Instruction for Authors
This page will give you an understanding of how to write a research article for Research Pillars Publishing; this is for those who do not know about manuscript preparation and are first to write their research. This also includes the format for editing, structuring and typesetting their manuscripts to match the journal requirements before submission.
Before submitting an article, please go through our editorial policies (About Page Hyperlink) to know how we practise ethical guidelines and transparency in processing an article.
Criteria to know before submission
Publishing manuscripts in English, why?
As English is the language widely spoken around the world, most of the nations use English as a primary means of communication with individuals. Publication of your manuscripts in English makes your research reach the widest audience; indeed, this is the best possible way to achieve your goal of disseminating your research.
If English is not your first language, we recommend that you edit it with an expert in the English language or submit it to an editing firm that translates it into English before submitting your research to Research Pillars Publishing.
What do editors aim for?
Journal editors need quality research in science to publish, which is of high interest to their readers. The high-quality manuscripts with simple writings build impact in the scientific community, which have a chance of early acceptance for publication. Acceptance of a manuscript solely depends upon the editor's choice, and it is worth knowing their decisions.
A description of advancements in the research, preparing a manuscript with potential material and a good format, simple in language, clear in technical issues, and following ethical practices gives the editor the best possibility of accepting the manuscript.
Authorship
The perpetual nature of writing a new idea, a new theory or an innovation which comes to mind defines authorship. Authorship needs to be given credit for their huge contribution in wide varieties of disciplines and writings and their noticeable features towards academic, social, and financial significance.
A contributor towards the scientific community is awarded as an “author” if he/she has made substantial innovative contributions towards the concerned study. We suggest each contributor stick to the guidelines mentioned for authorship in the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors guidelines that are relevant to your research field. To be qualified as an author as per ICMJE recommendations, the author should possess or must be
• A significant contributor towards the concept and design, or the acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data for the work in the relevant field
• Engaged in drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content
• Able to approve the final version of the manuscript for publication. Every author involved should have their own intellect in providing sufficient contributions to their content.
• Signing an agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
In accordance with all the above-mentioned criteria for authorship, the corresponding author should also be able to distinguish which co-authors are responsible for writing specific other parts of the work. The authors are responsible for the integrity of their own research.
Authors who wish to make changes in authorship and include an individual as a co-author in their manuscripts or are willing to make the addition or deletion of a co-author name, and then the corresponding author should submit their corrections by filling out this authorship form.
Acknowledgments section Includes
All contributors who are responsible for writing the published manuscript and who do not meet the authorship criteria recommended by ICMJE should be acknowledged in the acknowledgement section in order to value their importance in the work published.
Overview on constructing a manuscript
The types of articles that Research Pillars Publishing concentrates on publishing, scholarly articles have been listed here.
Structure of Research Article
When submitting a manuscript of one’s or a group's own research work to a journal, one should follow the following standard structure before the submission of a research article.
• Title
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introductions/Background
• Methods/Materials and Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
The structure of the article will give the systematic flow of the study. Brings out journal manuscripts, is capable of foresight, and makes it easy to read. It provides a design so that the audience can easily find the content interesting, and authors can easily find and be reminded of the content that is to be placed.
Construction of Research article
Research is a good understanding of a current problem and a researcher's extensive efforts towards a new innovation with excellence in various scientific fields, bringing practical knowledge and explaining it theoretically.
Title and Abstract
The title and abstract are the most important sections of a research or innovation. These sections determine the manuscript's overall content and help reviewers and editors to decide whether to conduct a peer review and edit the manuscript for processing. Peer reviewers are asked for their willingness to review the manuscript by sending them the title & abstract sections.
It is important that the title be easily read and understood, exact, and as brief as possible.
It is well-known that all researchers search for articles by the title or a keyword, and it is essential that the title be well structured and more searchable. So that it gets easier for a reader to understand the author’s intention of the study with accuracy, description, and completeness.
