Author Guidelines

Type of Article

Gexin Publication is considered original articles covers the latest developments in the multidisciplinary areas of the Medicine, Biology, Biomedicine and Engineering with its high quality content.

Original Articles

Original articles describe investigations and original research that represent new and significant contributions and advances in the field (see Journal Sections listing for further details).

Editorials

Editorials are most often solicited by the Editors, and are related to an article published in the same issue. They express the opinions and views of recognized experts on a specific topic.

Letters to The Editor

Letters to the Editor should comment on work previously published in Gexin Publications Journals. Letters must be submitted within 1-2 months of the online publication date of the article discussed in order to be considered. Their publication is based only on the decision of the Editor, who occasionally asks experts on the merit of the contents. The Editor may consider publication of a letter that comments on other matters of interest to subject.

Topic Review Articles

Topic review articles examine major areas or sub-areas in the field of journal. The purpose is to describe new developments, summarize progress or analyze published evidence.

Commentaries

Commentaries are most often solicited by the Editors, and are not related to a specific article. They express the opinions and views of recognized experts on a specific topic. The commentary format may be used for ongoing dialogues, discussions of controversial issues.

Case Reports

Case report articles report on oncology-specific cases. Cases will typically be judged on clinical interest and educational value to the oncology field and NOT novelty or rarity.

Manuscript Process

Cover Letter

A cover letter should accompany all manuscripts submitted to journal indicating that the manuscript has been submitted essentially to this journal and has not previously been published in any form in another publication of any type, with the exception of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis. The corresponding author should give the undertaking that if any animal/human studies carried was in accordance with their country regulatory and institutional ethical committee with proper registration of the study in the clinical registry

Structure & Presentation

Manuscripts should be submitted in Word file, use a normal, plain font (12-point Times New Roman), italics for emphasis, page numbers included at bottom, uniformly American English. Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages for first submission to reviewer.

• The margins should be set at one inch all around.
• The document must be single spaced.
• Do not use headers or footers.
• Title of the paper must be in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, bolded, centered and in 18 point font.
• The Author’s names and affiliations should be in 14 point font, bolded and centered. Please do

Not use honorifics for author names (i.e. PhD, Dr., etc.) .. Maximum page limit is 20-25 pages.

• Title page: This section should start on a new page should provide: a concise and informative title of the article; list the full names; institutional addresses; email addresses for all authors and indicate the corresponding author and a running head of not more than 80 characters.
• Abstract: This part of the manuscript should not exceed 300 words should state concisely the purpose and pertinent methods of the study, as well as the findings and specific conclusions (without title head, background, method or result)
• Keywords: Author(s) must give about 5-8 key words as index terms representing the article content which can identify the most important subjects covered by the paper. They must be placed at the end of the abstract. Do not repeat words used in the title.
• Body of Manuscript: should begin on a new page and not exceed 6000 words excluded the references and be arranged as follows:
• Introduction: Include a summary of a search of the literature to indicate why this study was necessary and what it aimed to contribute to the field and relating the manuscript to similar previous research.
• Materials and Methods: This section must contain specific details about the design of the study, materials involved, instruments used, specialized chemical source and the type of analysis used, including a power calculation if appropriate. For studies involving human participants a statement detailing ethical approval and consent should be included in the methods section.
• Results: Should be clear and concise and included statistical analysis with short informative subsections.
• Discussion: The interpreted results should be explained clearly and should relate them to the existing knowledge in the field as clearly as possible.
• Competing interests: Authors are required to complete a declaration of competing interests. All competing interests that are declared will be listed at the end of published articles. Where an author gives no competing interests, the listing will read ‘The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests’.
• List of abbreviations: For standard abbreviations, authors should follow the guidelines in the Council of Biology Editors Style Manual, 5th edition. All other abbreviations should be defined when first used and listed in a footnote; Abbreviations PDF.
• Acknowledgements: List those individuals who provided help during the research and do not meet the criteria for authorship (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proof reading the article etc.).

