type setting
Manuscripts must be typewritten in Times New Roman with a font size of 12 points, double-spaced (including References, Tables and Figure legends) with 2.5 cm margins from each side. All pages should be numbered consecutively at the bottom starting with the title page. Length. The maximum length for describing methods, full length papers, reviews an Clinical study (including tables, figures and references) should not exceed 3000, 4500, 6000 and 4500 words, respectively. Any repetition of information in the text and illustrations and excessively list of references must be avoided.
GENERAL ARRANGEMENT OF PAPERS
Title
Titles must be concise and informative. The title should be followed by the authors' full (first, middle and last) names and their affiliations (identified by use of Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) in superscript format next to the authors’names.
Running Title
The text should include a running title of no more than 30 characters including spaces.
Footnotes
The name and full postal address, telephone, fax and E-mail number of corresponding author should be provided in a footnote.
Abbreviations
The Journal publishes a standard list of abbreviations at the beginning of every issue. These
standard abbreviations do not need to be spelled out within paper. However, non-standard and undefined abbreviations used five or more times should be listed in the footnote. Abbreviations should be defined where first mentioned in the text. Do not use abbreviations in the title, but they can be used in the Figures and Tables with their description in the figure legend or table footnote.
Abstract
Abstract should follow the title (excluding the authors’ names) on the second page. Abstracts must be written in a structured (Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusion) format, at a maximum of 150 or 250 words for short communications and full papers, respectively. Inclusion of references must be avoided in the abstracts.
Keywords
Three to five keywords for indexing should be included at the foot of the abstract chosen from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
Introduction
This should contain a description of the problem under investigation and a brief survey of the
existing literature on the subject.
Materials and Methods
Sufficient details must be provided to allow for the reproduction of the work. Complete
and accurate names of materials, including chemical and organisms, should be specified followed by the suppliers’ information (in parenthesis). System International (SI) units and symbols must be used.
Results
This section should concisely describe the rationale of the investigation and its outcomes. Data should not be replicated in the text, tables or figure.
Discussion
This section should relate the results to the previous pertinent reports report and provide potential interpretations.
Acknowledgments
Grant support should be included in this section. It may also include the expression of
gratitude towards contributors, not included in the authors’ list.
Ethical Guidelines
Animal and human experimental studies must follow the international guidelines and declarations as well as regulations enforced by the local ethical committees of the countries where the research is done. Experiments on human individuals must be performed after obtaining a signed written informed consent form the subject or his/her
guardian. CGT reserves the right to reject papers based on ethical considerations when the scientific value of the
research does not justify the methods used in the study
Open Access
CGT facilitate open access – namely, free immediate access to, and unrestricted reuse of, original works of all types.
Publication Fees
CGT publication is free.
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