AIM: The Journal of Life Sciences (J Life Sci) is designed for prompt publication of original and significant articles in the field of Life Sciences. It aims to serve as a forum of life scientists and health professionals, especially those who share common interest in understanding plants, animals and man.

EDITORIAL POLICY: It contains original papers on current research and practical programmes, short notes, news items, book reviews, reports of meetings and professional announcements. Constructive critiques and discussions of published papers and letters, which are of relevance and of interest to the readership, are published at the discretion of the Editor. The journal is published in English; spelling and usage conforms to the Oxford English Dictionary; for consistency and simplicity in style because for many subscribers English is a second language. Place names should be spelled in the form officially used in the country under discussion; where this differs from the commonly known name of the English-language name, the other name should be written in parentheses. For practical purposes, accents may be omitted on non-English names.

REVIEW OF PAPERS: The contributors may send the papers to the Administrative Editor with the names of at least three Referees in the field of specialisation as the subject of the paper demands to whom we may request for review of the paper (Please provide separate List of Referees for each paper) The Referees should be other than the Members of Editorial Board of the Journal, who are known to you and aware of the research activities of your Department/Institute, but are not from yours' Department/Institute (Please provide their postal & e-mail address and field of specialisation). The possible exceptions are in the case of occasional invited papers and editorials, or where a partial or entire volume is devoted to a special theme.

FREQUENCY: There shall be two issues, one volume per year (July & December).

MANUSCRIPT:   For the initial submission of manuscripts for consideration, submit a hardcopy with disk or e-mail the text to kre@airtelmail.in. Prepare the manuscript as per style of the Journal. Manuscripts, which do not fully confirm to Journal style, will be returned to the Authors.

ACCEPTED PAPER: After final acceptance, the disk along with the final and exactly matching printed versions with the underlining clearly marked should be submitted or e-mail the text to kre@airtelmail.in. Acceptance of paper will be acknowledged via e-mail, than send the processing fee of the paper and the photograph, if any in the paper.

DISK: We can accept files created by MS Word. The disk label must contain the information — your name and name of text file(s) containing your submission. Footnote text should be placed as endnotes following the last page to text.

AUTHORISATION AND DECLARATION: Authors must accept full responsibility for the content of their articles. The Members of the Editorial Board and the Publisher of the journal are not responsible for the statements and opinions expressed by the authors in their articles/write-up published in the journal.  It is also for the authors to seek the permission whose copyrighted material they may use in preparation of their manuscript. While submitting the paper the author (s) must give a declaration that, “the article has not been published or sent for publication elsewhere”.

 SIZE: An article should not generally exceed twelve printed pages (18 double spaced typed pages of MS Word). The authors would be charged for additional pages, even if a longer article is accepted for publication.  Reporting of frequency data may be accepted in the form of small report. Such reports should generally not exceed four pages, including tables/figures.

 TITLE: The paper title, author’s name, affiliation, complete address, Fax number, and e-mail address should appear on the first page of the article. When there is more than one author, the correspondence will be sent to the first author, unless otherwise requested. 

 RUNNING HEAD: Not more than 40 characters (including spaces) should be identified on the title page.

 ABSTRACT: Not exceeding 250 words.

 KEYWORDS: Not exceeding six should accompany the manuscript. 

 TABLE: Each table should be typed separately and marked in the text in numerical order.

 ILLUSTRATION: It should be clear, concise, and good for reproduction (maximum size for illustrations is 120 x 180 mm/80x160mm). All illustrations are referred to as Figures.

 PHOTOGRAPH: Photograph should be sharp for reproduction (maximum size for photographs is 120 x 180mm/80x160 mm). The cost of the reproduction of black and white and coloured photographs will be borne by the author(s).

 LIST: A separate list of tables, figures, and illustrations with captions should accompany the manuscript.

 METRIC SYSTEM: The metric system should conform to the International System of Units (S. I.).

 REFERENCES: These should be listed at the end of article, arranged alphabetically according to the surnames of the authors and then chronologically. Following are examples of the proper reference style of various sources:

Journals:

Bose Kaushik 2005. Anthropometric Assessment of Nutritional Status of  Adolescents of Kolkata, West Bengal. J Hum Ecol, 18(3): 213-216.

Books:

Bhasin MK 1988. Biology of the People of Indian Region. A Classified and Comprehensive Bibliography (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka). Delhi: Kamla-Raj Enterprises.

Sections of Books:

Bhasin MK, Walter H, Danker-Hopfe H 1994. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and abnormal haemoglobins (HB S and HB E) in people of India.  In: Veena Bhasin (Ed.): People Health and Disease: The Indian Scenario. Delhi: Kamla-Raj Enterprises, pp. 131-159.

Meeting Paper:

Bhasin MK 2003. Genetics of Castes and Tribes of India. Paper presented in the Seminar on Peopling of India at Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Kolkata, March 19 – 20.

Report:

UNESCO 1974. Report of an Expert Panel on MAB Project 6: Impact of Human Activities on Mountain and Tundra Ecosystems. MAB Report Series No. 14, Paris: Unesco.

Thesis / Dissertation:

Bhasin MK 1967. A Genetic Survey among Newars of Nepal. Ph. D. Thesis submitted to University of Delhi, Delhi, Delhi.

Work “in press”:

Bhasin MK,   Shil Anu Prabha,  Sharma Madhu Bala 2008. Biology of the People of Sikkim: Comparative Evaluation of Growth Patterns among Different Caste and Tribal Groups of Sikkim. J Hum Ecol, (in press).

Website:

Fattovich R 2008. The development of urbanism in the Northern  Horn of Africa in  ancient and Medieval Times.

http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/afr/projects/BOOK/fattowich.pdf (Retrieved on February 19, 2008)

When there are more than five authors used et al. in place of rest of the authors.

 REFERENCES IN THE TEXT: References citations in the text should be in parentheses and include author name(s) and year of publication. Text citations of two or more works at the time should be given in chronological order. When citing a paper written by three or more authors, write the name of the first author plus “et al”. (However, all authors must be given in the Reference section). Where there are two or more papers by the same author in one year, distinguishing letter (a, b, c....) should be added to year. All references should be carefully crosschecked; it is the author’s responsibility to ensure that references are correct.

 PROOFS: A single set of page and illustration proofs will be sent to the corresponding author for correction of typographical errors only; alterations other than correction of printer errors will be charged to the author. All corrections should be marked clearly, directly on page proofs. 

 OFFPRINT: These may be ordered at prices shown on the order blank accompanying proofs. No free reprints are supplied, but any number in excess of 100, with or without covers, may be purchased. The order, along with payment, for reprints and extra printed pages (if paper exceeds twelve printed pages) should be sent with the corrected hard copy of the galley proofs.

 SPECIAL ISSUE/VOLUME: Scholars are welcome to edit an entire Special Issue/Volume of the journal   in their field of specialisation as a Guest Editor. For details write to the Administrative Editor, C/o Ms Kamla-Raj  Enterprises, Post Box No. 1120, Delhi G.P.O., Delhi 110 006, India or e-mail to: kre@airtelmail.in

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPT: Manuscript along with disk should be submitted to the Administrative Editor, C/o Ms Kamla-Raj Enterprises, Post Box No. 1120, Delhi G.P.O., Delhi 110 006, India or e-mail to: kre@airtelmail.in

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