AUTHORS GUIDELINE

Submit Manuscript :
Submit your manuscript along with mandatory cover letter by email or submission link. Manuscripts should be prepared as word documents in doc/docx format only. Papers sent in PDF format will not be accepted. A manuscript number will be mailed to the corresponding author within 3 Days. Manuscript needs to be submitted along with Cover letter and Authors declaration form through email attachment at vidyasearch2012@gmail.com or through website Submission Link

Manuscript format :
The manuscript should be typed, double-spaced on A4 size paper with 1″ margins on all sides in MS word format. All lines should be numbered automatically with restart each page. All pages should be automatically numbered at right side of bottom. Times New Roman font (12 pt) and justify alignment should be used throughout the manuscript. The first page of manuscript is a title page which should contains: Title of manuscript, Author’s full names, affiliations of all authors, and information for correspondence. Provide the e-mail address of each author. The second page of manuscript should contain Abstract and Keywords. The subsequent pages should include Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements (if any) and References.

Abstract :
The second page of manuscript should contain Abstract and Keywords. Abstract should be informative, self-explanatory and easy to understand. The abstract should not more than 250 words in length.

Abstract should briefly present the purpose of research, state the scope of the experiments, indicate significant results, and summarizes major findings and conclusions.

An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. Therefore avoid references/citations in the abstract. Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.

Graphical  Abstract :
Although not mandatory, we encourage manuscripts with Graphical abstract because it helps to capture the attention of wide readership. It should summarize the contents of the article in a concise, pictorial form. A graphical abstract should be submitted as a separate file by e-mail or in the online submission system. Image size: please provide an image with a minimum of 500 × 1250 pixels (h × w) or proportionally more. The image should be readable at a size of 5 × 13 cm using a regular screen resolution of 96 dpi. Preferred file types: jpeg, png, eps, or MS Office files.

Keywords – Immediately after abstract provide four-six keywords. These keywords will be used for indexing purpose.

Introduction :
This should be brief and state the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results. Introduction should clearly state the hypothesis or purpose statement, how and why the purpose or hypothesis was developed and why the author thinks it important.

Material and methods :
This section must contain specific details about the materials studied, instruments used, specialized chemicals source and related experimental details which allows other research worker to reproduce the results. Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and provide a credit line in the footnote. If any animal study was carried out, then the necessary institutional animal ethical committee approval should be taken and should be mentioned in the manuscript. If any human study was carried out, then necessary human ethical committee or appropriate approval should be taken and should be mentioned in the manuscript. A written consent should be taken from the human subjects or patients involved in the study ensuring their acceptance in the study and publication of relevant datas/photos/images in the journal and should be mentioned in the manuscript. The journal will not be responsible if any of the above if not followed and the editor’s decision would be final if any litigation arises during processing or after publishing.

Result and Discussion :
The results should be concisely presented. Results and discussion may be separate or combined based on the author’s requirement. Tables and figures should be designed to maximize the comprehension of the experimental data. The interpreted results should be explained clearly in discussions and should relate them to the existing knowledge in the field as clearly as possible. Tables, Graphs and figures (Illustrations) should be inserted in to the main text at respective place they should appear when published and should have appropriate numbers and titles with an explanatory heading. Labels of the table, graph and figures must be in the text form and should not form part of the image.

Conclusion :
This should clearly explain the main conclusions of the work highlighting its importance and relevance. It should be short and concise but should not repeat the abstract. Generally the conclusion does not cite references.

Acknowledgement :
All acknowledgments (if any) should be included at the very end of the paper before the references and may include supporting grants, presentations, and so forth.

Conflict of interest :
All the authors of must disclose the possible conflicts of interest / Competing Interests they may have with publication of the manuscript or an institution or product that is mentioned in the manuscript and/or is important to the outcome of the study presented. Authors should also disclose conflict of interest with products that compete with those mentioned in their manuscript. The Conflict of Interest statement should list each author separately by name.

Ethical approval:
Author should provide below approvals or consents (wherever necessary)

Statement of ethical approval :
If studies involve use of animal/human subject, authors must give appropriate statement of ethical approval. If not applicable then mention ‘The present research work does not contain any studies performed on animals/humans subjects by any of the authors’.

Statement of informed consent: If studies involve information about any individual e.g. case studies, survey, interview etc., author must write statement of informed consent as “Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.”

Reference : follow Vancouver citation style

References in text:

Reference should be cited at appropriate point in the text by number(s) in square brackets in line with the text. e.g.: ‘….. was reported earlier [3, 6].’

The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given. e.g.: ‘Barnaby and Jones [8] obtained a different….’

Reference in list :

 A list of references should appear at the end of the paper. References should be numbered (numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which they appear in the text (not in alphabetic order). All reference should be written in following style.

Reference to a Journal article:

Author (s) of article. Title of article. Abbreviated Title of Journal. Date of publication;vol(issue):page number(s).

[1] Suryawanshi R, Minal S., Vidya T K, Bagul S. Permeability Investigation and Transdermal Drug Delivery Using Natural Permeation Booster Systems : A Literature Review. Journal of Ayurveda. 2000; 13 (12) : 22-34.

Reference to a book:

Author (s) of book.  Title of book.  Edition (if other than first).  Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication.

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:

Author(s) of chapter.  Title of chapter.  In:  Ed(s) name, ed(s).  Title of book.  Edition. Place of publication:  Publisher; Year of publication.  Inclusive pagination.

Reference to a Patent :

Inventors(s) of patent, inventors; Organization(s), assignee. Title of patent. Patent number. Issue date.

Reference to a Thesis :

Author – family name followed by initials. Thesis title [type of thesis]. Place of publication: Publisher; Year.

Reference to a data from Website :

Author.  Title [Internet].  Place of publication: Publisher; Date of publication [Date of Update/Revision; Date of citation].  Available from: URL

Tables and figures :

Tables and figures should be placed next to the relevant text in the manuscript wherever they are expected to be in the final version of manuscript. Tables should be created with a word processor and cited consecutively in the text. Please avoid using vertical rules and shading in table cells. Be careful in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in them do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. To ensure the highest print quality, figures submitted must be with minimum 300 dpi or higher resolutions. Captions/legends will be placed below figures and adjusted to 10 font size. We do not charge for color figure reproduction, rather we promote authors to submit color figures.

Short communication :

The journal publishes exciting findings, preliminary data or studies that did not yield enough information to make a full paper as short communications. These have the same format requirements as full papers but are limited only up to 4 pages in length. Abstract should not be more than 100 words. In short Communications subtitles such as Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion – all these can also be merged into the running text. Short Communications preferably should have only 3-4 illustrations.

Review article :

Organization of the review article is at the author’s discretion. Abstract and key words are required. Tables, figures, illustrations and references are to be arranged according to research papers.

Review process :

All manuscripts are reviewed by the editorial board and assigned reviewers. Decisions will be made as rapidly as possible, and the journal strives to return reviewer’s comments to authors within 3-4 weeks. The editorial board will re-review manuscripts that are pending for revision.

Proofs and reprints :

After acceptance of manuscript for publication 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. With the exception of typographical or minor clerical errors, no major changes will be made in the manuscript at the proof stage.

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