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Archives of Pharmaceutical Sciences- Ain Shams University (APS-ASU)
I.EHICS IN PUBLISHING
II.GUIDE FOR AUTHORS
III. PUBLICATION CHARGES
I. Ethics in Publishing
Key author responsibilities
Authorship:
Avoid:
Important note: all submitted manuscripts are checked for plagiarism.
The following papers will not be accepted for publication:
AI use by authors
Authors should not list a generative AI technology as a co-author or author of any submitted manuscript. Generative AI technologies cannot be held accountable for all aspects of a manuscript and consequently do not meet the criteria required for authorship.
If the author of a submitted manuscript has used written or visual content produced by or edited using a generative AI technology, this use must follow all journal guidelines and policies. Specifically, the author is responsible for checking the factual accuracy of any content created by the generative AI technology. Authors must also check that any written or visual content produced by or edited using a generative AI technology is free from plagiarism.
If the author of a submitted manuscript has used written or visual content produced by or edited using a generative AI technology, such use must be acknowledged in the acknowledgements section of the manuscript and the methods section if applicable.
II. Guide for Authors
APS ASU requires manuscripts submitted to meet international English language standards to be considered for publication. Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). To avoid unnecessary errors, you are strongly advised to use the 'spell-check' and 'grammar-check' functions of your word processor.
Original research
Review Article
Mini review
Editorial
Case study
-While submitting your paper you will be asked for three potential reviewers. Indicating three reviewers is mandatory.
The title page should contain the following information:
Declarations should be included in the title page and NOT in the main manuscript. It should include the following:
Ethics approval and consent to participate
Authors should mention not applicable if not present
Consent to publish
Authors should mention “not applicable” if not present
Availability of data and materials
The authors should mention the data generated or analyzed during this study whether all are included in the main manuscript and/or in the additional supporting file or specific data repository (if present).
Competing interests
The authors should declare if any competing interest exists or they declare that have no competing interests
Funding Statement
The authors should declare if any funding was obtained from any agency or any institutional support (if present)
or Mention (No funding source was received) if this was unavailable and the article is self-funded by the authors.
Authors’ contributions
All authors that contributed to the work presented in this paper should be declared and the role and contribution of each author should be mentioned.
Examples of such statement:
All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by [full name], [full name] and [full name]. The first draft of the manuscript was written by [full name] and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Acknowledgments
Authors should acknowledge any agency, institution, department or any members for their support and providing facilities whenever needed. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proofreading the article, etc.).
2. Manuscript main file (without author names)
This should include the manuscript title, abstract, keywords, introduction, material, and methods; Results, Discussion, References. (see below)
Title: Use a concise and informative title. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible. It should not exceed two printed lines.
Abstract
A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results, and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself. 250 words maximum
Graphical abstract: Although a graphical abstract is optional, its use is encouraged as it draws more attention to the online article. The graphical abstract should summarize the contents of the article in a concise, pictorial form designed to capture the attention of a wide readership.
Keywords Immediately after the abstract, provide 5-7 keywords, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, 'and', 'of'). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. The keywords should be separated by; and will be used for indexing purposes.
Abbreviations Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field in a footnote to be placed after the keywords. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.
Original research
Subdivision - numbered sections: divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections.
Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2,), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to 'the text'. Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its separate line. Capitalize each word in titles.
Organizing the manuscript:
NOTE:
Introduction
State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.
Materials and methods
Provide sufficient details to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described. Ethics approval must be mentioned (including committee number and date) for any clinical or animal studies.
Theory/calculation
A Theory section should extend, not repeat, the background to the article already dealt with in the Introduction and lay the foundation for further work. In contrast, the calculation section represents a practical development on a theoretical basis.
Statistics
Describe statistical methods with enough detail to enable a knowledgeable reader with access to the original data to verify the reported results. When possible, quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals). Avoid relying solely on statistical hypothesis testing, such as the use of P values, which fails to convey important information about effect size. References for the design of the study and statistical methods should be to standard works when possible (with pages stated). Define statistical terms, abbreviations, and most symbols. Specify the name, version, and country of the user computer software.
Results
The results should be clear and concise.
Discussion
This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them as compared to relevant updated references available. A combined Results and Discussion section will be accepted. Avoid extensive and/or self-citations of published literature.
Limitations (if any)
To ensure that you provide an accurate context for your work and give readers sufficient information to properly evaluate the relevance and impact of your results, they must be included. Indicate your limitations.
Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.
Recommendations
Tell the reader about prospects and implications in one or two sentences that arise either from findings or from avoiding limitations.
Appendices
If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly, for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1, etc.
Citation in text
Cite references in the text by number(s) in square brackets [ ] in line with the text. The actual authors can be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given..Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication.
Number of references
No. of references in research article should not exceed 50 and review articles not more than 90 references. At least 35-40% of the total number of references must be within the last 4-5 years of the time of submission.
Web references
As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.
Reference style
The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the "List of Journals Indexed" in Index Medicus (www.nlm.nih.gov). List all authors, for more than 6 authors the first 6 should be listed followed by "et al."
The author should Insert DOI (if available) at the end of each reference in the reference section.
List
Number the references in the list in the order in which they appear in the text.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
Reference to a book:
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Tables
3. Figures File
Figures must be submitted separately with high-resolution version (600 dpi) as TIFF or JPEG format. The use of color figures is free of charge. The following guidelines must be observed when preparing figures. Failure to do so is likely to delay the acceptance and publication of the article.
To use a reproduced figure or table, you must obtain permission from the owner of the copyright of the original figure or table (usually the publisher), and you must also include attribution to the original source(s) in your manuscript in the Source notes below the reproduced figure or table.
4. Copyright and License
- Copyright on any open access article published in the APS-ASU journal is retained by the author(s).
- Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.
- Authors grant Ain Shams University a copyright transfer agreement to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
- Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles under the following conditions: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
For more information:
This work is licensed underhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Supplementary material
Data that are not of primary importance to the text, or which cannot be included in the article because they are too large or the current format does not permit it (such as videos, raw data traces, PowerPoint presentations, etc.), can be uploaded as supplementary material during the submission procedure and will be displayed along with the published article.
Review article
A review article should provide a synthetic and critical analysis of a relevant area and should not be merely a chronological description of the literature. A review article by investigators who have made substantial contributions to a specific area in pharmaceutical sciences will be published by invitation of the Editors. However, an outline of a review article may be submitted to the Editors without prior consultation. If it is judged appropriate for the Journal, the author(s) will be invited to prepare the article for peer review. Review articles should be less than 6000 words, excluding the abstract and references.
Case study
Articles describing clinical cases that have significant novel original observations, are instructive, include adequate methodological details and provide conclusions. These should be less than 2000 words, excluding the abstract and references, and have no more than two figures and tables. Structured headings are desirable. Please note the below comments regarding obtaining written informed consent.
Links to the Human and Animal Rights
There are numerous resources available that can aid authors and journals in improving article quality. As examples, some resources NLM encourages journals and authors to reference are:
III. Publication Charges
To pay the article processing charges (APC) for publication, follow these steps: