General Guidelines

Original and unpublished work: Only previously unpublished work should be submitted. Material that has been partly presented or presented as an abstract elsewhere should be acknowledged in a note. Material submitted to the journal must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. On acceptance, the manuscript must not be published elsewhere in similar form, in any language or any medium, without the written consent of the BVJDAS.

Authorship: All individuals who are listed as authors of a manuscript must have participated sufficiently in the conception and design of the work and analysis of data (if applicable) as well as in the writing of the manuscript. The authors must also believe that the manuscript represents valid work and must have reviewed the final version of the manuscript and approved it for publication

Any alteration in authorship after submission must be approved by all authors. This applies to additions, deletions, changes in authorship order or in attributed contributions and such alterations must be explained to the journal. Authors may be contacted to ascertain whether they have agreed to any alteration.

Permission: For content taken from any form of copyrighted material, such as direct quotations, figures or tables, authors must have obtained written releases from the copyright owner for its use, and would be responsible for any permission fees incurred. The original source must also be acknowledged in the submitted manuscript.

Ethical considerations: BVJDAS adheres to the ethical principles outlined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) available at: http://publicationethics.org/.

Research that involves human participants also includes studies that use only human blood, tissue, or medical records. Authors should confirm review of the study by an appropriate institutional review board or affirm that the research was conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki (https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects/). Manuscripts involving experimental investigations on human or animal subjects should include a statement that the research protocol was approved by relevant institutional review boards or ethics committees and that all human participants gave written informed consent.

The approval letter from institutional research committee and institutional ethics committee is mandatory.

For animal subjects, animal care and licensing guidelines under which the investigation was performed must be reported in accordance with the Animals in Research: Reporting In Vivo Experiments (ARRIVE) statement.

In case of clinical trials the study should be registered with CTRI number and the same should be mentioned in manuscript.

Electronic submission: Manuscripts addressing topics in any discipline of dental and allied sciences that are deemed to be of practical value for the daily practice of dentistry will be considered for review by this journal. All contributions should be submitted, electronically to https://bvjdas.in/bvjdasupload/ Authors are requested to submit the text including tables and artwork in electronic form to this address.

Please note that the journal reserves the right to make modifications in the language, grammar, presentation, etc. to fit the journal’s requirements.