ONLINE MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION:
An online submission and tracking service via internet facilitates a speedy and
cost-effective submission of manuscripts. The full manuscript should be submitted online via Bentham's
Content Management System (CMS) at bsp-cms.eurekaselect.com / View
Submission Instructions
Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript, and should not be submitted by
anyone on their behalf. The principal/corresponding author will be required to submit a Copyright Letter
along with the manuscript, on behalf of all the co-authors (if any) to confirm that the manuscript (or
any part of it) has not been published previously or is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere. Furthermore, any illustration, structure or table that has been published elsewhere must be
reported, and copyright permission for reproduction must be obtained. The figures from patent documents
are freely available on the databases and may not require any permission unless stated otherwise.
For all online submissions, please provide soft copies of all the materials (main text in MS Word or
Tex/LaTeX), figures/illustrations in TIFF, PDF or JPEG, and chemical structures drawn in ChemDraw
(CDX) / ISISDraw (TGF) as separate files, while a PDF version of the entire manuscript must also be
included, embedded with all the figures/illustrations/tables/chemical structures, etc. It is advisable that the document files related to a manuscript submission should always have
the name of the corresponding author as part of the file name, i.e., Cilli MS text.doc
, “Cilli MS Figure 1”, etc.
It is imperative that before submission, the author(s) should carefully proofread the files for special
characters, mathematical symbols, Greek letters, equations, tables, references and images to ensure that
they appear in proper format.
References, figures, tables, chemical structures, etc. should be referred to in the text
at the appropriate places where they have been first discussed. Figure legends/captions should also be
provided.
A successful electronic submission of a manuscript will be followed by a system-generated acknowledgement
to the principal/corresponding author. Any queries therein should be addressed to [email protected]
EDITORIAL POLICIES:
The editorial policies of Bentham Science Publishers on publication ethics, peer-review, plagiarism,
copyrights/ licenses, errata/corrections, and article retraction/ withdrawal can be viewed at Editorial
Policy
MANUSCRIPTS PUBLISHED:
The journal accepts mini- and full-length review articles, original research articles and drug clinical
trial studies written in English. Single topic/thematic issues may also be considered for publication.
Single Topic Issues:
These special issues are peer-reviewed and may contain invited or uninvited review/mini-review
articles or a mixture of research articles, and reviews/mini-reviews. A Single Topic Issue Editor
will offer a short perspective and co-ordinate the solicitation of manuscripts between 3-5 (for a
mini-thematic issue) to 6-10 (for a full-length thematic issue) from leading scientists. Authors
interested in editing a single topic issue in an emerging field of outstanding developments in
medical imaging may submit their proposal to the Editor-in-Chief at [email protected] for consideration.
Conference Proceedings:
For proposals to publish conference proceedings in this journal, please contact us at email: [email protected]
MANUSCRIPT LENGTH:
Research Articles:
Research articles should be 4000-8000 words excluding figures, structures, photographs, schemes,
tables, etc. There is a quota of 20% of published Research articles per issue in
this journal.
Mini-Reviews:
Mini-reviews should be 3000- 6000 words excluding figures, structures, photographs, schemes, tables,
etc.
Full-Length Reviews:
Full-length reviews should be 8000-40000 words excluding figures, structures, photographs, schemes,
tables, etc.
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION:
The manuscript should be written in English in a clear, direct and active style. All pages must be
numbered sequentially, facilitating in the reviewing and editing of the manuscript.
MICROSOFT WORD TEMPLATE:
It is advisable that authors prepare their manuscript using the template available on the Web, which will
assist in preparation of the manuscript according to Journal's Format. Download the
Template.
Our contracted service provider Eureka Science
can, if needed, provide professional assistance to authors for the improvement of English language and
figures in manuscripts.
