Submissions

Author Guidelines

Manuscripts are encouraged to be submitted via the journal’s OJS system online. If there are some barriers on submission, please reach out to the journal editor for help.

The publisher only publishes articles written in English with a concise style. Copyeditors may check the language and make editorial changes if necessary. Please refer to the language policy.

Cover letter

Authors must prepare a cover letter during the submission stage. A cover letter usually should contain the statement of originality, innovation, significance, previous research, conflict of interest, data availability, and authors’ contributions, and elaborate the use of AI tools, etc.

It should clearly indicate that the manuscript has not been considered by other journals, and the approval of submission from all the authors has been obtained. Authors could also recommend a list of reviewers or avoidable reviewers.

Template

Sin-Chn Scientific Press only receives Microsoft Word and LaTex files. Please prepare the manuscript following the manuscript specific template.

Manuscript text

The structure of an article (original research) should usually include the title, author(s), affiliation, abstract, keywords, introduction, materials and methods, results, conclusion, discussion (optional), acknowledgments (optional), funding (optional), conflict of interest, declaration (optional), references, and appendix (optional). Below is the structure guide of different types of articles.

Authors could add supplementary data link(s) or other process data related to the results in the Appendix section.

Author contributions

Sin-Chn Scientific Press asks authors to comply with the authorship policy before submitting a manuscript, and requests all the authors in a research article to declare their specific contributions if there are more than one author. The declaration of authors’ contributions is not mandatory in other types of articles.

Those do not act as the authorship but do support this study should be credited in the Acknowledgments section.

Funding

Journals in the publisher encourage authors to declare grant funding, e.g., name of fund, number, funder, project duration, etc.

Conflict of interest

All the publications must declare potential conflicts of interest, including funding or relationship among the editors, authors, and reviewers.

References

Authors must ensure that all cited works are closely aligned with the research focus. Unnecessary self-citation and unrelated references should be omitted. We discourage the use of a limited range of sources. Instead, we urge authors to maintain a thorough and objective citation practice to effectively validate their research findings.

The formats of different types of references are as follows:

Journal

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

e.g., Börner, J., Baylis, K., Corbera, E., et al. (2017). The Effectiveness of Payments for Environmental Services. World Development, 96, 359–374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.03.020

Article in a language other than English

• Author 1 FM, Author 2 FM, Author 3 FM, et al. (Year). English title of the article (language). Journal Name, Volume(Issue) (if available), Firstpage–Lastpage. doi (if available)

e.g., Massone, L., Borghi, S., & Pestarino, A. (1987). Purpuric palmarsites of dermatitis herpetiformis (French). Annual Dermatol Venerol, 114(12), 1545–1547.

Book

Book without editors

• Author 1 FM, & Author 2 FM (Year). Chapter (optional). In: Title of the Book, Edition (if available). Publisher. pp. Page range (optional).

e.g., Cerdá, C. (2014). Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Non‐communicable Diseases—Molecular Mechanisms and Perspectives in Therapeutics. Springer International Publishing.

e.g., Desiraju, G. R., & Steiner, T. (1999). The Weak Hydrogen Bond in Structural Chemistry and Biology, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. pp. 10–25.

Book with editors

• Author 1 FM, & Author 2 FM (Year). Title of the contribution. In: Editor 1 FM, & Editor 2 FM (editors). Title of the Book, Edition (if available). Publisher. Volume (optional), pp. Page range (optional).

e.g., Almlof, J., & Gropen, O. (1996). Relativistic effects in chemistry. In: Lipkowitz, K. B., & Boyd, D. B. (editors). Reviews in Computational Chemistry. VCH. Volume 8. pp. 206–210.

• In a translated book, put the translators’ names after the editors’ names: “Translator 1 FM (translator)” or “Translator 1 FM, & Translator 2 FM (translators)”. For example:

e.g., Tessier, J. (1982). Structure, synthesis and physical—Chemical properties of deltamethrin. In: Tessier, J. (editor). Walden, B. V. d G. (translator). Deltamethrin Monograph. Roussel‐Uclaf.

• If the editors and translators are the same, the format should be as in the following example:

e.g., Gadamer, H. G. (1989). Hermeneutics and logocentrism. In: Michelfelder, D. P., & Palmer, R. E. (editors and translators). Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer‐Derrida Debate. State University of New York Press. pp. 114–125.

Production

Manuscripts accepted by the journal will be produced by type-setting editors. Authors and editors must do their best to minimize errors in the article. Authors are required to proofread the galley. Galleys that have been proofread by both authors and editors will undergo final review by the Editor-in-Chief. Only after the final review will the article be posted on the journal website.

Errors are inevitable. Please refer to the Correction, Retraction and Withdrawal policy for some situations.

Appeal and complaint

Authors should reply a report with point-by-point details of explanation, or appeal against a rejection by e-mail to the Editorial Office within 30 days. The Editor-in-Chief will organize a team of experts to hold an academic debate, and the final decision will be validated by the Editor-in-Chief at this stage.

Any appeal or complaint against unethical issues before or post publication is welcome to reach out to the Editorial Office. The Editor-in-Chief will investigate these allegations regardless of whether the article is at the editorial decision stage or the processing stage.