When preparing your manuscript, please adhere to the following guidelines to ensure that your submission is processed on time.

There are specific requirements for different article types:

1. Research Articles: These should describe unpublished original research outcomes, contributing substantially to knowledge and understanding of the subject matter. They should be supported by relevant figures and tabulated data and should not exceed 7,000 words.
2. Case Reports: These may briefly describe up to four cases of a particular unusual condition and provide new insights into diagnosis or clinical management. Case reports should be 1,500 words at most, with no more than four tables or figures and 20 references.
3. Case Series: These may report an unlimited number of patients and should be a maximum of 2,000 words, including no more than four tables or figures and 20 references.
4. Short Communications: They should provide a brief but complete account of work, presenting either new data or existing data to support the author’s conclusions. They should not exceed 1,500 words and can include a maximum of 2 tables, 1 figure, and 20 references.
5. Reviews: This category includes systematic reviews, literature reviews, scoping reviews, and narrative reviews, which should be between 2,000-10,000 words.
6. Commentary: Commentaries can address hot topics of interest to the translational medicine community, and should be written in an easy-to-understand format, with a maximum length of 2,000 words.
7. News and Views: These contain updates and discussion pieces relevant to the journal’s scope.
8. Perspectives: These submissions should not exceed 3,000 words, with references limited to 80.
9. Correspondence/Letter to the Editor: This format should not exceed 1,500 words and can have up to 20 references. The article template and example of a published Case Report are available for download. When submitting your manuscript, please ensure that the title and abstract are the only components listed on the submitted file to maintain anonymous peer review.

Abstracts for research articles should be no more than 300 words, with up to six keywords listed below the abstract. The main body of the submission should be logically structured, with clear introduction, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion sections. Additionally, up to three level headings are permitted. These guidelines are meant to ensure consistency and quality in the submissions received. Thank you for adhering to these instructions when preparing your manuscript.

 

Supplementary Files: 1. Optional additional files should be provided in their final form and listed with a corresponding number, title, and description. These files should also be cited in the main text.

 

2. Reproducibility: If data, structured methods, or code used in the research project have been made openly available, a statement should be included to inform the reader how to access these files, including the repository location and DOI linking to it.

 

3. Ethics and consent: Research involving human subjects, human material, or human data must have been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Authors should include a statement detailing any approval from an appropriate ethics committee, including the committee’s name and approval reference number. Informed consent from participants (or their legal guardians) should also be obtained.

 

4. Experiments with animals: Must adhere to national standards of care.

 

5. Acknowledgments: Any acknowledgments should be placed in a separate paragraph after the main text but before the reference list.

 

6. Funding Information: If the research has received a grant, the grant provider and number should be detailed.

 

7. Competing Interests: If any authors have competing interests, they must be declared. If there are no competing interests, a statement to that effect should be included.

 

8. Authors’ contributions: A brief statement detailing the roles of each author in the submission should be provided.
9. References: All references cited within the submission must be listed at the end of the main text file.

 

10. Language & Text: Proper capitalization, spelling, grammar, font usage, and quotation guidelines should be followed. Lists should be used sparingly, and acronyms and abbreviations should be clarified where necessary.

 

When submitting your research for publication, please consider the following guidelines:

 

Figures & Tables

Figures Figures, including graphs and diagrams, must be professionally and clearly presented. If a figure is not easy to understand or does not appear to be of a suitable quality, the editor may ask to re-render or omit it.

All figures must be cited within the main text, in consecutive order using Arabic numerals (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.).

Each figure must have an accompanying descriptive main title. This should clearly and concisely summarise the content and/or use of the figure image. A short additional figure legend is optional to offer a further description.

Replace the entirety of this text with the main body of your chapter. The body is where the author explains experiments, presents and interprets data of one’s research. Authors are free to decide how the main body will be structured. However, you are required to have at least one heading. Please ensure that either British or American English is used consistently in your chapter.

