Journal of Dental Implant Research is the official peer-reviewed, quarterly publication of the Korean Academy of Implant Dentistry(KAID). The Journal publishes original research papers, clinical observations, review articles, viewpoints, commentaries, technical note, case reports, and letters to the editor in subjects relating to clinical practice and research into dental implantology.

1. Editorial Policy

All submitted manuscripts should be original and should not be considered by other scientific journals for publication at the same time. Any part of the accepted manuscript should not be duplicated in any other scientific journal without permission of the Editorial Board. If duplicate publication related to the papers of this journal is detected, the authors will be announced in the journal and their institutes will be informed, and there also will be penalties for the authors. Review and procedures on all ethics related issues including ethical regulations and plagiarism/redundant publication/research misconducts follow Good Publication Practice Guidelines for Medical Journals (https://www.kamje.or.kr/board/view?b_name=bo_publication&bo_id=13&per_page=) made by Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors.

2. Copyright

Copyright of all published materials are owned by the Korean Academy of Implant Dentistry and authors must sign to agree with submission regulations on the application form for submission.

3. Language

A manuscript can be written in English. Abstract and references of all manuscript should be written in English.

4. Submission of Manuscript

Manuscript should be submitted in the file format of Microsoft Word Software. Manuscripts should be typed on A4 size, double-spaced, using font size of 10 with margins of 25 mm on each side and 30 mm for the upper and lower ends. The article should be organized in the order of Cover page, Abstract, Text, References tables, figure Legends, Figures. Each new section's title should begin on a new page. Number pages consecutively, beginning with the Cover page. Page numbers should be placed at the middle of the bottom of page.

5. Cover Page

1) Cover page should include the title, the names of authors, the affiliation of authors, the information of corresponding author, and running title. Conflict of interest, Acknowledgement (if necessary).

2) Title should be concise and precise. Only the first letter of the first word of title should be capitalized. The names of the authors should be fully described.

3) Names of authors are arranged according to contribution to the manuscript. Leading author (first author) is presented first, then other authors are written in detail. The names of authors are separated with commas and English names are shown as full name.

(Ex) Chul-Soo Kim, Jong-il Lee

4) One organization shall be indicated without number and if there are two or more organizations, those of the first and other authors shall be numbered in order in shoulder brackets and written in Korean and English at the bottom of the cover. The English-written organizations shall have only their first letters and proper nouns indicated in capital letters. If an author belongs to two or more organizations, they shall be indicated in shoulder numbers, which shall have commas placed between themselves:

(Ex) Chul-Soo Kim^1,2, Jong-il Lee^2
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry, ○○ University, ²Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

5) The information of corresponding authors

A corresponding author shall be indicated separately. Its name, organization and address shall be indicated in both Korean and English. Telephone and fax numbers and email address shall be placed below them.

6) Running title (less than 10 words) should be included in cover page.

6. Abstract

All manuscripts should be structured with four subsections: Purpose, Materials and Methods, Results, and Conclusions, length of abstract should be equal to or less than 300 words. The abstract for a case report or narrative review shall be written as only one paragraph, without being divided into the structures. A list of keywords, with a maximum of 6 items, should be included at the end of the abstract. If possible, whether the keywords are included in the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) of the National Library of Medicine is checked.

(Ex) key words: Implant, Bone graft,….

7. Text

1) Introduction

The purpose, the academic background and the principal of a manuscript are summarized and references are limited to directly related ones. It should not discuss a related topic extensively and cite one after another like collective or current review. Also, it should not contain results or conclusion, which will be reported.

2) Materials and Methods

This part describes research methods. Patients, experimental animals or control group should be presented clearly and written in detail for other researchers to perform a same study by following the methods. In particular, methods of identifying a patient should be described in detail. If the study is conducted on human subjects, it should be clearly stated whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000.

3) Results

Results should be presented with logical sequence in the text, tables, and illustrations. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables or illustrations; emphasize or summarize only important observations.

4) Discussion

Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions that follow from them. Do not repeat in detail data or other material given in the Introduction or the Results section. Include in the Discussion section the implications of the findings and their limitations, including implications for future research.

5) Conclusion

Link the conclusions with the goals of the study but avoid unqualified statements and conclusions not completely supported by the data. In particular, authors should avoid making statements on economic benefits and costs unless their manuscript includes economic data and analyses.

8. References

References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text. Identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in parentheses. References cited only in tables or figure legends should be numbered in accordance with the sequence established by the first identification in the text of the particular table or figure.

9. Tables and Figures

Tables and figures should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material. Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals in the order of their first citation in the text. Supply a brief title for each.