SHODH MANTHAN SBU JOURNAL OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

EDITORIAL BOARD

Advisory Board

1. The manuscript submitted by authors should include their names, affiliations and contact details. Manuscript and page containing author details should be sent through e-mail only sodhmanthan@sbu.ac.in.
2. While submitting the manuscript, corresponding author should give undertaking that the work is original and it has previously not been published anywhere else and also it has not been submitted anywhere else for being considered.
3. In no situation the Publisher would be responsible for any plagiarism issue and it would be sole responsibility of authors.
4. Manuscripts Guidelines:
   Authors are strongly encouraged to submit manuscripts online. This will allow even quicker and more efficient processing of your manuscript.
   Manuscripts should be typewritten or prepared on a word processor, with all material double-spaced, on one side of letter-sized paper, with suitably wide margins. All pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with page 1, the title page. Tables and figures should be numbered serially, and legends to illustrations should be prepared on separate sheets. Tables and figures will be placed near their first mention in the text; all tables and figures must be referred to in the manuscript.

   Title Page: The following elements must be included:
   Title of the article:
   Name(s) and initial(s) of author(s), preferably with first names spelled out;
   Affiliation(s) of author(s);
   Footnotes to the contribution title;
   Name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the corresponding author.

   Abstract: Each article is to be preceded by a succinct abstract, of up to 250 words, that highlights the objectives, methods, results, and conclusions of the paper. Key Words: To identify the subjects under which the article may be indexed, 6-10 key words should be provided.

   References: In the text, references to the literature should be by author and year; where there are two authors, both should be named; with three or more only the first author's name plus "et al." need be given. The list at the end of the paper should include only works mentioned in the text and should be arranged alphabetically by name of first author. References should be cited as follows:
   Journal papers -name(s) and initial(s) of author(s), year in brackets, full title, name of the journal as abbreviated in Chemical Abstracts, volume number, first and last page numbers:
   Quiring R, Walldorf U, Koter U, Gehring WJ (1994) Homology of the eyeless gene of Drosophila to the small eye gene in mice and aniridia in humans. Science 265:785
   Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic references rests entirely with the author, who is requested to use as few "in press" citations as possible. In press citations must include the name of the journal that has accepted the paper.

   Footnotes: Those in the text should be numbered consecutively. Footnotes to the title or authors of the article are marked by asterisks and placed on the title page.

   Sequences: Sequences that are used merely as data points in statistical calculations or graphs should, if possible, be referred to by their accession numbers only. Authors should be quoted by name when their sequences are discussed individually or presented in alignments.

   Illustrations: These should be suitable for reproduction, and should clarify or shorten the text. Information provided in figure legends should not be repeated in the text. Figures and graphs should always be mentioned in the text and numbered with Arabic numerals. Preferred file formats include .tif and .jpg; please see Manuscript Central for more details.

   Color Figures: Color can be used without charge for the electronic edition of the journal but will appear in the printed version of the journal at the author's expense: $1150.00 per article.

   Computer Software: Any software referred to among methods used must be obtainable either commercially or upon request from the authors. In submitting a manuscript to the Journal, authors accept the obligation to furnish upon request any information necessary for reproducing the methodologies on which their results are based. The methods used for preparing and analyzing alignments must be stated precisely.

   Mathematical Equations: These should be clearly prepared, and annotated if necessary. Primes and dots must be called to the attention of the typesetter. Differentiate legibly between number 1, capital letter I, and lower case letter l. Use fractional exponents instead of root signs and the solidus (/) for fractions wherever their use will save vertical space. Use exp () notation when the exponent is sizable. All equations must be numbered sequentially, on the right-hand side of the column, in parenthetic Arabic numerals.

   Organisms: Must be identified by their scientific binomen.

   Homology: The term should not be used in the sense of structural similarity but only in its biological sense of derivation of structures from a common ancestral structure.

   Abbreviations, Symbols, Units, etc.: Acronyms and symbols must be defined at first mention, in titles, abstracts, as well as within the text. For nomenclature, abbreviations, symbols, and units, authors should follow internationally accepted rules, including those adopted by the Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature.

   Guidelines for Electronically Produced Illustrations for Print: Upload illustrations separately from the text (i.e. files should not be integrated with the text files).

   Vector (line) Graphics
   Suitable drawing program: Adobe Illustrator. For simple line art the following drawing programs are also acceptable: Corel Draw, Freehand, and Canvas.
   No rules narrower than .25 pt.No gray screens paler than 15% or darker than 60%.
   Screens meant to be differentiated from one another must differ by at least 15%.
   Halftone Illustrations
   Black and white and color illustrations should be saved in TIFF format.Illustrations should be created using Adobe Photoshop whenever possible.
   Scans: Scanned reproductions of black and white photographs should be provided as 300 ppi TIFF files.Scanned color illustrations should be provided as TIFF files scanned at a minimum of 300 ppi with a 24-bit color depth.
   Line art should be provided as TIFF files at 600 ppi.
   Graphics from Videos Separate files should be prepared for frames from a video that are to be printed in the journal. When preparing these files you should follow the same rules as listed under Halftone Illustrations.
5. Authors willing to include figures, tables or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to acquire consent from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include proof that such consent has been approved while submitting their work. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
6. References should be cited at the end of the paper only. Authors are required to follow APA style of referencing. Reference list should contain all the sources which are mentioned in the main text of the manuscript. Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work.

Note:

• All tables and figures must be appropriately numbered and labelled. Sources must be cited wherever necessary.
• Correspondence and proofs for correction will be sent to the corresponding author.

All correspondence should be addressed to:

Chief Editor
SHODH MANTHAN
Department of Applied Science and Engineering
Birla Knowledge City,
PO- Mahilong, Purulia Road,
Ranchi, Jharkhand 835103
Mail ID: shodhhmanthan@sbu.ac.in
Website: www.sbu.ac.in
Ph. No: 9431385023 / 7903487242

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