 

Citing Sources

 

When you are citing sources, the citations should be set in numbered format. All the references given in the list of references should be cited in the body of the text. Please set citations in square brackets keeping the below points in mind:

 

Correct format: [4–6, 9]; [1, 2]

Incorrect format: [4-6,9], [4, 5, 6, 9], [4] [5] [6] [9]; [1–2]

 

The numbers should be listed in sequential order.

 

Figures and Tables

 

Figures must be high resolution (300dpi or higher). Acceptable image formats are .JPEG, .PNG, .TIFF, .BMP, .EPS, .WMF, .EMF or .PDF. Make sure to number your figures accordingly. Figures should not exceed 130mm (5,118 inches) in width, and 184 mm (7,244 inches) in height. Larger figures will be resized to fit within the appropriate dimensions.

Insert the figure caption beneath the Figure itself. If not part of the figure, figure legend is to be placed beneath figure caption. When referring to a figure in the body of the text, the word “Figure” is used. The order of main citations of figures in the text must be sequential.

 

Tables should not be submitted as image formats (i.e. .jpeg, .tiff). All tables must be in Portrait orientation and must be max 130mm (5,118 inches) wide.

Insert the table caption beneath the table. If not part of the table, the table legend is to be placed beneath the table caption.

All figures and tables must be cited in the text by number (e.g., Figure 1, Table 1). The full word is used, not abbreviation (e.g. “Tab.”, “Fig”). The order of main citations of figures and tables in the text must be sequential, from 1 to n, where n marks the last figure/table in the chapter.

 

Correct: Figure 1, Figure 2, Table 6, Table 8

Incorrect: Fig 1.1, Figure 1.1, Tab 4.3., Table 4.3.

 

Important! To reuse figures and tables that have already been published elsewhere you are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s), for both the print and online format.

 

Videos

 

You may submit supplemental video material for your chapter, and it will be featured as a link inside the text.

Always put a placeholder text in the body of your manuscript, in the place where you would like to have the video link placed. Video links can also be placed in a unnumbered section titled “Video materials” at the end of the chapter.

Any video file must be cited or referred to in the main text of your manuscript (i.e. Video 1, Video 2).

Allowed video file formats are: QuickTime movie (.mov); Audio file (.wav); MPEG/MPG animation (.mpg, .mp4)

Max size: 100MB.

Please note that the video and audio cannot be embedded, even in the online version of the chapter. Video must be uploaded as a separate file in a zipped archive.

 

Example: Video 1 available from (can be viewed at) http://bit.ly/29nKuLh

 

Equations

 

For equations, Use equation-editor programs such as “MathType” or “Microsoft equation”.

Manuscripts with the equations imported as image formats (e.g. .jpeg, .tiff) are NOT accepted and will be returned to the Author for corrections. Equations are to be numbered sequentially, with Arabic numerals in brackets, from 1 upwards. (e.g (1)). When referring to specific equation please use next abbreviation (Eq. (1)).

 

Acronyms and Abbreviations

 

Spell out acronyms at first use with the abbreviation following in parentheses.

If a term/expansion is a proper noun (i.e., the name of an organization, university, standard test and questionnaire, etc.), it should be set in Title Case.

 

Examples: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

 

In case of just a normal expansion of an acronym and not a proper noun, the term should be set as sentence case. Examples: polycistic ovary syndrome (PCOS), coefficient of performance (COP), genetic algorithm (GA).

Do not format the terms with boldface or italic, like polycistic ovary syndrome (PCOS) or quality assurance (QA). Commonly used acronyms (e.g. MRI, UNICEF, etc.) do not need to be explained.

 

Subsections

 

You chapter will be divided into subsections. Please number section headings based on their hierarchy, with Arabic numbering.

 

For example:

 

1. Introduction
2. Control and eradication strategies for animal brucellosis

          2.1 Management and biosecurity

          2.2 Test and slaughter programs

          2.2.1 Indirect diagnostic tests

3. Conclusions

Appendices and Nomenclature

Place appendix and nomenclature before Reference list.