MANUSCRIPT SECTIONS FOR PAPERS:
Manuscripts may be divided into the following sections:
Copyright Letter
Title
Short Running Title:
Authors’ Names and Affiliations:
Structured Abstract
Graphical Abstract
Keywords
Text Organization
List of Abbreviations (if any)
Acknowledgements
Conflict of Interest
References
Appendices
Tables (if any)
Figures/Illustrations (if any)
Chemical Structures (if any)
Supportive/Supplementary Material (if any)
Copyright Letter:
Authors who publish in Bentham Science print & online journals will transfer copyright to their work to Bentham Science Publishers. Submission of a manuscript to the respective journals implies that all authors have read and agreed to the content of the Copyright Letter or the Terms and Conditions. It is a condition of publication that manuscripts submitted to this journal have not been published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. Plagiarism is strictly forbidden, and by submitting the article for publication the authors agree that the publishers have the legal right to take appropriate action against the authors, if plagiarism or fabricated information is discovered. By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree that the copyright of their article is transferred to the publishers if and when the article is accepted for publication. Once submitted to the journal, the author will not withdraw their manuscript at any stage prior to publication.
It is mandatory that a signed copyright letter also be submitted along with the manuscript by the author to whom correspondence is to be addressed. The article should not contain any such material or information that may be unlawful, defamatory, fabricated, plagiarized, or which would, if published, in any way whatsoever, violate the terms and conditions as laid down in the copyright agreement. Copyright letter can be downloaded from the journal's Web site. Download the Copyright letter.
Title:
Authors should also provide a short 'running title with no more than 80 characters'. Title, running
title, byline, correspondent footnote, and keywords should be written as presented in the original
manuscript.
Short Running Title:
Authors must provide a short ‘running title’ of their manuscript.
Authors’ Names and Affiliations:
The names of the authors should be provided according to the previous citations or as the authors
would want them to be published along with the institutional affiliations, current address,
telephone, cell & fax numbers and the email address. Email address must be provided with an
asterisk in front of the name of the principal author. The corresponding author should also be
designated and the full address, telephone, cell & fax numbers and the email address must be
stated to receive correspondence and galley proofs.
Structured Abstract:
The abstract of an article should be its clear, concise and accurate summary, having no more than 250
words, and including the explicit sub-headings (as in-line or run-in headings in bold). Use of
abbreviations should be avoided and the references should not be cited in the abstract. Ideally,
each abstract should include the following sub-headings, but these may vary according to
requirements of the article.
Background
Objective
Method
Results
Conclusion
Graphical Abstract:
A graphic must be included with each manuscript for use in the Table of Contents (TOC). This must be
submitted separately as an electronic file (preferred file types are EPS, PDF, TIFF, Microsoft Word,
PowerPoint, CDX, etc.). A graphical abstract, not exceeding 30 words along with the
illustration, helps to summarize the contents of the manuscript in a concise pictorial form. It is
meant as an aid for the rapid viewing of the journals' contents and to help capture the readers’
attention. The graphical abstract may feature a key structure, reaction, equation, etc
. that the manuscript elucidates upon. It will be listed along with the manuscript title,
authors’ names and affiliations in the contents page, typeset within an area of 5 cm by 17 cm, but
it will not appear in the article's PDF file or print.
Graphical Abstracts should be submitted as a separate file (must clearly mention graphical abstract
within the file) online via Bentham's Content Management System by selecting the
option “Supplementary material”.
Keywords:
6 to 8 keywords must be provided.
Text Organization:
The main text should begin on a separate page and should be divided into title page, abstract and the
main text. The text may be subdivided further according to the areas to be discussed, which should
be followed by the Acknowledgements, and Reference sections. For Research Articles the manuscript
should begin with the Title page and Abstract followed by the main text, which must be structured
into separate sections as Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, List
of Abbreviations, Conflict of Interest, Acknowledgements and References. The Review Article should
mention any previous important, recent and old reviews in the field and contain a comprehensive
discussion starting with the general background of the field. It should then go on to discuss the
salient features of recent developments in the field. The authors should avoid presenting material
which has already been published in a previous review. The authors are advised to present and
discuss their observations in brief. The manuscript style must be uniform throughout the text and
10pt Times New Roman fonts should be used. The full term for an abbreviation should precede its
first appearance in the text unless it is a standard unit of measurement. Italics should be used for
Binomial names of organisms (Genus and Species), for emphasis and for unfamiliar words or phrases.
Non-assimilated words from Latin or other languages should also be italicized e.g. per se,
et al., in vitro, in vivo, in situ, etc.
