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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 under consideration by another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, or LaTex document file format.
  • Where available, URLs or DOIs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.

Author Guidelines

Manuscript preparation

Here are some things to keep in mind as you plan your submission:

  1. Please read and understand the journal’s Ethics and Policies; a manuscript against the ethical policies may be rejected.
  2. Please read the Author Guidelines of the journal, and prepare your manuscript by referring to its template. Human Resources Management and Services (HRMS) adopts a new template since 2024 Volume 6 Issue 1. Authors should follow the step-by-step instructions during submitting a manuscript through the online submission system.
  3. Please provide a cover letter and cover image as supplementary material when submitting a manuscript.
  4. Please ensure that you have obtained authorized approval of remixed data from the original copyrighter if available.
  5. Please be aware of the Authorship Policy, and authors are not encouraged to change the list of authorships after the manuscript is accepted.
  6. Please refer to the AIGC Policy; the Publisher strictly prohibits the use of AI tools to write content that replaces human logical thinking and analytical interpretation, except for the insertion of references, language embellishment, and graphing of basic data.
  7. All the journals in PiscoMed Publishing adopt an open access model, and authors retain the copyright of their work. PiscoMed Publishing is authorized to publish the works online first.
  8. Please be aware of the APCs policy before submitting a manuscript.

 

Cover letter

Please prepare a cover letter along with your manuscript, that may describe the main innovations of the study, key results and significance, etc. Authors are required to disclose any essential information, such as the potential conflict of interest, preprint version ID if available, statement of non-submission to other journals, reproducibility of data, signatures of all authors approving the submission of the manuscript.

You are welcome to share a list of recommended or recused reviewers, and the journal office has the right to adopt it or not. Authors are encouraged to list their contributions to a research article, where there are more than two authors.

 

Article types

Please add an article type at the top of your text. In general, we publish the following types of articles: Article, Review, Editorial, Perspective, Case Report, Commentary, and Opinion (please check the details of each type at the bottom of this page). In case your article does not fall into any of the following types, please contact the editorial office of the journal to check whether your article type is acceptable.

 

Article structure

Usually, the main structure of a research article should include Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Methods and Materials, Result, and Conclusion.

A review article should include Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Section Description, and Conclusion.

Other types of articles usually have no regular structure requirements, but authors must state the type of the submission. Note that the submission must be written in English (referring to the Language Policy), whether American or British, while authors should be aware of the uniformity of the language style throughout the text.

 

Title: The title should summarize the main points of the article with a maximum of 50 words.

Author: Please provide a list of authorship according to the Authorship Policy. The names of authors must be spelled out rather than set in initials along with their affiliations (e.g., department, institution, city, state, postal code, and country). The main contributor should be listed as the first author, and corresponding authors should be identified with an asterisk. At least one corresponding author’s email should be listed for further communication. It is important that the submission has obtained the approval of all authors.

Abstract: The purpose of an abstract is to summarize the main research, methodology, and conclusions, and to guide readers to access the whole paper with interest. Ideally, abstracts should be no more than 300 words, but there are exceptions.

Keywords: Please avoid using the words in the title, and provide no more than 8 keywords.

Text: The length of the content is not quite rigorous, and it depends on the manuscript’s scientific quality.

 

The main structure & back matters

Section title

Key points

Article type

Introduction

It would be beneficial for readers if authors provide a clear, one sentence purpose statement of the research. Here should start with an explanation of why the particular research has been conducted and end with a statement/conclusion of the selected research approach.

Article, Review

Materials and methods

Authors are required to provide a detailed account of the procedure that was followed while conducting the research described in the report. That's valuable for the replication of the results.

Article

Result

It should provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation, as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn. Sometimes, this section may be divided into subheadings.

Article, Review, Case Report, Perspective, Commentary, Opinion

Discussion

Conclusion

Author contributions

For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided.

Article

Funding

This section is not mandatory. If your research has received any external funding, you should claim the details.

Not mandatory

Acknowledgments

Here, you can acknowledge any support received which is not listed as the authorship.

Not mandatory

Conflict of interest

Declare conflicts of interest or state “The authors declare no conflict of interest.”

All types

References

References must be arranged in alphabetical order of the first author at the end of the manuscript.

