Submissions

Author Guidelines

The Libyan J. Vet. Med. Sci. publishes original scientific research or review papers and case reports. Manuscripts should be submitted in English. An abstract in Arabic could be added to the submitted manuscript. Only unpublished manuscripts may be accepted for the review process. All manuscripts initially reviewed by members of the editorial board, then forwarded to qualified reviewers. Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal website (https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljvms). The journal e-mail (ljvms@uot.edu.ly) could be also used alternatively for submissions. The journal submission form, downloadable from the journal website, must be provided with all submissions. There are no article processing charges.

Preparation of the manuscript

1. General guidelines

All manuscripts including references, tables and figure legends should be typed double-spaced on one side of the paper with 12 font size and Times New Roman format, with at least 25mm margin. The manuscript should be page-numbered consecutively beginning from the title page followed by the abstract, text, acknowledgments, references, tables and/or figures with their legends. Lines should be numbered in all sections of the manuscript.

All manuscripts should be accompanied, as mentioned above, by a submission form from the corresponding author and signed by all other coauthors, which specifies the following:

1. The type of submission.
2. The name of corresponding author and his/her complete e-mail address, and phone number.

• A statement by the corresponding author certifying that all coauthors have seen and agreed to the contents of manuscript and that the submitted work has not been considered for publication or published previously.

2. Title page

The title page of the manuscript should be in a separate page and include the following:

1. A concise and informative title of fewer than 200 characters.
2. Full names of authors with first name, middle initial and last name of each author.

• Complete affiliation for each author, with the name of department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed.

1. Name, address, phone number, and e-mail address of the corresponding author.
2. Superscript numbers should be used to link each author with institution and an asterisk (*) should be used to refer to the corresponding author.

3. Abstract

An abstract with up to 300 words in one paragraph for original and review articles should be submitted. The abstract should contain the background, purpose(s) of the study, procedure(s), results and conclusions. For review articles, the abstracts should summarize the contents of the review. Up to six key words should also be provided with the abstract.

4. Introduction

This section should provide a clear and concise justification of the study including its relevance. The number of citations should be kept to the minimum. The final paragraph should state the hypothesis and the aims of the study.

5. Materials and methods

This section should include the design and the methodology of the study and should be presented in sufficient details. However, previously published methods should not be discussed in details but cited with appropriate references instead.

A research ethical approval statement containing the approval number and authority should be provided after this section.

6. Results

The content of this section should be informative and accompanied by self-explanatory tables, figures or other illustrations if necessary.

7. Discussion

Its contents should be interpretative and based on the study results only. The discussion can be in a single section or it can be presented together with the results and conclusion if required.

8. Tables

Tables should be typed double-spaced each on a numbered separate page after the references section. The table number and title should be provided above the table. Footnote for each table should be provided for identifying all used abbreviations.

9. Figures

The figures should be provided with the manuscript. The maximum allowed number is up to 10 for all types of publications and should be in a good level of resolution.

10. Figure legends

Figure legends must be self-explanatory, placed under the figure and all abbreviations should be identified.

11. Authors’ contribution

A statement should be provided determining the contribution of each author during the study design, data collection and interpretation and manuscript writing.

12. Conflict of interest

A statement should be provided declaring the status of conflict of interest.

13. Acknowledgement

A statement should be provided if applicable.

14. References

All references in the manuscript should be cited according to the American Psychology Association (APA) citation style.

References in the text must be written in parentheses and provided as name and year of the publication. They should be written in chronological order, then in alphabetical order, in parentheses; for example: (Albrecht 1983; Meyer 1983; Muller and Frank 1985; Schmitz et al. 1988). If the author's name is mentioned in the text directly, then the year of publication is to be written in parentheses; e.g. according to Smith (2007). If there are more than two authors, then the first is named and the others are summarized under "et al.". All the sources cited in the text should be in the reference list. It is the entire responsibility of the author(s) to cross-check the references and citations carefully.

The list of references should be organized alphabetically based on the first letter of the first author surname. The APA citation style is to be used in the list of references as per the following examples:

Journal article

e.g. Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217.

https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185

Book

e.g. Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The biology of humans at our best and worst. Penguin Books.

Chapter in book

e.g. Dillard, J. P. (2020). Currents in the study of persuasion. In M. B. Oliver, A. A. Raney, & J. Bryant (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (4th ed., pp. 115–129). Routledge.

Conference proceedings

e.g. Nielsen, J.P. & Rosendal, S. (1994). Ciliostasis in the pathogenesis of atrophic rhinitis. Proceedings of the 13th International Pig Veterinary Society Congress, Bangkok, Thailand, 26-30 June pp119.

Thesis

e.g. Pini, A. (1977). Strains of African swine fever virus isolated from domestic pigs and from the tick Ornithodoros moubata in South Africa. DVSc thesis, University of Pretoria.

Online materials

Only authentic online materials should be used.

e.g. Batey, R. (2003). Mycotic dermatitis (dermatophilosis) of sheep. Available online at: http://www. austbreed.com.au (accessed 2 May 2007).

15. Case report

Case report will be considered for publication only if it concerns unrecognized condition or offers new insight into pathophysiology, diagnosis or treatment of a disease. The abstract of case reports should not exceed 200 words and overall text not exceeds 2500 words including tables, figures and references.

All correspondence should be addressed to:

Prof. Dr. Emad M. Bennour

Editor-in-Chief

Libyan Journal of Veterinary and Medical Sciences

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

University of Tripoli

ljvms@uot.edu.ly

P.O. Box 13662

Tripoli, Libya