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General standards
Magazine "Innovative Reports" publishes
plagiarism-free original articles in English and Urdu languages in
separate sections. Following type of articles can be submitted
1. Popular science & Tech articles
enhancing public understanding
2. Science and tech blogs
3. Extension articles
4. STEM news,
reviews and interviews
5.
Product release
6. Event report
(Science and Tech events covering a wide range of topics brought
to our readers by world-class science speakers and experts)
Special Issues containing /covering a specialized subject/event area are
also published at intervals.
SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES: Article should be submitted in electronic format
via e-mail only, and should be presented in accordance with the guidelines for
authors. Manuscripts
should be sent to: meditorbr@yahoo.co.uk
ORGANIZATION OF SCIENCE
&TECH NEWS & Opinion ARTICLES:
The main purpose of this type of articles is enhancing public
understanding and awareness about a specific topic.
Style and format. Manuscripts should be
written in simple declarative sentences and must conform to accepted standards
of English Or Urdu style and usage. Submit manuscript with elements arranged in the following
order, numbering all pages consecutively. Double-space all material. Font:
Arial, size 12. One major (e.g. cell biology)
and specific (e.g. cell death) topic area for the Article
(1) Title of article
(2) all authors' full names (maximum 05 authors), affiliations,
E-mail addresses and corresponding author name with a *
(3) abstract (<150 words)
(4) Key words (<7).
(5) Article body which should be divided into: 1) Introduction; 2)
conclusion (s) 3) Acknowledgments (if any); 4) Figure and Tables 5)
References;
Total length of article including references should be <25,00 characters.
(6) Article Highlights
Video Abstract
Video can be an
excellent way to attract interest in and communicate your findings. Video
abstracts are an addition to articles that we offer our authors to publish
free of cost. for editorial and technical guidelines to Prepare a Video
Abstract please visit video abstract
guideline page
References:
References should be in a uniform style and follow the
Vancouver referencing style. it means references should be in numerical
arrangement. Use Arabic numbers (1,2,3…etc.) for numbering and straight brackets
[ ] for enclosing the cited number e.g. [1]; [1,2] or [1-3].
References should be relevant and the number of references in the text should
match the reference list that sould be arranged according to number. Download a
recent published article for help.
PEER REVIEW PROCESS:
After critical editorial review, manuscripts are
peer reviewed by independent subject experts
in the particular area and are sent blank to avoid any biased evaluation. For
details please visit our review policy page
Proofs: Submitted manuscripts must be
considered as final texts to which no changes should be made at the proof stage
apart from correction to printer's errors. The managing editor will send the
page proofs to the author by e-mail as PDF file. Proofs must be returned to the
publishers by e-mail within 72 hours of receipt. Only minor corrections/ changes
at this stage are possible.
FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS:
Page charges are assessed for all kinds of
articles to help defray the costs.
Article Processing Fee is Flat US $50
for
papers of any page length.
Fee
is only payable if the paper is accepted after peer review. Journal has no
submission fee. Unless otherwise specified, it will be assumed that
the corresponding author is responsible for payment. The publishers supply a PDF
file of paper for unlimited off prints.
Automatic Discounts
for Inland/Pakistani
authors: Corresponding authors of accepted manuscript will have to pay manuscript
handling/processing/printing charges Rs. 5,000 on acceptance of their
manuscript from Jan. 01, 2024.
Fee waiver or discounts
We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income
countries. For all inland/Pakistani authors, a special discounted fee is
applicable. For other countries, article-processing charge waivers or discounts
are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors with insufficient funds form our
Open Access Support Fund (OASF). Authors can request a waiver or discount during
the submission process. For further details please visit
fee policy page.
Publication Ethics and Malpractice
The journal is committed to maintaining the highest
level of integrity in the content published. This journal has a Conflict of
Interest policy in place.
Currently the journal is not a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics
(COPE) but will soon apply for its membership. However we follow its principles
on how to deal with acts of misconduct thereby committing to investigate
allegations of misconduct in order to ensure the integrity of research. The
journal takes issues relating to publication ethics very seriously. We strictly
follow the guidelines and best practice recommendations published by the
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Authors are expected to abide by ethical standards in regards to the attribution
of authorship, conflicts of interest, respect of ethical considerations in the
use of experimental animal and human participants, financial support disclosures
and participation in the peer review process. Additionally, cases of invalid or
fraudulent data, plagiarism and dual submissions will constitute grounds for
rejection.
The journal may use plagiarism detection software to screen the submissions. If
plagiarism is identified, the COPE guidelines on plagiarism will be followed.
Content published in this journal is peer reviewed. For details about the peer
review process please visit our page for it.
Plagiarism policy
Along with your paper must
submit Plagiarism (similarity) report of paper, that must be less than 19%
(overall) and not more than 5% for any single source.
COPYRIGHT:
Innovative Scientific Information and Services network applies the Creative
Commons Attribution (CC BY) license to articles we publish (except
video abstract).
Authors of articles published in Frontiers journals retain copyright on their
articles, except for any third-party images and other materials added by
Innovative Scientific Information and Services network, which are subject to
copyright of their respective owners. If you submit your paper for publication
by Innovative Scientific Information and Services network, you agree to have the
CC BY license applied to your work. Under this Open Access license, you as the
author agree that anyone can reuse your article in whole or part for any
purpose, for free, even for commercial purposes. Anyone may copy, distribute, or
reuse the content as long as the author and original source are properly cited.
This facilitates freedom in re-use and also ensures that published content can
be mined without barriers for the needs of research.
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Corrections to published articles. If necessary, corrections of
significant errors in published articles will be published in a later issue of
the Journal. Within two months after publication, authors are requested to bring
any errors to the attention of the managing editor.
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