Guidelines for Authors

Accepted Manuscript File Format:

Submitted article should be in MS Word (.doc or .docx) file format. Do not import the Figures or Tables into your main text file in MS Word format. Provide a separate PDF file of your manuscript text with the correct placement of figures and tables.

Cover letter:

A separately written statement(cover letter)by the corresponding author should accompany the submitted article declaring that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in any language, including electronically without the written consent of Savvy Science Publisher.

Originality of work:

Submissions must be original work, the copyright to which is not already owned elsewhere. Savvy Science strongly urges the Originality, creativity, and cross-disciplinary approaches or perspectives. The publisher reserves the right to withdraw publishing rights from all co-authors of the article for a substantial time if a parallel submission is discovered afterward. It is the corresponding author’s responsibility to check for possible copyright conflict with the copyright holder and followSavvy Science’s Publication Ethics policies. For details see, https://savvysciencepublisher.com/index.php/index/publication-ethics

 Ethical statements:

Authors must clearly include the statement in their manuscript that the study protocol complies with the relevant ethical guidelines and is approved by the relevant institutional Ethics Committee. Seeking of informed consent of study participants should also be clearly mentioned in the article where applicable.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION GUIDE:

Language:

Only manuscripts written in English are acceptable for publication. Please write your text in good English (American or British, but not a mixture of these). If authors feel that their manuscript requires English language editing to eliminate possible errors, they may request for using the Language Editing service offered by Savvy Science, on payment.

General Instructions:

Enumeration of the manuscripts must be started from the title page.

Units: Only SI units should be used. If other units are necessary, include the conversion factor and add the non-standard unit in parenthesis.

Symbols: All symbols should be defined in text. If there is an extensive list of symbols, place it in the appendix at the end of the manuscript.

Math: In case of mathematical numbers’ presentation, punctuate carefully.

Footnotes: If foot notes are required in the manuscript, these should be identified by superscript Arabic numbers. Table footnotes should be mentioned with superscript small case English alphabets.

Essential Title Page Information:

The first page of a manuscript should include,

(a) Title of Manuscript;

(b) Names, institutional affiliations, ORCID IDs and email addresses of all co-authors;

(c) Name, complete address, telephone number, fax number, and email address of the corresponding author for correspondence; and

(d) Abstract of the article.

- The corresponding author should be identified with an asterisk and footnote. The Editors reserve the right to adjust the style to specific standards for uniformity.

Article Length: The total number of pages of the article relies on the authors’ will, on an average, articles may be 10-25 pages long including the references. The Editors generally encourage brevity, yet providing the sufficient details, for all articles. Short Communications and case reports must not exceed 6 printed pages; these will be given priority for rapid publication.

TEXT of the submission file:The text should be single-spaced; please use a 12-point font; employ italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses) if needed;

Framework of articles:

ESSENTIAL SECTIONS:

Title: Full title of the article should be mentioned. However, it should be concise and informative. Avoid using abbreviations and formulae in titles where possible.

Authors names: All co-authors and their current affiliations must be present after the title.The corresponding author should be identified with an asterisk and footnote.

Abstracts: A concise abstract briefly stating the general scope, methods used, main results and major conclusion of the article, with a word limit of 250 is required. It should be free from any subheading and references or unexplained abbreviations. If essential, abbreviations must be defined at their first mention in the abstract. The abstract should be a standalone piece accurately reflecting the contents of the article as many readers read only this portion of the article. As many electronic databases scan only the title and abstract of the articles, it will be beneficial if as many likely key words of the articles are used in the text of the abstract as possible.

Keywords: A minimum of 6 keywords must be provided in alphabetical order after the Abstract. Avoid general and plural terms and multiple concepts (for example, 'and', 'of').  In case of abbreviations, only those firmly established in the field may be eligible.

Framework of Research Articles:

Introduction

This section should provide adequate background knowledge on the article’s subject matter already known in the field along with the reasons to conduct the present study. The length of the introduction section must be appropriately match the discussion section, neither too short nor too long. Reference number should be included in the text in consecutive order.

