This journal uses Open Journal Systems (OJS), which is open source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP)

This Policy is applicable to all research materials and data in the course of work or study at the University with University Support or submitted to the research journal of the University.

The authors are encouraged to ensure that their datasets are either deposited in publicly available repositories (where available and appropriate) or presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files, in machine-readable format (such as spreadsheets rather than PDFs) whenever possible.

Submission of a manuscript to Annals of Punjab Medical College (APMC) implies that materials described in the manuscript, including all relevant raw data, will be freely available to any scientist wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes, without breaching participant’s confidentiality.

The availability and deposition of the data on which the conclusions of the manuscript rely may be required by editor and it is the main responsibility of corresponding author to present it without delays.

Availability of data and materials section should be included at the end of manuscript detailing where the data supporting their findings can be found. Authors who do not wish to share their data must state that data will not be shared, and give the reason.