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Author Guidelines
The Nigerian Journal of Physiological Sciences (Niger. J. Physiol. Sci.) is the official organ of the Physiological Society of Nigeria, aimed at dissemination of information on diverse areas of research in physiological sciences. Two issues, making up one volume, are published each year. Full-length original research article, short communications as well as review articles will be considered for publication. Submitted manuscripts must be accompanied by a statement that "The work described has not been published (except in abstract form) and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere".
Three copies with three sets of figures and tables together with a handling fee of one thousand naira only (N1000.00) in postal order or cheque raised in favour of Prof. E. E. Osim. Authors are encouraged to send electronic version of their manuscript to the Editor at the address below:
Prof. E. E. Osim
Department of Physiology, College of Medical Sciences
University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria
E-mail: emeosim@yahoo.com or d_owu@yahoo.com
Tel: +234 (0) 803 552 4412
Manuscript should be written in clear concise English language, and should conform to the specified instructions listed below. Manuscripts that are not properly prepared to conform to our standard will be returned to the authors.
FORMAT OF MANUSCRIPTS
a) Each manuscript must be typed on one side of A4 sized paper in double-line spacing with wide margins.
b) The title page should include only the title, author's names and affiliations, and the name, postal and E-mail address for correspondence.
c) The page following the title page should contain a brief summary and up to six key words. A short running title should also be provided.
d) Introduction: This should be as concise as possible and contain a clear statement of the aims of the research. Detailed historical introduction must be avoided.
e) Method: Sufficient detail must be provided to enable repetition of the work.
f) Result: This should include experimental data and avoid discussion of significance.
g) Discussion: This should be related to the results presented. Excessive speculations must be avoided.
h) Acknowledgement: This should be brief.
i) References: References in text should be cited by names of authors and year of publication. For papers written by three or more authors, use et al. At the end of the paper, references should be listed alphabetically with full listing of authors. Papers by three or more authors should be listed chronologically. Opening and closing page numbers, full title of the papers and names of all co-authors must be given. Approved standard journal names abbreviations should be used. For example:
Journal
Essien, A. D. and Akpan, J. O. (2006). Diabetogenic property of charred meat on litters of pregnant albino rats. Niger. J. Physiol. Sci. 21:37 - 41.
Book:
Jennet, W. B. (1968). Blood flow techniques in clinical neurosurgery. In: Bain, W. H. And Harper, A. M. (eds). Blood flow through organs and tissues. E. S. Livingstone Ltd., Edinburg, pp 349 - 354.
If more than one paper by the same author or team of authors was published in the same year, the letter a, b and c etc, should follow the year - e.g. Adigun (1987a) in both the text and the reference list.
j) Figures and Tables: This should be kept to the minimum necessary to convey essential data. References to tables and figures should be in Arabic numerals. Their desired positions should be indicated on the left-hand margin of the manuscript. Good quality glossy prints of photographs and line drawings should be supplied in the desired final size. Lettering on line drawings should be at lease 2mm high for clarity. Previously published figures are not acceptable, except accompanied by written permission of the publishers. The figure numbers, author's names and 'Top' should be indicated on the back of each illustration. Figures in JPEG, EPS, BMP and Microsoft Excel formats are accepted but should not be embedded in the text. Figure legends should be typed on separate sheets. Tables should also be typed (also double-spaced) on separate sheets and numbered in sequence in Arabic numerals. A heading must be supplied with each table. Tables should be typed in a proper table insert using your word processor and not using a 'TAB' key of the keyboard to generate tables.
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS:
These should have a maximum of 4000 words (about 8 double-spaced typewritten pages) with a maximum of two figures. The format for regular papers should be followed; however references must be kept to a maximum of 10.
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Authors of accepted manuscripts are required to submit their final versions on CD ROM or by e-mail attachment of a virus-free file. Authors should also indicate the word processing software used (Microsoft Words is preferred) and file names. Figures and illustrations in Microsoft Excel are preferred. Only text files (without formats) should be submitted and figures and images scanned onto other packages will not be accepted. One hard copy (including originals of all illustrations) must accompany the disk.
REPRINTS: An electronic copy of the reprint file in PDF version will be sent along with copies of the journal to the corresponding author for distribution to co-authors. Additional copies should be ordered during final submission.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
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