Contents
Instructions for Authors
1. Manuscript Requirements
- Review articles
- Letters or short reports
2. Editorial policy
3. Manuscript Preparation and Submission
- Title page
- Text
- LaTeX and Online Submission
- References
- Tables
- Artwork
For Review Article
- Introduction
- Material and Methods
- Body: Main Part of the Review Article
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
Instructions for Authors
Science Park Publisher publishes the original work in the scientific understanding of the topic.
1. Manuscript requirements
- The articles should contain an abstract (maximum 250 words) and section headings.
- The approved word count is 3000-12000 words, excluding figures, captions and references.
- Review Articles
Review
articles introduce a critical analysis of the literatures in the field
of interest. Review articles require an expertise in the subject of the
manuscripts and articles by prior peer-reviewed publications. The
analysis of data requires the authors to publish several papers in the
field. The maximum length is about 15 pages. Authors should be written
and submitted proposal to the Editor before starting the review article.
The review articles should contain an abstract with a maximum of 250
words and the main text of 5500-15,000 words.
Review articles are recommended to fulfill the following:
- Discuss the importance of the topic of the review.
- Assess the novelty and originality of the review.
- Determine whether the references are relevant to the topic and cover both literature and recent developments.
- Introduce critical comments on the writing, organization, tables, and figures of the manuscript.
- Discuss the author's interpretation of the results.
- Letters or short reports
- Letters or short reports are brief reports of data from original research.
- Editors
publish these letters or reports where they think the data are
interesting and stimulate further research in this field. As they are
relatively short the format is useful for scientists with results that
are time sensitive. This format often has strict length limits, so some
experimental details may not be published until the authors write a full
Original Research manuscript.
- Abstracts
should be up to 150 words long. Although the abstract should explain
why the article might be interesting, the importance of the work should
not be over-emphasized. Citations should not be used in the abstract.
Abbreviations, if needed, should be spelled out. Abstracts are
structured into Methods, Results, and Conclusions.
- A Brief letter or Report should be no more than 2000 words.
- Letters or short reports should include received/accepted dates.
- Letters or short reports may be accompanied by supplementary information.
- Letters or short reports are peer reviewed.
2. Editorial policy
- Science
Park Publisher publishes a significant impact or advance work.
Manuscripts that report data without giving an analysis, interpretation,
or discussion are only acceptable if the data are sufficiently
important that publication is expected to lead to significant new
studies or advancements in science or technology.
- Authors
of the article are solely responsible for the contents in their
article(s) including accuracy of the facts, statements, and citing
resources.
3. Manuscript and Review Preparation and Submission
Submission
of a manuscript means that the work has not been published before and
it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else. The
publication has approved by all co-authors.
- Permissions
Authors
involved Figures, tables, and text passages that have been published
elsewhere are required to get a permission from the copyright owner(s)
for the print and online and to include evidence that such permission
has been granted when submitting their papers.
- Online Submission
- Follow the link “Submit manuscript” and upload your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.
- Authors are recommended to read carefully the Guide for Authors to prepare manuscripts for submission.
Before you submit, you will need:
- Your
manuscript should be an editable file including text, figures, and
tables, or separate files. All required sections should be contained in
your manuscript, including abstract, introduction, methods, results and
discussion, conclusions, and references. Figures and tables should have
legends. Figures should be uploaded in high resolution. References may
be submitted according to the required format, as long as it is
consistent throughout the manuscript. Supporting information should be
submitted in separate files. Your manuscript may also be sent back to
you for revision if the quality of English language is poor.
- The title page of the manuscript, including:
- Your co-author details, including affiliation and email address.
- Abstract
- Keywords
- All
manuscripts should be submitted using the online submission service by
following the instructions given on the submission website. In order to
submit a manuscript, you will need either a Microsoft Word document, or a
single PDF generated from a word document or LaTeX document, that
includes the text, figures, and tables. If you experience difficulty
uploading large files, please contact the editorial office for
assistance.
