Authors Guide

Editorial policies

Please carefully read our ethics and policies page before submitting. Please also review our licensing and open and close access conditions.

Papers submitted to AJAFP journals are normally peer-reviewed in a single-blind fashion (author names are not concealed, but referee names are). Unless you have opted for publication of peer review information for accepted papers. The referee reports and other correspondence relating to your paper must remain confidential and should not be shared or made publicly available.

Language

Manuscripts are accepted in English. Formal names of institutions, either in texts or in the author affiliation data, should not be translated unless an officially accepted translation exists. Also, titles in references should be left in their original language.

Formatting your article

In order to make manuscript submission as easy as possible for authors, we have introduced format-free initial submissions for our journals. At first submission, authors can submit their manuscript in any format; however, we do still encourage authors to read the manuscript preparation guidelines below and to consider how easy a manuscript is to read by reviewers and editors.

Where applicable, manuscripts must adhere to our guidelines regarding length

Once an article has been accepted for publication the main manuscript must be submitted as an editable file, not a PDF, and the source files of any figures and tables must be provided. If you are submitting a LaTeX file please submit the full version. Authors who believe their manuscripts would benefit from professional editing prior to submission are encouraged to use a language editing service.

Contact : editing@heralds.org

Submissions should include the following sections.

Title page

Your article title should be a short description of the research you are reporting. The best titles are written with both human readers and search engines in mind; including keywords in your title will help readers discover your article online. The title page should also contain full names and affiliations for each author.

Abstract

The abstract should be no more than 200 words and should not contain references or unexplained abbreviations or acronyms. Your abstract should be concise and informative and should read well as a standalone piece. The general scope of the article as well as the main results and conclusions should be summarised. Please also ensure that your abstract contains all likely search terms, to assist indexers (e.g. PubMed) that scan only the title and abstract of articles. If possible, it is beneficial to have all your keywords written into the abstract.

Keywords

Please include at least 3 and up to 6 keywords. Try to avoid overly broad or specialised terms that might be meaningless to a reader.

Think about the words you would use to search online for articles on the same topic; these often make the best keywords. They do not necessarily need to be single words; keywords can include short phrases or terms that are easily recognized by researchers in your field.

Main text

The main text of your article should be split into clearly-labelled sections. Usually these will be background, methods, results, discussion and conclusions, however please feel free to use whatever headings and subheadings best suit your article. Abbreviations should be written out in full on first use.

Graphical abstract

Although a graphical abstract is optional, its use is encouraged as it draws more attention to the online article. The graphical abstract should summarize the contents of the article in a concise, pictorial form designed to capture the attention of a wide readership. Graphical abstracts should be submitted as a separate file in the online submission system. Image size: Please provide an image with a minimum of 531 × 1328 pixels (h × w) or proportionally more. The image should be readable at a size of 5 × 13 cm using a regular screen resolution of 96 dpi. Preferred file types: TIFF, EPS, PDF or MS Office files. You can view Example Graphical Abstracts on our information site.

Acknowledgements

Please acknowledge anyone who contributed to the study but did not meet the authorship criteria.

Funding

Please state the sources of funding including grant number for each author. Including this information is a requirement of many funders. You will also be asked to enter this information during the submission process if necessary, but please ensure that you also include it in the manuscript.

Note

Plagiarism Analysis

All the articles must contain a minimum of 75% unique content (should not be copied from any other web sources). In the Results and conclusion part of text the uniqueness must be 100%. The articles having below 75% are returned to the authors for revision and asked for resubmissions with adequate uniqueness. To check the originality of your paper click on https://www.grammarly.com/plagiarism-checker

NB: Click here to download manuscript preparation template or send manuscript as a free style