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Author
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Manuscripts can be submitted through our
online manuscript submission and peer review
system.
https://www.ejmanager.com/my/ijacs/
Submission cover letter must
include the statement claiming that you have read the
submission guidelines, you agree to
the policy of the journal
and that the submission is original and does not contain
plagiarized material. |
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Preparation of Manuscript
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The manuscript should be typed,
double-spaced on standard-sized-paper (A4) with 1" margins on all
sides. Times New Roman font 12 pt should be
used. The fonts used in the text as well
as graphics should be restricted to Times New Roman, Symbol and Zapf
Dingbats. |
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Title page |
The title page should contain a clear,
concise and informative title of the article followed by the names
and affiliations of the authors. The affiliation
should comprise the department,
institution, city, and state (or nation) and should be typed as a
footnote to the author's name. The Corresponding
Author must indicate his or her complete
mailing address, office/cellular phone number, fax number, and email
address at the lower left of the Title Page. |
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Article Structure |
Abstract:
The abstract should not more than 220 words and should contain
objectives, material and methods, Results and Conclusions. Reviews
and mini
reviews also require an abstract.
Abstract should not be structured. Abstract must be followed by
four-six keywords.
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Introduction:
This should be brief and indicates aim of the study and the
essential back ground information. Introduction should clearly state
the hypothesis or
purpose statement, how and why the
purpose or hypothesis was developed and why the author deems it
important.
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Material and
methods: Please provide concise but complete information
about the material and the analytical, statistical and experimental
procedures used.
This part should be as clear as possible
to enable other scientists to repeat the research presented. The use
of subheadings to divide the text is encouraged.
Primary headings should be in BOLD
CAPITAL LETTERS. Secondary or subheadings should be in Bold sentence
case. Third level subheadings should be in
Italicized sentence Case. In case of
animal/human experiments or clinical trials authors must give the
details of ethical approval.
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Result and
Discussion; Data acquired from the research with
appropriate statistical analysis described in the methods section
should be included in this
section. In this part, the same data/
information given in a table must not be repeated in a figure, or
vice versa. Tables and Figures should be self explanatory
and it is not acceptable to repeat
extensively the numerals from tables into text and give lengthy and
unnecessary explanations of the Tables and Figures.
Discussion should relate the results to
current understanding of the scientific problems being investigated
in the field.
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Conclusion:
This should clearly explain the main conclusions of the work
highlighting its importance and relevance.
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Biographical
sketch
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Also
The manuscript should
accompany the following: A
brief biographical sketch (50-75 words) of the
author/s describing A passport
- type photo and a short summary of
the career to-date of corresponding author should be included
(current designation and
affiliation, specialization, number of
books and articles published
in refereed journals, and membership on editorial boards and
companies, etc.) |
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References
should be complete in all respects and arranged in
numerical
order.
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(a)
In the text, the references should appear as follows:
References should be cited in brackets [1-5].
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Recent studies (1,3,5-9)
indicate... |
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(b)
Journal references should be listed as
follows:
K.S.V. Krishna Rao, I.
D.
Chung, C.S.
Ha. (2008) Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(acrylamido
glycolic acid) Grafted onto Chitosan and its Polyelectolyte
Complexes with Hydroxyapatite, Reactive and Functional
Polymers. 68,
943-953.
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(c)
Books should be referred to as follows:
S. Schlick, (1996) Ionomers: characterization, theory, and
applications. Boca Raton:
CRC Press. pp 311-320 |
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(d) Webpage links |
Webpage with authors:
K. Senthilkumar, K. Ramamurthi, T. Kalaivani, V.
Balasubramanian. 2013. Low Temperature Synthesis of MPA
Capped ZnS Quantum
Dots and its Characterization
Studies. [ONLINE] Available at http://ijacskros.com/artcles/IJACS-M38.pdf.
[Accessed 08 December 2014].
Webpage without authors: How to cite web reference.
2011. Available at: http://ijacskros.com/aguidelines.html
[Accessed 08 August 2013].
Webpage with no date: How to cite web reference.
Available at: http://ijacskros.com/aguidelines.html
[Accessed 08 August 2013].
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Acknowledgement |
All acknowledgments (if any)
should be included at the very end of the paper before the
references and may include supporting grants, presentations,
and
so forth. |
Abbreviations
Standard abbreviations should be used throughout the
manuscript. All nonstandard abbreviations should be kept to
a minimum and must be defined in the
text following their first
use. |
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Copyright |
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Wherever copyrighted material is used, the authors should be
accurate in reproduction and obtain permission from
copyright holders, if necessary.
Articles published in
IJACS
should not be reproduced or reprinted in any form, either in
full or in part, without prior written permission from the
Editor |
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Types of Contributions |
Manuscripts submitted to the Journal of
Advances Chemical Sciences should be Short
Communication, Review or Full
Paper or Concept or Books or
Comments & Responses. |
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IJACS
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Short Communication:
Short Communication is a report/note in unusual urgency. A
statement from author justifying its need is required. Short
Communication should be confined to 1500
words or 2 pages. The text should be divided into sections
however, an introductory paragraph should
provide a general context of the work
explaining its significance and indicating why it should be
of interest to scientists in other areas while the end
paragraph should summarize the essential
conclusions and implications.
