Author Guidelines
- Focus and Scope
The Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia (BCSE) is a quarterly publication of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia. The BCSE is an open access and peer reviewed journal. The BCSE invites contributions in any field of basic and applied chemistry.
- Types of contributions. The NJCR publishes:
2.1 Full papers reporting the results of original research. The materials should not have been published elsewhere, nor should they be simultaneously submitted either partially or fully for publication elsewhere.
2.2 Short communications containing the results of a limited investigation. These should be properly documented by references to the literature and by description of experimental procedures.
2.3 Reviews presenting thorough documentations on subjects of active and current interest in chemical sciences. Reviews are usually by invitation. However, authors may submit outlines and upon notification of interest by the Editorial Board turn in complete manuscripts.
All classes of manuscripts must represent substantial original work and must not be submitted simultaneously to any other journal.
3.0 The Manuscript
3.1 All manuscripts must be written in English.
3.2 Organization of Manuscript. The authors should download one of the recently published article for clarification of formatting the manuscript. There should be no numbering of sections and sub-sections. It is preferred to have the manuscript organized under the following headings:
3.3 Manuscript Requirements: The original and two other copies of the manuscript, type double-spaced, on A4 paper size should be submitted complete with tables and figures to the Editor-in- Chief. The content of the article should be organized in sections to include:
- Title: should be short, specific, and informative.
- Author(s): Should be listed sequentially, initials followed by surname, indicating the author for correspondence by an asterisk. The full postal address of the location where the research was conducted should be given immediately following the name(s) of author(s). Current address (es) of author(s) should be given as footnote(s) after sequential numbering of the name(s).
- Abstract: Should be concise and highlight the new or significant alternative contribution. Should keep within 200 words.
- Key words: 4-6 main words contained in the Title and Abstract should be given. Each key word should be separated by comma.
- Text: Should address the specialist and exclude details, which are common knowledge. Should use central and side headings to organize text into Introduction, Experimental, Results and Discussion and Conclusion. Textual matter should belong strictly to one of these sections to avoid repetition. Footnote should be avoided in presenting textual matter. Passive voice should be used consistently.
- Introduction: the purpose of the investigation should be clearly stated and relating the manuscript to similar research in the literature. Finally the main objectives of the research should be clearly stated.
- Materials and Methods: all the chemicals, apparatus, instruments should be given with model numbers, manufacturer companies and supplier countries. Sample collections and sample preparations should be clearly described.
- Results and Discussion: the same data should not be presented in duplicate as table and figure. Either the data should be presented as table or as figure, but not both.
- Conclusion: the conclusion should be short and concise stating the main achievement of the study.
- acknowledgement(s): the acknowledgements should contain any financial, material and technical support received for the study.
- Tables: Should be numbered sequentially following the order in which they occur in the text, using Arabic numerals, and given an appropriate title typed in small letters. Each table should be typed on a separate sheet and attached at the back of the manuscript. In tables vertical lines are not required and only the horizontal lines required to isolate the column headings and the final one that marks the end of each table are permitted.
- Figures: Should not replicate information given in the text and should be original and of a scale that makes each to fit one column of the journal. Original drawings of graphs and diagrams must be supplied on tracing paper or plain paper. Lines, lettering and numbering should be in Indian ink and proportionate to the size of the figure overall. Glossy prints of photographs with sharp contrast are required. All figures should be numbered consecutively in order of reference in the text using Arabian numerals. Titles and legends should be typed in small letters.
- References: Should be numbered sequentially in their order of appearance in the text using superscript numbers without brackets. A list of the reference is located after the conclusion: against each number the list of authors is located, surname before initials of each, separated by commas; abbreviated journal name, the volume of the journal, the year of publication enclosed in brackets and the initial page number only of the article them follow in this order before a full-stop. Where the citation is to a book, the list of author(s) is followed by the title of the book, the edition if it is not the first, the page referred to, the publisher, city and year, each after a comma.
The following example show accepted format: -
- Udoh, A. P., Thomas, S. A. and Ekanem, E. J., Talanta, 39 (1992) 1592
- Filby, R. H. in Yen, T. F., ed., The Role of Trace Metals in Petroleum, P. 209, Ann arbor Science Publishers Inc., Ann Abor, Michigan, 1975.
- Grohmann, K., Wyman, C. E. and Himmel, M. E., Potential for Fuels from biomass and wastes, in Rowell, R. M., Shultz, T. P. and Narayan, R., eds., Emerging Technologies for Materials and Chemicals, ACS Symposium Series 467, 1992.
- Vogel, A. L., Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry, 4th ed., P. 109, Longman Group Ltd., London, 1978.
- Internet: European Science Foundation The changing use and misuse of Catha Edulis (khat) in a changing world: tradition, trade and tragedy, presented at the European Science Foundation meeting on khat, Linköping, Sweden, October 2009. Available at: http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=5160.
Habte, T.; Amare, A.; Bettridge, J.; Collins, M.; Christley, R.; Wigley, P. Guide to chicken health and management in Ethiopia. ILRI Manual 25. Nairobi, Kenya: International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), 2017. Available at: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/132697854.pdf.
3.4 Proofs: Only corrections of transcript errors are accepted at this stage. Proofs must be returned immediately on receipt.
3.5 Reprints: Are available in PDF online free. Additional reprints supplied on request to the Editor will be charged for at competitive rates, which will be included with the proofs to authors.
3.6 Submission: A processing fee of N3,000:00 must accompany any article submitted to the journal.
3.7 Page Charge: A page charge of =N=25,000:00 is collected before any accepted article is published. The authors are advised to make comprehensive review of the scientific literature and appropriately cite related work published by the NJCR.
3.4 Supporting Information
Authors are encouraged to submit supporting information such as NMR spectrum, HRMS, and images as a single pdf file. Submitted supplementary items are not published online but will send to reviewers for evaluation.
3.5 Submission of Manuscript.
For a work conducted by a group of researchers, the corresponding author has the obligation to obtain the consent of all co-authors prior to submission of the manuscript. The soft copy of the original manuscript typed with double spacing and formatted according to guide for authors should be sent as an e-mail attachment to: ngjnchres@yahoo.com and the covering letter should be addressed to: The Editor-in-Chief, Department of Chemical Sciences, Bingham University, Karu-Nigeria.. The cover letter should include the names and addresses (including e-mail addresses) of five reviewers who have expertise in the subject matter of the manuscript or who have published similar work. The reviewers should not be from the authors’ own organization and preferably from different countries.
- The Peer Review Process
All submissions are subjected to an internal review by the corresponding discipline editor. Manuscripts that fall outside the scope of our journal or that fail to meet a minimum quality and originality criteria will be rejected without being sent out to
reviewers. Abstracts of manuscripts that passed the internal review process will be sent out to five referees. The full manuscript will be sent to the first three referees who accepted the initial invitation to provide a review. The author will be requested to submit a new list of potential reviewers if majority or all of the invited referees turn down the invitation. A decision to accept, reject, or 'reject and resubmit' a manuscript is based on at least two reviewer reports.
- Open Access Statement and Creative Commons License
Nigerian Journal of Chemical Research is an open access, peer reviewed journal, which means that all articles are freely available without charge to all users immediately upon publication. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. To facilitate this open and free access to all users, the NJCR depends upon the funding from page charges provided by the authors and the goodwill of its editorial team and advisory board, and the continuing support of peer reviewers.
The Nigerian Journal of Chemical Research shall implement the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license to works we publish. This license allows users to copy, distribute and transmit an article, adapt the article as long as the author is attributed or acknowledged. The CC BY license permits commercial and non-commercial reuse. The author retains copyright of their work with a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) license.
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