Author's Guidelines
The foundations of all National journals under Pranavam Trust are wholly based on originality and creativity that authors of all publications are required to maintain while writing their papers. Authors are invited to submit the papers for NJICE through E-Mail: pranavamtrust@gmail.com. Submissions must be unique and should not have been published earlier or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Journal.
Manuscript Template
Authors shall adopt the template while preparing their papers. Papers submitted without adhering to the NJICE template will be summarily rejected.
Word Processing Formats
The following word processor file formats will be accepted for the manuscript document for all the NJICE Journals.
Microsoft Word 2003(doc)
Microsoft Word 2007(docx)
Organization of Manuscript
The authors may please ensure that the length of their manuscript is between 5 and 10 pages. NJICE 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 hereunder.
1. Title
2. List of authors
3. Abstract
4. Keywords
5. Introduction
6. Content its Sections and Subsections
7. Results and Discussion
8. Conclusion
9. Acknowledgments (optional)
10. References
How to Submit Articles in NJICE (an open-access journal)
Manuscripts should be mailed to pranavamtrust@yahoo.com in only ‘.doc’ format. Pdf files are not accepted. Articles can also be uploaded through Online Submission. After receiving the article, an article number will be generated and mailed to the person submitting the document within 30 days.
If documents can’t be sent through email, please fill the submit article page of the Website.
Every article should be attached with a covering email letter including the author’s full address with Telephone/Mobile Number. Authors have the flexibility of selecting any panel of two to four reviewers for reviewing his/her article, however, NJICE has the authority to designate other reviewers.
Article Types
Three types of manuscripts may be submitted:
Regular articles:
Regular articles are findings or careful examination of facts and ideas. They contain sufficient detail of the work to make the analysis precise and clear. The length of the article should be sufficient to provide complete detail and gist of the work.
Short Communications:
It records the results of investigations, describing new models and hypotheses, methods, techniques, or apparatus. The length of a short communication is maybe around 1000 to 2000 words.
Review Articles:
Articles are examined by an editorial board of assigned reviewers. The authors are informed of reviewers’ comments within two weeks. Articles may be submitted to the editorial board for reexamination. NJICE publishes all accepted articles within 4 weeks of submission.
Review Process
All manuscripts are reviewed by the editorial board and assigned reviewers. Decisions will be made as rapidly as possible, and the journal strives to return the reviewer’s comments to authors within 4 weeks. The editorial board will re-review manuscripts that are pending revision. It is the goal of the NJICE to publish accepted manuscripts within 2 weeks after submission.
Regular articles
Every page beginning from the first one should be given numbers and text should be double-spaced. The title should be compact and brief, and the title page should contain the Author’s full name, affiliations, name of the corresponding author, his/her phone or mobile number, fax, and email that are necessary for publication on research paper publication sites.
The abstract should be precise and self-explanatory presenting the topic, state, and scope of experiments, including substantial data and indicate observations and conclusions. It may vary from 100 to 250 words. The abstract should be written in the third person and in past tense with complete sentences and active verbs. The abstract should use Standard Nomenclature and not contain abbreviations.
From Abstract, 3 to 6 keywords should be given to provide indexing references.
Following the abstract, about 3 to 6 keywords that will provide indexing references should be listed.
The introduction of the article contains a precise description of the problem, literature relevant to the subject matter, and the proposed strategy and solution. It should be written in easy language, easily comprehensible by colleagues coming from varied disciplines of science.
The resources and procedures described should be complete so that the experiments can be repeated with provided descriptions. Whereas the details of previously published procedures are only cited, the description of new procedures should be given at point and the important modifications in published procedures, if any, should be mentioned in brief. Trade Names should be capitalized and the manufacturer’s name and address should also be included. Subheadings should be used as per requirement.
Results should be precise and clear. They should describe the observations and conclusions of experiments in the past tense. Observations and conclusions previously published follow the present tense. Conclusions are explained largely without any reference to literature. Results should not contain deliberations, assumptions, or interpretation of data. These are put in Discussions sections.
The discussions are deliberations on observations of contemporary and past annotations on the topic. The conclusion should be described in a few sentences at the end of the paper. The results and discussion sections contain subheadings and both sections can also be combined as per requirement.
People, contributions and funds, etc. should be acknowledged in brief.
Tables should be minimum and as simple as possible. They should be typed with double space from heading to footnotes. Each table should have a heading and a story and start on a new page and be numbered in Arabic numerals. Tables should be self-explanatory and without any reference to the text. The details of procedures followed in the experiment are described in the story and not in the text. The table or graph and the text should not contain any repeated data.
Pictorial stories should be in numerical order on a new sheet. Graphics and Tables should be prepared in MS Word. To label figures, Arabic numerals and for their parts, Upper case letters should be used (Fig 1). Every Story should start with a title and include sufficient details to make the figure comprehensible without any need of reading the text. The info given in stories should not repeat in text.
References: Reference coupled with author’s name should follow the date of the reference in parentheses. If authors are more than two, the first author’s name is followed by ‘et al’. If an author has two or more manuscripts published in the same year, the reference, both in text and in the reference list, should be acknowledged by lower case letters ‘a’ and ‘b’ after the date to distinguish the works.
Examples:
Magesh (2008), (Vijayalakshmi et al., 2012), (Ganesan R, 1999), (Ganesan R and Lakshmipriya S, 2014), (Chege, 1998; Gold, 1987a, b; Blake, 1993, 1995). References should be given in alphabetical order at the end of the paper. The reference list should not include articles under preparation or articles submitted for publication, unpublished observations, personal communications, etc.
References should be listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order. Articles in preparation or articles submitted for publication, unpublished observations, personal communications, etc. should not be included in the reference list but should only be mentioned in the article text (e.g., A. Kingori, University of Nairobi, Kenya, personal communication). Journal names are abbreviated according to Chemical Abstracts. Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of the references.
Johnson, J. (1996). ‘Linking Employee Perceptions of Service Quality to Customer Satisfaction.
Personnel Psychology, 49, pp.831-851.
LeDoux, J. (1998). The Emotional Brain, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London.
Morris, J., & Feldman, D. (1996). ‘The Dimensions, Antecedents, and Consequences of Emotional
Labour’, Academy of Management Journal, 21, pp.989-1010.
Short Communications
Short Communication may contain a maximum of three pictures and one table. They present a complete study limited in scope than found in full-length papers. Short communication is like the article preparation mentioned above with the following differences:
Proofs, Reprints, and manuscript charges: Electronic proofs will be sent (e-mail attachment) to the corresponding author as a PDF file. Page proofs are the final version of the manuscript. Except for typographical or minor clerical errors, no changes will be made in the manuscript at the proof stage. Because NJICE will be published online, authors will have free electronic access to the full text (PDF) of the article. Authors can freely download the PDF file from which they can print unlimited copies of their articles.
Publication fee: Rs.2000/- (INR) - Upto 5 authors