Guide for Authors

General requirements

The journal welcomes the submission of articles in English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Authors who feel their English language manuscript may require editing to eliminate possible grammatical or spelling errors and to conform to correct scientific English may wish to use English language editing service, manuscripts may be submitted for consideration either as full research papers and as short communications or review articles. Authors are urged to keep the length of regular papers to a maximum of eight printed pages or fewer. Reports (formerly known as Accelerated publications) or review articles should be no longer than six printed pages, including all spaces, references, figures, and tables. An eight-page paper is usually less than 40,000 characters plus two figures or tables (if each figure or table is less than one-fourth page).

Before you start
Author/authors(s) can use this simple list for a final check of their submission before sending their articles to the journal for review.

Ensure that the following items are present:

- One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details: e-mail address and a full postal address.

- All the required files have been uploaded:


Manuscript should include:

• Keywords
• All figures (include relevant captions).
• All tables (including titles, description, footnotes).
• Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided.
• Indicate clearly if color should be used for any figures in print.

Graphical Abstracts / Highlights files (where applicable)
Supplemental files (where applicable)

Further considerations
• Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked.
• All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa.
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources. (including the Internet)
• Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed.

- Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis).

Copyright

Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'License Agreement'. For articles published open access, the authors license exclusive rights in their article to EJPAS. Authors have many of the same rights which support their need to share, disseminate and maximize the impact of their research. For open access articles, authors will also have additional rights to re-use and share the article such as: retain the rights to use their research data freely without any  restriction; receive proper attribution and credit for their published work; Use and share their works for scholarly purposes { Electronic and physical distribution of copies is permitted - at a conference, they can present the article and distribute copies to the attendees -Include in a thesis or dissertation - Publicly share the preprint on any website at any time - Retain copyright}.

How to submit

The journal online submission system guides you stepwise through the process of entering your article details and uploading your files. Editable files (e.g., Word, LaTeX) are required to typeset your article for final publication. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, is sent via the journal’s e-mail address: EJPAS@sci.asu.edu.eg. 

Use of Word software

It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the word processor used, the text should be in single-column format. The text should be single-spaced with one-inch margins on both sides. In particular, do not use the word processor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words. The electronic text should be prepared in a way very similar to that of conventional manuscripts. Note that source files of figures, tables and text graphics will be required whether or not you embed your figures in the text. In order to avoid unnecessary errors, you are strongly advised to use the 'spell-check' and 'grammar-check functions. 

Manuscript

Organize your manuscript

1. Word file should be formatted for a standard A4 paper.
2. Single spacing should be used throughout the manuscript.
3. Text must be typed in 12-point Times New Roman font size in all sections including tables, headings and references.
4. Manuscript should be arranged in the following order:

(a) Manuscript title, author(s), affiliation(s) and a running title
(b) Abstract
(c) Introduction
(d) Materials and methods 
(e) Results
(f) Discussion
(g) References
(h) Footnotes
(i) Figure legends
(j) Tables
(k) Figures

Sections

1. Authors should divide their articles into defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. The abstract is not included in section numbering. Subsection may be given a brief heading but each heading should appear on its own separate line. 

Title

The manuscript title should be concise (not to exceed two lines), informative and convey your essential points succinctly and clearly. Avoid use of abbreviations and formulae where possible but If acronyms or abbreviations must be used, the name/term should be first indicated in full followed by the short form/acronym (e.g., Visualization of Polarized Membrane Type 1 Matrix Metalloproteinase (MT1-MMP) Activity in Live Cells by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) Imaging.) A full name is not required for the most common scientific abbreviations (e.g. DNA). 

Author names and affiliations                                                                                                           

The corresponding author must clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled. The authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) should be presented below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name (in front of the appropriate address and Provide the full postal address of each affiliation and e-mail address of each author). Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication.

Running title 

The running title should be at the top of each printed page and cannot exceed 60 characters including spaces.

Abstract

The abstract is often presented separately from the article and should state briefly the purpose of the research article, the principal results and major findings. References and non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided as possible. The abstract must not exceed 300 words. 

