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Editor-in-Chief: Madhavi Latha G.
Associate Editor: Deepankar Choudhury
ISSN: 0971-9555 (print version)
ISSN: 2277-3347 (electronic version)
Journal no. 40098

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ABOUT THIS JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD SOCIETY INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

TYPES OF PAPERS

Original Papers
The articles discussing complete investigation on a research problem will be published under
this category. The publication of a research problem into fragments will not be encouraged.
Ordinarily, such articles may have 10 to 40 printed pages. One printed page will have around
550 words on average.

State of the Art/Practice Papers

These articles should be a critical review on any relevant subject of topical interest and should
bring the status of the research work done. The articles should be written in a manner to help
either in initiating the work in that area or in increasing the comprehension of the current
challenges. The articles should be thought provoking and normally contributed by experts in the
subject area. These should not be a compilation of literature survey. Ordinarily, the articles in
this category are shorter than an Original Paper, but not necessarily.

Technical Notes
The articles on a topic of research with sufficient details on experimental or theoretical part will
be published under this category. Normally, Technical Notes will not be longer than 8 printed
pages.

Articles of Professional Interest

These types of articles briefly summarize findings or outcomes from preliminary work on cutting-
edge or emerging research topics, scope of practice-related findings, survey results, etc. These

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may range in length from 3 to 8 printed pages.

Case Reports
The articles in this category may be short, but may be even longer, depending on the subject or
study.

Text/Length of paper

Text Formatting

• Manuscripts should be submitted preferably in Word. One single-column standard Word page
corresponds to about 260 to 280 words in double space. Figures and tables need to be
considered in terms of equivalent words. Hence, the length of the manuscript should be
restricted to the above requirements depending on the type of the paper.

EDITORIAL PROCEDURE

Double-blind peer review

This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. Authors are therefore requested to
submit:

A blinded manuscript without any author names and affiliations in the text or on the
title page. Self-identifying citations and references in the article text should be
avoided.
A separate title page, containing title, all author names, affiliations, and the contact
information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or
funding information should also be included on this page.

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Manuscript Submission

Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that
it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been
approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly
– at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally
responsible should there be any claims for compensation.

Permissions

Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published
elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and
online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting
their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the
authors.

Online Submission

Please follow the hyperlink “Submit online” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files
following the instructions given on the screen.

TITLE PAGE

Title Page

The title page should include:

The name(s) of the author(s)

A concise and informative title
The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
The e-mail address, and telephone number(s) of the corresponding author

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If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)

Abstract

Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined
abbreviations or unspecified references.

Keywords

Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.

TEXT

Text Formatting

Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.

Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.
Use italics for emphasis.
Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
Do not use field functions.
Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word
versions).

Manuscripts with mathematical content can also be submitted in LaTeX.

LaTeX macro package (zip, 182 kB)

Headings

Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.

Footnotes

Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a
reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation,
and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not
contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by
superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data).
Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section on the
title page. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.

SCIENTIFIC STYLE

Please always use internationally accepted signs and symbols for units (SI units).
Nomenclature: Insofar as possible, authors should use systematic names similar to
those used by Chemical Abstract Service or IUPAC.

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REFERENCES

Citation

Reference citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets. Some
examples:
1. Negotiation research spans many disciplines [3].
2. This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman [5].
3. This effect has been widely studied [1-3, 7].

Reference list

The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been
published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should
only be mentioned in the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference
list.

The entries in the list should be numbered consecutively.

Journal article
Gamelin FX, Baquet G, Berthoin S, Thevenet D, Nourry C, Nottin S, Bosquet L
(2009) Effect of high intensity intermittent training on heart rate variability in
prepubescent children. Eur J Appl Physiol 105:731-738.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-008-0955-8
Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long
author lists will also be accepted:
Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J
Med 965:325–329
Article by DOI
Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine
production. J Mol Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001090000086
Book
South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London
Book chapter
Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern
genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257
Online document
Cartwright J (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb.
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007
Dissertation
Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of
California

Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal’s name according to the ISSN List of Title
Word Abbreviations, see

ISSN.org LTWA

If you are unsure, please use the full journal title.

For authors using EndNote, Springer provides an output style that supports the formatting of in-
text citations and reference list.

EndNote style (zip, 2 kB)

Authors preparing their manuscript in LaTeX can use the bibtex file spbasic.bst which is included
in Springer’s LaTeX macro package.

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TABLES

All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.

Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.

For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the
table.

Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of
a reference at the end of the table caption.

Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or

asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the
table body.

ARTWORK AND ILLUSTRATIONS GUIDELINES

Electronic Figure Submission

Supply all figures electronically.

