Dream Science

Step by Step Guidelines for Authors

Step by step guideline for authors

Original research publications, reviews, and brief communications are all published by Dream Science. Short communications need to tackle a topic of great interest and come to a firm conclusion.

Article Submission

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When a manuscript is submitted, it is assumed that the work described has never been published before, is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere, and has received the implicit or explicit approval of all co-authors and responsible authorities at the institute where the work was conducted. Should there be any demands for compensation, the publisher shall not be liable.

Permissions

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For both the print and online formats, authors must seek permission from the copyright owner(s) in order to use any figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere. They must also submit documentation of this permission when submitting their articles. Without such proof, it will be considered that any material you get came from the writers.

Online Submission

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Important information:

If authors are prompted to submit a revised version of their manuscript, they must indicate all changes (for example, by using coloured text or the track changes feature of their word processing programme) and submit the updated version along with a cover letter that includes an itemised response to the reviewer's comments.

When a manuscript is submitted to Dream Science, it usually means that the seeds, genetic stocks, vectors, and antibodies described in the manuscript should be freely available to any researcher who wants to use them for non-commercial purposes. Requests for materials must be complied with by authors within 60 days of receiving the request.

Contribution of the Author (Author Contribution Statement)

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The contributions of each listed author must be briefly described by the authors (please use initials). This will appear before the Acknowledgments in a separate section.
For instance, AM and DB conceptualised and planned the study. AM and BB carried out research. GR provided fresh reagents or analytical equipment. Data were examined by AM and GR. The draught was written by AM. The article was read and approved by all writers.

Title Page

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Include the following on the title page:

  • The author's entire first name, middle initial, and last name(s).
  • Avoid using undefined acronyms and write a title that is succinct and informative. The title should not exceed 180 characters (including spaces).
  • The author's title, address, and affiliation(s).
  • The matching author's phone number, fax number, and email address.
  • Your institutional e-mail address should be used for correspondence.

Principal Conclusion

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Please give a brief summary of your work's primary accomplishments, excluding any messages the document title might have intended to communicate. There may not be more than 30 words in this "Principal Conclusion."

Abstract

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Please include an abstract of no more than 250 words. To appeal to the Dream Science readership as a whole, the abstract should be broadly grounded. Avoid using vague references or unclear acronyms. Finish with a phrase describing how this effort advanced the field's state of the art.

Keywords

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  • Please give 4 to 6 indexable keywords that can be used. Avoid using words that are already in the paper's title.
  • Manuscripts should be sent in MS Word format.
  • For text, use a typical, plain font (such as Times Roman in 10-point size).
  • For emphasis, use italics.
  • To number the pages, use the automatic page numbering feature.
  • Uselessness of field functions
  • Instead of using the space bar for indents, use tab stops or another command.
  • To create tables, use the table function rather than spreadsheets.
  • For equations, use Math Type or the equation editor.
  • Save your document in doc or docx format (MS Word 2007 or later) (older Word versions).
  • Mathematical manuscripts may also be submitted in LaTeX format.

Text

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Headings
  • Please limit the number of visible heading levels to three.
  • Abbreviations should be defined at the outset and used consistently after that.
Footnotes

The citation of a source included in the reference list might be inserted in footnotes to provide further information. They shouldn't just be a reference citation, and they should never include a reference's bibliographic information. Additionally, no tables or figures should be included.

A footnote to a table should be marked with superscript lower-case letters, while footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). There are no reference symbols for footnotes to the article's title or authors.

Never use endnotes; always use footnotes.

Acknowledgments

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On the title page, acknowledgments of people, grants, finances, etc. should be listed in a distinct section. The entire names of the funding organisations must be included. Units, symbols, and abbreviations in the Dream Science Please click the link to see the Dream Science collection of plant sciences units, symbols, and acronyms.

Scientific Approach

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Italics should be used for genus and species names.
Before submitting a work for publication in Dream Science, authors must submit fresh nucleotide sequences to GenBank. For newly discovered genomic DNA, complementary DNA, RNA, and other nucleotide sequences described in the publication, an accession number must be provided.
Statistical analysis of the results: The reproducibility or statistical significance of the results, particularly in relation to figures where error bars are not shown, must be stated by the authors in a subsection at the end of the materials and methods section (e.g. images, blots).
If commercially available antibodies have been utilised, kindly supply the antibody product code.

