Article Types

Original Article
These articles must be of primary research, methodologically accurate.They should contain no more than 5000 words excluding structured abstract, tables, and references. Each manuscript should clearly state an objective or hypothesis; the design of study and methodology (including study setting, participants, sampling and data source); data analysis and interpretations; the main results of the study, discussing the results; the conclusion. For all original articles, a structured abstract is required.

Review Article
These articles consist of systematic reviews, meta-analyses & meta-syntheses. These articles may be up to 5000 words excluding abstract, tables, and references. The specific type of study or analysis, intervention, population, exposure, outcomes or tests should be described for each data source or article. Authors are to clearly cover the following topics in the method section: search strategy and selection criteria, data extraction, quality assessment, and data analysis. A structured abstract is required.

Short Communication
Short communications are short articles (mini original articles) that present original and important preliminary findings that do not warrant publication as a full-length article but are still worthy of publication. Short communications should have an un-structured abstract and should not be more than 4000 words including references and up to three tables or figures/illustrations. The main text should be sub-divided into introduction, methods, results, conclusion, and discussion, but should be written as concisely as possible.
Case Report
This kind of manuscript should include unstructured abstract, keywords, introduction, case report, discussion, conclusion, conflicts of interest, acknowledgment, and references. Case report should have 1500-2500 words. The title should include the words ‘case report’ as well as a description of the reported phenomenon (e.g., reporting of new and rare food borne pathogen). Three to five key words should be provided.

Book Review
In this kind of manuscript, a new published internationally and valuable book regarding to the scopes of the journal, is introduced in maximum 1000 words. No abstract or special structured is required for these articles.