• Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to us. These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production, and publication smoothly. Please take the time to read and follow them as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal’s requirements.
• Ethics in Publishing: Please see the detailed information in the publication ethics section of the journal website.
• The journal checks all submitted manuscripts against plagiarism. In addition, all submitted manuscript is double-blinded peer-reviewed
•  Participants’ anonymity: No personal information, including texts, images, and pedigrees, may be published that would allow for the identification of a participant without written consent.
•  Human and animal rights: When conducting a study involving human subjects, it is necessary to disclose that the experiment complies with the Declaration of Helsinki and the ethics standards of the local "Ethics Committee on Clinical Experiments" or agencies that assess the ethics of conducting experiments on human bodies. When doing animal experiments, it is important to make it obvious that the procedures follow the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals as well as any institutional or national research committee standards of the breeding and use of laboratory animals. 
• The following types of study can be considered for publication if directly related to the journal's scope:

1. Intervention studies (clinical trials): studies that investigate the effect (s) of one or more interventions on outcomes directly related to the EJPTR’s scope. The World Health Organization defines a clinical trial as "any research study that prospectively allocates human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effect(s) on health outcome(s)". Clinical trials include single-case experimental studies, case series, non-randomized controlled trials, and randomized controlled trials. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) must follow the CONSORT recommendations (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) recommendations. Clinical trials must provide prospective registration (i.e. registration of the trial in a public trial registry at or before the time of first patient enrollment). We suggest that all authors register clinical trials prospectively via: http://www.pactr.org/;  http://www.ctri.in/; http://www.actr.org.au/;  http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/;   http://isrctn.org/; http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/index.asp;  and http://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr.
2. Observational studies: studies that investigate the relationship(s) between variables of interest related to the EJPTR’s scope. Observational studies include cross-sectional studies, cohort studies, and case-control studies.
3. Qualitative studies: studies that focus on understanding needs, motivations, and human behavior. The object of a qualitative study is guided by an in-depth analysis of a topic, including opinions, attitudes, motivations, and behavioral patterns without quantification. Qualitative studies include documentary and ethnographic analysis.
4. Systematic reviews: studies that analyze and/or synthesize literature on a topic related to the scope of the EJPTR. Systematic reviews that include meta-analysis will have priority over other systematic reviews.
5. Studies on the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of questionnaires or assessment tools: studies that aim to translate and/or cross-culturally adapt foreign questionnaires to a language other than that of the original version of existing assessment instruments. At the time of submission, the authors must also include written permission from the authors of the original instrument that was translated and/or cross-culturally adapted.
6. Methodological studies (validity and reliability): studies centered on the development and/or evaluation of clinometric properties and characteristics of assessment instruments.

• Use of word processing software: There is no word limit for papers submitted to this journal, but succinct and well-constructed papers are preferred. The file must be saved in the native format of the word processor used. The text should be in single-column format, Time New Roman, Double spacing. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. The headings should be bold. 

• Article Structure: Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusions; Funding; Data Availability Statement; acknowledgments; Conflicts of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate).

1. Essential title page information
   • Concise and informative.
   • Author names and affiliations. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript. Where available, please also include ORCiDs. One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors move affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted.
2. A structured abstract of no more than 300 words. A structured abstract should cover (in the following order): Background, Purpose, Materials and Methods (the design and methodological procedures used), the results and conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided.
3. Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 8 keywords, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. 

4. In the main text, an introductory section should state the purpose of the paper and give a brief account of previous work.
5. Material and methods. Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced.
6. Results should be clear and concise.
7. This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.
8. The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion.
9. Author contribution statement. Please include a statement specifying the contribution of each co-author.
10. Please detail all the sources of funding relevant to the research.
11. Data availability statement. If there is a data set associated with the paper, please provide information about where the data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found. Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
12. Please supply all the details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies.
13. Conflict of Interest. All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. If there are no relevant competing interests to declare please state this within the article, for example: The authors report there are no competing interests to declare or none.
14. References: 

• • The journal uses the Vancouver style.
  • All bibliographic entries must contain a corresponding in-text citation.
  • All references cited in the text must be included in the reference list and vice versa.
  • In its simplest form, a number in parentheses (round brackets) placed in the text of the essay, indicates the relevant reference: Example (1)
  • Citations are numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear in the text and each citation corresponds to a numbered reference, containing publication information about the source cited, in the reference list at the end of the publication, essay or assignment.
  • Once a source has been cited, the same number is used in all subsequent references. No distinction is made between print and electronic references when citing within the text.
  • A numbered list of references must be provided at the end of the paper.
  • The list should be arranged in the order of citation in the text of the publication, assignment or essay, not in alphabetical order.
  • List only one reference per reference number.
  • The addition of DOI (Digital Object Identifier) numbers is recommended but not essential.
  • Examples

Journal article

1. Abalos E, Carroli G, Mackey ME. The tools and techniques of evidence-based medicine. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol. 2005;19(1):15-26. doi:10.1016/j.bpogyn.2004.10.008.

15. Tables and figures should be referred to in the text as follows: Figure 1, Table 1. The place at which a table or figure is to be inserted in the printed text should be indicated clearly on a manuscript. Each table and/or figure must have a title that explains its purpose without reference to the text. Figures should be of sufficient resolution to enable refereeing. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files. 

• Language: Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Authors who feel their English language manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific English may wish to use the Language Editing service available.