Manuscript preparation guidelines to help your submission move swiftly through editorial review.
Authors are requested to submit manuscripts in accordance with the format below. Following these guidelines helps the editorial board conduct a smooth review.
The title should be specific and concise, and rendered in upper case.
Affiliations should include department, university or organisation, city, and country of the corresponding author, along with an email address.
A clear and concise abstract that conveys the manuscript in advance, along with the significance of the work to a broad audience. The abstract should contain a brief background, an outline of the results, and the importance of the findings. Limit to 300 words.
Provide a list of abbreviations used and 5–10 keywords relevant to the manuscript.
The introduction should provide a transparent statement of the study, the relevant literature, and the planned approach or resolution — general enough to engage readers from a broad array of scientific disciplines.
Detailed descriptions of materials and methods, the main proposed ideas, results, and discussions.
A concise closing discussion of the work and its implications.
Sources of funding, grants, and details of anyone who contributed substantially to the study.
Only published or accepted manuscripts should appear in the reference list. Meeting abstracts, conference talks, or papers under submission should not be cited. Personal communications should be supported by a letter from the relevant authors.
Scholarena uses the numbered citation (citation-sequence) style. References appear in the order they are cited in the text. In the text, citations should be indicated by reference number in brackets, separated by commas, with ranges for three or more sequential citations. Example: "...enables biologists to monitor thousands of genes in a single experiment [1,5–7,28]."
Order of details: Author(s) (Year) Title. Journal name Volume: page number. DOI/link.
Published papers:
Books:
Conference proceedings:
Use tables sparingly and keep them simple. Submit as .doc format where possible. Each table should be on a separate page, numbered in Arabic numerals, and supplied with a heading and legend. Do not repeat the same data in text and table form.
Preferred file formats are PNG, TIFF, and JPEG. All images must be at or above intended display size, with image resolutions of 800 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for combination, and 300 dpi for halftone. Crop images as close to the actual figure as possible.
Use Arabic numerals for figure numbers and upper-case letters for parts (Figure 1A). Each legend should begin with a title and include sufficient description for the figure to be understood without the manuscript text.
Supplementary materials should be supplied as a single PDF file where possible, with file size within permitted limits. Images should be no larger than 640 × 480 pixels. Video files may be submitted as supplementary material where relevant.
There is no page limit for submissions. Include all necessary detail for reproducibility.
