Manuscript Template
Title
The title of the paper should be complete, comprehensive and should denote the essence of work.
Names of authors and their affiliations
Each author should be identified using superscript. The corresponding author name should also carry asterisk for identification.
ABSTRACT
The abstract should not be more 200 words. It should contain the objective, methods use to conduct the research, clear description of results and brief conclusion drawn from the results. References and discussion should not be included in this section.
Keywords
Keywords should describe the studied problem as best possible. They should not be less than 4 words.
Introduction
This section should provide information on importance of the problem and clear objective of the study. Every statement must be supported by literary source in journal that have been published to date. It is advised to provide recent references from impact factor journals. References containing one or two names of the authors should be cited by the names of the authors (e.g. Steel, 1984 or Steel and Torrie, 1980). Any reference carrying more than 2 authors should be denoted by first author and et. al. should be included (Martin et.al., 2011). If more than one paper is cited by the same set of authors they should be differentiated by year (a,b,c) both in the text and references. Several papers cited should be arranged according to the year in ascending manner.
Materials and Methods
All procedures, analytical methods, experimental design and preliminary materials should be provided with detail in this section. Relevant references should be quoted for a particular analytical methodology. Complete statistical procedures should be produced under separate heading of ‘statistical analysis’.
Results and Discussion
The results from the experiment including their statistical detail should be presented graphically or in table form. In this section, results obtained should be recorded in text form and table data should not be repeated. Results should be clear and concise. Detailed discussion should be produced in this section with relevant references preferably most recent citation should be included. Discussion should be in a point, explain and supports the results.
Conclusions
The major conclusions of the study may be presented in a short conclusion section, which may stands alone or form a subsection of discussion.
References
List of references should be arranged as APA Style alphabetically in the following style.
Reference to a journal publication:
Preston, R. (2010). Observations in acute care: Evidence based approach to patient safety. British Journal of Nursing 19, 442-447. Retrieved from http://www.britishjournalofnursing.com
Tranquilli, A. L., Lorenzi, S., Buscicchio, G., Di Tommaso, M., Mazzanti, L. & Emanuelli, M. (2014). Female fetuses are more reactive when mother eats chocolate. The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 27(1), 72-74. doi:10.3109/14767058.2013.804053
Winter, J., Hunter, S., Sim, J., & Crome, P. (2011). Hands-on therapy interventions for upper limb motor dysfunction following stroke. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2011(6). doi:10.1002/14651858.CD006609.pub.2
Reference to a book:
Beckett, S. T. (2008). The science of chocolate (2nd ed.). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Royal Society of Chemistry.
Ramsey, J. K., & McGrew, W. C. (2005). Object play in great apes: Studies in nature and captivity. In A. D. Pellegrini & P. K. Smith (Eds.), The nature of play: Great apes and humans (pp. 89-112). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Reference to a Conference:
MacIntyre, S. (2008, August). Participation in the classroom, productivity in the workforce: Unfulfilled expectations. Paper presented at the 13th Australian Council for Educational Research Conference, Brisbane Qld. Retrieved from research.acer.edu.au/research_conference_2008/8
