Information For Authors

• Thanks for your interest in the Nigerian Dental Journal.  Please, note the following:

• Authorship is guided by the COPE authorship criteria - https://publicationethics.org/resources/discussion-documents/authorship
• Authorship and AI : We subscribe to the position of WAME and CPPE on authorship and AI as available at https://publicationethics.org/cope-position-statements/ai-author
• For various reporting standards, kindly visit https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/the-stard-statement-for-reporting-diagnostic-accuracy-studies-application-to-the-history-and-physical-examination/
• Ethical Considerations: Any manuscript concerned with human subjects, medical records, or human tissue that is submitted to the Nigerian Dental Journal should comply with the principles stated in the Declaration of Helsinki “Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving ‘Human Subjects” https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/
• The Nigerian Dental Journal became fully open access in January 2023 for all new publications and all archive materials.
• All archives and new materials are available free of charge.
• All archives and new materials are reusable at no cost on open license basis.
• Please, note also that the Nigerian Dental Journal charges an article processing fee. Please note also that colored pages may attract an additional fee.

We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.