Not mandatory in an Editorial

Appendix

This section is optional and is for all materials (e.g., advanced technical details) that has been excluded from the main text but remains essential to readers in understanding the manuscripts.

Not mandatory

 

Figures and Tables

All figures and tables should be cited in the main text as Figure 1, Table 1, etc. Figures and tables should be placed as close as possible to the text they refer to and be center-aligned. Photos, graphs, charts or diagram should be labeled as Figures (do not abbreviate), and assigned a number consecutively (e.g., Figure 1). Figure captions should appear underneath figures, and be center-aligned, with no additional blank line.

 

In cases where a caption needs to be extended over to the second line, the caption should be aligned left.

 

References

 

  • In-text citations

As the new layout style has been adopted, in-text citations should be in APA style, i.e., the author-date citation format. There are two forms: narrative citations and parenthetical citations.

 

For narrative citations:

Author 1 and Author 2 (year) showed that ....

 

For parenthetical citations:

It has been found that ... (Author 1 and Author 2, year; Author 3 et al., year).

 

Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.

 

  • Bibliography format

Only works that are cited in the main text can be listed here. Generally, references should be in the following pattern:

Author(s), year of publication, title of publication, full journal name, volume number, issue number in parenthesis and lastly, page range. If the DOI is available, please include it after the page range.

 

For example:

Author 1 AB, Author 2 CD, Author 3 EF, et al. (Year). Title of the article. Journal Name. Volume(Issue) (if available): Firstpage–Lastpage. doi (if available).

 

Author 1 AB, Author 2 CD. (Year). Title of the chapter. In: Title of the Book, 2nd ed. Publisher name, pp. 102–144.

 

Author 1 AB, Author 2 CD. (Year). Title of the contribution. In: Editor 1 FM, Editor 2 FM (editors). Title of the Book, Edition. Publisher, Volume, pp. Page range.

 

Author 1 FM, Author 2 FM, Author 3 FM, et al. (Year). Title of presentation. In: Proceedings of the Name of the Conference; Date of Conference (Day Month Year); Location(City, Country).

 

Author 1 FM, Author 2 FM, Author 3 FM. (Year). Title of presentation. In: Editor 1 FM, Editor 2 FM (editors). Title of Collected Work, Proceedings of the Name of the Conference; Date of Conference (Day Month Year); Location(City, Country). Publisher.

 

Author FM. (Year). Title of Thesis [PhD thesis]. Degree-Granting University.

 

Author 1 FM, Author 2 FM, Author 3 FM, et al. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, Complete Date, Pagination.

 

Patent Owner 1, Patent Owner 2, Patent Owner 3. (Year). Title of Patent. Patent Number, Date (Day Month Year, the Application granted date).

 

Author 1 FM, Author 2 FM. (Year). Title of unpublished work. Journal Title (if available); Phrase Indicating Stage of Publication (submitted, in press, etc.).

 

Title of site. (Year). Available online: URL (accessed on Day Month Year).

Article

This article type involves research work that completes a whole scientific experiment, and some results are found, which plays an important role in the development of this study community. The structure usually includes an Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions (optional) sections. This type of articles should, ideally, not be less than 4000 words with more than 20 references.

Review

A review summarizes and analyzes a particular recent research advancement in the community and makes constructive suggestions for future directions in this research. It may include an Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Relevant Sections, Discussion, Conclusions, and future direction sections. This type of articles should, ideally, not be less than 4000 words with more than 20 references.

Case report

A case report generally brings attention to a particular situation, which is often applied in the medical field. A case report generally consists of a summary of only a few cases.

Perspective

Perspectives usually analyze the current research data collected, and the results already show great research promise. It suggests the latest research direction for this research community, and more in-depth research data is needed to support it.

Erratum & Correction

Erratum involves the update of technical aspect, or refers to the errors introduced by the publisher after the proof correction stage. e.g. replacing the low-quality pictures or add missing information to references.

Correction involves the update of scientific content. It is usually introduced by the authors. e.g. the correction of a scientific data.

Commentary

Articles of this type provide comments on a recently published or forthcoming research, or they can discuss an aspect of an issue related to the scope of the journal that can be of interest to readers.

Opinion

Articles of this type are short, which reflect the author's opinions on a specific topic, method, or recent discovery.

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