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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • Where available, DOIs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed at the end of the manuscript.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • The abstract is not more than 250 words
  • Three potential reviewers (names, email addresses, specialties and institutions) outside my institution/research group have been suggested in a separate file

Author Guidelines

Available at https://wnjms.com.ng/author-guideline/

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Copyright Notice

The intellectual content of the paper is the responsibility of the authors. The Editor and the Publisher accept no responsibility for the opinions and statements of authors. While every effort will be made by the Editor and Publisher to avoid inaccurate and misleading data, they accept no liability whatsoever for the consequences of wrong information. The authors agree to keep the Editor and Publisher fully and effectually indemnified against any liability or claims that may arise out of the publication of inaccurate and/or misleading data.

Western Nigeria Jourrnal of Medical Sciences is open access. The copyright license is Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

By this license, you are free to:

  1. Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  2. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

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It is a condition of publications that authors transfer the world copyright of their manuscripts to the Journal. All manuscripts should therefore be accompanied by a cover letter that states that the article is original, is not under consideration, or has not been previously published in another journal. Authors will normally be entitled to publish any part of their paper elsewhere provided permission is requested and the usual acknowledgments are given. The assignment of the copyright will not affect subsisting patent rights or arrangements relating to them.

If illustrations, tables, or quotations from other publications are already copyrighted, written permission to use these should accompany the manuscript.