GET Journal of Biosecurity and One Health

AUTHOR GUIDELINES PREPARING FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

We recommend the authors to read this formatting guide completely as it describes how to prepare manuscript for submissions to GET Journal of Biosecurity and One Health. This helps you to familiarize yourself with the journal formatting style.

MANUSCRIPT SECTIONS

Manuscript Title

Abstract

Keywords

Abbreviations

Body Text

Equations and Formulas

Units

Supplementary

References Figures and Tables.

SUBMISSIONS

All submissions must be done online.

READABILITY

GET Journal of Biosecurity and One Health is an international open access, peer reviewed journal covering all aspects of biosecurity, biobanking, bioterrorism, biodata, epidemiology, ethics, One Health, vaccine, environmental change and other related fields. Thus, the submissions must be clearly written in simple understandable language so that they are accessible to readers in other disciplines and to readers for whom English is not the first language. All manuscript must be submitted in English language.

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

Each submission would undergo double blind peer review process to enhance the quality of the manuscripts submitted to the journal. Please find the mentioned link for a brief look upon the peer review processing system: GET journal Peer Review Processing

PLAGARISM

Manuscript Duplicity is a crime, thus plagiarism should be completely avoided. Figures and Tables extracted from any sources are considered as malpractice. The Data extracted must be cited and GET Journal does not encourage exact reproduction of any content. All submitted manuscripts will be subjected to plagiarism test before subjection to peer review.

PUBLICATION TYPES

GET Journal accepts high quality varied article types such as Research, Reviews, Short Communications, Case Report, Perspectives (Editorials), Policy Briefs and Clinical Images.

MANUSCRIPT STRUCTURE AND NOTATIONS

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPT

Font Styles and other Formatting details:

Title: Times New Roman, 14 Bold, Title Case, Centralized alignment.

Author(s): Times New Roman, 12 Bold, Left alignment.

Affiliations: Times New Roman, 10 Normal, Left-Right Alignment.

Corresponding author: Times New Roman, 10 Normal, and Justified.

Heading: Times New Roman, 14 Bold, and Left-Right Alignment.

Sub-headings or Sub- Sub-headings: Times New Roman, 10 Bold, and Left- Right Alignment.

Spacing: Indentation after/before: 0; Spacing after/before: 0,1.5 line Spacing.

MANUSCRIPT TITLES

Title should be brief and precise, technical enough to explain the content it holds in the manuscript. It is usually free from acronyms, abbreviations or punctuations.

AUTHOR(S)

Author names need to be mentioned as Last name followed by their Initials without space or any punctuation. In case where more than one author is present they should be differentiated by colon the conjunction ‘and’ with the last author. Their affiliations are numbered after the initials in superscript. Corresponding author is represented with a superscript star.

ABSTRACT

The word limit for Abstract is 300 or fewer words. Abstract must summarize specifically the scientific content in the manuscript. Abstracts are short and accurate. Abstracts must be free from citations.

KEYWORDS

Keywords serve as main tool for Indexers as well as Readers to locate your manuscript. Keywords enhance the chances of getting more citations and high readership to your manuscript. An article should contain about of 3-7 Keywords.

E.g: Biosafety; Bioterrorism; Infectious Diseases.

ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations must be separated by semicolon and all the abbreviations used in the manuscript must be mentioned.

BODY TEXT

Respective Manuscript types must be written with the above-mentioned structure format. Any of the mentioned structure missing will be resent to the author for further modifications.

TABLES

GET Journal of Biosecurity and One Health requires Tables to be small and presented in Table format. Pie diagrams, Charts etc are considered as “Figures”. Tables presented in figure formats are not acceptable. Table legends must be mentioned above the Table. Tables must be provided at the end of the manuscript below Figures. Symbols and Abbreviations used in the tables must be presented below the Table.

*Note: Small table denotes that it should fit normally into the windows. Otherwise, it should be added as a supplementary table.

EQUATIONS AND FORMULAS

For mathematical symbols, Greek letters and other special characters, use normal text or Symbol font. Math Type is used only for formulae that cannot be produced using normal text or Symbol font.

UNITS

SI/IU Units must be represented.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Supplementary information is usually provided as an essential background to the Article such as any example, large data sets, methods, calculations, etc. If the manuscript contains any Supplementary data the authors are asked to refer the supplementary data at an appropriate point in the main body of the manuscript. The supplementary information should not contain any figures. It may have Supplementary tables. They are published as raw dataset along with the manuscript.

COMPLIANCE WITH ETHICAL STANDARDS

Funding

There should be a clear statement on any form of grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Conflict of interest

Declaration that there is no conflict of interest is required

Ethical approval

Ethical approval obtained in respect of studies involving human or animal subject must be provided.