Conclusion(s)

It is preferable to include a Conclusion(s) section which will summarize the content of the book chapter.

Acknowledgments

Replace the entirety of this text with acknowledgments. Usually, the acknowledgments section includes the names of people or institutions who in some way contributed to the work, but do not fit the criteria to be listed as the authors.

The authorship criteria are listed in our Authorship Policy: https://www.intechopen.com/page/authorship-policy.

This section of your manuscript may also include funding information.

Conflict of Interest

 “The authors declare no conflict of interest.”

Notes/Thanks/Other declarations

Place any other declarations, such as “Notes”, “Thanks”, etc. in before the References section. Assign the appropriate heading. Do NOT put your short biography in this section. It will be removed.

References

Replace the entirety of this text with your references. IntechOpen Book Chapter Layout uses the numbered citation method for reference formatting, with sequential numbering in the text, and respective ordering in a list at the end of the paper.

The list should contain at least five references and should be arranged in the order of citation in the text, not in the alphabetical order.

List only one reference per reference number.

Throughout the text, each reference number should be enclosed by square brackets (i.e. “in [1] …”, or as “in reference [1] …” or “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore. [1]”)

(Note: It is not necessary to mention the authors of a reference, unless the mention is relevant to the text.)

Phrases such as “For example,” should not introduce references in the list, but should instead be given in square brackets in the text, followed by the reference number (i.e.,“For example, see [5].”)

Multiple citations within a single set of brackets should be separated by commas. Where there are three or more sequential citations, they should be given as a range [2, 7-9, 13]. Therefore, formatting the references properly is crucial.

 

Examples:

 

Journal article (published): [1] Zanzoni A, Montecchi-Palazzi L, Quondam MX. Mint: A molecular interaction database. FEBS Letters. 2002;513:135-140. DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)03293-8

Journal article (forthcoming): [2] Zanzoni A, Montecchi-Palazzi L, Quondam MX. Mint: A molecular interaction database. FEBS Letters. DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(01)03293-8

Authored book: [3] Luque A, Hegedus S. Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering. 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley; 2011. 1132 p. DOI: 10.1002/9780470974704

Edited book: [4] Luque A, Hegedus S, editors. Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering. 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley; 2011. 1132 p. DOI: 10.1002/978047974704

Book chapter: [5] Ceccaroli B, Lohne O. Solar grade silicon feedstock. In: Luque A, Hegedus S, editors. Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering. 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley; 2011. p. 169-217. DOI: 10.1002/978047974704.ch5

Conference paper: [6] Kajihara A, Harakawa T. Model of photovoltaic cell circuits under partial shading. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT ’05); 14-17 December 2005; Hong Kong. New York: IEEE; 2006. p. 866-870

Webpage: [7] Solarex. SX-40 & SX-50 Photovoltaic Modules [Internet]. 1999. Available from: http://www.trichord-inc.com/pricing/frames/content/solar_power.pdf [Accessed: YYYY-MM-DD]

Thesis: [8] DenHerder T. Design and simulation of PV super system using Simulink [thesis]. San Luis Obispo: California Polytechnic State University; 2006.

 

Alternately, please use the Vancouver referencing style to cite your sources. If your reference management software employs CSL referencing styles, please use the Vancouver (brackets) style available from:

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1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal.
3. All authors qualify as authors, as per the authorship guidelines, and have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper.
4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines. Every effort has been made to ensure that author names are removed from the manuscript (following the instructions to ensure blind peer review).
5. Tables are all cited in the main text and are included within the text document.
6. Figures are all cited in the main text and are uploaded as supplementary files. Figures/images have a resolution of at least 150dpi (300dpi or above preferred). The files are in one of the following formats: JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, EPS (to maximise quality, the original source file is preferred).
7. All patients included within case reports or other article types in which an individual or a group of individuals can be identified have signed consent forms, or had had their guardian do so, giving permission to publish the submitted content under a CC-BY licence.
8. Research has been approved by an appropriate ethics committee, with the name of the committee and reference number of approvals included within the submitted file.

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