Guidelines for Authors

Authors are insisted to follow the guidelines provided below before submitting manuscript to United Prime Publications.

Peer Review

United Prime Publications follows double blinded peer review process where authors and reviewers don’t know the identities of each other and are kept highly confidential.

Ethics of Publication

Articles published under United Prime Publications follow COPE-Community of Publication Ethics. Authors, reviewers and editors are instructed to follow publication ethics to maintain the journal integrity.

Plagiarism

United Prime Publications aims to publish original work which is neither been published or under review in other journals or else copying the content from other published articles and also United Prime Publications retards publishing a duplicate article which is already published in other journals.

Absolute Author Contribution

It is important for authors to mention the other entire authors list in the manuscript who has contributed for the respective scientific work.

Author’s Conflicts of Interest

Articles published in United Prime Publications must be accompanied by a conflict of interest disclosure. This includes financial and non financial interests, affiliations or any personal, racial and intellectual properties.

Original

Article should contain around 6000-7000 words; in which abstract word limit should be between 150-250 words. Original articles must follow the manuscript preparation guidelines. The manuscript should be arranged in the following order:

  • Manuscript Title
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Materials and methods
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgment
  • Conflict of interest “if any”
  • References
Review

Article should contain around 5000 words; abstract word limit should be between 150-250 words.

Case Report

Article should contain around 2000-3000 words; abstract word limit should be between 150-250 words and with a minimum of 15 references to a maximum of 30 references. Submitted case reports should be unique and the clinical observations to be made on one or more number of patients.

Editorial

Manuscript should not contain more than 1000 words and with a minimum of 5 references to a maximum of 10 references.

Mini Review

Article should not contain more than 3000 words; Abstract word limit should be between 150-250 words with a minimum of 15 references to a maximum of 25 references. It is a concise review of a particular area where the references needs to be cited within past 5 years.

Letter to the Editor

Article should not contain more than 1000 words; and should be with a minimum of 5 references to a maximum of 10 references. In letter to the editor, authors can convey their thoughts and can raise their concerns on recently published articles.

Clinical Images

Clinical images are limited to 3 images with maximum of 200-300 words in case description or image description with 3-5 references

Manuscript preparation Guidelines for Authors

Authors are insisted to follow the guidelines provided below before the submission of manuscript Title Page:
Title
Manuscript title should not exceed more than 140 characters in it
Authors
List the full names of all the authors along with their affiliations
Affiliations
Author affiliation should be mentioned in the order: Department, University/Institute, City, State, Country; to identify different affiliations use superscript numbers.
Corresponding Author
For further corresponding author has to provide their full name, affiliation, telephone number, Fax number and email address.
Abstract
Abstracts are limited to 150-250 words that describe Aims, Methods, Results and Conclusion (for research/original article) of the study. Author need to summarize their findings. Do not include any citations in the abstract.
Keywords
Authors can include maximum of five keywords.
Text
Text should include Introduction, Materials & Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion and Acknowledgement (If any). Use numbering for references in the body text.
Results
Results should provide complete details of the experiment that should support the conclusion of the study. Tables and figures can be included in the results section.
Discussion
This section should be separate or can be combined with results (results and discussion) or can be mixed with conclusion (discussion and conclusion) but results and discussions should not be the same or repeated. Detailed interpretation of data should not be included in the results; it should be included in the discussion section.

Funding
Authors can include funding sources and personal acknowledgement in this section. Authors are encouraged to list all the funding sources used for preparation of manuscript and should provide the grant number and authors associated with specific funding sources.
Acknowledgments
In this section, the author is free to mention the individuals or contributors who have directly or indirectly provided any technical assistance to the original work and would not be considered to meet the criteria for authorship. The authors must seek the consent of the individual or contributors, whom they would like to mention in this section as a matter of courtesy.
Figures
Preferred formats are JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF and power point. This section includes Figures, their title and description. Figure legends should not be repeated in text. If a figure has been published elsewhere, then you need to get the permission from the copyright to reproduce the material at the time of submitting agreement form. Figures should be numbered in order (as per cited in the text part)
Tables
Tables should not be embedded with the text, but it can be cited in the text part. Each table should contain title and description. There is no limit for tables submitted. Tables should provide new information but not the same given in the text. Do not use spaces while making tables. Table should be provided in word document, so that the text in the table can be copy editable as per journal format.
Supplementary Files
We do not limit the number of supplementary material items that author has to include in the manuscript. Supplementary materials should be named as S (Example Figure S1, Table S1, Video S1, etc.). Make sure that these supplementary items should be cited in the text.
References
Published and accepted articles should be included in the reference list. References should be numbered consecutively in order in which they are first cited in the text part. Author can also cite the references in the tables and figures apart from text part. In in-text references, authors surname and year should be included if publications are cited in the text.
Journal References
Author, A. (Publication Year). Article title. Periodical Title, Volume(Issue), pp.-pp.
For instance
Nevin, A. (1990). The changing of teacher education special education. Teacher Education and Special Education: The Journal of the Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children, 13(3-4), 147-148.
Book References
Finney, J. (1970). Time and again. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.
Website References
Author, A. (Year, Month Date of Publication). Article title. Retrieved from URL

Publication Fee

United Prime Publications is an Universally accessible Journal publisher. We provide research publications over the globe. These journals are scholarly journals which are available online to the readers without any limitations and charges to download, read etc. Our dedicated and committed editorial members ensure the quality of research articles to be very high. We also have reputed editorial board members all over from different fields for the quick publication of articles and to ensure the review standards to the international standards. United Prime Publications is a self reliant publisher which is solely financed by our own management without receiving funds from any institution/government. The authors are required to pay a fair open access publication fee for processing their articles but there are no submission charges. The open access publication fee will be charged to the authors to meet our operation expenses such as Article Processing, website maintenance, employee needs, and development of the company. We charge the authors open access fee only after the articles are accepted for publication.

Manuscript Withdrawal Policy

If the author requests for withdrawal of the manuscript after the submission and before starting the pre-review process, then the authors will not have to pay any withdrawal penalty.

If the author requests for withdrawal after manuscript is submitted or assigned for Pre-Review Process or during the assembly Stage or Published within the Platform then author(S) have to Pay a withdrawal Penalty without fail.