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Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of the
manuscript, and should not be submitted by anyone on their
behalf. The principal/corresponding author will be required
to submit a Covering Letter along with the manuscript, on
behalf of all the co-authors (if any). The author(s) will
confirm that the manuscript (or any part of it) has not been
published previously or is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere. Furthermore, any illustration, structure or table
that has been published elsewhere must be reported, and copyright
permission for reproduction must be obtained.
For all online submissions, please provide soft copies of
all the materials (main text in MS Word or Tex/LaTeX), figures/illustrations
in TIFF, PDF or JPEG, and chemical structures drawn in ChemDraw
(CDX)/ISISDraw (TGF) as separate files, while a PDF version
of the entire manuscript must also be included, embedded with
all the figures/illustrations/tables/chemical structures etc.
It is advisable that the document files related to a manuscript
submission should always have the name of the corresponding
author as part of the file name, i.e., "Cilli MS
text.doc" , "Cilli MS Figure 1", etc.
It is imperative that before submission, authors should carefully
proofread the files for special characters, mathematical symbols,
Greek letters, equations, tables and images, to ensure that
they appear in proper format.
References, figures, tables, structures, etc. should
be referred to in the text at the place where they are first
discussed. Figure Legends/captions should also be provided.
A successful electronic submission of a manuscript will be
followed by a system-generated acknowledgement to the principal/corresponding
author. Any queries therein should be addressed to ambreenwasim@benthamscience.org.
MANUSCRIPTS PUBLISHED: The Journal publishes
peer-reviewed mini-reviews, letters and research papers written
in English. Single topic/thematic issues may also be considered
for publication.
Single Topic Issues: These peer reviewed
issues may either contain invited review articles or a mixture
of research articles, letters, drug clinical trial studies
or review articles. A Single Topic Special Editor will offer
a short perspective and co-ordinate the solicitation of manuscripts
between 3-5 (for a mini-hot topic) to 6-10 (for full- length
hot topic) from leading scientists. Authors interested in
editing a single topic issue, in the field of current pharmaceutical
Biotechnology, may submit their proposal to the Editor-in-Chief
at cpb@benthamscience.org
for consideration.
MANUSCRIPT LENGTH:
Letter Articles: The total number of words
for a published letter/short communication article is from
3000 to 6000 words.
Research Articles: The total number of words
for a published research article is from 4000 to 8000 words.
Review Articles: The total number of words
for a published comprehensive review article article is from
8000 to 40000 words, and for mini-review articles from 3000
to 6000 words.
There is no restriction on the number of figures, tables or
additional files e.g. video clips, animation and
datasets, that can be included with each article online. Authors
may include relevant supporting data with each article.
Drug Clinical Trial Studies: Drug clinical
trial studies are biomedical or health-related interventional
and/or observational research studies conducted in phases
in human beings that follow a pre-defined protocol.The study
is intended to find out whether promising approaches to the
disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment are safe and
effective. The maximum total page length for a drug clinical
trial study published in the journal is four journal pages.
Each journal page is on average 900 words.
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION:
The manuscript should be written in English in a clear, direct
and active style. All pages must be numbered sequentially,
facilitating in the reviewing and editing of the manuscript.
For further convenience, our contracted service provider Eureka
Science can provide assistance to authors for the preparation
of manuscripts.
MANUSCRIPT SECTIONS FOR PAPERS: Manuscripts
may be divided into the following sections:
Covering letter
Title
Title page
Abstract
Keywords
Text organization
List of abbreviations (if any)
Conflict of interest (if any)
Acknowledgements (if any)
References
Appendices
Figures/illustrations (if any)
Chemical structures (if any)
Tables (if any)
Supportive/supplementary material (if any)
Covering Letter: It is mandatory that a signed
covering letter also be submitted along with the manuscript
by the author to whom correspondence is to be addressed, delineating
the scope of the submitted article declaring the potential
competing interests, acknowledging contributions from authors
and funding agencies, and certifying that the paper is prepared
according to the 'Instructions for Authors'.
