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How to prepare an
article for publication
in Journal of Taibah
University/sciences.
General: Manuscripts
must be typewritten. All
pages must be numbered
consecutively. Tables,
schemes and figures
should be inserted into
the main text or, if
this is not possible,
added at the end of the
manuscript. Sequences of
tables, figures and
schemes should be
numbered with Arabic
numerals.
Manuscripts should be
written in English or
Arabic in a clear,
grammatically correct
and concise manner.
Manuscript Organization:
The sections of a
manuscript are: (i)
Title, (ii)Authors and
Addresses, (iii)
Corresponding Author’s
E-mail Address, (iv)
Abstract, (v) Keywords,
(vi) Introduction, (vii)
Experimental, (viii)
Results and Discussion
(may be separate), (ix)
Conclusions, (x)
Acknowledgment
(optional), (xi)
Supplementary
Information, (xii)
References and
Footnotes.
Title:
The title should be
concise, informative and
representative of the
contents of the
manuscript.
Authors and Addresses:
Authors’ names include
all those who have made
substantial
contributions to the
works was actually
written by only one
person use first name,
middle name and
surnames. One author
must be designated with
on asterisk (*) as the
author to whom
correspondences should
be addressed. The names
and addresses of the
institution(s) where the
work was performed
should be listed in the
following paragraph. If
this is different from
the present address,
this should be noted in
footnote.
Corresponding Author’s
E-mail Address:
The email address of the
corresponding author
should be placed on a
separate line below the
institution addresses.
Abstract.
The abstract should give
readers concise
information about the
content of the article
and indicate the main
results obtained and
conclusions drawn. It
should be self-contained
with no reference to
figures, tables,
equations or
bibliographic references
and should not normally
exceed 200 words. The
abstract should normally
be restricted to a
single paragraph.
Keywords.
A maximum of six
keywords are required
for indexing purpose.
This will help in the
choice of suitable
referees and allocation
of articles to subject
areas.
Introduction: The first
section is normally an
introduction, which
should state clearly the
object of the work, its
scope and the main
advances reported, with
brief references to
relevant results by
other workers.
Experimental: This
section should include
information about all
the experimental work
conducted, including a
brief description of
relevant preliminary
work. The choice of any
optimization procedure
must be justified and
figure of merit clearly
stated. If appropriate
this section should
include information on
how any new method was
validated, including a
description of the
statistical procedures
used. Descriptions of
methods should be
supported by
experimental results
showing accuracy,
precision, sensitivity
and selectivity.
Precautions for handling
dangerous material or
for performing hazardous
procedures should be
explicitly stated.
Experimental procedure
should be short; there
is no need to give
detailed descriptions of
well-known operations.
Results and Discussion
(may be separate):
Results are best
presented in tabular or
diagrammatic or reaction
schemes form, followed
by an appropriate
statistical evaluation,
which should be in
accordance with accepted
practice. Appropriate
negative results should
be reported. Authors are
encouraged to make
extensive use of
supplementary
information, such as
graphs, spectra and
tables which are more
likely to the readers.
Conclusions: The main
conclusions of the study
may be presented in a
short Conclusions
section. Its content
should not substantially
duplicate the abstract.
Acknowledgment
(optional): Place
acknowledgements, before
the references, in a
separate section. This
section may be used to
acknowledge helpful
discussion with
colleagues, technical
assistance, grants
received, and supporters
who are not co-authors.
Supplementary
Information:
If the manuscript is
accompanied by any
Supplementary
Information, a brief
description of the
Supplementary
Information material
must be included in the
manuscript.
References and
Footnotes:
Responsibility for the
accuracy of
bibliographic citations
lies entirely with the
authors. Please ensure
that every reference
cited in the text is
also present in the
reference list (and vice
versa). Unnecessarily
long list of references
should be avoided.
Unpublished results and
personal communications
should not be in the
reference list, but may
be mentioned in the
text. Citation of a
reference as in press.
implies that the item
has been accepted for
publication.
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File preparation
These guidelines give
some suggestions on how
to prepare and format
your manuscript using
Microsoft Word. You will
need to prepare and
supply the following:
· Text. The text
(Word .doc or PDF file)
of your article with all
the figures set in. You
can supply a PDF file of
your paper but you must
also supply the original
Word file with embedded
graphics Or separate
graphics files.
· Figures can be
supply in any of the
following file formats:
PDF, WMF, TIFF, GIF,
JPEG and BMP.
Please name all figure
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Formatting the text |
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Fonts
Please format the text
of your article using a
‘Times roman’ or ‘Times
New Roman’ font at a
size of 12 points. For
Arabic Text please use
Arabic Transparent font
at a size of 14 points.
