E-ISSN 2231-3206 | ISSN 2320-4672
 

 Submission of Manuscript

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Before submitting your manuscript, please fill in the NJPPP Manuscript Submission From, and sign it by all authors.

About the Journal

National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology (NJPPP) is an open access, peer reviewed, online and print journal.   The frequency of publication is 12 Issue per year. The journal is indexed in EMBASE, Indian Science Abstract, Open J- Gate, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Ulrich’s International Periodical Directory Index Copernicus, Index Scholar, ProQuest, PSOAR, NewJour, JournalSeek Genamics, SafetyLit, CAS etc.

The NJPPP aims are to provide opportunities for free exchange of ideas and information of the highest quality of research and academic work. To achieve this goal, we allow free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository.

Publication Charges

Publication charge (For DOI no., Conversion of XML file, submission system and website and online publication, typesetting and copy editing by professional editors' charges) is 150 dollars (USD). Publication charge for hard copy will be extra. Authors are requested to send publication charge directly to publishers account after formal acceptance letter received. Letter to editor in response to some published studies in journal will be published free of charge. 


Editorial Process

The Author should ascertain that the manuscript is sent to one journal at a time. Manuscript sent to another journal simultaneously with NJPPP will not be reviewed. The manuscript should be original work of authors and correspondence author will act as guarantor. 

The Editors-in-Chief in consultation with the Managing Editor, Section Editors and Advisory Board Members will review all submitted manuscripts initially. Manuscripts with insufficient originality, serious scientific and technical flaws, or lack of significant message will be rejected. All manuscripts received will be duly acknowledged.

Peer reviewing is done by two or more peer reviewers. Editor-in-Chief will take the final decision regarding the suitability of manuscript for publication. The contributors will be informed about the reviewers' comments and acceptance/rejection of manuscript. On an average, the submission to first decision period will be around 30-60 days. Accepted article will be published online on the next month of acceptance. 

Articles accepted by peer reviewers should be a copy edited for grammar, punctuation, print style, and format. At this stage the Managing and Technical Editors will also do a Plagiarism Check. (NJPPP is strictly against plagiarisms. Please read our Plagiarism Policy). PDF gallery proof will be sent to the corresponding author to correct any mistakes in the PDF draft, just before the publication of article in the journal, which has to be returned within three days. Correction received after that period may not be included.

The contributor may provide names of three qualified reviewers who has experience in the subject of the submitted manuscript, but who are not affiliated with the same institutes as the contributor/s. As a routine we will not send the manuscript to that particular reviewer. It is kept in database for review of future articles.

Plagiarism Policy

By submission to NJPPP entails that authors automatically attest that none of the parts of manuscripts is plagiarized from any other source. Proper reference should be provided whenever anything is extracted from a source. Technical editors use Plagiarism detection tools/software "iThenticate" to ensure the originality of the article.

In the case of suspected plagiarism, Author will be issued a notice to defend the charge of plagiarism and after going through authors explanation if committee think that authors justification is not correct in that case NJPPP committee would take immediate and strict actions against the authors ranging from rejection of the manuscript to preclusion of the authors from any future publication in the journal. Journal will report to the authors/s affiliating institution about author’s misconduct.

If the author/journalist wishes to use the article journal for general media explicit permission from the Edito-in Chief should be taken. Such a release should coincide with its publication online or in print. NJPPP follows the ICJME policy on this

Ethics

Authors should mention about the ethical principles they followed during conduction of research and preparation of the manuscript. Manuscripts related to human subjects should mention about Informed consent, Permission from Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC). In the manuscript involving children more than 7 years, information related to “Assent” should also be mentioned. In the case of animal experiments, relevant national and international guidelines should be mentioned. Method of sacrificing the animals should also be mentioned in the manuscript.

Read these articles for more information related to ethics -

1. Bavdekar SB, Gogtay NJ, Chavan R. Reporting ethical processes: Survey of "instructions to authors" provided by Indian journals. Indian J Med Sci. 2009;63:260-2.

2. ICMJE International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals: writing and editing for biomedical publications [Internet]. [place unknown]: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors; 2009  Available from: http://www.icmje.org/

3. Jaykaran, Yadav P, Kantharia N.D, Chavda N. Survey of “Instruction to authors” of Indian medical journals for reporting of ethics and authorship criteria. Indian J Med Ethics.2011;8:36-38.

Authorship Criteria

Each author should contribute substantially in each of the areas mentioned below. Gifted and Ghost authorship will not be tolerated.

  1. Concept and design of the study or acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data
  2. Drafting and revising the manuscript for important intellectual content
  3. Final approval for the version which is going to be published

Contribution of each author "Authors' contributions" should be mentioned at the end of the manuscript following the Acknowledgment section.

