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Cover Letter

The cover letter should be addressed to the Editor of the journal mentioning the title as well as a brief summary of the manuscript and the name of the journal under which the article is submitted. The letter must state that the manuscript is not published elsewhere or submitted in any other journal for publication.

Manuscript Title

The title should be a brief phrase describing the contents of the paper. It should be concise and the word count should fall within 12-15 words. Abbreviations should be avoided in the title.

Affiliations

The author’s names are listed together and separated by a comma. Author’s affiliation should be given as superscript numbers with their names. The corresponding author should be marked with an asterisk (*) and correct email should be provided for conversation.

Example:
AB Daniel^1*, VC Maxwell² and CL Kenvs^2,3
1 Department, Organization, City, Country, Email
² Department, Organization, City, Country, Email
³ Department, Organization, City, Country, Email

Corresponding Author^*: Author Name
                                            Email
                                            Tel. No.

Abstract

The abstract should not exceed 300 words. It should be informative, briefly describing the topic, the major findings, and conclusions. Abbreviations and references should be avoided in the abstract.

Keywords

The author must introduce at least 5-6 keywords separated by a comma.

Abbreviations

All the abbreviations used in the text should be mentioned and separated by a semicolon. They must be defined upon first use in the main text.

Introduction

The introduction should be concise with no subheadings.

Materials and Methods

This section should provide an outline of the study design with a description of materials or participants. New procedure should be described in detail; and procedures used from a previous article should be cited and discussed so that when read, all the procedures can be repeated. This section can be further divided into subsections if several methods are described.
An ethics approval statement should be mentioned for experiments describing results on animal or human subject research.

Results and Discussion

Results and discussion may be combined or mentioned in a separate section. This section can be divided using sub-headings or written in a combined manner.

Conclusions

This section should include the gist of the article and answer the research question. The importance and significance of the article should be emphasized.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors should declare whether or not the submitted work was carried out in the presence of any personal, professional or financial relationships that could potentially be construed as a conflict of interest. The author should also mention if there are no conflicts.

Funding Statement

The authors should mention all funding sources of the work and state the financially supporting body together with grant numbers, if applicable.

Acknowledgments

This section should acknowledge people who have made a contribution and provided an aid in the research work but are not listed as authors.

Figures

The figures should be placed at the end of the manuscript and should be well cited in the text. While composing the manuscript, an author must ensure that the figures are numbered in the same order in which they are cited in the manuscript. Figure legends must be given along with the figures.
The preferred formats for figures are TIFF, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG, PowerPoint, and .doc.

Tables

The tables should be placed at the end of the manuscript and should be well cited in the text. Heading and table legends must be given along with the tables. The tables should be submitted in .doc format.

Supplementary File

The author should provide clear information in the supplementary file as there will be no modifications done in the file by our production team. Supplementary materials must be cited within the manuscript (Supplementary Figure 1).
Supplementary materials are given as a single PDF file.

References

We use the numbered citation (citation-sequence) method. References are listed and numbered in the order that they appear in the text. For references, SeriesScience follows Vancouver style. While composing the manuscript, an author must refer to Vancouver format for aligning the references.

Examples

• For journal (Up to 3 authors):
  Denver J, Brown P, Mary M. New discovery of article. Series of Journal. 2018;10(2):212-16.
• For journal (more than 3 authors):
  Denver J, Brown P, Mary M, et al. New discovery of article. Series of Journal. 2018;10(2):212-16.
• For book:
  Denver J, Brown P. Book of SeriesScience International. 4th ed. London: SeriesScience International; 2018.
• For book chapter:
  Denver J, Brown P. New discovery of article. In: Mary M, Wilson P, Shawn D, eds. Book of SeriesScience International. 4th ed. London: SeriesScience International; 2018. p. 12-16.
• For website/URL:
  Denver J. Association of SeriesScience International. 2018 (text to be hyperlinked with corresponding web address).

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