Guidelines for Authors

Preparation of Manuscript

Manuscript is divided into sections. The order in which it is to be arranged is as follows: ‘Title Page’, ‘Abstract’, ‘Introduction’, ‘Research Methodology’ / ‘Materials & Methods’, ‘Results’ / ‘Discussion’, ‘Conclusion(s)’, / ‘Recommendations’, ‘Acknowledgement’, ‘References’, ‘Tables’, ‘Figures’, ‘Graphs’, ‘Photographs’,

a) Manuscript: The author should submit complete manuscript including text, tables, and graphics in Acrobat PDF format on Editor’s E-mail. After the acceptance of the paper, the author will have to submit complete manuscript in MS-WORD format. Please use U.S. Letter (8 1/2" by 11") paper size setting in the word processing program as the original document page size for preparation of all manuscripts. Do not use A4 or other size paper settings. To facilitate peer review, authors are strongly encouraged to place each item of artwork within the text of the manuscript, close to the point where it is discussed.

b) Covering Letter: A ‘Covering Letter’ must be submitted with every manuscript. The covering letter should contain – the corresponding author’s name, postal and E-mail address, telephone and Fax number (in office hours), the title of the manuscript and subject.

All parts of the manuscript must be typed fully doubled space. (Font-Times New Roman, Size: 12). Type including references, tables, table captions, footnotes, and figure legends. Page margins on all sides must be at least 2.5 cm. Lines on each page number must be numbered to facilitate review of papers; but ‘Final Revised Manuscript’ must not have the number lines. Number all pages (right alignment).

The paper must be divided into sections starting preferably with introduction and ending with conclusions. The main sections should be numbered as 1, 2, 3, etc.

Corresponding author has to provide manuscript as complete MS-Word and PDF files including text, tables and graphics.

Title Page should contain: ‘The Title’, ’Name(s) of the author(s)’; ‘Affiliation of the author(s)’; ’Running Title’ (not exceeding 40 characters),; ‘Address for Correspondence’ (including e-mail Id) and ‘Abstract’ (not more than 200 words).

The main text should start on a new page and will ordinarily have the following arrangements:

Abstract: An ‘abstract’ not more than 200 words (not including spaces), must be placed just below the ‘Title’ to summarise the principles of the study. Abstract must not include ‘tables’, ‘graphs’, ‘references’, etc. Abstract must be meaningful without reference to the body of the text.

Introduction: The introductory section has no title and begins on the page following ‘Abstract’.Introduction should be brief. It provides the reader sufficient background information to evaluate the results of the ‘study carried out’. The introduction also gives the rationale for and objectives of the study that is being reported. The purpose and objectives of the research must be stated clearly (word of caution: objectives should not include the ‘research method(s)’). Documentation of the relevant background literature should be ‘selective’ rather than ‘exhaustive’ (an extensive review of the literature is not needed).

Materials and Methods / Research Methodology / Experimental / Computational / Theoretical details:Sufficient information must be provided so that another research can repeat the experiment(s) that are described in the paper, on his/her own, if required. If reference is made to a method published elsewhere in the journal or a book which is not readily available to reader then details of the method must be included in detail. If published method is modified such modification(s) must be described. Avoid repeating the details of procedures which have already been published elsewhere. The level of theory, specific program and relevant input parameters should be identified when reporting computational/theoretical studies.

Results and discussion: Do not extensively repeat the introduction and research methods. Provide interpretation of the result(s) in relation to known information. The results should be presented as concisely as possible. This is a section which provides interpretation derived based on ‘Tables’, ‘Graphs’, ‘Figures’, etc. The results should not be repeated.

Conclusions: The content of conclusion section should not be substantially duplicating the abstract. Conclusion must be in confirmation with the objectives.

Word of Caution: The conclusion(s) derived must be in consensus with the objectives specified in the introduction.

Acknowledgement: Acknowledge financial and personal assistance (including your ‘Research Centre’/ ‘Department’/ ‘School’ or any potential conflict of interest)

References: References should be indicated consecutively in the text by superscript numerals, to the right of all punctuation. References should be given at the end of paper in the following form

Journal: Bilfinger, T.V., George, B.S.& Biochem (2002).33 (48), 14419-14425.

Book: Bray, H.G., Thorpe, W.V. (1954); Principles of Enzymology for the Food Sciences, Second Edition, 648pp. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York.

Conference papers: Kleiman, R.L.P., Heddin, R.S.,& Ednborn, H.M. (1991) Biological treatment of Mine-Water-an overview, Paper presented at the second international conference on Abotement of Acid Drainage, Montreal, Canada, 16-18Sept.

Responsibility for the accuracy of citations rests entirely with the author(s). References to papers in press should indicate the name of the journal and should only be used for papers that have been accepted for the publications. Submitted papers should be referred to by such terms as “unpublished observations/reports/thesis” or “private communication.”

Tables: Tables must be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals.

Figures: Figures must be listed in proper order in the text using Arabic numbers. Figure legends should be included below the figure. For e.g.Fig.1.Different conformers of hydrogen bonded clusters of methanol-water. The figure captions should not be provided on separate page but it should be the part of figure (just below the figure).

Prepare illustrations in the final publication size, not oversized. The maximum width for a one-column illustration is 3--/8 inch (8.5 cm). Each illustration must be 100% reproducible in order to avoid problems in large reductions in size.

All correspondence regarding publication should be addressed to: