Articles submitted to B. N. Seal Journal of Science should conform to the guidelines indicated below. When submitting an article, authors should carefully follow the author guidelines of the journal to ensure proper structure and language.
The title should be concise and specific to the topic of the article. Titles should be presented in title case. All botanical names should be in italics.
Provide full author name for all authors. Affiliation details should include Department, Name of the Institution, City, State with PIN Code and country for all authors. One of the authors should be designated as the corresponding author with asterisk (*) against his/her name. Only the corresponding author’s email address should be provided in the article. All names are listed together and separated by commas and address should be keyed to the author's name with superscript numbers.
Abstract including the article should contain a brief account on objectives, relevant observations and conclusions which should not split into subheadings and no longer than a single paragraph with maximum limit of 250 words. If there is mentioning of scientific names, it should be written in italics with author citation.
Keywords should avoid words from title as far as possible. Authors should provide 4–6 keywords. Keywords should be written in alphabetical order and separated by commas.
All abbreviations should be defined on first use in the text along with the abbreviation in parenthesis.
Organize the article in sections labelled as Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion and References. Author may merge ‘results’ and ‘discussion’ together if find necessary. Tables and figures should be provided after ‘references’ in numerical order with proper caption.
People who contributed to the work but do not fit the criteria for authors should be listed here along with their contribution.
Funding: Name of funding agency (if any) need to be mentioned along with grant number.
Conflict of Interest: If there are no competing interests to declare, the author should include a statement to the article to confirm that there are no relevant financial or non-financial competing interests to report.
All citations of published works in the text, figures, or tables must be in the reference list and vice versa.
In-text citations: Citation should be of increasing numerical order [1], [2], [3], etc. Group of citations should be listed in range like [1–3], [1, 7, 12–14], etc.
Reference List: This should only contain references to those works which you have cited in your text. It should appear at the end of your text. It should be arranged numerically in citation order. Follow the format: (Author(s) name. Title of article. Title of journal in full Publication Year, Volume Number (Issue Number): Page Range.)
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Table and Figure should be sequentially numbered and cited in the text as Table 1, Figure 1 respectively and so on. Statistical representations such as bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, etc. should be considered as figures in the article. Captions of the Table should be placed above the Table (Table 1. Matter). Captions of the Figure should be placed below the Figure by the appropriate label (Figure 1. Matter). The photographs in the plate should be labelled with small English alphabets in the bottom right corner. The photographs of the figures should be of high-resolution .jpg format.