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Reviews
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2157-9121 (Print): EISSN: 2157-913X (Online) Copyright
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Reviews in Advanced
Sciences and Engineering (RASE) is an international journal that
provides a forum to publish peer-reviewed review articles on all
experimental and theoretical aspect of advanced natural sciences,
engineering and medical sciences. The main aim of RASE is to publish
in-depth, authoritative, comprehensive, critical and up-to-date
information on the topic reviews articles in all aspects of advanced
sciences and engineering with authors photograph and biography.
No official invitation from Editor-in-Chief or any editors
is required to submit your review to RNN. All review articles are
published with author's short biography and photo. Reviews could be
of any length having but should contain more than 100 references. It
is authors' responsibility to obtain written copyright permissions
to reproduce any copyright materials from other sources for
reproduction of any figures, tables, photos, illustrations or other
copyright materials from previously published work. Authors are
advised to cite proper references in all figures/tables captions of
all previously published figures/tables/illustrations including
their own published work and obtain proper copyright permissions
from appropriate publishers and authors. |
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JOURNAL POLICY: It is journal policy to
publish only 100% original and unpublished reviews therefore Reviews
in Advanced Sciences and Engineering (RASE) does not wish to
receive any manuscripts that has already been reported in parts
either in a journal or conference proceedings elsewhere in any form,
in print or in electronic media. When submitting a manuscript,
authors should make a full statement to the Editors that the review
contained in their manuscript is completely original and
unpublished. If redundant or duplicate publication is attempted or
occurs authors should expect immediate editorial action to be taken
including prompt rejection of the submitted manuscript. Submission
of any manuscript that contains redundant or duplicate publication
violates the policies of this journal and will be rejected.
It
is the sole responsibility of all authors to ensure that all
manuscripts are new, original and not published previously in any
form any media, shall not infringe upon or violate any kind of
copyrights of others and does not contains any plagiarized,
fraudulent and improperly attributed materials. Extended and
modified versions of previously published abstracts, papers in any
conference or journal are not allowed whatsoever.
Corresponding
author should provide a clear statement confirming this while
submitting manuscript to any ASP journal. Is this manuscript 100%
original and unpublished? Has this manuscript been published in
parts (figures/text/tables) in any conference proceedings or journal
in any media or language or format whatsoever? Is this manuscript
from free from plagiarism (including self-plagiarism) and copyright
infringement?
Authors must follow this "Journal
Policy" strictly.
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American Scientific Publishers strictly follows guidelines set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, available at www.publicationethics.org. All Authors, Peer-Reviewers and Editors work together in a great harmony to ensure the highest ethical standards in publishing quality research work in our journals.
ETHICAL COMPLIANCE: Research
papers reporting animal or clinical studies should, where
appropriate, contain a statement that they have been carried out
with animal or human ethics committee approval. All scientific
studies should be carried out in accordance with the relevant
national and local guidelines. Each author(s) warrants that his or
her research institution has fully approved the protocol for all
scientific studies involving animals or humans and that all
experiments of any kinds were conducted in compliance with ethical
and humane principles of research after ethics committee approval. |
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SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPT: Authors
are kindly advised to read Reviews in Advanced Sciences and
Engineering policy and also the uniform requirements before
submitting their manuscript to Editors. Authors are encouraged to
submit high quality original research work that has not been
published or nor under consideration by other journals or conference
proceedings elsewhere in any format whatsoever. Authors should
submit manuscript electronically as a PDF or MS word file to the
Editor-in-Chief. Authors are highly encouraged to submit
manuscript electronically as a PDF file (preferred) or MS Word file
to save time for the reviewing process. |
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Authors should submit a list of
FIVE (5) potential referees accompanied with their complete
mailing address, telephone, fax and email address, who may be
contacted for reviewing the manuscript though refereeing, is done by
anonymous reviewers. In order to ensure that the highest quality
manuscripts are published, reviewing process is carried out in two
stages. A mandatory editor's approval is required in the first stage
for the manuscripts before it is submitted to the peer review
process in the second stage.
To speed up the reviewing
process, editors will communicate with authors and the referees via
email. ASP or Editors will not return manuscripts to authors and
keep any records whatsoever after a formal decision has been made
about the manuscript. Editors have the right to reject the
manuscript.
