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 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.
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
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.
Types
Abstract and keywords
Introduction
Materials and Methods
Results
Conclusion
Conflict of interest
References
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Review
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Editorial
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Brief Report
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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.
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.
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.
Article
It is very common, and suitable for kinds of fields and different types of studies based on original research. Generally, it includes full introduction, methods, results, discussion, etc. These articles are usually long with more than 6,000 words.
Review
A review could also be called a review of literature. It is a survey of previously published research on a topic. It should put forward an overview of current thinking on this topic.
Brief Report
A brief report is extracted from original research. It may be interesting to many researchers, and even could stimulate further exploration in this field. This type of articles is usually short with results which are time sensitive, especially in those quickly-changing disciplines. The important experimental details may not be published until a full article is published.
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