Standard Protocol on Approvals, Registrations, Patient Consents & Animal Protection:
All clinical investigations must be conducted according to the Declaration
of Helsinki principles. Authors must comply with the guidelines of the International
Committee of Medical Journal Editors (http://www.icmje.org) with regard to the patient's consent
for research or participation in a study. Patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers must
not be mentioned anywhere in the manuscript (including figures). Editors may request that
authors provide documentation of the formal review and recommendation from the institutional
review board or ethics committee responsible for oversight of the study.
In addition to the standard patient consent for participation in research, authors are
responsible for obtaining patient consent-to-disclose forms for all recognizable patients in
photographs, videos, or other information that may be published in the Journal, in derivative
works, or on the journal's web site for providing the manuscript to the recognizable patient for
review before submission. The consent-to-disclose form should indicate specific use (publication
in the medical literature in print and online, with the understanding that patients and the
public will have access) of the patient's information and any images in figures or videos, and
must contain the patient's signature or that of a legal guardian along with a statement that the
patient or legal guardian has been offered the opportunity to review the identifying materials
and the accompanying manuscript.
For research involving animals, the authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were
in accordance with the standards set forth in the eighth edition of Guide for the Care and Use
of Laboratory Animals (grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/guide-for-the-care-and-use-of-laboratory-animals_prepub;
published by the National Academy of Sciences, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.).
A specific declaration of such approval and consent-to-disclose form must be made in the cover
letter and in a stand-alone paragraph at the end of the Methods section especially in the case
of human studies where inclusion of a statement regarding obtaining the written informed consent
from each subject or subject's guardian is a must. The original should be retained by the
guarantor or corresponding author. Editors may request to provide the original forms by fax or
email.
Patent Review Coverage:
In case of a patent review article, authors should review the most recent and important patents
based on the topic covered. Coverage of novel inventions, methods, techniques and designs in all
areas of imaging should be emphasized, including the significance of the reported patents.
Current & Future Developments:
The review/research article should conclude with a short section called “Current & Future
Developments”. The author(s) will give their opinion on the current and future important
developments on the topic discussed in their article.
Symbols and Units:
Greek symbols and special characters often undergo formatting changes and get corrupted or lost
during preparation of a manuscript for publication. To ensure that all special characters used
are embedded in the text, these special characters should be inserted as a symbol but should not
be a result of any format styling (Symbol font face) otherwise they will be lost during the
conversion to PDF/XML.
Authors are encouraged to consult reporting guidelines. These guidelines provide a set of
recommendations comprising a list of items relevant to their specific research design.
Only ISO symbols, written in italic, should be used for the various parameters. All kinds of
measurements should be reported only in International System of Units (SI). SI units should
always be written in Roman and separated from the numerical value by a space (whatever the
language). The μ in μg or μm should be in Roman. The symbol for litre is L and that for minute
is min. For temperature, please use only one of °C, °F or K in the entire manuscript. As the
Angström (1Å = 10-10 m) is not an SI unit, it should be replaced by the nanometre
(1nm = 10-9 m) or by the picometer (1pm = 10-12 m): 1Å = 0.1nm = 100 pm.
Multiple units should be written with negative superscripts (for example, 25mgμL-1
μs-1). The list of notations should appear just before the first paragraph of full
text.
A list of symbols and units should be provided if used extensively throughout the text.
Conclusion:
A small paragraph summarizing the contents of the article, presenting the final outcome of the
research or proposing further study on the subject, may be given at the end of the article under the
Conclusion section.
List of Abbreviations (If Any):
If abbreviations are used in the text either they should be defined in the text where first used, or
a list of abbreviations can be provided.
Acknowledgements:
Any research assistants or other individuals who assisted with the research but are not listed as authors, such as those who carried out the literature review, produced, computerized, and analyzed the data, or helped with the language, writing, or proofreading of the article, or offered any comments or suggestions, should be acknowledged. Briefly, everyone who has contributed significantly to the improvement of the paper should be acknowledged. It is recommended to mention the "Declared None" if there is no acknowledgement for the study.
The specific requirements for authorship have been defined by the International Committee of Medical
Journal Editors (ICMJE; www.icmje.org). Examples of authors' contributions are: 'designed
research/study', 'performed research/study', 'contributed important reagents', 'collected data',
'analyzed data', 'wrote paper', etc. This information must be included in the submitted manuscript as a separate paragraph under the heading 'Authors' Contribution'. The corresponding
author is responsible for obtaining permission from all co-authors for the submission of any version
of the manuscript and for any changes in the authorship.
