Providing guidelines to authors for preparing and submitting manuscripts.

Providing a clear statement of the Journal’s policies on authorship criteria.

Treating all authors with fairness, courtesy, objectivity, honesty, and transparency.

Establishing and defining policies on conflicts of interest for all involved in the publication process, including editors, staff (e.g., editorial and sales), authors, and reviewers.

Protecting the confidentiality of every author’s work.

Establishing a system for effective and rapid peer review.

Making editorial decisions with reasonable speed and communicating them in a clear and constructive manner.

Being vigilant in avoiding the possibility of editors and/or referees delaying a manuscript for suspect reasons.

Establishing a procedure for reconsidering editorial decisions.

Describing, implementing, and regularly reviewing policies for handling ethical issues and allegations or findings of misconduct by authors and anyone involved in the peer review process.

Informing authors of solicited manuscripts that the submission will be evaluated according to the journal’s standard procedures or outlining the decision-making process if it differs from those procedures.

Developing mechanisms, in cooperation with the publisher, to ensure timely publication of accepted manuscripts.

Clearly communicating all other editorial policies and standards.

Assigning papers for review appropriate to each reviewer’s area of interest and expertise.

Establishing a process for reviewers to ensure that they treat the manuscript as a confidential document and complete the review promptly.

Informing reviewers that they are not allowed to make any use of the work described in the manuscript or to take advantage of the knowledge they gained by reviewing it before publication.

Providing reviewers with written, explicit instructions on the journal’s expectations for the scope, content, quality, and timeliness of their reviews to promote thoughtful, fair, constructive, and informative critique of the submitted work.

Requesting that reviewers identify any potential conflicts of interest and asking that they recuse themselves if they cannot provide an unbiased review.

Allowing reviewers appropriate time to complete their reviews.

Requesting reviews at a reasonable frequency that does not overtax any one reviewer.

Finding ways to recognize the contributions of reviewers, for example, by publicly thanking them in the journal; providing letters that might be used in applications for academic promotion; offering professional education credits; or inviting them to serve on the editorial board of the journal.

Evaluating all manuscripts considered for publication to make certain that each provides the evidence readers need to evaluate the authors’ conclusions and that authors’ conclusions reflect the evidence provided in the manuscript.

Providing literature references and author contact information so interested readers may pursue further discourse.

Identifying individual and group authorship clearly and developing processes to ensure that authorship criteria are met to the best of the editor’s knowledge.

Requiring all authors to review and accept responsibility for the content of the final draft of each paper or for those areas to which they have contributed; this may involve signatures of all authors or of only the corresponding author on behalf of all authors. Some journals ask that one author be the guarantor and take responsibility for the work as a whole.

Maintaining the journal’s internal integrity (e.g., correcting errors; clearly identifying and differentiating types of content, such as reports of original data, opinion pieces (e.g., editorials and letters to the editor), corrections/errata, retractions, supplemental data, and promotional material or advertising; and identifying published material with proper references).

Ensuring that all involved in the publication process understand that it is inappropriate to manipulate citations by, for example, demanding that authors cite papers in the journal.

Disclosing sources (e.g., authorship, journal ownership, and funding).

Creating mechanisms to determine if the journal is providing what readers need and want (e.g., reader surveys).

Disclosing all relevant potential conflicts of interest of those involved in considering a manuscript or affirming that none exist.

Providing a mechanism for a further discussion on the scientific merits of a paper, such as by publishing letters to the editor, inviting commentaries, article blogs, or soliciting other forms of public discourse.

Explicitly stating journal policies regarding ethics, embargo, submission and publication fees, and accessibility of content (freely available versus subscriber only).

Working with the publisher to attract the best manuscripts and research that will be of interest to readers.

In some instances, a publisher may put pressure on an editor to publish a review or article in an effort to increase reprint sales. The editor has a responsibility to readers and the scientific community to resist such pressure.

Conducting peer review of submitted manuscripts.

Complying with the guidelines and procedures of the owner organization, including any terms specified in the contract with that organization.

Making recommendations about improved evaluation and dissemination of scientific material.

