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Author Guidelines
Authors willing to submit their manuscript are requested to carefully go through the guidelines as given below, [The papers submitted without following this style and format will not undergo review process, and will be returned to authors].
Manuscripts may be submitted as: Research Articles, Short Communications, Case Study, Reviews, Book Review and other related aspects
All portions of the manuscript must be typed single-spaced followed by the sections in order as:
Title should be a brief phrase describing the contents of the paper [Case: Capitalize each word; Font Size: 16, Font Type:Times New Roman and Justified].
Author(s) Name and Affiliation: Author name should be in full and the names be separated by comma (,) for multi authored manuscript [Case: Capitalize each word; Font Size: 12, Font Type:Times New Roman and Justified].
Email id of each author should be indicated with * on corresponding address [Case: lower case; Font Size: 10, Font Type:Times New Roman and Justified].
ABSTRACT should be informative and completely self-explanatory, briefly present the topic, state the scope of the experiments, indicate significant data, and point out major findings and conclusions. [Case: Sentence case; Font Size: 10, Font Type: Times New Roman and Justified].
Keywords that will provide indexing listed [Case: Captilize each word; Font Size: 10, Font Type: Times New Roman and Justified].
INTRODUCTION should provide a clear statement of the problem, the relevant literature on the subject [Case: Sentence case; Font Size: 12, Font Type: Times New Roman and Justified].
MATERIALS AND METHODS should be complete enough to allow experiments to be reproduced [Case: Sentence case; Font Size: 12, Font Type: Times New Roman and Justified].
RESULTS should be presented with clarity and precision. [Case: Sentence case; Font Size: 12, Font Type: Times New Roman and Justified].
DISCUSSION should interpret the findings in view of the results obtained in this and in past studies on this topic [Case: Sentence case; Font Size: 12, Font Type: Times New Roman and Justified].
[NOTE: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION MAY be allowed to merge as single section as RESULTS AND DISCUSSION]
CONCLUSIONS to be stated in a few sentences at the end of Discussion [Case: Sentence case; Font Size: 12, Font Type: Times New Roman and Justified]. .
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS of people, grants, funds, etc should be brief [Case: Sentence case; Font Size: 12, Font Type: Times New Roman and Justified].
[The section headings should be UPPERCASE]
Tables should be kept to a minimum and be designed to be as simple as possible.
Figures should be prepared using JPEG file.
Illustrations like graphs, charts be provided in original format
[NOTE: All illustrations, spreadsheets, figures etc be placed at the end of manuscript]
References
Citation in text:
References should be numbered in the order that they first appear in text and listed in numerical sequence on a separate sheet. References should be cited in full in the reference list, including the title and the first and last page numbers. In the reference list, Single Author Paper [1], Multi Author Paper [2], books [3], and Chapter in a book [4] should accord with the following examples:
Single Author Paper:
[1] El-Morsy MHM, 2010. Relative Importance of Salt Marshes as Range Resources in the North Western Mediterranean Coast of Egypt. Journal of Phytology 2(3):39-50.
Multi Author Paper:
[2] Mai T.N., S.L. Ranamukhaarachchi and D.B. Hannaway, 2011. Efficacy of Antagonist Strains of Bacillus megaterium, Enterobacter cloacae, Pichia guilliermondii and Candida ethanolica against Bacterial Wilt Disease of Tomato. Journal of Phytology, 3(2):01-10.
Book:
[3] Levitt J., 1980. Responses of plants to environmental stresses, vol. 2, Academic Press, New York.
Chapter in a book:
[4] Asada K. and M. Takahashi, 1987. Production and scavenging of active oxygen in photosynthesis. In: DJ Kyle, B Osmond and CJ Arntzen (Eds.), Photoinhibition, Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp 227-287.
Proofs: Electronic proofs will be sent (e-mail attachment) to the corresponding author as a PDF file. Page proofs are considered to be the final version of the manuscript. Authors will also be charged for excessive alterations on proofs and submission of revised files after the article has been transmitted to the printer.
Publication Charges: The journal levies a nominal article-processing charge for every accepted article, to cover the costs incurred by open access publication. Normally, INR 2000 + Bank Charges for the authors hailing from SAARC countries and $50 + Bank Charges for author of other countries are being charged per article. However, under certain circumstances or on special request of authors charges may be reduced or waived off. Articles are accepted or rejected for publication and published solely on the basis of merit. Authors will also be charged for excessive alterations on proofs and submission of revised files after the article has been transmitted to the publication division.
References in reference section [Case: Capitalize each word; Font Size: 10, Font Type: Times New Roman and Justified].
In case you are facing problem in uploading your article, please send it to [email protected] with the subject line - Paper Submission for Food Biology
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).
- Author(s) should obtain permission for publishing from the concerned department/organization research had been carried out.
- Author(s) must obtain permission from the copyright owner(s), if they are using any copyrighted material (figure, table or text passages) from already published sources. Authors are fully responsible for the authenticity of the literature and originality of the data. Neither the journal nor the Editors will be responsible for any type of plagiarism.
- Author(s) should submit Patient Consent Form duly filled and signed by the patient(s), if they are publishing any case reports. Form may be drafted by authors itself indicating patients consent with proof of consent, countersigned by authors.
- Work involving the use of animal or human subject requires full compliance with local, national, ethical and regulatory guidelines and formal documented approval from an appropriate institutional committee.
- The Journal levies an article-processing charge for every accepted article, to cover the costs incurred by open access publication. The details of charges are outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- The submission file should be in Microsoft Word only (2003 or 2007 version).
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed 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.
- The names of journals used in references are spelled in full.
- Author(s) will submit a cover letter to declare the authenticity of the literature, originality of the data and consent of all author(s), if so., and should include the full address and telephone/fax numbers of corresponding author and three reviewers for the manuscript.
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