Author guidelines

These guidelines apply to all seven Aaranya Scholarly journals; only the reference style differs by journal. When you are ready, submit your manuscript. Questions: info@aaranyascholarly.com.

Checklist before you submit

• The manuscript is a single Word file (.docx), at most 25 MB.
• It is anonymised: no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements or funding details, and self-citations in the third person (see Anonymising).
• It is within the length limit for its article type, with an abstract and 3–6 keywords.
• Figures are embedded as PNG, JPEG or TIFF; tables are real Word tables; equations are made with Word’s equation editor (see Formatting).
• References follow your journal’s style, with DOIs where they exist.
• You have the author list, affiliations, ethics approval details and competing interests ready for the submission form, and every co-author has approved the submission.

There is no fee to submit. Read the editorial policies too: authorship, ethics, AI use and conflicts of interest.

Article types and lengths

Word counts are for the main text: they exclude the title, abstract, references, tables and figure captions.

A structured abstract has the headings Background, Methods, Results and Conclusions (or Objective, Methods, Results, Conclusions). The abstract must stand on its own: no references and no undefined abbreviations. Give 3–6 keywords for indexing.

Editors may accept a longer manuscript when the content needs it; say why in your cover letter.

Anonymising your manuscript

Review is double-anonymous: reviewers must not be able to tell who wrote the paper. Your names, affiliations and email addresses go in the submission form, not in the manuscript. We remove hidden information from the file (document properties, comments, tracked-change authors) before reviewers see it, but we never alter the text, and the editor will return a manuscript that still identifies its authors.

• No title page with names or affiliations. Start the file with the title and the abstract.
• Self-citations in the third person: write “Sharma et al. [12] showed…”, not “in our previous work [12]”. Do not cite unpublished work of your own that would reveal you; cite it as “[Author, under review]” if you must.
• Leave out acknowledgements, funding details and grant numbers, and the name of your institution’s ethics committee. Put them in the cover letter; they are added back after acceptance. Write “Ethics approval was obtained from [blinded for review]”.
• Check headers, footers, figure labels and file names (for example “Sharma_lab_figure2.png”) for names.

Writing the manuscript

Language. Clear, concise English. British or American spelling are both fine, but not a mixture. If English is not your first language, have the manuscript checked before submitting: reviewers judge what they can understand.

A research article usually follows this order (other article types adapt it):

• Title: concise and informative, without abbreviations.
• Abstract and keywords (see lengths).
• Introduction: the problem, why it matters, what earlier work has left open, and the aim of this study. Cite only what is relevant; this is not a review.
• Methods: enough detail for someone else to repeat the work: design, materials, participants or samples, procedures, and statistical analysis. Required for research articles.
• Results: the findings, clearly and concisely, with appropriate statistics. Do not repeat the same data in the text, a table and a figure. Keep interpretation for the Discussion.
• Discussion: what is new and important, how it relates to earlier work, its implications and its limitations. Do not repeat the results in detail, and do not claim more than the data support.
• Conclusion: a short statement of what the work adds and why it matters.
• References (see References).

Studies should follow the reporting guideline for their design where one exists: CONSORT for randomised trials, STROBE for observational studies, PRISMA for systematic reviews, CARE for case reports, ARRIVE for animal research. You can find them at the EQUATOR Network.

Formatting for typesetting

Accepted manuscripts are laid out from your Word file into the journal PDF and web versions, so a well-structured file means fewer proof corrections.

• Structure. Title, abstract, keywords, then the sections. Use Word’s Heading 1 / Heading 2 styles for headings, numbered 1, 1.1, 1.2.
• Text. Any common font, single column, no manual page layout, no text boxes. Define abbreviations at first use. SI units.
• Figures. Embedded in the text near their first mention, as PNG, JPEG or TIFF, at least 300 dpi (600 dpi for line art). Caption below: “Figure 1. …”. Do not draw figures with Word’s shapes or paste them as EMF/WMF objects: they do not survive conversion. Make sure text in figures is readable at the printed size, and that colour is not the only way to tell lines apart.
• Tables. Real Word tables (Insert → Table), not images or tab-separated text. Caption above: “Table 1. …”. No vertical lines or merged decoration needed.
• Equations. Use Word’s equation editor (Insert → Equation), not images of equations. Number displayed equations (1), (2) on the right.
• Supplementary material (extra data, long tables, code) as separate files: up to 5 files, PDF or Word, 25 MB each.

