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of Applied Biosciences (ISSN 1997 - 5902)J. Appl. Biosci. ISSN 1997- 5902 Submission instructions for authorsAuthors should strictly adhere to these instructions to avoid delays in review process.
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Contributions
should be prepared on A4 (210 x 297 mm), using Arial Narrow Font
Size12. Lines should be double spaced throughout the manuscript.
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Authors
are encouraged to include graphic images (photographs, scans or
drawings) that enhance the reader's understanding and appreciation of
the publication. There is no limit on the number of images that can be
published. However, authors submitting images should be conscious of
space requirements. To accomodate more photos, authors should compress
high quality images to 96 dpi (for screen presentation).The entire
manuscript including images and all attachments should not exceed 2.4 MB or 15 pages.
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All data presented should be carefully analyzed (indicate methods and software used) and presented using a suitable combination of tables and graphs.
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- Your manuscript should be divided into the following sections:
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Title (brief and reflecting content of manuscript);
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Authors names, Institutions, and addresses. Include email address of corresponding author.
- Abstract. Divide the abstract further into sections with the following headings.
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Objectives: (in less than 50 words).
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Methodology and Results: (in less than 100 words).
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Conclusions and application of findings : in about 150 words. This is a very important section for publications submitted to JABs. Authors should pay particular attention.
Main body of the manuscript should have the following sections:
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Introduction: should
concisely present an overview of previous, latest available knowledge
on the subject (preferably literature published in the last 5 years).
Define the problem being addressed and present current status. End this
section with the objectives of the activities carried out (for a
research paper), or objectives of the manuscript (if it is a review or
presentation of hypothetical concepts addressing a Bioscience issue).
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Materials and methods: Clearly
describe methodologies employed to carry out the work, in a way to
enable others understand and be able to reproduce them. If a new method
has been used it should be described in entirety. If a method has been
previously used and published, it will suffice to refer to the
publication, other than where modifications have been made.
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Results and Discussion:The
results and discussion should preferably be written separately but may
be combined. Discussion of the results (or hypothetical outcomes)
should be put in context of other recent findings on the same topic.
The Journal of Applied BioSciences puts great emphasis on actual or
potential applications of the studies being carried out. Authors are
therefore encouraged to pay attention to this point of identifying the
impact that has been achieved or can be expected from the outputs of
the activities carried out.
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Acknowledgements: should appear after discussion and before references.
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References: these
should include only the most relevant and latest literature available
on the subject. It should preferably include materials published
formally in journals or edited books. However, other materials that are
valuable but informally published on the internet (where they are
easily accessible) can be cited, with correct posting date and web
address provided). Citations within the manuscript text should only
indicate author surname followed by year of publication, e.g. (Jones,
2005). If two authors, indicate both, e.g. (Jones & James, 2005)
and indicate et al if more than two authors, e.g. (Jones et
al., 2005). Citations in the text should observe chronology (year of
publication) in the first order) then Alphabetical oreder of authors in
the second order., e.g. John 2002; James, 2005). if published in the
same year cite as James 2002, John 2002).
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Citation format for journal article: (On the references list, the citations should be formatted to have a hanging line indent. E.g.
For one author:
Jones KM, 2005. Production of Vitamin A enriched juice from African mango (Mangifera indica L.) and rice. Journal of Applied BioSciences 10: 291-304.
If two authors, use 'and' between the authors names.
John J. and James K, 2008. rats and Mice. Journal of Biosciences 40: 2090 - 2098.
If more than two authors, the authors names are separated only by commas without 'and' between the names., e.g.
Jones KM, James KJ, Job NB, 2008.
Citation format for edited book
Jones
KM, Sigh EA, Brooke B, 2005. Tissue reconstruction approaches. Mann UT
(Editor), 2nd Edition, Elewa Publications, Nairobi, Kenya. 300 pp.
Citation format for web publications
Jones
KM, Sigh EA, Brooke B, 2005. Tissue reconstruction approaches.
Technical presentation, ‘Biological tissues working group seminar’,
held Jan 10- 17, 2005, Ocean City. www.biotissues.org/reconstruction/doc1
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Authors
from Francophone countries may submit manuscripts in French but must
include an English translation of the Title and the Abstract.
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Your
submission will be acknowledged in an email within three days at most,
with a tracking number allocated. We will endeavour to complete the
review process in a maximum of 12 weeks and if accepted, the
manuscript will be published in the next month’s edition of the
journal.
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All
articles published in the Journal of Applied BioSciences will be
available in full length, freely and openly (to everyone with a web
browser) anywhere in the world.
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Please
add the above email addresses to your email account Address book to
avoid our messages going to SPAM (especially if you have a yahoo account).
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We
highly recommend you send us the names (with email & telephone
numbers) of at least two suitable reviewers for your paper. You may
copy your submissions to sarah@elewa.org. Copyright
The Journal of Applied Biosciences (JABS) reserves copyright of the
material published. When the manuscript is accepted for publication ,
the authors agree to transfer copyright to the publisher. The Editor
must grant permission for use of any published material.
It is unethical to submit an article for publication in different
journals, either for simultaneous review or otherwise. Elewa
Biosciences will not consider any manuscripts that are being reviewed
by other publishers or have been previously published elsewhere.
Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism defined as a paper reproducing another authors
work with at least high similarity and without citation. If there is
sufficient proof of plagiarism is found before/after acceptance or
after publication of the paper, the author will bear the legal
consequences. The manuscript will be retracted and the author stopped
from publishing papers in JABS
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