Authors’ contribution

Specific role contribution(s) made by each author much be stated in the order in which the authors names appear in the manuscript; authors names should appear as initials (as in the example below – Alade John Usman appears as ADO, Badmus Oladele Orlando appears as BOO), followed by the contribution(s). Example:

ADO participated in design of experiment, collation of data, overseeing execution of experimentation, collation of data and manuscript preparation; BOO participated in experimentation, collation of data and manuscript preparation; CBO participated in design of experiment and manuscript preparation; AKA, SOA, OAA and AEO participated in sample collection, experimentation and data collation.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This is meant to acknowledge individuals or organisation that contributed to the success of the research and or preparation of the manuscripts but are not members of the research team.

REFERENCES

GET Journal of Biosecurity and One Health follows author-number system (Vancouver Style) where all the references including URLs are numbered successively within square brackets, in the same order of their appearance in the text.

Examples:

Journal Article with less than 6 authors:

Karimi-Zarchi M, Peighmbari F, Karimi N, Rohi M, Chiti Z. A comparison of 3 ways of conventional pap smear, liquid-based cytology and colposcopy vs cervical biopsy for early diagnosis of premalignant lesions or cervical cancer in women with abnormal conventional pap test. Int J Biomed Sci. 2013; 9: 205-210.

Journal Article with more than 6 authors:

Henriques A, Arantes-Rodrigues R, Faustino-Rocha IA, Teixeira-Guedes IC, Pinho- Oliveira J, Talhada D, et al. The effects of whole green tea infusion on mouse urinary bladder chemical carcinogenesis. Iran J Basic Med Sci.

2014; 17: 145-148.

Doi should only be used where pages are not available

Jegede AS. What led to the Nigerian boycott of the polio vaccination campaign? PLoS Med. 2007; 4(3): e73. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040073

Author may omit month/day and issue number in journal where there is continuous page numbers

Tiffany A, Vetter P, Miattia J, Dayer JA, Bartsch M, Kasztura M et al. Ebola virus Disease complications as experienced by survivors in Sierra Leone. Clin Infect Dis. 2016; 62: 1360- 1366.

Author may omit month and day if pages in journal are continuous through issues.

Tiffany A, Vetter P, Miattia J, Dayer JA, Bartsch M, Kasztura M et al. Ebola virus Disease complications as experienced by survivors in Sierra Leone. Clin Infect Dis. 2016; 62(11): 1360-1366.

Month/day and issue number should be included if the pages in the journal are non-continuous

Tiffany A, Vetter P, Miattia J, Dayer JA, Bartsch M, Kasztura M et al. Ebola virus Disease complications as experienced by survivors in Sierra Leone. Clin Infect Dis. 2016 Jun 1; 62(11): 1360-1366.

Journal Article without Author

 Coffee drinking and cancer of the pancreas [editorial]. BMJ 1981;283:628.

Journal Article with Part and/or Supplement

Volume with supplement:

Environ Health Perspect. 1994; 102 Suppl. 1:275-82.

Issue with supplement:

Semin Oncol. 1996;23(1 Suppl. 2):89-97.

Volume with part:

Ann Clin Biochem 1995; 32(Pt 3):303-6.

Issue with part:

N Z Med J. 1994; 107(986 Pt 1):377-8.

Issue with no volume:

Clin Orthop. 1995; (320):110-4.

No issue or volume:

Curr Opin Gen Surg. 1993:325-33.

Book References:

Gardner JG, Simmons MJ, Snustad PD. Principles of genetics. 8th edn. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 2006.

Book Chapter:

Honn KV, Tang DG, Chen Y. Adhesion molecules and site-specific metastasis. Neri Serneri SS, Gensini GF, Abbate R, Prisco D, editors. In: Thrombosis: An Update.

Scientific Press. 1992; 269-303.

Dictionary and similar references

BBC English dictionary. 6th ed. Lagos: Rex Charles & Patrick Ltd; 1992. Anorexia, 42. Include the Definition looked up – in this case “Anorexia” and page “42”

Encyclopaedia

Hanrahan C. Valerian. In: Krapp K, Longe JL, editors. The Gale encyclopedia of alternative medicine. Michigan: Gale Group. 2001; 4: 1768-70.

Include the Volume – “4”

Legal Material Such as Acts and Regulations

Pharmacy Act 1976 (Qld)

Airlines Equipment Amendment Act 1981 (Cwlth), s. 19(1)(a)(ii)

 Public Service Regulations (Cwlth), r.83(2)(a)(ii) Note: (s = section of act, r = regulation)

Court Case

Jacobson        v.         Massachusetts,           197      U.S.     11,       12-13   (1905). Available        from: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/197/11/ (Accessed 27th May 2022)

Link/URL:

National Cancer Institute at National Institutes of Health. [www.cancer.gov]

Proceeding of a Conference:

Gee JC, Joshi S, Pohl KM, Wells WM, Zollei L, editors. Information Processing in Medical Imaging. Proceedings of 23rd International Conference; 2013 June 28–July 3; CA, USA. New York: Springer, 2013.

