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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Manuscript preparation

Here are some things to keep in mind as you plan your submission:

  1. Please read and understand the journal’s Ethics and Policies; a manuscript against the ethical policies may be rejected.
  2. Please read the Author Guidelines of the journal, and prepare your manuscript by referring to its template. Human Resources Management and Services (HRMS) adopts a new template since 2024 Volume 6 Issue 1. Authors should follow the step-by-step instructions during submitting a manuscript through the online submission system.
  3. Please provide a cover letter and cover image as supplementary material when submitting a manuscript.
  4. Please ensure that you have obtained authorized approval of remixed data from the original copyrighter if available.
  5. Please be aware of the Authorship Policy, and authors are not encouraged to change the list of authorships after the manuscript is accepted.
  6. Please refer to the AIGC Policy; the Publisher strictly prohibits the use of AI tools to write content that replaces human logical thinking and analytical interpretation, except for the insertion of references, language embellishment, and graphing of basic data.
  7. All the journals in PiscoMed Publishing adopt an open access model, and authors retain the copyright of their work. PiscoMed Publishing is authorized to publish the works online first.
  8. Please be aware of the APCs policy before submitting a manuscript.

 

Cover letter

Please prepare a cover letter along with your manuscript, that may describe the main innovations of the study, key results and significance, etc. Authors are required to disclose any essential information, such as the potential conflict of interest, preprint version ID if available, statement of non-submission to other journals, reproducibility of data, signatures of all authors approving the submission of the manuscript.

You are welcome to share a list of recommended or recused reviewers, and the journal office has the right to adopt it or not. Authors are encouraged to list their contributions to a research article, where there are more than two authors.

 

Article types

Please add an article type at the top of your text. In general, we publish the following types of articles: Article, Review, Editorial, Perspective, Case Report, Commentary, and Opinion (please check the details of each type at the bottom of this page). In case your article does not fall into any of the following types, please contact the editorial office of the journal to check whether your article type is acceptable.

 

Article structure

Usually, the main structure of a research article should include Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methods and Materials, Result, and Conclusion.

A review article should include Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Section Description, and Conclusion.

Other types of articles usually have no regular structure requirements, but authors must state the type of the submission. Note that the submission must be written in English (referring to the Language Policy), whether American or British, while authors should be aware of the uniformity of the language style throughout the text.

 

Title: The title should summarize the main points of the article with a maximum of 50 words.

Author: Please provide a list of authorship according to the Authorship Policy. The names of authors must be spelled out rather than set in initials along with their affiliations (e.g., department, institution, city, state, postal code, and country). The main contributor should be listed as the first author, and corresponding authors should be identified with an asterisk. At least one corresponding author’s email should be listed for further communication. It is important that the submission has obtained the approval of all authors.

Abstract: The purpose of an abstract is to summarize the main research, methodology, and conclusions, and to guide readers to access the whole paper with interest. Ideally, abstracts should be no more than 300 words, but there are exceptions.

Keywords: Please avoid using the words in the title, and provide no more than 8 keywords.

Text: The length of the content is not quite rigorous, and it depends on the manuscript’s scientific quality.

 

The main structure & back matters

 

Section title

Key points

Article type

Introduction

It would be beneficial for readers if authors provide a clear, one sentence purpose statement of the research. Here should start with an explanation of why the particular research has been conducted and end with a statement/conclusion of the selected research approach.

Article, Review

 

 

 

Materials and methods

Authors are required to provide a detailed account of the procedure that was followed while conducting the research described in the report. That's valuable for the replication of the results.

Article

 

 

 

Result

It should provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation, as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn. Sometimes, this section may be divided into subheadings.

Article, Review, Case Report, Perspective, Commentary, Opinion

Discussion

Conclusion

 

 

 

Author contributions

For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided.

Article

 

 

 

Funding

This section is not mandatory. If your research has received any external funding, you should claim the details.

Not mandatory

 

 

 

Acknowledgments

Here, you can acknowledge any support received which is not listed as the authorship.

Not mandatory

 

 

 

Conflict of interest

Declare conflicts of interest or state “The authors declare no conflict of interest.”

All types

 

 

 

References

References must be arranged in alphabetical order of the first author at the end of the manuscript.

