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Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines for ScienceJournalHub

General Standards

Article Type
Authors must select the appropriate article type for their manuscript and comply with the article type descriptions defined on the journal's "Article Types" page, available under the "About Journal" menu in "For Authors" on every ScienceJournalHub page. Please adhere to the specified word count limits.

Templates
If working with Word, please use our Word templates. If you wish to submit your article in LaTeX, we recommend our LaTeX templates.

For LaTeX files, please ensure all relevant manuscript files are uploaded: .tex file, PDF, and .bib file (if the bibliography is not already included in the .tex file).

During the review process, authors are encouraged to upload versions using track changes. Editors and reviewers can only download the PDF file of the submitted manuscript.

 Important Download links

MS word paper template (Download here) 

Manuscript Length
Authors should closely follow the article word count lengths provided on the "Article Types" page of the journal. The manuscript length includes only the main body of the text, footnotes, and all citations within it, excluding the abstract, section titles, figure and table captions, funding statement, acknowledgments, and references. Please indicate the number of words and the number of figures and tables included in your manuscript on the first page.

Language Editing
ScienceJournalHub requires that manuscripts meet international English language standards to be considered for publication. Authors should ensure their manuscript is clear and well-written before submission.

Language Style
The default language style at ScienceJournalHub is American English. If you prefer your article to be formatted in British English, please specify this on the first page of your manuscript. For any questions regarding style, ScienceJournalHub recommends consulting the Chicago Manual of Style.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
To maximize your article's discoverability and search results:

• Include a few of your article's keywords in the title.
• Avoid long article titles.
• Select 5-8 keywords using a mix of general and specific terms related to the article's subject.
• Use the maximum number of keywords in the first two sentences of the abstract.
• Incorporate some of the keywords in level 1 headings.

CrossMark Policy
CrossMark is a multi-publisher initiative providing a standard way for readers to locate the current version of a piece of content. By applying the CrossMark logo, ScienceJournalHub is committed to maintaining the content it publishes and alerting readers to changes if and when they occur.

Clicking on the CrossMark logo will provide the current status of a document and may also give additional publication record information about the document.

Title
The title should be concise, omitting terms that are implicit, and, where possible, be a statement of the main result or conclusion presented in the manuscript. Abbreviations should be avoided within the title.

Witty or creative titles are welcome, but only if relevant and within measure. Consider if a title meant to be thought-provoking might be misinterpreted as offensive or alarming. In extreme cases, the editorial office may veto a title and propose an alternative.

Authors should avoid:

• Titles that are a mere question without giving the answer.
• Unambitious titles starting with "Towards," "A description of," "A characterization of," or "Preliminary study on."
• Vague titles starting with "Role of," "Link between," or "Effect of" that do not specify the role, link, or effect.
• Including terms that are out of place, for example, the taxonomic affiliation apart from the species name.

Authors and Affiliations
All names are listed together and separated by commas. Provide exact and correct author names as these will be indexed in official archives. Affiliations should be keyed to the author's name with superscript numbers and be listed as follows:

Laboratory, Institute, Department, Organization, City, State abbreviation (only for United States, Canada, and Australia), and Country (without detailed address information such as city zip codes or street names).

Example: Max Maximus¹ ¹ Department of Excellence, International University of Science, New York, NY, United States.

Correspondence
The corresponding author(s) should be marked with an asterisk in the author list. Provide the exact contact email address of the corresponding author(s) in a separate section.

Example: Max Maximus* maximus@iuscience.edu

If any authors wish to include a change of address, list the present address(es) below the correspondence details using a unique superscript symbol keyed to the author(s) in the author list.

Equal Contributions
Authors who have contributed equally should be marked with a symbol (†) in the author list of the manuscript files uploaded at submission.

Please use the appropriate standard statement(s) to indicate equal contributions:

• Equal contribution: These authors contributed equally to this work.
• First authorship: These authors share first authorship.
• Senior authorship: These authors share senior authorship.
• Last authorship: These authors share last authorship.
• Equal contribution and first authorship: These authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.
• Equal contribution and senior authorship: These authors contributed equally to this work and share senior authorship.
• Equal contribution and last authorship: These authors contributed equally to this work and share last authorship.

Example: Max Maximus¹†, John Smith²†, and Barbara Smith¹ †These authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

Consortium/Group and Collaborative Authors
Consortium/group authorship should be listed in the manuscript with the other author(s).

In cases where authorship is retained by the consortium/group, the consortium/group should be listed as an author separated by a comma or "and." The consortium/group name will appear in the author list, in the citation, and in the copyright. If provided, the consortium/group members will be listed in a separate section at the end of the article.

