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ISSN-L 0974-4215 Journal for Conventional and Interdisciplinary Ideas on Mathematics, Physics, Chemical and Molecular Sciences, Biomedicines and Economics Co-ordinate Editor: Dr. Sujata Deb, Excogitation & Innovation Laboratory
Guidelines for Contributors General Publication Dates: Four Issues per year. Paper Submission: Paper must be submitted to the Coordinate Editor at editor @ eilab.org (please, delete the empty spaces before and after the @ sign) Submission for Reviews Only: The acceptable formats are Adobe PDF (preferred), MS Word, WordPerfect, EPS, PostScript, RTF format. Upon Acceptance: It will be helpful, if the author try to submit the source file in LaTeX/TeX format. For both purposes: Authors may use the source file in LaTeX format from LaTeX. Language: Please, try to use International English. The Editor, upon accepting a manuscript, reserves the right to introduce style changes consistent with the overall style of the journal. In every section of this journal, there must be an independent Editor-in-Chief, who will take the final decision to accept a paper, whereas, the Coordinate Editor will only supervise the editorial aspects. Manuscripts should be submitted in English. As a journal serving the whole Philosophy, Science & Mathematics community, article abstracts, introductions and conclusions should be accessible to the non-specialist, stressing any wider implications of the work within Philosophy, Science & Mathematics. However, the main body should not compromise on the scientific rigour, and detail demanded by an international Philosophy, Science & Mathematics research journal. The broad readership that Phil. Nat. attracts gives authors an opportunity to convey to a wider audience, as well as to specialists, the importance of the work. Authors are encouraged to take full advantage of the electronic medium. However, use of such presentation techniques is not a criterion for article acceptance, and should only serve to effectively communicate the Philosophy, Science & Mathematics. Manuscripts are accepted for review with the understanding that the same paper has not been published and is not being considered for publication by other journals. Every submitted paper will be acknowledged and refereed. There is no page charge. Submissions must be in one of the following forms: Adobe PDF (preferred), MS Word, WordPerfect, RTF format, TeX, LaTeX, REVTeX, AMS-TeX, Adobe PostScript, or DVI. Once an article is accepted, we will require a LaTex, TeX, or AMS-TeX file and any associated graphics files. It will be helpful, if the author try to submit the source file in LaTeX/TeX format. Before submitting a new manuscript, have available the following information and items:
Submission Process
Upon acceptance, authors may submit the source file in LaTeX/TeX format. Cover Images How to Prepare Your Manuscript For general format and style, consult recent issues of the Journal. Submission of a manuscript indicates a tacit understanding that the paper is not actively under consideration for publication with other journals. Submission of manuscripts implies that the manuscripts are in their final form and galley proofs will not be sent to the authors for proofreading before publication. Authors should write their manuscripts in English and format them as a LaTeX, AMS-LaTeX, AMS-TeX files, or MS Word, WordPerfect, RTF format. If you choose to use these packages please note that in addition to the final formatted version of the LaTeX/Tex file we also require authors to provide formatted PDF and PS files for use the publication procedures after a page number and issue has been assigned. Please keep the number of macros (e.g., \def, \newcommand) to the as minimum as possible. Please use standard LaTeX/TeX macros rather than your personal macros (e.g., use \omega instead of \om). Philosophic Nature is able to accept Word 2007 files, but, please note that we cannot accept files in .docx format. Do not write the paper as a Word 2007 document then save as a Word 97-2003 document. The Word 2007 files should be authored from the beginning in Compatibility Mode (that is, as a Word 97-2003 document) and saved in .doc format.
