Submissions

Author Guidelines

Manuscript Preparation

Cover Letter

The author should submit a one page cover letter that:

• Concisely summarizes why the paper is a valuable addition to the scientific literature
• Specifies the type of article being submitted (e.g., research article, systematic review)
• Gives the complete details of the corresponding author (address for correspondence, contact number in case of urgent query, email id, and orcid id)
• Names and affiliations of all authors

Manuscript Organization

The length of the manuscript should be commensurate with the importance or complexity of the work. The manuscript should have a maximum of 4000 words. The manuscript has to be submitted in the single-column word format and should have the following layout or divisions:

Structure

A manuscript for research article should be compiled in the following order (optional):

• Title
• Authors
• Affiliations
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Materials and methods
• Result
• Sources of funding
• Conflict of interest statement
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Figures and figure legends
• Tables with captions

Title Page

The title page should carry the type of article (e.g. original article, case report, review); a concise title of the article, which is relevant and provides some information into content; all authors' names with complete affiliations and email ids; one corresponding author with complete affiliation, e-mail id, orcid id. Title page should list all authors 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 organisational affiliation. 

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). It should not exceed 250 words. Please refer: https://groups.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/14601/Z39-14-1997_r2015.pdf

Keywords

There should be a 5 keywords.

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 explain its 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, research design, tools, ethical approval 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. References should be cited in this section. It also states limitations and significance of results for further research.

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

The Journal follows the style recommended by ICMJE for formatting of references. 

Style of Text Citation        

References within the text should be cited as superscript numbers. A numbered list of references should appear at the end of each manuscript. References should be listed in the order in which they appear in the text. The names of all authors should be mentioned in each reference.

Journals

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]

Books

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 additional information, kindly check:

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

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