Not mandatory in an Editorial

 

 

 

Appendix

This section is optional and is for all materials (e.g., advanced technical details) that has been excluded from the main text but remains essential to readers in understanding the manuscripts.

Not mandatory

 

 

Figures and Tables

All figures and tables should be cited in the main text as Figure 1, Table 1, etc. Figures and tables should be placed as close as possible to the text they refer to and be center-aligned. Photos, graphs, charts or diagram should be labeled as Figures (do not abbreviate), and assigned a number consecutively (e.g., Figure 1). Figure captions should appear underneath figures, and be center-aligned, with no additional blank line.

In cases where a caption needs to be extended over to the second line, the caption should be aligned left.

 

References

 

  • In-text citations

As the new layout style has been adopted, in-text citations should be in APA style, i.e., the author-date citation format. There are two forms: narrative citations and parenthetical citations.

For narrative citations:

Author 1 and Author 2 (year) showed that ....

For parenthetical citations:

It has been found that ... (Author 1 and Author 2, year; Author 3 et al., year).

Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.

 

  • Bibliography format

Only works that are cited in the main text can be listed here. Generally, references should be in the following pattern:

Author(s), year of publication, title of publication, full journal name, volume number, issue number in parenthesis and lastly, page range. If the DOI is available, please include it after the page range.

For example:

Author 1 AB, Author 2 CD, Author 3 EF, et al. (Year). Title of the article. Journal Name. Volume(Issue) (if available): Firstpage–Lastpage. doi (if available).

Author 1 AB, Author 2 CD. (Year). Title of the chapter. In: Title of the Book, 2nd ed. Publisher name, pp. 102–144.

Author 1 AB, Author 2 CD. (Year). Title of the contribution. In: Editor 1 FM, Editor 2 FM (editors). Title of the Book, Edition. Publisher, Volume, pp. Page range.

Author 1 FM, Author 2 FM, Author 3 FM, et al. (Year). Title of presentation. In: Proceedings of the Name of the Conference; Date of Conference (Day Month Year); Location(City, Country).

Author 1 FM, Author 2 FM, Author 3 FM. (Year). Title of presentation. In: Editor 1 FM, Editor 2 FM (editors). Title of Collected Work, Proceedings of the Name of the Conference; Date of Conference (Day Month Year); Location(City, Country). Publisher.

Author FM. (Year). Title of Thesis [PhD thesis]. Degree-Granting University.

Author 1 FM, Author 2 FM, Author 3 FM, et al. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, Complete Date, Pagination.

Patent Owner 1, Patent Owner 2, Patent Owner 3. (Year). Title of Patent. Patent Number, Date (Day Month Year, the Application granted date).

Author 1 FM, Author 2 FM. (Year). Title of unpublished work. Journal Title (if available); Phrase Indicating Stage of Publication (submitted, in press, etc.).

Title of site. (Year). Available online: URL (accessed on Day Month Year).

Articles

Original research articles are those have never been published before. This type of article should include complete research methods and results, and publish new research results in this field.

Review

A summary highlighting recent developments and current/future trends of the field. This manuscript type typically has a minimum of 30 references, 5000 words (inclusive of reference list and abstract).

Case Report

Case report is a paper in the form of a written report that provides first-hand information for a single rare method/material, and it has a strong guiding significance for the work in this field.

Communication

Unsolicited commentaries or analysis from reader(s) targeting specific published articles in the journal. Commentaries will be subjected to peer-review and may be published in both online and printed versions of the journal. This manuscript type typically has 3500 words.

Hypothesis

An article proposing a new hypothesis or theory with a new interpretation of recent data or findings in the field.

Opinions

Opinions are short articles that reflect the author’s viewpoints on a particular subject, technique, or recent findings. They should highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the topic presented in the opinion.

Perspective

Authors’ personal opinion on a subject/topic. Unlike reviews, perspective articles may cover a more specific part of the field. However, these are still required to uphold the spirit of academia of being objective as well as aiming to initiate or further discuss on novel experimental procedures in the field. Therefore, it will undergo the peer review process. Accepted articles may be solicited or unsolicited. This manuscript type typically has 5 tables and figures in total, along with approximately 30 references and 5000 words (inclusive of reference list and abstract).

Brief Report

A short report of preliminary studies or original research, which provides fewer details compared with an original research article.

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