INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

General instructions
The journal is published biyearly (January and June) in English. Manuscripts can be submitted in Word format as PDF Paper size: A4. Margins: 2.54 cm in all sides.

Research manuscripts should comprise:
Front matter: Title (size 14, bold with capitalized each word). The title of the manuscript should be concise, specific and relevant. Please do not include abbreviated or short forms of the title. Author list (size 11, bold), Affiliations (size 11) Authors' full first and last names must be provided. Complete address including city, zip code, state/province, and country. One author should be designated as corresponding author, and his or her email address and other details should be included at the end of the affiliation section.
Abstract (size 11 bold (for title) and italics (for running matter) for a maximum of 200 words. It should be a single paragraph and includes background, methods, results and conclusions.

Keywords (size 11 bold (for title) and normal (for running matter): Three to ten pertinent keywords need to be added after the abstract. Manuscript: (Font: Times New Roman, Size: 11 points, Space: 1.25 for running matter and 1.0 for tables) Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions. References are placed in the text as square brackets

Back matter: Supplementary Materials, Acknowledgments, Author Contributions, Conflicts of Interest,

References: (font size 11, spacing: single), arranged in ascending order. Authors should not engage in excessive self-citation of their own work, should not copy references from other publications if they have not read the cited work, should not preferentially cite their own or their friends’, peers’, or institution’s publications and should not cite advertisements or advertorial material.

Format: Printed journals; Schott, D. H., Collins, R. N. & Bretscher, A. Secretory vesicle transport velocity in living cells depends on the myosin V lever arm length. J. Cell Biol. 156, 35-39 (2002). Online only: Bellin, D. L. et al. Electrochemical camera chip for simultaneous imaging of multiple metabolites in biofilms. Nat. Commun. 7, 10535; 10.1038/ncomms 10535 (2016). Books: Smith, J. Syntax of referencing in How to reference books (ed. Smith, S.) 180-181 (Macmillan, 2013).

Graphical Abstract: A graphical abstract (GA) is an image that appears alongside the text abstract in the Table of Contents. In addition to summarizing the content, it should represent the topic of the article in an attention-grabbing way. The minimum required size for the GA is 560 × 1100 pixels (height × width). The size should be of high quality in order to reproduce well.
SI Units (International System of Units) should be used. Imperial, US customary and other units should be converted to SI units whenever possible.

Equations: If you are using Word, please use either the Microsoft Equation Editor or the Math-Type add-on. Equations should be editable by the editorial office and not appear in a picture format. All Figures, Schemes and Tables should have a short explanatory title and caption (in italics, font size: 11, spacing: single)

English Corrections
To facilitate proper peer-reviewing of the manuscript, it is essential that it is submitted in grammatically correct English. Advice on some specific language points can be found here.

Reviewers Recommendation

Authors can recommend potential reviewers. Journal editors will check to make sure there are no conflicts of interest before contacting those reviewers, and will not consider those with competing interests. Reviewers are asked to declare any conflicts of interest. Authors can also enter the names of potential peer reviewers they wish to exclude from consideration in the peer review of their manuscript, during the initial submission progress. The editorial team will respect these requests so long as this does not interfere with the objective and thorough assessment of the submission.