SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Three original hard copies and an electronic copy of the manuscript, in Microsoft Word only, should be submitted to the editorial office along with a cover letter, which should include the corresponding author's full address, telephone numbers and official e-mail.
Receipt of all articles will be acknowledged. All contributions must be submitted in English or Arabic. All submitted original research articles, reviews or short communications will be reviewed by specialists in the respective fields. Papers will be published in the next issue of the journal after acceptance.
Journal MJARD offers 50% discount for the first author who publishes the highest standard manuscript has been selected by the Editorial Board. This discount for only one manuscript been published by only the first author, and that will be declared on December every year.
SUBMISSION DECLARATION
Submission of an article implies that the work described must be original and has not been previously published in any part or under consideration for publication elsewhere (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis or as an electronic preprint), and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically in the same form or in any other languages, except the copyright-holder’s permission must have been obtained prior to submission.
ARTICLE TYPES
Three types of manuscripts may be submitted:
Original articles: These are complete descriptions of current original research findings, and experimental procedures that should be given in sufficient detail for others to verify the work. The length of a full paper should not exceed twenty-five pages.
Short Communications: Short Communication is a concise, but independent report suitable for recording the results of complete small investigations including the reporting of additional controls and confirmatory results in other settings, as well as negative results. The style of main sections need not conform to that of full-length papers. Short communications are about six to nine manuscript pages in length.
Review Article: Review articles do not cover original research but rather accumulate the results of various articles on a particular subject into a coherent narrative about the state of the art in that field. Review articles provide information about the topic and also provide journal references to the original research. Submissions of reviews and perspectives covering topics of current interest are welcome and encouraged.
REGULAR ARTICLES
Preparation of the manuscript.
All manuscripts must be clearly written in English (with an Arabic abstract) or in Arabic (with an English abstract). It should be typed double-spaced in Microsoft word on one side of A4 (21 X 29.7 cm, normal margins) paper, with pages numbered consecutively starting from the title page. The English manuscripts should be written using Times New Roman text font size 12. The Arabic manuscripts should be written using Simplified Arabic font size 12.
Your Manuscript should be presented in the following order:
Title and Authorship Information:
The title page should start with the type of manuscript (Research, Review Article, Short Communications, etc.). This should be concise, short, specific, and explain the nature of the work. The names of all authors (first name, middle initial, last name) including their departmental and institutional addresses should also be included. The name of the corresponding author along with phone, fax and E-mail should be provided. An asterisk (*) should be added to the right of the corresponding author’s name. His or her affiliation should be indicated by superscripts 1, 2, 3,…… placed after each author’s name and before each affiliation.
Abstract:
The abstract must be a single unstructured paragraph of not more than 200 words describing the scope, hypothesis or rationale for the work and the main findings. Abstract should be written in the past tense and presented without subheadings. No reference should be cited in this section.
Key words:
Immediately after the abstract, about four to seven key words should be provided, which will be used for indexing purposes. Key words should be separated by commas and words from title should avoid repeating as key words.
Abbreviations:
Abbreviations that are non-standard should be clearly defined in this field to be placed on the first page of the article. Such abbreviations must be defined at their first mention. Consistency of abbreviations should be ensured throughout the article. Footnotes and Endnotes should be properly numbered to ensure uniformity.
Introduction:
The introduction should be short and precise. It should describe the basic principles of research, earlier background work and the aim of the present study. The hypothesis to be tested should be specified. A summary of the results should be avoided. Extensive discussion of relevant literature should be included in the discussion section only.
Materials and Methods:
Only new techniques and modifications to known methods need to be described in detail. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference including the name, postal town, code and country of the supplier or manufacturer of any chemical or apparatus not in common use. Appropriate statistical methods should be used and indicate the probability level (P) at which differences were considered significant. If data are presented in the text, state what they represent (e.g. means ± SEM). Indicate whether data were transformed before analysis. Specify any statistical computer programs used.
