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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, or RTF 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.

Author Guidelines

Authors are requested to submit papers for this journal. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Journal.

Process:

Submissions are accepted for review with the understanding that the same work has been neither submitted to, nor published in, another publication. Simultaneous submission to other publications will result in immediate rejection of the paper. Papers are not within the journal scope will be rejected immediately after the pre-review process.

All manuscripts will be subject to a well-established, fair, unbiased peer-review and refereeing procedure, and are considered on the basis of their significance, novelty and usefulness to the Journals readership. The reviewing structure will always ensure the anonymity of the referees & it will be reviewed by three experts in the field. Article is first reviewed by two members in the panel editors’ board and then one member of executive council. The review output will be one of the following decisions:

1. Accept
2. Accept with minor changes
3. Weak Accept with major changes
4. Reject

The review process may take approximately 6-8 Weeks to be completed. The Chief managing Editor reserves the right to reject a paper if it does not meet the aims and scope of the journal, it is not revised well.

Publication charges: None
Publication Frequency - biannual
June, December.

Copy Right Form

After submitting final manuscript, you can get copy right form.

FORMATTING GUIDE FOR AUTHORS OF IJHCAM PAPERS

Muhammad Alia and Samina Afzalb

aDepartment of Pharmacy, University Sains Malaysia, Pinang, Malaysia.
ali123@xx.yy.zz
bDepartment of Pharmacy, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
saimina987@zzz.com

ABSTRACT

This paper gives complete guidelines for authors submitting papers for the Journal.

KEYWORDS

Pharmaceutics, Drug delivery system & Microencapsulation.

1. INTRODUCTION

This document describes, and is written to conform to, author guidelines for the journals of IJHCAM. It is prepared in Microsoft Word as a .doc document.

2. FORMAT GUIDE

This document describes, and is written to conform to, author guidelines for the journals of IJHCAM. It is prepared in Microsoft Word as a .doc document.

2.1. General Format, Page Layout and Margins

Standard A4 (210mm x 297mm) portrait page set-up should be used. The left, right, top and bottom margins should be 30mm. Do not use any headers, footers or footnotes. No page numbers. Use only single column. All main text paragraphs, including the abstract, must be fully (left and right) justified. All text, including title, authors, headings, captions and body, will be Times New Roman font.

2.2. Title

The title is to be written in 20 pt. Times New Roman font, centred and using the bold and “Small Caps” formats.

2.3. Authors

Author names are to be written in 13 pt. Times New Roman format, centred and followed by a 12pt. paragraph spacing. If necessary, use superscripts to link individual authors with institutions as shown above. Author affiliations are to be written in 12 pt. Times New Roman, centered, with email addresses, in 10 pt. Courier New, on the line following. The last email address will have an 18 pt. (paragraph) spacing following.

2.4. Abstract

The Abstract section begins with the word, “Abstract” in 13 pt. Times New Roman, bold italics, and “Small Caps” font with a 6pt. spacing following. The abstract must not exceed 150 words in length in 10 pt. Times New Roman italics. The text must be fully justified, with a 12 pt. paragraph spacing following the last line.

2.5. Keywords

The Keywords section begins with the word, “Keywords” in 13 pt. Times New Roman, bold italics, and “Small Caps” font with a 6pt. spacing following. There may be up to five keywords (or short phrases) separated by commas and six spaces, in 10 pt. Times New Roman italics. An 18 pt. line spacing follows.

2.6. Section and sub-section headings

Section headings are numbered 1. Xxx, 2. Yyy, etc. in 14 pt. bold “Small Caps” Times New Roman font with a 6 pt. line spacing following. Subsection headings are numbered 1.1. Aaa, 1.2. Bbb, etc. in 12 pt. bold Times New Roman font with a 6pt line spacing following.

2.6.1. Further Subsections

Further sub-sectioning, if required, is indicated using 1.1.1. Qqq, etc. headings with 11 pt. bold Times New Roman font with a 6pt line spacing following.

