About the Journal

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Focus and Scope

eJournal BRMS / The Borneo Review of Medical Sciences Journal (Borneo Rev. Med. Sci.) receives a script from undergraduate, post-graduate students, residents,  doctor of an internship program, medical faculty staff, hospital staff and those interested in writing scientific papers. The scientific articles posted on eJournal BRMS include editorial, research article, EBCR (Evidence-Based Case Report), case report, and review. For research article preferably basic medical research or biomedicine and clinical medicine or public health. 

The objective of this journal is to publish the selected clinical and basic research relevant to Medical Sciences. It covers the following topics: basic medical sciences, genetics, immunology, molecular, clinic medical sciences, public health, ethic medicolegal and medical technology. BRMS publishes original researches, reviews, brief reports, editorial, case series, case reports, letters and commentary. Additionally, it also considers publishing animal studies relevant to Medical Sciences topic. It is an international journal dedicated to providing new information that could give new insight for alternative solutions, diagnosis, therapy and prevention for researchers and practitioners in Medical Sciences.

Section Policies

Editorial

General

The aim of an Editorial is to stimulate idea (often with more questions than answers) rather than review the subject exhaustively. Editorials are usually linked to one or more articles published in the same issue. Personal statement and comment are perfectly legitimate since the Editorial is not anonymous, though of course such opinion needs to be reasonable and backed up by appropriate evidence. It should consist of 1200-1500 words. There is no tables and figures in Editorial session. The references can be taken up to 15 references.

  • Language all manuscripts should be written in English
  • The manuscripts should be an original and never been published or will not be submitted to another publisher
  • All papers submitted to CRJIM will be subjected to peer or editorial review before that CRJIM would like to screen for plagiarism.
  • Papers or manuscripts will immediately be rejected if CRJIM found that its plagiarism
  • Authors may be required to revise their manuscripts for reasons style and content. All papers submitted should have obtained ethics committee approval
  • The duration of reviewing depends on the manuscript qualification
  • Manuscripts including tables, references and figure legends, must be typewritten with 1.5 space on 21cm x 29,7cm or size A4 paper along with margins of at least 2,5cm and justified margins
  • All manuscripts will be using Source Sans Pro. Size 12 for title, size 10 for abstract and contents
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Original Article

The original article provides substantial body of laboratory or clinical work. Extended reports should not exceed 4500 words including with references; articles that exceed those word limit may be returned for revision before peer review. Additional data may be represented as supplementary information, which will be published online only if the article be accepted (this can be in any format: text, tables, images, etc.)

  • Word length usually be less than 4.500 words.
  • Title: should be specific, should not exceed 20 words in English.
  • Author(s): correct names of each author, name, and address of the institution(s), for the correspondence author, please put the complete name, email, and telephone.
  • Abstract: Abstract in English and Bahasa is no more than 250 words contains Introduction, Background, Objective, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion.  It should be precise with enough information for the reader to understand the main points highlighted in the paper without having to read the whole article.
  • Keyword: select 3-5 keywords or short phrases that will assist indexers in cross-indexing the article.
  • Introduction: contains Background, Problem, and Objective of the research; Establish a gap in the current knowledge/ state the novelties, and articulate a hook that convinces readers that the gap is consequence. Brief description of the background that led to the study.
  • Methods: contains research design. The details should be relevant to the conduct of the study, Statistical methods should be clearly explained at the end of this section, and its analyses must be explained on the methods used. The methods should be explained with sentences, not points, statistical methods should be clearly explained at the end of this section, and its analyses must be described on the methods used.
  • Results: contains data or information which has been collected. The explanation should be systematically supported with graphic, table or illustration.
  • Discussion: contains the nature and findings of the study are placed in the context of other relevant published data, please avoid the rewrite the results to the discussion section.
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements and affiliations. Individuals with direct involvement in the study but not included in authorship may be acknowledged. The source of financial support and industry affiliations of all those involved must be stated.
  • References: must be numbered in the order in which they are mentioned in the text, and written in Vancouver style. It usually below 30 references. It must consist of references of minimal 10 years recently and in the form of essay.
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Review Article

  • Word length usually be less than 5,000 words
  • Title: should be specific, should not exceed 12 words in English
  • Author(s): correct names of each author, name and address of institution(s), for the correspondence author please put the complete name, email, and telephone.
  • Abstract: Abstract in English and Bahasa is no more than 250 words contains Introduction, Background, Objective, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion.  It should be precise with enough information for the reader to understand the main points highlighted in the paper without having to read the whole article
  • Keyword: select 3-5 keywords or short phrases that will assist indexers in cross indexing the article
  • Introduction: contains 4 paragraphs without subtitle please state the rationale for the study some references, state the novelty and main problem or the report purpose also brief background that led to the study
  • Literature review: should be narrated in paragraphs
  • Discussion: contains the nature and findings of the study are placed in context of other relevant published data, please avoid rewrite a sentence or paragraphs from other sources without paraphrase them in order to misleading it into plagiarizm
  • Conclusion: should be narrated in a brief paragraph. The suggestion from author should be stated in conclusion
  • References: must be numbered in the order in which they are mentioned in the text, and written in Vancouver style
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Case Report

All case reports that will be considered for publication are unique and rare cases with exceptional management and have important values for publication, word length usually be less than 3,500 words

  • Title: should be specific, should not exceed 12 words in English
  • Author(s): correct names of each author, name and address of institution(s), for the correspondence author please put the complete name, email, and telephone.
  • Abstract: Abstract in English and Bahasa is no more than 200 words contains Introduction, Background, Objective, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion.  It should be precise with enough information for the reader to understand the main points highlighted in the paper without having to read the whole article
  • Introduction: contains 4 paragraphs without subtitle please state the rationale for the study some references, state the novelty and main problem or the report purpose also brief background that led to the study
  • Case illustration includes patient history, physical examination, support examination, list of problems and diagnoses, management and therapy along with picture, table, and diagram also complete it with patient development records. highlight the positive side and avoid irrelevant details.
  • Discussion: contains the nature and findings of the study are placed in context of other relevant published data, explain how and why a decision was taken, and what lessons are learned from the case. references to research or other cases are only made to clarify certain matters. if the standard textbook has explained the alternative therapy that must be done, then it is sufficient to quote if it is very supportive or very contrary to the experience and conclusions Conclusion
  • References: must be numbered in the order in which they are mentioned in the text, and written in Vancouver style
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Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Policy of Screening for Plagiarism

All manuscripts must be free from plagiairsm contents. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking.