The Open Physiology Journal is an Open Access online
journal, which publishes Research articles, Reviews and Letters
in the field of physiology, aims to provide the most complete
and reliable source of information on current developments
in the field.
Manuscripts may be submitted directly to tophyj@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 tophyj@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
tophyj@benthamopen.org and copied to ilyas@benthamscience.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/Thematic Issues: The journal also considers Supplements /Thematic issues for publication. The Guest Edited Thematic Issues are published free of charge.
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 tophyj@benthamopen.org
with a copy to specialissue@benthamopen.org
Conference Proceedings: For proposals to publish conference proceedings in this journal, please contact us at email: proceedings@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 tophyj@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
Appendixes
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.
Standard Protocol on Approvals, Registrations, Patient Consents & Animal Protection: All clinical investigations must be conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki principles. Authors must comply with the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (http://www.icmje.org) with regard to the patient’s consent for research or participation in a study. Patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers must not be mentioned anywhere in the manuscript (including figures). Editors may request that authors provide documentation of the formal review and recommendation from the institutional review board or ethics committee responsible for oversight of the study.
In addition to the standard patient consent for participation in research, authors are responsible for obtaining patient consent-to-disclose forms for all recognizable patients in photographs, videos, or other information that may be published in the Journal, in derivative works, or on the journal’s web site and providing the manuscript to the recognizable patient for review before submission. The consent-to-disclose form should indicate specific use (publication in the medical literature in print and online, with the understanding that patients and the public will have access) of the patient's information and any images in figures or videos, and must contain the patient's signature or that of a legal guardian along with a statement that the patient or legal guardian has been offered the opportunity to review the identifying materials and the accompanying manuscript.
For research involving animals, the authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the standards set forth in the eighth edition of Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/guide-for-the-care-and-use-of-laboratory-animals_prepub.pdf); published by the National Academy of Sciences, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.).
A specific declaration of such approval and consent-to-disclose form must be made in the cover letter and in a stand-alone paragraph at the end of the Methods section especially in the case of human studies where inclusion of a statement regarding obtaining the written informed consent from each subject or subject's guardian is a must. The original should be retained by the guarantor or corresponding author. Editors may request to provide the original forms by fax or email.
MICROARRAY DATA: The authors will be required
to submit the Microarray experiment data to the ArrayExpress
using the MIAMExpress submission tool (www.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.
This journal complies with the International Committee of
Medical Journal Editors' Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts
Submitted to Biomedical Journals www.icmje.org
and the FDA's Good Reprint Practices for the Distribution
of Medical Journal Articles and Medical or Scientific Reference
Publications on Unapproved New Uses of Approved Drugs and
Approved or Cleared Medical Devices http://www.fda.gov/oc/op/goodreprint.html
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] Boehm M, Nabel EG. Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2-a new
cardiac regulator. N Engl J Med 2002; 347: 1795-7.
[2] SoRelle R. Long reach of the N-terminal of B-type natriuretic
peptide. Circulation 2002; 106: 9059-63.
Typical Chapter Reference:
[3] Blask DE. In: Yi HS, Reiter RJ, Eds. Melatonin in oncology.
Melatonin. CRC Press, Boca Raton 1993; 447-76.
Book Reference:
[4] Hille B. Ionic Channels in Excitable Membranes. 2nd ed.
Sinauer Associates, Inc.: Sunderland, MA 1992.
Edited Book:
[5] Whistler P, Wilks S, Eds. Methods in carbohydrate chemistry.
New York: Academic Press 1989.
Conference Paper and Proceedings:
[6] Anderson JC. Current status of chorion villus biopsy.
In: Tudenhope D, Chenoweth J, Eds. Proceedings of the 4th
congress of the Australian Perinatal Society; 1986: Brisbane,
Queensland: Australian Perinatal Society; 1987; pp. 190-6.
[7] Harris AH, Ed. Economics and health: 1997: Proceedings
of the 19th Australian Conference of Health Economists; 1997
Sep 13-14; Sydney, Australia. Kensington, N.S.W.: School of
Health Services Management, University of New South Wales;
1998.
Journal Article on the Internet:
[8] Aylin P, Bottle A, Jarman B, Elliott, P. Paediatric cardiac
surgical mortality in England after Bristol: descriptive analysis
of hospital episode statistics 1991-2002. BMJ [serial on the
Internet]. 2004 Oct 9; [cited 2004 October 15]; 329: [about
10 screens]. Available from: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7470/825
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/
Website/Homepage:
[10] HeartCentreOnline [homepage on the Internet]. Boca Raton,
FL: HeartCentreOnline, Inc.; c2000-2004 [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] Glauser TA. Integrating clinical trial data into clinical
practice. Neurology 2002; 58(12 Suppl 7): S6-12.
Volume with Part:
[12] Abend SM, Kulish N. The psychoanalytic method from an
epistemological viewpoint. Int J Psychoanal 2002; 83(Pt 2):
491-5.
Issue with Part:
[13] Ahrar K, Madoff DC, Gupta S, Wallace MJ, Price RE, Wright
KC. Development of a large animal model for lung tumors. J
Vasc Interv Radiol 2002; 13(9 Pt 1): 923-8.
Patent:
[14] Pagedas AC, inventor; Ancel Surgical R&D
Inc., assignee. Flexible endoscopic grasping and cutting device
and positioning tool assembly. United States patent US 20020103498.
2002 Aug.
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%
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 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.
PERMISSION FOR REPRODUCTION: Published/reproduced
material should not be included unless you have obtained
written permission from the copyright holder, which should
be forwarded to the Editorial Office in case of acceptance
of your article for publication.
For obtaining permission for reproducing any material published
in an article by Bentham Science Publishers, please fill
in the request FORM
and send to tophyj@benthamopen.org
for consideration.
AUTHORS AND INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
The author will be required to provide their full names,
the institutional affiliations and the location, with an
asterisk in front of 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 be stated to receive correspondence
and galley proofs.
REVIEWING AND PROMPTNESS OF PUBLICATION: All
manuscripts submitted for publication will be immediately
subjected to peer-reviewing, usually in consultation with
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.
All peer-reviewing will be conducted via the Internet to
facilitate 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.
LANGUAGE AND EDITING: Manuscripts submitted
containing many English typographical errors will not be published.
Manuscripts which are accepted for publication on condition
that the written English submitted is corrected, will be sent
a quote by Eureka
Science, a professional language editing company. Authors
from non-English language countries who have poor English
language written skills, are advised to contact the language
editing company prior to submitting their manuscript to the
journal. Please contact Eureka
Science for a language editing quote at e-mail: info@eureka-science.com stating the total number of words of the article to be edited.
PROOF CORRECTIONS: Authors are required
to proofread the PDF versions of their manuscripts before
submission. To avoid delays in publication, proofs should
be checked immediately for typographical errors and returned
within 48 hours. Major changes are not
acceptable at the proof stage. If unable to send corrections
within 48 hours due to some reason, the
author(s) must at least send an acknowledgement 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.
The corresponding author will be solely responsible for
ensuring that the revised version of the manuscript incorporating
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