Ethical standards for publication mainly aim to ensure high quality scientific publications, public trust in new findings, and hence the public receive credit for their new ideas. KITSPRESS aims to stick to the Best Practice Guidelines framed on Publication Ethics (COPE) and abides by its Code of Conduct.
Assessment of the Article
All submitted articles are peer – reviewed by our experts in the respective field. If the articles are accepted by the editors, then the peer reviewers start reviewing the papers. These Peer reviewers remain unknown to the authors. We may also seek advice and ideas from outside experts of the field to which the journal belongs to.
Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is a crime.KITSPRESS checks all the submitted manuscripts for plagiarism using Turnitin Plagiarism Checker software. If any of the manuscripts are detected for plagiarism then the respective manuscripts will be rejected. If Plagiarism is found after publication then the associated manuscript will be deleted.
Duplicate Submission
The authors’ submissions are accepted as long as they are completely original, unpublished works that are not already being considered for publication by another magazine.
Depending on the circumstances, some articles can be published in more than one journal (e.g., guidelines, translations). Secondary publications must be approved by the authors and editors of the primary publications to reflect the same data and interpretation. The secondary publication must cite the primary reference.
Data Fabrication
The articles submitted must be unpublished and also not falsified. Journals should not publish essentially the same paper more than once. A manuscript that has already been published in another journal should not be submitted for consideration. It is unethical and unacceptable to submit the same manuscript to several journals at the same time. If any falsification or fabrication is found, then the article will be rejected.
Author Contribution and Submission
The unpublished new and original articles from the authors can be submitted in any format with .doc or .docx extension.Only 6 authors are allowed to the maximum.Any details related to the author such as the name or email id cannot be changed later.
Accepted Version
Authors are asked to submit the accepted manuscripts in a single column format through the online portal with .doc or .docx extention.The KITSPRESS team will modify the manuscript according to the template.
Types of Papers Accepted
Research Article
Survey Article
Review Article
Conflict of Interests
Any conflicts of interest that could influence the results or interpretation in the manuscript should be disclosed by authors as early as possible (generally by submitting a disclosure form and including a statement in the manuscript). Many potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed, including financial ones, such as honoraria, educational grants or other funding, participation in speakers’ bureaus, membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest, and paid expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements, as well as non-financial ones such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. Please disclose all sources of funding (including grant numbers or other reference numbers, if applicable).
If unsure about the conflicting interests, it can be discussed with the Editorial Board before submission of the article.
Conflicts comprise
Possible conflicting interests include:
any prior partnership with the reviewers
any personal relationship with the reviewers
financial benefits from the work.
Intellectual Property
Academic competitors with the reviewers
Authorship of the manuscript
As the manuscript must be publicly responsible for its content, only individuals meeting these authorship criteria should be listed as authors: (i) contributed significantly to the study’s conception, design, execution, data acquisition, or analysis and interpretation; (ii) wrote the manuscript or revised it critically for important intellectual content; and (iii) approved the final version of the paper and agreed to its publication. If any individual contributed substantially to the work reported in the manuscript (for example, technical help, writing and editing assistance, general assistance), he or she should not be listed as an author but should be mentioned in the “Acknowledgements” section after they have been granted written permission to be mentioned. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to ensure all appropriate co-authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list. In addition, the author should verify that all co-authors have seen the final draft and approved it for publication, and have agreed to it.
Editors and Reviewers
Editors and reviewers should decline to be involved with a submission if they have any of the following:
any prior partnership with the authors
any personal relationship with the authors
financial benefits from the work.
hatred towards the author
Academic competitors with the authors
Reviewers must declare any remaining interests in the ‘Confidential’ section of the review form, which will be considered by the editor.
Editors and reviewers must declare if they have previously discussed the manuscript with the authors.
Sanction
All the manuscripts will be sent to the subject field experts for review.They will send the review to the editorial team.The decision will be taken by the Editorial team.The decision can be
Accept
Accept with minor revision
Accept with major revision
Revise and Resubmit
Reject
Research Documentation
An author is responsible for notifying the journal’s editors or journal as soon as they discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work and cooperating with them to correct the work or retract it. Journal editors generally expect authors to promptly correct or retract papers that contain significant errors or inaccuracies, or to provide evidence to them that the paper is correct.
