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of the paper’s significance. Titles should avoid using un- Results
common jargons, abbreviations and punctuation.
This section can be divided into subheadings. This section
List of Authors focuses on the results of the experiments performed.

The names of authors must be spelled out rather than set Discussion
in initials along with their affiliations. Authors should be
listed according to the extent of their contribution, with the This section should provide the significance of the results
major contributor listed first. All corresponding authors and identify the impact of the research in a broader con-
should be identified with an asterisk. Affiliations should text. It should not be redundant or similar to the content of
contain the following core information: department, insti- the results section.
tution, city, state, postal code, and country. For contact,
email address of at least one corresponding author Conclusion
must be included. Please note that all authors must see
and approve the final version of the manuscript before Please use the conclusion section for interpretation only,
and not to summarize information already presented in
submitting.
the text or abstract.
Abstract
Conflict of Interest
Articles must include an abstract containing a maximum of
200 words. The purpose of abstract is to provide sufficient All authors are required to declare all activities that have
information for a reader to determine whether or not to the potential to be deemed as a source of competing in-
proceed to the full text of the article. After the abstract, terest in relations to their submitted manuscript. Examples
please give 5–8 key words; please avoid using the same of such activities could include personal or work-related
words as those already used in the title. relationships, events, etc. Authors who have nothing to
declare are encouraged to add "No conflict of interest was
Section Headings
reported by all authors" in this section.
Please number the section headings (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.)
in boldface. Likewise, use boldface to identify subhead- Funding
ings too but please distinguish it from major headings
using numbers (e.g. 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, etc.) Further sub- Authors should declare all financial and non-financial
sections of subheadings should be differentiated by support that have the potential to be deemed as a source
non-boldface but italics font with the numbers (1), (2), (3), of competing interest in relations to their submitted ma-
etc. nuscript in this section. Financial supports are generally in
the form of grants, royalties, consulting fees and more.
Introduction Examples of non-financial support could include the fol-
lowing: externally-supplied equipments/biological sources,
Introduction should provide a background that gives writing assistance, administrative support, contributions
a broad readership an overall outlook of the field and the from non-authors etc.
research performed. It tackles a problem and states its
important regarding with the significance of the study. Appendix
Introduction can conclude with a brief statement of the aim
of the work and a comment about whether that aim was This section is optional and is for all materials (e.g. ad-
achieved. vanced technical details) that has been excluded from the
main text but remain essential to readers in understanding
Materials and Methods
the manuscripts. This section is not for supplementary
This section provides the general experimental design figures. Authors are advised to refer to the section on
and methodologies used. The aim is to provide enough ‘Supplementary figures’ for such submissions.
detail to for other investigators to fully replicate your re-
sults. It is also required to facilitate better understanding of Text
the results obtained. Protocols and procedures for new
methods must be included in detail to reproduce the ex- The text of the manuscript should be in Microsoft Word or
periments. Latex. The length of the manuscript cannot be more than
50000 characters (inclusive of spaces) or approximate-
Ethics ly 7000 words.
Ethics information, including IACUC permit numbers Nomenclature for genes and proteins
and/or IRB name, if applicable. This information should be
included in a subheading labeled "Ethics Statement" in the This journal aims to reach researchers all over the globe.
"Methods" section of your manuscript file, in as much Hence, for both reviewers’ and readers’ ease in compre-
detail as possible. hension, authors are highly encourage to use the appro-

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