Materials and Methods:

This section should provide sufficient details of the methods employed in the study to enable the work to be repeated by other researchers. If the research study involves human or animal subjects (patients/lab animals) the number of study subjects and their demographic characteristics should be mentioned. Satisfactory reasoning for selection of specific groups must be clearly mentioned. The place and time period of the study is mandatory to be described in the article. If a previously published method has been used with modifications all such modifications should be described. In case of data collection, the methods for its collection, all sources of information gathering; and the tools/equipments used in the study should be fully mentioned (including their model’s and manufacturer’s details). Medications/chemicals used in the study should be precisely explained. If a new/ unfamiliar method has been used in the study, it must be described in more detail with the reasons to use this specific method. Statistical methods, software and type of statistical methods must be satisfactorily stated.

Results:

State the clear and concise results and draw attention in the text of results section to important details shown in tables and figures. In case of few/simple findings of the study, the results may be mentioned only in text form; whileif multiple informational findings are to be presented these should be in the form of tables/figures/graphs, as seems appropriate, with their explanation in the result section. Reiteration of findings must be avoided in the text of the Result.

Discussion:

In this section the results of the study should be interpreted and the significance of results should be pointed out in the light of previously published literature on the subject matter. However, avoid extensive discussions of published literature. Proper reference of the previous studies must be provided. Important/ new findings of the study should be specially emphasized. Information already presented in the introduction/results section should not be repeated in detail in this section. Results and objective of the study should be compatible with clear explanation. Possible reasons for any unanticipated finding should be provided.

A combined Results and Discussion section may also be used by the authors.

Conclusion:

This section briefs the results of the study and their possible utilization in the practical field. New hypotheses may also be suggested to the readers for future studies. The conclusion may be presented may be a standalone piece or may be combined with the Discussion section as a subsection.

Conflict Of Interest Statement:

A declaration of conflict of interest should be stated at the end of the manuscript after Acknowledgements (if present) and prior to the Funding statement, under the heading 'Declaration of Conflicting Interest'.

However, the details of financial arrangements are not required to be disclosed.

Please note, a statement is also required when there is no conflict of interest at all. In such situations please use the below wordings;

'The Author(s) declare(s) that there are no relevant financial or non-financial competing interests to report.’

For further details please view our conflict of interest policy.

Authors’ Contribution:

If more than one author authors the article, the individual contribution of each co-author must be mentioned under this heading.

Acknowledgements:

An expression of appreciation may be paid to supporters who do not meet the criteria for authorship but have helped the researchers in any other form (technical help, writing or proof reading of manuscript etc.) at the end of the article before the references.

Funding Statement:

Authors should specify any sources of funding (institutional, private and corporate financial support) if received for the work reported in their paper at the time of submitting the paper. This information should contain the name of the funding organization/s and the grant number, mentioned at the end of the article under the heading ‘FUNDING’, directly after the Acknowledgements (if applicable) and Declaration of Conflicting Interests, and prior to the References. The funding agency should be written out in full, followed by the grant number in square brackets, e.g.

This work was supported by the Medical Research Council [grant number xxx].

If there was no funding, the following wording should be used:

“This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.”

Any suppliers of materials should be named and their location (town, state/county, country) included in the section of MATERIAL and METHODS.

Multiple grant numbers should be separated by comma and space. If the research was supported by more than one agency, the different agencies should be separated by semi-colon, with “and” before the final funder, e.g.:

This work was supported by the Foundation [grant numbers aaaa, bbbb]; the Environmental Research Council [grant number cccc]; and the Economic Development Research Council [grant number zzzz].

Indirect funding, if received, must also be declared in the funding statement. Indirect funding includes third-party entities receiving funding from any industry, where the funder could be seen to have a vested interest in the results of a study.

Appendices/Supplementary Materials:

If the article has more than one appendix, name theses as Appendix-A, Appendix-B, etc. with separate numbering of relevant equations, formulae, tables and figures: e.g., Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), Table A.1; Fig. A.1 etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) Table B.1; Fig. B.1and so on.

