Author Guidelines

There is no submission fee.
Submission

Manuscripts must be written in good English.

Title Page

The first page of the manuscript must contain:

  • The full title;
  • The affiliation and full address of all authors and the corresponding author;

The second page must contain an abstract of 250 words or less.

Abstract

The abstract should be an objective representation of the article and should be no more than around 200 words.

It should be a single paragraph that follows this structure:

  1. Background: Place the question addressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study.
  2. Methods: Describe briefly the main methods or treatments applied and include any relevant preregistration numbers, species, and strains of any animals used.
  3. Results: Summarize the article's main findings.
  4. Conclusion: Provide a brief summary of the main conclusions or interpretations.
  5. Contribution to literature.

The abstract must not contain results that are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.

Abbreviations

Any word or words to be abbreviated should be written in full when first mentioned followed by the abbreviation in parenthesis.

Illustrations

All illustrations of any kind should be submitted as sequentially numbered figures. Illustrations should be inserted in the main body of the text.

Tables and Supplementary Material

Data must be kept to a minimum. Tables should be numbered and headed with short titles. As with illustrations, they should be inserted in the main manuscript text.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements should appear at the end of the text.

References

References should be cited in the text as name and year and listed at the end of the paper alphabetically.

Where reference is made to more than one work by the same author published in the same year, identify each citation in the text as follows: (Kashif, 1998a), (Kashif, 1998b).

Where three or more authors are listed in the reference list, please cite in the text as (Hye et al., 1998).

All references must be complete and correct. If essential, cite unpublished or personal work in the text but do not include it in the reference list. Where possible the DOI for the reference should be included at the end of the reference. Online citations should include date of access.

Footnotes

Footnotes should be numbered consecutively in the text.

Appendix

Appendix should be placed at the end of the paper.