The journal publishes full length research papers, review articles, short communications, book reviews and news (information about symposia, conferences etc.).
The authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of the manuscript contents.
There is no page charge upto 8 pages if the author has subscribed. The publication fee for accepted manuscripts having more than 8 pages is $20.00 per page. For Indian authors it is Rs 500 per printed page. Page charges are mandatory and omitted ONLY when it is highly recommended by the Chief Editor for publication
Each author of a paper must be the member of Paryaraksha/Enpro
Society otherwise the paper will not be processed. The membership fee is 200 USD for an individual from a developed country, 100 USD for an individual from a developing country and 2000 INR for Indians. Manuscripts must not exceed 8 A4 pages including figures, tables and references. They should be prepared according to the instructions given in this section. Consult the free sample papers of Enpro Journal at www.rpenpro.org, a recent issue of the journal, to become familiar with layout and conventions.
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Consistency should be maintained within a paper. Italics are not to be used for expressions of Latin origin, for example, in vivo, et al., per se. Metric units should be used throughout. Use a comma for thousands (10,000 and above). Number all pages consecutively at the right top corner.
Standard font type (e.g., Arial, Calibri, Garamond, Helvetica or Times New Roman) and font size (12 point) must be used, and all parts of the manuscript, except tables, must be single-spaced. Page charges are calculated by manuscript (MS Word) page and font types take up different amounts of space (e.g., 12-pt Helvetica takes up twice the space as 12-pt Times New Roman). Set paper size at A4 210×297mm portrait, not: Letter 8.5×11", Legal 8.5×14" or any other. There should be a margin of 1" on all sides. Set justification to full, to fill out both left and right margins except the manuscript title, authors and affiliations that should appear centered between the printing margins. The first line of each paragraph should be have indented by 0.2" and all references should be hanging by 0.2". One line space is needed before a new heading starts.
All the titles and headings are in bold. The title or top heading is set IN ALL CAPS 14 point. Main sections or first level heading: Left aligned side heading, bold, all capitals, no final fullstop, in separate line e.g., INTRODUCTION, EXPERIMENTAL, RESULTS DISCUSSION, CONCLUSIONS, REFERENCES. Main side-heading or second level heading: Left flushed side heading, bold, only first letter capital, no final fullstop, in separate line e.g. Abstract.
Subsidiary side-heading: Bold, only first letter capital, final colon, with paragraph. Further (fourth level heading) subdivision: Italic, first initial capital letter only, final colon, with paragraph. Text starts directly under a section title (no blank line), all paragraphs (including the first) are left indented by 0.2 inch. At the end of a section, leave 1 blank line before the next title/heading.
The text of a research paper should be divided into the following unnumbered sections: Title, Address, Keywords, Introduction, Material & Methods or Experimental, Results, Discussions (Results and Discussion may be combined) Acknowledgements (if any) and References.
Brief communications should be arranged as Title, Address, Abstract, Body of the text (Methods, Results and Discussion as separate paragraph without heading), Acknowledgements and References.
Give authors name in bold. Affiliations of all authors should be given in normal font.
Only the manuscript title, authors and affiliations appear centered between the printing margins. All other text is set to full justification. Don’t leave 1 blank line between authors and affiliations. Affiliations are grouped where possible to save space.
A short abstract (500 words maximum) should open the paper. A concise and factual abstract is required. No information should be reported in the abstract that does not appear in the text of the manuscript. The title ‘Abstract’ has 1 initial capital and appears left aligned in bold. Text starts under the title. Leave 1 blank line between the abstract and keywords. The word ‘Keywords:’ appears flushed with the left margin in bold print by 0.2” indent. Provide up to 10 keywords for indexing purposes. Leave 1 blank lines after the keywords. The heading Acknowledgements should be bold italic just before References, not more than 7 lines.
Figures and tables should be embed in the main text (Microsoft Word) file. Units in figures should be placed next to variables after comma or in parenthesis. A title should be provided to each table and all tables should be referred in the text. Tables must be numbered with Arabic numerals, followed by a brief title, not to exceed 25 words). Sequentially numbered table captions appear centered directly over the table. In the main text, cross reference to tables appears like Table 1, or Tables 1, 2 and 5. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters in italic bold.
Use exclusively SI and/or metric units, not Imperial system units. Avoid footnotes, if possible.
All in-text citations must be in name/date form. Place the citation immediately after the textual information cited, placing name and date within parentheses without a comma. References should be cited as the name of the author, year, title, journal, volume number (issue number if any) and page range. They should be in alphabetical order with 0.2” hanging. Colon after volume number: or volume number (issue number) e.g. Christophi CA and Axe L. 2000. Competition of Cd, Cu and Pb adsorption on goethite. Journal of Environ. Engg. 126(1): 66-74
Manuscript may be submitted directly as an attached Word file by e-mail to any one:
rpenpro@gmail.com
rp17_in@yahoo.com
Abstract submission will be also online via our website at www.rpenpro.org
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If online submission is a problem, you may send a hard copy of the abstract on A4 size paper, which must be accompanied by CD containing your abstract in a Word format file, to the Director:
Dr R.P. Singh
Director, Enpro
Red Bungalow
St. John's College
Agra 282 002
UP, India
Mobile: +91-9897481794
Email:rpenpro@gmail.com, rp17_in@yahoo.co |