References

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Citation

In the text, cite references by name and year in parentheses. Some instances:

Numerous disciplines have studied negotiations (Thompson 1990).

Becker and Seligman later refuted this finding (1996).

Many studies have been done on this impact (Abbott 1991; Barakat et al. 1995a, b; Kelso and Smith 1998; Medvec et al. 1999, 2000).

List of references

Only works that are acknowledged in the text and have been released or accepted for release should be listed as references. Only unpublished works and personal communications should be mentioned in the text. Never use a reference list in place of footnotes or endnotes.

The last names of each work's first authors should be listed in alphabetical order in the reference list entries. Multi-author works by the same initial author should be arranged alphabetically according to second, third, etc. authors. Ordering of publications by the same author or authors is required.

  • Journal article

    • Gamelin FX, Baquet G, Berthoin S, Thevenet D, Nourry C, Nottin S, Bosquet L (2009) Effect of high intensity intermittent training on heart rate variability in prepubescent children. Eur J ApplPhysiol 105:731-738. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-008-0955-8.

    Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author lists will also be accepted: Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med 965:325–329.

  • Article by DOI

    • Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001090000086.

  • Book

    • South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London.

  • Book chapter

    • LTWA ISSN

    Please use the complete journal title if you are unsure.

    Important information: While it's ideal to give the names of all authors, "et al" will also be permitted in lengthy author lists with more than 15 authors. Please always list three writers or more:

    Future of health insurance, by Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L, et al. 965:325-329 N Engl J Med.

    Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257.

  • Online document

    • Cartwright J (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007

Tables

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  • Arabic numbers must be used to identify each table.
  • In the text, tables must always be mentioned in consecutive numerical order.
  • Please include a table caption (title) outlining the table's elements for each table.
  • Indicate any content that has already been published by providing a reference to the original publication at the end of the table caption.
  • Table footnotes should be provided below the table body and should be denoted by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data).

Artwork

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It is strongly advised that you submit all of your artwork in an electronic format, including photos, line drawings, etc., for the highest quality final outcome. Then, your artwork will be created to the highest standards and with the utmost attention to detail. The calibre of the submitted artwork will be clearly visible in the published work.

Electronic Submission of Figures

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Definition of line art:

  • A graphic in black and white without any shading.
  • Make sure that all of the lines and letters inside the figures are readable at final size and avoid using thin lines and/or lettering.
  • Every line needs to be at least 0.3 points (0.1 mm) wide.
  • Line drawings that are scanned and those that are in bitmap format need to have a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi.
  • Fonts used in vector graphics must be included in the files themselves.

Art in Halftone
  • Finely shaded images, sketches, or paintings are defined.
  • Use scale bars within the figures themselves to indicate any magnification that was applied to the pictures.
  • Halftones need to be at least 300 dpi in resolution.
Combination Art

A mixture of halftone and line art, such as halftones with detailed typography, colour diagrams, or other elements, is referred to as combination art.

A resolution of 600 dpi should be required for combination artwork.

Art in Color

  • For use in print and online publications, colour art is free.
  • The RGB format should be used for colour illustrations.

Figure Lettering

  • The ideal fonts to use for lettering are Helvetica or Arial (sans serif fonts).
  • Keep your final-sized artwork's writing at a constant size, often between 2-3 mm (8–12 pt).
  • There shouldn't be much variation in type size within an illustration, so avoid using, for instance, an axis with 8-pt type and an axis label with 20-pt type.
  • Avoid using effects like letter outlining or shading.
  • Your illustrations should not have titles or captions.

Figure referencing

  • Arabic numerals are should be used to number each and every figure.
  • In the text, figures must always be quoted in consecutive numerical order.
  • Lowercase letters should be used to indicate figure sections (a, b, c, etc.).
  • Continue the main text's sequential numbering if your article includes an appendix that contains one or more figures. The appendix figures should not be numbered "A1, A2, A3, etc." However, figures in electronic appendices (supplemental material) should be given their own numbers.