Keywords

Immediately after the abstract, a maximum of 6 keywords is required, avoid general terms and multiple concepts ('and', 'or', 'of'). Only abbreviations firmly established in the research field may be eligible.

Introduction                                                                                                                                                           

The introduction must reflect the objectives of the presented study in addition to adequate data that report their relationship to earlier work, detailed literature survey or results summary must not be used. Presents the purpose of the studies

Material and methods                                                                                                                                                   

The section of materials and methods should provide sufficient details to allow the experimental idea and procedures to be reproduced by independent researchers. Methods that are already published should be briefed, and indicated by its reference. If quoting directly from a previously published method, use quotation marks and also cite the source. Only truly new procedures should be described in detail

Results

Results should be clear and concise. Data presented in figures and tables should concise with some results that not requiring documentation should be given solely in the text. 

Discussion

This should explore the significance of the results of the work, focusing on the interpretation of the results rather than a repetition of the "Results" section. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature (discussion should be less than two typed pages). The results and discussion sections can be merged into a single section

Conclusions

The main conclusions of your study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.

References 

Ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in your reference list (and vice versa). References must be cited in the text by numbering as superscript in-between square brackets but not by author and date, numbered consecutively in the order of appearance. References for journals and books must be typed in the following styles: 

Bell, V. (2005). On the critique of secular ethics: An essay with Flannery O´Connor and Hannah Arendt. Theory, Culture & Society, 22(2), 1-27. 

Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E. F., and Maniatis, T. (1989). Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, 2nd Ed., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 

References appearing as e-pubs should be in the following style: Farrell, C., and Rollman, L. (June 10, 2004) Journal Biological Chemistry 10.1074/jbc.M401234200 

Journal names are abbreviated according to Chemical Abstracts (http://www.cas.org/). Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references. 

N.B. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication. 

Supplementary materials

-The maximum file size for supplementary materials is 10MB each uncompressed. Please kept the files as small as possible to avoid the frustrations experienced by readers with downloading large files. Large files can be compressed into a ZIP file, but not RAR. Supplementary materials are published as provided by the authors and are not copyedited.

-The number of tables and figures used to present data essential to illustrate or prove a point should be kept to a minimum.

Tables. Authors should submit tables as editable text and not as images. Tables can be placed either next to the relevant text in the article, or on separate page(s) at the end. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Ensure that the data reported in them are either understandable without reference to the text or do not duplicate results described elsewhere in your text. Avoid using shading in table cells. Each column in a table must have a heading, and abbreviations, when necessary, should be defined in the legend.

Figures. Titles and captions containing sufficient detail are required for used figures. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a clear description of the illustration. Authors are responsible for providing digital art that has been properly sized and cropped. Numbers, letters and symbols used in multi-paneled figures must be consistent. Indicate the figure number on each figure. All figures should be created with applications that are capable of preparing high-resolution TIFF or EPS files acceptable for publication (at a resolution not less than 300 dpi). We will require submission of figures as separate TIFF or EPS files at publication-quality resolution for online publication of accepted papers. High resolution JPEG files (at a resolution of at least 5 mega pixels) are also acceptable. It is the author's responsibility to verify the quality of the graphics and that compression of the files for submission does not distort the images Manuscripts that do not have figures of sufficient quality for scientific review will be returned to authors.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations must be presented in one paragraph before references, in the format: "term: definition". Please separate the items by "; ". Please strictly follow the format.
e.g. HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; SIV: simian immunodeficiency virus;... 

Online proof correction

To ensure a fast publication process of the article, authors are requested to provide the journal with their proof corrections within three days. Corresponding authors will receive an e-mail with a link to our online proofing system, allowing annotation and correction of proofs online. In addition to editing text, you can also comment on article sections and answer questions from the Copy Editor. Web-based proofing provides a faster way by allowing you to directly type your corrections, eliminating the potential introduction of errors. All instructions for proofing will be given in the e-mail we send to authors. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. It is important to ensure that all corrections are sent back to us in one communication. Please check carefully before replying, as the inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely the author/authors(s) responsibility.