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The Archives of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research (APSR) is a Peer review quarterly online journal and biannual printed version. Publication of this journal is to document and excel in pharmaceutical education in India and Internationally.

The Journal considers material in all pharmacy areas related to academia, industry, management and other research institutes worldwide, through open-access Internet publication of the Journal intends to take advantage of the electronic medium in the form of digital materials. APSR provides a dynamic forum for the exchange of knowledge among scientists to enhance their contributions to public health.

The Journal accepts original research and review manuscripts that have not been published and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts are subject to peer review and approval by the Chief Editor or editorial board before publication. Authors must prepare manuscripts to conform to the Journal style. All the manuscripts accepted for publication, become the property of APSR. All requests for reassignment of the above rights should be directed to the Chief Editor.

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EDITORIAL POLICY

Original research papers: should contain unpublished results of original research, which must be presented with sufficient details to ensure the reproducibility of the described experiments.

Short communications: provide reports on short, but completed, research or descriptions of original laboratory techniques (methods, apparatus).

Review articles: Should be concise and critical surveys of novel accomplishments in the author's research field. They may also contain original theoretical considerations. The results and role of the author's research must be clearly distinguished from the results of the investigators referenced. As far as review articles are concerned.
The Journal accepts original research and review manuscripts that have not been published and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts are subject to peer review and approval by the Chief Editor or editorial board before publication. Authors must prepare manuscripts to conform to the Journal style. All the manuscripts accepted for publication become the property of APSR. All requests for reassignment of the above rights should be directed to the Chief Editor.

EDITORIAL REVIEW PROCESS

Referees are assigned by the Chief Editor with the advice of the Editorial Board. Manuscripts are processed on line by the Chief Editor, Editorial Board. The electronic submission and review process is intended to complete the publication process using electronic communication between the editorial office, editors, referees, and authors. For submitted manuscripts acknowledgement will be sent to the corresponding author soon. Once an article is accepted, a final version or galley proof will be sent to the author for approval by email. Acceptance and approval will take about three weeks from the submitted date of manuscripts. Before publishing the articles all the authors are strictly instructed to send the copy of copyright form to the chief editor of APSR for further proceedings. The article will be published periodically on the APSR web site shortly thereafter.
All expressions of opinion and statements of supposed fact appearing in the Journal are not to be regarded as necessarily expressing the policy or views of the Chief Editor or of APSR.
All articles published represent the opinion of the authors and not reflect the official policy of the APSR. Similarly, advertisements appearing in this journal does not neither mean endorsement nor approval of the quality or the value of the product by the APSR. All rights are reserved to the journal. No part may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the editors.

INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS

MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscript should be electronically typed (MS office word format) in 12 font [Times of New Roman] size, double-spaced, with margins of at least 1.3 inches on all sides. Pages should be numbered consecutively, starting with the title page and the text arranged in the following order: Title page, Sections (Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion or Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements, References), Illustrations (Tables and figures along with caption and legends). Original Articles should not have more than 16 pages, Review Articles in the range of 12-30 pages and Short Communications up to 12 pages, inclusive of illustrations.
Title Page: Title page contains title of the manuscript in bold face, title case (font size 14), names of the authors in normal face, title case (font size 12) followed by the address of authors in normal face, lower case (font size 12). Please provide the complete postal address or addresses with pin code number of the place(s) of the author to whom correspondence should be indicated clearly. Provide a functional email address of the corresponding author.
Abstract: An abstract not exceeding 200 words (for Short Communications between 50 –100 words) should be provided in the typed format on a separate sheet. Abstract should include aim, methods, results and conclusion.
Keywords: Minimum of 3 most important subjects must be provided in alphabetical order.
Introduction: A concise report of the background to the work to be presented, including appropriate earlier work, suitably referenced. It should be started in a separate page after keywords.
Materials and Methods: Should be continued from introduction on the same page and provide concise but complete information about the materials and equipments, the manufacturer’s details. The main methods, analytical, statistical and experimental procedures used. New methods or substantially modified methods may be described with sufficient details.
Results: The important results of the work should be clearly stated and illustrated where necessary by tables and figures. The statistical management of data and significance level of the factors should be stated wherever necessary. In this part, the same data / information given in a table must not be repeated in a figure, or vice versa to avoid the unnecessary explanations of the Tables and Figures.
Discussion: This section should begin with the analysis of results from the tables and figures by considering information from the literature, making the readers to understand the problem taken and should be logical. The discussion should state the scope of the results, which need to be further explored. There is no need to include as “conclusions” at the end of discussion chapter. Results and discussion can be described together, if so “conclusions”. Should be included as a separate sub title.
Conclusions: Concisely summarizes the principal conclusions of the work and highlights the wider implications. This section should not merely duplicate the abstract.
Acknowledgements: Can be given information Grand, Equipment, samples. Authors are responsible for the acknowledgement approval to use the names and scientific committees are of support.
References: The references should be cited at the end of the manuscript in the order of their appearance in the text. For citation of references with three or more authors, only the first author’s name followed by et al. should be used. References to journal articles, books, chapters in books, etc. should be cited, as follows:
Journals:
[1] Singh.Y.S.,Chetan.B.S.,John.D; Journal. Phys. Chem. B, 2002; 106, 93-105.
[2] Harry., moorthy.F., albert H; Journal. Control Release, 2007; 98, 231.
Books / Monographs:
[3] Lingan S.R., Chaterjee.G;  Pharmacotherapeutics (chapter or title); 3(edition);Chapman and Hall, New York(Publisher)., 1996, 234-245.

Illustrations: All the tables, graphs, should be submitted in form of Microsoft office 1997-2003 format. Photos, images and figures should be sent as JPEG format only. Title of the table and graphs should give Roman letters numbered, Legends of figures should be brief, but complete and self-explanatory so that the reader can easily understand the results presented in the figure. All tables and figures captions and legends should be typed on a separate page.

SUBMISSION
The prepared manuscripts can be sent either of online submission in editor@apsronline.com, apsronline@gmail.com

PAGE CHARGES AND REPRINT
The journals published by APSR are Open Access journals, which mean that the publication cost should be covered by the author's institution or research funds.

The Archives of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research (APSR) will only prefer to accept manuscripts submitted as e-mail attachments to editor@apsronline.com / apsronline@gmail.com.

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