Author Guidelines
Nanofabrication follows a double-blind peer-review policy, for more information about the journal and the publisher's peer-review policy, please check here; authors’ information cannot be identified by reviewers. So manuscripts must be divided into two parts: Title page and Main body.
Language
Manuscripts must be written in clear and concise English. Authors who are not fluent in idiomatic English are strongly encouraged to seek assistance with manuscript preparation before submission. Reviewers are not responsible for correcting grammatical errors, and deficiencies in this area may undermine the scientific content of the paper, potentially leading to delays in acceptance or even rejection.
Types of Articles
The journal seeks to publish four types of contributions in the form of original articles, short communications, reviews, and mini reviews.
1. Original articles: Articles which represent in-depth research in various scientific disciplines.
2. Short communications: Should be complete manuscripts of significant importance. However, their length and/or depth do not justify a full-length paper. The total number of figures and tables should not exceed 4. The number of words should be = 3,000.
3. Review articles: Should normally comprise less than 10,000 words; contain unstructured abstract and includes up-to-date references. Meta-analyses are considered as reviews. Special attention will be paid to the teaching value of review papers.
4. Mini reviews: These are reviews of important and recent topics that are presented in a concise and well-focused manner. The number of words is limited to 5,000 words.
Online Submission
Manuscripts should be submitted by one of the authors through the online Manuscript Submission system (Editorial Manager). Upon submission, the Editorial Office will review the manuscript to ensure it is properly prepared and adheres to the journal's ethical policies. All manuscripts are screened for potential plagiarism using iThenticate software. Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal's ethics policy or fail to meet its standards will be rejected before reaching the peer review stage. Incomplete manuscripts or those not prepared according to the required style will be returned to the authors without scientific review.
Following these preliminary checks, the Editorial Office will consult with the Editor-in-Chief to assess whether the manuscript aligns with the journal's scope and is scientifically robust. Manuscripts deemed to have insufficient priority for publication will be promptly rejected. Authors are required to write their text in good English (American usage is accepted). The Editor reserves the right to reject a manuscript based on inadequate language quality, and such decisions will be confirmed by the Editor-in-Chief.
Article structure
Title Page The Title Page must consist of Title and authors’ information including full names, emails, affiliations, address, ORCID and authors’ contributions.
Main Body The body text of the manuscripts must contain a Title (repeated here) and an Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Literature Review, Method, Result, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgement, Conflict of interest, and References.
The abstract must not exceed 300 words and follow the IMRC pattern; Keywords should not be more than eight words. The first letters of Keywords must be capitalized.
Main headings including Introduction, literature review, Method, Result, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgement, and References do NOT need numbers.
Article types: The number of article words can be between 1000-20000 words based on article types:
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Style Details
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- Manuscripts should be submitted in Word (Docx or doc) according to the format. •
- Use a bold font for headings (10-point Times Roman) and use a standard, plain font (10-point Times Roman) for text. •
- Line spacing must be single-line spaced. •
- Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages. •
- Abbreviations should be defined at the first use.
References & Citation The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and opposite. Papers presented at meetings but not yet published or accepted for publication, and unpublished data should be mentioned in the references (e.g. (In press)). Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a source.
References and citations normally follow American Psychological Association (APA) style.
Reference List The reference list should be alphabetical by the last names of the first author of each work. Order multi-author publications of the same first author alphabetically concerning the year and then second and third authors. References and citations normally follow American Psychological Association (APA) 7th edition style.
References examples:Journal Articles Kim, M. G., Brown, D. K., & Brand, O. (2020). Nanofabrication for all-soft and high-density electronic devices based on liquid metal. Nature communications, 11(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14814-y
Journal articles with more than 7 authors: First 6 authors ... last author. and follow by date and other information. Li, P., Chen, S., Dai, H., Yang, Z., Chen, Z., Wang, Y., ... & Duan, H. (2021). Recent advances in focused ion beam nanofabrication for nanostructures and devices: Fundamentals and applications. Nanoscale, 13(3), 1529-1565. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0NR07539F
Conference papers Mansy, S.S. (2010). Building cell-like structures from the bottom-up. In Editors’ First Initial. Editor Surname (Ed.), Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology (p. 3). Italy: Association for Computing Machinery.
