Authors Guidelines

The International Journal of Scientific Innovations (IJSI) ISSN: (Online) welcomes original manuscripts from the researchers in the area of biology, medicine and technology.

Manuscript submitted by the authors must be original without any part currently under consideration in any journal/publisher. The authors should have obtained the necessary approval from their parent institution or industry. An acknowledgement notification mail will be sent to the corresponding author within a 72 hours.

Manuscript Submission Checklist

Kindly make sure that you comply with the following checklist before continuing with the submission of your manuscript:

Manuscript has been prepared by following the Author Guidelines.
Manuscript has the email address of the corresponding author.
Manuscript file is complete, in MS-Word as well as in PDF format, with all the figures and tables inserted in the manuscript .
Any supplementary material has to be submitted along with the manuscript in a separate file in MS-Word.
A list of four to five potential reviewers’ names with their institutional affiliation and email IDs has to be provided in a separate MS-Word/PDF file.
Duly filled copyrights form has to be submitted along with the manuscript.
Publication Charges have to be paid after the acceptance, if so, of the manuscript for publication.
You are in agreement with the Copyright and License agreement of IJSI.

Manuscript including the table, figures etc. can be submitted along with a covering letter via email in MS word format to editor@ijsionline.com. A Manuscript Number will be sent to the concerned author within three days. The email should contain the author’s' full name, designation, phone number and affiliation address. The authors must send the names and details (designation, email, full address) of three potential reviewers with each manuscript.

Covering letter should contain the following statements:

a) the manuscript contains original work and has not been submitted elsewhere.

b) all authors agree with the submission of the manuscript and its publication.

c) the work has not been published elsewhere, either completely, in part, or in another form.

d) authors have no conflict of interest.

e) appropriate permissions for ethical approval have been acquired for work containing experiments using animal/human subjects.

f) complete details of corresponding author included (full name, designation, affiliation address, e-mail and contact number).

g) list of possible referees.

Manuscript content

The manuscript should be typed in a single file with page numbers (MS Word, doc. Or docx.), Times New Roman, Size 12, double spacing with appropriate headings and subheadings. The type of article should be specified in the beginning for easy identification by editors and reviewers.

Article types: Authors are requested to follow the guidelines mentioned for each type of article before submission. It may be Original research, Review, Editorial, Letter to the editor, Short communication, Case report, Technical report, Rapid communication, Announcement, Addendum and Conference proceeding. Manuscripts are classified into various categories based on the following criteria:

1) Editorial: It is a brief description of a specific topic written by IJSI Editors, Associate Editors or Invited Guest Editors. It is usually 1-2 pages.

2) Letter to the Editor: It is a supporting/refusal/additional information of a published article reflecting a short and decisive observation without an abstract. It should be within 2 pages and up to 500-1000 words and five references.

3) Research: It includes full length original research article presenting unique and innovative work with a cover letter, abstract, keywords, and detailed introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion, conclusion, acknowledgement, conflict of interest statement references, supplementary information, Tables and Figures, and their legends. It should be 10-15 pages containing about 5000 words with 30-50 references.

4) Review: It should contain an overview of already published information collected from various sources on current topics and research areas of interest. It can be about 6-10 pages. Reviews are also peer-reviewed. Review with 3000-5000 words containing an abstract, keywords, introduction, discussion, tables, figures, graphs (if necessary), legends, conclusion, and references.

5) Case reports: It includes original description of a novel/interesting/rare case or presentations of known/unknown disease. Cases with clinical significance or implications will be given priority. It may report actual clinical case studies with signs, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of a particular disease. It may be up to 3-7 Pages with word limit similar to research article.

6) Conference proceeding: It includes all the abstract and relevant content presented in a particular conference and published in the conforming journal.

7) Short Communication: It indicates articles describing new discovery, models, innovative methods and techniques unexplored in any previous literature. It should contain cover letter, abstract, introduction, materials and methods, figure legends, results, discussion, references, figures, and tables, It should be 2-4 pages.

8) Announcement: It includes announcements regarding conferences, meetings, seminars, symposia, courses, and other matters. It is minimum of 150 words with name, address, and email of the contact person.

9) Rapid communication: It is a short paper presenting original and significant research within 2000 words. It should contain introduction, summary, explanation, tables, and references.

10) Addendum: It includes any additional information in the content, figures, tables and other supplementary information for a published paper. They usually contain evidence clearly explaining inconsistencies or updates for the published work. Addendums should be very clear in order to point the already published version.

The manuscript content should be divided as following:

Title page: It should contain a self-explanatory manuscript title (in bold, font size 14), Full name (upper case), phone number, email and affiliation address of all the authors. The corresponding author should be specified with an asterisk (*).

Abstract: It should start on a new page. A clear and concise abstract of 150-300 words in past tense explaining the hypothesis/problem, approach, main finding and conclusion of the work should be provided.

Keywords: Authors should write 4-6 keywords identifying the important aspect of the work for proper indexing and search. Abbreviation, references or diagram should be avoided.

Introduction: It should be clear and understandable stating brief introduction about the background, purpose, techniques, methods and related previous research for the work.

Materials and methods: It should include all the materials, detailed methodology, protocols, instruments, chemicals, statistical techniques, algorithms used for the experiments and evaluation which may allow other researchers to reproduce the outcome. Previously published methods should be properly cited and used after permission. In case of human/animal studies, appropriate ethical committee approval and consent should have been taken prior to work and mentioned in the manuscript. In case of any litigation before or after publication regarding the same, editor’s decision would be final and binding.

Results and Discussion: It should be clear and precise stating all the results according to the hypothesis proposed and their interpretations. Discussion supporting the results should be included along with its significance and previous work done in the particular area.

Figures and Tables: Appropriate tables and figures should be used wherever necessary. They should be numbered according to their mention in the manuscript in numeric order and subparts should be named in upper case letters. Legend/title/label for figures and tables should be provided in times new roman, bold with font size 10. They should be mentioned as Fig. 1 and Table 1. within the text. Unusual units or abbreviations if used should be defined in the footnote/legend and designated appropriately. The units should be used according to the SI nomenclature or the terminology common to a particular area. Table should be in Word or Excel format. Figures should be of higher resolution images in JPEG, TIFF, or EPS format. The figures should have minimum image resolutions of 800 dpi for Line Art, 500 dpi for combination of Line Art and Halftone, and 300 dpi for Halftone. The text within the image should be clear and legible and written in Times New Roman, font size 10. Equations/formulae should be presented as text. All symbols must be described on their first usage in the text. Figures and tables should be provided next to the context in numerical order in the manuscript.

Nomenclature and Units: For the biological nomenclature, International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria and International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants must be followed. Recommendations of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) on biochemical nomenclature must be followed for chemical nomenclature. All scientific names of plants, animals, etc. must be written in italics and mentioned in the brackets next to the common name at its first appearance in the text.

Conclusion: It should include all the important points of the manuscript with final concluding remarks.

Acknowledgement: It should include information about all the individuals, funding agencies, Departments, institutes or organizations which aided in completion of the research work described in the manuscript.

Conflict of interest: It should include a statement stating that ‘the authors declare no conflict of interest’.

References: It includes the citations used by the authors in the manuscript. References should be numbered in ascending order within brackets as [1] or [1, 2, 3-6] etc. according to their citation in the manuscript text and stated in detail after the conflict of interest statement at the end of the article. References should not be repeated in the reference section but original reference number can be used many times within text if required. Articles in preparation or articles submitted for publication, unpublished observations, personal communications, etc. should not be included in the reference list. Journal names should be abbreviated according to standard format/NLM catalog. Quoting articles published in IJSI in your manuscript is appreciable. The following formats can be used for different resources:

The manuscript content should be divided as following:

Keywords: Authors should write 4-6 keywords identifying the important aspect of the work for proper indexing and search. Abbreviation, references or diagram should be avoided.

Introduction: It should be clear and understandable stating brief introduction about the background, purpose, techniques, methods and related previous research for the work.

Figures and Tables: Appropriate tables and figures should be used wherever necessary (Not after reference). They should be numbered according to their mention in the manuscript in numeric order and subparts should be named in upper case letters. Legend/title/label for figures and tables should be provided in times new roman, bold with font size 10. They should be mentioned as Fig. 1 and Table 1. within the text. Unusual units or abbreviations if used should be defined in the footnote/legend and designated appropriately. The units should be used according to the SI nomenclature or the terminology common to a particular area. Table should be in Word or Excel format. Figures should be of higher resolution images in JPEG, TIFF, or EPS format. The figures should have minimum image resolutions of 800 dpi for Line Art, 500 dpi for combination of Line Art and Halftone, and 300 dpi for Halftone. The text within the image should be clear and legible and written in Times New Roman, font size 10. Equations/formulae should be presented as text. All symbols must be described on their first usage in the text. Figures and tables should be provided next to the context in numerical order in the manuscript.

Conclusion: It should include all the important points of the manuscript with final concluding remarks.

Conflict of interest: It should include a statement stating that ‘the authors declare no conflict of interest’.

References: It includes the citations used by the authors in the manuscript. References should be numbered in ascending order within brackets as [1] or [1, 2, 3-6] etc. according to their citation in the manuscript text and stated in detail after the conflict of interest statement at the end of the article. References should not be repeated in the reference section but original reference number can be used many times within text if required. Articles in preparation or articles submitted for publication, unpublished observations, personal communications, etc. should not be included in the reference list. Journal names should be abbreviated according to standard format/NLM catalog. Quoting articles published in IJSI in your manuscript is appreciable. The following formats can be used for different resources:

a) Article: (Change all the examples)

Single author Format: Author 1 surname initial (Year) Title of manuscript. Journal abbreviation Volume number: Starting page number-ending page number.

Example: Roukos DH (2014) Genome network medicine: innovation to overcome huge challenges in cancer therapy. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med. 6: 201-208.