Images with captions

  • Each figure should include a brief description that accurately describes what it represents. Include the captions in the manuscript's text file rather than the figure file.
  • In bold font, the word "Fig." is used at the start of each figure caption, which is followed by the figure's number.
  • Both the number and the caption must be written without any punctuation, either before or after the number.
  • Use boxes, circles, etc., as coordinate points in graphs and list all of the figure's components in the caption.
  • Put a reference citation at the end of the figure caption to indicate any content that has already been published.

Size and Position of the Figure

  • Size your figures to fit the column width while preparing them.
  • For the majority of journals, the figures must be no taller than 234 mm and no wider than 39 mm, 84 mm, 129 mm, or 174 mm.
  • The figures should be 80 mm or 122 mm broad and no higher than 198 mm for books and book-sized magazines.

Permissions

For both the print edition and the web version, you need the owner(s) of the copyright before including any figures that have already been published elsewhere else. Please note that certain publishers do not provide free electronic rights, and Dream Science is unable to reimburse any fees that may have been used to obtain these permits. In these circumstances, information from other sources ought to be utilised.

Accessibility

Please make sure that your figures' content is accessible to persons with all skills and impairments by following the following guidelines:

  • All images have detailed subtitles (blind users could then use a text-to-speech software or a text-to-Braille hardware).
  • Information can be conveyed using patterns instead of or in addition to colours (color-blind users would then be able to distinguish the visual elements).
  • Any figure lettering has at least a 4.5:1 contrast ratio.

Electronic Supporting Information

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To be published online alongside an article or book chapter, DREAM SCIENCE welcomes electronic multimedia items (animations, movies, audio, etc.). Due to the fact that some information cannot be printed or is more practical in electronic form, this function can add depth to the author's piece.

Research datasets should be reviewed before being submitted as electronic supplementary material. Wherever it is feasible, research data should be archived in data repositories.

Submission
  • Provide all supporting documents in industry-standard file formats.
  • Please include the following details in each file: the title of the paper, the journal it was published in, the names of the authors, their affiliations, and their email addresses.
  • Please be aware that larger files may take a very long time to download and that some users might run into other issues while doing so in order to accommodate user downloads.
  • Animations, audio, and video.
  • Ratio of aspect: 16:9 or 4:3.
  • 25 GB is the maximum file size.
  • Minimum video length: one second.
  • File types that are supported include avi, wmv, mp4, mov, m2p, mp2, mpg, mpeg, flv, mxf, mts, m4v, and 3gp.
Text and Slide Shows
  • For long-term viability, submit your information in PDF format;.doc or.ppt files are not acceptable.
  • A PDF file may also contain a collection of figures.
Spreadsheets
  • Spreadsheet submissions must be made as.csv or.xlsx files (MS Excel).
Dedicated Formats
  • Spreadsheet submissions must be made as.csv or.xlsx files (MS Excel).
Getting Several Files
  • A.zip or.gz file can contain a collection of many files.
Numbering
  • Similar to how figures and tables are cited, the text must specifically refer to any supplemental information if it is provided.
  • Use the phrase "Online Resource" when referring to the supplemental files, such as "... as seen in the animation (Online Resource 3)," or "... further data are presented in Online Resource 4."
  • Name the files in order, for example, "ESM 3.mpg," "ESM 4.pdf."
Captions
  • Please provide a brief caption explaining the contents of each supplemental file.

Processing of Supporting Documents

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Electronic supplemental material will be published just as it was submitted by the author, without modification or formatting.

