Author Guidelines

Acceptance criteria

1. SUSJ accepts original research and studies in the applied and medical sciences, covering Medicine, Engineering, Agriculture and Science, from faculty members and specialists. Submissions must be in English, with the title, abstract and keywords also in Arabic.
2. Manuscripts must demonstrate originality, linguistic accuracy and sound methodology, and adhere to established academic standards and scientific rigour.
3. Submissions must not contain plagiarised material from any existing work (book, thesis, dissertation, paper) and must not have been previously published or presented at a conference.

How to submit

Register an account on the journal's website and upload four files through the online submission system:

1. The anonymised manuscript, prepared in the SUSJ Manuscript Template.
2. The Title Page, with the authors' details and all declarations.
3. The publication application form.
4. The author's declaration form.

Make a Submission Forms and Templates

Double-blind review: anonymising the manuscript

• The manuscript must not contain author names, affiliations, emails, acknowledgements or grant numbers. These are given only in the Title Page.
• Refer to your own earlier work in the third person, for example "Ali (2020) showed", never "in our previous study".
• Remove personal information from the file: in Word, File ▸ Info ▸ Check for Issues ▸ Inspect Document ▸ Document Properties and Personal Information ▸ Remove All. Do not put your name in the file name.
• In the ethics statement, give the approval without naming the committee, for example "approved by [committee — withheld for review], approval no. [withheld]"; the full details go in the Title Page.

Manuscript preparation

1. Template: use the SUSJ Manuscript Template: A4, 2.5 cm margins, one column, Times New Roman 12 pt, 1.5 line spacing, continuous line numbers and page numbers (already set in the template).
2. Title page: in the separate Title Page file, give every author's full name as in their ORCID record, full affiliation (department, faculty, university, city, country), institutional email and ORCID iD, and mark the corresponding author. Academic degree and specialisation are collected for the editorial office and are not printed. The corresponding author must also enter an ORCID iD in the submission system, and co-authors are encouraged to do so; the iD appears on the article page after publication.
3. Abstract and keywords: an abstract of no more than 250 words and 4–6 keywords, in English and in Arabic, placed at the beginning. Clinical medical research uses a structured abstract with the headings Background, Methods, Results and Conclusions; other articles use one paragraph. The Arabic abstract is an accurate translation reviewed by the authors, not unrevised machine translation.
4. Headings: numbered automatically (1., 1.1., 1.1.1.); no more than three levels.

Article types and length

Length counts the main text only, without the abstracts, references, tables, figure captions and declarations.

Article type	Structure	Maximum length
Original research article	Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions (Results and Discussion may be combined)	8,000 words
Review article (including systematic reviews)	Introduction, thematic sections, Conclusions; systematic reviews follow PRISMA and describe the literature search	10,000 words
Short communication	As a research article	3,000 words; three tables and figures in total
Case report	Introduction, Case presentation, Discussion, Conclusions; written consent of the patient for publication; CARE checklist	2,500 words; three tables and figures in total

Figures, tables and equations

• Place each table and figure just after the paragraph that first cites it, numbered in order of citation.
• Table captions go above the table; tables must be editable Word tables, not images, with horizontal rules only.
• Figure captions go below the figure, with the source where applicable. Figures must be legible at 300 dpi or more, with alternative text, and with colours that remain distinct in greyscale.
• Equations are written with the Word equation editor and numbered at the right margin.
• Use SI units with a space between number and unit (25 °C, 3.5 mg/L), report exact p-values, and name the reporting guideline followed (CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA, CARE, ARRIVE).

Citations and references

SUSJ follows APA 7th edition. In the text: (Ahmed, 2021); (Ali & Omar, 2020); (Salem et al., 2019); several sources in alphabetical order separated by semicolons; direct quotations with the page (Ahmed, 2021, p. 14).

All cited sources are listed under "References", in one alphabetical list without numbering, with a DOI written as https://doi.org/… for every source that has one. Do not cite retracted work except to discuss the retraction.

Source	Format
Journal article	Surname, A. B., & Surname, C. (Year). Title of the article. Journal Name, Volume(Issue), pages. https://doi.org/…
Book	Surname, A. B. (Year). Title of the book (Edition). Publisher.
Thesis	Surname, A. B. (Year). Title of the thesis [Doctoral dissertation, University Name].
Website	Organisation. (Year). Title of the page. Site Name. URL
Data set	Surname, A. (Year). Title of data set (Version X) [Data set]. Repository. https://doi.org/…
Arabic source	Surname, A. B. (Year). Transliterated title [English translation of the title] (in Arabic). Transliterated Journal Name, Volume(Issue), pages.

Declarations

The following declarations are given in the Title Page and added to the published article. Write "Not applicable." under any that does not apply.

• Author contributions (CRediT roles)
• Funding
• Ethics approval (committee, approval number, date) and informed consent; for case reports, consent for publication
• Clinical trial registration
• Reporting guidelines followed
• Data availability and, where relevant, code availability
• Declaration of AI use, under the Artificial Intelligence Policy
• Conflicts of interest
• Acknowledgements

Revision and after acceptance

• Revision: submit a point-by-point response in the Response to Reviewers template, a revised manuscript with changes highlighted in yellow, and a clean copy. Keep the revised files anonymised.
• Layout: the journal lays out accepted articles in its own production layout.
• Proof: the corresponding author receives a PDF proof and returns corrections within three working days; only errors may be corrected at this stage.