Ophthalmic Horizon, a publication of Chittagong Eye Infirmary and Training Complex & Institute of Community Ophthalmology, is a peer-reviewed bi-annual journal. The journal’s full text is available online at https://icoedu.org/journals. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents.

Journal Ethics

Wolters Kluwer and Journal/Association are committed to meeting and upholding standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements.

2. AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Original research articles, review articles, special articles, short reports, case reports and letters related to eye health and vision sciences are considered for publication in the “Ophthalmic Horizon”. An original research article should not exceed 6,500 words, review articles should not exceed 8,500 words and short reports also should not exceed 2,500 words including all illustrations and references. Letters should be brief and to the point (500-600 words).

While preparing manuscripts, please follow the Vancouver Style (Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals prepared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, which is available at http://www.icmje.org).

ORGANIZING YOUR MANUSCRIPT: 

Organize each section as indicated below:

GENERAL INFORMATION

Full title of the manuscript should be stated clearly.

Some other information that must be included is:

• Names and affiliations of all the authors http://www.icmje.org . The ICMJE recommended authorship be based on: a. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND
• The sources of a work or study (if any)
• Please indicate the name, address, phone number, fax number and e-mail address of Corresponding Author.

No more than 6 authors will be accepted for all manuscripts without a letter detailing explicit contribution to all 3 phases of authorship

ABSTRACT

A structured abstract of not more than 250 words is required. It should be a factual description of the study performed organized with the headings of Background (includes aims, hypotheses, or objectives), Methods (includes patient population, procedures, and data analysis), Results, and Conclusions. The abstract should contain the data to support the key findings or conclusions of the study and this should be self-explanatory without reference to the text. The first time an abbreviated term is used, spell it out in full and follow with the abbreviation in parentheses; for example: ultrasound (US). Please do NOT cite any reference in the abstract.

Write the paper in the following format: Abstract, Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, and References. Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages. At the end of the article, give the name and address of the individual to whom reprint requests should be directed.) Please mention at the end of Methods section about the authority which has given you the permission to undertake this study.

Please maintain the following rules:

• Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 12-point Times Roman) for text
• Double-space the text
• Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables

GENERAL FORMAT FOR CASE REPORTS:

Manuscripts should be organized as follows: Title, Abstract and Keywords; Text with the following sections: Introduction, Case Report, Discussion; Figure legends and References.

All articles should be no more than 1500 words long with a maximum of 10 references and 10 images. Manuscripts should also contain a separate abstract of up to 150 words.

Abstract:  Abstract must not exceed 150 words. The Abstract should be comprehensible to readers before they have read the paper, and reference citations must be avoided. Following the abstract, 3-6 key words should be given for subject indexing.

Article structure: The main text of the paper should be up to 1500 words (excluding references and legends) and should be structured with the following sections:
Introduction
Case Report
Discussion
References
Figure legends

COMPETING INTERESTS:
Ophthalmic journal requires authors to declare any competing financial or other interest in relation to their work where an author gives no competing interests, the listing will read ‘the author(s) declares that they have no competing interests’.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

A brief statement should acknowledge individuals, other than authors, who were of direct help in the reported work or if the work was supported by a government or commercial grant.

REFERENCES:

Please follow the ICMJE guidelines (http://www.icmje.org). Reference citations in the text should be identified by numbers in brackets (e.g. [4]). Number the references in order of their first appearance in the text (not alphabetically). Once a reference is cited, all subsequent citations should be to the original number.

TABLES:

• All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
• Lengthy, encyclopedic tables should be avoided.

FIGURES (ILLUSTRATIONS)

• All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• For each figure, please supply a figure caption.
• Figures in which a person is identifiable must either have the face masked out, or be accompanied by written permission for publication from the individual in the photograph.
• Reduce figures to fit either in 1 column or within the 2 column width of the Journal
• Each figure should comprise only a single file.

The following file formats can be accepted:

• EPS (preferred format for diagrams)
• PDF (also especially suitable for diagrams)
• TIFF
• JPEG

Text within figures should usually be either Arial or Helvetica fonts; Courier may be used if a monospaced font is required. Text should be designed to be legible when the illustration is scaled to a width of 600 pixels.