This page contains information that will assist you with the preparation of your manuscript for the initial submission and resubmission to our journal. Kindly acquaint yourself with our journal editorial policy before submitting your manuscript.
Please visit our journal home page if you are not familiar with our aims and scope. If your manuscript does not conform or fall under the area or field of our journal, your manuscript will be rejected and any fee you paid prior to the review will not be refund.
Our peer review page stipulate the process we undergo here to review your manuscript, we advise you to go through the content on the page if it is what you will like to associate with. As soon as the preparation of your manuscript is complete with the standard we adopt here, please visit our submission page to get the necessary information on the submission system.
Types of manuscript we expected to be submitted
Corresponding Author’s Roles
As the Corresponding Author of the manuscript submitted, we expect you to do the following:
Submission Article submissions should be done via our online Journal Management System, you can get this by clicking here
Resubmission
When you make any correction or alteration to your manuscript in accordance with the peer reviewer’s observation and comments, and you want to also add a covering letter to the editor in chief in order to explain the changes made, or denying the reviewer’s comments. Resubmission should still be done via online Journal Management System except otherwise stated.
We expect all resubmission to be done on/before 7 days of notification of the corrections that need to be made. Any delay with this could make your work not to be published on time.
On resubmission, the status of your paper will be changed within a span of time. Peradventure you did not see this or never got any acknowledgment from us to you, kindly contact the editorial office with the title and pseudo DOI (which serves as identification number of your manuscript)
Language
Manuscripts submitted to our journal are expected to be accessible and devoid of jargon. The findings made by your research should be communicated clearly. Abbreviations should be defined at first appearance and kept to a minimal. Clearly explain the background, justification and the conclusions of your study. Titles and abstracts are expected to be written in language that will be easily reasonable to any scholar.
Cover letter
The cover letter should contain the following:
Format
The manuscript should be arranged thus:
Title
Abstract
Keywords (5-6 words arranged in ascending other)
Introduction
Methodology
Results and Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgements (optional),
Author(s) Contributions,
Funding
Competing or conflicting Interests statement,
References,
Abbreviations
Figure Legends, and Tables.
Word
We do not use a manuscript template for Microsoft (MS) Word documents to be submitted. Rather we expect your manuscript to be typed out in font size “12”, font type: Segoe UI, the contents to be formatted as double-spaced, single column text with justification. All pages should be numbered using an Arabic numeral (for example, 123456..) in the center footer of each page. The symbols font should be used for representing Greek or any special characters where need.
Body of the Manuscript
The title of the study
Your abstract should be divided into five sections namely: Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions and Keywords. It should not contain more than two hundred and fifty words (250), once it does, we will reject your manuscript.
Background: The build up and rationale to the study should be described clearly. It should also end with the study aims and objective or specific research hypotheses statement.
Methods: You are to give brief description on what was studied or the participants not forgetting what was primarily being investigated, the design, intervention and main methods utilized. Also give description on how the results were analyzed.
Results: you are to give the outcome of the numerical findings if there be need and not leaving out the precision measurement (e.g. p<0.05). Input other things that need to be report in relation to the findings of the study.
Conclusions: Provide a general interpretation of the results with any important recommendations for future research.
Keywords: it should not be less than five words and a maximum of six that can serve as your study focal point which could help in easy search online
A concise review of the key literature should be used here to make the title more comprehensible to the reader. It should discuss the aim of the study in a wider view. The introduction should end with a brief aim of study statement.
The section should be briefly written in such a way that all elements needed for the interpretation and reproduction of the results. Statistical methods used should be described with enough details. If new structures are being report, there should be a table to summarize structural statistics. Loss of data during the analysis should be reported by the authors. References for the study design should be provided if there is any,
All important positive and negative findings are expected to be here. Data should be in table of figures where necessary. This section could be subdivided if there be need. This section is expected to make findings in a reported manner. You can use graphs as alternative to tables if there be need and do not duplicate or repeat data in graphs and tables. Let your report be seen with technical terms in statistics for example random, sample, correlation, significant etc. Clearly indicate what the abbreviation, statistical terms and symbols used stands for.
Discussion should be brief and summary of the findings in the result section and this should be tightly argued with other previous findings in other literatures that are relevant to the study
6. Conclusions
You expected to make a provision of the general interpretation of the results with any important recommendations for future research.
7. References
When developing your manuscript we expect that you use only articles or books that have been accepted or published by a recognized publication or recognized preprint server. Conference abstract that has been published, numbered patents and research datasets with assigned digital object identifier (DOI) can be included in developing your manuscript.
For the references you are to follow the AMA-based referencing style.
8. Charts, Tables and Graphs
A copyright detail should be provided as a special note at the bottom of any item (such as chart, graphic or table) that you are reproducing from another source.
Note. From “medicinal plants and insects,” by G.S. Jackie and B.E. Pere , 2021, Plants and their contemporary benefits, 34, p. 236. Copyright 2021 by the authors. Reprinted with permission.
Peradventure permission was not sought then substitute “Permission not sought” in place of “Reprinted with permission”.
9. Funding
Kindly state here the funding source that act as a support in carrying out the work. You can also describe the role of the research sponsor(s).
10. Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements should be concise, and appreciation of anonymous referees and editors and excessive emotional comments should totally be discouraged. You can acknowledge source of grant or contribution.
11. Author contributions
We require that an author contribution as described in the Authorship section of our Editorial policies (If you are yet to read this please we advise you to do so before submitting your manuscript) be included in your manuscript.
