Guidelines for Author

General instructions for your submission to IJRFSD:

• Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of ‘International Journal of Resilience in Fire Safety & Disaster’ will be reviewed.
• There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.
• The selection and publication of research articles are done after review recommendations of the experts.
• The research article should be written according to research methodology.
• The article should be unpublished.
• As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere.
• Authors are not expected to submit manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently would constitute unethical practice and would be unacceptable. Proper acknowledgement of the work of others must always be made.
• Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the paper which is submitted for publication. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as coauthors. Others who have participated in certain substantive aspects in the development of the paper should also be acknowledged.
• Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors 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 will not be permitted.
• Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract, a published lecture or academic thesis, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form
• The introduction of article contains precise description of problem, literature relevant to subject matter and the proposed strategy and solution.
• The resources and procedures described should be complete so that the experiments can be repeated with provided descriptions. Whereas the details of previously published procedures are only cited, the description of new procedures should be given at point and the important modifications in published procedures, if any, should be mentioned in brief.
• Results should be precise and clear. They should describe the observations and conclusions of experiments in past tense. Observations and conclusions, previously published follow present tense. Conclusions are explained largely without any reference to literature. Results should not contain deliberations, assumptions or interpretation of data.
• The discussions are deliberations on observations of contemporary and past annotations on the topic. The conclusion should be described in a few sentences at the end of paper. The results and discussion sections contain subheadings and both sections can also be combined as per requirement.
• Research article should not more than 3500 words.
• Authors who suggest reviewers from the same Ccollege that they work in are in clear breach of the ethical guidelines of IJRFSD. Such manuscripts will be rejected.

Guidelines for preparation of manuscripts:

The authors should submit their manuscript in MS-Word (2003/2007) in double column (Single column for Mathematic Journal), 1.5-line spacing as per the following guidelines. The manuscript should be organized to have a Title page, Abstract with 7 key words, Introduction, Material & Methods, Results & Discussion, Conclusion and Acknowledgment followed by References.

• Take a margin of 1 inch (Left, Right, Top, and Bottom) on A 4 paper.
• The Title of the paper should be in bold and title case. The subtitle to the main title should be in small case.
• Format for heading-Heading, Sub-Heading, Sub sub heading (Ex-1, 1.1, 1.2??., 2, 2.1, 2.1.1?.).
• Keywords: About 7 keywords to be selected after Abstract.
• The title should be followed by the author's name followed by the name of the co-authors.
• Name of the corresponding author should be highlighted with an asterisk. This is the author with whom all future correspondences will be made.
• The affiliation of the authors should be in the format (designation, name of department, name of college, university, school, city, state and country). This information is absolutely essential.
• All such information will be left aligned only.

Tables

• Tables must be inserted in the same files as the text and at the place where their mention is made in the text. The table numbers should be mentioned correctly in the text and the tables should appear in the vicinity of their mention
• All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
• Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
• Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
• All tables should have caption. The format to be followed is table (number): title of the Table. Also, all tables should have a mention of the source they have been taken from (if the case may be). The source should be mentioned below the table and details for the same must be provided in references.

Scientific style

• Please always use internationally accepted signs and symbols for units, SI units.

Figures/Artwork/ Illustrations / Plates Guidelines

• All figures should have caption. The format to be followed is Figure (number): title of the figure. Also, all figures should have a mention of the source they have been taken from (if the case may be). The source should be mentioned below the figure and details for the same must be provided in references. A list of figures including their headings must be given separately in a page for reference.
• For the best quality final product, it is highly recommended that you submit all of your artwork ? photographs, line drawings, etc. ? in an electronic format either in jpg of tif files. Your art will then be produced to the highest standards with the greatest accuracy to detail.

Figure Numbering

• All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
• Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
• If an appendix appears in your article and it contains one or more figures, continue the consecutive numbering of the main text.

Figure Captions

• Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
• Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type.
• No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be placed at the end of the caption.
• Identify all elements found in the figure in the figure caption; and use boxes, circles, etc., as coordinate points in graphs.

References:

The papers in the references list must be cited in the text in the order in which they appear in the text. In the text, the citation should appear in square brackets “[ ]” as per the Vancouver's style. Et al will be used only in case there are more than two authors. In such cases, mention the names of the first three authors followed by et al. in the text. However, the reference details will carry the names of the first author with et al. For example: Abhinav et al. (1978)

“[ ]”................ Number Should be in Superscript

Reference Style

[1] Barik N and Nikhandia PK. Scientometric Analysis of Research Productivity of KIIT Deemed to Be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. KIIT Journal of Library and Information Management, 2009;6(1):33-41.

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