An abstract is a quick overview of the manuscript, and its structure differs for different types of articles. For research, the standard format used makes it easier for the reader to find the content of the manuscript. The specified format for structuring an abstract follows
• Background/Introduction
• Methods/Material & Methods
• Results
• Conclusion
Keynotes in writing a title:
• Should be informative and must make use of specific terms.
• Should use simple and common words and their combinations
• Should avoid the use of abbreviations and acronyms
• Should write the full scientific names of bacteria.
• Should present the full names of chemicals rather than their formulas
• Should avoid the use of Roman numerals.
Keynotes in writing an Abstract:
• It should not exceed the word limit of 150-300 words.
• It should include the word "descriptions" and synonyms for the concepts that are mentioned in the title.
• Should use simple and common words and their combinations
• Should make sure the inclusion of the most useful points mentioned in the manuscripts is consistent with the literature
• Should shorten the use of abbreviations and acronyms
• Should be careful not to cite the references
Keywords
The important keywords in the paper have to be mentioned that quickly identify the content and focus of the work. All keywords should be in lowercase (apart from abbreviations or proper names), and all keywords should preferably be separated by semicolons and end with a full stop. The limit of keywords is 5 to 10.
Background/Introduction
The background/introduction section is written to address the unanswered question or to fill the gap between practical and theoretical knowledge.
• Should state the exact aim of the study
• Should explain clearly how they conducted the experiments
• Should include the purpose of the study
• Should maintain a clear understanding of the question without any literature review
•Can cite references for the reader's information
In this section of writing research, every individual must explain to the reader with
• The information needed to understand the study
• What are the reasons that made a researcher conduct experiments and why?
• The researcher’s problem/question studied
• The citations mentioned in the background/introduction section should
• Be well balanced. Study of two-way producing results for research whose experimental results were found to have conflicts on a problem raised
• Cite references that are recently published, i.e., not more than 10 years old from the current study.
• Be relevant to the study
Methods/Materials & Methods
This section explains to the reader the complete details of how the experiment was conducted and which methods and materials were used; all the descriptions must be made in the past tense.
Materials and methods section must include:
• Description of new methods with a detailed study of experiments conducted for future use, which helps other researchers reproduce the current experiment
• With a brief description of previously published methods, if any, and must cite the references so readers know where they can find the complete details.
• Description with accuracy of modifications made to the already existing method
• All the statistical parameters and mathematical methods used for the test
• The acknowledgements for the company’s property and procurement of the equipment or necessary things that were used for the start of the study, including the serial no., should be stated in this section.
If there was any use of equipment from the concerned laboratory for the practicality of the study, then the names of the equipment and the names of the research-conducting laboratories must also be stated in this section.
Results
If the results for a particular method have been obtained from the study, then this section must be included, with the use of subheadings to distinguish the results of various experiments.
• Results of the study should be represented in a logical order.
• Description of results must be in past tense.
• The figures and tables made to explain the experimental study in the results section should be stated in the present tense.
• Authors are requested not to duplicate or restate the data that was already represented in figures, tables, and text.
• Summarise the tables and figures in the text for appropriateness for the readership.
• The inclusion of statistical analysis reports in the results section of the manuscript.
Representation of Data
Figures
High-quality figures are asked to be submitted in JPEG or TIFF file format. The figures need to be cited sequentially in the text.
Figure legends for all figures in the manuscript in which figure number and a brief description of the image should be included.
• A figure with multiple parts has to be labelled as (a), (b), (c), etc. and should be kept on a single page, aligned vertically or horizontally with perfect alignment. Do not disclose the patient identification in photographs without a signed statement of agreement or permission.
Tables
• Tables must be submitted in Word file format, which will make it easy task to edit and paste the table content into the manuscript.
• Number the tables consecutively using Arabic numerals, and they should be cited in the text sequentially. The table number has to be followed by a description of the table as a table legend.
• All abbreviations, if any, marked with the content in the table must be stated at the bottom of it.
