Editor Guidelines

    Editor should settle on that the submitted articles are appropriate to scope of the journal or not, after that which are generally reviewed by minimum four experts and handling editor, here review comments are well thought-out; in any case editor decision remains final editor's liability is to provide his/her final decision based on the innovation and quality of the article after the completion of peer review process. Finally the recognition or refusal of article depends on the recommendation from peer reviewers as well as editor.

Responsibilities

Reviewer Guidelines

    Reviewers play a major role in publishing. Peer review system is an important process for quality of research, scientific validation and publication

    Manuscript reviewers are vital to the publication process, and as a reviewer you will gain valuable experience in scientific publishing. We invite you to become a reviewer of our journals.

Responsibilities

Author Guidelines

Select a journal

    Author wish to publish an article or manuscript should be related subject line as that of a particular journal. For example SF journal of ‘anatomy' will accept articles on anatomy and recent advancements.

Prepare your manuscript

    SF allows publishing different types of manuscripts and follows a format for the manuscripts to be published. Authors necessitate following few guidelines to make sure that your article is well written and received by the researchers and scientific community.

Aspiring for article submission:

N/A: Not appropriate

Font styles and other formatting details:

Article Titles: Article Title should be concise and accurate technical enough to explain the content it holds in the article. It is usually free from acronyms, abbreviations or punctuations.

Author(s): Author names necessitate to be mentioned as Last name followed by their concern Initials without space or any punctuation. In case of more than one author is present they should be distinguished by the conjunction ‘and’ in linking. Their affiliations are numbered after the initials in superscript. Corresponding author is represented with a superscript star.

Eg: Peters RT¹, Robert HS² and Nicolson LI²*

Affiliation(s): Author Affiliations should be needed as: Department, University, Country, Email.

Eg: John SG¹, Robert HS² and Nicolson LI²*

1.  Department of Medical Anatomy, University of California, USA

2.  Department of Medical Anatomy, University of California, USA

*Corresponding author: Last Name followed by Initials, Department, University, Complete Postal Address, Country, Telephone details; Fax No; Email

Eg: Nicolson LI, Department of Medical Anatomy, University of California, 172 St George St, California, ON M5R 0A3, USA, Tel: 123-456-7890; Fax: 123-456-7890; Email: Nicolson@university.com

Abstract: The word limit for Abstract is 250 or less words. Abstract must summarize specifically the scientific content in the article. Abstracts are short and exact. Abstracts must be free from citations.

Keywords: Keywords are important tool for indexers as well as readers to locate the article. Keywords improve the chances of getting more citations and high readership to the article. An article might be contains minimum of 5 Keywords.

Eg: Lung cancer; Biomarkers; Cancer therapy

Abbreviations: Abbreviations must be separated by semicolon and all the abbreviations used in the article must be exposed.

Body Text: Relevant article types must be written with the above mentioned structure format. Any of the declared structure missing will be resent to the author for further modifications.

Figures & Tables: Figures and tables to be attached at the end of the article. Please ensure that all the figures submitted comply with our Image reliability.

Figures submitted should be at least 300 dpi, submitted in Tiff, Giff or JPEG formats only. All the figures submitted must be compatible with clarity. It should be intelligible for the readers to understand related to all disciplines. Excessive color and unnecessary details must be avoided. Allowable pixel size for the Figures is 800 pixels (Standard) and 1200 pixels (high resolution). All the figures submitted must be in standard or high resolution quality. Figure legends must be short and mentioned below each figure. The respective Figure numbers must be mentioned in the body of the manuscript sequentially within round brackets.

Tables should be small and presentation in Table format only. Pie diagrams, Charts etc are considered as "Statures". Tables are sent in figure formats are not suitable. Tables must be provided at the end of the article beneath figures. Symbols and Abbreviations used in the tables must be presented beneath the Table.

*Note: Small table denotes that it should fit normally into the windows. Else it should be added as a supplementary table.

Equations and Formulas: Math Type is used only for formulae that cannot be produced using normal text or Symbol font. For mathematical symbols, Greek letters and other special characters, use normal text or Symbol font. Units: SI/IU Units must be represented.

Additional Information: Additional information is usually provided as vital background to the article such as any example, large data sets, methods, calculations, etc. If the manuscript contains any additional data the authors are asked to refer the additional data at an appropriate point in the main body of the manuscript. The extra information should not contain any figures. It may have additional tables. They are published as raw dataset along with the manuscript.

References: Science Forecast follows author-number system where all the references including URLs are numbered sequentially within square brackets, in the same order of their manifestation in the text.

Reference Format:  Author Names. Reference Title. Journal Name. Year; Volume Number: Pages.

Clinical Images: Clinical images are the figures that show the clinical findings of a particular patient. The clinical pictures also include questions and answers that should educate or remind readers about an important medical state or event. The image should not just describe the picture; however, should be informative enough from a medical schooling view also.

Formatting Guidelines: The title should be in five to eight words. The content relating a clinical question should be within 150 words. The images can be uploaded in .tiff, .jpg or .jpeg format. Our suggestion is use high-quality images. Content should be in one double-spaced electronic document.

Patient Consent Form: If the representation/figure of the patient is identifiable then the patient consent form is required. In case, the eyes are masked then the form is not mandatory.

Submit Manuscript

    Author can submit a completed manuscript at the Submit Manuscript tab in the chosen Journal page.

Peer Review of Manuscript

    Peer review is scrutinizing process where an article is scrutinized by two reviews who specialized in the related field. Every article is going to peer review before it is published in SF Open Access Journals.

Track Manuscript

    Authors can track their submitted manuscript status by contacting editorial team at any time.