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Instructions for Authors
The Open Horticulture Journal is
an Open Access online journal, which publishes Research articles,
Reviews and Letters in the field of horticulture, aiming at
providing the most complete and reliable source of information
on current developments in the field.
Manuscripts may be submitted directly to tohortj@benthamopen.org.
Each peer-reviewed article that is published in a Bentham
OPEN Journal is universally and freely accessible via
the Internet in an easily readable and printable PDF format.
Online Manuscript Submission:
An online submission and tracking service via Internet facilitates
a speedy and cost-effective submission of manuscripts.1
The full manuscript has to be submitted online via Bentham's
Content Management System (CMS) at http://www.bentham-editorial.org/
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Instructions
Alternatively, you may also submit your full manuscript by
e-mail to tohortj@benthamopen.org
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 your complete manuscript
in the form of a single zipped folder containing 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.
A successful electronic submission of a manuscript will be
followed by a system-generated acknowledgement to the principal/corresponding
author within 72 hours of the dispatch of
the manuscript. Any questions with regards to the preparation
of and submission of your manuscript to the journal should
be addressed to tohortj@benthamopen.org
and copied to managingeditor@benthamopen.org
NOTE: Any queries therein should be addressed
to oa@benthamscience.org
and copied to Jalil@benthamscience.org
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, the customer support team available
at Bentham Publishing Services (www.benthampublishingservices.com)
can provide assistance to authors for the preparation of manuscripts.
Manuscript Length:
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.
Letter Articles: The total number of words for a
published letter/short communication article is 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 should
include all relevant supporting data with each article.
Manuscripts Published: The Journal accepts letters/short
communications, original research articles, and mini- and
full-length review articles written in English. Supplements,
proceedings of conferences and book reviews may also be considered
for publication.
Supplements/ Single Topic Issues:
The journal also considers Supplements/Single topic issues
for publication. A Supplements/Single topic will be a collection
of articles (minimum of 6, maximum of 20 articles) based on
a contemporary theme or topic of great importance to the field.
Mini-supplements consisting of between 3 to 5 articles are
also welcome. A Supplement can consist of either all
review articles or a mixture of review and research articles.
The Guest Editors' main editorial task is to invite the contributors
to the Supplement and to manage the peer review of submitted
manuscripts. A short summary or proposal for editing a supplement
should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief at e-mail to
tohortj@benthamopen.org
with a copy to specialissue@benthamopen.org
Conference Proceedings: The journal will
consider for publication proceedings of relevant conferences
in the field. Proposals for publishing conference proceedings
should be submitted to the Editor at e-mail tohortj@benthamopen.org
with a copy to oa@benthamscience.org
Open Access Book Reviews: This
journal publishes open access reviews on recently published
books (both print and electronic) relevant to the journal.
Publishers and authors of books are invited to contact our
book reviews editor at tohortj@benthamopen.org
with book review requests. All submitted books will be reviewed
by an independent expert in the field.
MANUSCRIPT SECTIONS FOR PAPERS: Manuscripts
for research articles and letters submitted to the respective
journals should be divided into the following sections; however,
there can be an extension in the number of sections in review
articles in accordance with the requirements of the topic.
Covering letter
Title page
Abstract
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 and captions (if any)
Supportive/ Supplementary Material (if any)
COVERING LETTER: It is
a mandatory requirement 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 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 agreement. Download
the Covering letter
TITLE: The title 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’.
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.
TEXT ORGANIZATION: The main text should
begin on a separate page and should be divided into separate
sections. For Research articles, the preparation of the main
text must be structured into separate sections as Introduction,
Materials and Methodology, Results, Discussion and Conclusion.
For Review and Letter articles, 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. The review article should mention any
previous important 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
manuscript style must be uniform throughout the text and 10
pt Times New Roman font 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. in vivo, in vitro, per se, et
al. etc. Protein and Nucleic acid sequences may be included
and should conform to International databases. Genomic and
Proteomic studies may be included and should conform to International
databases.
It is advisable that the observations be presented and discussed
in brief. Make available all products that they generate such
as protein, DNA, clone, cell or other types of material that
they describe to other investigators in the field who require
them for bona fide purposes. This should be done
with the spirit that the data that are published can be duplicated
and that other ideas can be tested. For research involving
human subjects, authors must name the committee(s) that approved
the experiments in the Materials and methods section of the
paper and include with their submission a statement to confirm
that informed consent was obtained from all subjects.
MICROARRAY DATA: The authors will be required
to submit the Microarray experiment data to the ArrayExpress
using the MIAMExpress submission tool (ww.ebi.ac.uk/miamexpress),
which will be subjected to reviewing by the curation team
and if accepted, an ArrayExpress accession number would be
assigned for it. The ArrayExpress offers the facility to maintain
the data until the related paper is published.
