Instructions for author
The Indian Journal of Small Ruminants(IJSR) is a peer-reviewed Journal published at six-monthly interval by the Indian Society for Sheep and Goat Production and Utilization (ISSGPU). The IJSR accepts research articles in the form of review paper, research paper and short communications for publication.
Review Paper are invited or submitted for publication in the IJSR. The article should be comprehensive with introduction, status of research in frontier areas with broad headlines, lacunae in research, possible scope for future work, brief summary followed by references. It should cover in detail the state-of-art scientific research on any subject of recent research within the scope of the IJSR. The manuscript should be approximately of 20 printed pages.
Research Paper should be developed from the results of an original research work, not previously published elsewhere, except in a preliminary form. The manuscript should be organized as per the format of the Journal and should be approximately of 5 to7 printed pages.
Short Communication should be concise but complete description of a limited scientific investigation or a unique case report. The manuscript should be written as a running matter with no sub-headlines (such as introduction, material and methods, results and discussion) but it should be complete with a summary at the end. The summary should be clear and not more than 150 words. It should be reproducible in abstracting Journals. The summary should briefly and specifically explain relevance of the work, research results and conclusion. The manuscript should be approximately of 2 to 4 printed pages.
Submission of Manuscripts
The manuscript for publication should be submitted in duplicate and in electronic form to The Editor, The Indian Journal of Small Ruminants, ICAR - Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute, Avikanagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan - 304 501, India. Submission of an article in IJSR is understood to imply that the article is original and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Submission of manuscript in IJSR also implies that all the authors have approved the paper for publication and are in agreement with its content. The authors will be required to fill the Author Agreement Form and submit it along with the hard copy.
Preparation of Manuscripts
The manuscripts submitted to IJSR should be written clearly and grammatically correct in English (in MS Word document, Arial font (font size 12) and printed in double space (except tables) in A4 size bond paper. International system of units should only be used for preparation of manuscripts. All the pages of the manuscript should be serially numbered.
Authors should follow the rules governing biological nomenclature, as laid down in the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. All biotica (crops, plants, insects, birds, mammals, etc.) should be identified by their scientific names when the English term is first used, with the exception of common domestic animals. Use generic names for identification of biocides, active ingredients of formulations and other organic compounds when first used in the text. Scientific names that have abbreviations must be spelled out on first occurrence in the text with abbreviation in parenthesis and thereafter use only abbreviation. For chemical nomenclature, the conventions of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the official recommendations of the IUPAC-IUB Combined Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature should be followed.
Manuscripts should be organized in the following order:
Title (It should be clear, descriptive and not too long)
Short running title (It should be approximately of 30-35 words)
Name(s) of author(s)
Complete postal address of affiliations
Current postal and e-mail address of the corresponding author
Abstract: The abstract should be clear, descriptive and not more than 300 words. It should be reproducible in abstracting Journals. The abstract should state briefly and specifically about new information, relevance of the work, research results and summarizes conclusion
Key words: (indexing terms), normally 4-6 below the abstract.
Introduction: It should acquaint the reader with the subject and justify the objective(s) of the research. There should be clear description of the nature of the problem, reports on previous research by others in the field of the study, gaps in research and the hypothesis addressed in the present study.
Material and Methods: It should contain detailed information to understand the experimental design, treatment, procedure, response variables and statistical method followed in the study. Materials should be named specifically, including the manufacturer, city and state or country from where the equipment or supplies are obtained. Descriptions of animals should include species, breed, sex, and age as well as husbandry methods, climate and geographic attributes of the study.
Results and discussion: It should contain information to fully describe the outcome of the research. The tables and figures should be self-explanatory without referring to the text and not be used for presentation of the same data in text. The principles, relationships and general truths shown by the results should be presented without retelling the results if at all possible. Exceptions or lack of correlation should be pointed out and unsettled points defined. Agreement or disagreement with previous work should be shown. The theoretical or practical implications of the work should be discussed followed by brief conclusion derived from the study.
Acknowledgments: The information regarding technical assistance in conduct of experiments or preparation of paper and its evaluation or research grants provided for the study should be given.
References: All publications cited in the text should conform to those cited in the World List of Scientific Periodicals. References should be written as author's name, year of publication followed by the title of referred paper (or the book), volume and the page number. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the spelling of author's names and year are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list.
In the case of publications in any other language than English, the original title should be retained. However, the titles of publications in non-Latin alphabets should be transliterated, and a notation such as (in Russian) or (in Greek, with English abstract) should be added. Work accepted for publication but not yet published should be referred to as in press. References concerning unpublished data and personal communications should not be cited in the reference list but may be mentioned in the text.
References should be arranged in an alphabetical order in following style:
i. For articles published in research Journals
Singh, D., Swarnkar, C.P. and Khan, F.A. 2002. Anthelmintic resistance in gastrointestinal nematodes of livestock in India. Journal of Veterinary Parasitology 16:115-130.
Shinde, A.K., Bhatta, R., Sankhyan, S.K. and Verma, D.L. 2002. Effect of season on thermoregulatory responses and energy expenditure of goats on semi-arid range in India. The Journal of Agricultural Science 139:87-93.
ii. For articles published in scientific proceedings
Broad, T.E., Glass, B.C., Greer, G.J., Robertson, T.M., Bain, W.E., Lord, E.A. and McEwan, J.C. 2000. Search for a locus neat to myostatin that increases muscling in Texel sheep in New Zealand. Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production 60: 110-112.
Marques, M.R., Santos, C., Belo, C. and Cravador, A. 2001. Association between SSCPs in the GH gene and milk traits in "Serra da Estrela"ewes. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Farm Animals Endocrinology, Biotechnology, Agronomie, Scoiete et Environment (BASE), vol. 5. Gembloux, Belgium, pp.----
iii. For chapters published in books
Broad, T.E., Hayes, H. and Longs, S.E. 1997. Cytogentics: Physical chromosome maps. In: The Genetics of Sheep (Eds., L. Piper and A. Ruvinsky), CAB International, Oxon, UK, pp 241-295.
Snedecor, G.W. and Cochran, W.G. 1994. Statistical Methods. 8th ed., Affiliated East-West Press, New Delhi and Iowa State University Press, Iowa, USA, pp ----
iv. Tables
All the tables should be referred in the text by consecutive Arabic numerals (Table 1, Table 2, etc.) and large tables should be avoided. Tables should be numbered according to their sequence in the text. The text should include references to all the tables. Each table should have a brief and self-explanatory title. Column headings should be brief. Standard abbreviations of units of measurements should be given in parentheses. Any explanation required for understanding of the table should be given as a brief footnote at the bottom of the table.
v. Figure captions
Authors should provide all illustrations as separate files, preferably in JPEG format with captions to each illustration. Good quality photographs in terms of contrast, intensity and glossy should be submitted.
The authors can enquire status of their manuscript by corresponding with The Editor, IJSR through e-mail (editor_ijsr@yahoo.co.in) or by post.