Authors should submit the manuscript that have been carefully proof read and polished. Authors are required to refer the JSCER manuscript template. This will ensure fast processing and publication. Acceptance or rejection notification will be sent to all authors through e-mail.There is Publication Fee for regular articles, if accepted after peer review process.

As per the open-access license CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0, authors own the copyright to their articles and have permitted third parties to use, distribute, or reproduce the content in advance and without limits1,2,3. To have an article published in an open-access journal, authors of accepted articles must pay a fixed APC. This is the primary responsibility of the corresponding author to handle the required APC and reimbursement from their organisations or funding bodies if needed.

Refund of APC:
Please note that the APC cannot be refunded under the following circumstances:

  • if the article has a copyright signed by the author (digital or scanned).
  • if the article is terminated according to the removal policy of the journal. 
  • if the article is withdrawn.

Utilisation of APC:
The APC (Article Processing Charge) is a crucial element for any infrastructure, particularly for open-access journals. It covers the expenses associated with publication. It is responsible for protecting the costs incurred during the publication process.

  1. to oversee the infrastructure.
  2. to manage the payment of all parties involved (including employees).
  3. to assist in managing all kinds of hardware and software resources. For example, anti-plagiarism software, website management, Printers, Laptops, etc.
  4. to pay the DOI fee.
  5. to pay for online and offline resources. For example, cross reference membership fee (yearly), server fee, etc.

 

  • Manuscript must be original and should not have been published previously anywhere.
  • Authors should follow the JSCER Manuscript format.
  • Manuscript must be written in English using MS-Word (doc or docx format only).
  • Only “Times New Roman” font should be used.
  • Manuscript should contain minimum of 10 pages.
  • Authors are required to sign the JSCER copyright transfer form, once the manuscript is accepted.
  • Paper submissions are normally acknowledged based on reviewer comments.In case the author do not receive any acknowledgment for a submitted paper, an email can be sent to editor@jscer.org
  • Fraudulent or significantly inaccurate statements form unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.
  • The authors should confirm that their work is completely original, and if the work and/or words of others have been used, this fact has been appropriately cited. Plagiarism in all its forms founds unethical publishing conduct and is unacceptable. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently founds unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. Authors should not submit articles describing essentially the same re-search to more than one journal.
  • Authors should acknowledge the financial support and help/direction of others if appropriate.
  • Authors should provide the repudiation if appropriate.
  • Manuscripts should be submitted in JSCER Paper Format that can be downloaded from the Downloads Section of the website.
  • Publisher accept author files in .docx/.doc/.format.
  • Articles should be carefully checked and check before submission, after you have submitted your article you are unable to make any modifications to it during the review process. Even though if accepted, you a chance to make minor revisions after reviewers and before the final submission of your article.
  • Article submissions must contain no more than 20% of textual material published in other places by the same author or authors, and these other places must be acknowledged and cited; in other words, the remaining 80% of the article must be unique and paper to your current submission.