Adhering to the owner’s and publisher’s fiscal policies towards the Journal, at least in so much as they do not encroach upon editorial independence.

Adhering to the agreed-upon mission, publication practices, and schedule.

Bear in mind that the editor is looking to them for subject knowledge, good judgement, and an honest and fair assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the work and the manuscript.

Make clear at the start of their review if they have been asked to address only specific parts or aspects of a manuscript and indicate which these are.

Be specific in their criticisms, and provide evidence with appropriate references to substantiate general statements such as, ‘this work has been done before’, to help editors in their evaluation and decision and in fairness to the authors.

Confidential comments to the editor should not be a place for denigration or false accusation, done in the knowledge that the authors will not see these comments.

Decline to review if they feel unable to provide a fair and unbiased review.

Read the manuscript, ancillary material (e.g. reviewer instructions, required ethics and policy statements, supplemental data files) and journal instructions thoroughly, getting back to the journal if anything is not clear and requesting any missing or incomplete items they need to carry out a full review.

Not involve anyone else in the review of a manuscript, including junior researchers they are mentoring, without first obtaining permission from the journal; the names of any individuals who have helped them with the review should be included with the returned review so that they are associated with the manuscript in the journal’s records and can also receive due credit for their efforts.

Ensure their review is based on the merits of the work and not influenced, either positively or negatively, by any personal, financial, or other conflicting considerations or by intellectual biases.

Be objective and constructive in their reviews and provide feedback that will help the authors to improve their manuscript.

Not make derogatory personal comments or unfounded accusations.

Make clear which suggested additional investigations are essential to support claims made in the manuscript under consideration and which will just strengthen or extend the work.

Continue to keep details of the manuscript and its review confidential.

Remember it is the authors’ paper and not attempt to rewrite it to their own preferred style if it is basically sound and clear; suggestions for changes that improve clarity are, however, important.

Be aware of the sensitivities surrounding language issues that are due to the authors writing in a language that is not their own, and phrase the feedback appropriately and with due respect.

Do not prepare their report in such a way or include comments that suggest the review has been done by another person.

Do not prepare their report in a way that reflects badly or unfairly on another person.

Do not make unfair negative comments or include unjustified criticisms of any competitors’ work that is mentioned in the manuscript.

Ensure their comments and recommendations for the editor are consistent with their report for the authors; most feedback should be put in the report for the authors.

Respond in a reasonable time-frame, especially if they cannot do the review, and without intentional delay.

Declare if they do not have the subject expertise required to carry out the review or if they are able to assess only part of the manuscript, outlining clearly the areas for which they have the relevant expertise.

Only agree to review a manuscript if they are fairly confident they can return a review within the proposed or mutually agreed time-frame, informing the journal promptly if they require an extension.

Declare any potentially conflicting or competing interests (which may, for example, be personal, financial, intellectual, professional, political or religious), seeking advice from the journal if they are unsure whether something constitutes a relevant interest.

Follow journals’ policies on situations they consider to represent a conflict to reviewing. If no guidance is provided, they should inform the journal if: they work at the same institution as any of the authors (or will be joining that institution or are applying for a job there); they are or have been recent (e.g. within the past 3 years) mentors, mentees, close collaborators or joint grant holders; they have a close personal relationship with any of the authors.

Ensure suggestions for alternative reviewers are based on suitability and not influenced by personal considerations or made with the intention of the manuscript receiving a specific outcome (either positive or negative).

Do not agree to review a manuscript just to gain sight of it with no intention of submitting a review.

Decline to review if they have been involved with any of the work in the manuscript or its reporting.

Notify the journal as soon as possible if they find they do not have the expertise to assess all aspects of the manuscript; they shouldn’t wait until submitting their review as this will unduly delay the review process.

keep all manuscript and review details confidential.

Do not contact the authors directly without the permission of the journal.

Respond promptly if contacted by a journal about matters related to their review of a manuscript and provide the information required.

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Double spaces should not be removed anywhere in the manuscript.

Sentences should be aligned to the respective paragraph only.

