Journal Editorial Policies

Disclaimer
The author(s) of the articles published in this Journal is/are solely responsible for the content of the article. Neither the Eternal Journal of Applied Sciences nor its editors or publisher or anyone else involved in creating, producing, or distribution assumes any liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information provided in the Journal, nor shall they be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages arising due to use of the contents published in Eternal Journal of Applied Sciences.

Patrons
Chief Patrons: Dr. Davinder Singh, Chancellor, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
Patron: Dr. Neelam Kaur, Vice Chancellor, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
Co-Patron: Dr. N.P Singh, Dean Research, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
Co-Patron: Dr. T.S. Banipal, Director RDC, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
Co-Patron: Dr. Gurmail Singh, Vice Chancellor, Akal University, Talwandi Sabo, Bathinda, Punjab, India

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief:
Dr. Ajar Nath Yadav, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour-173101, Himachal Pradesh, India
Contact: +91-9882545085
Email: ajar@eternaluniversity.edu.in, rdc@eternaluniversity.edu.in

Associate Editors

Section Editors
1.     Dr. Kamal Kishore, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
2.     Dr. Puneet Negi, Physics, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
3.     Dr. Neelam Thakur, Zoology Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
4.     Dr. Naseer Ahmed, Food Technology, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
5.     Dr. Soni Bisht, Mathematics, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
6.     Mr. Muthukumaran, Nursing, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
7.     Dr. Ambika Sharma, English, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India

Assistant Managing Editor
Ms. Rajeshwari Negi, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India

IT-Technical Editor
Er. Manish Kumar, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India

Advisors
1.       Dr. H.S. Dhaliwal, Former Vice Chancellor, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
2.       Dr. A.S. Ahluwalia Former Pro Vice Chancellor, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
3.       Dr. Sunita Chandel, Dean DKSG Akal College of Agriculture, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
4.       Dr. Mehmooda Regu, Principal, Akal College of Nursing, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
5.       Prof. SC Ghosh, Dierctor UCRC, Eternal University, Baru Sahib, Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh, India
6.       Dr. Ranbir Chander Sobti, Former Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh – 160 014, Punjab, India
7.       Dr. Anil Kumar Saxena, Former Director, ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, Mau Nath Bhanjan, Mau, Uttar Pradesh, India
8.       Prof. Ahmed M. Abdel-Azeem, Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt
9.       Dr Ashutosh Pandey, Institute for Water and Wastewater Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban South Africa
10.    Prof. MNV Prasad, Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Author's Guidelines
Authors are requested to be aware of the journal's “Eternal Journal of Applied Sciences” policies before making the submission.

Scope of the journal
Eternal Journal of Applied Sciences publishes original research articles, reviews, mini-review, and short communication in the following subject areas:
Agriculture, Animal Sciences, Biotechnology, Chemical Science, Engineering and Technology, Environmental Sciences, Food Technology, Geology, Life Science, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Nursing, Pharmaceutical Science, Physical Science, Plant Science, Public Health

Manuscript Submission
Manuscripts should be submitted by any one of the authors of the manuscript (preferably the corresponding author) through the online manuscript submission and peer-review system. All manuscripts received are duly acknowledged. Before submission authors should ensure the manuscript format as per the journal's guidelines. Articles that are not written as per the journal's guidelines will be declined.

Please upload a cover letter, article front page, graphical abstract, main article file (without any identification information), figures and tables, conflict of interest form, authorship contribution form, and supplementary material (if any).

For technical help, please write to editor.ejas@eternaluniversity.edu.in

Editorial Procedure and Peer-review

Initial Checks
All the submitted manuscripts will be checked by an experienced editor to determine whether the submitted manuscript is properly prepared and whether they follow the ethical policies of the journal and contain all the necessary disclosures.
All the submitted manuscripts will be checked for the correctness of the references. The incomplete, inappropriate, or vague/misleading references may lead to desk rejection.
All the submitted articles will be checked for the English language at this stage and authors may be asked for language editing by any native or professional English language editor.
The submitted articles will be screened for plagiarism using “online plagiarism detection software”.
Manuscripts that are not properly prepared will be returned to the authors for revision and resubmission.
Manuscripts with insufficient originality, serious scientific or technical flaws, or lack of a significant message, or if not prepared as per journals instructions are rejected without a formal peer review.

Peer-Review
The manuscript that passes the initial check/desk review, is subjected to double-blinded peer review. The manuscript will be reviewed by a minimum of two suitable experts (whose identities will remain anonymous to the authors) in the respective subject area.

Editorial Decision and Revision
The reports of all the reviewers will be considered while making the decision on a submitted manuscript. Editor-In-Chief will make the final decision, based on the reviewer’s comments. The journal may consult the different experts and editor(s) in order to reach an appropriate decision.

Authors are required to respond to all the reviewers and submit the point-wise clarification for the comments of the reviewers and handling editor. Authors must provide a clear response in their rebuttal letter wherever they disagree with a reviewer or editor.

Appeals
The authors may appeal against the negative decision with suitable arguments if they feel that there is a major misunderstanding over a technical aspect or failure to understand the scientific advance shown by the manuscript. Appeals requesting a second opinion without sufficient justification will not be considered. Please write to the journal via email in order to submit an appeal. Appeals will only be considered from the original submitting author.