For the collaborators of the consortium/group to be indexed in PubMed, they do not have to be inserted individually in the ScienceJournalHub submission system. However, in the manuscript itself, provide a section with the name of the consortium/group as the heading followed by the list of collaborators, so they can be tagged accordingly and indexed properly.

Example: John Smith, Barbara Smith, and The Collaborative Working Group.

In cases where work is presented by the author(s) on behalf of a consortium/group, it should be included in the author list separated with the wording "for" or "on behalf of." The consortium/group will not retain authorship and will only appear in the author list.

Example: John Smith and Barbara Smith on behalf of The Collaborative Working Group.

Artificial Intelligence
These guidelines cover acceptable uses of generative AI technologies such as Large Language Models (ChatGPT, Jasper) and text-to-image generators (DALL-E 2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion) in the writing or editing of manuscripts submitted to ScienceJournalHub.

AI Use by Authors
Authors should not list a generative AI technology as a co-author or author of any submitted manuscript. Generative AI technologies cannot be held accountable for all aspects of a manuscript and consequently do not meet the criteria required for authorship.

If the author of a submitted manuscript has used written or visual content produced by or edited using a generative AI technology, this use must follow all ScienceJournalHub guidelines and policies. Specifically, the author is responsible for checking the factual accuracy of any content created by the generative AI technology. This includes, but is not limited to, any quotes, citations, or references. Figures produced by or edited using a generative AI technology must be checked to ensure they accurately reflect the data presented in the manuscript. Authors must also check that any written or visual content produced by or edited using a generative AI technology is free from plagiarism.

If the author of a submitted manuscript has used written or visual content produced by or edited using a generative AI technology, such use must be acknowledged in the acknowledgments section of the manuscript and the methods section if applicable. This explanation must list the name, version, model, and source of the generative AI technology. We encourage authors to upload all input prompts provided to a generative AI technology and outputs received from a generative AI technology in the supplementary files for the manuscript.

Abstract
As a primary goal, the abstract should make the general significance and conceptual advance of the work clearly accessible to a broad readership. The abstract should be no longer than a single paragraph and should be structured, for example, according to the IMRAD format. For the specific structure of the abstract, authors should follow the requirements of the article type or journal to which they're submitting. Minimize the use of abbreviations and do not cite references, figures, or tables.

For clinical trial articles, please include the unique identifier and the URL of the publicly accessible website on which the trial is registered.

Keywords
All article types require a minimum of five and a maximum of eight keywords.

Text
The entire document should be single-spaced and must contain page and line numbers to facilitate the review process. The manuscript should be written using either Word or LaTeX. See above for templates.

Nomenclature
The use of abbreviations should be kept to a minimum. Non-standard abbreviations should be avoided unless they appear at least four times and must be defined upon first use in the main text. Consider also providing a list of non-standard abbreviations at the end, immediately before the acknowledgments.

Equations should be inserted in editable format from the equation editor.

Italicize gene symbols and use the approved gene nomenclature where it is available. For human genes, please refer to the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC). New symbols and names should be submitted to the appropriate database prior to manuscript submission.

Sections
The following elements should be arranged in the following order: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Main Text (including figures, tables, and figure legends), Acknowledgments, Author Contributions, Conflict of Interest Statement, Supplementary Material, and References. Further information on the structure of sections can be found on the Article Types page.

References
Referencing is highly encouraged as it makes your article more discoverable. All citations in the text, figures, or tables must be in the reference list and vice versa. We encourage authors to use a recent version of EndNote, Reference Manager, Mendeley, Zotero, or other reference management software to format references. The reference style used by the journal follows the American Psychological Association (APA) 7th edition.

Data Sharing
For all datasets, please include details of where the full dataset can be found. We encourage authors to make the data underlying their article publicly available in a recognized repository such as Figshare, Dryad, or the Open Science Framework.

Permissions
Authors are responsible for securing permissions for any third-party material in their article. This includes any copyrighted figures, tables, or text.

Supplementary Material
Authors may submit supplementary material for peer-reviewed articles. Please include a heading in the manuscript text for supplementary material and provide a citation for each file. Each supplementary material file must have a legend. Supplementary material can include figures, tables, datasets, protocols, videos, and more.

Ethics
Authors are required to ensure their manuscript meets ethical standards and guidelines of the journal. This includes ethical approval for any studies involving human participants or animals, and consent from any individuals whose personal data is included in the article. All authors must declare any conflicts of interest and funding sources.