12. Competing/Conflicting interests
Making a full disclosure of competing or conflicting interest will allow an author to be open with their readers and it is mandatory that all submission made to our journal indicate any possibility of this. The competing and conflicting of interest will be published alongside the final manuscript. You can have an ideal of what it is and what it is not competing or conflicting interest check https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/coi/
13. Abbreviations Abbreviations should be keep to a minimal. All non-standard ones should list in alphabetical order, not leaving their expanded form. They should define upon first use in the text.
14. Figures
15. Figure legends
A figure legend is expected to be used in describing key or vital messages of the figure that has been discussed in the content In a figure legend, the articles should start with a brief title (not more than 15 words) for the whole figure and continue with a short description of each panel and the symbols used, by lying emphasis on what is described in the figure and not the methodological details. Lengthy descriptions of methods should be avoided.
16. Tables
All tables should have a brief title. Tables are to be submitted at the end of your text document or in a separate document in Microsoft (MS) Word files. This will include statistical analysis of data and should be describe by the use of standards of error analysis and ranges in a table legend. Abbreviations in the table can be explained using footnotes. Tables should occupy only one printed page, if possible. It is mandatory that the Tables are cell-based; avoid picturing elements, text boxes, tabs, or returns in tables.
17. Nomenclature Using of standardized nomenclature is an important steps in the right direction for all scientific studies and endevours, this aid the integration of scientific information input in published work. Therefore, we strongly want all authors to use correct and well established nomenclature wherever necessary.
Kindly use SI units where necessary and provide the SI value in bracket for each value where not exclusively used.
Names of species should be italicized (e.g. Zea mays) and the genus and species should be written out in full, both in the title of the manuscript and at the first mention of an organism in a paper; after that, the first letter of the genus name, followed by the full species name may be used and they must also be italicized. Alleles, genes, genotypes and mutations should be italicized too. We will advise that author use the recommended name by approaching the proper genetic nomenclature database, for example HUGO for human genes. It is also advisable to show the similarity for the gene appearing for the first time in the text. Cellular localization or oncogenes etc. gene prefixes should be shown in roman: v-fes, c-MYC, etc. Accession Numbers should be provided to drug recommend International Non-Proprietary Name (rINN).
Suggested databases include, but are not limited to:
ArrayExpress BioModels Database
ClinicalTrials.gov
Database of Interacting Proteins
DNA Data Bank of Japan [DDBJ]
EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database
GenBank Gene Expression Omnibus [GEO]
Protein Data Bank
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
The public database should be consult for accession identifiers or numbers for all entities which include diseases, genes, mutants, proteins, etc., for example:
Ensembl Entrez Gene
FlyBase InterPro Mouse Genome Database (MGD)
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
List of multiple names of genes (or proteins) should not be separated by a slash, as in Oct4/Pou5f1‘, as this is not clear (it could indicate a ratio, alternative names, a complex, or different subunits). One name should be used throughout and the other can be included at first mention for example Oct4 (also known as Pou5f1).
18. Chemical structures
All chemical structures should be made using ChemDraw or related program. A bold Arabic numeral (1, 2, 3, 4, 5…) should be given to all chemical compounds in the manner the compounds appeared in the manuscript. The chemical structure figures should be submitted in a size appropriate for direct incorporation into the printed journal.
Drawing settings: chain angle, 120° bond spacing, 20% of width; fixed length, 14.4 pt; bold width, 2.0 pt; line width, 0.6 pt; margin width 1.6 pt; hash spacing 2.5 pt.
Atom Label settings: font, Segoe UI size, 8 pt. Labels should be shown on Terminal Carbons and ‘Hide Implicit Hydrogens’ should be unchecked.
19. Stereo images
Stereo images should be available for divergent ‘wall-eyed’ examination if used in the manuscript, and separate the two panels present by ∼55 mm. We will require the stereo images to be submitted after accepting the manuscript for publication.
20. Article withdrawal policy
As an author you have the right to withdraw the manuscript after submitting it. There will be no charge as long as it is withdrawn within 7 days of its initial submission.
21. Article Processing Charges
Our journals are self financed by the Publisher and we do not receive funding from any institution or government. We operate mainly through the processing and publication charges we get from the authors when they submit their manuscript. Please check the publication page of our journal for more details on this.
22. Handling post-publication issues
The integrity of our scientific record is something we do not joke with, and this makes us diligently investigate concerns generated by authors and readers. We intend to uphold high level of transparency with our readers. We give our authors the privilege to respond to any concerns generated in line with their articles. Original data yet to be processed could be demand and we can consult experts while the investigation is ongoing. The following could come up based on the intensity of the issues:
23. Appeals
Authors have the privilege to ask the editors for reconsideration with respect to a rejection decision made on any of their manuscript.
On the occasion that the appeal earn further consideration, the editorial team may send the revised manuscript and/or authors’ response to one or more referees to comment on the issue at hand.
If the editors are convince that the initial decision was a mistake based on the evidence presented by the authors, a decision to reversed on appeal can be upheld
24. Transfers
If the editorial team decline publication of a manuscript, before or after undergoing peer review, we can easily resubmit it to a different journal within the journal family published by Lujosh Ventures Limited who is also the publisher of this current journal you are on. You would not need to reformat, upload the files or pay for manuscript fee. We will contact you prior to the intra-transfer via email.
The reports from existing review will be shared with the receiving journal. The editorial team of the receiving journal will take the existing reviews into consideration when making their decision, which could include opinion from additional referees.
The benefits of transferring manuscript are as follows: