Submission

The submitted manuscript should be addressed to the Editor in Chief of the Brawijaya Journal of Urology. Manuscripts must be submitted through online submission by registered users. You can easily register in the journal system. For further questions contact us at bjurology@ub.ac.id.

 

General Principles

As a basic requirement, all articles submitted to the Brawijaya Journal of Urology must be original work, which has never been published previously and is submitted exclusively to the Brawijaya Journal of Urology. They must be written in the format of “Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals” (http://www.icmje.org/), which was established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and updated in December 2019. The Editorial Board reserves the right to edit all articles in aspects of style, format, and clarity. Authors may be required to revise their manuscripts for reasons of any aspect. Manuscripts with excessive errors in any aspect may be returned to authors for retyping or may be rejected. All manuscripts will be subjected to peer and editorial review.

We accept four types of articles: (1) original articles: basic medical research, clinical research, or community research; (2) case reports; (3) review articles; (4) brief communication; (5) correspondence.

A cover letter should be provided along with the submission addressed to the Editor in Chief of the Brawijaya Journal of Urology which should include a statement about all previous submissions of the manuscript and previous reports that might be regarded as redundant publication of the work. If the manuscript has been submitted previously to another journal, authors are encouraged to provide previous comments along with the responses to accelerate the review process. Author(s) also have to mention the work whether it has been presented in a congress/conference/seminar.

Templates are available for Original Articles and Case Reports.

 

Study Ethics

All submitted papers containing animal experiments and/or involving human subjects should have obtained approval from an independent ethics committee. The copy of approval should be provided to the editorial office as mentioned above.

 

Publication Ethics

The publisher of this journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). This journal follows guidelines from COPE in facing all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular, how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct. All articles in this journal involving human subjects should respect principles of research ethics as described in the Declaration of Helsinki and studies involving animals should obey the International Guiding Principles for Biomedical Research as developed by the Council for International Organization of Medical Sciences (CIOMS).

Brawijaya Journal of Urology adapts the COPE principle to meet high-quality standards of ethics for publishers, editors, authors, and reviewers. As an essential issue, publication ethics need to be explained clearly to improve the quality of research worldwide. In this part, we explain the standard for editors, authors, and reviewers. In addition, the publisher does not have the right to interfere with the integrity of the contents and only supports publishing on time.

 

Clinical Trial Registration

The authors are encouraged to register all clinical trials to the publicly accessible registration in any registry as recommended by ICMJE or integrated into the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) or in ClinicalTrials.gov, which is a data provider to the WHO ICTRP. The trial registration number should be provided at the end of the abstract. The registration should be done before the conduct of the trial.

 

Structure and Language

Articles will be published in US English, following American spelling. Articles in English that are linguistically inadequate may be rejected. Manuscripts should be written double-spaced in all parts of the manuscript using Times New Roman 12, with a margin of 2.54 cm on all sides. Articles must be submitted in the following structural order: title page and authorship, abstract, keywords, text, conflicts of interest, acknowledgments (if any), funding disclosure, references, tables, figures, and legends (if any).

 

Title Page and Authorship

The Title Page should contain: title of the article (concise, no abbreviations, maximum 16 words); full names of authors (without academic titles); authors’ affiliations [name(s) of department(s) and institution(s)]; disclaimers (if any); corresponding author’s name, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address (institution specific address and e-mail address of the corresponding author will be published along with the article); source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these (if any); short running title [maximum 40 characters (letters and spaces)]; word counts [A word count for the text only (excluding abstract, acknowledgments, tables, figure legends, and references)]; number of figures and tables; and conflict of interest declaration for each author.

Authorship of articles should be limited to those who have contributed sufficiently to take public responsibility for the contents. This includes (a) conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of data, or both; (b) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; (c) final approval of the version to be published; (d) and agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. Contributors who meet fewer than all four criteria above should be listed in acknowledgments and the contributions should be specified. Corresponding authors should ensure the permission of acknowledged individuals to be mentioned in the acknowledgment.

 

Abstract and Keywords

The abstract should be formally structured and prepared in English with a maximum of 250 words for biomedical, clinical, and community research articles and systematic review or meta-analysis; for case reports, brief communications, and narrative reviews, the abstract should not be structured formally and should not exceed a maximum of 150 words. Abstracts should be concise and precise with enough information, highlighting the points and importance of the article. It should contain the background and purpose of the study; methods (basic procedures, study subject selection, observational or analytical methods); main findings or results; and principal conclusion. Keywords are limited to 3 - 6 words or short phrases that will allow proper and convenient indexing. They should be obtained from Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) thesaurus produced by the National Library of Medicine.

 

Main Text

The main text should be structured as an introduction, methods, results, and discussion (IMRAD). Methods should provide clarity about how, why, and when the study was done. The methods section should include the statement of approval by the local, regional, or national review board. It should also clearly describe the selection of the study’s participants. Materials and equipment used should be identified in the methods section by specifically giving the manufacturer’s name and address in parentheses. References to all established methods must be given. All statistical methods used should be described in detail in the methods section of the manuscript. Relying solely on statistical hypothesis testing, such as p values should be avoided; instead, important information about effect size and precision of estimates should be provided. Statistical terms, abbreviations, and symbols should be defined and computer software and version used should be specified. In the results section, data should be presented in a concise and precise way, either in figures or tables, but not the same finding in a figure and a table. Unnecessary figures and tables, as well as footnotes, should be avoided and their contents incorporated into the text. At the end of the discussion, a conclusion should be stated.

 

Abbreviations

Use only standard abbreviations; the use of nonstandard abbreviations can be confusing to readers. Avoid abbreviations in the title of the manuscript. When first mentioned, all abbreviations must be spelled out followed by the abbreviation in parenthesis, unless the abbreviation is a standard unit of measurement. Abbreviations must be spelled out when first mentioned in the abstract and main text. If a sentence begins with a number, it should be spelled out except in the abstract.

 

Conflicts of Interest

Conflicts of interest should be transparent and as detailed as possible as provided in the ICMJE form as a standardized authors’ disclosure. Financial and personal relationships are easily identifiable and might bias or be seen to bias the work. Funding sources for the work should be described specifically with explanations of the role of those sources and the authors should declare that the supporting sources had no involvement in a specific role. The authors should declare that the authors had access to all the study and that the sponsors did not intervene in the data or the work. Each author should submit a separate form from ICMJE.

 

Acknowledgments

Personal acknowledgments should be limited to appropriate professionals who contributed to the paper, including technical help and financial or material support, as well as general support by a department chairperson.

 

Funding Sources

Funding sources for the work should be described specifically with explanations of the role of those sources and the authors should declare that the supporting sources had no involvement in nor influence on the content of the manuscript. This statement should be written separately and limited to the funding for the work. If the funder(s) had any impact into or influence on the design; data collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data, the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication, their role must be disclosed in detail.

 

Tables and Figures

The total of tables and figures is advisable not to exceed 6 in number. Tables and their titles should be presented in separate sheets. Tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals with brief captions indicating the purpose or content of each table. Provide a footnote to each table, identifying in alphabetical order all abbreviations used. Number tables consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and supply a brief title for each. Do not use internal horizontal or vertical lines. Give each column a short or abbreviated heading. Explain all nonstandard abbreviations and explanatory matters in footnotes, and for explanatory matters use the following symbols, in sequence: *, †, ‡, §, ¶, **, ††, ‡‡, §§, ¶¶, etc. Identify statistical measures of variations, such as standard deviation and standard error of the mean. Be sure that each table is cited in the text. If you use data from another published source, obtain permission and fully acknowledge that source.

Figures should be either professionally drawn or photographed and submitted in a format (JPEG or TIFF) in the following resolutions [gray-scale or color in RGB (red, green, blue mode) at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). For x-ray films, scans, and other diagnostic images, as well as pictures of pathology specimens or photomicrographs, send sharp, glossy, black-and-white, or color photographic prints, usually 127 x 173 mm (5 x 7 inches). Write the word “top” on the back of each figure at the appropriate place. Figures should be made as self-explanatory as possible; titles and detailed explanations belong in the legends-not on the figures themselves. Photomicrographs should have internal scale markers. Symbols, arrows, or letters used in photomicrographs should contrast with the background. When symbols, arrows, numbers, or letters are used to identify parts of the illustrations, identify and explain each one clearly in the legend. Explain the internal scale and identify the method of staining in photomicrographs. Photographs of potentially identifiable people must be accompanied by written permission to use the photograph.

Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they have been cited in the text. If a table or figure has been published previously, acknowledge the source and submit written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce it. Permission is required irrespective of authorship or publisher except for documents in the public domain using the license of CC BY SA. Color figures are allowed in special circumstances, provided that the author is willing to cover the cost of reproduction. If the original size of the figures is too large, you can provide us lower quality figures on submission and ensure the availability of good quality figures after the acceptance of the manuscript.

 

Units of Measurement

For measurements use both local and S.I. (System International) units. Measurements should be abbreviated (e.g. mm, kcal, etc.) per the Style Manual for Biological Sciences and using the metric system. Measurements of length, height, weight, and volume should be reported in appropriate scientific units. Temperatures should be in degrees Celsius. Blood pressure should be in millimeters of mercury (mmHg). Drug concentrations may be reported in either SI or mass units, but the alternative should be provided in parentheses where appropriate.

 

Copyright Licenses

Authors retain copyright and grant from the Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Brawijaya.

 

Publication Fee

The publication fee is free for foreign and Indonesian authors.

 

For further questions, contact us at bjurology@ub.ac.id.