1. Author Guidelines

A. General Instructions

The manuscript should be submitted with a declaration stating that the study was performed according to the national, international, organizational and institutional rules in consideration with clinical studies, biodiversity rights with and explanation of ethno-pharmacological importance of the study. Manuscripts/Abstracts should be typed neatly in Microsoft Word or Open Office file format in A4 size page and should have line spacing of 1.5 throughout. Tables must be inserted at appropriate places in the article. The pages should be uniform and should have a margin space on all the sides. Font style should be ???Times New Roman ???Arial??? and ???Calibri???, the title should be in bold face with a font size 14. All the section titles should be in font size 12, bold face capitals and the subtitles of each section should be in font size 12, bold face lower case. Words should not be hyphenated or broken by the author(s). Footnotes are not allowed in the text. Figures must be in JPEG format in separate pages. In case, if there is any special issue, authors should contribute articles as per the issue specific themes.

B. Language and Grammar

The articles should be in English language with no grammatical errors. Ayurvedic/Sanskrit/Non-English terms should be written in Italic format and their meanings should be mentioned in parenthesis.

 

2. Format and Order of Manuscripts

Original Research papers with new experimental studies should be submitted in an elaborated form comprising a major contribution to knowledge. Word limit for manuscripts should be 3000 worlds for full article; however it is depends on type of article. The sequence of the research paper should be as follows:

1. COVER LETTER: Author(s) can send a cover letter along with each manuscript (optional)
2. TITLE: First page should be kept as title page in all manuscripts with the further text being paginated. Abbreviation should not use in title page. It should be as short as possible and containing a precise information about the content along with the names of author(s), educational qualification, degree, affiliation(s), organization details and contact information. Complete mailing address, phone number, fax number and email address of author & corresponding authors must be mentioned at the lower left of the title page.
3. ABSTRACT: Abstract should be presented at the beginning of the paper and should not exceed 300 words. It should be completely informative, self explanatory, stating the scope of the research, indicating significant observations, data and conclusions. References and abbreviations should be avoided. Standard classifications and acronyms should be used.
4. KEY WORDS: Authors should assign 4-6 keywords to the manuscript reflecting the major features of the work which will be used for the indexing purpose. It should be typed at the end of the abstract, should start with a capital letter and should be separated by a semi-colon.
5. INTRODUCTION: Introduction should provide a brief background highlighting significant research work done demonstrating the connection with the proposed work along with aims and objectives of this study.
6. METHODOLOGY: It should have sufficient information to permit the researched to be reproduces. All the methods and related procedures should be properly elaborated. This part should discuss research design of the study. It also describes its methodology and complete procedure of research tools construction, data collection, and method of statistical analysis the data. Moreover, patients & subject consent need to be mentioned in this part. All other ethical consideration of obtaining data from institute or subject also needs to be stated in methodology.
7. RESULTS: The results and observations of the research must be exemplified with the help of figures or tables as per the requirement. The study in the methods section with appropriate statistical analysis should be self explanatory.
8. DISCUSSION: In this section, elaborate the findings of the research work by giving the justification of current result using updated and scientific literature. This section should also mention the justification about the shortcoming or lacunae of the current study providing future directions and prospects.
9. CONCLUSION: This section should precisely highlight the major significance, relevance, purpose and usefulness of the study. It should describe a short summary and further scope in the field.
10. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Acknowledgement(s) may include supporting grants/funds, presentations, contribution of each author, any assistance of using medical writing and so forth and should be mentioned in a single paragraph preceding the reference section.
11. REFERENCES: Text references are to be indicated in square brackets in line with the text by the appropriate number with superscript e.g.: ^{[1], [2, 3], [4-6], [7, 8-10]}. References are to be numbered in the order in which they come into view in the text. References mentioned in tables and figures should also be numbered according to the sequence. The title of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used for MEDLINE (www. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals). Using abstracts as references should be avoided and no references should be mentioned in the conclusion and discussion segment. E.g. is given below:

• Authors can follow the pattern of references as mentioned in the NLM???s International Committee of Medical Journal Editors ( ICMJE).
• Reference should also be verified using either an electronic bibliographic source such as PubMed.

1. Defining Authorship

If there is more than one author, co-author (s) could share responsibility & accountability for publications of manuscript, however you will select one author to be the corresponding author. This author will take care all the correspondence about the paper and will give the details of sequence in which order their names will appear in the article. Please ensure that all authors??? affiliations are correct. If you have changed affiliation, in case, your new affiliation will be acknowledged in a note.

2. Originality

The author(s) are supposed to make sure that the work is completely original and if anything or any work has been used of others then it has been properly mentioned or quoted. There are many forms of Plagiarism which includes publishing other???s paper as author???s paper, copying/rewording significant ingredient of other???s paper (without acknowledgement), claiming results from study conducted by others. All forms of unethical publishing will be considered as a part of Plagiarism and is completely unacceptable.

3. Copyright

Plagiarism is strictly prohibited, the Chief-Editor has the right to take apposite action, if any plagiarism or fabricated found in the paper. All authors are required to sign the Journal Publishing Agreement, in the case, any authors is not available Corresponding author is required to sign on behalf of all co-authors once the manuscript is accepted.

4. Acknowledgement of Sources: The authors should ensure that they have written original papers, in case if they have taken a reference, then they should mention and cite in the manuscript. Acknowledgment of the work of others should be given. Private information must not be used without their written consent.
5. Manuscript Submission: Authors can submit their manuscript through Arogya Journal's email address: editorijpaam@gmail.com. Each manuscript will be provided with a manuscript reference number (ID) and all communication will be done through e-mail. Manuscript reference number needs to be referred for any further enquiries.
6. Manuscript Review Process: Manuscripts/Abstracts submitted for the journal will be initially reviewed by the Editorial Board which will decide whether the manuscript meets the requirements of the journal and is worth sending out for thorough review. After the completion of review, the necessary changes and comments on the manuscript/abstract will be sent to the author within 7 working days from the time of submission. After the completion of first review, if the requirements of the editor are not fulfilled then it will go for subsequent reviews until the manuscript meets editorial demands. Confirmation of acceptance will be given once the author works on the comments and amend the suggested changes. Confirmation of acceptance of the manuscript will be sent to corresponding author???s e-mail address.
7. Publication Process of Articles: Once all the final corrections are done, approved articles will be uploaded in the journal website as a publication in the current issue.
8. Privacy Statement: Any details mentioned in the journal like names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of the journal only and will not be used for any other purpose or to any other party.
9. Changes: After the paper has accepted for the publication, if you need to change any co-author (s), or if a co-author becomes the corresponding author, you should write to the editor with clear reason for the change, and this letter must come from all the authors, editorial board will need to agree to the change. We can???t make any changes after the publication.