It is the authors' responsibility to ensure that their papers are well written and clear. The paper must be well structured, presenting the research findings in a professional manner.

A typical manuscript should include:

To facilitate efficient editorial assessment and peer review, authors should ensure that:

• The manuscript is written in a legible font.
• Pages have been numbered consecutively.
• Headings and sub-headings have been consistently formatted.
• Technical terminologies and abbreviations have been clearly explained upon first usage.
• Equations, symbols, and units have been consistently used.
• Graphs, figures, and tables have been numbered and captioned properly.
• Graphs are of appropriate quality and clearly relate to the findings.
• Tables contain appropriate and pertinent information.
• Citations are listed using the required referencing style of the journal.
• All citations mentioned within the text appear in the reference list.

JMDET considers it necessary for authors to observe high levels of research integrity at all stages of research and publication. Research integrity involves honest reporting, avoiding research fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, duplication, and manipulating data.

When applicable, manuscripts must cover ethical issues like informed consent, availability of data, conflict of interest, funding sources, among others.

Another responsibility of the authors is to make sure that all individuals who fulfill the criteria of authorship are credited and that the manuscript submitted reflects their contributions.