Submission
In order to reduce delays, authors should adhere to the level, length and format of the Henry Publishing Group Journals at every stage of processing right from manuscript submission to each revision stage.The document needs to be prepared in English language. All the pages of the document need to be numbered in a sequence, including those containing figures, tabular columns, acknowledgements, references, etc. The documents containing the manuscript should be a single MS Word file. All figures and tables related to the manuscript need to be attached in the same word file. Submit your manuscript as an email attachment to mail id
Terms of Submission
Submission of a manuscript to the Henry Publications directly implies that all the authors have read and agreed to the journal's guidelines. The content present in the manuscript after publication will be freely available to all the potential readers over the Internet for noncommercial use. The content provided by the authors in the manuscript should at no point of time breach the copyrights or rights of third party. The manuscript submitted should not be published or submitted for consideration in any other journal.
Peer-Review Process
The journal follows double-blind peer-review process. This is done with the aim to minimize the possibility of a biased opinion when the reviewers know who the authors are and from where they come from, ensuring a responsible and ethical environment.
Henry Publishing Group provides a wide range of article processing services which include:
Article Types: Research Articles, Review Articles, Case Reports, Short Communications, Commentary, Editorials, Clinical Images,Special Issue Articles.
Research Article Guide lines: The submitted research article should contain no more than 4500-5000 words. There is no defined limit on the number of pages, images, and tabular columns.
Review Articles: The word count for a review article is 4000-5000 words, with no limitation on the number of pages, tables, and images being used.
Case Reports: The maximum word count for a case report is 1200-1600 words. Having no limit on the number of pages, figures, and references.
Clinical Images: While submitting clinical images, a maximum of 2 images needs to be used along with a word limit of 150 words.
Short Communications: Should specify the research study in focus and specify the author's opinion using a maximum of 1200-1300 words.
Special Issue Articles: A special issue publication is a group 10-15 articles on a specific theme, and a special issue article should contain a maximum of 4000-5000 words, with no limit on the number of references, pages, and images being used.
Editorials: A maximum of 500-1000 words, with no specification on the number of pages, references, and images used.
All the manuscripts that are submitted to Henry Publishing Group Journals need to be submitted in the following format:
- Cover letter
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Materials and Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
Cover letter
Along with the manuscript a mandatory cover letter needs to be submitted.
Declaration of any potential conflict of interest.
A consent confirming the approval by all the co-authors to submit the manuscript.
Confirmation that the content of the manuscript has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
Consent confirming that the manuscript has not been published or is under consideration for publication by any other journal.
If the manuscript is being submitted as part of a special issue, then the special issue title needs to be mentioned in the cover letter along with the manuscript title.
Abstract
An abstract must have a short and precise title that describes the nature of the investigation. An abstract of 200 to 250 words needs to be prepared to give a brief outline of the work that has been carried out.
Title and Authorship Information
The following information should be included
Title of the paper
Author complete names
Complete mailing address of the institution
Email addresses
Introduction
A brief introduction to the topic needs to be given, specifying the highlights of the study.
Materials and Methods
By submitting your manuscript to the journal, you give your consent for the materials described in the manuscript, which would include the complete data that will be freely available to researchers and scientists who intend to use it for non-commercial purpose, without violating participant's confidentiality.
Results and Discussion
In this section, the authors can bring out their key experimental results, including any statistical analysis and whether or not the results of their study are significant.
Acknowledgments
In this section, the author is free to mention the individuals or contributors who have directly or indirectly provided any technical assistance to the original work and would not be considered to meet the criteria for authorship. The authors must seek the consent of the individual or contributors, whom they would like to mention in this section as a matter of courtesy.
References
Vancouver System of referencing. A unique Arabic number is assigned to every citation mentioned in the manuscript. The numbers are assigned in a sequential order. The same reference numbered has to be mentioned when the citation is repeated. The numbering can be shown in brackets or as a superscript without brackets.
Reference numbering: All the references that are being used are numbered in the order they are first mentioned. The reference numbers for tables and legends have to be used along with the parenthesis. In the event of reuse of the earlier reference, the same reference number needs to be used.
Format for references:
The author's surname must be followed by their initials, the abbreviation et al is used after the first six authors names; followed by the title of the paper; then the title of the journal (abbreviated according to the style in the indexing platform [www.roa.nih.org]), if the journal is not indexed, the full title of the journal needs to be mentioned; the year in which it was published; volume number; first and last page numbers. Punctuations need to be carefully and correctly used.
References: Henry Publishing Group follows author-number system (Vancouver Style) where all the references including URLs are numbered successively within square brackets, in the same order of their appearance in the text.
