INSTRUCTIONS TO PARTICIPANTS FOR SUBMISSION OF CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Approved and accepted presentations of the 3^rd Biotechnology World Congress will be published by Bentham Science Publishers, an STM publisher of international repute, in either of their journals Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology or The Open Proceedings Journal, subject to the decision of the Advisory Committee.

Please find below the Instructions to be followed in the preparation of manuscripts to be submitted for publication as Conference proceedings.

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION: All manuscripts must be sent to asad@biotechworldcongress.com via email. 

Manuscripts for the conference proceedings 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 Covering Letter along with the manuscript, on behalf of all the co-authors (if any). The author(s) will 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.

For all online submissions, please provide zipped folder containing 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 imperative that before submission, authors should carefully proofread the files for special characters, mathematical symbols, Greek letters,  equations, tables and images, to ensure that they appear in proper format.

References, figures, tables, structures, etc. should be referred to in the text at the place where they are first discussed. Figure Legends/captions should also be provided. 

Any queries therein should be addressed to asad@biotechworldcongress.com.  

MANUSCRIPTS PUBLISHED: The Journal accepts full length review and research articles written in English.

MANUSCRIPT LENGTH: The maximum length for Research articles is 12-20 pages, while for review articles it should be between 20-30 pages  (400-450 words per page typed on A/4 page, using 12 font size, double line space). 

There is no restriction on the number of figures, tables or additional files e.g. video clips, animation and datasets, that can be included with each article online. Authors may include relevant supporting data with each article. 

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. 

For further convenience, our contracted service provider Eureka Science can provide assistance to authors for the preparation of manuscripts.

MANUSCRIPT SECTIONS FOR PAPERS: Manuscripts may be divided into the following sections: 

Covering letter
Title
Title page  
Abstract
Keywords
Text organization 
List of abbreviations (if any)
Conflict of interest (if any)
Acknowledgements (if any) 
References 
Appendice Figures / illustrations (if any) 
Chemical structures (if any)
Tables (if any)
Supportive / supplementary material (if any) 

Covering Letter: It is mandatory that a signed covering letter also be submitted along with the manuscript by the author to whom correspondence is to be addressed, delineating the scope of the submitted article declaring the potential competing interests, acknowledging contributions from authors and funding agencies, and certifying that the paper is prepared according to the 'Instructions for Authors'. All  inconsistencies in the text and in the reference section, and any typographical errors must be carefully checked and corrected before the submission of the manuscript. 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. The authors  acknowledge that the publishers have the legal right to take appropriate action against the authors for any such violation of the terms and conditions as laid down in the copy right agreement. DOWNLOAD COVERING LETTER. 

Title: The title of the article should be precise and brief and must not be more than 120 characters. Authors should avoid the use of non-standard  abbreviations. The title must be written in title case except for articles, conjunctions and prepositions. Authors should also provide a short ʻrunning titleʼ. Title, running title, byline, correspondent, footnote and keywords should be written as presented in original manuscripts. 

Title Page: Title page should include paper title, author(s)'s full name and affiliation, corresponding author(s)'s names and complete affiliation/address, along with phone, fax and email.

Abstract: The abstract should not exceed 250 words for review and research papers and should be limited to only 150 words for letters  summarizing the essential features of the article. The use of abbreviations should be reduced to a minimum and the references should not be cited in the abstract.

Key words: Provide 6-8 keywords in alphabetical order. 

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 Acknowledgement (if any) 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, 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. 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 10 pt 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. The reference numbers should be given in square brackets in the text. 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. etc. 

Greek Symbols and Special Characters: Greek symbols and special characters often undergo formatting changes and get corrupted or lost during preparation of 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 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. Chemical equations, chemical names, mathematical usage, unit of measurements, chemical and physical quantity  & units must conform to SI and Chemical Abstracts or IUPAC.

All kinds of measurements should be reported only in International System of Units (SI).

List of Abbreviations: 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.

Conflict of Interest: Financial contributions to the work being reported should be clearly acknowledged, as should any potential conflict of interest. 

Acknowledgements: Please acknowledge anyone (individual/company/institution) who has contributed to the study by making substantial contributions to conception, design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, or who was involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content. Please list the source(s) of funding for the study, for each author, and for the manuscript  preparation in the acknowledgements section.

