Peer Review Process
A manuscript is peer-reviewed for publication on the understanding that it is not being considered for publication simultaneously by any other journal, has not been accepted for publication elsewhere, and has not been published anytime previously. The Journal publishes original articles, review articles, case reports, and letters to the Editor. Contributions must be in standard British English and should be as concise as possible, and all peer reviews are double-blinded. The Committee on Ethical Publication [COPE] guidelines for peer review processes is carefully adhered to, and the entire process usually takes between 3 to 10weeks.

1. Each submitted manuscript is formally acknowledged and cross-checked for compliance with the Instructions to Journal Authors on Manuscript Preparation. At the receipt of the manuscript processing fee, the manuscript is sent as an e-mail attachment to three peer reviewers, without the author information page.

2. Reviewers return the manuscript with their corrections and comments, and two positives or two negative reviewers’ reports are enough for a decision on it.

3. Corrections and comments are sent back to the Author-for-Correspondence [without the identity of the peer reviewers] for a revision of the manuscript in line with the peer review comments if it has been recommended for acceptance for publication.

4. The author-revised article is subsequently sent back to the reviewers, unless the reviewer allowed the publication process to proceed without insisting on a subsequent review of the revised article, for affirmation of the compliance with their comments and recommendations, before the article is returned to the Editor.

5. An Acceptance Letter is, then, sent to the Author-for-Correspondence as soon as the positive affirmation by the two of the reviewers is received.

6. The article publication fee is paid at this stage by the Author-for-Correspondence.

7. This will be followed by an editorial review to check for the syntax of the article, including the grammar, punctuations, contents, references, page planning and arrangement, placement of figures, illustrations, tables, and pictures, and accuracy of numerals. Following this will be the penultimate pagination of the article.

8. The fully edited article [Author Proof Copy] is sent back to the Author-for-Correspondence to proofread and make the final comments and to validate or give the final assent for the publication.

9. The returned edited article is formatted for publication along with the other cleared articles and the final article order, page arrangement, and paginations are done, in PDF.

10. The formatted articles, in PDF version, are mailed to the publisher for printing, to the webmaster for uploading on the website, and to the Author-for-Correspondence as the final published version.