Results and Discussion:
Results should be clear and concise using tables or figures when feasible. The text should elaborate on the tabulated data. It should be written in the past tense when describing findings in the authors' experiments. Sufficient data with some index of variation attached should be presented for proper interpretation of the results of the experiment.
Discussion should be able to interpret the results clearly and concisely about previous findings, whether in support, against, or simply as added data to provide the reader with a broad base on which to accept or reject the tested hypothesis. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate.
Acknowledgment:
The Acknowledgments of people, grants, funding agencies, etc should be brief.
Arabic summary:
It should be as brief as possible, of no more than 200 words, describing the scope, hypothesis or rationale for the work and the main findings. No reference should be cited in this section.
References:
Articles should be cited in the original language they were published in. References should be arranged in an alphabetical order and written as shown below.
In-text Reference Citations
One author: (Miller, 1998)
Two authors: (Miller and Smith, 2001)
More than two authors: (Miller et al., 1999)
Letters are used to distinguish references whose citations would otherwise be identical (e.g., Miller, 1998a, b).
Reference Section
The correct format of reference in this section should be as follows:
MacDonald, G. M., Steenhuis, J. J., and Barry, B. A. (1995): A difference Fourier transforms infrared spectroscopic study of chlorophyll oxidation in hydroxylamine-treated photosystem II. J. Biol. Chem. 270:8420–8428.
Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E. F., and Maniatis, T. (1989): Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, 2nd Ed., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
References appearing as e-pubs should be in the following style:
Aphasizheva, I., Aphasizheva, R., and Simpson, L. (April 1, 2004) RNA editing terminal uridylyltransferase 1: identification of functional domains by mutational analysis. J. Biol. Chem.10.1074/jbc.M401234200.
Farrell, C. (1992): The Role of SecB during Protein Export in Escherichia coli. Ph. D. thesis, The Johns Hopkins University.
Tables and Figures:
All tables and figures should be: planned to fit the page size of the original manuscript, numbered consecutively according to their appearance in the text and clearly explained and cited in the text. Tables and figures should bear descriptive, self-explanatory clear headings and captions. Footnotes to tables should appear as a superscript letter starting with "a" in each table and should be indicated at the bottom of the table.
The same data should not be presented in both table and graph form or Information given in legends should not be repeated in the text. Images should be manipulated as little as possible, to avoid losing resolution, and always accompany your submission with the original format of the file before exporting to other formats such as JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF. All figures should be pasted in a Microsoft Word manuscript file. Tables should not be drawn from shape lines but should be inserted. Full stops, but not commas, should be used as decimal points.
Equations and Symbols:
Special characters (e.g., Greek and symbols) should be inserted using the symbols palette available in MS Word. Complex equations should be entered using Math-Type or an equation editor. Number consecutively any equations that have to be displayed separately from the text.
Scientific names:
Give the scientific names (with authority) for plants, animals, and microorganisms, with generic names in full at the first mention, e.g. Escherichia coli. Thereafter, abbreviate them in the text, e.g. E coli; give them in full (without authority) in the headings of sections, tables, figures and keywords. Where appropriate, cultivars should be specified and should be in italics.
PROOFS
All manuscripts will undergo some editorial modification, so it is important to check proofs carefully. PDF page proofs will be sent via e-mail to the corresponding author for checking. To avoid delays in publication, proofs should be checked and returned within one week. Corrections should be returned by annotated PDF or e-mail. Extensive changes to the text may be charged to the author. Authors can freely download the PDF file from which they can print unlimited copies of their articles.
FEES AND CHARGES
Authors are charged a LE 400 handling fee. There is an additional LE10 fee for each page over the first 15 pages of the final reprint. Publication of an article in MJARD depends on the author's ability to pay the charges. Acceptance to pay the handling fee is not a guarantee that the paper will be accepted for publication. Authors may still request (in advance) for a partial waiver of the handling fee under special circumstances.