AUTHOR GUIDELINES
- Authors should submit electronic version (Microsoft word doc) of the manuscript to the editor via e-mail (pdeasijraas@gmail.com).
- Accepted papers will be acknowledged and processed further, if the papers are rejected, the decision will be communicated to the corresponding author but the manuscripts will not be returned.
- Acceptance or rejection of the manuscript would be decided after the decision of editorial team.
- Authors should keep their manuscripts as short as they reasonably can (the total number of words should not exceed 5000).
- Page number should appear in the lower right hand corner of each page, beginning with the title page.
- The language of manuscript must be simple and explicit.
- Author’s / Co-author’s name or any other identification should not appear anywhere in the body of the manuscript to facilitate blind review.
- Original Research Articles (Clinical, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacological, pharmacognostical)
- Review Articles
- Short communications
- Case report/study
- Ayurved, Yoga, Homoeopathy, Naturopathy, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Medicine, Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Neurology, Surgery, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, ENT,Anesthesiology, Community Medicine, Public Health, Physiotherapy, Rehabilitation, Occupational Therapy, Paramedical sciences, Nursing, Health and Hospital Management, Genetics, Biodiversity & Conservation, Pathology, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Occupational and Environmental sciences, Molecular Biology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Dietetics & Nutrition, botany, Geology, chemistry.
- Please communicate with us electronically and send your manuscript as an attachment in MS word. Manuscripts should be prepared using font size 12, Times New Roman, aligned left and single-spaced with sufficient margins (preferably 1.5). All pages should be numbered sequentially. Manuscripts should be written in good scientific language, nomenclature and standard international units should be used.
- All articles submitted for publication in PDEAS IJRAAS should be original material. The submission should have been made exclusively to PDEAS IJRAAS and must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The first author should certify to this effect. Any author/s found to falsify or mislead the editors will be disqualified from future submissions to PDEAS IJRAAS.
- The Title should be a brief phrase describing the contents of the paper. The Title Page should include the authors' full names and affiliations, the name of the corresponding author along with contact number and e-mail information. Present addresses of authors should appear as a footnote.
- The Abstract should be informative and completely self-explanatory, briefly present the topic, state the scope of the experiments, indicate significant data, and point out major findings and conclusions. The abstract should be up to 250 words in length. Complete sentences, active verbs and the third person should be used, and the abstract should be written in the past tense. Standard nomenclature should be used and abbreviations should be avoided. No literature should be cited.
- Following the abstract, about 3 to 5 key words that will provide indexing references should be listed.
- The Introduction should be concise and define the scope of the work in relation to other work done in the same field.
- Materials and Methods should be complete enough and clearly describe the experiments and techniques used in the study. However, only truly new procedures should be described in detail; previously published procedures should be cited, and important modifications of published procedures should be mentioned briefly.
- The details of statistical tests used and the level of significance should be stated. If more than one test is used it is important to indicate which groups and parameters have been subjected to which test.
- Results should be combined and presented with clarity and precision. The results should be written in the past tense when describing findings in the author(s)'s experiments. Previously published findings should be written in the present tense.
- The Discussion should interpret the findings in view of the results obtained in this and in past studies on this topic. This section should deal with the interpretation, rather than recapitulation of results. It is important to discuss the new and significant observations in the light of previous work. Discuss also the weaknesses or pitfalls in the study. New hypotheses or recommendations can be put forth. Avoid unqualified statements and conclusions not completely supported by the data. Repetition of information given under Introduction and Results should be avoided.
- State the conclusions in a few sentences in lucid manner at the end of the paper. Conclusions must be drawn considering the strengths and weaknesses of the study.
- Author(s) may acknowledge the support obtained in the study. It should be typed in a new page. Acknowledge only persons who have contributed to the scientific content or provided technical support. Sources of financial support should be mentioned.
- Tables should be drawn on separate page and kept to a minimum and be designed to be as simple as possible. Tables are to be typed double-spaced throughout, including headings and footnotes. Tables should be self - explanatory without reference to the text. The details of the methods used in the experiments should preferably be described in the legend instead of in the text. The same data should not be presented in both table and graph forms or repeated in the text. Tables should be prepared in Microsoft Word.
- Graphics should be prepared using applications capable of generating high resolution GIF, TIFF, JPEG or PowerPoint before pasting in the Microsoft Word manuscript file. Use Arabic numerals to designate figures and upper case letters for their parts (Figure 1). Figures can be attached as JPEG file.
- It should begin on a new page. Avoid citing abstracts as references. Each reference should be assigned a number, consecutively in the order of mention in the text. References are to be cited in the text by superscribed number and should be in the order in which they appear. The original number should be reused each time the same reference is cited in the text. The number should be placed in the text as superscribed1, outside the full-stops and commas and inside colons and semi-colons. When multiple references are cited at a given place in the text, use a hyphen to join the first and last numbers that are inclusive and use commas to separate non-inclusive numbers (2-5, 7, 10). The references should follow the Vancouver style. The list of references should be given at the end of the paper. If there are 3 or less authors, mention name of all the authors. Where there are more than 3 authors, use et al after the third author.
- Papers must be submitted with the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis) and are not currently under consideration by another journal. The Corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the article's publication has been approved by all the other co-authors. It is also the authors' responsibility to ensure that the articles emanating from a particular institution are submitted with the approval of the necessary institution. Electronic submission of manuscripts is strongly encouraged, provided that the text, tables, and figures/plates are included in a single Microsoft Word file (preferably in Times New Roman, Font Size 12). Further correspondence and proofs will be sent to the corresponding author before publication unless otherwise indicated. It is a condition for submission of a paper that the authors permit editing of the paper for readability. The inclusion and deletion of author(s) name will not be permitted after the preparation of proofs. All enquiries concerning the publication of submitted/accepted papers should be addressed to pdeasijraas@gmail.com
- All rights are reserved with PDEAS IJRAAS. All the authors must sign a copyright transfer form sent by PDEAS IJRAAS before publication of articles.
- Authors will be required to pay INR 1000/- (from India) or US$ 50.00 (from countries other than India) for each manuscript accepted before publication. Authors who fail to pay the required amount will forfeit their accepted manuscript to the Publishers. All the payment must be done by Net Banking (NEFT) as instructed by editor. Other modes of payment (like cash, cheque /Demand Draft) are not accepted by PDEAS IJRAAS
- All correspondence to editor should be done by email at following ID. pdeasijraas@gmail.com & to mobile number +91-9822339569
