Instructions for Authors

All GSJs journals welcome the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published shortly after acceptance.

Electronic submission of manuscripts is encouraged, provided that the text, figures and tables are included in a single Microsoft Word file (in Arial font).

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Article Types

Regular Articles: must describe new confirmed findings, and experimental procedures should be given in sufficient detail for others to verify the work. The length of a full paper should be the minimum required to describe and interpret the work clearly.

Short Communications: are suitable for recording the results of giving details of new models or hypotheses, techniques, apparatus or innovative methods. The style of main sections need not conform to that of full-length papers. Short communications are 2 to 4 printed pages (6 to 12 manuscript pages).

Reviews: and perspectives covering topics of current interest are welcomed. Reviews should not be longer than 4 to 6 printed pages (12 to 18 manuscript pages). Reviews are also peer-reviewed.

Review Process

All manuscripts are reviewed by an editor and members of the editorial board or qualified outside reviewers. Decisions will be made as fast as possible, and the journal strives to return reviewers’ comments to authors shortly. The editorial board will re-review manuscripts that are accepted pending revision. It is the goal of the GSJs to publish manuscripts shortly after submission.

Regular Articles

All pages numbered starting from the title page and the manuscript must be typed double-spaced.

The Title should describ the contents of the paper briefly. The Title Page should include the authors' full names and affiliations, the name of the corresponding author along with phone, fax and e-mail information.

The Abstract should be 100 to 200 words in length, informative and completely self-explanatory, briefly present the topic, state the scope of the experiments, indicate significant data, and point out major findings and conclusions. Standard nomenclature should be used and abbreviations should be avoided. Complete sentences, active verbs, and the third person should be used, and the abstract should be written in the past tense. No literature should be cited.

About 3 to 10 key words that will provide indexing references should be listed following the abstract.

Non-standard Abbreviations should be used only when the full term is very long and used often. Each abbreviation should be spelt out and introduced in parentheses the first time it is used in the text. Authors should use the solidus presentation (mg/ml). Standard abbreviations (such as ATP and DNA) need not be defined.

Introduction should give a clear statement of the problem, the proposed approach or solution, and the relevant literature on the subject. It should be understandable to colleagues from a broad range of scientific disciplines.

Materials and Methods should be complete enough to allow experiments to be reproduced. However, previously published procedures should be cited, and important modifications of published procedures should be mentioned briefly. Only truly new procedures should be described in detail. Capitalize trade names and include the manufacturer's name and address. Methods in general use need not to be described in detail.

Results must be presented clearly and should be written in the past tense when describing findings in the author(s)'s experiments. Previously published findings should be written in the present tense. Results should be explained, but largely without referring to the literature.

Discussion should interpret the findings in view of the results obtained in this and in past studies on this topic. State the conclusions in a few sentences at the end of the paper. The Results and Discussion sections can include subheadings, and when appropriate, both sections can be combined.

Acknowledgments of people, funds, grants, etc should be brief.

Tables should be designed to be as simple as possible and be kept to a minimum. Tables must be typed double-spaced throughout, including headings and footnotes. Tables should be self-explanatory without reference to the text. Each table should be on a separate page, numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals and supplied with a heading and a legend and should be prepared in Microsoft Word.. The details of the methods used in the experiments should be described in the legend instead of in the text. The same data should not be presented in both table and graph forms or repeated in the text.

Figure legends should be typed in numerical order on a separate sheet. Graphics should be prepared using applications capable of generating high resolution JPEG, GIF, TIFF or PowerPoint before pasting in the Microsoft Word manuscript file. Use Arabic numerals to designate figures and upper case letters for their parts (Figure 1). Information given in legends should not be repeated in the text. Begin each legend with a title and include sufficient description so that the figure is clear and understandable without reading the text of the manuscript.

References: In the text, a reference identified by means of an author‘s name should be followed by the date of the reference in parentheses. When there are more than two authors, only the first author‘s name should be mentioned, followed by ’et al‘. If 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 a letter like ’a‘ and ’b‘ after the date to distinguish the works.

Examples:

(Kelebeni, 1983), (Usman and Abudaya, 1993), (Chege, 1998; Chong, 1985a,b; Smartha, 1993,1994), (Martin et al., 2001)

References should be listed at the end of the paper in square brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation should be put after the brackets [2]. Multiple references [2], [3] are each numbered with separate brackets [1]-[3]. In sentences, refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]. Do not use ‘Ref. [3]’ or ‘reference [3]’ except at the beginning of a sentence.

Articles in preparation or articles submitted for publication, unpublished observations, personal communications, etc. should not be included in the reference list but should only be mentioned in the article text (e.g., A. Kingori, University of Nairobi, Kenya, personal communication).Journal names are abbreviated according to Chemical Abstracts. Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of the references.

