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ISSN: 0377-015X |
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REVISED INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
(Effective January 2011)
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Only original papers are considered for publication. The authors must declare that
the manuscript has not been submitted to another journal for consideration at the same time.
Manuscripts should be submitted by one of the authors of the paper. It is mandatory that the corresponding author submits a signed Covering Letter and the Check Sheet along with the manuscript, on behalf of all the co-authors (if any). Before submission, the author(s) must ensure that the manuscript has been prepared according to the Journal's guidelines.
To download the checksheet click here for WORD file or PDF file.
IMPORTANT:
All authors and coauthors who are Indian Nationals and other who have conducted the study in India MUST be a Member of the National Institute of Ecology at the time of submission of the manuscripts.
Details of membership and application form are available at the homepage of the NIE at
http://www.nieindia.org.
All files of a manuscript (Text, Tables, Figures, Cover letter and Check sheet) must be submitted as attachments by email to ijees1@gmail.com.
PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS
The manuscripts should be prepared only in English.
The manuscript should be written in English in a clear, direct and active style. Manuscripts should follow a standard page layout: only Letter or A-4 size, 2.5 cm margin on all the four sides, and 1.5 line spacing . The text should be carefully checked for typographical errors, especially numerals and diacritical marks in words from different languages British spellings are preferred. However, there should be uniformity throughout the text. All pages must be numbered sequentially to facilitate reviewing and editing of the manuscript. Manuscripts should be word-processed using either Microfoft WORD 2003 or 2007 or Corel WordPerfect 9 or higher version.
The title page should comprise: full title of the paper, initials and surname of author(s), name of the laboratory where the work was carried out, current institutional affiliations with full address and E-mail IDs of all authors and the complete postal address of the corresponding author with whom all corres-pondence concerning the manuscript should be made. Please add Telephone and Fax numbers as well as E-mail address.
An Abstract should be placed after the title page. Summary is not required at the end of the paper. The Abstract should include sufficient information on the objectives, study area, methods, main results and major conclusions. The Abstract should preferably be arranged in numbered paragraphs to cover all this information.
It should not cite any reference and should be limited to 5% of the text (excluding references).
Six to ten key words should be provided after the Abstract. No key word should be repeated from the title of the paper.
Authors should also provide a short ‘running title’ (not exceeding 40 characters) for use in the header. It should be placed on the abstract page after the Key words.
Organization of the Text
The main text of the paper should start from a new page. It should be reasonably subdivided into sections and subsections. In no case, the text should be organised at more than four levels of subdivision.
Research Papers should be structured into sections as Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion. Methods should be described in adequate detail. Field studies should include an adequate account of the study area and the sampling sites in a separate section. For Review Papers, Commentaries and Viewpoints, the text may be subdivided according to the issues to be discussed.
The Review Papers should mention any previous important reviews in the field and contain a compre-hensive discussion starting with the general background of the field. It should then go on to discuss the salient features of recent developments. The authors should avoid presenting material which has already been published in a previous review.
References to published literature should be cited in the text by the author's name and year: e.g., Keddy (2010) when forming part of a sentence, or (Keddy 2010) when forming an addition to a sentence. If a paper has three or more authors, then it should be referred to by the surname of the first author and expression et al. (for example, Santaniello et al. 2003). The author’s name and year are not separated by a comma. Two or more citations, when placed together within parentheses, should be separated by a comma.
The manuscript style must be uniform throughout the text. The language should be concise and clear. Authors should check the manuscripts thoroughly for any grammatical and typographic errors. Special attention should be paid to diacritical marks and spellings of words from other languages.
Only metric units (S.I. Units) should be used. If other units have to be necessarily used, their equivalent values in SI units should be given in parentheses.
Latin binomial names of all organisms should be given in full, together with their respective taxonomic authority, the first time they appear in the text.
Each table should be placed on a separate page and all numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in the order they are referred to in the text first. Each table should be provided a short title. Data that can be readily presented in the text should not be tabluated. Large tables with too many columns should be avoided.
All diagrams, graphs and photographs should be referred to in the text as figure, and numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in the order of their citation in the text. Terms such as plate, chart and graph should not be used. All the figures should be provided a detailed caption and all captions should be typed together on a separate page. Figure number and caption should not be inserted in the figure.
Following file formats are preferably acceptable:
EPS (for diagrams); PNG (for photos); PowerPoint version 2003/2007 (each page with a single figure); TIFF; BMP and JPEG (high resolution; >300 dpi).
Please do not embed graphics in your word processor, spreadsheet or presentation. Low resolution GIF files are not accepted.
All acknowledgements should be put at the end before References. Please acknowledge every individual, institution or organisation who has contributed to the study by making substantial contributions to conception, design, collection of data (sampling and analysis), or analysis and interpretation of data, or who was involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content. Please list the source(s) of funding for the study (with appropriate grant number), for each author, and for the manuscript preparation.
References at the end of the paper should list in alphabetical order under the first author's name all works referred to in the text. These should include the names of all authors/editors, full title of the paper, unabbreviated title of the journals, and the name and place of the publisher, and total number of pages in case of books, collective volumes and Proceedings. Examples can be seen in the detailed instructions which can be downloaded here as a PDF file.
Please note that it is the author's responsibility to obtain written permission to quote copyrighted material which has appeared in another publication.
The word processed text files (including tables) as well as the graphic files should be named in a manner that these can be readily identified
with the author(s) and title of the paper. Names such as text.doc, paper.doc or figure.jpg are NOT acceptable.
PROOFS AND REPRINTS
Page proofs are sent as a PDF file only to the corresponding author by email.
The corrections should be communicated to the Editor without delay. Alterations in the proofs, other than those necessitated by the printer's errors, should be kept to the minimum.
There are no gratis reprints. Each author will receive a PDF file of the published paper. Authors can distribute it freely by email or make hard copies for private circulation only.
If required, printed paper copies of reprints can be ordered on payment at the time of correcting proofs.
MISCELLANEOUS
With effect from January 2012, the journal will levy page charges for all papers. For details, please check here. Authors are also required to pay part costs of reproduction of colour plates. In case, all authors and coauthors a Member of the National Institute of Ecology, there will be no page charges for one paper (up to 8 pages) in a year.
The copyright in published papers is vested with the publisher.
The authors of accepted contributions will be asked to formally sign an agreement to transfer the copyright to the publisher.
REVISED and Detailed Instructions for the authors are available as a PDF file.
Click here to download it.
