Preparing Your Paper:

Submission of a paper to Egy J Urol implies that it is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Original papers written in English should be submitted electronically through the journal website (https://eju.journals.ekb.eg/). A letter of submission should accompany all contributions, signed by all of the authors, providing assurance that: (1) all of the listed authors have participated actively in the study, (2) all of the authors have seen and approved submitted manuscript, and (3) the manuscript is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Manuscripts should be written in Times New Roman with font size 12 and double-spaced. Page numbers should be in the middle of the bottom of the page starting from the title page as number 1. Incomplete or improperly prepared manuscripts will be returned to the authors without review.

Original articles:

• Should be written with the following elements in the following order:

The title page should give the following information: (a) title of article (b) names and initials of authors (c) institution to which the work should be attributed. (d) 1-5 key words should be typed at the bottom of the page (e) name and full postal address, telephone, fax number and E. mail address, if available , of the author to whom the reviewers’ comments and requests for reprints should be sent (f) running title of 40 character. The title should be concise and clear and should not contain abbreviations.

• abstract; should be structured of no more than 300 words. Abstract should include items of Objectives, Methods, Results and Conclusions.

Main text should include introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, conclusions; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

• Should be no more than 3000 words.
• Original articles can contain up to 30 references, 6 tables and 10 figures.

Reviews:
Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text (if appropriate to the subject of the review, the format should comprise the following: purpose of the review, recent findings, discussion, summary and key points); acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; table(s) and figure(s).

• Should be no more than 4000 words.
• Should contain an abstract of 300 words.
• Should contain no more than 6 keywords.
• Reviews can contain up to 50 references, 6 tables and 10 figures.
• Egy J Urol accepts systematic reviews based upon the principle of 'PRISMA' (the Preferred Reporting Items of Systematic reviews and Meta-Analysis).  

Editorials:

• Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; main text; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; table and figure
• editorials Should be no more than 1000 words and can contain up to 10 references, 1 table and 1 figure.

Case reports:

Should include a brief description of the case and a comment section discussing the salient features of the case in the context of the world literature. No abstract is required for case reports.

The text, not including references, must not exceed 1000 words. No more than 10 references are allowed.

Abbreviations:

The abbreviations must be defined when first used in both the abstract and the main text. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.

References:

The author is responsible for the accuracy of his references. References should conform to the Vancouver style and should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear. They should be indicated in Arabic numerals in parentheses. Only the first six authors should be listed. If there are more than six then the first three should be listed followed by et al. note that journal titles are abbreviated in accordance with Index Medicus and that issue numbers are not included.    

Example:

1. References to periodicals:

Nori D, Hilaris BS, Tome M, Lewis JL, Birnbaum S, Fuks Z. Combined surgery and radiation in endometrial carcinoma: an analysis of prognostic factors. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1987, 13:489-497.

2. References to books:

Blandy J. Lecture Notes on Urology, 3rd ed. Oxford London, Edinburgh, Boston, Melbourne: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1982.

3. References to a chapter in a book (or paper in Proceedings)

Walsh PC. Benign prostatic hyperplasia. In: Walsh PC, Gittes RF, Perlmutter ADm Stamey TA (eds): Campbell’s Urology, 5^th ed., Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., pp. 1248, 1986.

3. References to a thesis:

El-Mekkawi S. Early diagnosis of cancer prostate. Imaging and immunological study. MD thesis, Al-Azhar University Cairo,  1995.

Checklist: What to Include:

1. Author details. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript. 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. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted.
2. Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies.
3. Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial or non-financial interest that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. 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.
4. Figures. Figures Should be provided in separate sections (one figure per page), with legends written separately. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
5. Tables. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Tables should be provided in separate section (one table per page), and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3. etc.) with the table number and title above the table and explanatory notes below the table. 

Disclosure and Consent Statement:

Please include a disclosure statement, using the subheading “Disclosure of interest.” If you have no interests to declare, please state this (suggested wording: The authors report no conflict of interest). Authors must include a statement to confirm that any patient or participant in any type of qualitative or quantitative research, has given informed consent to participate in the research.