2. Journal considers research reports, expert reviews, case reports, scientific letters and
editorials for publication. Each publication will be peer-reviewed and publish upon
acceptance of Editor. Authors can utilize our high quality "HISTOBOX" service, a virtual
slide developing software for high resolution and visibility of their images.
Article Preparation
Authors are requested to refer the ICMJE Guidelines to prepare the manuscripts. Expert
Reviews of Immunology Vaccines and Informatics is a member of ICMJE therefore;
authors are requested to follow the guidelines and code of conduct also.
http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/manuscript-
preparation/preparing-for-submission.html
Below are the mandatory to submit manuscript, therefore, corresponding authors are
responsible to make sure that the submission is complete.
A cover letter is mandatory for all the publications and required to state that their
material is original and not published anywhere else. The cover letter should be
addressed to Editor-in-Chief.
For all original articles, reviews, case reports, case series reports Abstract and
keywords are mandatory. For original research reports abstracts must be included
with Objective, methods, results and conclusion.
Authors should use the MeSH (Medical subject headings list of index medicus)
catalogue to present their keywords.
All the submissions should be sent as an e-mail attachment to the editorial office
as a word document (.doc or .dox) or PDF format.
There is no word limit for original papers and reviews. But there is a limitation for
editorials and letters (500-1000 words).
Authors should provide their complete information including affiliation,
designation and physical address (personal or professional), e-mail contacts and
fax and telephone.
Authorship and Correspondence
All the authors are requested to provide a clear statement potential conflict of interest in
any manner such as financial, personal, commercial and relationship with
others/institutions, etc. Authors may include their contributions in work (design, data
collection, execution and so on) and preparation of the manuscript. All authors are of the
manuscript must agreed to submit the paper and responsible for its content and
subsequent revisions. Corresponding author is responsible for matter related to the
paper and its co-authors (editor/publisher never involve in author disputes).
Graphical Abstract
To draw the attention of the readers, we encourage submission of graphical abstracts for
publication. The graphical abstract should summarize/ precise the contents of the article
and in a pictorial form with a caption that describes the whole picture (Not more than 50
words). Authors required submitting high quality image in a separate file in TIF or PDF or
Office file formats.
3. Highlights
For research articles, analytical reviews and case studies authors may provide
HIGHLIGHTS of the paper (Not more than 5 bullet points). Authors may include key
findings of the paper but each point should not be more than 10 words.
Nomenclatures and Measurements
1. Scientific measurements should be expressed in SI units throughout the
submission.
2. Binomial nomenclature is recommended to present microorganisms/strains.
3. For gene sequences or amino acid sequences accession (deposited in
GeneBank/DDBJ) number must be included.
Abbreviations
Use only standard abbreviations are highly recommended, personal/non standard
abbreviations not accepted for inclusion in the paper. Title should not contain any
abbreviations.
Animal or Human Subjects
A clear statement on ethical issues in clinical and animal research must be provided and
patient confidentiality issues, conflict of interests must be indicated. If human/animal
subjects are involved in the experiment, an approval should be obtained from
Institutional/university/national ethical committee, an approval number/register number
must be included.
Figures and Tables
Figures and tables should be provided in separate files. Each figure or table should be
provided with a legend. Figures should be in appropriate size and in .gif nd or .jpg
format. Figures and tables information should be provided in text. Photographs and
drawings will not be accepted for publications.
Supplement Information
All Supplement information or appendix should be provided in a separate file (doc or
PDF) and the supplement information will be stated in the text.
Funding Support
Financial/funding support from University/institution or other government or private
agencies must be indicated. Complete information along with the grant number should
be included. Grantees from NIH/Welcome Trust may submit their final accepted PDFs for
inclusion in PMC Public Access Repository. http://publicaccess.nih.gov/
4. Acknowledgements
Authors may acknowledge the support of individuals in the research, editing or
review of the paper. This section should be separate and included at the end of
the paper.
References
Journal
For first six author
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N
Engl J Med. 2002 Jul 25;347 (4): 284-7.
More than six authors
Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al. Regulation of
interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Res.
2002;935(1-2):40-6.
Books
Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St.
Louis: Mosby; 2002.
Edited books
Breedlove GK, Schorfheide AM. Adolescent pregnancy. 2nd ed. Wieczorek RR, editor.
White Plains (NY): March of Dimes Education Services; 2001.
Conference Proceedings
Harnden P, Joffe JK, Jones WG, editors. Germ cell tumours V. Proceedings of the 5th
Germ Cell Tumour Conference; 2001 Sep 13-15; Leeds, UK. New York: Springer; 2002.
Websites/home pages
Society for Personalized NanoMedicine (Internet) Florida: 2nd annual meeting report
2015. www.s-pnm.org
Copyrights
Upon acceptance of an article, authors agreed to transfer the copyrights to the publisher
under relevant license (Creative commons CC by 4.0) which allows
distribution/reprint/reuse of the published work. The transfer of the copyrights includes
all material (Eg Figures, tables, supplementary data sets, etc) to be published as a part
of the article. Authors retain patent, trademark and other IP rights including original
findings/data of their work.
5. Copyright Transfer
In certain cases, authors may use published material, in case of reproduction of any
published material (part of text, figure, table, supplements etc), corresponding author is
responsible for the copyright transfer. For works derived from the published content,
permission must be obtained from the previous publisher and included in the paper,
wherever, required. Authors make sure that the permissions submitted to the
editor/editorial office before the manuscript gets published.
Article Retraction
Honest errors are more common in science publication, but these errors should not
affect the accuracy and scientific quality of the journal. Sometimes scientific misconduct
and or an experimental methodology found to be not appropriate or plagiarized/copied.
To keep up the journal publication quality and standards, editor follows an internationally
accepted retraction policy. In case of high degree of debate occurred on published
papers, letter to the editors will be published to exchange the matters.
Erratum
Erratum provides correcting errors occurred at various production levels of the paper
such as writing, editing, typesetting etc., of a published paper. In this section spelling
and grammatical errors, errors in figures and table legends will be corrected. An erratum
will be published in subsequent issue of the journal.
Corrigenda
A list of errors in the paper submitted by the author(s) of the paper, these errors may
not alter the results and conclusions of the published work. These errors include unit of
measurements, fail to identify contaminations, misidentification of strains, authorship
and author affiliations etc. Corresponding author need to send a notification letter (co-
authors must be agreed) to the editorial office if any of these conditions occurred.
Retraction/Removal
When authors are failing to observe the ethics or code of conduct may leads to retraction
of the published paper. If the published work found to be plagiarized or the mythology is
not appropriate the article may subjected to retracted. A clear notification will be
published on the journal website that the respective manuscript has been retracted with
evidence. The web link (URL) and the citation will be available on journal website.
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