Reference Style Guidelines

The following rules for handling works by a single author or multiple authors apply to all APA-style references in your reference list, regardless of the type of work (book, article, electronic resource, etc.).

Single Author

Last name first, followed by author initials.

Anderson, D. E. (2007). Reliability of air displacement plethysmography. J Strength Cond Res, 21(1):169-72.

Two Authors

List by their last names and initials. Use the ampersand instead of "and."

Rafaelli, M., & Ontai, L. L. (2004). Gender socialization in Latino/a families: Results from two retrospective studies. Sex Roles, 50(5/6), 287-299.

More Than Seven Authors

List by last names and initials; commas separate author names. After the sixth author's name, use an ellipsis in place of the author names. Then provide the final author name. There should be no more than seven names.

Blustein, E. C., Munn-Chernoff, M. A., Grant, J. D., Sartor, C. E., Waldron, M., Bucholz, K. K., Madden, P. A. (2015). The Association of Low Parental Monitoring With Early Substance Use in European American and African American Adolescent Girls. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 76(6), 852–861.

Organization as Author

Also known as a "corporate author." Here, you simply treat the publishing organization the same way you'd treat the author's name and format the rest of the citation as normal.

American Psychological Association. (2009). Blog guidelines. APA Style Blog. Retrieved from https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/blog-guidelines.html

Unknown Author

Xyz-A collegiate dictionary (10th ed.). (1993). Springfield, MA: Xyz-A.

NOTE: When your essay includes parenthetical citations of sources with no author named, use a shortened version of the source's title instead of an author's name. Use quotation marks and italics as appropriate. For example, parenthetical citations of the source above would appear as follows: (Xyz-A, 1993).

Introductions, Prefaces, Forewords, and Afterwords

Cite the publishing information about a book as usual, but cite Introduction, Preface, Foreword, or Afterword (whatever title is applicable) as the chapter of the book.

X, X., & Y, Y. (1998). Introduction. In E. W. Ludlow (Ed.), Understanding English grammar (pp. 1-2). Needham, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Guidelines for Human Phenotype and proteins

Guidelines for Human Phenotype–Genotype Association

Refer to existing public domain websites for the Human Gene Ontology name and the number for SNPs, for more information sees: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP

Guidelines for Proteins and Nucleic Acid Sequences

The authors must provide a statement in the manuscript that protein sequences must be deposited in GenBank or EMBL databases, and an accession number must be obtained. this sequence has been scanned against the database and all sequences with significant relatedness to the new sequence identified, for more information click this Website: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank

Guidelines for Genomic and Proteomic Studies

Data should follow the MIAME checklist, for more information see:

www.mged.org/Workgroups/MIAME/miame.html

For the NCBI gene expression and hybridization array data repository; see www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo

Accepted Manuscript

Once manuscript acceptance the editor office will ask, you to supply a Word file of the final version of your paper with all figures cited in original place. You must ensure that the file has been updated to incorporate all revisions.

Publication fee

Pay publication services by credit card, debit card, paypal or request an Invoice and will be asked to supply your billing card information. A number of institutions and funders financially support their investigators publishing open access articles with Gexin journals.

Terms of Publication

• The Paper submitted to Gexin Publications journals is subject to peer and editorial review. The decision of the Editor-in-Chief whether to accept or reject any paper is full and final.
• Gexin journals reserves all of its rights to refuse or decline any Paper submitted for consideration for publication, to refuse or decline to publish any Paper, or remove or delete any published Paper where it is considered, at Gexin Publications sole discretion, that there has been a breach of any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement by the Author.
• For all articles published in Gexin journals, copyright is retained by the authors. Articles are licensed under an open access Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, meaning that anyone may download and read the paper for free. In addition, the article may be reused and quoted provided that the original published version is cited. These conditions allow for maximum use and exposure of the work, while ensuring that the authors receive proper credit.