Spaces should not be used in the beginning of paragraph.

Sentences should not start with any numerical value.

Italics should not be used for et al. while mentioning hidden authors name, and the representation should be like “et al.”

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Date format: Date, Month, Year.

There should not be periods in between country name acronyms. For example: UK, USA but not U.K., U.S.A .

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Only binomial nomenclature should be followed.

Scientific names should be mentioned in italics only.

The genus name is always represented with an initial capital letter.

Scientific names should be mentioned in parenthesis when used with common name. For example: "The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is decreasing in Europe."

Scientific names should be written completely. Except in case of listing several species from the same genus or the same species is repeated, then the genus name is written in full for the first time and abbreviated later on to an initial followed by a period. For example: Canis lupus, C. aureus, C. simensis.

In very few cases, scientific names can be used in abbreviated form directly. For example: E. coli, and T. rex.

If the actual specific name cannot or need not be specified, then the abbreviation "sp." is used. The abbreviation "spp." is a plural form. These abbreviations should not be italicized. For example: Canis sp., Canis spp.

In case of naming gene and protein, gene name should be italicized; protein name need not be kept in italics.

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Space should not be given before and after hyphen in chemical names.

Table content should be aligned centrally where the words/phrases should be intact and properly aligned.

Authors are allowed to use short forms for “That is” and “For example” as “i.e.,” and “e.g.,” respectively.

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Usage of parenthesis at the beginning of sentences is not allowed.

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Full stop should not be used at the end

“I”, “We” should not be used in the Title (exceptions: Editorials, Letter to Editors, Commentary and Opinion Articles).

Conjunctions, Prepositions should be in lower case.

Words like “in vitro, in vivo, ex vivo, etc.” should be italicized.

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Order and representation of phone, fax and e-mails should be like Tel: +0000000, Fax: 000000 and E-Mail: abcdef@abc.ab .

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Graphical Abstracts may be incorporated within the abstract box only wherever needed.

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Abbreviations should be separated by semicolon (;).

Full stop should not be used at the end.

In case of using abbreviations, the acronym of the abbreviation must be mentioned within parenthesis whenever it appears for the first time in the text. Later on, use of only acronym is enough.

If sentence/paragraph starts with abbreviation/acronym it should convey the meaning appropriately.

Instead of title case, lower case should be used for abbreviations expressing general phrases, experimental procedures, disease names, therapy/treatment names, receptor’s names etc. in the body of the text.

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If disease names, experimental procedures etc., are coined after any person, they can be capitalized.

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Heading: Should be in Title case, Times New Roman, 12pt, Bold, alignment should be justified.

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All Figures and Tables should be cited in body text in chronical order and they should follow Title case only.

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Only scientific names should be italicized.

Superscripts, subscripts should be given wherever it is required. Ex: 2^nd, 5^th, Ch₂COOH, H₂SO₄, etc.

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Any additional references without citation in the body text are not allowed.

Complete reference should be provided without splitting.

There should be no duplicate references at the end of the article.

Reference for articles published in Journals:

Reference for published Books:

Book chapters:

Reference for Conference proceedings:

Reference for Thesis and Dissertations:

Reference for Newspaper articles:

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SI standards for units and values should be followed.

Be cautious while presenting the multiplication and/or divisions of units.

For Example: ms-1 is reciprocal of milliseconds where m•s-1 is meters per second.

m•kg/(s³•A) is correct where m•kg/s³/A is not correct.

Zero should be used while representing decimals like 0.25 but not .25 and comma should not be used in the place of period.

25 cm × 48 cm is correct but not 25 × 48 cm.

1 MHz to 10 MHz or (1 to 10) MHz is correct but not 1 MHz-10 MHz or 1 to 10 MHz.

20 °C to 30 °C or (20 to 30) °C is correct but not 20 °C-30 °C or 20 to 30 °C.

123 g ± 2 g or (123 ± 2) g is correct but not 123 ± 2 g.

70 % ± 5 % or (70 ± 5) % is correct but not 70 ± 5 %.