Conflict of Interest:
Financial contributions and any potential conflict of interest must be clearly acknowledged under the
heading 'Conflict of Interest'. Authors must list the source(s) of funding for the study. This
should be done for each author.
References:
References must be listed in the Vancouver Style only. All references should be numbered sequentially
[in square brackets] in the text and listed in the same numerical order in the reference section.
The reference numbers must be finalized and the bibliography must be fully formatted before
submission.
See below few examples of references listed in the Vancouver Style:
Journal:
Boehm M, Nabel EG. Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 - A new cardiac regulator. N Engl J
Med 2002; 347: 1795-7.
Book:
Crabtree RH. The organometallic chemistry of the transition metals. 3rd ed.
New York: Wiley & Sons 2001.
Book Chapter:
Yeh DC, Rocco T. In: David EG, Armen HT, Ehrin JA, April WA, Eds. Integrative
cardiovascular pharmacology. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2005:
pp. 375-83.
Conference Proceedings:
Jakeman DL, Withers SGE. Carbohydrate bioengineering: interdisciplinary approaches.
Proceedings of the 4th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting.
Stockholm, Sweden, June 10-13, 2001.
Meeting Abstract:
Hoffman BJ. Metabolism: amino acid transporters as targets for therapeutic intervention.
American Chemical Society - 228th National Meeting.
Philadelphia, USA 2004.
Website:
National Library of Medicine. Specialized information services: Toxicology and
environmental health. Available at: http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/ToxMain.html
(Accessed on: May 23, 2009).
Thesis:
Mackel H. Capturing the spectra of silicon solar cells. PhD Thesis, The Australian
National University, Canberra, Australia, December 2004.
Patent:
As a service, the Publishers can provide each author a certain number of relevant patents to
assist them in writing their article. All patent application references will be provided by the
author and will be published as it is.
Patent Reference Style:
All inventors' names of the cited patents must be stated with the title, publication number and
the year of publication e.g. Chesnut JD, Carrino J, Leong L, Madden K, Gleeson
MAG, Fan J, Brasch MA, Cheo D, Hartley JL, Byrd DRN, Temple GF. Methods and compositions for
synthesis of nucleic acid molecules using multiple recognition sites. US7198924, 2007.
Citation of the patents will be according to the international convention as follows:
WO Patents: 1978-2003
Miranda J, Sablotsky S. Solubility parameter based drug delivery system and method
for altering drug saturation concentration. WO9300058, 1993.
Huang D, Qi DF. Protopanaxadiol and protopanaxatriol and their use as synergistic
anti-cancer agents. WO03024459, 2003.
WO Patents: 2004 onwards
Balzarini J, Liekens S. Anti-cancer combination therapy. WO2009138507, 2009.
US Patent Applications: 2001 onwards
Strelchenok O. New compounds for the treatment of cancer. US20010018425, 2001.
Landau BR, Landau S. Treatment of cancer with 2-Deoxygalactose. US20090163442, 2009.
Issued/Granted US Patents:
Sakamoto I, Takagi K. Anti-cancer device. US4536387, 1985.
Baguley BC, Ching L-M, Philpott M. Cancer treatment by combination therapy.
US7510830, 2009.
EP Patents:
Rimm DL, Wardlaw SC, Levine RA, Fiedler P. Method for the detection, identification,
enumeration and confirmation of circulating cancer cells and/or hemotologic
progenitor cells in whole blood. EP0919812A2, 1999.
Miller TM, Jamison JM. Non-toxic anti-cancer drug combining ascorbate, magnesium and
a naphthoquinone. EP2034835A2, 2009.
Some important points to remember:
Superscripts in the in-text citations and reference section should be avoided.
Abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications (which can only be included
if prior permission has been obtained) should not be given in the reference section
but they may be mentioned in the text and details provided as footnotes.
The authors are encouraged to use a recent version of EndNote (version 5 and above)
or Reference Manager (version 10) when formatting their reference list, as this
allows references to be automatically extracted.