References

Each journal uses the style common in its field. Give a DOI for every reference that has one. Cite only work you have read; avoid excessive self-citation.

Vancouver (numbered, in order of first citation)

In the text: “…as reported previously [3].” In the list:

3. Rao A, Iyer M, Khan S. Title of the article. J Abbrev Title. 2024;12(3):145–58. doi:10.xxxx/xxxxx
4. Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 9th ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier; 2020.
5. Johnson T. Pain management in spinal surgery. In: Williams R, editor. Modern orthopaedics. 2nd ed. Cham: Springer; 2018. p. 215–30.
6. World Health Organization. Global health observatory data [Internet]. Geneva: WHO; 2022 [cited 2026 Oct 5]. Available from: https://www.who.int/data

Journal names are abbreviated as in the NLM Catalog; list up to six authors, then “et al.”

IEEE (numbered, in order of first citation)

In the text: “…as shown in [3].” In the list:

[3] A. Rao, M. Iyer, and S. Khan, “Title of the article,” Journal Title, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 145–158, 2024, doi: 10.xxxx/xxxxx.
[4] R. Kumar, Heat Transfer in Machining, 2nd ed. New York, NY, USA: Wiley, 2021.
[5] S. Iyer, “Wire EDM of titanium alloys,” in Proc. Int. Conf. Manufacturing Science, Chennai, India, 2023, pp. 88–93, doi: 10.xxxx/xxxxx.
[6] International Energy Agency, “Renewables 2024,” 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2024

APA, 7th edition (author–date)

In the text: “…(Rao et al., 2024).” In the list, alphabetical:

Rao, A., Iyer, M., & Khan, S. (2024). Title of the article. Journal Title, 12(3), 145–158. https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxxx
Porter, M. E. (2008). Competitive strategy: Techniques for analyzing industries and competitors. Free Press.
Johnson, T. (2018). Strategy in family firms. In R. Williams (Ed.), Handbook of family business (2nd ed., pp. 215–230). Springer.
Reserve Bank of India. (2024). Annual report 2023–24. https://www.rbi.org.in

Reference managers (Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote) all include these three styles.

Declarations and the submission form

These go in the submission form, not in the anonymised manuscript:

• Authors: every author’s name, affiliation and email, with the corresponding author identified. Everyone listed must meet the authorship criteria.
• Ethics approval: committee and approval number, or “Not applicable”. Studies with people need informed consent.
• Competing interests: declare any, or state that there are none.
• Use of AI tools, if any beyond grammar and spelling: which tool and what for (state it in the methods or the cover letter).
• Suggested reviewers (optional): independent experts with no conflict of interest. The editor decides whether to invite them.

The cover letter should say what the work adds, confirm that all authors approved the submission, and give the acknowledgements, funding and data availability statement that were left out of the anonymised file.

Revising your manuscript

• Upload the revised manuscript as an anonymised Word file, with changes marked (highlighting or tracked changes).
• A response to the reviewers is required: answer every comment in turn, saying what you changed and where, or why you disagree. Reviewers in the next round read it, so keep it anonymous too.

After acceptance

• The article processing charge (₹3,000 + GST; ₹3,000 outside India) becomes due; waivers can be requested.
• Copyediting, then a proof of the typeset PDF is sent to you. Check it carefully, especially names, affiliations, figures, tables and equations; only corrections, not new content, at this stage.
• The article is published open access under CC BY 4.0, as soon as it is ready, in the current quarterly issue, with its article number. You keep the copyright.

Last updated 5 October 2026. Aaranya Scholarly LLP.