Chief Editor and Editors assume an essential part in keeping up gauges of journal through exhaustive peer review process. Editors ought to verify that every one of the articles must adhere to AccexGate Journals’ ethics. Editors must be unprejudiced with submitted manuscripts irrespective of authors religion, geographical location, believes or social class.
Obligations and Guidelines of the Editors
In the wake of getting manuscripts from authors, Editorial office doles out the composition to a supervisor to audit the composition. Papers would be allocated to Editor taking into account his ability and examination interest. Editor’s part is to appoint two reviewers to give audit remarks. In certain instances where a supervisor is not accessible, the article office doles out the paper to the editorial manager. Editors should adhere to the time-lapse given as regards peer preview process for submitted manuscripts. Editor needs to regulate the whole review process because editors are the spine for the survival of the Journal. We would welcome our editors to propose to us new considerations and thoughts for the headway of the Journal. Editors need to guarantee the security of individual information and protect the authors interest
The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of work of the author and the institutions that support them. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior.
Publication Ethics
Ethical Standards: ARC Publications author(s) are required to hold fast to the moral benchmarks and behavior that stay compulsory in scientific/ academic publishing. At the time of submission of articles, authors need to express that their work has not been submitted somewhere else, examples (if any) & conflict of interest should be specified and written falsification must be entirely cross checked. For Animal/Human models, moral leeway duplicate should be submitted.
Plagiarism: Plagiarism is duplicating the precise of a publishing information. ARC Publications cross checks each submitted manuscript that is been submitted to any of its associate publishing journal. Any article that has incompletely/totally with plagiarized information will be dismissed promptly.
Conflict of Interest: ARC Publications follows blind peer review process. The author(s) ought to hold obligation in giving conflicts any to stay away from further conflicts.
Privacy Protection: Editor(s), Reviewer(s) should be deliberately taking care of the work of the author(s). It is morally not acknowledged to utilize/disperse the unpublished work.
Human and Animal Rights: Clear proclamations and ethical clearance statements should be provided while submitting article if it requires. The work including animal models and human volunteers need to submit the essential proclamations.
Consents/Instances: Author needs to specify consents and instances if any to keep away from further commitments. Clear proclamation with signature must be given by author while presenting his/her work.
Civility & Misconduct Allegations: Editor(s), Reviewer(s), Author(s) and the Journal staff are relied upon to stick to the essential expert civility. Any verbal manhandle, level headed discussions and affront is exceptionally offended by ARC Publications
Authorship of the paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study.
Originality and plagiarism: The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
Data access and retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data.
Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication: An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. AccexGate Journals does not view the following uses of a work as prior publication: publication in the form of an abstract; publication as an academic thesis; publication as an electronic preprint. Information on prior publication is included within each AccexGate Journals Guide for Authors.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest: All submissions must include disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest.
Fundamental errors in published works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
Reporting standards: Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance.
Hazards and human or animal subjects: Statements of compliance are required if the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, or if it involves the use of animal or human subjects.
Use of patient images or case details: Studies on patients or volunteers require ethics committee approval and informed consent, which should be documented in the paper
The foundations of all international journals under AccexGate are wholly based on originality and creativity that authors of all publications are required to maintain while writing their papers.
Submissions must be unique and should not have been published earlier or be under consideration for publication elsewhere while being evaluated for this Journal. AccexGate Publications is committed to publish quality and valuable scientific contributions to our journals.
Types of Articles could be submitted
- Original articles
- Research articles
- Reviews articles
- Mini-reviews
- Case report
- Commentaries
- Editorials
- Letter to Editor
- Short reports
Word Processing Formats
Microsoft Word formats will be accepted for all manuscript documents submitted to AccexGate Journals.
Organization of Manuscript
The authors may please ensure that the length of their manuscript is between 5 and 25 pages. AccexGate Journals will accept any manuscript which is either shorter or longer than the prescribed limit, if the content is of extraordinarily high value.
The manuscript should contain the items mentioned here under.
- Cover Letter
- Title & author(s)
- Keywords
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Abstract
- Materials & Methods
- Results & Discussion
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements (optional)
- References
- Figures (optional)
- Tables (optional)
Manuscripts could be submitted by the following format
Cover letter
While submitting the manuscript author is requested to provide cover letter along with the manuscript. This cover letter should include manuscript title, name of the co-authors if any and full contact details of the corresponding author with office or institutional address, telephone, fax and email address. Corresponding author should clearly state the approval of co-authors for manuscript submission along with any competing interests. It is also strongly advised to declare that work is original and not submitted/ published elsewhere with other publishers. Finally, if this submission is submitted upon the invitation of an Editorial Board member/Editorial office please provide the details. Author could also include any additional information in the cover letter that helpful to the Editorial office.
Title and Authors Information
In “Title and Authors Information” part, the following information should be included
- Paper title/ Manuscript Title
- Complete author names, including Co- authors names also
- Complete institutional mailing addresses
- Email addresses
Keywords
Please provide 4 to 10 keywords as index terms signifying the article content.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations are the spelled out terms in the text for the first time and used consistently thereafter.
Introduction
This section should be concise, with no subheadings.
Abstract
Abstract section should be self-contained and must be citation-free. The manuscript should contain an abstract according to kind of manuscript. It should not exceed 250 words.
Materials and Methods
This section should contain adequate detailed information what all the procedures and steps followed. It can be divided into subsections if several methods are described.
Results and Discussion
In this section should be described on results and out puts of the research work.
Conclusions
This should clearly explain the important conclusions of the work highlighting its significance and relevance.
Acknowledgments
All acknowledgments (if any) should be included at the extremely end of the manuscript prior to references part. This section may include supporting grants, presentations, and so forth.
References
Authors should adhere to and maintain APA style of citations and references
Figures
Upon submission of an article, authors are supposed to include all figures and tables in the Word file of the manuscript. Figures and tables must not be submitted in individual files. Figures should be labelled below the figure.
Preparation of Tables
Each table must have a descriptive title and if numerical measurements are given, the units should be included in the column heading.
Article Withdrawal Policy
The articles submitted for publication can be withdrawn either by the submitted authors or the publisher. The article can be withdrawn anytime before it is published officially on the journal page with detailed information on volume. Issue, page numbers etc. If the authors wants to withdraw the article, we insist for a signed statement from the all the co-authors to journal’s editorial office via mail. If editorial office/ publisher find any violation in publishing ethics, guidelines, duplicate submission, plagiarism, etc., publishers holds the right to with draw/ reject the manuscript at any stage of publishing process. Note article withdrawal may attract additional payments, however, consideration will not be given for any request for refund.
Refund Policy
AccexGate Publications will not offer refunds for Open Access once articles have been published/ withdrawn.
Paper that author wish to withdraw after publication will attract the same amount as fresh publication
Replacement of same or another article with the one taken down will attract fresh publication fee
For example, if an author pay to publish an article at a cost of N20,000; if the author wish to withdraw the paper, this will attract a cost of N20,000.
Replacing the withdrawn article with a fresh one or an amended same copy will attract a fresh cost of N20,000
Therefore, authors have to be very careful before submitting articles to us