References:

All references must be complete and accurate.

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa).

References must be listed in the numerical system (Vancouver style). All references should be numbered sequentially (in square brackets, […]) as they appear for the first time in the text and listed in the same numerical order in the reference section. Bibliographies cited in tables and figures should be numbered according to the site where the corresponding table or figure is first referenced.

The reference numbers must be finalized and the bibliography must be fully formatted before submission.

Online citations should include the date of access.

Take special care of the punctuation as described in the examples mentioned below.

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 should be 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.

See below some examples of references listed in the correct Vancouver style:

Journal articles:

[1]     Smith SD, Jones, AD. Organ donation. N Engl J Med 2001; 657: 230-5.

[2]     Brown JG. Asphyxiation. Med J Aust 2003; 432:120-4.

Typical Chapter Reference:

[3]    Blaxter PS, Farnsworth TP. Social health and class inequalities. In: Carter C, Peel JR, editors. Equalities and inequalities in health. 2nd ed. London: Academic Press 1976; p. 165-78.

Book Reference:

[4]   Carlson BM. Human embryology and developmental biology. 3rd ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2004.

Edited Book:

[5]     Brown AM, Stubbs DW, Eds. Medical physiology. New York: Wiley 1983.

Conference Paper and Proceedings:

[6]   Anderson JC. Current status of chorion villus biopsy. In: Tudenhope D, Chenoweth J, editors. Proceedings of the 4th Congress of the Australian Perinatal Society; 1986: Brisbane, Queensland: Australian Perinatal Society; 1987: p. 190-6.

[7]     Harris AH, editor. 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, editor. 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/

Web site/Homepage:

[10]   Heart Centre Online [homepage on the Internet]. Boca Raton, FL: Heart Centre Online, 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 VascIntervRadiol 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……'.

Illustrations:

Figures:

Term Figures include all Photographs, charts, and diagrams and must be mentioned so with consecutive numbers as they appear sequentially in the text.

Only camera-ready form of illustrations should be provided which should be reproducible. However, it may include reduction without retouching. These must also be readable a width of 75 mm (single column figure) or 160 mm (double column figure). images should be in  .tiff or .jpg formats with  resolution of at least 1000 dpi for line drawings.

All figures should have captions. Minimally required text may be embedded in the illustration (if necessary) however, it should be explained in the caption.

If a new reference appears in a caption, it’s full reference must be given at the end of the caption not in the reference list of the article.

Tables:

Tables should be provided as editable text, not as images, and numbered consecutively as they are cited in the text. These should be clearly arranged with heading for each column of the table. Footnotes to tables should be present below the tables and referred to by superscript lowercase letters. All arithmetic (percentages, totals, differences) should be accurately presented with specific attention to the decimals. Any abbreviation used in the table must be explained in the footnote. Tables should not duplicate results presented elsewhere in the manuscript (e.g. in the graph).

Framework of a Review Article:

A review article should have the principal structure of a research report, i.e., introduction and discussion.  Explain the methods of extraction, selection and composition of data and information. The order of different section should be: Abstract, Key Words, Introduction with Subtitles, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements, References, Tables, Figures (if present).

Framework of a Case Report:

A case report should always carry an informed consent and patients’ privacy should be highly respected. The different section should be arranged in the order of: Abstract, Key Words, Introduction, Case Presentation, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements, References, Tables and Figures (if present).

After editorial acceptance:

Galley Proofs:

Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author (the first-named author if no corresponding author is identified of multi-authored papers) which should be returned within 72 hours of receipt. Proofreading is solely authors’ responsibility.Checking of proofs at this stage should be restricted to typesetting errors, editing, completeness and correctness of text, figures, tables and graphs; any other changes may be charged to the author. All queries (if accompanying the proofs) should be fully answered. Authors are urged to check their proofs carefully before returning it to the journal since the inclusion of late corrections cannot be guaranteed.