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OPEN ACCESS (Author Choice): Publisher
would allow open access participation in Author Choice
with an advanced payment of $1,950 fee where author may select open
access publication of their published articles. Open access
publication of articles will be allowed after receiving a full
payment only. |
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FREE COLORS: Color illustrations are
most welcome by the journal as they are effective in conveying
complex graphs and photographs. Free color printing at the
Publisher's discretion, will provide an opportunity to publish color
figures/illustrations in print at NO COST to the authors. |
MANUSCRIPT PROCESSING
FEES: Authors should understand that there are many occurring
publishing expenses per journal page associated with manuscript
processing, editorial, production, typesetting, printing, paper,
binding, shipping, web-hosting, and archiving. However authors pay
no publication fees as well as the costs of any color
figure/illustration in a print edition to American Scientific
Publishers whatsoever, therefore, publisher is doing all services to
authors free of costs and/or at fractional costs, hence, publisher
is not obligated to provide any hard/softcopies of journal issue
and/or research article to anyone whatsoever. Authors may download
pdf file of their published papers from Ingenta after paying
fractional costs. If authors require a hardcopy of the journal issue
having their research articles then authors may also purchase
hardcopies of the journal issue or subscribe to the journal by
contacting the publisher. No free hard/softcopies of journal issue
and/or research article are provided. On the other hand, if authors
want to support the journal by paying full manuscript processing
fees plus all costs of color figures/illustrations/photos in a print
edition through their research grants or affiliated institutions,
then publisher will provide hardcopy of journal issue or pdf file of
his/her research article after receiving a full payment. American
Scientific Publishers highly appreciate for author's kind
understanding and support.
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COVER ART: RASE features new cover art
time to time. Authors are encouraged to submit high quality color
figure/illustration to have their published paper featured. |
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REVIEWS:The state-of-the-art review
articles with author's short biography and photo are published.
Reviews could be of any length but should contain more than 100
references. Authors are advised to cite proper references in all
figures/tables captions of all previously published
figures/tables/illustrations including their own published work and
obtain proper copyright permissions from appropriate publishers and
authors. It is authors' responsibility to obtain written copyright
permissions to reproduce any copyright materials in print and online
editions of the journal from other sources for reproduction of any
figures, tables, photos, illustrations or other copyright materials
from previously published work. |
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TYPING: All manuscripts must be in
English, typed double-spaced on one side of the page throughout
(including footnotes, references, tables, legends) on 8.5" x 11"
or A4 white paper leaving at least 1 inch left hand margin. |
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INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL: The first page
of the manuscript should have a concise title limited to about 15
words and the names of all authors, complete mailing address for
correspondence, telephone, fax numbers and email address. Please
indicate with an asterisk (*) the author to whom correspondence
regarding the manuscript should be directed. |
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ABSTRACT: All manuscripts must contain
an informative 150 to 200 words abstract explaining the essential
contents of the work, key experiments, ideas and results. |
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FIGURES: It is very important to supply
high quality figures in a form suitable for reproduction. All
figures, tables, illustrations, photographs should be prepared in
such a way that they could be printed in a single column size with a
width of 3 1/4 inches or 8.25 cm. Use 14 ARIAL BOLD font for
legends and 12 ARIAL font for numbering/wordings
in figures, use the same font for all figures. Only if absolutely
necessary should figures/tables/photos occupy double columns. Each
figure must be referred to in the text and will be printed in black
and white unless otherwise instructed by the authors. Each Figure
should be submitted on a separate sheet and marked with the name of
the author, title of manuscript and figure number. All formulae and
figures should be carefully drafted and never drawn freehand. High
quality original figures and glossy prints of all photographs are
required. Photocopies of the figures and photographs are not
acceptable. |
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PHOTOGRAPHS: Half-tone
illustrations should be supplied as clear, glossy, unmounted prints.
The author's name, title of manuscript and figure number should be
written on the back. |
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FREE COLOR PRINTING: Color
illustrations are most welcome by the journal as they are effective
in conveying complex graphs and photographs. Free color printing at
the Editor-in-Chief's discretion, will provide an opportunity to
publish color figures/illustrations in print at NO COST to the
authors. |
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TABLES: Each table must be referred to
in the text. Each table should be typed double-spaced on a separate
sheet and identified sequentially by Arabic numerals corresponding
to the order in which they appear in the text. Each table should
have a brief explanatory title, which should be labeled
unambiguously. The position of each table should be clearly marked
in the text. |
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UNITS: Internationally accepted units
of measurement must be used. The units of measurement are used in
conjunction with their numerical values; the units should be
abbreviated as suggested below. If more commonly used units are
adopted, conversion factors should be given at their first
occurrence. Greek symbols may be used.
%, ºC, nm, µm
(not m), mm, cm, cm3, m, h (or hr), min, s (or sec), µg, mg, g
(or gm), kg, cal, kcal, in. (or write out inch), ml [write out
liter(s)].
The American Physical Society style guide can
be used as a general reference on matter of units, grammar and
formatting. |
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ABBREVIATIONS: No abbreviations are
allowed in the title and abstract and should be defined the first
time they are used within the text. The "Reviews in
Advanced Sciences and Engineering" should be abbreviated as
Rev. Adv. Sci. Eng. for the citation purpose. |
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REFERENCES: References should be in the
proper format on a separate page, numbered in the sequence in which
they occur in the text. Cite references numerically as superscripts
in the text and list at the end of the manuscript. Do not use
abstracts and websites as references. References to papers accepted
but not yet published should be designated as "in press".
