Instrutcion to Authors

Original Research Articles Manuscript MS Text: For preparation and style of MS

(See Manuscript Template): Articles must be a minimum of 3,000-4000 words to a maximum of 5,000 words excluding abstract and references.  Please note that only the main text is included in the word count; the abstract, references, figure captions, and tables are not counted toward the word count. The full manuscript should contain first page with full author names, affiliation, ORCID No and the corresponding author email / ORCID details, followed by full text of the MS file in word format. All data/tables/figures/Images (images must be submitted with the MS in high print-reproducible resolution).

1. Introduction:This section must provide a brief review of literature, purpose of the study, objectives and the rationale of the research undertaken should be given with proper clarity.
2. Material and Methods:This section of material and methods /procedures should be concise but detailed enough to enable the reader to reproduce the experiments / methodology. Commonly used procedures and methods in detail need not be described, but require a reference to the original source.
3. Results (Including Tables/Fig/Images):Give only brief findings, presented in the form of tables or figures, should be included without duplication of presentation and no discussion of the significance of the data, either tables or figures be given, avoid duplication of data.
4. Discussionshould present the significance of the present data under the prevalent understanding and interpretation of the phenomenon. Speculative discussion is allowed but it should be concise and corroborated by the presented data.
5. Conclusion summarizes the study and is drawn from the results and discussion, should not be more than 100 words.
6. Acknowledgements/ Financial Acknowledgementsif any, should be placed at the end of Conclusion before References.
7. References (In Vancouver Style ie in numbers serially arranged as per standard format).

References should be numbered in superscript, serially in the order in which they appear, first through the text and then through table and figure legends. References should not include unpublished source materials. The list of References at the end of the text should be in the following format.

Lindley, S. T., Estimation of population growth and extinction parameters from noisy data. Ecol. Appl., 2003, 13, 806-813.

Martin, H., The Archaean grey gnesisses and the genesis of continental crust. In Archaean Crustal Evolution (ed. Condie, K. C.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994, pp. 205-259.