期刊名称：JOURNAL OF TAIBAH UNIVERSITY FOR SCIENCE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Aims and scope
Journal of Taibah University for Science publishes high-quality, Open Access research within the natural sciences. The journal mainly publishes research in chemistry and mathematics—with an emphasis on physical chemistry and discrete mathematics—but also covers physics, geology, biology and environmental research, with a focus on molecular biology and biotechnology.
All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous double blind peer review by expert referees, after initial editor screening.
We publish scientific articles in English.
Visit our Instructions for Authors page for information on preparing your manuscript.
Author benefits
All articles are published Open Access, maximising their global reach and allowing authors to retain the copyright of their work.
Journal of Taibah University for Science is abstracted and indexed in several databases including Web of Science.
The experienced members of our Editorial Board will guide you from submission to publication, and our Author Services page provides you with tips and tricks to promote your research on social media and through your network.
Instructions to Authors
This journal uses Editorial Manager to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for Editorial Manager authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.  This title utilises format-free submission. Authors may submit their paper in any scholarly format or layout. References can be in any style or format, so long as a consistent scholarly citation format is applied. For more detail see the format-free submission section below .
Contents
About the Journal
Journal of Taibah University for Science is an Open Access international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. Please see the journal's Aims & Scopefor information about its focus and peer-review policy.
Open Access means you can publish your research so it is free to access online as soon as it is published, meaning anyone can read (and cite) your work. Please see our guide to Open Access for more information. Many funders mandate publishing your research open access; you can check open access funder policies and mandates here.
Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.
Journal of Taibah University for Science accepts the following types of article:
- Research Article
- Short Communication
- Letter to the Editor
- Review Articles
Article Publishing Charge
The standard article publishing charge (APC) for this journal is Journal of Taibah University for Science has a standard Article Publishing Charge (APC) of £770 for accepted articles. There are no submission fees for the journal.. Depending on your location, these charges may be subject to local taxes.
Find out more about article publishing charges and funding options.
Peer Review
Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.
Preparing Your Paper
Research Article
- Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list)
- Should be no more than 4,400 words, inclusive of the abstract.
- Should contain an unstructured abstract of 150 words.
- Between 3 and 6 keywords. Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization. Research Articles have a maximum of 8 pages, which translates to approximately 4,400 words.
Short Communication
- Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract;results, discussion; conclusion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list)
- Should be no more than 2,200 words, inclusive of the abstract.
- Should contain an unstructured abstract of 150 words.
- Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization. Short Communications are less substantial than research papers, and are often a concise study or a report of preliminary findings. The number of references is limited to 20 and the number of figures or tables is limited to 3.
Letter to the Editor
- Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; main text introduction, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list)
- Should be no more than 1,000 words.
- Letters to the Editor describe novel findings that might not be suitable for a regular research paper or short communication. The maximum number of references is 10 and the number figures or tables is 2.
Review Articles
- Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list)
- Should be no more than 2,000 words, inclusive of the abstract.
- Should contain an unstructured abstract of 150 words.
- Between 3 and 6 keywords. Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization. Reviews are invited regarding areas of high interest to the scientific community.
Format-Free Submission
Authors may submit their paper in any scholarly format or layout. Manuscripts may be supplied as single or multiple files. These can be Word, rich text format (rtf), open document format (odt), or PDF files. Figures and tables can be placed within the text or submitted as separate documents. Figures should be of sufficient resolution to enable refereeing.
- There are no strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to evaluate a manuscript: abstract, author affiliation, figures, tables, funder information, and references. Further details may be requested upon acceptance.
- References can be in any style or format, so long as a consistent scholarly citation format is applied. Author name(s), journal or book title, article or chapter title, year of publication, volume and issue (where appropriate) and page numbers are essential. All bibliographic entries must contain a corresponding in-text citation. The addition of DOI (Digital Object Identifier) numbers is recommended but not essential.
- The journal reference style will be applied to the paper post-acceptance by Taylor & Francis.
- Spelling can be US or UK English so long as usage is consistent.
Note that, regardless of the file format of the original submission, an editable version of the article must be supplied at the revision stage.
Taylor & Francis Editing Services
To help you improve your manuscript and prepare it for submission, Taylor & Francis provides a range of editing services. Choose from options such as English Language Editing, which will ensure that your article is free of spelling and grammar errors, Translation, and Artwork Preparation. For more information, including pricing, visit this website.
Checklist: What to Include
- Author details. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript. Where available, please also include ORCiDs and social media handles (Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn). One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted. Read more on authorship.
- Graphical abstract (optional). This is an image to give readers a clear idea of the content of your article. It should be a maximum width of 525 pixels. If your image is narrower than 525 pixels, please place it on a white background 525 pixels wide to ensure the dimensions are maintained. Save the graphical abstract as a .jpg, .png, or .gif. Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
- You can opt to include a video abstract with your article. Find out how these can help your work reach a wider audience, and what to think about when filming.
- Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
For single agency grants
This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
For multiple agency grants
This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
- Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial interest or benefit that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. Further guidance on what is a conflict of interest and how to disclose it.
- Data availability statement. If there is a data set associated with the paper, please provide information about where the data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found. Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). Templates are also available to support authors.
- Data deposition. If you choose to share or make the data underlying the study open, please deposit your data in a recognized data repository prior to or at the time of submission. You will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-reserved DOI, or other persistent identifier for the data set.
- Geolocation information. Submitting a geolocation information section, as a separate paragraph before your acknowledgements, means we can index your paper’s study area accurately in JournalMap’s geographic literature database and make your article more discoverable to others. More information.
- Supplemental online material. Supplemental material can be a video, dataset, fileset, sound file or anything which supports (and is pertinent to) your paper. We publish supplemental material online via Figshare. Find out more about supplemental material and how to submit it with your article.
- Figures. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, GIF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX). For information relating to other file types, please consult our Submission of electronic artwork document.
- Tables. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.
- Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable. More information about mathematical symbols and equations.
- Units. Please use SI units (non-italicized).
Using Third-Party Material in your Paper
You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission. More information on requesting permission to reproduce work(s) under copyright.
Submitting Your Paper
This journal uses Editorial Manager to manage the peer-review process. If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in Editorial Manager. Please read the guidelines above and then submit your paper in the relevant Author Centre, where you will find user guides and a helpdesk.
Please note that Journal of Taibah University for Science uses Crossref™ to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to Journal of Taibah University for Science you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.
On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript. Find out more about sharing your work.
Data Sharing Policy
This journal applies the Taylor & Francis Basic Data Sharing Policy. Authors are encouraged to share or make open the data supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper where this does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid privacy or security concerns.
Authors are encouraged to deposit the dataset(s) in a recognized data repository that can mint a persistent digital identifier, preferably a digital object identifier (DOI) and recognizes a long-term preservation plan. If you are uncertain about where to deposit your data, please see this information regarding repositories.
Authors are further encouraged to cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability Statement.
At the point of submission, you will be asked if there is a data set associated with the paper. If you reply yes, you will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). If you have selected to provide a pre-registered DOI, please be prepared to share the reviewer URL associated with your data deposit, upon request by reviewers.
Where one or multiple data sets are associated with a manuscript, these are not formally peer reviewed as a part of the journal submission process. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of data. Any errors in the data rest solely with the producers of the data set(s).
Copyright Options
Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission. Taylor & Francis offers a number of different license and reuse options, including Creative Commons licenses when publishing open access. Read more on publishing agreements.
Complying with Funding Agencies
We will deposit all National Institutes of Health or Wellcome Trust-funded papers into PubMedCentral on behalf of authors, meeting the requirements of their respective open access policies. If this applies to you, please tell our production team when you receive your article proofs, so we can do this for you. Check funders’ open access policy mandates here. Find out more about sharing your work.
My Authored Works
On publication, you will be able to view, download and check your article’s metrics (downloads, citations and Altmetric data) via My Authored Works on Taylor & Francis Online. This is where you can access every article you have published with us, as well as your free eprints link, so you can quickly and easily share your work with friends and colleagues.
We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article. Here are some tips and ideas on how you can work with us to promote your research.
Article Reprints
You will be sent a link to order article reprints via your account in our production system. For enquiries about reprints, please contact the Taylor & Francis Author Services team at reprints@tandf.co.uk.
Queries
Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
Updated 22-01-2019
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Ahmad A. Joraid - Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Dr Shaya Y. Al-Raqa - Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Managing Editor
Prof. Moustafa Y. El-Naggar - Alexandria University, Egypt
Subject Editors
Mathematics
Dr. Sultan Alamri - Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Ibrahim A. Alsubaihi - Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Cemil Tunç - Yuzuncu Yil University, Turkey
Dr. Rahamat A. Ellahi - International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan
Prof. José Roberto Castilho Piqueira - University of São Paulo, Brazil
Chemistry
Prof. Ibrahim H. Badr - Ain Shams University, Egypt
Prof. Fethy A. Kooli - Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Mouslim Messali - Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Adel A. Amer - Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Joseph Banoub - Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, Canada
Prof. Sviatoslav A. Kirillov - Joint Department of Electrochemical Energy Systems, Ukraine
Physics
Prof. Madjid Ladrem - Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Abdalla A. Elabbar - Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Biology
Dr.Tahar Boutraa - Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Robet Lalonde - University of British Columbia, Canada
Geology
Dr. Abdullah O. Bamousa - Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
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