Author Guidelines
General Considerations and Author Guidelines
About the Journal
Alnakhla Journal of Science is a peer-reviewed international journal is available online at https://alnakhlajos.com. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive the final accepted version of the articles on any compliant institutional/subject-based repository.
Editorial Process
A manuscript will be reviewed for possible publication with the understanding that it is being submitted to AJOS alone at that time and has not been published anywhere or simultaneously submitted/accepted for publication elsewhere. One of the authors should be authorized to correspond with the Journal for all matters related to the manuscript.
All manuscripts submitted are duly acknowledged. Within one week after submission, all submitted manuscripts are checked for plagiarism using Turnitin® and subsequently reviewed for their suitability for publication in AJOS. Manuscripts with high plagiarism (> 20%), insufficient originality, serious scientific or technical flaws, and/or lack of a significant message are rejected at this stage along with manuscripts that are unlikely to be of interest to AJOS readers. Suitable manuscripts are then sent to a minimum of three independent expert reviewers for assessing the scientific quality of the manuscript within 30 days. The AJOS follows a double-blind review process. The Editor-in-Chief, based on the comments and recommendations of reviewers, takes a final decision on the manuscript. The comments and suggestions (i.e., acceptance or rejection of or revisions in manuscript) received from reviewers are conveyed to the corresponding author. If a manuscript is requested to be revised, the corresponding author is requested to provide a point-by-point response to reviewers’ comments and submit a revised version of the manuscript within 15 days. This process is repeated until reviewers and editors are satisfied with the manuscript.
Manuscripts accepted for publication are copyedited for language, grammar, punctuation, print style, and format. Page proofs are sent to the corresponding author. The corresponding author is expected to approve and return the corrected proofs within three days. It may not be possible to incorporate corrections received after that period. The entire process from submission of the manuscript to final decision and the subsequent sending and receiving proofs is completed online within a minumum of 60 days through the website https://alnakhlajos.com
Authorship Criteria
Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to each of the three components mentioned below:
- Concept and design of study or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data;
- Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
- Final approval of the version to be published.
Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship. Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content of the manuscript.
The order of naming the contributors should be based on the relative contribution of the contributor towards the study and writing the manuscript. Once submitted the order cannot be changed without the written consent of all the contributors.
Please note that although the Journal does not specify a maximum number of authors, if requested, the authors should justify if the number of authors exceeds 6 for original articles, 4 for case reports and short communications/brief reports, and 2 for letters to the editor.
Contribution Details
Contributors should describe contributions made by each of them towards the manuscript. The description should be divided into the following categories, as applicable: concept, design, the definition of intellectual content, literature search, clinical studies, experimental studies, data acquisition, data analysis, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, manuscript editing, and manuscript review. One or more authors should take responsibility for the integrity of the work from inception to publication and should be designated as the 'guarantor'.
Conflicts of Interest/Competing Interests
All authors must disclose all conflicts of interest they may have with the publication of the manuscript or an institution or product that is mentioned in the manuscript and/or is important to the outcome of the study presented. Authors should also disclose conflicts of interest with products that compete with those mentioned in their manuscript.
If AJOS receives a manuscript for publication consideration from its Editorial Board members, AJOS ensures that the entire editorial process is carried out in an unbiased manner and that members who may have a conflict of interest with the manuscript do not take part in any editorial decision of the manuscript. The peer review of such a manuscript is completed by reviewers with no conflict of interest.