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Full
Paper: Full Paper must either
be of a contemporary interest or of great significance to a
more specialized readership. It should be peer reviewed,
reporting the details of studies that
have not been published previously, except in the form of
primary communications. Manuscript should be divided into
sections including “Experimental”.
Full paper should be restricted to 10000 words or 9-12
pages. |
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Review:
Review introduces the reader to a particular area of an
author’s research through a concise overview of a selected
topic. The content should
balance scope with depth. Reference to
important work from others that is significant to the topic
should be included. There is no restriction placed on
the length of the Review.
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Book Reviews
covers reviews of current books on Chemical
Science. |
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All tables, charts,
and graphs should be in colour. Wherever
necessary, the source should be indicated at the bottom.
Number and complexity of exhibits
should be minimal.
Endnotes, italics, and quotation
marks should be kept to the minimum. |
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Review Process |
IJACS operates a strictly blind peer
review process in which the reviewer’s name is withheld
from the author and, the author’s name from the reviewer.
The reviewer may at their own discretion opt to reveal their
name to the author in their review but our standard policy
practice is for both identities to
remain concealed.
Two or more referees review all contributions by following
the ‘double blind’ system.
The process usually takes about 8
to 30 working days.
IJACS
reserves the right to implement the editorial amendments in
the final draft of the manuscript to suit the journal’s
requirements. |
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Conflict of Interest |
All the authors of must disclose
the possible conflicts of interest/ Competing Interests they
may have with publication of the manuscript or an
institution
or product that is
mentioned in the manuscript and/or is important to the
outcome of the study presented. Authors should also disclose
conflict of
interest with products that
compete with those mentioned in their manuscript. The
Conflict of Interest statement should list each author
separately by name. |
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Article
Withdrawal Policy |
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Only used for
Articles in Press which represent early versions of articles
and sometimes contain errors, or may have been accidentally
submitted twice.
Occasionally,
but less frequently, the articles may represent
infringements of professional ethical codes, such as
multiple submission, bogus claims of
authorship,
plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like. Articles in
Press (articles that have been accepted for publication but
which have not been
formally
published and will not yet have the complete
volume/issue/page information) that include errors, or are
discovered to be accidental duplicates
of other
published article(s), or are determined to violate our
journal publishing ethics guidelines in the view of the
editors (such as multiple submission,
bogus claims of
authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like),
may be “Withdrawn” from KROS Publications. Withdrawn means
that the
article content
(HTML and PDF) is removed and replaced with a HTML page and
PDF simply stating that the article has been withdrawn
according to the
KROS Publication
Policy on Article in Press Withdrawal with a link to the
current policy document. |
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Plagiarism Policy |
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By submitting paper for
publication to the journal, you as contributor/ author/
co-author state that |
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You are fully aware that
plagiarism is wrong and you know that plagiarism is the use
of another person’s idea or published work and pretend that
it is one’s own.
You declare that each contribution to your work from other
people's published or unpublished sources have been
acknowledged and the source of information
have been referenced.
You certify that you will not allow anyone to copy your work
with the intention of passing it off as his/her own work.
You certify that you are solely responsible for any
incomplete reference that may remain in your work |
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Action
against Plagiarism |
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When plagiarism has been found
to have occurred, the IJACS will take the actions listed
below as determined by the type of plagiarism. Unless
determined
otherwise during the
investigation, all authors are deemed to be individually and
collectively responsible for the content of a plagiarizing
paper.
The IJACS may inform the department chair, dean, or
supervisor of the authors of the finding of plagiarism.
The authors will be asked to write a formal letter of
apology to the authors of the plagiarized paper, including
an admission of plagiarism.
If the paper has appeared on the website, the journal will
remove access to the full text. The paper itself will be
kept in the database for future research or legal
purposes.
If the paper is under submission, the paper can be
automatically rejected by the editor-in-chief without
further revisions and without any further plagiarism
investigation coordinated
by the IJACS. |
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Open Access |
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Each article
published in Indian Journal of Advanced Chemical Science is
published Open Access , which means that, upon payment of an
article processing
charge (APC),
the article is freely and permanently available on KROS
Publications online platform http://ijacskros.com/. There is
no additional subscription fee,
article
pay-to-view fee or any other form of access fee; and no
publication embargo is applied. |
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Article
Processing Charges (APCs) |
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Authors are required to pay Rs.
2500/- INR (Indian Authors) or USD 100 (foreign authors) for APCs upon acceptance of manuscript. APCs are applicable only
to
the accepted articles. |
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Note: These
charges are calculated for a standard length article with 20
pages in MS-Word. Additional page charges will be applicable
for the articles beyond
this limit. |
Deadline/publication
details for submissions |
ISSUE |
Deadline |
Acceptance Communication |
Date of Publication |
January Issue |
31st
December |
10- 20
January |
1 to 5th February |
April Issue |
31st March |
10- 20 April |
1 to 5th May |
August Issue |
31st July |
10- 20 August |
1 to 5th September |
December Issue |
30th November |
10- 20
December |
1 to 5th January |
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