Figures/Illustrations (if any):
All authors must strictly follow the guidelines below for preparing illustrations for publication in
Recent Patents and Topics on Imaging
. If the figures are found to be sub-standard, then the manuscripts will be rejected and the authors
offered the option of figure improvement professionally by Eureka Science. The costs for such improvement will
be charged to the authors.
Illustrations should be provided as separate files, embedded in the text file, and must be numbered
consecutively in the order of their appearance. Each figure should include only a single illustration which
should be cropped to minimize the amount of space occupied by the illustration.
If a figure is in separate parts, all parts of the figure must be provided in a single composite illustration
file.
Photographs should be provided with a scale bar if appropriate, as well as high-resolution component files.
Scaling/Resolution:
Line Art image type is normally an image based on lines and text. It does not contain tonal or shaded
areas. The preferred file format should be TIFF or EPS, with the color mode being Monochrome 1-bit or
RGB, in a resolution of 900-1200 dpi.
Halftone image type is a continuous tone photograph containing no text. It should have the preferred file
format TIFF, with color mode being RGB or Grayscale, in a resolution of 300 dpi.
Combination image type is an image containing halftone, text or line art elements. It should have the
preferred file format TIFF, with color mode being RGB or Grayscale, in a resolution of 500-900 dpi.
Formats:
Illustrations may be submitted in the following file formats:
Illustrator
EPS (preferred format for diagrams)
PDF (also especially suitable for diagrams)
PNG (preferred format for photos or images)
Microsoft Word (version 5 and above; figures must be a single page)
PowerPoint (figures must be a single page)
TIFF
JPEG (conversion should be done using the original file)
BMP
CDX (ChemDraw)
TGF (ISISDraw)
Bentham Science does not process figures submitted in GIF format.
For TIFF or EPS figures with considerably large file size restricting the file size in online submissions
is advisable. Authors may therefore convert to JPEG format before submission as this results in
significantly reduced file size and upload time, while retaining acceptable quality. JPEG is a ‘lossy’
format. However, in order to maintain acceptable image quality, it is recommended that JPEG files are
saved at High or Maximum quality.
Zipit or Stuffit tools should not be used to compress files prior to submission as the resulting
compression through these tools is always negligible.
Please refrain from supplying:
Graphics embedded in word processor (spreadsheet, presentation) document.
Optimized files optimized for screen use (like GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG) because of the low
resolution.
Files with too low a resolution.
Graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Image Conversion Tools:
There are many software packages, many of them freeware or shareware, capable of converting to and from
different graphics formats, including PNG.
General tools for image conversion include Graphic Converter on the Macintosh, Paint Shop Pro, for
Windows, and ImageMagick, available on Macintosh, Windows and UNIX platforms.
Bitmap images (e.g. screenshots) should not be converted to EPS as they result in a much
larger file size than the equivalent JPEG, TIFF, PNG or BMP, and poor quality. EPS should only be used
for images produced by vector-drawing applications such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw. Most
vector-drawing applications can be saved in, or exported as, EPS format. If the images were originally
prepared in an Office application, such as Word or PowerPoint, original Office files should be directly
uploaded to the site, instead of being converted to JPEG or another format of low quality.
Color Figures/Illustrations:
The cost for each individual page of color figures/plates/illustrations is US$ 997.
Color figures should be supplied in CMYK and not in RGB colors.
Note for authors: To maintain publication quality, figures submitted in colour will be
published in colour only.
Chemical Structures:
Chemical structures MUST be prepared in ChemDraw (CDX) and provided as separate file.
Structure Drawing Preferences:
[As according to the ACS style sheet]
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Drawing Settings:
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| Chain angle |
120° |
| Bond spacing |
18% of width |
| Fixed length |
14.4 pt (0.500cm, 0.2in) |
| Bold width |
2.0 pt (0.071cm, 0.0278in) |
| Line width |
0.6 pt (0.021cm, 0.0084in) |
| Margin width |
1.6 pt (0.096cm) |
| Hash spacing |
2.5 pt (0.088cm, 0.0347in) |
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Text settings:
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| Font |
Times New Roman |
| Size |
8 pt |
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Under the Preference Choose:
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| Units |
points |
| Tolerances |
3 pixels |
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Under Page Setup Use:
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| Paper |
US letter |
| Scale |
100% |