Book Morange, M. (2000). A history of molecular biology. Harvard University Press.
Book chapter Wood, B. J. (2012). Vinegar. In M. R. Adams (Ed.), Microbiology of Fermented Foods (pp. 1-44). London, UK: Springer Science & Business Media.
Online Documents Salviniales (2011, 17 January). Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/plant/Salviniales
Dissertations Minchul, G. (2015). Isolation and Identification of Lactic Acid Bacteria from Swedish Foods (Doctoral thesis). Örebro University.
Translated sources Basu, P. (2000). Biomass gasification and pyrolysis: practical design and theory. (Translator M Pezeshki & H Heidari Tabrizi, Trans.). Academic Press.
Note: If the text is in a non-Latin alphabet, this must be translated into the language of the manuscript and the language of paper must be mentioned at the end of the references.
Ebrahimzade, M. & Mehrabi, M. (2019). Assessing the effects of auxin along with calcium and nitrate concentration alterations on the biomass and alkaloids in H. arachnoideus Pojark tissue cultures. Journal of Plant Research (Iranian Journal of Biology), 31(4), 756-768. (in Persian).
Conflicts of Interest Authors have to disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations.
Figures and Tables
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- Figures and tables must be cited in consecutive order in the text, e.g., (Fig. 1A–D), (Table 1), (Figs 1C, 2, 3B). •
- Tables, which should be in a plain format, are numbered and include a definitive title at the top. •
- Table footnotes may be used to define abbreviations, signs, or other terminology within the table. •
- Tables must be present in certain positions in the main body text. •
- All figures (including graphs and plots) must also be submitted as separate files with the format of TIFF or JEPG. The position of figures in the text should be indicated. Captions of figures must be included after references. •
- Figures shall be sharp and of high contrast resolution. Figures’ scale, directions, and grid elements must be labelled carefully. •
- Figures of humans and part of their bodies must be demonstrated by written participants’ consent.
Note 1: All tables and figures shall be cited in the main body.
Note 2: All tables’ titles and figures’ captions must start with the capital letter of the first word.
Example:
Figure 1. Removal of atorvastatin and simvastatin from wastewater.
Ethical issues Those research articles which comprise medical, psychological, or physical interventions and clinical trials must present a registration code (with URL and date of registration) and official ethical committee approval and/or permission for their research.
Submission
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Supplementary materials Describe any supplementary material published online alongside the manuscript (figures, tables, videos, spreadsheets, etc.). Please indicate the name and title of each element as follows Figure S1: title, Table S1: title, etc.
Statements & Declarations The following statements must be included in your submitted manuscript under the heading 'Statements and Declarations'. This should be placed after the References section. Please note that submissions that do not include required statements will be returned as incomplete.
Author Contributions: Each author is expected to have made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data; or the creation of new software used in the work; or have drafted the work or substantively revised it; AND has approved the submitted version (and version substantially edited by journal staff that involves the author’s contribution to the study); AND agrees to be personally accountable for the author’s own contributions and for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and documented in the literature.
For research articles with several authors, a short paragraph specifying their individual contributions must be provided. The following statements should be used "Conceptualization, X.X. and Y.Y.; Methodology, X.X.; Software, X.X.; Validation, X.X., Y.Y. and Z.Z.; Formal Analysis, X.X.; Investigation, X.X.; Resources, X.X.; Data Curation, X.X.; Writing – Original Draft Preparation, X.X.; Writing – Review & Editing, X.X.; Visualization, X.X.; Supervision, X.X.; Project Administration, X.X.; Funding Acquisition, Y.Y.”, please turn to the CRediT taxonomy for the term explanation. For more background on CRediT, see here. "Authorship must include and be limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work. Please read the section concerning the criteria to qualify for authorship carefully".
