BEFORE YOU SUBMIT THE ARTICLE, MAKE SURE THAT THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE PRESENT
1. Names of all authors (with given names followed by their surnames) have been included.
2. One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details: E-mail address and Full postal address.
3. Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'.
4. All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa.
5. Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements
• In the main Manuscript, following components have been included:
• 6-8 Keywords
• All Figures (include relevant captions)
• All Tables (including titles, description, footnotes)
• Figure and Table citations in the text matching the files provided.
• Indicating clearly if color should be used for any figures in print.
• Supplemental files (where applicable)
6. Several Declarations such as
• Acknowledgements,
• Ethics Statements,
• Funding,
• Statement of Conflict of interest
• Contributions of Authors
have been included at the end of main text and before References.
ARTICLE STRUCTURE
1. Cover Letter
2. Title page must have the following information
• A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations.
• A short running title of less than 40 characters;
• The full names of the authors with institutional affiliations where the work was conducted and the full contact details of the lab/institute where the work was conducted, institutional e-mail addresses need to be provided at least for submitting and/or corresponding author. Authors should add a footnote for the author’s present address if this is different from where the work was conducted;
3. Unstructured Abstract: The Abstract should be clearly written in 300 words or less and should succinctly state the objectives and the working hypothesis of the study, experimental design, major observations and conclusions, and their major significance. The abstract should be intelligible to scientists in general and should thus be free of specialized jargon and abbreviations. References should generally not be cited in the abstract.
4. Keywords: 6-8 Keywords. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes
5. Main body should be formatted as introduction, materials & methods, results, discussion.
Introduction should state the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.
Material and Methods should provide sufficient details to allow the work to be reproduced by an independent researcher. Methods that are already published should be summarized, and indicated by a reference. If quoting directly from a previously published method, use quotation marks and also cite the source. Any modifications to existing methods should also be described.
Results should be clear and concise.
Discussion should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.
Conclusions should stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.
6. Declarations
Acknowledgments:
Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in this section. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proof reading the article, etc
Funding:
If funding has been provided for the research, please include the following sentence;
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA [grant number zzzz]; and the United States Institutes of Peace [grant number aaaa].
If no funding has been provided for the research, please include the following sentence:
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Ethics statement
1. If the work involves the use of human subjects, the author should ensure that the work described has been carried out in accordance with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for experiments involving humans.
2. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.
3. All animal experiments should comply with the ARRIVE guidelines and should be carried out in accordance with the U.K. Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986 and associated guidelines, EU Directive 2010/63/EU for animal experiments, or the National Institutes of Health guide for the care and use of Laboratory animals (NIH Publications No. 8023, revised 1978) and the authors should clearly indicate in the manuscript that such guidelines have been followed.
Submission declaration and verification
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis, see 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for more information), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection service Crossref Similarity Check.
Conflict of Interest Statement:
Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. For details on what to include in this section, see the ‘Conflict of Interest’ section in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section below. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Data Availability Statement:
Each author is required to declare his or her individual contribution to the article: all authors must have materially participated in the research and/or article preparation, so roles for all authors should be described. The statement that all authors have approved the final article should be true and included in the disclosure.
Contributions of Authors
7. References:
References should be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition).
The in-text-citations should follow the style:
Jones (1998) if part of a sentence or ‘(Jones, 1998)’ at the end of sentence. If there are two authors in a reference, it will appear as ‘Jones and Stein (1987)’ as part of a sentence or ‘(Jones and Stein, 1987)’ at the end of sentence. If there are more than two authors then it should be cited as ‘Jones et al. (1987)’ as part of sentence or ‘ (Jones et al., 1987)’ at the end of sentence.
Groups of references can be listed either first alphabetically, then chronologically, or vice versa.
Examples: 'as demonstrated (Allan, 2000a, 2000b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1999)…. Or, as demonstrated (Jones, 1999; Allan, 2000)… Kramer et al. (2010) have recently shown
Examples of APA references are listed below. Please note that a DOI should be provided for all references where available..
I. Journal article
Beers, S. R. , and De Bellis, M. D., 2002. Neuropsychological function in children with maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder. Am. J. Psychiat., 159:483–486. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.159.3.483
II. Book
Bradley-Johnson, S., 1994. Psychoeducational assessment of students who are visually impaired or blind: Infancy through high school (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-ed.
III. Internet Document
Norton, R. (2006, November 4). How to train a cat to operate a light switch [Video file]. Retrieved from www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vja83KLQXZs
References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2010. The art of writing a scientific article. J. Sci. Commun. 163, 51–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.Sc.2010.00372.
Reference to a journal publication with an article number:
Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2018. The art of writing a scientific article. Heliyon. 19, e00205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00205.
Reference to a book:
Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 2000. The Elements of Style, fourth ed. Longman, New York.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B., 2009. How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: Jones, B.S., Smith , R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age. E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281–304.
Reference to a website:
Cancer Research UK, 1975. Cancer statistics reports for the UK. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/aboutcancer/statistics/cancerstatsreport/ (accessed 13 March 2003).
Reference to a dataset:
[dataset] Oguro, M., Imahiro, S., Saito, S., Nakashizuka, T., 2015. Mortality data for Japanese oak wilt disease and surrounding forest compositions. Mendeley Data, v1. https://doi.org/10.17632/xwj98nb39r.1.
Reference to software:
Coon, E., Berndt, M., Jan, A., Svyatsky, D., Atchley, A., Kikinzon, E., Harp, D., Manzini, G., Shelef, E., Lipnikov, K., Garimella, R., Xu, C., Moulton, D., Karra, S., Painter, S., Jafarov, E., & Molins, S., 2020. Advanced Terrestrial Simulator (ATS) v0.88 (Version 0.88). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3727209.
8. Figure legends
Figure legends must be added beneath each individual image during upload AND as a complete list in the text, after the main body and the references. Legends should be concise but comprehensive - the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement.
9. Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes): Tables should be self-contained and complement, not duplicate, the information contained in the text.. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend, and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.
10. Electronic artwork
General points
Make sure (i) you use uniform lettering and sizing of Arial/ Courier/ Times New Roman fonts in your illustrations. (ii) Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text. (iii) Provide captions to illustrations separately (iv) Submit each illustration as a separate file.
Formats
If your electronic artwork is created in a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) then please supply 'as is' in the native document format.
Regardless of the application used other than Microsoft Office, when your electronic artwork is finalized, please 'Save as' or convert the images to one of the following formats (note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
EPS (or PDF): Vector drawings, embed all used fonts.
TIFF (or JPEG): Color or grayscale photographs (halftones), keep to a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF (or JPEG): Bitmapped (pure black & white pixels) line drawings, keep to a minimum of 1000 dpi.
TIFF (or JPEG): Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale), keep to a minimum of 500 dpi.