The Journal of Advanced Scientific Education and Research (J.Adv.Sci.Edu.Res.) is a dedicated inter-disciplinary journal publishing research articles covering every aspect of Biological, Physical and Social Sciences. Primary focus of this journal is on novel and original perspectives of research progress in the above fields of knowledge. Original articles on research, review articles, short communications etc. are welcome. Manuscripts will be subject to peer review.

The articles shall contain an abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results and discussions, conclusion, acknowledgement, declaration, conflict of interest, references, tables and figures, as and where necessary.

Title Page:  should include:

• A concise and informative title
• Name(s) of the author(s)
• Affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. Institution, (Department), City, (State), Country
• A clear indication * and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author

• Please note that author names will be published exactly as they appear on the accepted submission. Ensure that the names of all authors are correctly spelled, and that addresses and affiliations are current.

Changes in authorship

• Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the journal Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (a) the reason for the change in author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement.

Abstract

Abstract should be within 200 words. Avoid using any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references. There should be 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purpose also.

Text

Manuscripts should be submitted in both MS Word document and pdf.

• Research articles should contain no more than 3000 words.
• Short communications in not more than 1500 words, and with no abstract.
• Review articles should be within 5000 words (excluding references).

• Use Times New Roman, font size 12 for text with a line space of 1.5.
• Use italics for scientific names, emphasis, journal names.
• To draw chemical structure use Chem Draw, Chemwin or ISIS
• Use automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
• Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
• Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
• Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).

Headings:

Up to three levels of displayed headings.

Abbreviations:

Abbreviations / acronyms should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Figure Numbering:

• All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals like Figure/ Fig. 5

• Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.

Figure Captions:

• Files for the text and for the figures should be separate.
• Each figure should have a concise caption describing the figure. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
• Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type. Example Fig.2 ---------------
• Identify previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference citation at the end of the figure caption, within parenthesis.

Acknowledgments

Not exceeding 200 words, of people, grants, funds, etc. Names of funding organizations should be written in full and with funding number.

References

Citations - Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:

• ….. the true species richness for the assemblages sampled (Senthilkumar, 2003).
• .... Identification, nomenclature, and geographic distributions of collected butterflies followed Arora and Mondal (1981).
• …….. which are known to be very good nectar food for many butterfly species (Saikia et al., 2009).
• …… similar patterns of species abundance and richness were reported from the western ghats and western coast of India (Kunte, 1997; Eswaran and Pramod, 2005; Padhye et al., 2006; Krishnakumar et al., 2007; Raut and Pendharkar, 2010),

Reference list

The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work.

• Journal article  

Agarwala, B. K., Roy Choudhury, S., Roy Chaudhury, P. 2010. Species richness and diversity

of butterflies in urban and natural locations of north-east India. Entomon, 35: 87– 91. (Surname Full and (,) then Name (.) like Sardar, S. and Mukherjee, A.)

• Article by DOI

Suleiman, C., O'Connell, D.C. and Kowal, S., 2002. “If you and I, if we, in this later day, lose that sacred fire...”: Perspective in Political Interviews. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 31(3), pp.269-287. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015592129296

• Book

Alfred, J. R. B., Das, A. K., Sanyal, A. K., 2002. Ecosystems of India. ENVIS- Zoological Survey of India.

Book Chapters

Roy Choudhury, S., Ray Choudhury, P., Agarwala, B. K., 2011. Butterflies of Trishna wildlife sanctuary of north-east India with a note on their diversity and seasonality. In: Proceedings of National Conference on water, energy and biodiversity with special reference to North-East region. pp. 261–265. Excel India Publishers.

Online document

Frisch, Mathias. 2007. Does a low-entropy constraint prevent us from influencing the past? Phil. Sci. archive. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003390. Accessed 26 June 2007.

Journal names and book titles should be italicized.

Declaration to be submitted

“This is to declare that this article / review work is developed by me / us, based on my / our personal study and / or research or, on primary / secondary published data and that I / We have duly acknowledged the use of all such previously published data in preparation of this report in a conventional manner and it is free from plagiarism. Further, I / We declare that this report has not previously been submitted for assessment / publication in any other journal.” – First Author

Authors Contribution: Contribution of each author in construction of the article is to be mentioned.

Consent of authors: Consent of each author towards publication of the article is to be submitted separately along with the manuscript in the following format –

Declaration of Consent

“This is to declare that I have full consent in publishing the article entitled ‘…………………………’ along with ………………. and …………………….. as co-authors. I do not have any conflict of interest in publication of the said article.” – Author

Conflict of Interest

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. This statement will be published within the article if accepted. The authors can also submit a declaration regarding no conflict of interest.

Foot notes: It should be labelled either in alphabetically or numerically and it should be placed at the bottom of respective page.

Plagiarism prior publishing:

Journals will judge any case of plagiarism on its limits. If plagiarism is detected in any stage of article process before or after acceptance, authors will be asked to rewrite the content or to cite the references from where the content has been taken. If more than 30% of the paper is plagiarized- the article may be rejected and returned to the authors.

Submission of articles/manuscripts:

An article drawn on the above guidelines is to be submitted online by the corresponding author to jaser@rkmvccrahara.ac.in along with a forwarding letter addressed to the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Both word doc. and pdf. are to be submitted. An acknowledgement email will be sent to the corresponding author following successful submission of the article in J.Adv.Sci.Edu.Res.

After peer review of the submitted articles, the authors will get a stipulated time of 15 days for editing and resubmitting the corrected manuscript to the journal authority. After acceptance of the article no further alteration shall be allowed. The authority can reject an article, if found unsuitable.