Instructions to the Authors

Archives of Pharmacy Practice, a publication of Archives of Global Professionals, is a peer-reviewed online journal with Quarterly print on demand compilation of issues published.

The journal will cover technical and clinical studies related to health, ethical and social issues in field of Pharmacy Practice, Clinical Pharmacy, Social and administrative pharmacy, Hospital pharmacy, Pharmaceutical technology, Pharmaceutical chemistry, Pharmaceutical analysis, Behavioral medicines, Statistical methods in Pharmacy, Public health in pharmacy, health communication, communication skills, counseling, community pharmacy practice, Pharmacy management, pharmacoecnomics, pharmaceutical care, evidence base medicines, therapeutics, pharmacology, organ medicines, Pharmacy education etc . Articles with clinical interest and implications will be given preference.   

The journal will cover technical and clinical studies related to health, ethical and social issues in field of Pharmacy Practice, Clinical Pharmacy, Social and administrative pharmacy, Hospital pharmacy, Pharmaceutical technology, Pharmaceutical chemistry, Pharmaceutical analysis, Behavioral medicines, Statistical methods in Pharmacy, Public health in pharmacy, health communication, communication skills, counseling, community pharmacy practice, Pharmacy management, pharmacoecnomics, pharmaceutical care, evidence base medicines, therapeutics, pharmacology, organ medicines, Pharmacy education etc . Articles with clinical interest and implications will be given preference.   

A manuscript will be reviewed for possible publication with the understanding that it is being submitted to Archives of Pharmacy Practice alone at that point in time and has not been published anywhere, simultaneously submitted, or already accepted for publication elsewhere. The journal expects that authors would authorize one of them to correspond with the Journal for all matters related to the manuscript. All manuscripts received are duly acknowledged. On submission, editors review all submitted manuscripts initially for suitability for formal review. Manuscripts with insufficient originality, serious scientific or technical flaws, or lack of a significant message are rejected before proceeding for formal peer-review. Manuscripts that are unlikely to be of interest to the Archives of Pharmacy Practice readers are also liable to be rejected at this stage itself.

Manuscripts that are found suitable for publication in Archives of Pharmacy Practice are sent to two or more expert reviewers. During submission, the contributor is requested to provide names of two or three qualified reviewers who have had experience in the subject of the submitted manuscript, but this is not mandatory. The reviewers should not be affiliated with the same institutes as the contributor/s. However, the selection of these reviewers is at the sole discretion of the editor. The journal follows a double-blind review process, wherein the reviewers and authors are unaware of each other’s identity. Every manuscript is also assigned to a member of the editorial team, who based on the comments from the reviewers takes a final decision on the manuscript. The comments and suggestions (acceptance/ rejection/ amendments in manuscript) received from reviewers are conveyed to the corresponding author. If required, the author is requested to provide a point by point response to reviewers’ comments and submit a revised version of the manuscript. This process is repeated till reviewers and editors are satisfied with the manuscript.

Manuscripts accepted for publication are copy edited for grammar, punctuation, print style, and format. Page proofs are sent to the corresponding author. The corresponding author is expected to return the corrected proofs within three days. It may not be possible to incorporate corrections received after that period. The whole process of submission of the manuscript to final decision and sending and receiving proofs is completed online. To achieve faster and greater dissemination of knowledge and information, the journal publishes articles online as ‘Ahead of Print’ immediately on acceptance.

Archives of Pharmacy Practice favors registration of clinical trials and is a signatory to the Statement on publishing clinical trials in Indian biomedical journals. Archives of Pharmacy Practice would publish clinical trials that have been registered with a clinical trial registry that allows free online access to public. Registration in the following trial registers is acceptable: http://www.ctri.in/; http://www.actr.org.au/; http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/; http://isrctn.org/; http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/index.asp; and http://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr. This is applicable to clinical trials that have begun enrollment of subjects in or after June 2008. Clinical trials that have commenced enrollment of subjects prior to June 2008 would be considered for publication in Archives of Pharmacy Practice only if they have been registered retrospectively with clinical trial registry that allows unhindered online access to public without charging any fees.

Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to each of the three components mentioned below: 

1. Concept and design of study or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data;

2. Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and

3. Final approval of the version to be published.

Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship. Each contributor should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content of the manuscript. The order of naming the contributors should be based on the relative contribution of the contributor towards the study and writing the manuscript. Once submitted the order cannot be changed without written consent of all the contributors. The journal prescribes a maximum number of authors for manuscripts depending upon the type of manuscript, its scope and number of institutions involved (vide infra). The authors should provide a justification, if the number of authors exceeds these limits.