All inconsistencies in the text and in the reference section,
and any typographical errors must be carefully checked and
corrected before the submission of the manuscript. The article
contains no such material or information that may be unlawful,
defamatory, fabricated, plagiarized, or which would, if published,
in any way whatsoever, violate the terms and conditions as
laid down in the copyright agreement. The authors acknowledge
that the publishers have the legal right to take appropriate
action against the authors for any such violation of the terms
and conditions as laid down in the copy right agreement
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Title: The title of the article should be
precise and brief and must not be more than 120 characters.
Authors should avoid the use of non-standard abbreviations.
The title must be written in title case except for articles,
conjunctions and prepositions.
Authors should also provide a short ‘running title’.
Title, running title, byline, correspondent, footnote and
keywords should be written as presented in original manuscripts.
Title Page: Title page should include paper
title, author(s) full name and affiliation, corresponding
author(s) names complete affiliation/address, along with phone,
fax and email.
Abstract: The abstract should not exceed
250 words for review and research papers and should be limited
to only 150 words for letters summarizing the essential features
of the article. The use of abbreviations should be reduced
to a minimum and the references should not be cited in the
abstract.
Keywords: Provide 6 to 8 keywords in alphabetical
order.
Text Organization: The main text should begin
on a separate page and should be divided into separate sections.
The manuscript should be divided into title page, abstract
and the main text. The text may be subdivided further according
to the areas to be discussed, which should be followed by
the Acknowledgement (if any) and Reference sections. For Letter/Research
Articles, the manuscript should begin with the title page
and abstract followed by the main text, which must be structured
into separate sections as Introduction, Materials and Methods,
Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements and References.
The Review Article should mention any previous important recent
and old reviews in the field and contain a comprehensive discussion
starting with the general background of the field. It should
then go on to discuss the salient features of recent developments.
The authors should avoid presenting material which has already
been published in a previous review. The authors are advised
to present and discuss their observations in brief. The manuscript
style must be uniform throughout the text and 10 pt Times
New Roman fonts should be used. The full term for an abbreviation
should precede its first appearance in the text unless it
is a standard unit of measurement. The reference numbers should
be given in square brackets in the text. Italics should be
used for Binomial names of organisms (Genus and Species),
for emphasis and for unfamiliar words or phrases. Non-assimilated
words from Latin or other languages should also be italicized
e.g. per se, et al. etc.
Greek Symbols and Special Characters:
Greek symbols and special characters often undergo formatting
changes and get corrupted or lost during preparation of manuscript
for publication. To ensure that all special characters used
are embedded in the text, these special characters should
be inserted as a symbol but should not be a result of any
format styling (Symbol font face) otherwise they will be lost
during conversion to PDF/XML.
Authors are encouraged to consult reporting guidelines. These
guidelines provide a set of recommendations comprising a list
of items relevant to their specific research design. Chemical
equations, chemical names, mathematical usage, unit of measurements,
chemical and physical quantity & units must conform to
SI and Chemical Abstracts or IUPAC.
All kinds of measurements should be reported only in International
System of Units (SI).
List of Abbreviations: If abbreviations are
used in the text either they should be defined in the text
where first used, or a list of abbreviations can be provided.
Conflict of Interest: Financial contributions
to the work being reported should be clearly acknowledged,
as should any potential conflict of interest.
Acknowledgements: Please acknowledge anyone
(individual/company/institution) who has contributed to the
study by making substantial contributions to conception, design,
acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data,
or who was involved in drafting the manuscript or revising
it critically for important intellectual content. Please list
the source(s) of funding for the study, for each author, and
for the manuscript preparation in the acknowledgements section.
References: References must be listed in
the ACS Style only. All references should be numbered sequentially
[in square brackets] in the text and listed in the same numerical
order in the reference section. The reference numbers must
be finalized and the bibliography must be fully formatted
before submission.
See below few examples of references listed in the ACS Style:
Journal Reference:
[1] Bard, M.; Woods, R.A.; Bartón, D.H.; Corrie, J.E.;
Widdowson, D.A. Sterol mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae:
chromatographic analyses. Lipids, 1977,
12(8), 645-654.
[2] Zhang, W.; Brombosz, S.M.; Mendoza, J.L.; Moore, J.S.
A high-yield, one-step synthesis of o-phenylene ethynylene
cyclic trimer via precipitation-driven alkyne metathesis.
J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70,
10198-10201.
