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 General Requirements |
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The Journal of Applied Pharmacy (JAP) covers all aspects of pharmacy practices.
Manuscripts are accepted for consideration on the condition that they represent
original material, have not been published previously, are not being considered
for publication elsewhere, and have been approved by each author. Review articles,
research papers, case reports and letters to the editor may be submitted for publication.
All authors of a manuscript must have agreed to its submission and are responsible
for its content (initial submission and any subsequent versions), including appropriate
citations and acknowledgments, and must also have agreed that the corresponding
author has the authority to act on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication
of the manuscript. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to inform
the coauthors of the manuscript's status throughout the submission, review, and
publication processes. The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining permission
from both the original author and the original publisher (i.e., the copyright owner)
to reproduce or modify figures and tables and to reproduce text (in whole or in
part) from previous publications.
Manuscripts submitted to the journal must represent reports of original research,
and the original data must be available for review by the editor if necessary. Authors
who are unsure of proper English usage should have their manuscripts checked by
someone proficient in the English language.
By submission of a manuscript to the journal, the author(s) guarantee that they
have the authority to publish the work and that the manuscript, or one with substantially
the same content, was not published previously, is not being considered for publication
or published elsewhere.
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| Criteria
of Publication
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All manuscripts are considered to be confidential and are reviewed by the editors,
members of the editorial board, or qualified reviewers. Publication of manuscripts
by Journal of Applied Pharmacy is dependent primarily on their validity and coherence.
The authors of published articles automatically transfer the copyright to Journal
of Applied Pharmacy and its parent incorporation upon formal acceptance. However,
the authors reserve right to use the information contained in the article for non-commercial
purposes. |
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| Conflicts
of Interest
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Authors are required to disclose any sponsorship or funding arrangements relating
to their research and all authors should disclose any possible conflicts of interest. |
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| Ethics
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Published research must comply with the guidelines for human studies and animal
welfare regulations. Authors should state that subjects have given their informed
consent and that the study protocol has been approved by the institute's committee
on human research. Further, they should also state that animal experiments conform
to institutional standards. This should be described in the Methods section.
For those investigators who do not have formal ethics review committees, the principles
outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki should be followed. Editors may request
that authors provide documentation of the formal review and recommendation from
the institutional review board or ethics committee responsible for oversight of
the study. JAP requires authors to follow the requirements for manuscripts submitted
to this journal. |
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| Submission
of Manuscripts
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Manuscripts should be submitted to Editors of Journal of Applied Pharmacy of respective
demographic region of the world by e-mail or alternatively three hard copies plus
a CD or floppy diskette to respective editor. But we strongly encourage the authors
to submit manuscripts electronically to save time, effort and proceeding. All components
of the manuscript must appear within a single electronic file: references, figure
legends and tables must appear in the body of the manuscript. |
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| Typing
Instruction
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The following detailed instructions are necessary to allow direct reproduction of
the manuscript for rapid publishing. If instructions are not followed, the manuscript
will be returned for retyping. Manuscript Organization and Preparation Conventions
names of genes, micro-organisms or botanical origin of plants must be italicized.
Authors must use the original name published unless they have obtained permission
to rename from the authors of the original study or international body. American
spelling should be used throughout the manuscript. |
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| Article Lengths
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Editorials should not exceed 1,000 words including references. Correspondence should
not exceed 750 words and may include a brief table or small figure; letters should
be appropriately referenced. Databases, Resource and Application articles should
not exceed 2000 words. Perspectives and Opinions: Not more than 3000 words. Research
Articles, as well as Mini-Monograph articles, should not exceed 5,000 words, including
tables, figures, and references.
