Types of manuscripts

Research papers should present new experimental studies in elaborate form that constitute a significant contribution to knowledge. Research Papers should not exceed 12 pages.

Short communications are the one that should present new important findings in a brief form, a maximum of 6 pages including illustrations.

Review articles should bring up the most important current topics or present interpretative and critical accounts, but not simple compilation, on subjects of general interest. They should be around 15 pages.

 

Submitting papers to IJGP

All contributions must be submitted online from http://www.journalonweb.com/ijgp

One hard copy should be mailed to:
The Editor
International Journal of Green Pharmacy
BRNSS and Contract Research Center,
Mhow-Neemuch Road,
Post Box No-6,
Mandsur - 458001
Madhya Pradesh, India.
Tel No- 07422 255734
Fax No- 07422 255504

Manuscripts are accepted on the understanding that the authors have obtained the necessary authority for publication. Manuscripts with multi-authors imply the consent of each of the authors. The publisher will presume that the corresponding author has specifically obtained the approval of all other co-authors to submit the article to IJGP. Submission of an article to IJGP is understood to imply that it has not been either published or not being considered for publication elsewhere.

Manuscripts should be neatly typed, double-spaced throughout, including tables, on pages of uniform size with at least 2.5 cm margins on all sides. One hard copy of the manuscript also should be submitted initially to the editor’s address. On acceptance authors are asked to fill the copyright transfer forms that is available on journal’s web site.
 

Manuscripts preparations:

Prepare the manuscript in Times New Roman font using a font size of 12. Title shall be in a font size 14, bold face capitals. All section titles in the manuscript shall be in font size 12, bold face capitals. Subtitles in each section shall be in font size 12, bold face lower case. Standard International Units could be used throughout the text.

Pages should be numbered consecutively, starting with the title page and the text should be arranged in the following order: Title page, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion or Results and Discussion, Acknowledgements, References and Figure and Table titles and legends. Abstract should start on a separate page and each table or figure should be on separate sheets.

Title Page: The title must be as brief as possible, comprehensive and descriptive. Each author must provide their full name including their forenames and surname followed by their address in normal face lower case. The Corresponding Author of the manuscript must be marked with an asterisk, and should be listed first. In addition the corresponding author must include telephone, fax and E-mail address at the bottom left corner of the title page. If any of the co-authors are from different organizations, their addresses too should be mentioned and indicated using numbers after their names.

Abstract: Should start on a new page after the title page and should present the reason of the study, the main findings, and principal conclusions, not more than 250 words. All the three categories, Review Articles, Research papers and Short Communications should have an Abstract.

Keywords: 3-6 keywords are to be provided by the authors. These keywords should be typed at the end of the abstract on the same page.

Introduction: Should start on a new page and should clearly indicate the aim of the study.

Materials and Methods: The section Materials and Methods should include concise details on the methodology adopted, sufficient to repeat the experiment. Extracts and/or fractions tested for in vitro or in vivo biological activities should be chemically defined, at least by means of the results of preliminary phytochemical screening. Complete formulation details of all crude drug mixtures and extracts should be mentioned. The plant name should be fully mentioned when cited first, and the authors are asked to add the details regarding its identification, voucher herbarium specimen number and name of the herbarium institution where it has been deposited.

Authors publishing results from in vivo experiments involving animals or humans should state that the approval for conduction of these experiments was obtained, from the relevant ethics committees, in this section.

The statistical method and the level of significance chosen should be clearly stated.

Results: All results presented in tabular or graphical form shall be described in this section. All Tables and figures must have a title and a legend to make them self-explanatory and they should be given numbers. Tables and figures should be typed on separate sheets.

Discussion: should contain a critical review of the results of the study with the support of relevant literature. It can end with brief conclusions.

Acknowledgements: All acknowledgments should be typed in one paragraph directly preceding the reference section.

References: References should be referred to by name and year (Harvard system) in the text (e.g.: Brown and Penry, 1973; Stuart, 1979; Ageel et al., 1987) and listed alphabetically at the end of the paper in reference section. Nothing should be italicized. Only papers and books that have been published may be cited.

 

Examples

Journals: Author (last name) AB (initials), Author BB, Title of Article, Journal name, volume, year, page numbers.

Sheeja E, Edwin E, Dhanabal SP, Suresh B, Antiinflammatory activity of leaves of Nothapodytes foetida Miers, Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical sciences, 68, 2005, 15-17.

Books: Author AB, Author BB, Author CC, Title of Book, Ed, Vol, Publisher, City, year, page numbers.

Nadkarni KM, Indian Materia Medica, Edn 3, Vol. I, Popular Prakashan, Mumbai, 2000, 242-246.

All the authors should be a subscriber to the journal. No gratis reprints will be provided.