Publication Practice
As a publication, working closely with its editors, will take appropriate measures if there is alleged or actual scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism in an article. Erratum, clarifications, and, in the most severe cases, retractions are among the remedies available. In addition to taking reasonable steps to identify and prevent papers with research misconduct from being published, the journal should ensure that no such misconduct is encouraged or knowingly permitted to occur.
Final Version Guidelines to the authors
The journal team will modify the manuscript according to the template.
Title – Times New Roman font with size 24
Authors Affiliation details – Times New Roman font with size 11
Abstract & Index Terms – Times New Roman font with size 9 (Bold)
Major Headings – Times New Roman font with size 10 (Uppercase Letters)
Sub Headings – Times New Roman font with size 10 (Lowercase Letters)
Content – Times New Roman font with size 10
References – Times New Roman font with size 8
Author Biography – Times New Roman font with size 8
Editorial Responsibilities
Editors have the complete responsibility to accept or reject the manuscript depending on the reviews obtained from the reviewers. Every manuscript should be treated as a confidential document by the editor. It is prohibited for editors to use any submitted manuscripts in their own research. Editors should have no conflict of interest on the articles they accept or reject. It is the editor’s responsibility to ensure that the peer-review process is conducted to a high standard. Double blind review process must be ensured by the editors.
2. Step by step guidelines for authors
Step by step guideline for authors
KITSPRESS publishes only the original research papers or articles.These articles must be based on a particular interest and have a definite conclusion.
Manuscript Submission
A manuscript’s academic merit (importance, originality, validity, clarity) and relevance to the journal’s scope is evaluated exclusively by editors, who take no account of the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, citizenship, religious beliefs, political philosophy, or institutional affiliation when evaluating manuscripts submitted.
Permissions
The inclusion of figures, tables, or text passages already published elsewhere requires permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format, and the submission must include proof of such permission.
Online Submission
Please follow the hyperlink “Submit manuscript” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.
Important notes
If authors are recommended to resubmit their manuscripts, they must mark all changes (for instance, by using the track changes functionality or using colored text) and the revised version must be accompanied by a cover letter with an itemized response.
KITSPRESS generally implies that the materials described in the manuscript should be freely available to any researcher wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes. It is expected that authors will comply with requests for materials within 60 days after receiving them. In some cases, requestors should be prepared to cover reasonable costs associated with the request. Materials may also be subject to an institutional Material Transfer Agreement that limits their use to non-profit research.
Author Contribution Statement
All listed authors should provide a short description of their contributions (please use initials). A separate section will appear before the acknowledgements.
Title Page
The title page should contain:
The author’s full first name, middle initial, and last name
Keep the title to 180 characters (including space) and avoid using undefined abbreviations.
The affiliation(s) and addresses(es) of all authors
Email, telephone, and fax numbers of the corresponding author
Text Format
The journal team will modify the manuscript according to the template.
Title – Times New Roman font with size 24
Authors Affiliation details – Times New Roman font with size 11
Abstract & Index Terms – Times New Roman font with size 9 (Bold)
Major Headings – Times New Roman font with size 10 (Uppercase Letters)
Sub Headings – Times New Roman font with size 10 (Lowercase Letters)
Content – Times New Roman font with size 10
References – Times New Roman font with size 8
Author Biography – Times New Roman font with size 8
Scietific Style
Genus and Species name should be in Italic.
ü Statistical analysis of the results:
The repeatability or statistical significance of the findings must be stated by the authors in a subsection at the conclusion of the Materials and Methods section, particularly in relation to any figures without error bars (e.g. images, blots).
ü Use of antibodies:
If you used commercially available antibodies, do supply the antibody product code.
References
Citation
In the text, cite references by name and year in parentheses. Some instances:
Numerous disciplines have studied negotiations (Thompson 1990).
Becker and Seligman later refuted this finding (1996).
Many studies have been done on this impact (Abbott 1991; Barakat et al. 1995a, b; Kelso and Smith 1998; Medvec et al. 1999, 2000).
ü Reference list
Only works that are acknowledged in the text and have been released or accepted for release should be listed as references. Only unpublished works and personal communications should be mentioned in the text. Never use a reference list in place of footnotes or endnotes.
The last names of each work’s first authors should be listed in alphabetical order in the reference list entries. Multi-author works by the same initial author should be arranged alphabetically according to second, third, etc. authors. Ordering of publications by the same author or authors is required.
ü Important note:
Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author lists with more than 3 authors will also be accepted. Please always give a minimum of three authors.
Tables
Arabic numerals are should be used to identify each table.