2.7. Text

Main-body text is to written in fully (left and right) justified 11 pt. Times New Roman font with a 6pt. (paragraph) line spacing following the last line of each paragraph, but a 12pt. (paragraph) line spacing following the last paragraph. Do not indent paragraphs.

2.8. Figures and Tables

Table 1. Heading and text fonts.
Text Alingnment Font Followed by:
Title Center 20 pt. TNR, bold, small-caps 24 pt. line sp.
Authors Center 13 pt. TNR 12 pt. line sp.
Addresses Center 12 pt. TNR  
Emails Center 11 pt. italic TNR 18 pt. line sp. (last)
Abstract heading Left 13 pt. bold italic TNR, small caps 6 pt. line sp.
Abstract text Left 10 pt. italic TNR 12 pt. line sp.
Keywords heading Left 13 pt. bold italic TNR, small caps 6 pt. line sp.
Keywords Left, left, .. 10 pt. italic TNR 18 pt line sp.
Section headings Left 14 pt. bold TNR, small caps 6 pt. line sp.
Sub-section heads Left 12 pt. bold TNR 6 pt. line sp.
Sub-sub-sections Left 11 pt. bold TNR 6 pt. line sp.
Body text Full (left/right) 11 pt. TNR 12 pt line sp. (last)
Figures Center   6 pt line sp. (last)
Figure captions Center 11 pt. TNR 12 pt line sp. (last)
References Left 10 pt. TNR 6 pt line sp. (last)

All inserts, figures, diagrams, photographs and tables must be centre-aligned, clear and appropriate for black/white or greyscale reproduction. Schemes, photographs or graphs should be uploaded as JPG, PNG, GIF or XLS files. Structures must be drawn with the help of Chemdraw. Figures (eg, Figure 1) must be numbered consecutively, 1, 2, etc., from start to finish of the paper, ignoring sections and subsections. Tables (eg, Table 1) are also numbered consecutively, 1, 2, etc., from start to finish of the paper, ignoring sections and subsections, and independently from figures. All figures, tables, etc. must have a caption, center-justified in 11 pt. Times New Roman. Captions precede tables but follow figures. Tables and figures must appear as close to their point of reference as satisfactory formatting of the final document permits.

2.9. Acknowledgements

An (unnumbered) acknowledgements section may be inserted if required.

2.10. References

References should be assembled al­phabetically on a separate sheet. In the text, they should be referred by name and year (Harvard system). When referring to more than one paper of a same author and same year, the alphabets a, b, c, etc. should be placed next to the year of publication. In the text, when referring to a work by sole author, the name of author should be given like (Ali, 1998). When referring to a work by two authors, the name of authors should be given like (Ali and John, 2001). When more than two authors, the name of the first author should be given followed by et al. such as (John et al., 2002). Literature references must consist of names and initials of all authors, title of the paper referred to, abbreviated title of the journal, the volume, and page numbers of the paper. List submitted manuscripts as "in press" only if formally accepted for publication; otherwise, use "unpublished results" after the names of authors.

3. CONCLUSIONS

Papers in this format must not exceed twenty (20) pages in length. Papers should be submitted to the IJHCAM. Papers for initial consideration may be submitted in either .doc or .pdf format. Final, camera-ready versions should take into account referees’ suggested amendments.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The authors would like to thank everyone, just everyone!

REFERENCES

Timm D, Willis H, Thomas W, Sanders L, Boileau T, Slavin J (2011) ‘The use of a wireless motility device for the measurement of gastrointestinal transit time after a dietary fibre intervention’ ,Br J Nutr, vol. 105 no.9, pp 1337-42. Xitian P, Xiaolin Z, Chenglin P, Wensheng H, Hongying L (2005), ‘A Novel Remote Controlled Capsule for Human Drug Absorption studies’ , Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol So, Vol.5, pp.5066-8.

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