Submission Guidelines
- Manuscripts must be submitted online via Editorial Manager (EM) at http://www.editorialmanager.com/mplb/login.asp a fully web-based submission, peer-review, and tracking system.
If you are submitting via this system for the first time, you will first be required to register. From the account you create, you will be able to monitor your submission and make subsequent submissions.
- Hardcopy submissions or submissions via email to the editorial board members are not encouraged.
- Authors are requested to include the email address to which proofs and reprint order form should be sent.
- All submissions should be written in English with a brief abstract.
- Submission of a manuscript indicates a tacit understanding that the paper is not actively under consideration for publication with other journals.
- Authors are strongly encouraged to typeset their submissions using the MS-Word or LaTeX2e style files provided.
Any manuscript which does not conform to the instructions may be returned to authors for revision before publication.
- Once the paper is accepted authors are assumed to transfer copyrights of the paper to World Scientific Publishing Company unless the authors choose to publish their paper under the Open Access model.
Detailed instructions for preparation of manuscripts are available in:
Authorship Change:
- If author requests any change (addition, removal, modification) in the list of authors provided in the manuscript at any stage in between submission to acceptance, an Authorship Change Form must be completed (provide reasons when necessary) and signed by all authors (including any added or removed).
- Adding and/or deleting authors at revision stage are generally not permitted, but in some cases, it may be warranted. The author can submit authorship change form along with the appropriate reasons to the Journal Editorial Office at the time of submission of revised manuscript. All requests will be moderated by the Editor and/or WSPC staff.
- Please note that completion of this form is not required for spelling corrections.
- Changes of authorship by adding or deleting authors, and/or changes in Corresponding Author, and/or changes in the sequence of authors are not permitted after acceptance of a manuscript. Also, Please add PDF of the Authorship Change Form here.