Please leave 2
line spacing and wide
margins of 25 mm on both
two sides.
The words table(s)
should be full as
"Table", while the word
figure should be written
in abbreviated
as "Fig. or Figs" with
exception in the
sentence beginning.
Please check your
article carefully for
accuracy, consistency
and clarity and try to
keep sentences as short
and simple as possible. |
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Figures
Each figure should have
a brief caption
describing it and, if
necessary, a key to
interpret the various
lines and symbols on the
figure.
Captions should be
placed below the figure
and should finish with a
full stop. Do not put a
title or caption detail
in the figure file; any
description should be
placed in the figure
caption. Figures should
be numbered sequentially
"Fig. 1.", "Fig. 2.".
Please note that all
figures must be embedded
within the text of your
article and supplied as
separate figure files in
any one of the
acceptable file formats
listed above.
Use of colour in your
article is free and you
are strongly encouraged
to make good use of
colour where it will
help readers.
Individual figures
should normally be
centered and are placed
as close as possible,
and ideally after, the
point where they are
first mentioned in the
text. If necessary,
figures and their
captions can be grouped
together at the end of
the article.
Tables
Captions should be
placed at the top of the
table and should finish
with a full stop. Tables
should be numbered
sequentially "Table 1",
"Table 2", and should be
cited in the text as
"table 1", "table 2".
Tables should have only
horizontal rules and no
vertical ones.
Generally, only three
rules should be used:
one at the top of the
table, one at the
bottom, and one to
separate the entries
from the column
headings.
Use of the metric system
(SI) and standard
abbreviation.
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The following example
demonstrates the
preferred style.
Table 1. Values of
energy,
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at different heating
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Heating rate
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Equations and
mathematics
Mathematics should be
prepared using Word’s
built-in ‘Equation
Editor’ or the full
MathType product. Make
sure that your Equation
Editor or MathType
fonts, including sizes,
are set up to match the
text of your document. |
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Points of style
Vectors.
Bold italic characters
is the preferred style
but you may use any
standard notation; for
example:
 or
For common mathematical
functions, such as cos,
sin, ln, log, subscript
and superscripts should
be in Roman type. |
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Comments on writing equations for scientific papers |
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Equation numbering
Equations should be
numbered sequentially
throughout the text
(i.e., (1), (2), (3),…)
or numbered by section
(i.e., (1.1), (1.2),
(2.1),…) depending on
your preference. In
articles with several
appendices equation
numbering by sections
appendices: for example,
(A.1), (A.2),…,(B.1),…..
Always put the equation
number in brackets as:
(2) or (2.1).
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References |
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A complete reference
should provide the
reader with enough
information to locate
the article concerned,
whether published in
print or electronic
form.
The type of reference,
consist of:
·
initials and family name
of all authors;
·
title of journal
articles (optional), use
italic type ;
·
title of journal, book
or other publication;
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volume number;
·
year of publication;
·
town of publication and
publisher for books;
·
page numbers.
The reference list
comes at the end of an
article and consists of
an unnumbered
‘References’ section
containing references
sorted according to the
Vancouver (numeric)
referencing style.
In this system
the reference list gives
the references in the
numerical order in which
they are cited in the
text. To cite a
reference using this
system the reference
list number is given
within square brackets,
like this [3], or for
two or more entries,
[2,5,12–17].
Examples
Reference to a journal
publication:
[1]
A.A.
Joraid, Physica B 390
(2007) 263.
[2]
S. Vyazovkin, N.
Sbirrazzuoli,
I. Dranca, Macromol.
Rapid. Commun. 25 (2004)
1708.
Or
as:
[1]
S.N. Alamri, A.A.
Joraid, and S.Y. Al-Raqa,
Structural and optical
properties of thermally
evaporated
1,4,8,11,15,18,22,25-octahexylphthalocyanine
thin films,
Thin Solid Films 510
(2006) 265.
Reference to a book:
[1]
A. Madan, M.P. Shaw, The
Physics and Applications
of Amorphous
Semiconductors, Academic
Press, New
York, 1988.
[2]
W. Shrink Jr., E.B,
White, The Elements of
Style, third ed.,
Macmillan, New York,
1979.
Reference to a chapter
in an edited book :
[3]
G.R. Mettam, L.B. Adams,
in: B.S. Jones, R.Z.
Smith (Eds.),
Introduction to the
Electronic Age,
E-Publishing Inc., New
York, 1994, pp. 281–304.
Reference to an
electronic article
[4]
C. Mintz, M. Clark, K.
Burton, W.E. Acree Jr.,
M.H. Abraham, QSAR Comb.
Sci., in press,
doi:10.1002/qsar.200630152.
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