INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
The International Journal of Applied Sciences (IJAS) is an international journal for publication of original research that can improve our understanding of life and physical sciences. The Journal publishes papers with significant novelty and scientific impact. The Editors reserve the right to decline, without external review, papers that do not meet journal criteria explained briefly below, including papers that are very similar to previous publications; dealing with parameter optimization of known processes without new concepts and/or interpretations; or reporting the studies of specific geographic areas without presenting new insights and/or hypothesis testing. A 100 word (maximum) “statement of novelty” explaining why the work should be published in International Journal of Applied Sciences (IJAS) should be provided in cover letter. Papers that lack significant novelty will be rejected. Two volumes of IJAS are published annually. The first volume is published at end of March and second at the end of October.
Instructions to Authors
The editor in chief or handling editor reserve the right to decline, without external review of papers that do not present significant novelty, scientific impact or meet journal criteria. Authors must follow ethics in publication they will be responsible for originality of results and duplicate submission or plagiarism. All authors are requested to disclose any type potential conflict of interest on time of submission.
Regular paper: Manuscript must contain appropriate section including abstract, key words, introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion, conclusions, acknowledgments and references. To ensure conciseness, maximum word count for manuscript could be up to 5,000 words including all parts of manuscript (text, figures captions, and table legends etc.) except references.
Review Articles: Must contain brief summary of the proposed article and a complete literature review in relevant field including recent developments. To ensure conciseness, maximum word count for review article could be up to 15,000 words including all parts of article except references.
Short Communications: The results of partial research or preliminary studies can be submitted as short communication at the time of submission. To ensure conciseness, maximum word count for short communication could be up to 3,000 words including all parts of manuscript (text, figures captions, and table legends etc.) except references.
Letters to the Editor: Any letters to the editors will be reviewed by editorial board and authors will be asked for their response if needed. . To ensure conciseness, maximum word count for letter to the editor could be up to 15,00 words including all parts except references.
Cover letter: A detailed cover letter is needed at the time of submission of article stating that the work submitted to IJAS has not been published previously (except in the form of academic thesis or an abstract or as part of a published lecture) and also that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. It must state also that’s all authors or authorizes involved in work agrees to submit article to IJAS and that, if accepted, it will not be published in English or any other language without prior written permission of IJAS copy right holder.
Authorship: Changes in names of authors or corresponding is acceptable only before publication of manuscript with a solid reason.
Copyright
Acceptance of article means the transfer of all copyrights to the publisher of journal. Any type of reproduction or any other activity needs prior written permission from the publisher of journal.
Submission and review process
Please submit all types of articles through email to iscienitific.org@gmail.com. During review process, the status of manuscript can be checked through same e-mail. Authors are requested to revise their manuscripts within given duration of time. Revised manuscript will be again sent for review if required. Revising a manuscript does not automatically mean that it will be accepted for publication in IJAS. A detailed reply to reviewer comments needed on submission of revised manuscript and changes made must be highlighted in the manuscript.
Article structure
Please submit article either in (1) Article Template or (2) Microsoft word file (tables and figures should be placed after references and should not be embedded).
Preferably articles references could be inserted using endnote.
Subdivision – numbered sections
Preferred article language is American. Please make sure than article font is “Times New Roman” font size is “12” and it is double spaced. Tables and figures should be provided after references and figures should follow tables. Article must be divided into well-defined and consecutively numbered sections and subsections like 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, …), 1.2, etc. except abstract, keywords, acknowledgements and references. Please provide subsection heading in bold plus italics. Used units should be of international system (SI). Abbreviations must be defined at their first in manuscript. Please do not include abbreviation in the abstract. Appendices (A1, A2,…), equations (E1, E2,…), formulae (F1, F2, …), tables ( Table 1, Table 2, …) and Figures (Fig.1, Fig. 2,…) should be given separate numbering.
Title
Tile must be concise, informative and should clearly represent contents of article. Try to avoid formulae and abbreviations where possible. Article titles are set in sentence case, but capitalize proper nouns.
Author names and affiliations
Please provide complete authors name, full postal address of each affiliation, and e-mail. Use a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author’s name and in front of the appropriate address to indicate all affiliations. Corresponding author or submitting author should be indicted by a”*” immediately after the author’s name. Corresponding author will handle manuscript at all stage and needed to provide his full contact details including postal address, e-mail, fax and telephone (with country and area code).
Abstract
A concise abstract stating purpose of the research, important results, significant findings and major conclusions is required with a word count from 200 to 250 words. References are not recommended to be included in abstract. Graphical abstract is optional. If an isotope is mentioned, spell out the name of the element when it is first used and
provide the isotope number on the line (e.g., carbon-12 (first occurrence), then C-12). Non-research articles such as editorials, commentaries, and errata do not have abstracts,
and brief reports/short communications may exclude abstracts at the discretion of the journal editor.
Keywords
A maximum of 5 keywords must be provided. Only well-known abbreviation/s can be included as a keyword. Chemical formulas beginning with symbols (e.g., δ13C, δ1 5N) are listed at the end of the keywords; formulas starting with letters (e.g., C3) should be arranged alphabetically among the other keywords; formulas starting with numerals (e.g., 13C) come at the beginning of the keywords.
