International Journal of Innovative Trends in Multidisciplinary Research (IJITMR)
A peer reviewed, Open Access Journal

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Mail your papers/articles at
editor@ijitmr.com
How to Submit Articles in IJITMR (an open access journal)
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Papers should be mailed to editor@ijitmr.com in only ‘.doc’ format. Pdf files are not accepted. After receiving the article, an article number will be generated and mailed to the person submitting document within 48 hours.
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If documents can’t be sent through email, please fill the form available on "Contact Us" page of Website.
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Every article should be attached with a covering letter including author’s full address with Telephone/Fax Number. Authors have the flexibility of selecting any panel of two to four reviewers for reviewing his/her article, however IJITMR, has the authority to designate other reviewers.
Review Process
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All papers are reviewed by the editorial board and assigned reviewers. Decisions will be made as rapidly as possible, and the journal strives to return reviewer’s comments to authors within 2 weeks. The editorial board will re-review papers that are pending for revision. It is the goal of the IJITMR to publish accepted papers within 2 weeks after submission.
General Instructions
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Every page beginning from the first one, should be given numbers and text should be double-spaced. Title should be compact and brief and the title page should contain Author’s full name, affiliations, name of corresponding author, his/her phone or mobile number, fax and email that are necessary for publication on research paper publication sites.
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Abstract should be precise and self-explanatory presenting topic, state and scope of experiments, including substantial data and indicate observations and conclusions. It may vary from 100 to 250 words. Abstract should be in written in third person and in past tense with complete sentences and active verbs. Abstract should use Standard Nomenclature and not contain abbreviations.
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From Abstract, 3 to 6 keywords should be given to provide indexing references.
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Following the abstract, about 3 to 6 key words that will provide indexing references to should be listed.
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The introduction of article contains precise description of problem, literature relevant to subject matter and the proposed strategy and solution. It should be written in easy language, easily comprehensible by colleagues coming from varied disciplines of science.
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The resources and procedures described should be complete so that the experiments can be repeated with provided descriptions. Whereas the details of previously published procedures are only cited, the description of new procedures should be given at point and the important modifications in published procedures, if any, should be mentioned in brief. Trade Names should be capitalized and the manufacturer’s name and address should also be included. Sub headings should be used as per requirement.
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Results should be precise and clear. They should describe the observations and conclusions of experiments in past tense. Observations and conclusions, previously published follow present tense. Conclusions are explained largely without any reference to literature. Results should not contain deliberations, assumptions or interpretation of data. These are put in Discussions sections.
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The discussions are deliberations on observations of contemporary and past annotations on the topic. The conclusion should be described in a few sentences at the end of paper. The results and discussion sections contain subheadings and both sections can also be combined as per requirement.
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People, contributions and funds etc. should be acknowledged in brief.
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Tables should be minimum and as simple as possible. They should by typed with double space from heading to foot notes. Each table should have a heading and a story and start on a new page and be numbered in Arabic numerals. Tables should be self-explanatory and without any reference to text. The details of procedures followed in experiment are described in story and not in text. The table or graph and the text should not contain any repeated data.
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Pictorial stories should be in numerical order on a new sheet. Graphics and Tables should be prepared in MS Word. To label figures, Arabic numerals and for their parts, Upper case letters should be used (Fig 1). Every Story should start with a title and include sufficient details to make figure comprehensible without any need of reading the text. The info given in stories should not repeat in text.
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References: Reference coupled with author’s name should follow date of reference in parentheses. If authors are more than two, the first author’s name is followed by ‘et al’. If author has two or more manuscripts published in same year, the reference, both in text and in reference list, should be acknowledged by lower case letters ‘a’ and ‘b’ after the date to distinguish the works.
Copyright
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Only those articles should be submitted that have not been published in past anywhere (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, or thesis) or have not been under consideration for publication anywhere. If the article is accepted for publication, author agrees to automatically handover all the copyrights to publisher.