Guidelines to Authors for Publication in the University of Aden Journal for Natural and Applied Sciences
Rules Governing the Preparation of Manuscript for Publishing in the Journal
1- The paper should be submitted in its final form in MS-WORD file, and in double space text. A margin of 3 cm must be left on both sides of the page. The manuscript must not exceed 15 pages including the tables, diagrams, photographs and references.
2- The manuscript must be written in Arabic or English.
3- The manuscript must include :
a- An abstract in Arabic and English not more than 300 words, and not lest than 100 words. Followed by 3-5 keywords.
b- An Introduction.
c- Materials and methods of the research.
d- Results and Discussion.
e- Conclsion
f- Acknowledgement.
g- disclosure
4- The journal can also publish “ short communications ” Those, however, will not require the above classification. Such short communications do normally consist of 2-3 pages, and should be accompanied by an abstract in both languages of not more than 100 words. The journal has the right to publish the paper either as a research paper or a short communication.
5- Tables and diagrams must be numbered serially according to its place in the manuscript. The Table must include a plain caption at the top, that interprets its contents. The contents should be written with a minimum font size 10. It is preferable that Table – related margins be appeared on the Table in the form of the upper letters starting with the letters (A) for every Table provided that the meaning of each letter be referred to at the bottom of the Table.
6- The caption of the figure or photo should be written at the bottom of each.
7- Only black and white photographs will be accepted. They should be clear and neat.
8- Scientific (Latin) names of the plants, animals, insects, micro-organisms … etc must be written in italics, so as to distinguish them from the remaining of the text. The chemicals (insecticides, drugs, etc. should be given their common names and not their commercial ones.
9- The metric system must be used in all the measurements.
10- All references indicated in the manuscript must be referred to and written at the end of the manuscript in the original language in which they were written or published. All references must be arranged numrically at the end of the paper. The references should be written as follows:
- References in the article must be referred to in the text as numbers and put in square brackets according to their serial numbers in the manuscript text.
- Citations should be placed in square brackets within the line of text, with a space before the first square bracket and before any punctuation.
- In the manuscript, number your sources sequentially. After you have cited a source and assigned it a number, maintain using that number when you cite that source in your work.
- The recommended way to cite many sources at once is to put each number independently, in its own square brackets, with a comma in between the numbers, like this: [1], [3], [5]. Use a dash [1-6] to indicate the beginning and end of references in a series.
- All of the sources you utilized are fully cited in the Reference List, which is placed at the end of your article. The references should be listed in the paper's citation order, with the number in square brackets at the start of each reference.
- Article titles are included in quote marks.
- Books and journals have their titles listed in italics.
- Each reference should start with forenames, or, only the initials of name of the author or name of organization, and followed by his family name. Followed by the title of the article paper and the name of the Journal or place of publication, and the volume, followed by the year of publication and number of pages (16 – 20).
Following given some examples of common references:
1. Articles in a Journal
A.M., AL- Hadrani, S. AL- Aulqi, and A.M. Qubati, “Breast cancer in Yemeni women’’. University of Aden Journal of Natural and Applied Sciences 4(1), 2000, 185-192.
2. Books
Sh. AL-Jaroo, and M.A. AL-Attas, Manufacturing Technology. Textbook series No. (3). Aden University, P&P House, 1999, 211pp.
3. Chapters in a Book
M. T. A. Qashqoosh, F. A. M. Alahdal, Y. K. Manea, S. Zubair, and S. Naqvi, “Influence of Tween 80 Surfactant on the Binding of Roxatidine Acetate and Roxatidine Acetate–loaded Chitosan Nanoparticles to Lysozyme,” in Surfactants and Detergents - Updates and New Insights, IntechOpen, Nov. 19, 2021. pp. 89–118.
4. Conference paper or Proceedings
Y. K. Manea, A. M. Khan, and M. T. A. Qashqoosh, “Influence of surfactant and metal ion on the interaction of Ciprofloxacin with DL-Dopa: A spectrophotometric study,” in Proc. Nat. Conf. Recent Adv. Chem. Sci., Aligarh Muslim Univ., Aligarh, India, Mar. 2017.
5. Theses/Dissertation
G.S.H. Salem, “Patient satisfaction regarding medical care in public health institution, Aden Governorate”, Msc. Thesis, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Aden, Aden, Yemen,1998, 105pp.
6. Patent
S. A. Yaseen, F. A. Saif, A. S. Alameen, S. B. Undre, P. B. Undre, “Synthesis and Functionalization of Cerium Oxide Nanoflakes for Biomedical Applications,” In Patent 446957, 2023.