Contributors should provide a description of contributions made by each of them towards the manuscript. Description should be divided in following categories, as applicable: concept, design, definition of intellectual content, literature search, clinical studies, experimental studies, data acquisition, data analysis, statistical analysis, manuscript preparation, manuscript editing and manuscript review. Authors' contributions will be printed along with the article. One or more author should take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole from inception to published article and should be designated as 'guarantor'. 

All authors of must disclose any and all conflicts of interest they may have with publication of the manuscript or an institution or product that is mentioned in the manuscript and/or is important to the outcome of the study presented. Authors should also disclose conflict of interest with products that compete with those mentioned in their manuscript.

Instructions for Authors

 Submission of an Article

To reduce delays, authors should adhere to the level, length, and format of the journal at every stage of processing right from manuscript submission to each review stage. Editable word files are required to typeset your article for final publication. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, is sent by e-mail.

• Our online submission system guides you stepwise through the process of entering your article details and uploading your files. Please submit your article via the submission panel.

Contact Information

For queries with your submission, please contact the team via email:

Email Address: [email protected]

Editor-In-Chief

Tahir Mehmood Khan

School of Pharmaceutical Science’ Monash University Malaysia

Editorial office

Archives Global Professionals,

Karachi, Pakistan   

Contribution of Author

Credit of the authorship should be based on

Consequential inputs to the concept and design, procurement of data or analysis, and interpretation of data.

Preparing the article or revising it critically for an important matter.

Final confirmation of the adaptation to be published. These all three conditions must be met by authors. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or data or general supervision of the research group does not constitute authorship.

The author must include a proclamation mentioning each author's contribution. Please assure that this is discussed with your co-authors and compliance is reached before manuscript submission. Post-acceptance changes to the author list will not be permitted. The contribution statement is not included in the maximum word count.

Article Types

1. Letter to the Editor

2. Original article

3. Review article

4. Case report

5. Clinical trial

Letter to the Editor

A letter to the Editor is a brief report that is within the journal's scope and of particular interest to the community, but not suitable as a standard research article. It does not follow a format such as abstract, subheads, or acknowledgments. It is more feedback or the opinion of the reader on a particular article published and should reach the editor within 6 months of article publication. Letters should have a maximum of 1,500 words.

Original Articles

The research Articles report on primary research. They must describe significant and original observations. Consideration for publication is based on the article’s originality, novelty, and scientific soundness, and the appropriateness of its analysis. Research articles should follow all the criteria mentioned in the preparation of the manuscript section and have a maximum of 5,000 words (excluding references), a maximum of 50 references (70% of the references should be within the last 5 years), and 7 tables/figures together. Please use the journals-ready template for preparing your article.

Review Articles

Review Articles are considered reviews of research or summary articles. They are state-of-the-art papers covering a current topic by experts in the field. They should give evidence and provide answers to a well-defined aspect or question in a particular area. Introduction generally delivers the issue forward to the readers followed by analytical discussion with the help of imperative tables, graphs, pictures, and illustrations wherever necessary. It compiles the topic with a conclusion. All the statements or observations in the review articles must be based on necessary citations, providing complete reference at the end of the article. Review articles should have a maximum of 7,000 words, (excluding references), Maximum of 100 references (70% of the references should be within the last 5 years). Please use the journals-ready template for preparing your review article. Abstract, keywords, introduction, conclusion headers are necessary.

Case Report

• Case studies are accepted to add further information related to the investigative research that advances in the field of Environmental Science.

• It should add value to the main content/article submitted, by providing key acumens about the core area.

• Cases reports follow original articles format with the headers of the Cases and Methods Section (That describes the nature of the clinical issue and the methodology adopt to address it), a discussion section that analyzes the case, and a Conclusion section that epitomizes the entire case.

• The case report should have a maximum of 3,000 words (excluding references), 50 references (70% of the references should be within the last 5 years), and 7 tables/figures together.

Clinical trial

All clinical trials should be registered in a publicly available registry approved by the WHO or other organizations and the clinical trial number must be clearly stated in the manuscript.