Two authors Format: Author 1 surname initial, Author 2 surname initial (Year) Title of manuscript. Journal abbreviation Volume number: Starting page number-ending page number.

Example: Aebersold R, Mann M. (2003) Mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Nature 13: 198-207.. The same format will be followed for three authors and four authors.

Three authors Format: Author 1 surname initial, Author 2 surname initial, Author 3 surname initial, (Year) Title of manuscript. Journal abbreviation Volume number: Starting page number-ending page number.

Example: Burnens A, Demotz S, Corradin G (1987) Epitope mapping by chemical modification of free and antibody-bound protein antigen. Science 235: 780-783.

More than five authors Format: Author 1 surname initial, Author 2 surname initial, Author 3 surname initial, Author 4 surname initial, Author 5 surname initial, et al. (Year) Title of manuscript. Journal abbreviation Volume number: Starting page number-ending page number.

Example: Mäbert K, Cojoc M, Peitzsch C, Kurth I, Souchelnytskyi S, et al. (2014) Cancer biomarker discovery: current status and future perspectives. Int J Radiat Biol. 90: 659-677.

For Accepted papers:

Same as described previously, but instead of the page numbers ‘In press’ must be written.

b) Book Format: Author surname Initial (year) Title of book. (Edition number), Publisher, Place of publication.

Example: Twyman RM (2004) Principles of proteomics. (1st edtn), Garland Science/BIOS Scientific Publishers, New York, NY 10017, USA.

Chapters in a book: Author 1 surname Initial, Author 2 surname Initial (Year) Title of chapter. In: Editor 1 surname Initial, Editor 2 surname Initial, editors. Title of book. (Edition number), Publisher, Place of Publication, pp. [page numbers of chapter].

Example: Twyman RM (2004) Principles of proteomics. (1st edtn), Garland Science/BIOS Scientific Publishers, New York, NY 10017, USA, pp. 67-78.

c) Conference Format: Author surname Initial (Year) Title of paper. Conference name, Year month date, place, pp. [page numbers].

Example: Hawkins PM (1995) The development of shortwave radio telecommunications in the 1920's and 30's. International Conference on 100 Years of Radio, 2002 Apr 3-5, London, pp. 82-88.

d) Website Format: Author surname Initial/organization name. Year of publication (updated year month date; cited year month date) Title of the page [internet]. Publisher, Place of publication. Available: URL

Example: Canberra ACT: Diabetes Australia. 2012 (updated 2012 June 15; cited 2012 Nov 5). Diabetes Australia. Diabetes globally [Internet]. Australia, Available: http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/en/Understanding-Diabetes/Diabetes-Globally/

e) Thesis Format: Author surname Initial Initial (Year) Title of thesis [thesis]. Institution name, place.

Example: Borkowski MM. Infant sleep and feeding: a telephone survey of Hispanic Americans [dissertation]. Mount Pleasant (MI): Central Michigan University; 2002.

Article Processing

As soon as a manuscript is received along with the copyright form, it assigned a manuscript number by the editor and undergoes an initial scrutiny. This is followed by a blind peer review process by three independent reviewers nominated by IJSI. Based on the scrutiny the manuscript is identified as Accepted, accepted with major revisions, accepted with minor revisions, or Rejected. Final review is done by the chief editor and executive editors prior to final acceptance. Decision will be made by editorial board with in two weeks. Post acceptance, galley proof is sent as PDF file to the corresponding author by email for finalization. The galley proof of the articles accepted/in press are immediately uploaded on the website with DOI numbers which can be quoted and used for citation by the authors.

Galley Proofs

Galley proofs will be sent to the corresponding author via email as a PDF file. Only minor errors will be permitted for change at this stage as it is the final version of the manuscript. The corresponding author should ensure that the galley proof to be returned without delay with correction (if any). The authors are responsible for the content of their published manuscript. They can freely download and print electronic copy of the articles from website.

Publication Charges

IJSI publishes freely accessible articles for all its readers worldwide. It relies on minimal publication charges for its maintenance paid by the authors on acceptance of their articles for publication. It covers all the publishing services including online resources for editors, reviewers, authors, peer review and publishing process, reviewers report preparation, post acceptance processing (quality checks, copy editing, page making, proofreading, design, formatting, galley proofing, online version conversion), hosting journal and published articles, customer services, and article dissemination services. IJSI doesn’t charge any submission or pre-acceptance fees. The publication fees per manuscript is Rs. 2000 (INR) for Indian authors and 100 US $ for foreign authors. IJSI may provide fee reduction or waiver in special cases of financial constraints (appeal in advance prior to or during submission) based on the author’s request and type of article submitted. The requests received during reviewing or after acceptance of the manuscript will be ignored. Authors may contact IJSI at editor@ijsi.org.in for any enquiries related to publication charges. Mode of fee payment will be informed in the acceptance email. IJSI accepts publication charges in following the modes: Online transfer/ Wire transfer/ DD.

Terms and conditions

Authors must pay the processing fees after acceptance of the manuscript. Fees once paid will not be refunded by the publishers under any circumstances.