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Thin space should be given before and after mathematical symbols (keyboard and non-keyboard).

Equations and Formulas should be in the MathType format only in the final PDF.

Authors are being requested to submit their formula/equation preferably in MathType.

Inline and simple equations should be provided in text format only.

Text should be formatted in Times New Roman font with 10pt size and the alignment should be justified throughout the manuscript except Headings and Title.

Double spaces should be removed in the manuscript.

Sentences should be aligned to the respective paragraph only.

Spaces should not be used in the beginning of paragraph.

Sentences should not start with any numerical value.

Italics should not be used for et al. while mentioning hidden authors name, and the representation should be like et al.

Use hyphen (-) to join or separate two words depending on the requirement. No space is allowed before and after hyphen (-).

Use en dash (–) to represent a span or range of numbers, dates, or time. No space is allowed before and after en dash.

Use en dash (—) in the places of commas, parentheses, or colons based on.

Only first letter of the disease name should be in upper case and remaining name should be in lower case.

Date format: Date, Month, Year.

There should not be periods in between country name acronyms. For example: UK, USA but not U.K., U.S.A

The representation of scientific names should be as follows:

Only binomial nomenclature should be followed.

Scientific names should be mentioned in italics only.

The genus name is always represented with an initial capital letter.

Scientific names should be mentioned in parenthesis when used with common name. For example: "The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is decreasing in Europe."

Scientific names should be written completely. Except in case of listing several species from the same genus or the same species is repeated, then the genus name is written in full for the first time and abbreviated later on to an initial followed by a period. For example: Canis lupus, C. aureus, C. simensis.

In very few cases, scientific names can be used in abbreviated form directly. For example: E. coli, and T. rex.

If the actual specific name cannot or need not be specified, then the abbreviation "sp." is used. The abbreviation "spp." is a plural form. These abbreviations should not be italicized. For example: Canis sp., Canis spp.

In case of naming gene and protein, gene name should be italicized; protein name need not be kept in italics.

Drug names: Generic names should be in lower case where registered names should start with an upper-case letter.

Space should not be given before and after hyphen in chemical names.

Table content should be aligned centrally where the words/phrases should be intact and properly aligned.

Authors are allowed to use short forms for “That is” and “For example” as “i.e.,” and “e.g.,” respectively.

In case of quoted text, punctuations (except colon and semicolon) should be mentioned inside the quotation marks.

Space is not allowed in front of any punctuation mark.

Paragraphs should end with a full stop.

Usage of parenthesis at the beginning of sentences is not allowed.

Should be in Title case in Times New Roman font, 15pt, Bold with Central alignment.

Full stop should not be used at the end.

“I”, “We” should not be used in the Title (exceptions: Editorials, Letter to Editors, Commentary and Opinion Articles).

Conjunctions, Prepositions should be in lower case.

Words like “in vitro, in vivo, ex vivo, etc.” should be italicized.

Should be in Title case, Times New Roman, 11pt, Bold, alignment should be justified.

Initials should be there after Last name and names should be separated by comma (,).

Full stop should not be used at the end.

Affiliation number should be in superscript in case of multiple affiliations.

If only one affiliation is there for all the authors, then numbers are not required.

Corresponding author should be highlighted by using an asterisk (*) symbol after the affiliation number. There is no need to put a comma (,) before the asterisk mark.

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Author designations should not be mentioned.

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Full stop should not be used at the end.

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Content: Should be in Sentence case, Times New Roman, 10pt, alignment should be justified.

Abstract should be limited to 250-300 words which should provide the brief information about the background, methodology and the outcome of the study.

Abstract should be presented in a single paragraph and structured abstracts are not allowed. Please follow the specific instruction provided for each journal for details.

It should be free from formulae, acronyms and references/citations.

Graphical Abstracts may be incorporated within the abstract box only wherever needed.

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Content: Should be in Sentence case, Times New Roman, 10pt, alignment should be justified.

Keywords should be separated by semicolon (;).

Full stop should not be used at the end.

First letter of the first word should be capitalized.

Only abbreviated forms without acronyms should be kept as keywords in sentence case.

