Step by step guideline for authors
KITSPRESS publishes only the original research papers or articles.These articles must be based on a particular interest and have a definite conclusion.
A manuscript’s academic merit (importance, originality, validity, clarity) and relevance to the journal’s scope is evaluated exclusively by editors, who take no account of the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, citizenship, religious beliefs, political philosophy, or institutional affiliation when evaluating manuscripts submitted.
The inclusion of figures, tables, or text passages already published elsewhere requires permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format, and the submission must include proof of such permission.
Please follow the hyperlink “Submit manuscript” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.
All listed authors should provide a short description of their contributions (please use initials). A separate section will appear before the acknowledgements.
The title page should contain:
The journal team will modify the manuscript according to the template.
Genus and Species name should be in Italic.
The repeatability or statistical significance of the findings must be stated by the authors in a subsection at the conclusion of the Materials and Methods section, particularly in relation to any figures without error bars (e.g. images, blots).
If you used commercially available antibodies, do supply the antibody product code.
In the text, cite references by name and year in parentheses. Some instances:
Only works that are acknowledged in the text and have been released or accepted for release should be listed as references. Only unpublished works and personal communications should be mentioned in the text. Never use a reference list in place of footnotes or endnotes.
The last names of each work’s first authors should be listed in alphabetical order in the reference list entries. Multi-author works by the same initial author should be arranged alphabetically according to second, third, etc. authors. Ordering of publications by the same author or authors is required.
Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author lists with more than 3 authors will also be accepted. Please always give a minimum of three authors.
It is strongly advised that you submit all of your artwork in an electronic format, including photos, line drawings, etc., for the highest quality final outcome. Then, your artwork will be created to the highest standards and with the utmost attention to detail. The calibre of the submitted artwork will be clearly visible in the published work.
KITSPRESS accepts electronic multimedia files (animations, movies, audio, etc.) and other supplementary files to be published online along with an article or a book chapter. This feature can add dimension to the author’s article, as certain information cannot be printed or is more convenient in electronic form.
Research datasets should be reviewed before being submitted as electronic supplementary material. Wherever it is feasible, research data should be archived in data repositories.
Electronic supplemental material will be published just as it was submitted by the author, without modification or formatting.
Please make sure that the content of your additional files is accessible to persons with all abilities and impairments by following these guidelines.
Unpublished information disclosed in a manuscript will not be used by editors or editorial board members for their own research purposes without the author’s explicit consent. During the course of handling the manuscript, editors will obtain privileged information or ideas which will be kept confidential. As a result of their competitive, collaborative, or other relationships/connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions involved in the papers, editors will recuse themselves from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest. Instead, another editorial board member will handle the manuscript.
Any researcher desiring to utilise the resources detailed in the publication for non-commercial reasons without violating participant confidentially will be entitled to do so without paying for them if they are submitted to the journal. This includes all relevant raw data.
The publication strongly recommends that readers get access to all datasets used to support the paper’s conclusions. We advise authors to make sure that their datasets are either given in the primary publication or supplementary supporting files whenever possible, or that they are deposited in publicly accessible repositories (where available and acceptable). Where suitable, general repositories for all forms of research data, like figshare and Dryad, may be used.
The reference list may include references to datasets that have been given digital object identifiers (DOIs) by a data repository. The bare minimum recommended by DataCite for data citations is authors, title, publisher (repository name), and identifier.
For the following types of data set, submission to a community-endorsed, public repository is mandatory:
| Mandatory deposition | Suitable repositories |
| Protein sequences | Uniprot |
| DNA and RNA sequences | Genbank DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ) EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (ENA) |
| DNA and RNA sequencing data | NCBI Trace Archive NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) |
| Genetic polymorphisms | dbSNP dbVar European Variation Archive (EVA) |
| Linked genotype and phenotype data | dbGAP The European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) |
| Macromolecular structure | Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank (BMRB) Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) |
| Microarray data (must be MIAME compliant) | Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) ArrayExpress |
| Crystallographic data for small molecules | Cambridge Structural Database |
The publication invites authors to include a note about the availability of data in their work. Data availability statements should provide information on the sources of the data used to support the findings in the article, including, if appropriate, hyperlinks to publically available datasets used in the analysis or generation of the data. If necessary, data availability declarations can additionally declare whether or not data are available upon request from the authors and when none are.
Data Availability statements can take one of the following forms (or a combination of more than one if required for multiple datasets):
The maximum review time is 45 days.
After the acceptance of the manuscripts,a confirmation mail is sent to the authors.Then the final version of the manuscript should be prepared by the authors according to the IJSDC template.Authors should attach the copy rights form along with the final version of the manuscripts through online.
If any of the manuscript is rejected, it will not be considered for publication and hence the authors are asked not to send the rejected manuscripts.
During the editorial review, authors may be required to provide raw data, which they should be prepared to make public if possible. As a minimum, authors should ensure that such data can be accessed by other competent professionals for at least ten years after publication (preferably via institutional or subject-based data repositories or other data centres), provided that participants’ confidentiality is protected and legal rights regarding proprietary data do not prevent them from being disclosed.