Guide for Authors
Structure
Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text including introduction, materials, and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
Word Limits There are no word limits for papers in this journal.
Style Guidelines
1- Please apply the American spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
2- Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation. Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
3- Do not start a sentence with a numeric character. No mix of tenses (present and past tense) in the same section. Space must be inserted between number and unit, also before '%' and '°C'.
4- In the running text, do not write common terms (except for persons' or companies' names, geographical terms, titles, names of days, months, and holidays, the first word of the Latin names of species) in capital letters.
Title
The title must be descriptive and clear of the contents, but concise. A total of 100 characters (including spaces) is usually sufficient; this should only be exceeded when necessary. No abbreviations in the title.
Abstract
In the abstract, the main objective and novelty of the work should concisely be described, the reason or motivation why the work has been undertaken (working hypothesis), the main methods of investigation (but without experimental details), the main result(s) should be mentioned (again, no concrete data), and the conclusions and relevance for the general field of studies in view of the international state of knowledge should be presented. No abbreviations in the abstract (Max: 200 words).
Introduction
In the Introduction, the state of knowledge relevant to the particular field of research addressed in the manuscript should be presented concisely in a scientific (not 'journalistic'!) style. Refrain from sentences such as "To the best of our knowledge", but state what is known. Write concisely without too many 'empty' filling words such as 'however' or 'respectively'. Refrain from the extensive presentation of 'textbook wisdom'. Give specific (and correct) references to published work; try to be objective in your selection of references to represent the international literature, not just citing only yours, those of your friends or colleagues, of your compatriots, or those you have just happened to have read recently. Reference to textbooks of several hundred pages without specific identification of the relevant chapter or page(s) is not acceptable. Write in an objective, neutral manner in the third person, not in the 1st person 'we' or 'I'. Abbreviations are to be introduced upon the first mentioning of the fully spelled term (initial letters of each word in lower-case, not capital), followed by the abbreviation in parentheses; from then on the abbreviation must be used throughout and exclusively. Element symbols (of the periodic table) are not abbreviations and need not be explained. Do not introduce abbreviations that are used only once, so actually not needed.
Materials and Methods
Suppliers/manufacturers/vendors of all chemicals and instruments must be given (addresses in parentheses, including Country) – but only once; if the company is mentioned a second time, no need for Country. Only SI units! (No ppm, no psi, no M, no µg/dL, etc.); abbreviation for liter: 'L', for milliliter: 'mL', and so on. 'M' or 'N' are not compliant with the SI-system of units: 'mol L-1'(or 'mol/L') must be used. For composing units use, e.g., mg/L or mg L-1, but consistently either-or, not a mixture. (The same applies to other composed units).
Results
Please present your finding sharply and address the related figures or tables, without any judgment or comparing with others one. Avoid useless by-sentences like "As figure x shows..." or "As shown in table y...". Do not repeat whole figure or table contents in the running text – only important exemplary data - readers can read tables or figures on their own. Do not present the same data twice, e.g., in a figure and a table.
Discussion
The same as for the Introduction: write concisely without too many 'empty' filling words, such as too many 'however' or 'respectively'. Give specific (and correct) references to published work. In the discussion, do not meander off too far from the core problem (or working hypothesis) and the novel aspect of your manuscript.
Conclusions
Conclusions are not meant to be another summary of what has been presented, but what can be concluded from a study.
Conflict of Interest
1- If a conflict exists, the authors should state: Author A has received research grants from Company A. Author B has received a speaker honorarium from Company X and owns stock in Company Y. Author C is a member of committee Z.
2- If no conflict exists, the authors should state: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Acknowledgment
A Funding Source Declaration contains a declaration of any funding or research grants (and their source) received in the course of study, research, or assembly of the manuscript. For example, This study was funded by X (grant number X).
References
Reference citations in the text should be identified by (author name, year). Some examples:
1. Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Hultsch et al., 2018).
2. This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman (Behdarvand et al., 2020)
3. This effect has been widely studied (Kathle et al., 2018; Hekmat et al., 2020).
Reference list
The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list. The references should be arranged and sorted as alphabetically. Pay attention to the following reference styles:
1- Published Journal article
Hultsch, S., Kankainen, M., Paavolainen, L., Kovanen, R.-M., Ikonen, E., Kangaspeska, S., Pietiäinen, V. and Kallioniemi, O. 2018. Association of tamoxifen resistance and lipid reprogramming in breast cancer. BMC cancer, 18(1): 1-14.
Behdarvand, N., Torbati, M.B. and Shaabanzadeh, M. 2020. Tamoxifen-loaded pla/dppe-peg lipid-polymeric nanocapsules for inhibiting the growth of estrogen-positive human breast cancer cells through cell cycle arrest. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 22(9): 1-15.
Kathle, P.K., Gautam, N. and Kesavan, K. 2018. Tamoxifen citrate loaded chitosan-gellan nanocapsules for breast cancer therapy: Development, characterisation and in-vitro cell viability study. Journal of microencapsulation, 35(3): 292-300.
Hekmat, A., Afrough, M., Hesami Tackallou, S. and Ahmad, F. 2020. Synergistic effects of titanium dioxide nanoparticles and paclitaxel combination on the DNA structure and their antiproliferative role on mda-mb-231cells. Journal of Nanoanalysis: -. DOI 10.22034/jna.2020.1869287.1141.
2- Book
South J, Blass B (2001). The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London
3- Book chapter
Brown B, Aaron M (2001). The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257
4- Online document
Cartwright J (2007). Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing Physics Web. Available at: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007
If you are unsure, please use the full journal title.
The format of References is available for authors using EndNote
Figures
Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale, and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, GIF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX).
Tables
Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.
Equations
If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable.
Units. Please use SI units (non-italicized).
Publication Charges
There are no publication fees or page charges for this journal. Color figures will be reproduced in color in your online and printed article free of charge.
Copyright Options
Copyright allows you to protect your original material and stop others from using your work without your permission. The authors should fill copyright form that indicates the manuscript was submitted solely for this journal.