If abbreviation is lengthy and cannot be placed, then acronym can be used.

Heading: Should be in Title case, Times New Roman, 11pt, Bold, alignment should be justified.

Content: Should be in Sentence case, Times New Roman, 10pt, alignment should be justified.

Abbreviations should be separated by semicolon (;).

Full stop should not be used at the end.

In case of using abbreviations, the acronym of the abbreviation must be mentioned within parenthesis whenever it appears for the first time in the text. Later on, use of only acronym is enough.

If sentence/paragraph starts with abbreviation/acronym it should convey the meaning appropriately.

Instead of title case, lower case should be used for abbreviations expressing general phrases, experimental procedures, disease names, therapy/treatment names, receptor’s names etc. in the body of the text.

Company/organization names, universities, associations etc., can be capitalized.

If disease names, experimental procedures etc., are coined after any person, they can be capitalized.

Heading: Should be in Title case, Times New Roman, 11pt, Bold, alignment should be justified.

Heading: Should be in Title case, Times New Roman, 11pt, Bold, alignment should be justified.

Sub Headings: Should be in Sentence case, Times New Roman, 10pt, Bold, alignment should be justified.

Sub-Sub-Headings: Should be in Sentence case, Times New Roman, 10pt, Bold, alignment should be justified.

Inline paragraph separated from heading with colon (:).

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Inline paragraph separated from heading with colon (:).

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Inline paragraph separated from heading with colon (:).

All references provided at the end of the article must be cited in the body text using the below format provided.

References should be cited in Square brackets “[]” in the manuscript.

Multiple references should be separated by comma (,) and space should not be there after comma (,).

Range of references should be separated by en dash (–) and space should not be there before and after en dash (2–11).

Different citations in the text within the Square brackets “[]” should be presented following the order of appearance in the reference section.

Any sentence/paragraph should not start with the reference without author name.

Single author: “Author name [7] summarized the different harvesting”.

Two authors: “Author name and Author name [10] reported that genetically engineered green algae”.

More than two authors: “Author name et al. [67] made use of simple large unit micro strainers”.

Heading: Should be in Sentence case, Times New Roman, 8pt, Bold, alignment should be justified.

Content: Should be in Sentence case, Times New Roman, 8pt, alignment should be justified.

All legends should end with a full stop.

All Figures and Tables should be cited in body text in chronical order and they should follow Title case only.

It is not mandatory to maintain the order of sub figures sub sub tables in the body text, however, citations should be maintained in the body text as Figure 1a, Table 3b, etc.

In case of using any abbreviations in the legends, they must be mentioned in the abbreviations section.

Figure and Table foot notes must not end with a full stop

Space should not be given after representative characters such as alphabets, numbers and asterisks etc. in Figure and Table foot notes. Representation of such characters should be in superscript only.

If two figures or tables are cited simultaneously in the body text, then they must be cited as “Figure 1 and 2”, “Table 1 and 2”, “Figure 1 and Table 1”, etc.

If more than two figures or tables are cited simultaneously in the body text, then they must be cited as “Figure 1–4”, “Table 1–7”, etc.

Heading: Should be in Title case, Times New Roman, 11pt, Bold, alignment should be justified.

Content: Should be in Sentence case, Times New Roman, 10pt, alignment should be justified.

Language of references should be in English only.

Title in references should be in sentence case only.

Only scientific names should be italicized.

Superscripts, subscripts should be given wherever it is required. Ex: 2^nd, 5^th, Ch₂COOH, H₂SO₄, etc.

Number of references provided at the end of the article should match with the number of cited references in the body text.

Any additional references without citation in the body text are not allowed.

Complete reference should be provided without splitting.

There should be no duplicate references at the end of the article.

Reference for articles published in Journals

Reference for published Books

Book chapters

Reference for Conference proceedings

Reference for Thesis and Dissertations

Reference for Newspaper articles

Reference for Web pages

SI standards for units and values should be followed.

Be cautious while presenting the multiplication and/or divisions of units.

