Author Guidelines:

Before submission author/s should read carefully Guide for authors, Plagiarism policy, Publication ethics, Open access statement, Protection of research participants, and Copyright & Licensing statement and Privacy policy, River Publication House & Media (RPHM) Journals permits authors fully open Access to authors and users without restriction. All published articles are made freely available to read, download, print, share immediately upon publication, given that the original source and authors are cited. Articles are highly discoverable and accessible to researchers both in and outside of their discipline. Our active press program places articles in high profile global media outlets. 

1. Language:

Articles should be written in English. Please note that the article will not undergo editing by RPHM journals before publication and a manuscript may be rejected during the initial checking process if it is deemed unintelligible and hence not suitable for peer review.

2. Authorship criteria:

All authors should have made a significant contribution to the work and agree to be accountable for the parts of the work they have done. All authors should approve the final version for publication. Being an author implies full responsibility for the article’s content and that the work conforms to our editorial policies. For large, multi-centre collaborations, the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript must be listed as authors. Details of each author’s contribution must be listed in the Author contributions section. Anyone who has contributed but does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. 

3.Citation ethics & acknowledgement of sources:
The work and/or words of others must be acknowledged with proper citation or quotation. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the written permission of the author ( originator) of the work involved. The permission letter physical copy should submit to the journal office and soft copy should submit to the journal e-mail id.

4.Guideline for Data use:
Data fabrication and falsification is a serious concern for publication ethics. If submitted article is found to be fabricated or falsified results or data including the manipulation of images, then corresponding author is liable to provide necessary justification. Without proper justification, submission will be canceled and action may be taken for violation of publishing ethics.

5.Concurrent submission:
Articles that are found to have been published elsewhere, or to be under review elsewhere, will be treated as duplicate submission or Concurrent submission. In such case, journal authority may cancel the submission immediately. Moreover, action can be taken for the submission due to unethical publishing behavior. If authors use their own previously published work, or work that is currently under review, as the basis for a submitted article, they are required to cite the previous work and indicate how their submitted article offers novel contributions beyond those of the previous work. Reuse of the authors’ own words outside the methods should be attributed or quoted in the text. Reuse of the author's own figures or words may require permission from the copyright holder and the authors are responsible for obtaining this. For more information visit COPE guidelines.

6.Conflicts of interest:
During the editorial process, the following relationships between editors and authors are considered conflicts of interest: Colleagues currently working in the same research group or department, recent co-authors, and doctoral students for which editor served as committee chair. During the submission process, the authors are kindly advised to identify possible conflicts of interest with the journal editors. After manuscripts are assigned to the handling editor, individual editors are required to inform the managing editor of any possible conflicts of interest with the authors. Journal submissions are also assigned to referees to minimize conflicts of interest. After manuscripts are assigned for review, referees are asked to inform the editor of any conflicts that may exist.

7.Copyright Statement:
During production process, author/s should transfer copyright to the publisher for the purpose of publication, indexing and archiving for public use in reference to the published work in the name of authors. After publication in journal authors reserve all proprietary rights and rights to use all or part of the article in future works. In case of republication of whole, part, parts thereof by a third party, written permission must be taken from journal authority. After publication, publisher & assessment team is not responsible/ liable for any kind of discrepancy and legal dispute.

8.Open Access Policy:
International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research & Reviews (IJMRR) provides free open access to disseminate the scientific knowledge to the global research community. All published articles are made freely available to read, download, and distribute immediately upon publication, given that the original source and authors are cited.

9. Article preparation guide:

(i) Title: Provide a concise and specific title that clearly reflects the content of the article.

(ii) Abstract: Abstracts should be up to 300 words long and provide a succinct summary of the article. Although the abstract should explain why the article might be interesting, the importance of the work should not be over-emphasized. Citations should not be used in the abstract. Abbreviations, if needed, should be spelled out. For original research, we suggest that (if applicable) abstracts are structured into Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions.

(iii) Keywords: Author/s should supply up to eight relevant keywords that describe the subject of their article. These will improve the visibility of your article.

(iv) Main Body:The format of the main body of the article is flexible: it should be concise, making it easy to read and review, and presented in a format that is appropriate for the type of study presented. A Research Article should be no more than 10,000 words. For most Research Articles, the following standard format will be the most appropriate:

Ø Introduction

ØMethods and materials

ØResults

ØConclusions/Discussion

(v) References and footnotes:References and footnotes can be listed in any standard style if it is consistent within a given article. We allow both references and footnotes within an article (a full reference list within text citations, and explanatory footnotes).

Few basic requirements:

ØAbbreviations should align with discipline specific standards.

ØPreprints can be cited and listed in the reference list.

ØUnpublished abstracts, papers that have been submitted to a journal but not yet accepted, and personal communications should instead be included in the text; they should be referred to as ‘personal communications’ or ‘unpublished work’ and the researchers involved should be named. Authors are responsible for getting permission to quote any personal communications from the cited individuals.

ØWeb links, URLs, and links to the authors’ own websites should be included as hyperlinks within the main body of the article, and not as references.

ØDatasets published or deposited elsewhere (for example, in a general repository) should be listed in the “References” section and the citation to the dataset should follow one of these examples.

(vi) Figures and Tables

All figures and tables should be cited and discussed in the article text. Figure legends and tables should be added at the end of the manuscript. Tables should be formatted using the ‘insert table’ function in Word, or provided as an Excel file. For larger tables or spreadsheets of data, please see our data guidelines. Files for figures are usually best uploaded as separate files through the submission system (see below for information on formats).

