|
|
|
| |
World's one of the largest Research
Career Network |
|
|
|
Benefits |
- Academic & Industry jobs
- Project funding
- Visiting faculty positions
- Visiting scientist positions
- Invited talks
- and more...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Register FREE
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| |
FOR AUTHORS
|
|
| |
GUIDELINES TO PREPARING AND
SUBMITTING A MANUSCRIPT |
|
|
|
|
| |
Important Notes:
1. Our journal considers only
original high quality research articles and comprehensive review articles. Our
journal does not consider medical case reports and mini-reviews. If you wish to
submit comprehensive review article, please ensure the following criteria before
submitting review article. Review article should be substantial, comprehensive,
authoritative, critical, and readable reviews of published results with in-depth
discussion. It may cover mature or emerging areas of research, but not inactive
areas. We expect AT LEAST 100 references for a review article. Around 60% of the
references should belong to last 5 years only. Review article is expected to
have 8000 – 12000 words.
Review articles should be adequately wide in scope to appeal to a large part of
the journal's readership, but should be specific enough to allow discussion to
be made at an appropriate depth. Methodology and principles should not be
incorporated in reviews, but suitable reference should be made to sources of
this information. Reviews should be critical rather than enumerative and should
supply the reader with expert opinion regarding the relative merits of the
various published approaches to the topic under review. Figures and Tables are
encouraged in review articles.
The review article should critically review other research groups’ work (not
merely authors’ research group alone). All the figures used in the review
article must be mentioned with copyright information in each figure caption.
In the case of REVIEW ARTICLE, the authors MUST get prior approval of the
article topic from the editorial office before writing the review article to
avoid overlap with other already invited reviews pending for submission.
2. The manuscript should be in MS Word or LaTeX only. Please try to include the
Figures and Tables at the end of the manuscript file itself. If the figure size
is too large, please compress the figures to reduce the figure file size. High
resolution figures can be submitted after acceptance of the manuscript. Please
avoid submitting Figures and Tables in separate files.
3. The references format of your manuscript should follow the journal's required
format.
Publication Ethics
Plagiarism
cannot be tolerated by us. We abide by the Code of Conduct given by
COPE
(Committee on Publication Ethics) and follow its
Best
Practice Guidelines
. We examine allegations of both pre- and post-publication misconduct such as
plagiarism and we reserve the right to contact authors' institutions, regulatory
body and funding agency. If we discover decisive proof of misconduct, we will
take immediate steps to correct the scientific record, which includes a
correction or retraction. In such cases, we will follow COPE standards and
practices and may look for suggestion from the COPE forum.
Human Subject and Animal Research
The human subjects’ research and animal research must have been approved by the
ethics committee of authors' institutions. In case of human subjects’ research,
it must be in accordance with the
Declaration
of Helsinki
. If required by us, the authors should send us the approval statement from the
ethics committee. Clinical trials must have been registered before patient
recruitment has begun.
Conflict of interest
The authors are requested to disclose any actual or possible conflict
of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other
people or organizations within 3 years of beginning the submitted work that
could inappropriately affect, or be perceived to affect, their work.
Submission declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work being submitted has not been
published earlier (except in the form of abstract or as part of a published
lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere, that its publication is agreed by all authors and implicitly or
explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and
that, if the article submitted is accepted, it will not be published elsewhere,
in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the
publisher.
Copyright
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included in the submitted article,
the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owner(s) and
credit the source(s) in the article. Subscribers may reproduce tables of
contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal
circulation within their organisation. Written Permission of the Publisher is
required for resale or distribution outside the organisation and for all other
derivative works, including translations and compilations.
Use of word-processing software
All submissions (initial and final) should be in MS Word format or
Latex format. The text should be in single-column format and in Times New Roman
font.
Article Structure
A typical research article will have the following sections: Abstract,
Introduction, Experimental Details, Results and Discussion, Conclusions,
Acknowledgements and References.
Review Articles can contain appropriate section names instead of "Experimental
Details" section and "Results and Discussion" section.
Title Page
• Title: Title
should be concise and informative. Avoid abbreviations and formulae in the title
wherever possible.
• Author names and affiliations:
List of all the authors of the article should be mentioned. Mention the each
author's affiliation address (where the actual work was done) below the name.
Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name,
and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
• Corresponding author:
Clearly indicate the author to whom the correspondence should be made. Ensure
that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code) are provided in
addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.
• Present/permanent address:
If an author has moved since the work in the article was carried out, or was
visiting at the time, a "Present address" (or "Permanent address") may be
indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author
actually carried out the work must be retained as the main address. Superscript
Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.
