Instructions To Authors

Manuscripts: The manuscript must be sent in MS Word Document file format containing title of the paper, author’s name(s), affiliation(s), author’s full postal address and corresponding author’s e-mail. Abstract should be within 250 words along with maximum of 5 keywords indicating the objectives, results or conclusion of the study. The text of the full paper should preferably be within 5000 words (max. 10 pages) having the following sub-titles:

 1. Introduction: Introduction should be concise and precise relevant to objectives of study.

 2. Materials and Methods: Standard and published methods should not be described rather only be cited as references. Any modification or new set up should be stated.

 3. Results and Discussion: Results should be presented with appropriate figures, tables, graphs, etc. with proper interpretation and justification by relevant previous studies.  4 Conclusion: Concise form of results with concluding remarks.

 Tables, Graphs and Figures: The paper should contain maximum of 12 tables, graphs and figures all together. Figures, graphs and photographs should be given as attached file along with appropriate marking numbers in standard BMP format (uncompressed). Original illustrator, graphic or photo files must be supplied with finally accepted manuscript. o Acknowledgements (if any):

o References. Appropriate and relevant recent references must be cited following instruction given.

The following format needs to follow for preparation of manuscript:

1. Format Instructions

1.1. Instructions for Typists

Margins are to be set to a width of 15.2 cm, and each page must be typed in Times New Roman 1 1 points letter for the main text with a 13 points spacing between the lines. The footnotes to be typed in Times New Roman 10 points letter with an I I points spacing between the lines. Each page must be typed in a page depth of 21.6 cm. On the first page, the title of the paper should start after three blank lines below the journal heading. New paragraphs should be started without any indentation. Title of paper should be typed in bold,-14 point all upper-case letters, with 6 and 1 2 points spaces above and below respectively. The headings used are:

• First-Order Heading

These should be typed in bold, 12 point upper- and lower-case letters, with 6 points space above and below the heading. The text after the heading will begin at the left-hand margin (i.e., not indented as for new paragraph).

2.1. Second-Order Heading         

This should be typed in 12 point bold with a capital initial for each word at the left-hand margin, 6 points space above and below the heading.

2.1.1. Third-Order Heading

This should be typed in 12 point bold with a capital initial for each word at the left-hand margin, 6 points space above and below the heading.

Special Attention 3.1. Tables

Put a table heading at the top of the table and skip one line above and below the tables. If table heading extends over one line, continue on the second and following lines immediately below the first letter of the heading. Do not use full stop at the end of each table caption. Use horizontal lines above tables, below column headings, and below tables. Use capitals for the first letter of column headings. As far as practicable, arrange the tables in the vertical direction just as in text. Tables and text may appear on the same page. Table I is an example of an acceptable table format.