In the text, tables must always be mentioned in consecutive numerical order.
Please include a table caption (title) outlining the table’s elements for each table.
Indicate any content that has already been published by providing a reference to the original publication at the end of the table caption.
Table footnotes should be provided below the table body and should be denoted by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data).
Artwork
It is strongly advised that you submit all of your artwork in an electronic format, including photos, line drawings, etc., for the highest quality final outcome. Then, your artwork will be created to the highest standards and with the utmost attention to detail. The calibre of the submitted artwork will be clearly visible in the published work.
Electronic Supplimentary Material
KITSPRESS accepts electronic multimedia files (animations, movies, audio, etc.) and other supplementary files to be published online along with an article or a book chapter. This feature can add dimension to the author’s article, as certain information cannot be printed or is more convenient in electronic form.
Research datasets should be reviewed before being submitted as electronic supplementary material. Wherever it is feasible, research data should be archived in data repositories.
ü Submission
Provide all supporting documents in industry-standard file formats.
Please include the following details in each file: the title of the paper, the journal it was published in, the names of the authors, their affiliations, and their email addresses.
Please be aware that larger files may take a very long time to download and that some users might run into other issues while doing so in order to accommodate user downloads.
Submit your material in PDF format; .doc or .ppt files are not suitable for long-term viability.
A collection of figures may also be combined in a PDF file.
Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets should be submitted as .csv or .xlsx files (MS Excel).
Specialized Formats
Spreadsheets should be submitted as .csv or .xlsx files (MS Excel).
Collecting Multiple Files
It is possible to collect multiple files in a .zip or .gz file.
ü Numbering
Similar to how figures and tables are cited, the text must specifically refer to any supplemental information if it is provided.
Use the phrase “Online Resource” when referring to the supplemental files, such as “… as seen in the animation (Online Resource 3),” or “… further data are presented in Online Resource 4.”
Name the files in order, for example, “ESM 3.mpg,” “ESM 4.pdf.”
ü Captions
For each supplementary material, please supply a concise caption describing the content of the file.
ü Processing of supplementary files
Electronic supplemental material will be published just as it was submitted by the author, without modification or formatting.
ü Accessibility
Please make sure that the content of your additional files is accessible to persons with all abilities and impairments by following these guidelines.
Each extra material’s caption in the manuscript is illustrative.
Nothing that flashes more than three times per second is present in video files (so that users prone to seizures caused by such effects are not put at risk)
Ethical Responsibilities of the Author
An author is responsible for notifying the journal’s editors or journal as soon as they discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work and cooperating with them to correct the work or retract it. Journal editors generally expect authors to promptly correct or retract papers that contain significant errors or inaccuracies, or to provide evidence to them that the paper is correct.
An accurate description of the research procedure and the results should be included in original research papers, as well as an objective discussion of the significance of the results. To enable others to duplicate the research, the manuscript should include sufficient details and references. Generally, review articles should be accurate, objective, and comprehensive, whereas editorial ‘opinions’ and perspectives should be clearly identified. Incorrect or fraudulent statements are unacceptable and constitute unethical behaviour.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest:
Unpublished information disclosed in a manuscript will not be used by editors or editorial board members for their own research purposes without the author’s explicit consent. During the course of handling the manuscript, editors will obtain privileged information or ideas which will be kept confidential. As a result of their competitive, collaborative, or other relationships/connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions involved in the papers, editors will recuse themselves from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest. Instead, another editorial board member will handle the manuscript.
Research Data Policy
Any researcher desiring to utilise the resources detailed in the publication for non-commercial reasons without violating participant confidentially will be entitled to do so without paying for them if they are submitted to the journal. This includes all relevant raw data.
The publication strongly recommends that readers get access to all datasets used to support the paper’s conclusions. We advise authors to make sure that their datasets are either given in the primary publication or supplementary supporting files whenever possible, or that they are deposited in publicly accessible repositories (where available and acceptable). Where suitable, general repositories for all forms of research data, like figshare and Dryad, may be used.
The reference list may include references to datasets that have been given digital object identifiers (DOIs) by a data repository. The bare minimum recommended by DataCite for data citations is authors, title, publisher (repository name), and identifier.