References: References must be listed in the ACS 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 ACS Style: 

Journal Reference:
[1]       Bard, M.; Woods, R.A.; Bartón, D.H.; Corrie, J.E.; Widdowson, D.A. Sterol mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: chromatographic analyses. Lipids, 1977, 12(8), 645-654. 

[2]       Zhang, W.; Brombosz, S.M.; Mendoza, J.L.; Moore, J.S. A high-yield, one-step synthesis of o-phenylene ethynylene cyclic trimer via  precipitation-driven alkyne metathesis. J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70, 10198-10201.

Book Reference: 
[3]       Crabtree, R.H. The Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals, 3rd ed.; Wiley & Sons: New York, 2001.  

Book Chapter Reference: 
[4]       Wheeler, D.M.S.; Wheeler, M.M. D. In: Studies in Natural Products Chemistry; Atta-ur-Rahman, Ed.; Elsevier Science B. V: Amsterdam, 1994; Vol. 14, pp. 3-46. 
 
Conference Proceedings:
[5]       Jakeman, D.L.; Withers, S.G.E. In: Carbohydrate Bioengineering: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Proceedings of the 4th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, June 10-13, 2001; Teeri, T.T.; Svensson, B.; Gilbert, H.J.; Feizi, T., Eds.; Royal Society of  Chemistry: Cambridge, UK, 2002; pp. 3-8. 

URL (WebPage):
[6]       National Library of Medicine. Specialized Information Services: Toxicology and Environmental Health.  http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/ToxMain.html (Accessed May 23, 2004). 

Patent:
[7]       Hoch, J.A.; Huang, S. Screening methods for the identification of novel antibiotics. U.S. Patent 6,043,045, March 28, 2000.  

Thesis:
[8]       Mackel, H. Capturing the Spectra of Silicon Solar Cells. PhD Thesis, The Australian National University: Canberra, December 2004.

E-citations:  
[9]        Citations for articles/material published exclusively online or in open access (free-to-view) , must contain the exact Web addresses (URLs) at the end of the reference(s), except those posted on an authorʼs Web site unless editorially essential, e.g. ʻReference: Available from: URLʼ. 

Some important points to remember:

*          All references must be complete and accurate. 
*          All authors must be cited and there should be no use of the phrase et al.  
*          Online citations should include the date of access. 
*          Journal abbreviations should follow the Index Medicus/MEDLINE.
*          Take special care of the punctuation convention as described in the above-mentioned examples.
*          Superscript 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. 

Appendices: In case there is a need to present lengthy, but essential methodological details, use appendixes, which can be a part of the article. An appendix must not exceed three pages (Times New Roman, 12 point fonts, 900 max. words per page).The information should be provided in a condensed form, ruling out the need for full sentences. A single appendix should be titled APPENDIX, while more than one can be titled  APPENDIX A, APPENDIX B, and so on.

Figures / Illustrations: 

All authors must strictly follow the guidelines below for preparing illustrations. 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 Bentham Publishing Services. The costs for such improvement will be charged to the authors.

The authors should provide the illustrations as separate files, as well as embedded in the text file, numbered consecutively in the order of their  appearance. Each figure should include a single illustration. Each figure should be closely cropped to minimize the amount of white space surrounding the illustration. 

If a figure consists of separate parts, it is important that a single composite illustration file be submitted, containing all parts of the figure. 
 
Photographs should be provided with a scale bar if appropriate, as well as high-resolution component files. 

Scaling/Resolution 

For Line Art image type, which is generally an image based on lines and text and does not contain tonal or shaded areas, the preferred file  format is TIFF or EPS, with color mode being Monochrome 1-bit or RGB, in a resolution of 900-1200 dpi. 

For Halftone image type, which is generally a continuous tone photograph and contains no text, the preferred file format is TIFF, with color mode being RGB or Grayscale, in a resolution of 300 dpi.  

For Combination image type, which is generally an image containing halftone in addition to text or line art elements, the preferred file format is TIFF, with colour mode being RGB or Grayscale, in a resolution of 500-900 dpi.

Formats 

For illustrations, the following file formats are acceptable:

•           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.

If the large size of TIFF or EPS figures acts as an obstacle to online submission, authors may find that conversion to JPEG format before submission 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. 