Indicate what graphics program was used to create the artwork.
For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS; for halftones, please use TIFF
format. MSOffice files are also acceptable.
Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
Name your figure files with "Fig" and the figure number, e.g., Fig1.eps.

Line Art

Definition: Black and white graphic with no shading.

Do not use faint lines and/or lettering and check that all lines and lettering within the
figures are legible at final size.
All lines should be at least 0.1 mm (0.3 pt) wide.
Scanned line drawings and line drawings in bitmap format should have a minimum
resolution of 1200 dpi.
Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.

Halftone Art

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Definition: Photographs, drawings, or paintings with fine shading,

etc.
If any magnification is used in the photographs, indicate this by
using scale bars within the figures themselves.
Halftones should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

Combination Art

Definition: a combination of halftone and line art, e.g., halftones containing line
drawing, extensive lettering, color diagrams, etc.
Combination artwork should have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi.

Color Art

Color art is free of charge for online publication.

If black and white will be shown in the print version, make sure that the main
information will still be visible. Many colors are not distinguishable from one another
when converted to black and white. A simple way to check this is to make a
xerographic copy to see if the necessary distinctions between the different colors are
still apparent.
If the figures will be printed in black and white, do not refer to color in the captions.
Color illustrations should be submitted as RGB (8 bits per channel).

Figure Lettering

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To add lettering, it is best to use Helvetica or Arial (sans serif fonts).

Keep lettering consistently sized throughout your final-sized artwork, usually about
2–3 mm (8–12 pt).
Variance of type size within an illustration should be minimal, e.g., do not use 8-pt
type on an axis and 20-pt type for the axis label.
Avoid effects such as shading, outline letters, etc.
Do not include titles or captions within your illustrations.

Figure Numbering

All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.

Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
If an appendix appears in your article and it contains one or more figures, continue
the consecutive numbering of the main text. Do not number the appendix figures,
"A1, A2, A3, etc." Figures in online appendices (Electronic Supplementary Material)
should, however, be numbered separately.

Figure Captions

Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure
depicts. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number,
also in bold type.
No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be
placed at the end of the caption.
Identify all elements found in the figure in the figure caption; and use boxes, circles,
etc., as coordinate points in graphs.
Identify previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a
reference citation at the end of the figure caption.

Figure Placement and Size

Figures should be submitted separately from the text, if possible.

When preparing your figures, size figures to fit in the column width.
For most journals the figures should be 39 mm, 84 mm, 129 mm, or 174 mm wide
and not higher than 234 mm.
For books and book-sized journals, the figures should be 80 mm or 122 mm wide
and not higher than 198 mm.

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costs that may have occurred to receive these permissions. In such cases, material from other
sources should be used.

Accessibility

In order to give people of all abilities and disabilities access to the content of your figures,
please make sure that

All figures have descriptive captions (blind users could then use a text-to-speech
software or a text-to-Braille hardware)
Patterns are used instead of or in addition to colors for conveying information
(colorblind users would then be able to distinguish the visual elements)
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ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

Springer accepts electronic multimedia files (animations, movies, audio, etc.) and other
supplementary files to be published online along with an article or a book chapter. This feature
can add dimension to the author's article, as certain information cannot be printed or is more
convenient in electronic form.

Before submitting research datasets as electronic supplementary material, authors should read
the journal’s Research data policy. We encourage research data to be archived in data
repositories wherever possible.

Submission

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Please include in each file the following information: article title, journal name, author
names; affiliation and e-mail address of the corresponding author.
To accommodate user downloads, please keep in mind that larger-sized files may
require very long download times and that some users may experience other
problems during downloading.

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Maximum file size: 25 GB
Minimum video duration: 1 sec
Supported file formats: avi, wmv, mp4, mov, m2p, mp2, mpg, mpeg, flv, mxf, mts,
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Text and Presentations

Submit your material in PDF format; .doc or .ppt files are not suitable for long-term
viability.
A collection of figures may also be combined in a PDF file.

Spreadsheets

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Specialized Formats

Specialized format such as .pdb (chemical), .wrl (VRML), .nb (Mathematica

notebook), and .tex can also be supplied.

Collecting Multiple Files

It is possible to collect multiple files in a .zip or .gz file.

Numbering

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material as a citation, similar to that of figures and tables.
Refer to the supplementary files as “Online Resource”, e.g., "... as shown in the
animation (Online Resource 3)", “... additional data are given in Online Resource 4”.
Name the files consecutively, e.g. “ESM_3.mpg”, “ESM_4.pdf”.

Captions

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Processing of supplementary files

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Accessibility

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Video files do not contain anything that flashes more than three times per second (so
that users prone to seizures caused by such effects are not put at risk)

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research funder and the grant number should be given. This note should be added in a separate
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