Prepration of Manuscript

Manuscript Preparation

Research manuscripts should comprise:

Front Matter

These sections should appear in all manuscript types.

  • Title: The title of manuscript should be concise, specific and relevant and in 13 bold (sentence case).
  • Author Names: (11 font bold)
  • Authors affiliations: (11 non bold) Authors' full first, middle and last names along with complete address information including city, state/province, country, and Corresponding author E-mail address: (10 non bold) should be provided.
  • Abstract heading: 10 font bold
  • Abstract:  Maximum of about 200 words in a single paragraph in 10 font
  • Keywords: Font 9 bold, Five to six pertinent non bold keywords in 9 font need to be added after the Abstract. Keywords should be specific to the article and common within subject discipline.
  • Text: Main headings in 12 font bold (sentence case) are given below.
  • Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement and References: Font 12 bold
  • Text: Subheadings: 11 font bold (sentence case)
  • Main body text : 10 font non bold
  • References: 10 font non bold and Research journal names in Italics
  • Figure and Table: Captions in font 9 non bold
  • Table contents:  Font 9 non bold
  • Abbreviations: should be defined in parentheses the first time they appear in the abstract, main text and in figure or table captions, and used consistently thereafter.

Research Manuscript Sections:

  • Introduction: The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight that why it is important. Introduction should define the purpose of the work and its significance, including specific hypotheses being tested. The current state of the research field should be reviewed carefully and key publications cited.
  • Objective of Study: Briefly mention the main aim of the work and keep the introduction comprehensible to scientists working in allied fields or outside the topic of the paper.
  • Literature Review: The Literature review must be brief and relevant to work. This part of the study must consist of at least 12 references from most recent studies conducted in the most recent last 4 years.
  • Materials and Methods: Research methodology should be described with sufficient detail to allow others to replicate and build on published results. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited. Give the name and version of any software used and make clear whether computer code used is available including any pre-registration code.
  • Results and Discussion:  Provide a concise and precise description of the experimental results, their interpretation as well as the experimental conclusions that can be drawn. Authors should discuss the results and interpret in the perspective of previous studies and of the working hypotheses. The findings and their implications should be discussed in the broadest context possible and limitations of the work should be highlighted. Future research directions may also be mentioned. This section may be combined with Results.
  • Conclusion: Conclusion should be given at the end very precisely not exceeding two small paragraphs.
  • Acknowledgement:
  • Patents: This section is not mandatory, but may be added, if there are patents resulting from the work reported in this manuscript.
  • References: References must be cited in alphabetical order and listed separately at the end of the manuscript. We recommend preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as EndNote, Reference Manager or Zotero to avoid typing mistakes and duplicate references.
  • References in the text should be quoted as author and year e.g. single author (Bain, 1971) two authors (Qureshi & Sultana, 2000) and three or more authors (Morgan et al., 2002) and listed alphabetically in full in the reference list. A brief Abstract including the Keywords must be included in research paper. For Short Communication, no abstract is required.
  • Journal Reference: Kakar, N., Kakar, D. M., Khan, A. S., Khan, S. D. (2016). Land subsidence caused by groundwater exploitation in Quetta Valley, Pakistan. Int. J. Econ. Environ. Geol., 7 (2), 10-19.
  • Book Reference: Kerr, P. F. (1972). Optical Mineralogy. 4th edition, Mc Graw-Hill, New York, USA, 492 pages.
  • Article Published in Books: Ahmed, Z. (1993). Leucocratic rocks from the Bela ophiolite, Khuzdar district. In Himalayan Tectonics. P. J. Treloar and M. P. Searle (eds.), Geol. Soc. Spec. Pub., London, UK, 89-100.
  • Article Published in Proceedings: Mc Divitt, J. F. (1994). Economic evaluation in exploration and development of mineral projects. In Proceedings Second SEGMITE Int. Conf. Industrial Minerals. V. Husain, A. A. Khan and Q. Huda (eds.), Karachi, Pakistan, 223 pages.
  • Abstract Published in Abstract Volume: Khan, A., Husain, V. (2013). Sources of arsenic pollution in Holocene alluvial aquifers of Tando Muhammad Khan district, Sindh, Pakistan. In Abstract Volume, SEGMITE International Conference on Water, Minerals and Energy Resources, Karachi, Pakistan, p15.

Preparing Figures, Schemes, and Tables

  • File for Figures and Schemes must be provided during submission in a single zip archive and at a sufficiently high resolution (minimum 1000 pixels width/height, or a resolution of 300 dpi or higher). Common formats are accepted; however, JPG, JPEG, EPS, and PDF are preferred.
  • All Figures, Schemes, and Tables should be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their number of appearance (Fig. 1, Scheme I, Fig. 2, Scheme II, Table 1, etc.).
  • All Figures, Schemes, and Tables should have a short explanatory title and caption.
  • All table columns should have an explanatory heading. To facilitate the copy-editing of larger tables, smaller fonts may be used, but no less than 8 pt. in size. Authors should use the Table option of Microsoft Word to create tables.
  • Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color (RGB at 8-bit per channel). There is no additional cost for publishing full-color graphics.