Author’s Guide
Submission of manuscripts
Submission to the Journal of Veterinary Research Advances proceeds online via the following link:http://jvra.org.in . After Login, Authors will be guided step-by-step through uploading files directly from their device. Electronic DOC proofs will be automatically generated from uploaded files and used for subsequent reviewing.
Authors are invited to suggest the names of 2 reviewers (with their e-mail addresses) whom are qualified to evaluate their submission. Such names do not, however, imply that they will definitely be used as reviewers.
Authors should send queries concerning the submission process or journal procedures to: www.jvra.org.in and can check the status of their manuscript within the publication process using the editorial manager of Journal of Veterinary Research Advances. Submission of an article is understood to imply that the article should be original and not already published in or simultaneously sent to be published elsewhere. Submission also implies that all authors have approved the paper for release and are in agreement with its content.
Ethics
Manuscripts describing any experimental research on animals should include a statement of approval by the Ethical Committee of the institute where the work was done, mentioning that the study was carried out according to the legal requirements of the relevant local or national authority. Before papers describing animal studies are accepted for publication in the Journal of Veterinary Research Advances, the authors must convince the editors that the work conformed to appropriate ethical standards. The care and use of experimental animals should comply with ethical guidelines and policies.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is globally recognized as a serious academic offence. As part of our commitment to the protection and enhancement of the peer review process, editors assist the scientific community in all aspects of publishing ethics, especially in cases of (suspected) duplicate submission or plagiarism. Manuscripts will be checked with the online plagiarism software to ensure content originality. Manuscripts with remarkable similarity will be returned to the authors.
Manuscript preparation
Review article: There is no specific format for review article. Refer latest published review article from www.jvra.org.in for general format of the review. Minimum 50% references must be from past five years.
Research article:
Title page: The front page should include the title of the manuscript, full names of authors and their institutional affiliation(s). The address for correspondence, including the name of corresponding author, position, address (institutional affiliation, city, zip-code and country), telephone and fax number and e-mail address, should be given.
We follow double blind peer review process. So, please do not include author name and affiliations in manuscript file. However, you have to include in step of submission.
Abstract:
Aim:
Materials and Methods:
Results:
Conclusion:
Keywords: 3-6. It should be in alphabetical order.
Introduction:It should be in three or more paragraph. Second last paragraph should contain the significance of the research and last paragraph should contain aim of the study.
Materials and Methods:
Ethical approval: It is compulsory when you use any live animal for research/study or collect the samples from live animal. Consent should be obtained in case of human samples or information.
Study area: Include map of study area if it is larger and include many region/country.
Animals:
Experimental design:
Tests, procedures etc.:
Statistical analysis:
You may add or delete the subheading as per your research.
Results: This section should contain results of your research. Give subheadings if necessary.
Discussion: This section should contain Discussion of your results. Compare your results with previous year studies (give preference to last five year studies). Discuss the factors responsible for your results. Give subheadings if necessary.
Conclusion: This section should contain extract of your results. Please do not repeat the results data of your research here.
Acknowledgement
All persons who do not qualify as authors should be acknowledged and their particular contribution described. All sources of funding for the reported work, for all the authors, must be acknowledged. Both the research funder and the grant number (if applicable) should be given for each funding source.
Conflict of interest
At the end of the text, under a subheading “Conflict of interest statement” all authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that might inappropriately influence or bias their work.
References: References section must include all relevant published works cited in the text in
alphabetical order, starting with the first author’s surname and numbered consecutively.
Journal title should be abbreviated. If the referenced article is written by one author, it is cited
as (Kumar, 2020) in the text. If written by two or more authors, it must be cited as (Kumar
and Singh, 2020) and (Kumar et al., 2020), respectively.
Here are four examples of the referencing style:
Kumar PJ (2020). Molecular characterization of dermatophytes isolated from horses. J. Vet. Res. Adv., 1(2): 28-37.
Kumar PJ and Singh AK (2019). Evaluation of reproductive performance of smallholder dairy cows. J. Vet. Res. Adv., 01(02): 38-45.
Miah AG, Osman AA, Mobarak MH, Parveen R and Salma U (2020). Evaluation of supplementation of hydroponic fodder on productive and reproductive performance of rabbit. J. Vet. Res. Adv., 02 (02): 41-50.
Cavanagh D and Naqi SA (1997). Infectious bronchitis. In: Calnek, BW; Barns, JH; Beard, CW; McDougald, LR and Saif, YM (Eds.), Disease of poultry. (10th Edn.), Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University Press. PP: 511-526.
Tables: Include all tables in seperate file during menuscript submission.
Figures/graphs etc.: Please do not include figures in Word file but upload the PNG/JPG file of each figure in submission site step. However include figure caption in word file.