Microarray data should be made available for reviewers and
editors at the time of manuscript submission in a MIAME-compliant
and widely accessible format. Submission of large raw and/or
analyzed microarray data files as supplementary data to the
journal should be discouraged, which may alternatively be
submitted either to the Gene Expression Omnibus http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/
or ArrayExpress http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress repositories,
thereby obtaining an accession number for the journal and
any necessary passwords, to facilitate the reviewers and editors
of a manuscript to access the data. The submission of the
microarray data to either of these repositories should be
done at or before acceptance of a paper for publication, with
accession number being allotted well before publication.
Nomenclature:
The authors are encouraged to use standardized nomenclature
wherever necessary:
•The SI units should be used; if not exclusively, please
provide the SI value in parentheses after each value.
•Species names should be italicized (e.g., Homo
sapiens). The generic name of a species should be given
in full the first time it appears in the text. The author
authority for each species is desirable on its first mention.
Chemical formulae may not be used as abbreviations in the
text.
•Genes, mutations, genotypes, and alleles should also
be indicated in italics but the protein product of a gene
should be in Roman type . Use the recommended name by consulting
the appropriate
•genetic nomenclature database, e.g., HUGO for human
genes. It is sometimes advisable to indicate the synonyms
for the gene the first time it appears in the text. Gene prefixes
such as those used for oncogenes or cellular localization
should be shown in roman: v-fes, c-MYC, etc.
•The Recommended International Non-Proprietary Name
(rINN) of drugs should be provided.
•In case of usage of symbols that do not conform to
those that have previously appeared in the literature, their
aliases may be obtained from the approved nomenclature in
the Human Gene Nomenclature Database (Genew) [www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/nomenclature/guidelines.html]
and LocusLink, to allow retrieval of all the information available
for each gene.
Taxonomic nomenclature: The Latin name and
taxonomic authority (e.g. Linnaeus) should be given for all
experimental species. Chemical nomenclature must conform to
the Subject Index of Chemical
Abstracts.
Accession Numbers: All appropriate datasets,
images, and information should be deposited in public resources.
Please provide the relevant accession numbers (and version
numbers, if appropriate) and any necessary passwords to enable
the reviewers and editors of a manuscript to access the data.
Providing accession numbers facilitates linking to and from
the established databases and integrates the article with
a broader collection of scientific information, therefore
list all accession numbers should be listed directly after
the Supporting Information section.
All accession numbers for all entities such as genes, proteins,
mutants, diseases, etc., for which there is an entry in a
public database should be included in the manuscript. Experimental
data should be submitted to the appropriate databases, with
a release date corresponding to the date of publication.
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/XML2.
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. All kinds
of measurements should be reported only in International System
of Units (SI).
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS: Abbreviations use
should be restricted to a minimum. All non-standard abbreviations
should be listed in alphabetical order, along with their expanded
form, defining them upon the first use in the text. Non-standard
abbreviations should not be used unless they appear at least
three times in the text. 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 numerical system (Vancouver). 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 correct
Vancouver style:
Typical Paper Reference:
[1] Krishnan P, Black TA, Grant NJ, Barr AG, et.al.
Impact of changing soil moisture distribution on net ecosystem
productivity of a boreal aspen forest during and following
drought. Agric Forest Meteorol 2006; 139(3-4): 208-23.
[2] Rodrigues MA, Pereira A, Cabanas JE, Dias L, Pires J,
Arrobas M. Crops use-efficiency of nitrogen from manures permitted
in organic farming. Eur J Agron 2006; 25(4): 328-35.
Typical Chapter Reference:
[3] Jensen IB, Hodder RL, Dollhopf DJ. In: Wali MK, Ed. Effects
of Surface Manipulation on the Hydrologic Balance of Surface
Mined Lands. Ecology and Coal Resource Development, Pergamon
Press, New York 1978; 754-61.
Book Reference:
[4] Munshower FF. Disturbed land revegetation, Lewis Publishers:
Boca Raton: 1994; pp. 265.
Edited Book:
[5] Santaniello V, Evenson RE, Zilberman D, Carlson GA. Eds.
Agriculture and intellectual property rights: Economic, institutional,
and implementation issues in biotechnology. CABI Publishing,
10 E 40th St., Suite 3203, New York, NY 10016, 2000.
Conference Paper:
[6] Abbott K, Seymour J. Trapping the papaya fruit fly in
north Queensland. Paper presented at the Australian Entomological
Society Conference, Melbourne, September 20, 1997.