For Example: ms-1 is reciprocal of milliseconds where m•s-1 is meters per second.

m•kg/(s³•A) is correct where m•kg/s³/A is not correct.

Zero should be used while representing decimals like 0.25 but not .25 and comma should not be used in the place of period.

25 cm × 48 cm is correct but not 25 × 48 cm.

1 MHz to 10 MHz or (1 to 10) MHz is correct but not 1 MHz-10 MHz or 1 to 10 MHz.

20 °C to 30 °C or (20 to 30) °C is correct but not 20 °C-30 °C or 20 to 30 °C.

123 g ± 2 g or (123 ± 2) g is correct but not 123 ± 2 g.

70 % ± 5 % or (70 ± 5) % is correct but not 70 ± 5 %.

Space before °C and % is not mandatory but follow the consistency throughout the manuscript.

Unit symbols and unit names should not be mixed and mathematical operations should not be applied to unit names.

For more details: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html.

Single space or Thin space (Shortcut: 2009+Alt+X) should be given before any Unit symbol in combination with preceding numerical.

Thin space should be given before and after mathematical symbols (keyboard and non-keyboard).

Equations and Formulas should be in the MathType format only in the final PDF.

Authors are being requested to submit their formula/equation preferably in MathType.

Inline and simple equations should be provided in text format only.

The title has to be 1-12 words in length.

‘I’, ‘We’ should not be used in the Title.

Scientific names should be italicized.

Conjunctions and Prepositions should be in lower case.

It depends upon the author’s contribution.

No limit for No.of authors.

Authors: First name, Middle name, Last name, Initial or Surname is must.

Superscript the numbering and mark the affiliation for each author name at the end.

Author designations should not be mentioned, Ex: Assistant Professor.

Name, department, institution, place, country.

Pin code, Zip code, street No, Ave Number information should be provided.

Country name have to be there at the end.

Full stop should not be used at the end.

Mention Affiliation and Address.

Mention Full Name, Designation, Department, Institution, Place, Country.

Pin code, Zip code, Street No, Ave Number information should be provided.

Telephone, Fax and Email information should be provided.

Abstract should be limited to 250-300 words.

Should provide the brief information about the background, methodology and the outcome of the study.

It should be free from formulae, acronyms, references and citations.

Keywords should be limited to 5-6 words.

Only abbreviated forms without acronyms should be kept as keywords.

It’s optional if any Abbreviations/Acronyms present in the text you may mention.

It may contain Sub Headings.

Maximum 2-4 paragraphs.

It may contain Sub Headings, Sub-Sub-Headings, Sub-Sub-Sub-Headings, etc.

Maximum 5-6 main headings will be good.

It may contain Sub Headings, Sub-Sub-Headings, Sub-Sub-Sub-Headings, etc.

Maximum 1 or 2 main headings will be good.

A section describing results is particularly necessary if your paper includes data generated from your own research.

It should be drafted within a single paragraph.

It’s optional.

Appendix includes Mathematical proofs, lists of words, the questionnaire used in the research, a detailed description of an apparatus used in the research, etc.

You may have more than one appendix like Appendix A, Appendix B, Appendix C, etc.

Acknowledge research contributions done by people other than the authors.

The section should state the findings of the research arranged in a logical sequence without bias or interpretation.

Do not acknowledge non‐science contributors.

Acknowledge by name only do not use titles, honorifics, positions, or awards.

It’s optional if funding is available you can mention.

Source of funding origination and its address along with grant number details should be provided.

It should contain proper data.

No empty cell is allowed.

Give legends properly.

Multiple tables can be inserted Table 1, Table 2, Table 3, etc.

Figures includes graphs, diagrams, photos, drawings, schematics, maps, etc.

Multiple figures can be inserted Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, etc.

Format: jpg or png.

A limit for references is quality over quantity.

It should mention Authors name, published year, title, Issue number, Journal name or book name, volume number, page number.

If possible mention:

Show with source.

Explain with Evidence.

Be focused in your research work.

Use high quality images.

Good paper will be finished at a maximum of 6-15 pages with recent and strong evidence.

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