- The corresponding
author must ensure that all authors have seen and approved the
manuscript and meet the criteria for authorship. For more details, see
the “Authorship” section in the Editorial Policies tab.
- The
author must inform the editor of manuscripts submitted, soon to be
submitted, or in press at other journals that have a bearing on the
manuscript being submitted. Duplicate submission is not permitted and
will result in rejection. Ethical guidelines issued by the Committee on
Publication Ethics (COPE) are followed. In particular, authors should
reveal all sources of funding for the work presented in the manuscript
and should declare any conflict of interest.
- If
the manuscript is a revised or extended version of a manuscript
previously rejected by the journal to which it is being submitted, the
author must inform the editor about the previous submission in the cover
letter and explain in detail what changes have been made.
Manuscript Preparation
Authors
do not need to reformat the manuscript for a new submission. However,
they are requested to follow the authors guidelines when preparing their
Revised Manuscripts. The Manuscript Preparation Checklist provides an
overview of these points.
General
- Word and LaTeX templates for different types of the article are available. In general, the order of the sections in the file is:
- Title
– Author(s) – (Dedication) – Affiliation(s), – Keywords – Abstract -–
Main text [including Figures, Schemes and Tables] –
(Experimental/Methods Section) –Conclusion-Acknowledgements – References
- Manuscripts must be written in English and be grammatically and linguistically correct.
Title Page
- The
title of the article should concise, informative, clearly describe the
research using relevant keywords. The first letters of all words, except
coordinating conjunctions, articles, and prepositions, should be
capitalized.
- A complete list of
authors with the first name, middle initial (s), and surname of each
author. An asterisk should be used to indicate each corresponding
author.
- A full list of affiliations
for all authors should include the names of all authors associated with
each affiliation and the complete address. An institutional/company
email address must be provided for all corresponding authors.
- Please include 3 to 7 keywords
- All
primary research and review articles require an abstract. The abstract
should not exceed 250 words and should be written in the present tense
and impersonal style. Abbreviations must be defined when first used and
the abstract should not contain any references.
Main Text
1. Text Formatting
- Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.
- The
main text of the manuscript should be divided into: Introduction,
Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion,
Acknowledgements, and Referenceز
- Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 12-point Times Roman) for text.
- Use italics for emphasis.
- Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
- Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
- Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
- Use the equation editor.
- Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format.
2. Headings
Please use no more than 3 levels of headings.
3. Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first time.
4. Footnotes
Footnotes
are used to give additional information, such as citation of a
reference included in the reference list. They should not include the
bibliographic details of a reference. Footnotes to the text are numbered
consecutively.
5. Acknowledgments and Funding Information
Acknowledgments
of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section
after conclusion section. The names of funding organizations should be
written in full.
6. Declarations
The manuscripts should contain the following:
- Funding (information that explains whether and by whom the research was supported)
- Conflicts of interest/Competing interests (include appropriate disclosures)
- Availability of data and material (data transparency)
- Code availability (software application or custom code)
- Ethics approval (include appropriate approvals or waivers)
References
Reference citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets.
References list
- The
list of references should only include works that are cited in the text
and that have been published or accepted for publication.
- The entries in the list should be numbered consecutively.
- Please include DOIs as full DOI links in your reference list, if possible.
- Journal article:
Adel, R., Ebrahim, S., Shokry, A., Soliman, M., & Khalil, M.
(2021). Nanocomposite of CuInS/ZnS and nitrogen-doped graphene quantum
dots for cholesterol sensing. ACS omega, 6(3), 2167-2176.
- Book: Soga, T. (Ed.). (2006). Nanostructured materials for solar energy conversion.
Tables
- All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
- Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
- For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
Artwork or Figures and Schemes
- For
the best quality final product, it is highly recommended that you
submit all of your artwork – photographs, line drawings, etc. – in an
electronic format. Your art will be produced to the highest standards
with the greatest accuracy to detail. Each figure and scheme should
have a caption and should be inserted in-line within the main text. All
figures and schemes must be mentioned in the text in numerical order.