Any photographs must be accompanied by written consent to publish from the individuals involved. Any distinguishing features, including medical record numbers or codes in the case of clinical images that could be used to identify the patient or participant concerned must be removed from the images.

Titles and legends: Each figure or table should have a concise title of no more than 15 words. A legend for each figure and table should also be provided that briefly describes the key points and explains any symbols and abbreviations used. The legend should be sufficiently detailed so that the figure or table can stand alone from the main text.

Permissions: If reusing a figure or table from a previous publication, the authors are responsible for obtaining permission from the copyright holder and for the payment of any fees (if applicable). Please include a note in the legend to state that: ‘This figure/table has been reproduced with permission from [include original publication citation]’.

Figure formats: For all figures, the color mode should be RGB or grayscale.

Line art: Examples of line art include graphs, diagrams, flow charts and phylogenetic trees. Please make sure that text is at least 8pt, the lines are thick enough to be clearly seen at the size the image will likely be displayed (between 75-150 mm width, which converts to one or two columns width, respectively), and that the font size and type is consistent between images. Figures should be created using a white background to ensure that they display correctly online.

If you submit a graph, please export the graph as an EPS file using the program you used to create the graph (e.g. SPSS). If this is not possible, please send us the original file in which the graph was created (e.g. if you created the graph in Excel, send us the Excel file with the embedded graph).

If you submit other forms of line art such as flow charts, diagrams or text to be displayed as an image, please export the image as an EPS file (e.g. if creating phylogenetic trees with specialized programs), or send us the original file that was used to create the image (e.g. EPS or AI files if Adobe Illustrator was used, or a DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX or equivalent file if Word or PowerPoint was used).

If none of the above options is possible then we also accept uncompressed TIFFs with a resolution of at least 600dpi at the size they are likely to be displayed at (see above).

(vii) Images (if applicable)

Photographs and microscopy images: Photographs and microscopy images should be submitted as uncompressed TIFFs with a resolution of at least 300dpi at the size they are likely to be displayed (see above).

Mixed images: Images that are a mix of half-tone images and line art (e.g. annotated gels or images with scale bars) should be submitted as TIFF files at a resolution of 500dpi or vector files (e.g. EPS or Adobe Illustrator files). Please ensure that the text size is at least 8pt and lines are thick enough to be clearly visible at the size the image will be displayed.

Images to be used as data: If you are submitting photographic images as part of your raw dataset, please submit them as uncompressed TIFF files.

Electronic manipulation of images: The clarity of figures may be improved using image-editing software, but this must be done transparently and without misrepresenting the data (and the original, unaltered source data must be provided with the article). Brightness, contrasts or color balance may be used to enhance electronic images, but such changes must be applied to the whole image; any non-linear adjustments must be made explicit in the figure legend. Specific features within an image must not be added or changed (e.g. amplified, removed or obscured); and if figures are composed from images that have come from different sources, such as different gels, or from different parts of the same source, this must be made clear on the figure (e.g. by adding dividing lines). Authors are required to include details of all modifications made to images published as figures or uploaded as data in the Methods section of an article, including the name of the software (with version number) used to make these modifications. Please see our Policies on Image Manipulation for more information.

(viii) Supplementary Material

To ensure all materials associated with a manuscript are visible, FAIR, and subject to peer review, F1000Research does not accept supplementary material. Additional materials that support the key claims in the paper but are not absolutely required to follow the study design and analysis of the results, e.g. questionnaires, or supporting images or tables, can be included as extended data. Extended data should be deposited in an approved repository and listed as part of the data availability statement. For more information, please see extended data.

10. Data (and Software) Availability

• All articles must include a Data Availability statement, even where there is no data associated with the article - see our data guidelines and policies for more information.
• The Data Availability statement should provide full details of how, where, and under what conditions the data underlying the results can be accessed; for practical guidance please see Add a Data Availability statement to your manuscript. See also Prepare your Data and Select a Repository for further guidance on data presentation, formatting and deposition.
• If you have deposited your datasets or used data that are already available in a repository, please include the name of the repository, the DOI or accession number, and license. This should be done in the style of, for example:

11.  Reporting Guidelines

Standards of reporting: Standards of reporting guidelines help authors to ensure that they have provided a comprehensive description of their research, making it easier for others to assess and reproduce the work; for more detail and a comprehensive overview, see the FAIRSharing initiative. Available reporting guidelines for biological research can be found using the MIBBI Foundry filter on the FAIRSharing website.

Articles in F1000Research must comply with consensus-based minimum reporting guidelines for research. Comprehensive lists of available reporting guidelines can be found on the EQUATOR network website for health research.

Checklists are available for a number of reporting guidelines, including:

·         Randomized controlled trials (CONSORT) and protocols (SPIRIT)

·         Systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) and protocols (PRISMA-P)

·         Observational studies (STROBE)

·         Case reports (CARE)

·         Qualitative research (COREQ; SRQR)

·         In vivo animal studies (ARRIVE)

Please deposit completed reporting checklists and flow charts in an approved general repository; include the guideline type, name of the repository, the DOI, and license in the manuscript’s Data availability statement in the style of, for example:

12. Protection of research participants:

When reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate whether institutional and national standards for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed. Further guidance on animal research ethics is available from the International Association of Veterinary Editors’ Consensus Author Guidelines on Animal Ethics and Welfare.