Archives of Pharmacy Practice would publish clinical trials that have been registered with a clinical trial registry that allows free online access to public. Registration in the following trial registers is acceptable:

 http://www.ctri.in/; http://www.actr.org.au/; http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/; http://isrctn.org/; http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/index.asp; and http://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr. This is applicable to clinical trials that have begun enrollment of subjects in or after June 2008.

 Plagiarism

At any stage of peer-review, publication, or post-publication, if plagiarism is detected the manuscript may be rejected, returned to the author for correction, or retracted.

Peer Review

We use a double-blind peer-review system where both the referee and author remain anonymous throughout the process. We aim to provide authors with timely and constructive feedback regarding their submitted manuscripts.

Preparation of Manuscript

1. The preferred word processing program for manuscripts is Microsoft Word.

2. Footnotes should be avoided.

3. Abbreviations (except those well established in the field) should be explained when they are first used both in the abstract and in the main text.

4. Units of measurement should be expressed in SI units wherever possible.

5. All manuscripts must contain the essential elements, for example, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Conclusions, Artwork, and Tables with Captions.

6. Please ensure the figures and the tables are placed next to the relevant text in the manuscript, rather than at the bottom or the top of the file.

7. Only papers written in English are considered.

8. Please use the journal's ready template for preparing your article.

9. The document may contain a few short subheadings of no more than 40 characters each.

10. By submitting an article for publication, the authors agree to the transfer of the copyright to the publisher upon acceptance.

11. The author should make sure that the article submitted for review/publication is not under consideration elsewhere contemporaneously.

12. The author has to mention a clear title of the article along with complete details of him/her and all the co-author’s professional/institutional affiliation, educational qualifications, and contact information.

13. The Copyright form with original (hand-written) signatures is to be provided upon submitting the paper.

14. Manuscripts may be accompanied by a cover letter to the Editor(s)-in-Chief. mentioning altogether the type of manuscript (e.g., Research article, Review articles, Case study, etc.) Unless invited on a special case, authors cannot and should not classify a particular manuscript as Editorials or Letters to the editor or concise communications.

15. All submitted manuscripts must contain a conflict of interest and funding statements before the reference list.

16. Studies involving humans and animals must have been performed with the approval of an appropriate ethics committee and provide the reference number where appropriate.

17. Confirm that each individual named as an author fits the uniform requirements of the Journal criteria for authorship.

Title

The first page should contain a short and concise title (8-16, Times New Roman 14) words plus a running title (20-42 characters, Times New Roman 12). Abbreviations should be avoided.

Authors

Below the title, list all the authors with their complete affiliations. Each listed author must have an affiliation, which comprises the department, university, or organization and its location, city, state/province (if applicable), and country.

Place the e-mail address of the corresponding author at the bottom of the first page.

Abstract

A concise and factual unstructured abstract is required (150- 250 words). The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results, and major conclusions.

Keywords

4-6 keywords relevant to the article should be listed below the abstract.

Introduction

State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.

Material and methods

Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.

Results

Results should be clear and concise.

Discussion

This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of

published literature.

Conclusions

The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.

Acknowledgments

Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section.

Conflict of interest

Any interest, financial relationship, personal relationship, religious or political beliefs that might influence the objectivity of the author can be considered as a potential source of conflict of interest. All manuscripts submitted to the journal must include a conflict of the interest disclosure statement or a declaration by the authors that they do not have any conflicts of interest to declare.

Financial support

Authors should list all funding sources and they are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation.

Ethics statement

Studies involving humans and animals must have been performed with the approval of an appropriate ethics committee and provide the reference number.

Math formulae

Please submit math equations as editable text and not as images and numbers consecutively any equations that have to be displayed separately from the text.

e.g.

Tables/Figures

• Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. Number tables consecutively following their appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body.

• Ensure that all figures have a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. Please make sure that figure files are in TIFF or JPEG format (300 dpi).

Mention all the tables and figures in the text as follows:

 (Table 1), (Figure 1)

References

The references should be listed on a separate sheet and should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are cited in the text. Cite in the text by the appropriate Arabic number e.g. 1, 2, 3, and the numbers should be in the brackets. e.g [1], [1,3], [5-8], [5,6,12]

Reference list

Print articles

Electronic journal articles

Conference articles

Books and book chapters

Government and other reports 

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

From the Internet

Please know that we updated instruction for authors in 10/02/2021 and all the contributors need to follow the new instructions.