Galley Proofs and publication
Manuscripts that are accepted for publication are subjected to copy edited for grammar, punctuation, print style, and format. Page proofs are sent to the corresponding author. The corresponding author is expected to return the corrected proofs within three days. The whole process of submission of the manuscript to the final decision and sending and receiving proofs is completed through the online submission and peer-review system.

The journal will consider the following article types;

Research Articles

The articles that present the results of the original research study are considered research articles. These manuscripts should describe how the research project was conducted and provide a thorough analysis of the results of the project. The research articles should include the following in the order given below:

Abstract

Keywords

Introduction

Materials and Methods

Results [including Tables and/or Figures]

Discussion

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Reviews and mini-reviews

Review articles are expected to survey and discuss current developments in a field. They should be well focused and organized, and avoid a general ‘textbook’ style. Authors submitting a review article must publish one or more research articles in the area in which the review work has been carried out.

Short Communication

Short Communications are brief reports that present original and significant research and need to be published quickly. It may focus on a hot topic or may have new findings that are expected to have a significant impact on a current problem. Short communications are expected to have a higher than average impact.

Case reports

New, interesting, and rare cases can be reported. They should be unique, describing a great diagnostic or therapeutic challenge and providing a learning point for the readers.

Letter to the editor

It should be brief and decisive observations. They should preferably be related to articles previously published in the Journal or views expressed in the journal. They should not be preliminary observations that need a later paper for validation.

Preparation of Manuscript

The manuscript should be prepared in English using "MS Word" or similar word processing software. “Times New Roman” or similar font (size 12) should be used; single line spacing may be used. An article may be returned to the author without review if the language is not of an acceptable standard.

The author is also responsible for the correct usage of other languages, be it a Latin diagnosis or an abstract in a foreign language. The grammar of texts in foreign languages needs to be checked by the author before submission, and again after review if the English from which it is translated has changed. Latin scholars who are consulted for the correcting of diagnoses should be acknowledged.

Metric measures should be used. Special symbols can be used but need to be carefully checked by the author at proof stage, because they may be altered due to incompatibility of files.

Title: Justified, Bold font.

+Names of Author(s): Justified.

+Author affiliation needs to be given below author names in order of appearance. The relation between author listing and affiliation needs to be indicated as superscripted numbers to the right of name in author listing and to the left in affiliation.

+Corresponding author should be highlighted using '*' along with contact email .  Short biographies of each authors along with their email ids and ORCIDs should be given at the very end of the manuscript.

+ These details will be placed only in the author details file.

Abstract: Justified, not less than 200 and maximum 250 words.

Keywords: 4–6 keywords, separated by semicolon (;) should be written after the abstract, which can identify the most important subject of the manuscript.

Text: All text should be justified (i.e., flush with the left margin—except where indented). The manuscript text may be divided into:

Introduction: A brief and clear description of the purpose of the investigation relating the previous research and essential arguments should be mentioned.

Materials and Methods: This section should be written well defined to understand the steps of investigation done which allows other researchers to reproduce the result.

Results: The findings of the manuscripts should be presented with appropriate evidence in a single heading or may be presented in separate headings depending on the requirement and need of author(s).

Discussion: The findings of the manuscripts should be discussed in a single heading or may be presented in separate headings depending on the requirement and need of author(s).

Conclusion: Mention conclusion of the study in few sentences.

Reference: as mentioned below

Number of references: Limited to maximum of 100 for review articles and 50 for other types of articles.

Tables and Figures: Tables need to have a title above the table and figures need to have title below the figure.

Tables are numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals and submitted separately from the text. They have a title and a footnote explaining any abbreviation used in that table. Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters. Double documentation of the same points in figures and tables is not acceptable.

Important: Obtain permission and include the acknowledgment required by the copyright holder if a figure is being reproduced from another source.

Save colour illustrations as RGB at max. 300 dpi (JPG or PNG preferred) which should be inserted in the manuscript file during submission and may be submitted separately after the manuscript is accepted for publication. All figures (photographs, illustrations or graphs) should be cited in the text, and numbered consecutively throughout (Fig. 1, etc.) and must be referred to in the text. Figure parts should be identified by upper-case roman letters (A, B, etc.), "I" or "O" are not used. Scale bars are included on illustrations with measurement. Figure legends must be brief, self-sufficient explanations of the illustrations. The legends (if any) should be placed at the end of the text.

All taxa newly described in the manuscript should be accompanied by a good quality line drawing. All lines and symbols should be of uniform thickness, and professional quality and proper dimensions (approx. 2 mm high after reproduction). All line drawings are scanned and submitted as 1200 dpi TIFF files.

Place Tables and Figures after References in the manuscript file itself (all text, tables and figures in one file).

Equations need to be left aligned; equation numbers should be right aligned; equations quoted in the manuscript need to conform to this form.  (Eqn. 1)

Competing Interests

Eternal Journal of Applied Sciences requires authors to declare all competing interests in relation to their work. All submitted manuscripts must accompany ‘competing interests’ statement listing all competing interests. Where authors have no competing interests, the statement should read “The author(s) declare(s) that they have no competing interests.

Declarations to be made regarding ethical issues

Manuscripts that deal with clinical findings should be enclosed with a statement on informed consent of the patients under study.

If humans and animals are the subjects of a clinical study, it is essential for the study to have been carried out in accordance with the ethical standards of the country/countries where the research described in the article has been conducted. A declaration to that effect must accompany the manuscript.

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