Book Reference:
[3] Crabtree, R.H. The Organometallic Chemistry of the
Transition Metals, 3rd ed.; Wiley & Sons:
New York, 2001.
Book Chapter Reference:
[4] Wheeler, D.M.S.; Wheeler, M.M. D. In: Studies in Natural
Products Chemistry; Atta-ur-Rahman, Ed.; Elsevier Science
B. V: Amsterdam, 1994; Vol. 14, pp. 3-46.
Conference Proceedings:
[5] Jakeman, D.L.; Withers, S.G.E. In: Carbohydrate Bioengineering:
Interdisciplinary Approaches, Proceedings of the 4th
Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, June
10-13, 2001; Teeri, T.T.; Svensson, B.; Gilbert, H.J.; Feizi,
T., Eds.; Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, UK, 2002;
pp. 3-8.
URL(WebPage):
[6] National Library of Medicine. Specialized Information
Services: Toxicology and Environmental Health. http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/ToxMain.html
(Accessed May 23, 2004).
Patent:
[7] Hoch, J.A.; Huang, S. Screening methods for the identification
of novel antibiotics. U.S. Patent 6,043,045, March 28, 2000.
Thesis:
[8] Mackel, H. Capturing the Spectra of
Silicon Solar Cells. PhD Thesis, The Australian National
University: Canberra, December 2004.
E-citations:
[9] Citations for articles/material published exclusively
online or in open access (free-to-view), must contain the
exact Web addresses (URLs) at the end of the reference(s),
except those posted on an author‘s Web site unless editorially
essential, e.g. ‘Reference: Available from: URL’.
Some important points to remember:
• All references must be complete and accurate.
• All authors must be cited and there should be no use
of the phrase et al.
• Online citations should include the date of access.
• Journal abbreviations should follow the Index
Medicus/MEDLINE.
• Take special care of the punctuation convention as
described in the above-mentioned examples.
• Superscript in the in-text citations and reference
section should be avoided.
• Abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications
(which can only be included if prior permission has been obtained)
should not be given in the reference section but they may
be mentioned in the text and details provided as footnotes.
• The authors are encouraged to use a recent version
of EndNote (version 5 and above) or Reference Manager (version
10) when formatting their reference list, as this allows references
to be automatically extracted.
Appendices: In case there is a need to present
lengthy, but essential methodological details, use appendices,
which can be a part of the article. An appendix must not exceed
three pages (Times New Roman, 12 point fonts, 900 max. words
per page).The information should be provided in a condensed
form, ruling out the need of full sentences. A single appendix
should be titled APPENDIX, while more than one can be titled
APPENDIX A, APPENDIX B, and so on.
Figures/Illustrations:
All authors must strictly follow the guidelines below for
preparing illustrations for publication in Current
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. If the figures
are found to be sub-standard, then the manuscripts will be
rejected/and the authors offered the option of figure improvement
professionally by Bentham Publishing Services.
The costs for such improvement will be charged to the authors.
The authors should provide the illustrations as separate files,
as well as embedded in the text file, numbered consecutively
in the order of their appearance. Each figure should include
a single illustration. Each figure should be closely cropped
to minimize the amount of white space surrounding the illustration.
If a figure consists of separate parts, it is important that
a single composite illustration file be submitted, containing
all parts of the figure.
Photographs should be provided with a scale bar if appropriate,
as well as high-resolution component files.
Scaling/Resolution:
For Line Art image type, which is generally an image based
on lines and text and does not contain tonal or shaded areas,
the preferred file format is TIFF or EPS, with color mode
being Monochrome 1-bit or RGB, in a resolution of 900-1200
dpi.
For Halftone image type, which is generally a continuous tone
photograph and contains no text, the preferred file format
is TIFF, with color mode being RGB or Grayscale, in a
resolution of 300 dpi.
For Combination image type, which is generally an image containing
halftone in addition to text or line art elements, the preferred
file format is TIFF, with color mode being RGB or Grayscale,
in a resolution of 500-900 dpi.
Formats:
For illustrations, the following file formats are acceptable:
• Illustrator
• EPS (preferred format for diagrams)
• PDF (also especially suitable for
diagrams)
• PNG (preferred format for photos
or images)
• Microsoft Word (version 5 and above;
figures must be a single page)
• PowerPoint (figures must be a single
page)
• TIFF
• JPEG (conversion should be done using
the original file)
• BMP
• CDX (ChemDraw)
• TGF (ISISDraw)
Bentham Science does not process figures submitted in GIF
format.