• Written permission should be submitted to the Editorial Office in case of the use of published figures or tables, and appropriate references must be cited in the manuscript wherever necessary.
Discussion and Conclusions
The discussion and conclusion section involves a discussion of obtaining results and their conclusion about the research, with appropriateness in the quality of the experiments conducted. Thus, an author should:
• Discuss the last and most important findings in their own research studies.
• Evaluate the results and compare the data with the established ones, explaining the necessary reasons for the difference in the obtained data.
• Mention undeveloped results and explain them in terms of the suggested experiments, which add the best fit for clarifying the appropriate results needed for well-established research.
• Briefly describe the limitations of the study, explaining to the reviewers and editors the consideration of weaknesses in a particular research.
• Make a discussion about their results and be able to explain how it affects the present researchers in their own field and the general public, explaining to them the applications of your research findings.
• Should be able to explain or state the results obtained by one’s own research findings and be extendable in comparison to previous studies.
• State their conclusions again at the end by summarizing and explaining that their research findings are preliminary and can be further enhanced.
References
References are sources to start one's own research and play a key role in different parts of a manuscript.
Citing references in scientific literature provides or acts as
• An overview of individual ideas established from
• Readership of the Individuals (Researchers, scientists, scholars, learners, professionals, etc.)
• An indication/proof of one’s own literature
• A set of circumstances relevant to the work
• An eagerness to know in detail about the specialised study
• A supporting statement or description of their work
The listing of citations (references) provided in the manuscript should follow the following criteria for
1. Articles in a journal-
List of the first six authors
E.g.: Author1, Author2, Author3, Author4, Author5, Author 6. Manuscript title. Journal short name. Year: Volume: Page nos. from-to.
List of more than six authors
E.g., Author1, Author2, Author3, Author4, Author5, Author6, et al. Manuscript title. Journal short name. Year: Volume: Page nos. from-to.
2. Organization as an author-
E.g.: Organisation: Manuscript title. Journal short name. Year: Volume: Page no. from-to.
3. Both authors and organization as an author-
E.g.: Author1, Author2, Author3, Author4, Author5, et al., Organization. Manuscript title. Journal short name. Year: Volume: Page no. from-to.
4. For Supplement articles-
E.g., Author1, Author2, Author3, Author4, Author5, Author6, et al. Manuscript title. Journal short name. Year (Suppl. no.): Volume: Page nos. from-to.
5. In-Press Article
E.g., Author1, Author2, Author3, Author4, Author5, Author6, et al. Manuscript title. Journal short name. In press.
6. Published Abstract
E.g., Author1, Author2, Author3, Author4, Author5, Author6, et al. Abstract title [Abstract]. Journal short name. Year: Volume: Page nos. from-to.
7. An article in conference proceedings
E.g., Author1, Author2, Author3, Author4, Author5, Author6, et al. Title of Proposal. Conference name. Year and Venue.
8. With a chapter in a book
E.g., Author1, Author2, Author3, Author4, Author5, Author6, et al. Chapter Title. In Book Title (Edition no. (e.g., 2nd edition)). Edited by Author1, Author2, Author3, Author4, Author5, Author6, et al. Year; Published by.
9. Book reference-
E.g., Author1, Author2, Author3, Author4, Author5, Author6, et al. Book title (Edition no. (e.g., 2nd edition)). Year, published by.
10. Thesis
E.g., Author1, Author2, Author3, Author4, Author5, Author6, et al. Manuscript title. Thesis. Year, university name, and department of study.
11. Link or URL
If an author or organisation name is mentioned in the article or webpage
E.g., Author1, Author2, Author3, Author4, Author5, Author6, et al. Title. Publisher. Accessed on: DD-MM-YYYY. [Link or URL]
If no author is mentioned on the web page, then
E.g., the name of the organisation or company. Title. Publisher. Accessed on: DD-MM-YYYY. [Link or URL]