Guidelines

Express yourself with scientific temper.

A research article must be formatted in A4 size paper, 12 point size Verdana Font, double spacing and in a single column with wide margins, in the following principal headings,

Language: The primary language of The Scientific Temper is British/Indian English However, authors from non-English-spoken world are encouraged to write the ABASTRACT, CONCLUSIONS AND REFERENCES in their native language also, with the English

  1. TITLE
  2. AUTHOR(S) NAMES IN FULL
  3. AFFILIATION (NAME OF THE DEPARTMENT, COMPLETE NAME OF UNIVERSITY, CITY, COUNTRY, PINCODE, E-MAIL OF CORRESPONDING AUTHOR, PHONE NUMBER(OPTIONAL),
  4. A RUNNING TITLE
  5. ABSTRACT (150 T0 250 WORDS IN A CONTINUOUS PARAGRAPH)
  6. KEYWORDS (6 TO 8, OUT OF WHICH TWO WORDS SHOULD BE FROM THE TITLE)
  7. INTRODUCTION (AVOID USELESS DETAILS)
  8. MATERIALS AND METHODS (DEFINE CLEARLY THE METHODOLOGY USED STEP BY STEP)
  9. OBSERVATION/ RESULTS (USE PHOTOGRAPHS, CHARTS, TABLES, GRAPHS TO COMPLEMENT AND SUPPORT YOUR FINDINGS)
  10. DISCUSSION (YOUR FINDINGS SHOULD BE DULY COMPARED AND CONTRASTED WITH THE LETERATURES CITED IN THE REVIEW SECTION TO ESTABLISH YOUR HYPOTHESIS GIVING SUITABLE REFERENCES. A DISCUSSION WITHOUT CITATIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED AS A CARELESS APPROACH AND MANUSCRIPT WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR PUBLICATION IN THIS JOURNAL. 
  11. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (A MUST)
  12. CONFLICT OF INTEREST (A MUST)
  13. REFERENCES: REFERENCES SHOULD BE GIVEN IN APA FORMAT. NOT IN IAEEE FORMAT. IN THE REFERENCE SECTION OF THE MANUSCRIPT ALL REFERENCES SHOULD BE ARRANGED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER IN HANGING PARAGRAPH. THE IN-TEXT CITATIONS SHOULD BE GIVEN BY NAME FOLLOWED BY COMMA IN BRACKETS; FOR EXAMPLE, (Tripathi,1996; Tripathi and Pandey, 1995) AND NOT BY NUMBERS (LIKE1,2,3 ETC.)
  14. All illustrations, figures, and tables should be  placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. Review articles may be formatted in otherwise manner, suitable for the authors for better expression and communication.
  15. For submitting a review article for publication, it is essential that the corresponding author must have at least THREE prior publications in the same field in her/his name.
  16. All in-text citations should be given as hyperlink to references given in the reference section, i e., the citations should be interactive.