You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Ensure that the following items are present:

1. One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:

• E-mail address and contact number.

• Full postal address

2. All necessary files have been uploaded:

• Original Article – limited to 5000 words, 45 references, no more than 5 figures and tables.
• Review Article – limited to 7000 words, 50 references, no more than 5 figures and tables
• Short Communication - limited to 2000 words, 25 references, no more than 4 figures.
• Case reports should be no longer than 2000 words and can include up to 3 tables and 3 figures, no more than 15 references.
• Letter to the Editor – up to 600 words, no more than 5 references.

3. Manuscript:

• o Include Abstract and keywords
• o All figures (include relevant captions)
• o All tables (including titles, description, footnotes)
• o Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided
• o Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print
• Supplemental files (where applicable)

4. Further considerations

• The manuscript has been 'spell-checked' and 'grammar checked'
• All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet)
• A competing interest's statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare
• Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed

5. Submit your article

• Please Submit Your Article Via http://ejnso.journals.ekb.eg/author

 Important: 

• Abstracts for all papers can be structured to include objectives, methods, results, and conclusions or non-structured.
• Keywords, chosen as much as possible from the National Library of Medicine medical subject headings, should be listed after the abstract. A maximum of 6 are permitted.
• Begin each component on a new page in the following sequence: title page, abstract, text, acknowledgments, references, tables, and figure legends. Number pages consecutively in the downward right corner.
• Use standard abbreviations given in the Uniform Requirements. Express all
  measurements in metric terms; if original measurements were made in another system, include these parenthetically. Plot audiograms according to ISO standards. Use generic names whenever possible. The author is responsible for all statements in the paper, as approved on the copyedited and typeset proofs. Alterations made by the author after the paper has been typeset may be charged to the author.
• All submissions require a Title Page. The Title Page must include: (1) a concise but informative title, worded to facilitate indexing; (2) authors’ full names, academic degrees, affiliations, and addresses; (3) statement of grant or other support; (4) name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of corresponding author; and (5) name and address of author to whom reprint requests should be sent, if different from the corresponding author.

Authorship Criteria 

• Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions such as the following: Concept and design of the study, the definition of intellectual content, literature search, clinical studies, experimental studies, data acquisition, data analysis and interpretation, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, manuscript editing and manuscript review and Final approval of the version to be published.
• One author should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article and should be designated as the 'corresponding author '.
• The order of naming the contributors should be based on the relative contribution of the contributor towards the study and writing the manuscript. Once submitted the order cannot be changed without written consent of all the contributors. The journal prescribes a maximum number of authors for manuscripts depending upon the type of manuscript, its scope, and the number of institutions involved (vide infra). The authors should justify if the number of authors exceeds these limits.

Conflicts of Interest/ Competing Interests 

• All authors of must disclose all conflicts of interest they may have with the publication of the manuscript or an institution or product that is mentioned in the manuscript and/or is important to the outcome of the study presented. Authors should also disclose conflicts of interest with products that compete with those mentioned in their manuscript.

Submission declaration and verification:

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright holder.

• Open access:

The EJNSO is an open-access journal: all articles will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. To provide open access, the EJNSO charges an open access fee of 100-150 USD per article (2000 EGP for Egyptian authors and 150 USD for Non-Egyptian as an article processing charge) which needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf e.g. by their research funder or institution. If accepted for publication in the Journal following peer review, authors will be notified of this decision and at the same time requested to pay the article processing charge. Following payment of this charge, the article will be published by EJNSO which is made freely available at no further charge (Open Access).