Author Guidelines
Format
The manuscript should be typed using word processors (Microsoft Office) software. Margins: inside margin 30 mm, outside margin 30 mm, top margin 30 mm and bottom margin 30 mm. Please make sure that you do not exceed the indicated type area. When you use the current document as a template, please do not modify the page setup.
Please insert page numbers in each pages.
Type font and type size
Prescribed font is Times New Roman,10 points, with an single line spacing, Paper size A4 (i.e., 210 x 297 mm), two-column format (i.e., 85 mm each). Lines are one spaced, justified.
Manuscript submitted to this journal should follow the heading below, except for the review article: Title; Authors Name and Affiliation; Abstract; Article Strusture; Acknowledgments; References; Figures and Tables; and Abbreviations.
• Title. Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible. Standard research title of 10 words in length.
• Author names and affiliations. Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s)of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lowercase superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address.
Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
• Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refering and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author. The corresponding autor denoting the corresponding author with an asterisk (*). In case of single author, the asterisk is not required.
• Abstract. A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions with the 150-200 words in lenght. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself. Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 5 keywords.
• Article structure
Lenght oh article structure is 8 -12 pages include table and figure.
Subdivision - numbered sections
Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to 'the text'. Any subsection may begiven a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.
Introduction
State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a etailed literaturesurvey or a summary of the results.
Methodology
Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should beindicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.
Results and Discussion
Results should be clear and concise. The discussion should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Resultsand Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of publishedliterature.
Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may standalone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.
• Acknowledgments. Recognize those who helped in the research, especially funding supporter of your research. Include individuals who have assisted you in your study: Advisors, Financial supporters, or may another supporter, i.e. Proofreaders, Typists, and Suppliers, who may have given materials.
• References
Citation in the text to a literature source, is given by the surname of the author(s) followed by the year of publication, e.g. "Adam (1994) has reported ..., which was recently confirmed (Clark and Richard, 1996)." For references with more than two authors, text citations should be shortened to the first author followed by "et al.” Two or more references by the same author published in the same year are differentiated by the letters a, b, c, etc. immediately after the year. The references should be listed in alphabetical order in the list of References.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2010. The art of writing a scientific article. J. Sci. Commun. 163, 51–59.
Reference to a book:
Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 2000. The Elements of Style, fourth ed. Longman, New York.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B., 2009. How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: Jones, B.S., Smith , R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age. E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281–304.
Reference to a website:
Cancer Research UK, 1975. Cancer statistics reports for the UK. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/aboutcancer/statistics/cancerstatsreport/(accessed 13.03.03).
Reference to a dataset:
[dataset] Oguro, M., Imahiro, S., Saito, S., Nakashizuka, T., 2015. Mortality data for Japanese oak wilt disease and surrounding forest compositions. Mendeley Data, v1. http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/xwj98nb39r.1.
• Figures and Tables. Figures and tables should be originals or sharp prints; they must be well readable without enlarging with the zoom. Illustrations will be in colour in the electronic version and black and white in case of printed version. The authors must make sure that the figures are legible and understandable in greyscale mode. Avoid referencing your text to coloured items in the figures. All these means will be lost after the printing and will create misunderstanding to the reader. All figures and tables should have captions with labels “Figure” and “Table”. Please make sure that the label words start with capital letters. The cross-references to the figures and the tables should use only label and number, labels also starting with capital letters.
• Abbreviations. Please insert abbreviation and symbol at the fisrt time as they as they are introduced in the text.