Submission of Manuscript

Submit your manuscript in the submission system https://www.ejmanager.com/my/njppp/ 

The editors and the publisher disclaim any responsibility or liability for statements and opinions expressed in review articles, original papers, short communications, letters to editor, editorials and supplements published in the Journal. Neither the editors nor the publisher guarantee, or endorse any products or services advertised in this publication, nor guarantee any claims made by the manufacturer of such product or service.

Article Format:


- Manuscripts must be typed in font size 12 (Times New Roman).

- Double-spaced throughout, including the Reference section.

- All pages should be numbered (Page Numbers) starting from the title page.

- Continual line numbering (Line Numbers) should be used throughout the manuscript.

- Manuscripts should only be submitted in English.

Type of papers:

The following types of papers are considered for publication:

1.      Research articles.

2.      Review articles.

3.      Short communications.

4.      Case reports.

Research Article

This may include intervention studies, outcome studies, experimental designs, clinical trials, clinical studies, case control studies, cohort studies, cross sectional surveys etc. Original article should be subdivided into –

1. Title Page: (Title, Full Authors' Names, Affiliations and Corresponding Author's details)

2. Abstract (Structured Abstract with the following subheadings: Background, Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusion) 

3. Keywords (3-5 keywords)

4. Introduction

5. Materials and Methods

6. Results

7. Discussion

8. Conclusion

9. Acknowledgments

10. Funding

11. Authors' contributions

12. Conflict of interest

13. Data availability

14. References

15. Tables and Figures

Short Communication

1. Title Page: (Title, Full Authors' Names, Affiliations and Corresponding Author's details)

2. Abstract (Structured Abstract with the following subheadings: Background, Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusion) 

3. Keywords (3-5 keywords)

4. Introduction

5. Materials and Methods

6. Results and Discussion

7. Conclusion

8. Acknowledgments

8. Funding

10. Authors' contributions

11. Conflict of interest

12. Data availability

13. References

14. Tables and Figures

Review Article

1. Title Page: (Title, Full Authors' Names, Affiliations and Corresponding Author's details)

2. Abstract (One paragraph without subgeaings) 

3. Keywords (3-5 keywords)

4. Introduction

5. Headings and Subheadings

6. Conclusion

7. Acknowledgments

8. Funding

9. Authors' contributions

10. Conflict of interest

11. Data availability

12. References

13. Tables and Figures

Case Report

1. Title Page: (Title, Full Authors' Names, Affiliations and Corresponding Author's details)

2. Abstract (Structured Abstract with the following subheadings: Background, Case Description, Conclusion) 

3. Keywords (3-5 keywords)

4. Introduction

5. Case Details

6. Discussion

7. Conclusion

8. Acknowledgments

9. Funding

10. Authors' contributions

11. Conflict of interest

12. Data availability

13. References

14. Tables and Figures

References

  • In the text, a reference should be identified by an author‘s name followed by the year of publication. When there are more than two authors; only the first author’s name should be mentioned, followed by ‘et al’. In the event that an author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by lower case letters like ’a‘ and ’b‘ after the date to distinguish various works from the same author. Examples: Ahmed (2000), Wang et al. (2003), (Sparrow, 2010), (Skinner and Laidlaw, 2004), (Chege, 1998; Chukwura, 1987a,b; Tijani, 1993, 1995), (Kaiser et al., 2001). There is no limit to the number of references but only the most pertinent references should be used.


  • The entire list of references should be given at the end of text in this order: (a) author or authors (b) year of publication (c) title of article (d) abbreviated name of the Journal (e) volume (f) page/s. References should be numbered in alphabetical order. Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of the references. See below for examples:


  • Journal Articles: Chin, J.C., Dai, Y. and Watts, J.E. 1995. Antibody response against Pseudomonas aeruginosa membrane proteins in experimentally infected sheep. Vet. Microbiol. 43, 21-32.
  • A Book: Durbin, R., Eddy, S.R., Krogh, A. and Mitchison, G. 1999. Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids. Cambridge University Press. 
  • A Chapter in a Book: Leach, J. 1993. Impacts of the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) on water quality and fish spawning reefs of Western Lake Erie. In Zebra mussels: biology, impacts and control, Eds., Nalepa, T. and D. Schloesser. Ann Arbor, MI: Lewis Publishers, pp: 381-397. 
  • Conference Proceedings: Stock, A. 2004. Signal Transduction in Bacteria. In the Proceedings of the 2004 Markey Scholars Conference, pp: 80-89.  
  • A Thesis: Strunk, J.L. 1991. The extraction of mercury from sediment and the geochemical partitioning of mercury in sediments from Lake Superior, M. S. thesis, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI.
  • Work accepted for publication but not yet published should be referred to as "in press".
  • References concerning unpublished data and "personal communications" should not be cited in the reference list but may be mentioned in the text.

 

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Prof. Ibrahim Eldagahyes

Editor-in-Chief

ibrahim.eldaghayes@gmail.com

 

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