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

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.

**Authors' contributions

Please include an Authors' contributions section before the Acknowledgements.

An "author" is generally considered to be someone who has made substantive intellectual contributions to a published study. To qualify as an author one should 1) have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) have been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) have given final approval of the version to be published. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group, alone, does not justify authorship.

All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support.

Acknowledgements

All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an ‘acknowledgements’ section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, writing assistance, or a department chair who provided only general support.

Reference Style Guide

All citations in the text should refer to:

Single author: the author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication.

Two authors: both authors' names and the year of publication.

Three or more authors: first author's name followed by 'et al.' and the year of publication.

Citations can be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references can be listed either first alphabetically, then chronologically, or vice versa. Examples: "as demonstrated (Yadav, 2020a, 2020b; Yadav and Singh, 2019)". Yadav et al. (2023) have recently shown".

The list of references should be arranged alphabetically and then chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.

Examples:

Reference to a journal publication:
Kour D, Khan SS, Kour H, Kaur T, Devi R, Rai AK, Yadav AN (2024) ACC deaminase producing phytomicrobiomes for amelioration of abiotic stresses in plants for agricultural sustainability. J Plant Growth Regul 43(4):963-985. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00344-023-11163-0

Reference to a journal publication with an article number:
Negi R, Kaur T, Devi R, Kour D, Yadav AN (2022) Assessment of nitrogen-fixing endophytic and mineral solubilizing rhizospheric bacteria as multifunctional microbial consortium for growth promotion of wheat and wild wheat relative Aegilops kotschyi. Heliyon 8(12): e12579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12579

Reference to a book:
Yadav AN, Singh S, Mishra S, Gupta A (2019) Recent Advancement in White Biotechnology Through Fungi: Volume 2: Perspective for Value-Added Products and Environments. Springer, Cham

Reference to a chapter in a book:
Kour D, Rana KL, Yadav N, Yadav AN, Singh J, Rastegari AA, et al. (2019) Agriculturally and Industrially Important Fungi: Current Developments and Potential Biotechnological Applications. In: Yadav AN, Singh S, Mishra S, Gupta A (eds) Recent Advancement in White Biotechnology Through Fungi: Volume 2: Perspective for Value-Added Products and Environments. Springer, Cham, pp. 1-64. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14846-1_1

Journal abbreviations

We ask you to abbreviate journal names according to the List of Title Word Abbreviations (LTWA).