Examples
Journal Article with less than 5 authors:
Karimi-Zarchi M, Peighmbari F, Karimi N, Rohi M, Chiti Z (2013) A Comparison of 3 Ways of Conventional Pap Smear, Liquid-Based Cytology and Colposcopy vs Cervical Biopsy for Early Diagnosis of Premalignant Lesions or Cervical Cancer in Women with Abnormal Conventional Pap Test. Int J Biomed Sci 9: 205-210.
Journal Article with more than 5 authors:
Henriques A, Arantes-Rodrigues R, FJoseph o-Rocha IA, Teixeira-Guedes IC, Pinho-Oliveira J, et al., (2014) The Effects of Whole Green Tea Infusion on Mouse Urinary Bladder Chemical Carcinogenesis. Iran J Basic Med Sci 17: 145-148.
Book References:
Gardner JG, Simmons MJ, Snustad PD. Principles of Genetics. (8th edn). New York: John Wiley & Sons. 2006.
Book Chapter:
Honn KV, Tang DG, Chen Y. Adhesion molecules and site-specific metastasis. NeriSerneri SS, Gensini GF, Abbate R, Prisco D, editors. In: Thrombosis: An Update. Scientific Press. 1992; 269-303.
Link/URL:
National Cancer Institute at National Institutes of Health. [hyperlinked with www.cancer.gov]
Proceedings of a Conference:
Gee JC, Joshi S, Pohl KM, Wells WM, Zollei L, editors. Information Processing in Medical Imaging. Proceedings of 23rd International Conference; 2013 June 28–July 3; CA, USA. New York: Springer, 2013.
Ph.D. Theses/Dissertation:
Simonneau A. Gold-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization Reactions Through Activation of Alkynes [dissertation]. Springer Theses, 2014.
Datasets:
Zheng LY, Guo XS, He B, Sun LJ, Peng Y, Dong SS, et al. Genome data from sweet and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). GigaScience. 2011.
Journal Article Epub ahead of print
Reardon DA, Wen PY. Targeted therapies: Further delineating bevacizumab's response spectrum. Nat Rev ClinOncol. 2014 [In press].
Tables: The tables that are being used in the manuscript need to be numbered accordingly. Table title needs to be stated for all the tables that are being used. A heading need to be mentioned for each column. Mention the reference source if the data is taken from another source. The content and explanation about the table need to be mentioned in the note below and not in the heading.
Personal communication: Refrain for the usage of any personal information. Avoid mentioning Email addresses and contact information, class notes, information from interviews, class handouts, since these cannot be retrieved by others. However, the name of the person and the date of communication can be mentioned in parentheses.
Web and Media: Information obtained over the Internet in due course of time may be deleted or changed, so it is always advisable to keep a hard copy of the information and a track of the source from where it has been extracted.
Preparation of Figures
TIFF (recommended for images)
JPEG (recommended for photographic images, less suitable for graphical images)
The resolution of the Image should be approximately 300 dpi (dots per inch)
Proofs
An Email along with the link directing to the proof in PDF format, which can be freely downloaded, would be sent to the corresponding author. Once the PDF is downloaded, the corrections need to be sent back to the concerned managing editor within 3 days. An Email notification needs to be sent if the article correction process would be delayed. Authors facing a challenge to make any corrections to the electronic copy may consider taking a printout and making the changes on the hard copy.
Article Processing Charges
Article Processing Charges (APC) will be charged to the authors depending on the type of article that is being published.
There is no charge for the authors if they wish to withdraw their manuscript from initial stages of processing. However, the author needs to pay a minimal amount as withdrawal charge if the article has been processed and accepted for publication. This amount will be utilized to compensate the costs incurred during the process and publication.
Copyright
All works published by Henry Publishing Group are under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This permits anyone to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the work provided the original work and source is appropriately cited.
Submission guidelines
Submission of a manuscript to the Henry Publishing Group directly implies that all the authors have read and agreed to the journal's guidelines. The content present in the manuscript after publication will be freely available to all the potential readers over the Internet for non-commercial use.
The content provided by the authors in the manuscript should at no point of time breach the Copyrights or rights of third party. The manuscript submitted should not be published or submitted for consideration in any other journal. Manuscripts with plagiarized content will not be considered for peer-review process.
Disclosure Policy
Disclosure statements of all the co-authors need to be sent at the time of submission. Manuscripts submitted without the disclosure statement will be considered incomplete and may not be considered to be reviewed.
At the external peer-review stage, the authors are required to send signed copies of the following statements:
Author's contribution.
A statement of Conflict of interest.
Written Acknowledgments-consent of cited content and individuals.
Personal communications-written consent of cited content and individuals.
In the event of usage of any copyrighted/protected material-A signed authorization from the author and publisher.
A signed copy of the subject whose clinical images are presented for study.
REPRINTS
Reprints would be available 2 weeks after the publication of the article in the concerned journal. For information and price, contact by sending an Email to the mail id.