Authors have written the manuscript in compliance with Instructions to Authors and Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf) from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, and the Guideline of Committee on Publication Ethics (https://publicationethics.org).

Cover letter

• □ Manuscript’s title
• □ Statement that your paper has not been previously published and is not currently under consideration by another journal.
• □ Brief description of the research you are reporting in your paper, why it is important, and why you think the readers of the journal would be interested in it.
• □ Contact information for you and any co-authors.
• □ Confirmation that you have no competing interests to disclose.

Title page

• □ Title page including the title of the article, the full name of the author(s), academic degrees, positions, institutional affiliations, a running title (of 7 or less words), correspondence, and declarations.

Declaration

• □ Conflicts of interest, funding, authors’ contributions, ORCID, data availability statement, and acknowledgments

Abstract

• □ Original article: <250 words; structured abstract— Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusion
• □ Review article: <200 words; unstructured abstract
• □ Case report: <200 words; unstructured abstract

Keyword

• □ Keywords should be from MeSH subject headings when possible.

Main text

• □ Information regarding approval of an institutional review board and obtaining informed consent should be mentioned.
• □ Original article: Introduction/Methods/Results/Discussion/Conclusions
• □ Review article: Introduction/Review/Conclusions
• □ Case report: Introduction/Case Report(s)/Discussion/Conclusions

Reference

• □ Refer to the reference format in the author's guideline.

Table

• □ If tables are included, they should be included as text and not as illustrations so that they may be edited if necessary.

Figure

• □ Figure legends should be included as text and not as illustrations so that they may be edited if necessary.

Author's form

• □ All authors have completed the Copyright Transfer Agreement and Ethics Concerning Human Subjects.

Conflict of interest form

• □ All authors have completed the COI Statement.

Permission

• □ The authors are responsible for obtaining permission from the copyright holder to reprint any previously published material in RDE.