Submissions

Author Guidelines

Iraq Natural History Museum Publication (Iraq Nat. Hist. Mus. Publ.)

Instructions

Guide to Authors

Please read the following instruction carefully for speedy publication of your manuscript. The editor reserves the right to return the manuscript if it is not prepared according to the following instructions.

Publishing Ethics

By submitting a manuscript, the authors affirm that the work is original, has not been published in parts or in full and is not being submitted for publication in any other journal. The materials included in the manuscript do not violate the copyright of anyone. As a publishing policy of the journal, all the manuscripts are checked for plagiarism before reviewing process.

Preparation of Manuscript

Failure to do so will result in return of the manuscript and delay in publication process. We ensure speedy review and the publication process, therefore, authors’ cooperation is highly encouraged in this regards.

The Manuscript should be preferably prepared in Word 2003 – 2010 and should be submitted through our electronic submission system.

The author should register first using link below:

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  then the author should login and submit using the link below:

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Title of the Manuscript

The title of the manuscript should be complete, comprehensive and should denote the essence of work, title must be written in bold type with font-size (12); each first letter must be in capital letter with exception for the species name and prepositions: In, on, at, by etc.. and “the”; the scientific names follow the nomenclature rules and written in italic.

Names of Authors and their Affiliations

Authors' names should be written with font-size (10) and identified using superscript. The corresponding author name should also carry an asterisk for identification, and E- mail of corresponding author as fallow:

Abstract

The abstract should not be more than 200 words. It should contain the objective; methods use to conduct the research, clear description of results, and a brief conclusion drawn from the results. References and discussion should not be included in this section.

An abstract in Arabic is required. (For Non-Arab authors, the translation will be provided by Iraq Natural History Museum Publication office).The Arabic abstract should be inserted after Literature cited.

Key words

Key words should describe the studied problem as best possible. They should not be less than 5 words, and arranged alphabetically.

Introduction

This section should provide information on the importance of the problem and clear objective of the study. Each statement must be supported by a literary source in the journals that had been published to date. It is advised to provide recent references from impact factor journals. References containing one or two names of the authors should be cited by the names of the authors (e.g. Steel, 1984 or Steel and Torrie, 1980). Any reference carrying more than 2 authors should be denoted by first author and et.al. should be included (Martin et al., 2011).  If more than one paper is cited by the same set of authors they should be differentiated by year (a, b, c) both in the text and references. Several papers cited should be arranged according to the year in an ascending manner.

Materials and methods

All procedures, analytical methods, experimental design and preliminary materials should be provided with detail in this section. Relevant references should be quoted for a particular analytical methodology. Complete statistical procedures should be produced under separate heading of ‘statistical analysis’. Some checklists and article reviews without materials and methods.

Results and discussion

 The results of the study, including their statistical details should be presented graphically or in table form. In this section, the results obtained should be recorded in text form and table data should not be repeated. Results should be clear and concise. Detailed discussion should be produced in this section with relevant references; preferably most recent citation should be included. Discussion should be at a point, explain and supports the results.

If results containing (figures, plates, diagrams and maps), each of them must be put through the text, and their titles are written at the bottom of them: Figure (1):, Diagram (1): ...etc. with bold type, but if they come in the text, they must be at the beginning of the paragraph and written as: Map (1), Figure (1)….etc., if they come at the end of the paragraph they must be written as: (Map 1), (Fig. 1), (Pl.1), and (Diag.1).

They all defined as below: 

Figures: (hand drawing types).

Plates: (Photographic pictures).

Diagrams: (Curved and Graphic formats).

Tables and Maps.

The Figures, Plates, Diagrams and Maps must be put through the text, and their titles must be written as fallow:

Figures, Plates and Diagrams: The title written at the bottom of them Figure (1): , Diagram (1): …. etc. with bold type; in text[at the beginning of paragraph they must be written as: Map (1), Figure (1) ……. etc.; but if they come at the end of paragraph, they will be written as: (Map 1 ), (Fig. 1), (Pl.1) and (Diag. 1).

Tables: The title written at the top of them with bold type: Table (1); but in text [at the beginning of a paragraph written as: Table (1). ; but if it comes at the end of the paragraph it will be written as:  (Tab. 1).

Conclusions

They can make the reader's task easier. With a good conclusion, the author(s) can pull all the threads of the manuscript details together and relate them to the initial purpose for aim the paper. In other words, the conclusion should confirm for the other researchers or readers that the manuscript's purpose has been achieved.

Acknowledgment     

If present, the person who helps the author and (his/ here) work address, and not more than 5 lines.

References

 List of references should be arranged alphabetically in the following style 

Reference to a journal publication: (The name of journals should be written in full and italic type).

Roche, G. C. 2007. Conspectus of the sphecid wasps of Egypt (Hymenoptera: Ampulicidae, Sphecidae, Crabronidae). Egyptian Journal of Natural History, 4(2): 12-149.

Liu, D. Y. and Baker, H. 1992. Morphology of spermatozoa bound to the zonapellucida of human oocytes that failed to fertilize in vitro. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility, 94: 71-84. 

Mahmoud, S. S., Mohammad, M. K. and Ali, S. Y. 2000. Intensity and histopathological effects of the nematode Hartertia gallinarum (Theiler, 1919) on seesee partridge, Ammoperdix griseogularis (Brandt, 1843) collected from Qaara area, west of Iraq. Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum, 9(2): 45-55.

 Reference to a book:

Kaufmann, J. 1996. Parasitic Infections of Domestic Animals: A Diagnostic Manual. Springer Basel, xvi + 423 pp. 

Romanoff, A. L. and Romanoff, A.  1949. The Avian Egg. 1^st edition, John Wiley and Sons Co., New York, 500 pp.

Steel, R. G. and Torrie, J. H. 1980. Principle and Procedures of Statistics. 2^nd edition, McGrow-Hill Book Co., Inc, New York, 467pp (Chapter 8: 333-362). 

Notes: Article reviews without materials and methods and short communication not more than three pages.

Author can download a manuscript template from the link below:

Sample of manuscript template

Copyright

On acceptance of the manuscript, the authors have to sign the copyright agreement of the manuscript. As regards the transfer of rights, the corresponding author assumes responsibility of all authors. The submitted manuscripts are published with understanding that all authors aware of the contents and agree to submit the manuscript to this publication. This is an open access which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. Authors would have to pay the minimum publication fee after acceptance of the manuscript.

Plagiarism

The Iraq Natural History Museum Publication does check plagiarism of submitted papers through Turnitin software; so that the percentage of plagiarism does not exceed 20%.