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Author Guidelines
1) The journal‘s language is English. British English or American English spelling and terminology may be used in article.
Please provide your manuscript in double-spaced, Times and New Roman font (size 12) left alignment, Word format. Contributors who are not native English speakers are strongly encouraged to ensure that a colleague fluent in the English language, if none of the authors is so, has reviewed their manuscript. The journal has an option to facilitate language correction on manuscripts if the Authors are not sure about the correctness of manuscript grammer and spelling. However, there is a fee of US$ 70 for this option.
2)Style of papers
Original research papers should generally not exceed 8 pages of printed text, including references, tables and figures (one page of printed text = approx. 600 words). A manuscript for a research paper should be assembled in the following order:
Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s) (if the senior author is not the corresponding order, this is indicated) Keywords, Abbreviations, Abstract, , Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion (Results and Discussion may be combined), Conclusion (if applicable), Acknowledgements, References.
Tables and figures (JPEG/75 DPI) should be cited in the appropriate area in the text (just with the legend) and numbered consecutively (eg. for figures, Fig 1., Fig 2...... and for tables Table 1., Table 2. etc.). Please place tables and figures at the end of manuscript consecutively.
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After acceptance (or when you are requested to submit your final revised manuscript) you need to place all figures and tables in a separate Word sheet.
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Research notes should not exceed four pages of printed text (one page of printed text = approx. 600 words), including references, tables and figures. A manuscript for a research note should be assembled in the following order:
Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s) (if the senior author is not the corresponding order, this is indicated) Key words, Abstract, Abbreviations , Manuscript text, Acknowledgements, References. Tables and figures (JPEG) should be cited in the appropriate area in the text with the legend and numbered consecutively (eg. for figures, Fig 1., Fig 2..... and for tables Table 1., Table 2. etc.)
Review papers should not exceed 15 pages of printed text, including references, tables and figures. A manuscript for a review should be assembled in the following order: Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s) (if the senior author is not the corresponding order, this is indicated) Key words, Abstract, Abbreviations, Manuscript text, Acknowledgements, References. Tables and figures (JPEG) should be cited in the appropriate area in the text with the legend and numbered consecutively (eg. for figures, Fig.1, Fig.2..... and for tables Table.1, Table.2 etc.).
Key Words
Please provide 5 to 10 key words in alphabetical order separated with semicolons, not included in the title. Scientific or systematic name of plants and fungi etc. should be written in italic. eg. Oryza sativa; in vitro; in vivo
Abbreviations
Abbreviations and their explanations should be collected alphabetically arranged in a list. Examples: BA
- 6-benzylaminopurine; NAA - naphthaleneacetic acid. Some commonly used abbreviations (e.g., DNA; PCR) do not have to be explained.
Abstract
Please provide a short abstract between 150- 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references. Usually, the abstract summarises the work reported and does not contain background information or speculative statements.
Introduction
This section should argue the case for your study, outlining only essential background, but should not include either the
findings or the conclusions. It should not be a review of the subject area, but should finish with a clear statement of the
question being addressed.
Please provide a context for the report with respect to previous work done in the field. The literature should be cited.
Materials and Methods
Please provide sufficient methodological details to allow a competent person to repeat the work.
Results and Discussion
This should highlight the results and the significance of the results and place them in the context of other work. The
final paragraph ought to provide a resume of the main conclusions. Normally a comparison between your results
and results from previous works should be given in the Discussion.
Tables, Graphs and Figures
Tables, Graphs and Figures should be cited in the appropriate location of text with the legends and numbered consecutively.
For Figures and Graphs or illustrations just use Fig.1, Fig.2 ............etc. For Tables Just use Table.1, Table.2............etc.
Acknowledgements
Just mention a quick thanks to the fund providers, supporters, etc.
Cross-referencing
In the text, a reference identified by means of an author's name should be followed by the date of the reference in parentheses. When there are more than two authors, only the first author's name should be mentioned, followed by 'et al.'. In the event that an author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by a
lower case letter. All the below examples can be used in the text: According Mark (1986) ; (Smith, 1987a, b), (Sexton, 1986; Fitzgerald et al., 1988), (Bullen and Bennett, 1990)
References
1. Journal article:
Smith J, Jones MJ , Houghton LD (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med 965:325–329
2. Journal issue with issue editor:
Smith J (ed) (1998) Rodent genes. Mod Genomics J 14(6):126–233
3. Book chapter:
Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York
4. Paper presented at a conference:
Chung S-T, Morris RL (1978) Isolation and characterization of plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid from Streptomyces fradiae. Paper presented at the 3rd international symposium on the genetics of industrial microorganisms, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 4–9 June 1978
5. Proceedings as a book (in a series and subseries):
Zowghi D et al (1996) A framework for reasoning about requirements in evolution. In: Foo N, Goebel R (eds) PRICAI'96: topics in artificial intelligence. 4th Pacific Rim conference on artificial intelligence, Cairns, August 1996. Lecture notes in computer science (Lecture notes in artificial intelligence), vol 1114. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, p 157
6. Proceedings with an editor (without a publisher):
Aaron M (1999) The future of genomics. In: Williams H (ed) Proceedings of the genomic researchers, Boston, 1999
Page Charges:
There is a charge of 70 US$ for online publications which should be fully paid upon acceptance of paper.
A shipment fee of 200 US$ will be chared to authors who want the printed version of journal including 30 re-prints. There is a shipment fee of 100 US$ for authors who just request 30 re-prints.
End Note
If Authors have created an End Note library for their manuscripts they are encouraged to use the Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture format as bibliography.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- When available, the URLs to access references online are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference. The URLs are ready to click (e.g., http://pkp.sfu.ca).
- The text is Double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review) have been followed.
Copyright Notice
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