- Introduction
It is needed to provide an adequate background of work, a very brief literature review and important objectives of study in the present section. Please do not include summery of methodology or results in introduction.
- Materials and Methods Sufficient details of methodology must be provided to allow reproduction of the work. Methods followed must be indicated by a reference.
- Results and Discussion
A combine result and discussion section is required to publish your articles in IJAS. Authors hold the responsibility of originality of results. Extensive citations and discussion of already published work must be avoided.
- Conclusions
Novel findings and important results may be presented in this section.
Acknowledgements:
Funding agency or other individuals those who provide help during the research can be listed here.
References
Minimum of 12 recent and relevant references must be provided. The references must cite recent and relevant research only. At least half of the references included should be published within the last 10 years. References should be listed in the order in which they appear in the text. References should be citied in the text like [1], [2],… etc. It is recommended to avoid web references. However, where it is necessary to include them the full URL and date last accessed should be given.
Reference to a journal publication:
[1] M.A. Hanif, M.I. Jilani, A. Majeed and I. Ullah. (2012). Title of article. International Journal of Chemical and Biochemical Sciences. Vol. no. (issue no.) pages.
or if issue number is not available
[1] M.A. Hanif, M.I. Jilani, A. Majeed and I. Ullah. (2012). Title of article. International Journal of Chemical and Biochemical Sciences. Vol. no. : pages.Reference to a book:
[2] M.A. Hanif and M.S. Jamil. (2012). Title of book. Edition, Publisher and its address. pp. (page numbers).
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
[3] M.I. Jilani and A. Majeed (2012). Title of chapter, in M.A. Hanif and M.S. Jamil (Eds.). Title of book. Edition, Publisher and its address. pp. (page numbers).
Reference to a conference:
[4] R. Nadeem and A. Khan. (2012). Analytical evaluation of wild medicinal plants. “International Congress on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants”, Cagliari, Italy. April 13-15, 2012.Reference to a website:
[5] U. Rashid. (2010). Biodiesel: a useful source of energy. www.iscientific.org Retrieved 15th Jan 2012.Tables
Tables should be numbered consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Foot notes to tables can be placed below the table body. Foot note needed to be indicating with superscript lowercase letters.
Figures
Figures should also be numbered consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Please provide detailed caption to each figure. To effectively showcase your research on publication, we recommend following the guidelines below when supplying figures for your accepted article.
| Line Art | Images |
| Line art includes diagrams, scatter plots, graphs, flowcharts, and other text-based figures that are not tables. If a figure includes both line art and images, it is recommended to follow the line art guidelines. | Images include photographs, drawings, imaging system outputs (such as MRIs or ultrasound), and other graphical representations. |
| Preferred file types for line art are EPS or PDF | Preferred file types for images are TIFF or PNG or EPS |
| Acceptable file types are any standard file type including: PS, AI, DOC, PPT, GIF, JPG, TIFF, PNG, WMF. | |
| The preferred resolution for line art is 600-1000 dpi. Higher resolutions are needed for line art than for images because each individual line must be more precisely rendered. This can be easily achieved by using larger fonts for easier reading. | The preferred resolution for images is 300 dpi. Though many web-based images often appear at very low resolutions (72 dpi or lower), readers will only benefit from your research if your images offer hi-resolution detail. |
Any resolution is acceptable that is legible when viewed as an 80 mm or 1800 pixel width, unmagnified. Providing your figures in the preferred formats and resolution is critical for print quality and readability of your printed figure. Creating your figures in one of the preferred file types creates a higher quality figure than converting an existing figure. If you’re not able to create a figure in the preferred file type, provide the file type you have and our production team will work with you to present it effectively. For small images, that will occupy one-quarter of the page, the preferred minimum image size is an 80 mm canvas size or a pixel width of 1800px. For large images that will occupy a half- or full-page, the preferred minimum image size is a 180 mm canvas size or a pixel width of 1800px. Be sure to carefully consider the minimum space necessary for each figure before providing large images. Provided images smaller than the preferred sizes may be modified during production, possibly resulting in decreased quality. Each individual figure file should be less than 10 MB, and the zipped file of all figure files should be less than 500 MB. To facilitate ease of review, name figure files only with the word “figure” and the appropriate number. For example: Figure_1.tiff. We recommend providing 1 figure per page in a single Word document.Ethical ConsiderationsChanges to images can create misleading results, especially in research data collected as images. It may, however, be legitimate and even necessary to edit images. We ask authors to declare where manipulations have been made.
Constructing figures from different gels, fields, exposures, and experimental series is discouraged. When this is necessary the component parts of composite images should be indicated by dividing lines clearly demarcated in the figure and described in the legend. |
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Proofs
Proofs of article will be sent to corresponding author by e-mail. Proofreading is solely responsibility of corresponding author. All corrections are sent back to us within 48 hours in one communication.
Offprints
Electronic offprints in the form of a PDF file will be provided to the corresponding author free of cost. Paper off prints (25 minimum) can be order at the cost 200 USD.