Funding All sources of funding of the study should be disclosed. Clearly indicate grants that you have received in support of your research work and if you received funds to cover publication costs. Note that some funders will not refund article processing charges (APC) if the funder and grant number are not clearly and correctly identified in the paper. Funding information can be entered separately into the submission system by the authors during submission of their manuscript. Such funding information, if available, will be deposited to FundRef if the manuscript is finally published.
Please add: “This research received no external funding” or “This research was funded by [name of funder] grant number [xxx]” and “The APC was funded by [XXX]” in this section. Check carefully that the details given are accurate and use the standard spelling of funding agency names at https://search.crossref.org/funding, any errors may affect your future funding.
Institutional Review Board Statement: In this section, please add the Institutional Review Board Statement and approval number for studies involving humans or animals. Please note that the Editorial Office might ask you for further information. Please add “The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the Institutional Review Board (or Ethics Committee) of NAME OF INSTITUTE (protocol code XXX and date of approval).” OR “Ethical review and approval were waived for this study, due to REASON (please provide a detailed justification).” OR “Not applicable” for studies not involving humans or animals. You might also choose to exclude this statement if the study did not involve humans or animals.
Informed Consent Statement: Any research article describing a study involving humans should contain this statement. Please add “Informed consent was obtained from all subjects involved in the study.” OR “Patient consent was waived due to REASON (please provide a detailed justification).” OR “Not applicable.” for studies not involving humans. You might also choose to exclude this statement if the study did not involve humans.
Written informed consent for publication must be obtained from participating patients who can be identified (including by the patients themselves). Please state “Written informed consent has been obtained from the patient(s) to publish this paper” if applicable.
Acknowledgments: In this section you can acknowledge any support given which is not covered by the author contribution or funding sections. This may include administrative and technical support, or donations in kind (e.g., materials used for experiments).
Conflicts of Interest: Authors must identify and declare any personal circumstances or interest that may be perceived as influencing the representation or interpretation of reported research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state "The authors declare no conflict of interest." Any role of the funding sponsors in the choice of research project; design of the study; in the collection, analyses or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to publish the results must be declared in this section. Pharmaceutics does not publish studies funded partially or fully by the tobacco industry. Any projects funded by industry must pay special attention to the full declaration of funder involvement. If there is no role, please state “The sponsors had no role in the design, execution, interpretation, or writing of the study”. For more details please see Conflict of Interest.
Data Availability This journal encourages authors to provide an optional statement of data availability in their article. Data Availability Statements should include information on where data supporting the results reported in the article can be found, including, where applicable, hyperlinks to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. Data availability statements can also indicate whether data are available on request from the authors and where no data are available, if appropriate.
Please refer to the “Research Data Policy and Data Availability” section on editorial policies page.
After acceptance Upon acceptance, your article will be exported to production to undergo typesetting. once the typesetting is complete, you will receive the proofs.
Proofs One set of page proofs (as PDF files) will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness, and correctness of the text, tables, and figures. We will do our best to get your article published quickly and accurately. Note that the publisher may proceed with the publication of an article if no response is received.
Revised manuscripts When you revise your manuscript, upload your revised submissions including the following files:
Revised manuscript: Clarifying the changes you have made since the original submission by using the "Track Changes" option in Microsoft Word. Upload this as a "Revised Article with Changes Highlighted" file.
Response to reviewers: Type the specific points made by each reviewer. Include your responses to all the reviewers' and editors' comments and list the changes you have made to the manuscript. Upload this document as a "Response to reviewers" file.
Revised manuscript (clean copy): Upload a clean copy of your revised manuscript with names, which does not show your changes. Upload this as your "Manuscript" file.