The Manuscript, including the abstract, references, and captions, should be neatly typed in English, using 12-point type and wide spacing, on 21.6 × 28 cm (8-1/2 × 11 in. or A4) pages with ample margins. The author should carefully proofread it. This is the author's responsibility that, the manuscript must be in good scientific English. Number all pages in single sequence beginning with the title and abstract page. The title page should contain the title of the article, the names of the authors, a suitable byline, and a short abstract. Pages of the manuscript should be arranged in the following order: abstract, text, acknowledgments, appendices, and references. Papers should not be lengthened by unnecessary descriptions and repetitions, but neither should authors use a telegraphic style detrimental to the clarity and understanding of the paper. When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should be asked to indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed. The Title should be as concise as possible but sufficiently informative to describe the subject under discussion. The Abstract should be self-contained (contain no footnotes). One should not have to read the paper to understand the abstract. It should be about 5% of the length of the article, but less than 500 words. The abstract should be written as one paragraph and should not contain displayed mathematical equations or tabular material. Keywords and/or 2000 MSC, PACS Nos. should also be provided. A minimum of two to three keywords and/or 2000 MSC, PACS Nos. must be used for purposes of indexing. Authors' names should preferably be written in a standard form for all publications to facilitate indexing and avoid ambiguities. The manuscript should have an Introduction that places the work in a context, beginning with the general problem to which it is directed, following with the motivation for the particular approach taken, and summarizing the principal results. Tables should be numbered with arabic numerals in the order of appearance. Every table must have a caption, which should be typed above the table. Tables must also have intelligible titles and must be inserted into the text directly. 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Use the appropriate superscript numeral without parentheses for citation in the text. Equations should be well aligned and should not be crowded; only the more important ones should be numbered on the right-hand side of the manuscript. Equations should be numbered consecutively throughout. Only Arabic numbering schemes are acceptable. Avoid repetition of a complicated expression by representing it with a standard, commonly used symbol. Notation must be legible, clear, compact, and consistent with standard usage so long as it conforms to current practice. All unusual symbols whose identity may not be obvious must be identified the first time they appear, and at all subsequent times when confusion might arise. Superscripts are normally set directly over subscripts; authors should note where readability or the meaning requires a special order. Each symbol must be clear, either typed neatly or written in ink and properly aligned to distinguish superscripts and subscripts. Vectors are denoted by arrows at the top, or should be in bold. Sections and subsections of a paper are numbered with Arabic numerals; so are tables and figures. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered at the top. Major section headings should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. The Introduction is to be numbered as Sec. 1. Unless a paper is very short, it should be broken up into sections, and all sections must have headings. Acknowledgments should appear under that heading at the end of the main text (before the appendices, if any). Acknowledgment of financial support should appear as the last paragraph under the same heading. Appendices should have a short title, and equations in them should be numbered consecutively [(A1), (A2), etc., for Appendix A (or the only appendix); (B1), (B2), etc., for Appendix B, and so on]. References numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [4] or [1-3], and all the references should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript. References may be listed in alphabetical order of the author's name, or listed in the order of appearance, and cited in the text in Arabic numerals within square brackets. They can be referred to indirectly, e.g. "... in the statement [1]." or used directly, e.g. "see Ref. [1] for examples." For journal references, the standard abbreviations for journal names should be used. The format for the list of references is as follows:
Electronic supplementary material Please submit your ESM (for online use) as 'supporting file(s)'. Ensure that file sizes are as small as possible so that users can download them quickly. Images should be a maximum size of 640 x 480 pixels (9 x 6.8 inches at 72 pixels per inch). We can place Electronic Supplementary Material (ESM) (created by the authors themselves) onto our Electronic Versions of papers. However, the main report, published in the printed journal, should stand on its own merit. Electronic Supplementary Material (ESM) can be considered in the following file formats: *.TXT, *.DOC, *.ZIP, *.RM, *.PDF, *.MOV, *.MPEG, *.MPG, *.JPG, *.JPEG, *.XLS, *.VRML, *.GIF, *.WAV, *.AIFF, *.CIF, *.PDB, *.AVI. Authors should submit ESM as supporting files with their submission, and also provide as a separate supporting text file (*.doc, *.txt, *.tex) a list of all ESM. This should contain a filename, title and description of each. There is a size limit of 10MB for ESM, which is a limit for the total material, not per file. Any ESM will be refereed together with the main body of the paper. It is the responsibility of the author to check for spelling, grammar, and presentation. Please note that an electronic appendix is not copyedited or reset; however, an electronic coversheet (including article citation information) is added. We prefer to accept no more than ten files, with a total size not normally exceeding 3 MB. Sound/movie files may be up to 10 MB per file; colour PDFs/PowerPoint may be up to 5 MB per file; all other general file types may be up to 2 MB per file but most files will be much smaller. Referees All papers will be acknowledged and refereed. They will not be returned. The author can suggest a list of three to five potential referees, or Editorial Board Members, in the review process. All details of phone, address, fax, etc., must be provided. Though,this in no way binds the editors to follow their suggestions. No guarantees as to which the reviewing editor will be. Consult the American Chemical Societies,or the American Mathematical Society, or the American Institute of Physics ethical guidelines for reviewing of manuscripts. Authors may also request to remain anonymous to the referees. The peer review will not be open. If the reviewers are in disagreement, normally the manuscript will be rejected. If the Editor-in-Chief is not agreed with the reviewers’ decisions, then he/she will forward the manuscript to other reviewers for peer reviewing. Editor-in-Chief in relevant section will make the final decision. If an author is unhappy with the referees’ decisions, he/she may request the Editor-in-Chief for re-reviewing the manuscript, and if the request is eligible, the Editor-in-Chief will forward the manuscript to other reviewers for peer reviewing. Submission of Accepted Manuscripts If you receive notification that the article has been accepted, we request that you carefully proofread your article and make any necessary corrections. After you have made all necessary corrections, please send your final version in LaTex, AMS-TeX, or Tex, along with any associated graphics files. Also, please send, in a seperate file, a list of any final corrections that were made. After a manuscript has been accepted for publication and after all revisions have been incorporated, manuscripts should be submitted to the Editor as electronic files by e-mail. Page Charges The journal makes No Page Charges. Authors’ Rights As the contributor of a journal article, you retain the rights detailed in the following, without any written permission from the Excogitation & Innovation Laboratory. Reproduction Right is available form the Director of Excogitation & Innovation Laboratory. © Copyright owned by the Excogitation & Innovation Laboratory.
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