Examples:

[1] R. L. Fante, M. T. McCormack, Reflection properties of the Salisbury screen, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., Volume 36, (Issue 1), January 2010, Pages 1443–1454.

Modality of Books’ quote:
[2] D.E. Dudgeon, R.M. Mersereau, Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing (Prentice-Hall, 1984).

Modality of Chapters in Books’ quote:
[3] D.E. Dudgeon, R.M. Mersereau, Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing (Prentice-Hall, 1984, pp. 581-600).

Modality of Theses’ quote:
[4] J. Williams, Narrow-band analyzer, Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. Elect. Eng., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, 1993.

Modality of Proceedings Papers’ quote:

[5] D. Gorinevsky, S. Boyd, G. Stein, Optimization-based tuning of low-bandwidth control in spatially distributed systems, American Control Conference, Vol. 3, pp. 2658–2663, Denver, CO, July 2003

Internet references are not encouraged.

Short Communications

Short Communications are limited to a maximum of one table and two figures. They should present a complete study that is more limited in scope than is found in full-length papers. The items of manuscript preparation listed above apply to Short Communications with the following differences:

1) Abstract should be limited to 100 words.

2) instead of a separate Materials and Methods section, experimental procedures may be incorporated into Figure Legends and Table footnotes.

3) Results and Discussion should be combined into a single section.

Proofs and Reprints: Electronic proofs will be sent as an e-mail attachment to the corresponding author as a PDF file. With the exception of typographical or minor clerical errors, no changes will be made in the manuscript at the proof stage. Page proofs are considered to be the final version of the manuscript. Because the JPVB will be published freely online to attract a wide audience), authors will have free electronic access to the full text (in PDF) of the article and they can freely download the PDF file from which they can print unlimited copies of their articles.

Copyright: Submission of a manuscript implies; that the work described has NOT been published before (except in the form of a thesis or an abstract or as part of a published lecture) that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; that if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors agree to automatic transfer of the copyright to the publisher.

Plagiarism Policy: The authors should submit an original manuscript and an unpublished articles. The manuscript must include a proper citation without plagiarism/duplication of the authors' previous work. The manuscript will be checked with Turnitin's plagiarism detection software before sending to the reviewers. The editorial board will reject the manuscript if plagiarism is detected at any stage of the publication. In addition, manuscripts that are submitted elsewhere, will not be accepted. If more than 30% of the paper is plagiarized, the article may be rejected.

Editing and Modify:

If Authors request to edit, change, or modify any part of the published version, they must always pay US$25 in order for Global Scientific Journals - MZM Resources to make the required changes and re-publish it again, because this action wastes valuable manuscript processing time, money and works invested by the publisher.

Withdrawal of Manuscripts: If the author requests withdrawal of manuscript after submission within the time span when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process with Editors/Referees, the author is allowed to withdraw the manuscript without paying any withdrawal penalty whatsoever. However, it is unethical to withdraw a submitted manuscript from one journal if accepted by another journal. The withdrawal of manuscripts from the journals after submitting to the publisher will incur a withdrawal penalty. After the manuscript is accepted for publication either through journal editors or guest editors, the withdrawal is not permitted. If the authors or conference organizers or a third party withdraw manuscripts any time after final manuscripts have already been submitted to Global Scientific Journals - MZM Resources for processing, the request is not entertained without a significant withdrawal penalty. Authors or conference organizers or a third party are not allowed to withdraw submitted manuscripts because the withdrawal wastes valuable manuscript processing time, money and works invested by the publisher. The authors or conference organizers or a third party must always pay US$200 per manuscript processing charges as withdrawal penalty to the publisher even if the withdrawal is permitted. The withdrawal of the conference papers by conference organizers will never be permitted and the conference organizers will be punished for withdrawal by paying a withdrawal penalty of US$500 per manuscript. Withdrawal of manuscripts is only allowed after withdrawal penalty has been fully paid to Global Scientific Journals - MZM Resources by the authors or conference organizers or a third party. Any reason whatsoever for withdrawal of submitted manuscripts is treated as invalid and completely unacceptable under any circumstances. The publisher is not responsible for any damages whatsoever resulting from this consequence of the author's or conference organiser's or a third party decision.

Fees and Charges: There are no submission charges. Authors are required to pay a US$100 handling fee for the processing of their articles, excluded the Health Sciences journals of which the fees are US$125. This charge is for the first 10 pages, and if any published manuscript over 10 pages will incur extra charges US$10 per page. Authors are required to make payment only after their manuscripts have been accepted for publication. For articles written in languages other than English, English version of the Title, Authors' Names, and Abstract must be attached, and extra fees of US$25 must be added.

Waiver in Special Circumstances: Please send your application for waiver to: submit@gsjpublications.com cc to: submit.gsj@gmail.com. Request for a waiver must be submitted with a clear reason in same day a manuscript is submitted.