Guide for Authors

Submitted papers might deal with etiologies, epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatments, and preventive strategies of animal diseases as well as manuscripts describing biochemical /physiological investigations, food safety and those related to the evaluation protocols of the environmental and microbial impacts on livestocks. The research must meet ethical guidelines and legal requirements of the country in which paper was performed. By submitting your paper, you are agreeing to any necessary originality checks undergo during the peer review and production processes.

Manuscript Submission and Review

Manuscript Categories:

Manuscripts can be submitted in any of the following categories:

(1)- Articles are reports of substantial and controlled research that will be judged depending on their scientific quality.

(2)- Reviews articles, case studies and short letter of suitable topics will also be accepted in this category. Articles should ordinarily not exceed 6,000 words, excluding references and tables (double-spaced manuscript pages), but longer paper will be considered.

(3)- Short Communication is a paper based on more restricted study objectives, sometimes without extensive statistical data, but with sound biological observations; promising work that may lead to additional in-depth studies; thorough testing of a technique; or case histories. Such papers will be evaluated as much for their practical utility as for their scientific quality. Communications should generally not exceed 3,000 words (about 12 double-spaced manuscript pages).

Submission Procedures:

Manuscripts and associated correspondence author should be submitted at the journal’s online submission and tracking site.

Review Process:

Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three experts in the related field and evaluated by one of the journal’s editors. A manuscript may be returned to author without review if it doesn’t met the general requirement mandated by the journal and explained at the author’s guidelines chapter.

All proposals are electronically screened for any inappropriate use of materials from previously published resources. After submitting a paper, all of the statements, data, and other elements reflect your own work and not that of others. All allusions to the work of others should be properly cited. Authors should not cite long passages from their own publications. Failure to abide with the aforementioned requirements may result in paper rejection.

The journal editorial team strives to get decisions to authors during 9–12 weeks at maximum. If revisions are requested, authors should return them promptly, normally within 30 days of receiving the editor’s decision (short extensions will be allowed if there are justifiable delays). If a revision is not received within the allowed time, the paper will be considered withdrawn; late revisions will be treated as a new submission and may have to go through the review process again.

Revisions should be accompanied by detailed, point-by-point responses to the reviewers’ and editors’ comments. These responses should be written in a separate file designated “Response to Decision Letter” rather than in the cover letter. This file will automatically be included in a PDF containing the revised text, tables, figures, and supplementary material (if any) that is available to the reviewers and associate editor as well as the editor; otherwise, only the editor will have access to the responses.

Rejected papers:

If a paper is rejected by the reviewers, then authors will not be able to submit a corrected version unless the editor has specifically informed them to do that. However, authors may request reconsideration of rejected papers when they believe that the review process was flawed in some way (e.g., suspicion of bias or inadequate understanding of the paper on the part of the reviewers and/or the associate editor). Such requests should be directed to the editor or AFS staff and should include a detailed statement as to why the paper should be reconsidered along with supporting material as necessary. They should also indicate the author’s preferred remedy, which may range from a simple reexamination of the reviews and recommendation by the original editor to a completely fresh review by a new editor, associate editor, and reviewers. Decisions about requests for reconsideration will be made by the director of publications in consultation with the original editor and/or the editor-in-chief. Every effort will be made to give authors a fair hearing.

Publication Charges:

  • Egyptian authors

Publication fees are 1500 Egyptian pound for Egyptian citizens to be paid at the journal office at Animal Health Research Institute, Dokki, and Giza or paid through bank wire transfer to the following account (9/450/87496/8).

Further, if authors requested color figures the fees will include an extra 100 Egyptian pound per page.

  • Non Egyptians

Publication fees are 100$ US per printed paper will be billed when the paper is in proof. Further, if authors requested color figures the fees will include an extra 10 US$ per figure page. Fees will be paid through bank wire transfer at the following account (9/450/87496/8).

Manuscript Preparation:

Components

The typical manuscript will have the following components:

Title page: The title page should give the title of paper, name(s) of author and complete mailing address (es) of the author(s). The title should be short (preferably no more than 12 words). Keywords must not more than 10 words.

Abstract: Articles require abstracts. The abstract should consist of up to 500 words that concisely states why and how the study was done as well as the obtained results were and what they mean. Abstracts tend to be more widely read than complete papers, so authors should take care to make them complete, clear, and interesting. It should not simply summary the contents (avoid statements to the effect that such-and-such is presented) or present the methods in detail. Citations and footnotes are not allowed in abstracts, and abbreviations should be used sparingly. Detailed statistical results (e.g., P-values) should be reserved for the main text.

Introduction: The introduction should provide a background for work which be reported, particularly its purpose and importance. In doing so, it should be existing at least a summary review of previous works on this subject.

Methods: Descriptions of the methods employed in the study should be enable readers to repeat it.

Results: As a rule, it is preferable to existent detailed results in tables and/or figures and to dedicate the text to summary statements and analyses. In tables numerical data must be precision and figures to clear that data. Presentation of a large amount of raw data not recommended, data should not be developed to the point that the reader cannot confirm the analyses or use the information for other purposes. When explore results of statistical analysis, type of test, the test statistic, the degrees of freedom, and the significance level (P-value) must be mentioned. It is very important that statistical designs and models must be appropriate for the studies in which they are used. It is advice to authors to their work before submitting a paper for publication by statistician reviewer.

Discussion: The qualities of a paper can be greatly enhanced by a good discussion. Authors should avoid simply repeating their results and/or (re)summarizing the literature.

References: References should be most updated and selected with a view to relevance and availability, with partiality given to peer-reviewed publications that are widely available.

Tables: In general, tables should be designed to present related information as simply and directly as possible.

Figures: Figures include visual materials such as graphs, maps, diagrams, and photographs.

In the print version of the journal, all figures will be copied in black and white unless authors made specific arrangements with the publisher to cover the extra costs of color printing. In the online version, however, color figures will be copied in color at no additional charge.

Reference formats: Text citations should conform to CSE Style. Examples of common types are as follows:

Journal Article, 1 Author

Reference List:

Board J. 2001. Reduced lodging for soybeans in low plant population is related to light quality. Crop Sci. 41(2): 379-87.

In-Text Citation: (Board 2001)

Journal Article, 2 to 10 authors

Note: For two authors use the word “and” to connect the two names – e.g., (Nilsen and Rennie 2011)

Reference List:

Snaphaan L, van der Werf S, Kanselaar K, de Leeuw F. 2009. Post-stroke depressive symptoms are associated with post-stroke characteristics. Cerebrovasc Dis. 28(6): 551-557.

In-text Citation: (Snaphaan et al. 2009)

Journal Article: Retrieved Online with NO DOI

Reference List:

Mathieson C M, Bailey N, Gurevich M. 2002. Health care services for lesbian and bisexual women: some Canadian data. Health Care Women Int [Internet]. [cited 2011 Jan 20]; 23(2): 185- 196. Available from:

http://ezproxy.tru.ca/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=c8h&A N=2002043068&site=ehost-live

In-text Citation:

(Mathieson et al. 2002)

Journal Article: Retrieved Online with DOI

Reference List:

Yencho GC, McCord PH, Haynes KG. 2008. Internal heat necrosis of potato - a review. Am J Potato Res [Internet]. [cited 2011 Jan 18]; 85(1):69-76. Available from:

http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.tru.ca/content/915131u45576313l/fulltext.pdf doi: 10.1007/s12230-008-9008-4

In-text Citation: (Yencho et al. 2008)