Abstract
The abstract should be concise with a maximum of 150 words. The abstract should
state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major
conclusions. Avoid non-standard abbreviations.
Keywords
Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, using American
spelling and avoid general and plural terms (avoid, for example, "and", "of",
“the”). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in
the field may be eligible.
Abbreviations
Define the non-standard abbreviations in the footnotes of the article.
Abbreviations that are unavoidable in the abstract must be defined at their
first mention in the abstract, as well as in the footnote. Ensure uniformity of
abbreviations right through the article.
Acknowledgements
Assemble acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before
the references section and do not include them in any other part of the article.
Equations and Formulae
Present simple formulae in the line of normal text wherever possible and use “ /
” instead of a horizontal line for small fractional terms, e.g., A/B. Wherever
possible, use Equation Editors for preparing the equations.
Footnotes
Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the
article, using superscript Arabic numbers. Many wordprocessors build footnotes
into the text, and this feature may be used. If this not be the case, indicate
the position of footnotes in the text and present the footnotes themselves
separately at the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the Reference
list.
Table footnotes
Indicate each footnote in a table with a superscript lowercase letter.
Figures
• Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.
• Figures should be numbered using Arabic numerals.
If you submit the manuscript in MS word format, please include the Figures and Tables at the end of the manuscript file itself
and please
avoid submitting Figures and Tables in separate files.
If you submit the manuscript
in LaTex format, please include PDF version also along with LaTex and
Figure files.
If the figure size is too large, please compress the figures to reduce
the file size for initial submission. After the manuscript is accepted, you can upload high
resolution figures (if needed).
Figure captions
Ensure that each figure has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached
to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title and a description of the
figure. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all
symbols and abbreviations used.
Tables
Number the tables using Arabic numerals consecutively in accordance with their
appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the table and indicate
them with superscript lowercase letters.
References
Citation in text
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the
reference list (and vice versa). Unpublished results and personal communications
are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text.
Web references
As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the
reference was last accessed.
Reference style Indicate references by number(s) in square brackets in line with
the text. List the references in the references section in the order in which
they appear in the text.
Journal abbreviations source
Journal names should be abbreviated according to
List of serial title word abbreviations:
http://www.issn.org/services/online-services/access-to-the-ltwa/
Index Medicus journal abbreviations:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals
CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service):
http://www.cas.org/content/references/corejournals
Examples:
Reference to a journal
publication:
1. M. Rancan, A. G. Sabatini, G. Achilli, G. C. Galletti, Anal. Chim. Acta 555
(2006) 20. (In the above example, 555 represents the volume and 20 represents
the start page number / article ID)
Reference to a book:
2. I. T. Jolliffe, Principal Component Analysis
(2nd ed.), Springer-Verlag, New
York (2002).
Reference to a chapter in an
edited book:
3. J. W. Birks, J. R. Poulsen, C. L. Shellum, In: D. Eastwood, L. J. Cline Love
(Eds.), Progress in Analytical Luminescence, American Society for Testing
Materials, Philadelphia (1988) pp. 26–40.
Algorithms
Computer Algorithms should be described clearly and concisely by means of a
suitable algorithmic notation. Complete program listings are not normally
admissible. Flow charts should be avoided in favor of a textual or tabulated
description of the program or data flow.
Appendices
If the article has more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B,
etc. Equations in appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq.
(A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on.
Submission checklist
Ensure that the following items are present when you submit an article:
• One Author is designated as corresponding Author with email address , f ull
postal address, telephone and fax numbers
• Keywords are mentioned
• All figure captions are mentioned
• All tables (including title, description, footnotes) are mentioned
• Manuscript has been "spellchecked" and "grammar-checked"
• References are in the correct format
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other
sources (including the Web)
Author Rights
If you are publishing regular article (non-open access
article), as an author you (or your employer or institution) may do the
following:
• make copies (print or electronic) of the article for your own personal use,
including for your own classroom teaching use;
• for your employer, if the article is a ‘work for hire’, made within the scope
of your employment, your employer may use all or part of the information in the
article for other intra-company use (e.g. training)
• you may retain patent and trademark rights and rights to any process or
procedure described in the article
• include the article in full or in part in a thesis or dissertation (provided
that this is not to be published commercially)
• use the article or any part thereof in a printed compilation of your works,
such as collected writings or lecture notes (subsequent to publication of the
article in the journal); and
• prepare other derivative works, to extend the article into book-length form,
or to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts in other works, with full
acknowledgement of its original publication in the journal
Offprints
Corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a watermarked PDF file
of the article via email. No paper offprints will be provided to the authors. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|