Conference Proceedings:
[7] Goss K, Chisholm T, Graetz D, Noble I, Barson, M Australian
Agronomy Conferences. Proc. 5th (Perth), 6th (Armidale) and
7th (Adelaide) Conferences, 1989, 1991 and 1993. In: Sustaining
the agricultural resource base. Office of the Chief Scientist,
Dept. of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, AGPS Canberra 1995.
Journal Article on the Internet:
[8] Collinge DB, Kragh KM, Mikkelsen JD, Nielsen KK, Rasmussen
U, Vad K. Plant chitinases. Plant J 1993 Jan, 3 (1), 31-40.
doi:10.1046/j.1365-313X.1993.t01-1-00999.x
Book/Monograph on the Internet:
[9] Donaldson MS, Ed. Measuring the quality of health care
[monograph on the internet]. Washington: National Academy
Press 1999 [cited 2004 Oct 8]. Available from: http://legacy.netlibrary.com/
Web site/Homepage:
[10] HeartCentreOnline [homepage on the Internet]. Boca Raton,
FL: HeartCentreOnline, Inc.; c2000-04 [updated 2004 May 23;
cited 2004 Oct 15]. Available from: http://www.heartcenteronline.com/
Journal with Part/Supplement:
If a journal carries continuous pagination throughout the
volume, then the issue number can be omitted.
Issue with Supplement:
[11] Bicknell RA, Koltunow AM. Understanding apomixes: recent
advances and remaining conundrums. Plant Cell 2004; 16 (Suppl):
S228-45.
Volume with Part:
[12] Scholtz MT, Bidleman TF. Modelling of the long-term fate
of pesticide residues in agricultural soils and their surface
exchange with the atmosphere: Part II. Projected long-term
fate of pesticide residues. Sci Total Environ 2007; 377(1
Pt 2): 61-80.
Issue with Part:
[13] Bruselman E, Steurbaut W, Sonck B. Optimizing the application
of entomopathogenic nematodes. Commun Agric Appl Biol Sci
2006; 71(3 Pt A); 701-5.
Patent:
[14] Spiering BA, Carter GA, inventors; Plant chlorophyll
content imager with reference detection signals.United States
patent US 20006114683, 2000 Sep.
E-citations:
[15] 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.
*If the number of authors exceeds six then et al will
be used after three names (the term “et al.”
should be in italics).
*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.
*Avoid using superscript in the in-text citations and reference
section.
*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: 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.
No charges will be levied on the use of color figures except
in the reprints. 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 colour
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 colour mode being or RGB or Grayscale, with
a minimum 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 colour mode being or 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 OPEN 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 Office application, such as Word or PowerPoint, then
the original Office files should be directly uploaded to the
site, instead of being converted to JPEG or another format
that may be of low quality.
Chemical Structures: Chemical structures
MUST be prepared according to the guidelines below.
Structures should be prepared in ChemDraw
and provided as separate file, submitted both on disk and
in printed formats.
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
8
pt
Under the Preference Choose:
Units
points
Tolerances
3 pixels
Under Page Setup Use:
Paper
US letter
Scale
100%
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*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 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.
Published/Reproduced Material should not be included unless
you have obtained written permission from the copyright holder,
which must be forwarded to the Editorial Office in case of
acceptance of your article for publication.
Supportive/Supplementary Material intended for publication
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. Here, list all Supportive/Supplementary Material
and include a brief caption line for each file describing
its contents.
Any additional files will be linked into
the final published article in the form supplied by the author,
but will not be displayed within the paper. They will be made
available in exactly the same form as originally provided
only on our Web site. Please also make sure that each additional
file is a single table, figure or movie (please do not upload
linked worksheets or PDF files larger than one sheet). Supportive/Supplementary
Material must be provided in a single zipped file not larger
than 4 MB.
Authors must clearly indicate if these files
are not for publication but meant for the reviewers'/editors'
perusal only.
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the name of the principal/corresponding author. The corresponding
author(s) should be designated and their complete address,
business telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address must
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the members of the Editorial Advisory Board and a number of
external referees. Authors may, however, provide in their
Covering Letter the contact details (including e-mail addresses)
of four potential peer reviewers for their paper. Any peer
reviewers suggested should not have recently published with
any of the authors of the submitted manuscript and should
not be members of the same research institution.
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rapid reviewing of the submitted manuscripts. Every possible
effort will be made to assess the manuscripts quickly with
the decision being conveyed to the authors in due course.
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to maintain uniformity throughout the text, the manuscript
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reviewers may advise rejection of a manuscript if it is compromised
by grammatical errors. Non-native speakers of English may
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to send corrections within 48 hours due to
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on receiving the galley proofs or the article will be published
exactly as received and the publishers will not be responsible
for any error occurring in the manuscript in this regard.
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that the revised version of the manuscript incorporating all
the submitted corrections receives the approval of all the
authors of the manuscript.
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