Submissions

Author Guidelines

Guidelines to prepare a Manuscript:

Cover Letter

The author should supply an approximately one page cover letter that:

• Concisely summarizes why your paper is a valuable addition to the scientific literature
• Specifies the type of article you are submitting (for example, research article, systematic review, meta-analysis, case study)
• Gives the complete details of the Corresponding author (address for correspondence, contact number in case of urgent query).

Manuscript Organization

The length of a submitted paper should be commensurate with the importance, or appropriate to the complexity, of the work. The manuscript should have 2000 - 2500 words. The manuscript has to be submitted in the single column and should have the following layout or divisions:

Manuscripts should begin with the ordered sections:

• Title
• Authors
• Affiliations
• Abstract
• Introduction

and end with the sections of:

• Acknowledgments
• References
• Figure Legends
• Tables

The title, authors, and affiliations should all be included on a title page as the first page of the manuscript file.

Authors and Affiliations

All author names should be listed in the following order:

• First names (or initials, if used),
• Middle names (or initials, if used), and
• Last names (surname, family name)

Each author should list an associated department, university, or organizational affiliation and its location, including city, state/province (if applicable), and country. If the article has been submitted on behalf of a consortium, all author names and affiliations should be listed at the end of the article.

Abstract

This section highlights the main points of the article, outlines the results and conclusions and elucidates the significance of the results (Note that no references should be cited in the abstract)

Keywords

There should be minimum of three and maximum of five keywords.

Section Headings

Introduction

The introduction section  should:

• Provide background that puts the manuscript into context and allows readers outside the field to understand the purpose and significance of the study
• Define the problem addressed and why it is important
• Include a brief review of the key literature
• Conclude with a brief statement of the overall aim of the work and a comment about whether that aim was achieved

Materials and Methods

In the materials and methods section, the past is more natural because you are describing work that is already complete at the time of writing. Thus, it is simply a description of your actions.

Results and Discussion

This section should be placed separately. It must represent sufficient experimental data to enable the experiments to be repeated. Authors must notify the main findings of the research, providing a clear explanation of their significance and relevance.

Conclusion/s

This section should contain a short conclusion text.

Acknowledgement/s

This section should contain a precise and short acknowledgement text.

Figures, Tables and Schemes

There should be no spelling errors\typo in the artwork in the Figures.
All the Figures and Tables are to be numbered and should be suitably cited in the text at their appropriate description, e.g., Figure 1 and Tables 1 and 3.

References

oduction

THE INTRODUCTION SECTION SHOULD:

Provide background that puts the manuscript into context and allows readers outside the field to understand the purpose and significance of the study

Define the problem addressed and why it is important

Include a brief review of the key literature

Conclude with a brief statement of the overall aim of the work and a comment about whether that aim was achieved

MATERIALS AND METHODS

This section briefly describes the procedures, methods of observation and analysis and apparatus to enable other researchers to reproduce the study.

RESULT

This section should be placed separately. It must represent sufficient experimental data to enable the experiments to be repeated. Authors must notify the main findings of the research, providing a clear explanation of their significance and relevance. Author should present results in logical sequence in the text, tables, and figures, giving the main or most important findings first with no duplicate data in graphs and tables.

DISCUSSION

This section provides an assessment of the validity of results and compares the results with other researches. It also states limitations and significance of results for the further research. It should be concise.  An accompanying theory and calculation section would be appropriate.

Abbreviations should be defined in parentheses the first time they appear in the abstract, main text, and in figure or table captions and used consistently thereafter.

SI Units (International System of Units) should be used.

Equations should not be used in picture format and should be editable.

Conclusion/s

This section should contain a short conclusion text.

Acknowledgment/s

This section should contain a precise and short acknowledgment for funding and support agencies as well as scientific or technical assistance (if any). Routine departmental or institutional support should not be mentioned.

FIGURES AND TABLES

All the Figures and Tables are to be numbered and should be cited in the text at their first description, e.g., Figure 1 and Tables 1 and 3. Figures and Tables should be clustered at the end of document to be submitted. Here is an example of figure with figure legend:

Figure 6 The comparison of antigenic response between smokers (a) and non-smokers (b) using GATA-3. The ELISA was repeated three times and mean ±SD was determined.

Here is an example of table caption.

Table 6. Correlations among the Proteins

Conflicts of Interest and Sources of Funding
Conflicts of interest include financial, institutional, personal and other relationships that might influence decision making. It is mandatory for authors to disclose all probable conflicts of interest in the manuscript. In case, there is no conflict of interest, this should also be clearly mentioned.

Also, author has to provide a statement of all sources of funding in the manuscript.

Conflict of interest and sources of funding should be declared before References in the manuscript.

REFERENCES

Style of Text Citation           

References within the text should be cited as superscript numbers. Reference list should appear at the end of each manuscript. List references in the order in which they appear in the text. All author names appear in all refererences.

Examples

Journal

1. Huie MJ, Casazza GA, Horning MA, Brooks GA. Smoking increases conversion of lactate to glucose during submaximal exercise. J Appl Physiol. 1996;80(5):1554-9. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
2. Holick MF. Sunlight and vitamin D for bone health and prevention of autoimmune diseases, cancers, and cardiovascular disease. Am J Clin Nutr. 2004 Dec;80(6):1678S-88S. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

        Book

3. Park K. Preventive and Social Medicine. 17th ed. Jabalpur: Banarasidas Bhanot   Publishers; 2002.
4. Larson R, Wilson S. Adolescence across place and time: Globalization and changing pathways to adulthood. In: Lerner R, Steinberg L, editors. Handbook of adolescent psychology. 2nd ed. New York: Wiley; 2013. p. 297-330.

For further information, kindly check:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3935404/