The Journal of
phytomolecules & pharmacology is an international
peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publish original researches, reviews, and
short communications resulting from research on plants, fungi, animals, and
microorganisms with their biological and pharmacological activities. Key areas
of interest are pharmacology (neuro & sensory), toxicology, cancer,
immune-pharmacology, anti-infective, metabolic, signalling, bioinformatics,
interactions, and pre-clinical and clinical studies of herb-drug interactions
and other aspects of the safety of herbal medicines.
Types of paper
The Journal of
phytomolecules & pharmacology accepts the following contributions:
Research Papers are not limited in size. However,
we strongly recommend the authors to be concise in the best interest of the
readers and the dissemination of the work.
Review Papers are usually written at the
invitation of the Editors. Authors intending to write review articles should
consult and send an outline to the Review Editor before preparing their
manuscripts. Reviews should include a table of contents, which cannot exceed
12,000 words including references and they must be submitted through the online
system.
Short Communications have the following soft limits.
The manuscript should ideally contain no more than 5-7 Figures/Tables, it must
be within 5000 words, including the title page, all sections of the manuscript
(including the references), and Figure/Table legends. The abstract should be
limited to 300 words.
Manuscript Style
The title page must
list the full title, short title of up to 100 characters and names and
affiliations of all authors. Author(s) must provide the detailed address,
including email, telephone and fax, of the author who is to check the proofs.
The abstract should
not exceed 300 words for all articles. An abstract is a concise summary of the
whole paper, which is not just the conclusion and is comprehensible without
referencing to the rest of the paper. It cannot provide any citation to other
published work.
Use six keywords that
describe your paper best.
Authors must suggest at
least 3 potential reviewers
Distribute your article into
clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then
1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section
numbering).
A concise introduction is
required of the background to the subject, its significance and its
relationship to earlier works, with references.
Materials and methods should be presented with clarity
and detail. State the original and important findings in the results.
Illustrate these with figures or tables where necessary but keep these to a
minimum. Authors are requested to submit their additional documents as a
supplementary file (word/excel/Pdf format).
Results and discussion can be presented separately or combined
in one section. Discuss the major conclusions drawn from the results and the
important suggestions.
Include the name(s) of any sponsor(s) of
the research contained in the paper, along with grant number(s).
Please define unfamiliar
abbreviations at the first occurrence.
You must number the tables (e.g.,
table 1, table 2, table 3) and reference them in the text. Place the tables at
the end of the main text. Tables should be in an editable format, and not
embedded as an image file.
You must include figure titles
and legends in the manuscript file—they should not be included in the image
file.
Before submission, ensure the following
1.
Your
manuscript is not affected by plagiarism.
2.
Revise
the spelling and grammar several times.
3.
The
manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'.
4.
All
references mentioned in the 'Reference List' are cited in the text, and vice
versa.
5.
Permission
for the use of the copyright materials or other sources (internet) is ensured.
6.
Relevant
declarations of interest have been made.
7.
The
journal policies have been followed according to the guideline.
8.
List
of three potential reviewers.
Assure the following
Supplementary materials will be published online
alongside the manuscript (figure, tables, video, spreadsheets, etc.). Please
indicate the name and title of each element as follows Figure S1:, Table S1:
etc.
Author Contributions should be based on each author’s
own contributions. Research articles with more than one author, a short
paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be included. The
following statements should be used "Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.;
Methodology, X.X.; Software, X.X.; Validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; Formal
Analysis, X.X.; Investigation, X.X.; Resources, X.X.; Data Curation, X.X.;
Writing – Original Draft Preparation, X.X.; Writing – Review & Editing,
X.X.; Visualization, X.X.; Supervision, X.X.; Project Administration, X.X.;
Funding Acquisition, Y.Y.”,
Acknowledgements and
Funding information
should be included at the end of your manuscript. Please cite full funding
information, including specific grant numbers if you have any. Funding
acknowledgements should be written in the following form: “This work was
supported by the Medical Research Council [grant number xxx]”. If the research
has not been funded by any specific project grant, use the following statement:
“This research received no specific grant from any funding agency “(the public,
commercial, or not-for-profit sectors)”.
Conflicts of Interest must be mentioned
in the manuscript. Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or
interests that may be perceived as influencing the representation or
interpretation of reported research results. If there is no conflict of
interest, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest."
Institutional Review Board
Statement approval
number for studies involving humans or animals must be included. Please note
that the Editorial Office may ask you for further information. Please add “The
study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki,
and approved by the Institutional Review Board (or Ethics Committee) of NAME OF
INSTITUTE (protocol code XXX and date of approval).” OR “Ethical review and
approval were waived for this study, due to REASON (please provide a detailed
justification).” OR “Not applicable” for studies not involving humans or
animals. You may choose to exclude this statement if the study has no
involvement with humans or animals.
References must be numbered (for example
[1], [1–3] or [1,3]) in order of appearance in the text (including table
captions and figure legends) and listed individually at the end of the
manuscript. We recommend the authors to prepare the references with a
bibliography software package, such as EndNote, Reference-Manager or Zotero,
and Mendeley to avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references.
Changes to Authorship
Authors are expected to list the
authors name and order them carefully before submitting their manuscript and
provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission.
Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list
should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if
approved by the journal Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must
receive the following from the corresponding author: (a) the reason for
the change in the author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter)
from all the authors that they agree with the addition, removal or
rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes
confirmation from the author being added or removed. Only in exceptional
circumstances, the Editor will consider the addition, deletion or rearrangement
of authors after the manuscript has been accepted. At the time of
considering the request, publication of the manuscript will be suspended. If
the manuscript has already been published online, any requests approved by the
Editor will result in a corrigendum.
Article Processing Charge (APC)
The Journal of
Phytomolecules & Pharmacology (ISSN: 2957-5818) is
a peer-reviewed and fully open access journal. In
order to cover the journal management costs, Journal of Phytomolecules
& pharmacology applies an
article processing charge (APC) of 100 USD for all articles accepted after
peer review. Publication charges may be waived or partially
discounted at the discretion of Journal Management Committee. Discounts or waivers are also available for authors depending on the outstanding articles and funding situation.
Please
note that currently the article APC is discounted by 50% (50 USD) until December 2022.
After 31st December,
2022, an APC of 300 USD will be applied for all accepted articles.
The APC
is not applicable for the Editorial Board Members (as a first or corresponding
author).
For
requesting a waiver, authors are requested to send their abstract along with a
waiver request to managing.editor@leafletpub.com
Article Submission
Please submit your article via http://www.ejmanager.com/my/jpp or
directly to the E-mail: managing.editor@leafletpub.com
Declaration
The corresponding author must
declare that the manuscript (in part or full) has not been submitted to any
journal for possible evaluation/publication or has not been published
elsewhere. For more information, Please read the COPE guidelines.