For the following types of data set, submission to a community-endorsed, public repository is mandatory:
Mandatory deposition
Suitable repositories
Protein sequences
Uniprot
DNA and RNA sequences
Genbank DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ) EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (ENA)
Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank (BMRB) Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB)
Microarray data (must be MIAME compliant)
Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) ArrayExpress
Crystallographic data for small molecules
Cambridge Structural Database
Ø Data availability
The publication invites authors to include a note about the availability of data in their work. Data availability statements should provide information on the sources of the data used to support the findings in the article, including, if appropriate, hyperlinks to publically available datasets used in the analysis or generation of the data. If necessary, data availability declarations can additionally declare whether or not data are available upon request from the authors and when none are.
Data Availability statements can take one of the following forms (or a combination of more than one if required for multiple datasets):
The [NAME] repository, [PERMANENT WEB LINK TO DATASETS], contains all of the datasets created for and/or analysed during the current study.
The datasets created and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available because of [REASON WHY DATA ARE NOT PUBLIC], but they are available from the corresponding author upon justifiable request.
Upon reasonable request, the corresponding author will provide the datasets created and/or analysed during the current study.
Since no datasets were created or analysed for this article, data sharing is not relevant.
This article [and its additional information files] include all data produced or analysed throughout this investigation.
Reviewing and Accepting
The maximum review time is 45 days.
After the acceptance of the manuscripts,a confirmation mail is sent to the authors.Then the final version of the manuscript should be prepared by the authors according to the IJSDC template.Authors should attach the copy rights form along with the final version of the manuscripts through online.
If any of the manuscript is rejected, it will not be considered for publication and hence the authors are asked not to send the rejected manuscripts.
During the editorial review, authors may be required to provide raw data, which they should be prepared to make public if possible. As a minimum, authors should ensure that such data can be accessed by other competent professionals for at least ten years after publication (preferably via institutional or subject-based data repositories or other data centres), provided that participants’ confidentiality is protected and legal rights regarding proprietary data do not prevent them from being disclosed.
Issues
The major issues involve checking ,
If the paper is new , fresh and original and is not already existing.
If the concept explained in the paper is new , innovative , modern.
The evidences provided are relevant to the paper and are unique and purely done with knowledge of the author and are addressed properly.
If all the contents of the paper are confidential and do not have any ethical issue.
The minor issues involves checking ,
If the meanings given are correct and there are no numerical or factual errors.
If all the references are correct and relevant and all the figures are labelled correctly.
English Language Editing
You must make sure the English language is of a suitable calibre to be understood if you want editors and reviewers to evaluate the work given in your submission appropriately. If you require assistance writing in English, take into account:
requesting that a coworker who is a native English speaker look over your writing for clarity.
Seeking out the English language instruction that addresses the typical errors made when writing in English
by using a professional language editing service, where editors will make your English more clear and point out any issues that need your assessment.
If your submission is accepted, our copyeditors will review it for formality and spelling before publishing.
3. Guidelines when submitting a manuscript
Important Items when submitting a manuscript
A manuscript’s academic merit (importance, originality, validity, clarity) and relevance to the journal’s scope is evaluated exclusively by editors.
They take no account of the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, citizenship, religious beliefs, political philosophy, or institutional affiliation when evaluating manuscripts submitted.
Editing and publishing decisions are not influenced by government policies or other agencies outside the journal.
It is the Editor-in-Chief’s responsibility to decide when the editorial content of the journal will be published and how it will be published.
All information about submissions will remain confidential, except for the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, and other editorial advisors.
a) In a word processing format (i.e. MS Word or LaTeX during the submission). Do Not Submit the revised manuscript in the Pdf Documents format.
b) single column
c) double spaced lines
d) line numbers
e) adhere to the reference format standard for the journal
f) figures must be uploaded separately and properly labelled during the submission process.
g) provide a separate list of figure captions and table captions at the end of the text document.
4. What is Open Access
What is Open Access ?
Open access is a broad international movement that seeks to grant free and open online access to academic information, such as publications and data. A publication is defined ‘open access’ when there are no financial, legal or technical barriers to accessing it – that is to say when anyone can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search for and search within the information, or use it in education or in any other way within the legal agreements.
Open access is a publishing model for scholarly communication that makes research information available to readers at no cost, as opposed to the traditional subscription model in which readers have access to scholarly information by paying a subscription (usually via libraries).
One of the most important advantages of open access is that it increases the visibility and reuse of academic research results. There is also criticism, and the aspect of quality deserves extra effort. The principles of open access are set out in the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003). This declaration has been signed by many international organisations for academic research, including all Dutch universities and research organisations.
