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Author Guidelines
1. General Author Guidelines
Authors must submit their manuscripts by registering first and logging in as an author through the following URL address:
ONLINE SUBMISSION
If authors have any problems on the online submission, please contact Editorial Office at the following email:
jmic.sci@umi.ac.id
Three types of manuscripts are acceptable for publication: Original Research Articles, Short Communication, Review Articles (not preferable).
2. Manuscript Template
The manuscript should be prepared according to the following author guidelines in the MS Word article template format: download here
3. Revision of manuscripts
Manuscripts sent back to the authors after revision should be returned to the editor without delay. The revised manuscript should be uploaded to the Online Submission Interface in the "Upload Author Version" from Review task window. The revised manuscript returned later than three months will be considered as a new submission and will be reviewed again by other peer-reviewers.
Editorial Office of Journal of Microbiology Science
All correspondences should be sent to the following Editorial Office:
Herwin, S.Farm., M.Si (Editor in Chief)
Editorial Office of Journal of Microbiology Science, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Muslim Indonesia
Jl. Urip Sumohardjo km. 5, Kampus II UMI, 3rd Floor Laboratory of Pharmacy Building, Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia 90231, Telp.: +622328980617
Email: jmic.sci@umi.ac.id
4. Guideline for Online Submission
An author should first register as Author Role and may be offered as Reviewer through the following address:
ONLINE SUBMISSION
The author should fulfill the form as detail as possible where the star marked form must be entered. After all form textbox was filled, Author clicks on “Register” button to proceed the registration. Therefore, the Author is brought to an online author submission interface where Author should click on “New Submission”. In the Start, a New Submission section, click on “Click Here”: to go to step one of the five-step submission process”. The following are five steps in online submission process:
Step 1 - Starting the Submission: The author must check-mark on the submission checklists. An author should type or copy-paste Covering Letter in Letter to Editor.
Step 2 – Uploading the Submission: To upload a manuscript to this journal, click Browse on the Upload submission file item and choose the manuscript document file (.doc/.docx) to be submitted, then click "Upload" button until the file has been uploaded. Do not upload a cover letter and other supplementary files here.
Step 3 – Entering Submission’s Metadata: In this step, detail authors metadata should be entered including the marked corresponding author. After that, the manuscript title and abstract must be uploaded by copying the text and paste in the textbox including keywords and references.
Step 4 – Uploading Supplementary Files: Supplementary file "Author Agreement Forms" hould be uploaded. Therefore, click on Browse button, choose the files, and then click on Upload button.
Step 5 – Confirming the Submission: Author should final check the uploaded manuscript documents in this step. To submit the manuscript to Journal of Microbiology Science, click Finish Submission button after the documents are true. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgment by email and will be able to view the submission’s progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal web address site and log in as an author.
After this submission, Authors who submit the manuscript will get a confirmation email about the submission automatically. Therefore, Authors are able to track their submission status at any time by logging in to the online submission interface. The submission tracking includes a status of manuscript review and editorial process.
5. Manuscript Preparation Guidelines
According to Engelmore and Morgan, manuscript content should, in general, be organized in the following order:
- Title;
- Authors Name;
- Authors Affiliation;
- Abstract;
- Keywords;
- Introduction;
- Materials and Methods;
- Results and Discussion;
- Conclusions;
- Acknowledgments (optional); and
- References.
For specific information on technical information about the content of the manuscript, see and use the Journal template.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
Copyright Notice
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
The Journal Microbiology Science (JMS) is an open access journal, with the aim of informing and publishing research results for development of science and technology, especially in the field of microbiology freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All articles can be downloaded for free. Articles published in the Journal are Open Access articles distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The benefits of open access for authors include:
For readers to become writers, There is no space limit for additional material including images, extensive data, or video recordings. Allows readers to read, downloads, quotes, distributes, prints, searches, or links to the full text and allows readers to use them for other lawful purposes.
COPYRIGHT
Submission of a manuscript implies that the submitted work has not been published before (except as part of a thesis, report, or abstract), is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and has been approved by all co-authors. Upon acceptance, authors retain copyright to their work and grant the Journal Microbiology Science (JMS) a license to distribute the work under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This license permits others to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use), provided proper credit is given to the original authors, changes are indicated, and any derivative works are distributed under the same license. Authors are encouraged to manage intellectual property rights, including patents, for any new inventions prior to publication.
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