If the large size of TIFF or EPS figures acts as an obstacle to online submission, authors may find that conversion to JPEG format before submission results in significantly reduced file size and upload time, while retaining acceptable quality. JPEG is a 'lossy' format. However, in order to maintain acceptable image quality, it is recommended that JPEG files are saved at High or Maximum quality.
Files should not be compressed with tools such as Zipit or
Stuffit prior to submission as these tools will in any case
produce negligible file-size savings for JPEGs and TIFFs,
which are already compressed.
Please do not:
1. Supply embedded graphics in your word processor (spreadsheet,
presentation) document;
2. Supply files that are optimized for screen use (like GIF,
BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
3. Supply files that are too low in resolution;
4. Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the
content.
Image Conversion Tools:
There are many software packages, many of them freeware or
shareware, capable of converting to and from different graphics
formats, including PNG.
Good general tools for image conversion include GraphicConverter
on the Macintosh, PaintShop Pro, for Windows, and ImageMagick,
which is available on Macintosh, Windows and UNIX platforms.
Note that bitmap images (e.g. screenshots) should not be converted
to EPS, since this will result in a much larger file size
than the equivalent JPEG, TIFF, PNG or BMP, with no increase
in quality. EPS should only be used for images produced by
vector-drawing applications such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw.
Most vector-drawing applications can be saved in, or exported
as, EPS format. In case the images have been originally prepared
in an MS Office application, such as Word or PowerPoint, then
the original MS Office files should be directly uploaded to the
site, instead of being converted to JPEG or another format
that may be of low quality.
Color Figures/Illustrations:
• Color figures publication in the journal: The cost for the first published page of color figures is US$ 965; the second additional page will be for US$ 705 and each subsequent page for US$ 480.
• Color figures publication in the reprints: Reprints of pages containing colored illustrations will be charged at US$ 186 for each color page per 100 reprints.
• Color figures should be supplied in CMYK not RGB colors.
Chemical Structures:
Chemical structures must be prepared in ChemDraw/CDX and provided
as separate file.
Structure Drawing Preferences:
[As according to the ACS style sheet]
Drawing Settings:
Chain angle 120°
Bond spacing 18% of width
Fixed length 14.4 pt
(0.500cm, 0.2in)
Bold width
2.0 pt (0.071cm, 0.0278in)
Line width
0.6 pt (0.021cm, 0.0084in)
Margin width 1.6 pt
(0.096cm)
Hash spacing 2.5 pt (0.088cm, 0.0347in)
Text settings:
Font Times
New Roman
Size 8pt
Under the Preference Choose:
Units
points
Tolerances 3
pixels
Under Page Setup Use:
Paper US
letter
Scale
100%
TABLES:
• Data Tables should be submitted in Microsoft Word
table format.
• Each table should include a title/caption being explanatory
in itself with respect to the details discussed in the table.
Detailed legends may then follow.
• Table number in bold font i.e. Table 1,
should follow a title. The title should be in small case with
the first letter in caps. A full stop should be placed at
the end of the title.
• Tables should be embedded in the text exactly according
to their appropriate placement in the submitted manuscript.
• Columns and rows of data should be made visibly distinct
by ensuring that the borders of each cell are displayed as
black lines.
• Tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals sequentially
in order of their citation in the body of the text.
• If a reference is cited in both the table and text,
please insert a lettered footnote in the table to refer to
the numbered reference in the text.
• Tabular data provided as additional files can be submitted
as an MS Excel spreadsheet.
SUPPORTIVE/SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: We do
encourage to append supportive material, for example a PowerPoint
file containing a talk about the study, a PowerPoint file
containing additional screenshots, a Word, RTF, or PDF document
showing the original instrument(s) used, a video, or the original
data (SAS/SPSS files, Excel files, Access Db files etc.) provided
it is inevitable or endorsed by the journal's Editor.
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must be numbered and referred to in the manuscript but should
not be a part of the submitted paper. In-text citations as
well as a section with the heading "Supportive/Supplementary
Material" before the "References" section should be provided.
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