Information from manuscripts submitted but not accepted should be
cited in the text as "unpublished observations" with
written permission from the source. Avoid citing a "personal
communication" unless it provides essential information not
available from a public source. For scientific articles, authors
should obtain written permission and confirmation of accuracy from
the source of a personal communication. References should be listed
in the following style. The references must be verified by the
authors against the original documents. |
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1. Journal article J.
M. Koziara, P. R. Lockman, D. D. Allen, and R. J. Mumper, J.
Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 6, 2712 (2006)
2. Book
H. S. Nalwa, Editor, Handbook of Nanostructured
Biomaterials and Their Applications in Nanobiotechnology, Vols.
1-2, American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles (2005)
3. Chapter in a Book H. V. Jansen, N. R. Tas
and J. W. Berenschot, in Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology, Edited H. S. Nalwa, American Scientific Publishers,
Los Angeles (2004), Vol. 5, pp.163-275.
4.
Conference Proceedings J. Kimura and H. Shibasaki, Editors.
Recent Advances in Clinical Neurophysiology. Proceedings of the 10th
International Congress of EMG and Clinical Neurophysiology, (1995)
October 15-19; Kyoto, Japan
5. Patent C. E.
Larsen, R. Trip, and C.R. Johnson, Methods for procedures related to
the electrophysiology of the heart. U.S. Patent 5,529,067, June 25
(1995).
6. Scientific Report M. J.
Field. R. E. Tranquada, J. C. Feasley, Editors. Health services
research: work force and educational issues. Washington:
National Academy Press; (1995) Contract No.: AHCPR282942008.
Sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
7.
Dissertation S. J. Kaplan. Post-hospital home health
care: the elderly's access and utilization [dissertation]. St.
Louis (MO), Washington University (1995).
8.
Patent C. E. Larsen, R. Trip, C. R. Johnson, Inventors;
Novoste Corporation, assignee. Methods for procedures related to
the electrophysiology of the heart. US Patent 5,529,067. June 25
(1995). |
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Do not use the phrases "et al."
and "ibid." in the reference section. Instead, the
names of all authors in a reference must be listed. |
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: These should be brief
and placed at the end of the text before the references. |
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PROOFS: Page proofs for the correction
of printer's errors only will be dispatched to the corresponding
author denoted with an asterik (*) unless otherwise requested.
Alterations at this stage are not allowed as they are expensive and
may have to be charged to the authors. The proofread copy and
reprint order form must be returned within 72 hours. |
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OFFPRINTS: Authors may order offprints
of articles with a minimum of 100 from American Scientific
Publishers (ASP) prior to publication. An order form accompanying
the page proofs will be sent directly to the corresponding author
(*). Please return your offprint order form with the page proofs. |
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ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Upon
acceptance of the manuscript for publication, authors should submit
to the publisher a diskette or CD containing the final version of
the manuscript accompanied by a hard copy printout to improve the
accuracy and speed up the typesetting process. The disk or CD should
be clearly labeled with the author's name, manuscript title, the
date, and the hardware and software package used in preparation. The
preferred medium is a CD in Windows/MS-DOS or Macintosh having TeX.
We are also able to accept line artwork/graphics on CD if you supply
us the source files to enables us to modify the artwork as required
for the journal format. |
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WARRANTIES AND COPYRIGHTS: By
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is original and unpublished; it is submitted only to this Journal
and all text, data, figures/tables or other illustrations included
in the research article are completely original and unpublished, and
these have not been previously published or submitted elsewhere in
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the work contains no unlawful or libelous statements and opinions
and liable materials of any kind whatsoever, do not infringe on any
copyrights, intellectual property rights, personal rights or rights
of any kind of others, and does not contains any plagiarized,
fraudulent, improperly attributed materials, instructions,
procedures, information or ideas that might cause any harm, damage,
injury, losses or costs of any kind to person or property. Each
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ETHICAL ISSUES: Authors cannot submit a manuscript
for publication to other journals simultaneously. It is waste of
valuable resources because editors and referees spent a great deal
of time processing submitted manuscripts. It is also unethical to
republish similar research articles (text/figures/tables) again
because journals have limited page space and it most likely violates
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Therefore, all journals require a signed author's copyright transfer
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through a manuscript. As stated above that authors should submit
original, new and unpublished research work to the journal. The
ethical issues such as plagiarism, fraudulent and duplicate
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interest are serious issues concerning ethical integrity when
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after submission within the time span when the manuscript is still
in the peer-reviewing process with Editors/Referees, author is
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