Reviews and Commentaries should not exceed 6,000 words, including tables, figures,
and references. Reviews are written by authors who have significant publications
in the field. Mini-reviews and Hypotheses should be topical and should not be longer
than 2500 words, and preferably not have more than 40 references and 2 figures or
tables. Meeting Reports should not exceed 5,000 words, including tables, figures,
and references. |
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| General
Format
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The typing area must be exactly 8.5" wide by 11" long (letter sized page). Justify
margins left and right (block format). The entire typing area of each page must
be filled, leaving no wasted space. Text should be single-spaced and double-spaced
between paragraphs. Special care should be taken to insure that symbols, superscripts
and subscripts are legible and do not overlap onto lines above or below. Make sure
text lines are equidistant. |
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| Article
Sections
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A regular research article may have the following sections.
- Font: Standard font of Arial, Times Roman,
size 12 point, justified with single line spacing must be used.
- Title Page: The title should be <100 characters (not including
spaces). Provide the complete names of the institutions where the work was done,
and the name, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and email address of
the corresponding author. If you wish to have two corresponding authors listed for
the paper, you must designate one of them to communicate with the editorial office.
On the first page of the manuscript, start title 1" (25 mm) down from top text margin.
Type title in all capital letters, centered on the width of the typing area and
single-spaced if more than one line is required. The title should be brief, descriptive
and have all words spelled out. Double-space, then type the author(s) name(s), single-spaced
if more than one line is required. Double-space, than type author(s) address(es),
also single-spaced, capitalizing first letters of main words. Quadruple-space before
Summary.
- Running Title: A brief running title of about 50 characters should
be provided.
- Key Words: On the title page, provide 3 - 5 key words identifying
the subject of your article. Key words must be provided by authors for indexing
of their article. Key words will be listed directly below the Summary. Abbreviated
forms of chemical compounds are not acceptable. Spell out entirely, using the official
nomenclature. Example: Deoxythymidine Diphosphate (dTDP).
- Abstract: Abstract must not exceed 200 words, should be self-explanatory
and should not contain reference citations. It should concisely summarize the basic
content and conclusions of the paper without presenting extensive experimental details.
Centre, type and underline summary heading, capitalizing the first letter. A double-space
should separate the heading from the summary text. Indent summary text approximately
1/2" (13 mm) from both left and right margins. The summary should be intelligible
to the reader without reference to the body of the paper and be suitable for reproduction
by abstracting services. Introduction to the text (without a heading) should being
four spaces below the summary using full margins.
- Major Headings: Papers must include the major headings: Introduction,
Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgments and References. Capitalize first letter,
underline, and centre headings on width of typing area.
- Introduction: The Introduction should be concise, with no subheadings,
and should present the background information necessary to allow the reader to understand
the results presented.
- Materials and Methods: The Materials and Methods section should
include sufficient technical information to allow the experiments to be repeated.
All companies from which materials were obtained should be listed with their location.
- Results: This section should present clearly but succinctly the
experimental findings of the study. Only results essential to establish the main
points of the work should be included. In the Results section, include the rationale
or design of the experiments as well as the results; reserve extensive interpretation
of the results for the Discussion section. Results should be specifically tied to
the objectives and methods presented earlier in the manuscript.
- Discussion: The Discussion should provide an interpretation of
the results in relation to previously published work and to the experimental system
at hand and should not contain extensive repetition of the Results section or reiteration
of the introduction. The discussion section should (a) reiterate the principal findings
of the research, (b) explain why those findings are important, (c) comment on methodological
weaknesses of the study, and (d) provide an overall conclusion. Authors should be
careful not to draw conclusions or make inferences that are not specifically supported
by the data reported in the study. In short papers, the Results and Discussion sections
may be combined.
- Acknowledgments: Acknowledgments should be limited to technical,
scientific and brief. Authors may briefly mention individuals making significant
non-authorship contributions to the manuscript. Funding support for the work presented
should be detailed.
- Tables/ Figures: Incorporate tables and/or figures with their legends
into the main body of text. 13. Citations: All citations must be placed in name/date
form. Place the citation immediately after the textual information cited, placing
name and date within parentheses with a comma.
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