Files should not be compressed with tools such as Zipit or Stuffit prior to submission as these tools will in any case produce negligible file-size savings for JPEGs and TIFFs, which are already compressed.  

Please do not: 

1. Supply embedded graphics in your word processor (spreadsheet, presentation) document;

2. Supply files that are optimized for screen use (like GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low; 

3. Supply files that are too low in resolution;

4. Submit 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. 

Good general tools for image conversion include GraphicConverter on the Macintosh, PaintShop Pro, for Windows, and ImageMagick, which is  available on Macintosh, Windows and UNIX platforms.

Note that bitmap images (e.g. screenshots) should not be converted to EPS, since this will result in a much larger file size than the equivalent JPEG, TIFF, PNG or BMP, with no increase in 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. In case the images have been originally prepared in an Office application, such as Word or PowerPoint, then the original Office files should be directly uploaded to the site, instead of being converted to JPEG or another format that may be of low quality.

Color Figures / Illustrations:

•          The cost for each individual page of color figures/plates/illustrations  is US$ 920. 

•          Color figures should be supplied in CMYK not RGB colors. 

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]

Drawing Settings: 
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)

Text settings:
Font                        Times New Roman 
Size                         8 pt

Under the Preference Choose:
Units                       points 
Tolerances            3 pixels

Under Page Setup Use:
Paper                      US letter 
Scale                      100%

Tables:

• Data Tables should be submitted in Microsoft Word table format.

• Each table should include a title/caption being explanatory in itself with respect to the details discussed in the table. Detailed legends may then follow.

• Table number in bold font, i.e. Table 1, should follow a title. The title should be in small case with the first letter in caps. A full stop should be  placed at the end of the title.

• Tables should be embedded in the text exactly according to their appropriate placement in the submitted manuscript.

• Columns and rows of data should be made visibly distinct by ensuring that the borders of each cell are displayed as black lines.

• Tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals sequentially in order of their citation in the body of the text.

• If a reference is cited in both the table and text, please insert a lettered footnote in the table to refer to the numbered reference in the text.

• Tabular data provided as additional files can be submitted as an Excel spreadsheet.

SUPPORTIVE/SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: We do encourage to append supportive material, for example a PowerPoint file containing a discussion about the study, a PowerPoint file containing additional screenshots, a Word, RTF, or PDF document showing the original instrument(s) used, a video, or the original data (SAS/SPSS files, Excel files, Access Db files, etc.), provided it is inevitable or endorsed by the journal's Editor. 

Supportive/Supplementary material intended for publication must be numbered and referred to in the manuscript but should not be a part of the submitted paper. In-text citations as well as a section with the heading "Supportive/Supplementary Material" before the "References" section  should be provided. Here, list all Supportive/Supplementary Material and include a brief caption line for each file describing its contents.

Any additional files will be linked into the final published article in the form supplied by the author, but will not be displayed within the paper. They will be made available in exactly the same form as originally provided only on our Web site. Please also make sure that each additional file is a  single table, figure or movie (please do not upload linked worksheets or PDF files larger than one sheet). Supportive/ Supplementary material must be provided in a single zipped file not larger than 4 MB.

Authors must clearly indicate if these files are not for publication but meant for the reviewers'/editors' perusal only.  

PERMISSION FOR REPRODUCTION: Published/reproduced material should not be included unless you have obtained written permission from the copyright holder, which should be forwarded to the Editorial Office in case of acceptance of your article for publication.

For obtaining permission for reproducing any material published in an article by Bentham Science Publishers, please fill in the request FORM  downloadable from the journal’s Web site and send to asad@biotechworldcongress.com for consideration.

AUTHORS AND INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS: The authors will be required to provide their full names, the institutional affiliations and the location, with an asterisk in front of the name of the principal/corresponding author. The corresponding author(s) should be designated and their  complete address, business telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address must be stated to receive correspondence and galley proofs.

LANGUAGE AND EDITING: Manuscripts submitted containing many English typographical errors will not be published. Manuscripts which are accepted for publication on condition that the written English submitted is corrected, will be sent a quote by Eureka Science,  a professional language editing company.  Authors from non-English language countries who have poor English language written skills, are advised to contact the language editing company prior to submitting their manuscript to the journal. Please contact Eureka Science for a language editing quote at e-mail: info@eureka-science.com stating the total number of words of the article to be edited.