Different types of atoms in structural chemistry figures should be
clearly distinguishable (by color). The full word "Figure" should be
used in all parts of the manuscript when figures are cited.
- Vector
graphic images such as plots, graphs, and line diagrams (including
chemical structures) should either be embedded into a Word document or
saved as a PDF, PS, or EPS file. Original files of graphical items
prepared using ChemDraw or Photoshop may also be included. Bitmap
graphic images such as photographs and electron microscope images should
be saved as TIFF or PNG files; each figure part must have a resolution
of at least 300 dpi (1000 pixels wide when the image is typeset at a
single column width). More details can be found in the Manuscript
Preparation Checklist and Graphics FAQ tab.
1. Electronic Figure Submission
- Name your figure files with "Fig" and the figure number, e.g., Fig1.eps.
- All figures are numbered using Arabic numerals.
- Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
- Each figure should have a caption describing accurately what the figure depicts.
- Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type.
- Fit size figures to the column width.
- Color art is free of charge for online publication.
2. Permissions
If authors involve a figure that has been published previously, they should obtain a permission of the copyright.
3. After acceptance
- After
acceptance, the article will be exported to Production department and
authors will ask to confirm affiliation, and payment of any associated
publication cost. Then, the article will be processed and received as a
proof.
- After online publication, further changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum.
4. Offprints
Offprints ordered by the corresponding author can be done.
5. Color illustrations
Publication of colored figures is free of charge.
6. Online First
The manuscript will be published online after the corrected proof is finished.
Supporting Information
Supporting
Information is not essential to the article but provides greater depth
and background. It is hosted online and appears without editing or
typesetting. Succinct text and the necessary graphics for the Supporting
Information must be submitted, where possible, as a separate document
(i.e., Word, or PDF). The document should include the title and names of
all the authors and a template that can be used to prepare this page is
included in the manuscript template. Any graphics should be embedded
into the Supporting Information file and should not be submitted as
separate graphics files. The author must keep a copy of the Supporting
Information and make this available to readers upon request. Other types
of Supporting Information, e.g., multimedia files, raw data, code,
etc., may be provided separately, with large files provided in a
compressed file format, e.g., .zip or .rar.
For Review Article
Introduction
- Discusses
the text structure, defines the focus, identifies the context,
describes the rationale for the review with three paragraphs.
- Subject background. The general topic, issue, or area of concern is given to illustrate the context.
“Problem”. Trends, new perspectives, gaps, conflicts, or a single problem is indicated.
- Motivation/justification. The author’s reason for reviewing the literature, the approach and the organization of the text are described in present tense.
Length between 10% and 20% of the core text (introduction, body, conclusions).
Give theoretical or practical justifications for the need for a review.
Material and Methods
- The
material and methods section contains data sources (e.g. bibliographic
databases), search terms and search strategies, selection criteria
(inclusion/exclusion of studies), the number of studies screened and the
number of studies included, statistical methods of metaanalysis.
- Length Approx. 5% of the core text (introduction, body, conclusions).
Body: Main Part of the Review Article
The topics of main part of review are:
- methodological approaches
- models or theories
- extent of support for a given thesis
- studies that agree with another versus studies that disagree
- Frequently
link the discussed research findings to the research question stated in
the introduction. • Link the studies to one another. Compare and
discuss these relationships.
- Tenses:
Present if reporting what another author thinks, believes, writes,
reporting current knowledge or information of general validity, simple
past for referring to what a specific researcher did or found,
referring to a single study and Present perfect for referring to an
area of research with a number of independent researchers involved.
- 70 to 90% of the core text (introduction, body, conclusions).
Conclusions
- Implications of the findings
- Summarizing and drawing conclusions in past tense
- Length about 5 to 10% of the core text (introduction, body, conclusions)
Acknowledgments
Expresses
gratitude to people who helped with the literature search, the
structuring of the material or in the writing process and funding
organization and specifies the funding.
References
No more than 200 references should be cited in the review.