KITSPRESS defines open access by the following conditions:
There are different ways of publishinging open access:
1) Full Open Access journals: publication via publisher platforms, in full open access journals. This route may involve a charge. The publication costs, known as ‘article processing charges’ (APCs), are covered by authors or by their institutions. Most research funders support open access and are willing to cover the costs themselves. A list of fully open access journals that are accessible worldwide can be found on the DOAJ website.
2) Hybrid Journals: publication via ‘hybrid’ journals. These journals are subscription journals that allow open access publication of individual articles on payment of an Article Processing Charge (APC). Thanks to a series of deals between the VSNU and several academic publishers, Dutch-affiliated researchers can publishing for free in thousands of hybrid journals.
The green route: the full text of academic publications is deposited in a trusted repository, a publicly accessible database managed by a research organisation. You can find all Dutch institutional repositories via NARCIS, the Dutch portal for research information. NARCIS gives access to all the publications in Dutch repositories.
The diamond route: publication via diamond journals/platforms that do not charge author-facing publication fees (APCs). Diamond open access journals are usually funded via library subsidy models, institutions or societies.
Peter Suber, one of the earliest thought-leaders on open access, gave this definition.
5. Review process
Review process
The maximum review time is 45 days.
After the acceptance of the manuscripts,a confirmation mail is sent to the authors.Then the final version of the manuscript should be prepared by the authors according to the IJSDC template.Authors should attach the copy rights form along with the final version of the manuscripts through online.
If any of the manuscript is rejected, it will not be considered for publication and hence the authors are asked not to send the rejected manuscripts.
Reviewers are responsible for providing feedback regarding the paper , give suggestions and recommendations to the editors for selecting or rejecting the papers.They are also responsible for implementing any changes in the article.
Issues
The major issues involve checking ,
If the paper is new , fresh and original and is not already existing.
If the concept explained in the paper is new , innovative , modern.
The evidences provided are relevant to the paper and are unique and purely done with knowledge of the author and are addressed properly.
If all the contents of the paper are confidential and do not have any ethical issue.
The minor issues involves checking ,
If the meanings given are correct and there are no numerical or factual errors.
If all the references are correct and relevant and all the figures are labelled correctly.
Participation in the peer-review process and cooperation with editors are essential. It is the author’s responsibility to provide prompt replies to editors’ requests for raw data, clarifications, and proof of ethics approval, patient consents, and copyright permissions. Authors should revise and resubmit their manuscript by the specified deadline in the case of a first decision of “revisions necessary”.
6. Conflict of interest
Conflicts of interest
Many potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed, including financial ones, such as honoraria, educational grants or other funding, participation in speakers’ bureaus, membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest, and paid expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements, as well as non-financial ones such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript.
Unpublished information disclosed in a manuscript will not be used by editors or editorial board members for their own research purposes without the author’s explicit consent.
During the course of handling the manuscript, editors will obtain privileged information or ideas which will be kept confidential. As a result of their competitive, collaborative, or other relationships/connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions involved in the papers, editors will recuse themselves from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest. Instead, another editorial board member will handle the manuscript.
Some common conflicts are
any prior partnership with the reviewers
any personal relationship with the reviewers
financial benefits from the work.
Intellectual Property
Academic competitors with the reviewers
Authors
Any conflicts of interest that could influence the results or interpretation in the manuscript should be disclosed by authors as early as possible (generally by submitting a disclosure form and including a statement in the manuscript). Please disclose all sources of funding (including grant numbers or other reference numbers, if applicable).
Editors
Editors have the complete responsibility to accept or reject the manuscript depending on the reviews obtained from the reviewers.
Every manuscript should be treated as a confidential document by the editor.
It is prohibited for editors to use any submitted manuscripts in their own research.
Editors should have no conflict of interest on the articles they accept or reject.
It is the editor’s responsibility to ensure that the peer-review process is conducted to a high standard.
Double blind review process must be ensured by the editors.
Reviewers
Reviewers should decline to be involved with a submission if they have any of the following:
any prior partnership with the authors
any personal relationship with the authors
financial benefits from the work.
hatred towards the author
Academic competitors with the authors
Reviewers must declare any remaining interests in the ‘Confidential’ section of the review form, which will be considered by the editor.
7. Licensing Policy
Copyright and Licensing Policy
Copyright Form: Copy right form link
Publishing Rights
KITSPRESS allows its author(s) to retain publishing rights without restrictions.
