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Guidelines for Authors Submitting a Journal Paper
Preparing your manuscript
Please use these guidelines to ensure that your manuscript is complete
prior to submission of your article.
If you have any queries, please get in touch with your contact person atRiver Publishers.
Each paper submitted will be peer reviewed to ensure quality, technicalaccuracy and interest to our readers.
All papers submitted should clearly:•••

Identify the material being presented
Relate to the aims and scope of the journal
Justify all claims with evidence and not exaggerate

Format of submitted text
For submission in Latex River Publishers has developed a stylefile which
can be downloaded from:http://riverpublishers.com/download/journal_stylefile_Feb_13.zip
For submission in Microsoft Word please use the template downloadablefrom:
http://riverpublishers.com/download/River%20Publishers%20Journal%20Template.dotx
Please do not use any stylefile or template other than that provided byRiver Publishers.
Details of Submission
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Full names and post-nominal letters of author(s)Positions and affiliations of author(s)Contact address, telephone number and email address of theauthor(s)Brief resume of author(s)Photograph of author(s)Number of word in the main text
Number of figures and tables

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Structure of your article
Title of paper
Titles are limited to 80 characters, including spaces. Titles should clearlyreflect the content of the manuscript.
Abstract
Please provide a 250 word summary of the submission. This should be aconcise reflection of the aims, conclusions and include interesting orimportant results. Please specify the articles relevance to the journal.
List of notations and abbreviationsPlease provide a list of symbols, abbreviations and definitions used in
the text that would be helpful for the reader.
Keywords
Please indicate a number of keywords that may be used for indexing.
Introduction
A concise, accurate, but not exhaustive, summary of current knowledge,
with reference to relevant previous and recent works in the field shouldbe presented. This should be accompanied with the aims of andjustification for the work contained in the submitted manuscript.
Main Text
Results and discussion
Results should be reported clearly and accurately followed by adiscussion, which fairly assesses their significance.
Conclusion
A concise summary of the findings and a clear identification of theadvance/contribution that this work provides to the field.

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Appendices
Additional information, such as tables or mathematical
calculations/derivations can be included and should be clearly referred
to, from the main text, as belonging to the appendix.
Acknowledgements
Please provide details from those, individuals and institutions, otherthan co-authors, that contributed to the paper.
EthicsAny associated safety, environmental or ethical issues should bedeclared and stated in the submission form and manuscript.
References
Please add a list of literature cited in the manuscript at the end of thetext.
Mathematical equations
Only relevant equations should be included in the main text, and should
be numbered – anything else can be added as an appendix or as
supplementary information.
Image
All images must be submitted with a resolution of at least 500 dpi.
Scanned figures are not acceptable but should be uploaded in theformat they were created. Please note that our production department
can request changes to the artwork when the manuscript is firstevaluated (immediately after submission) AND with the first copyedit.

Figures and tables caption list
Please supply a figure caption list at the end of your main text
document. Figures and tables must be mentioned in the text inconsecutive order, but as different sets (ie, Figure 1, Table 1 etc.) All
figures must have a brief title accompanied with a short description thatcan be able to be understood without reference to the main text.

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Reference Style·Periodicals: Wells, A. D., M. C. Walsh, D. Sankaran, and L. A. Turka.
2000. T cell effector function and anergy avoidance arequantitatively linked to cell division. J. Immunol. 165: 2432–2443.

·Books: McIntyre, T. M., and W. Strober. 1999. Gut-associated lymphoidtissue: regulation of IgA B-cell development. In Mucosal
Immunology, 2nd ed. P. L. Ogra, J. Mestecky, E. Lamm, W. Strober,J. Bienenstock, and J. R. McGhee, eds. Academic Press, San Diego,CA. p. 319–356.

·Articles published ahead of print: Fraser, D.A., A. K. Laust, E. L. Nelson, andA. J. Tenner. 2009. C1q differentially modulates phagocytosis andcytokine responses during ingestion of apoptotic cells by humanmonocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells . J.
Immunol. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.0902232.

Copyright release
1. After the acceptance of the paper, please make sure that you havesigned the copyright form. This will be sent to you for completion shortly
after the paper’s acceptance.
2. You are kindly requested to ensure that copyright release has beenobtained for reprinted material from other sources that is used in yourpaper.
Submission
Manuscripts and other files should be uploaded to River Publishers’
submission platform:
https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/JCSANDM/login