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Submission Guidelines

10. Acknowledgements
A short statement about grant and other financial support should be given, along with a list of contributions from
collaborators who are not co-authors (it is implicit that they agree with this mention), and a declaration of com-
peting interests. See above under Editorial Policies for additional items to be addressed in the Acknowledge-
ments.

11. Short Communications:
A Short Communication is suitable for recording the results of complete small investigations or giving details of
new models or hypotheses, innovative methods, techniques or apparatus. The style of main sections need not
conform to that of full-length papers. Short communications are 2 printed pages (about 6 manuscript pages) in
length.
The word limit is 1500 words and up to 10 references, and an abstract of not more than 120 words.

E-mail Confirmation of Submission
After submission you will receive an e-mail to confirm receipt of your manuscript. If you do not receive the con-
firmation e-mail after three (3) working days, please check your e-mail address carefully in the system. If the e-
mail address is correct please contact the editorial office.

Proofs:
Proofs (Electronic proofs ) will be sent through e-mail attachment to the corresponding author by PDF wherever
possible and should be returned within three (3) working days of receipt through e-mail. Corrections should be
restricted to typesetting errors; any other amendments made may be charged to the author. Any queries should
be answered in full. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are returned to us in one all-
inclusive e-mail or fax. Subsequent additional corrections will not be possible, so please ensure that your first
communication is complete.

Sending a Revised Manuscript
While submitting a revised manuscript, corresponding author is requested to include, along with single copy of
the final revised manuscript, a scanned copy of the revised manuscript with the changes underlined in red and
with the point to point clarification to each comment. The manuscript number should be written on each of these
documents.

Reprints:
Information for ordering reprints can be obtained from the editorial office.

Manuscript Submission
All materials send to email: kazi@salam.uitm.edu.my
[Manuscript along with the “Letter of Transmittal” signed by the corresponding author
(scanned copy)].

Editorial Address
Kazi Ahsan Jamil, BDS, PhD
Editor-in-Chief,
Compendium of Oral Science (Compend.Oral.Sci),
Faculty of Dentistry
UiTM Sungai Buloh Campus
Jalan Hospital,
47000 Sungai Buloh,
Selangor, Malaysia.
Tel: +603-6126 6511
Fax: +603-6126 6103
E-mail: kazi@salam.uitm.edu.my

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