On the login page, click on the Register link and complete the registration. After completing the registration, the password will arrive in your email (which is also your username) in a few minutes. Use this password to login and submit your paper.

Note: Make sure the email you constantly register is the username. The email registered in this process will be used by the journal for all important communication.

Submission

Please embed figures and tables in the manuscript to become one single file for submission. Once submission is complete, the system will generate a manuscript ID and password sent to author's contact email. Submissions by email are not acceptable at any time. Please do not submit revisions as new manuscripts.

Review/Decisions

Manuscripts that are judged to be of insufficient quality or unlikely to be competitive enough for publication will be rejected during initial screening. The remaining manuscripts go through a peer review process with two or more reviewers, and possible decisions are: accept as is, minor revision, major revision, or reject. Authors should submit back their revisions within 1 month in the case of minor revision, or 3 months in the case of major revision. To submit a revision please sign in here. Manuscripts with significant results are typically reviewed and published at the highest priority.

A note on plagiarism: There is a zero-tolerance policy towards plagiarism (including self-plagiarism) in our journals. Manuscripts are screened for plagiarism before, during, and after publication, and if found they will be rejected at any stage of processing.

Important note: After manuscript is accepted, any inquiry should be addressed to our publishing team only. Please do not send any publishing related inquiry to our editors or editors-in-chief as they are not involved in the process after a manuscript is accepted.

Publication Charges

Published articles of Indian Journal of Research in the Animal Sciences that are open access have their full texts appear online on our website. This effectively removes the barriers for timely distribution of the articles and ensures that they can be read by as many as possible. Payment can be made by credit card or bank transfer. Instruction for payment is sent during publication process and is also available in the login page as soon as manuscript is accepted. Publication fee is required to cover the cost of publication, and should be paid before copyediting and publication.

Letters are short reports of original research on an outstanding finding that will be of interest to scientists in other fields.

Open access articles are published individually on our website as soon as the final copy is available. In-Volume articles are queued to be published in our regular issues which are currently twice a year.

Reprints

Reprints can be ordered after copyediting and publication. Reprints are printed on glossy paper with cover page. They are made of highest quality suitable for scientific corresponding.

An author can order reprints at a charge and can ask to dispatch to particular addresses. This facility is to be launched shortly.

Format for Publication

Upon acceptance of the manuscript, please provide a final version (in Microsoft Word file) for copyediting purpose. Note that the final manuscript must be provided in Microsoft Word, and we cannot accept Latex and Tex files.

Important note and warning: Please do not send any publishing related inquiry to our editors or editors-in-chief after a manuscript is accepted.

Please include figures at the end of manuscript Word file, or provide a high quality PDF containing all figures. Make sure images are of highest resolution, and any letters inside are clear and legible. If the figures or tables are created using PowerPoint, Photoshop, Microsoft Excel etc, please also provide the original files from those programs.

Title Page

The first letter of each word in title should use upper case. Include in the first page the article title, author's names, affiliations, corresponding author's phone/fax number and/or email. Abstract should not contain citations to references. Also provide 3-6 keywords.

Author's names: please provide full names. Important! Please write first name and middle name before surname or lastname, e.g., "Mike Johnson" (not "Johnson, Mike"; not "Johnson M."; not "M. Johnson").

Text

Please do not add number before subtitles (This does not apply for Review or mini-review).

Citation of Tables and Figures

Tables and Figures should be numbered consecutively. Citation of tables and figures should use the format: Table 1, Table 2, ... Figure 1, Figure 2, ... (or Fig. 1, Fig. 2, ...). Parts in a figure can be identified by A, B, C, D, ... . and cited as Figure 2A, Figure 2B, Figure 2C. Please do not abbreviate the word "Table" to "Tab.".

Math Formulas and Symbols

Simple mathematical formulas should be constructed using superscript, subscript, italic, and symbols in the Microsoft Word.

• Use symbols in the Fonts: (normal text) or Symbol fonts. To insert a symbol, use Insert/symbol in the Word menu.
• Use / for "divide" or "over". For example, 1/7, 5/(4+6).
• Use Symbol fonts for "±"; "≤" and "≥" (avoid underline).

Please avoid using math equations in Word whenever possible, as they have to be replaced by images in xml full text.

References

References should be numbered consecutively starting from 1. One article per reference only (not 1a, 1b, 1c). References should cited in the manuscript text by numbers, e.g. [1,2,3], (not cited by author and date). Avoid putting personal communications, unpublished observations, conference abstracts or conference papers in references. Please do not format references as footnotes. 

Please note the number of references must not exceed 200 for any article.

• Examples:
  • 1. Eknoyan G, Beck GJ, Cheung AK, et al. Effect of dialysis dose and membrane flux in maintenance hemodialysis. N Engl J Med. 2002; 347: 2010-9.
  • Supplement example:
    2. Volk HD, Reinke P, Krausch D, et al. Monocyte deactivation-rationale for a new therapeutic strategy in sepsis. Intensive Care Med. 1996; 22 (Suppl 4):S474-S481.
  • No author given example:
    3. [No authors listed]. Medicare program; criteria for Medicare coverage of adult liver transplants-HCFA. Final notice. Fed Regist. 1991; 56(71):15006-15018.
  • In press example:
    4. Cheung TMT, et al. Effectiveness of non-invasive positive pressure ventilation in the treatment of acute respiratory failure in severe acute respiratory syndrome. Chest; in press.
  • Epub ahead of print example:
    5. Li W, Chen Y, Cameron DJ, et al. Elovl4 haploinsufficiency does not induce early onset retinal degeneration in mice. Vision Res 2007; [Epub ahead of print].
• Book
  1. Kiloh LG, Smith JS, Johnson GF, et al. Physical treatment in psychiatry. Boston, USA: Blackwell Scientific Publisher; 1988.
• Chapters in Edited Book
  1. Beckenbough RD, Linscheid RL. Arthroplasty in the hand and wrist. In: Green DP, ed. Operative Hand Surgery, 2nd ed. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1988: 167-214.
• Web Site
1. [Internet] WHO: Geneva, Switzerland. Summary of probable SARS cases with onset of illness from 1 November 2002 to 31 July 2003. Revised 26 September 2003. http://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/table2003_09_23/en/
2. [Internet] Kornberg R. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2006/press.html