Conference Paper

Chaddock TE. Gastric Emptying of a Nutritionally Balanced Liquid Diet. In: Daniel EE, editor. Proceedings Of the Fourth International Symposium on Gastrointestinal Motility. Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada): Mitchell Press; 1974. p. 83–92.

Newspaper Article

Olufemi D. Salmonellosis traced to a single food outlet in a village. Daily Herald. 2021 Sept 21; Sect. B:4 (Col. 2).

Sect. = Section Col. = Column

COVID-19 deaths three times higher than reported. WHO cries out. Punch Healthwise. 2021 May 21. Available from: https://healthwise.punchng.com/covid-19-deaths-three- times-higher-than-reported-who-cries-out/ (Accessed 20th July 2022)

Adejoro, L. FG alerts ports, land borders over Marburg virus. Punch. 2022 July18. https://punchng.com/fg- alerts-ports-land-borders-over-marburg-virus/ (Accessed 20th July 2022)

PhD Theses/Dissertation:

Simonneau A. Gold-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization Reactions Through Activation of Alkynes [dissertation]. Springer Theses, 2014.

 Datasets:

Zheng LY, Guo XS, He B, Sun LJ, Peng Y, Dong SS, et al. Genome data from sweet and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). GigaScience. 2011.

Sponsored       by        institution,       corporation     or        other   organisation    (including PAMPHLET)

Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council. Integrated best practice model for medication management in residential aged care facilities. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing

Service; 1997.

Example of pamphlet (if available include additional information e.g. place of production, printer):

Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria. Medicines and cognition [pamphlet]. Pharmaceutical Society ofNigeria;2021. DP-7.

Package insert (leaflet supplied with medicine):

Lamasil [package insert]. East Hanover (NJ): Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corp; 1993.

Multimedia Material

Get the facts (and get them organised) [videocassette]. Williamstown (Vic): Appleseed Productions; 1990.

Journal on Internet

Factors in the emergence of infectious disease. Emerg Infect Dis [serial online] 1995 Jan-Mar [Accesed 25th December 1999]; 1(1):[24 screens]. Available from:http://www/cdc/gov/ncidoc/EID/eid.htm

Garfinkel PE, Lin E, Goering P. Should amenorrhoea be necessary for the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa? Br J Psych [serial online] 1996 [cited 1999 Aug 17]; 168(4):500-6. Available from: http://biomed.niss.ac.uk

Journal Article Epub ahead of print:

Reardon DA, Wen PY. Targeted therapies: Further delineating

bevacizumab’s response spectrum. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2014 [In press].

Website

Cancer  Research      UK.      Cancer      statistics      reports      for      the      UK.

<http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/aboutcancer/statistics/cancerstatsreport/>; 2003 (Accessed 13th Jul 2020).

Royal College of General Practitioners. The primary health care team. Available from: http://ww.rcgp.org.uk/informat/publicat/rcf0021.htm (Accessed 21st Aug 2021)

Zand J. The natural pharmacy: herbal medicine for depression. Available from: URL:http://www.healthy.net/asp/templates/Article.asp?PageType=Article&Id=920 (Accessed 21st Aug 2021)

Web based/ Online Database

Kirkpatrick GL. Viral infections of the respiratory tract. In: Family Medicine. 5th ed. [Online]. 1998. Available from: Stat!Ref. Jackson (WY): Teton Data Systems; 2001. (Accessed Aug 30 2021).

CD-ROM

Clinical pharmacology 2000 [CD-ROM]. Version 2.01. [cited 2001 Aug 7]; Gainsville (FL): Gold

Standard Multimedia; 2001. (Accessed Aug 30 2021).

Book on CD-ROM

The Oxford English dictionary [book on CD-ROM]. 2nd ed. New York (NY): Oxford University Press; 1992.

Paracetamol. Martindale’s: the extra pharmacopoeia. In: International Healthcare Series [CD- ROM]; Englewood (CO): Micromedex; 1998. (Accessed Aug 30 2021).

Journal on CD-ROM

Gershon ES. Antisocial behavior. Arch Gen Psychiatry [serial on CD-ROM]. 1995;5 2:900-901.

CLINICAL IMAGES

Clinical images are the pictures that show the clinical findings of a particular case of the patient. The clinical pictures should include questions and answers that should educate or remind readers about an important clinical situation or event. The image should not just describe the picture; however, should be informative enough from a clinical teaching view.

FORMATTING GUIDELINES

The title should be less than five to eight words. The text describing a clinical question should be within 150 words. The images can be uploaded in .tiff, .jpg or .jpeg format. We recommend using high-quality images. Text should be in one double-spaced electronic document.

PATIENT CONSENT FORM

If the image/figure of the patient is identifiable then the patient consent form is required. In case, the eyes are masked then the form is not mandatory.