Authors' Obligations in Terms of Ethics

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The integrity of the scientific record is something that our magazine is dedicated to protecting. As a participant in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the journal will adhere to its rules on potential instances of misconduct.
Authors should avoid misrepresenting study findings since doing so might undermine reader confidence in the journal, undermine the credibility of scientific authors, and eventually undermine the entire field of science. Following the guidelines of good scientific practise, which include the following, will help to maintain the integrity of the study and its presentation.
No more than one journal has received the paper for simultaneous review.
The manuscript hasn't been published before (either in full or in part), unless the new work is an enlargement of earlier work (please be transparent about the reuse of content to prevent the appearance of "self-plagiarism").
A single study is not divided into many pieces in order to submit it to more journals or to one journal over time (salami publishing, for example).
No information, including photographs, has been falsified or altered to support your assertions.
Plagiarism is the practise of presenting facts, information, or hypotheses created by someone else as the author's own. When using content that has been closely reproduced (almost verbatim), summarised, or paraphrased, proper acknowledgements to other works must be made, quotation marks must be used, and copyrighted material must have authorization before being utilised.
Important information: The journal may check for plagiarism using software.
Before the work is submitted, express permission to publish has been obtained from each co-author as well as from the accountable individuals at the institute or organisation where the work was done.
The authors whose names are on the submission have made adequate contributions to the scientific study and are thus jointly responsible and accountable for the outcomes.
It is strongly encouraged for writers to double check their author groups, corresponding authors, and author order before submitting their work. After an article has been accepted, changes to the order of the authors or the authors' names are not allowed.
Author additions, deletions, and changes to author order may be legitimately justified during the revision stage. The amended manuscript must be submitted with a note that details the changes made as well as the authors who were added or removed from the paper and their contributions(s). Your request might need to be supported by more documentation.
After formal notice by the institute or independent authority and/or where there is consensus among all authors, requests for the inclusion or removal of authors due to authorship disputes after approval are honoured.
In order to confirm the accuracy of the findings, writers should be prepared to supply pertinent data or documents upon request. This could take the shape of unprocessed data, samples, records, etc. Confidential proprietary information including sensitive information can be excluded.
Dream Science will follow the COPE criteria when conducting an inquiry if there is any indication of wrongdoing. The accused author will be notified and given the chance to respond if further research reveals that the claim has merit. The Editor-in-Chief may take any of the following actions if misbehaviour is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, including, but not limited to:
The article could be rejected and sent back to the author if it's still being considered.
Depending on the nature and severity of the infringement, if the article has already been published online, either an erratum will be included with the piece, or in extreme situations, the whole article may be retracted. The explanation must be included in the erratum or retraction notice that was published. Please take notice that retracting a paper entails keeping it on the platform, having it watermarked "retracted," and explaining the retracting in a note that is linked to the watermarked item.
The institution of the author may be notified.

Adherence to Moral Principles

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Authors should provide information about funding sources, potential conflicts of interest (financial or non-financial), informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on the welfare of animals if the research involved animals in order to ensure objectivity and transparency in research and to ensure that accepted principles of ethical and professional conduct have been followed.
When submitting a study, authors should make the following claims (if appropriate) in a separate section headed "Compliance with Ethical Standards":
Potential conflict of interest disclosure.
Informed permission for research involving human subjects or animals.
Please be aware that standards may differ significantly depending on the peer review procedures used by the journal (e.g., single or double blind peer review) and the area of study covered by the journal. Review the detailed guidelines that follow this section before submitting your essay.
When asked to provide proof of ethical compliance during peer review or after publication, the corresponding author should be ready to do so.
Manuscripts that don't follow the aforementioned rules may be rejected by the editors at their discretion. False remarks or failure to adhere to the aforementioned rules will be held against the author.

Potential Conflict of Interest Disclosure

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Every relationship or interest that might directly or indirectly sway the work or introduce bias must be disclosed by the authors. Even if the author does not see a conflict, the disclosure of affiliations and interests allows for a more thorough and open approach, which results in an accurate and unbiased evaluation of the work. The readers have a right to knowledge of any actual or apparent conflicts of interest. This is not intended to indicate that a financial connection to a company that funded the study or payment for consulting services is improper. The following are only a few examples of potential conflicts of interest that might be directly or indirectly connected to the research:

  • Research financing from funding organisations (please give the research funder and the grant number)
  • Speaking fees at symposiums
  • Assistance with the cost of attending symposiums
  • Financial assistance for educational initiatives
  • Working or consulting
  • Position on an advisory board, a board of directors, or another sort of management connection Support from a project sponsor.
  • Many associations
  • Financial ties, such as ownership of stock or an investing stake
  • rights to intellectual property (e.g. patents, copyrights and royalties from such rights)
  • spouse's and/or kids' holdings that might have a financial stake in the project

Supporting organizations that support research (please give the research funder and the grant number)
Getting paid to talk at symposiums monetary assistance for symposium attendance funding for educational initiatives either consulting or employment. Position on an advisory board, a board of directors, or another sort of management connection Several affiliations.
Financial connections, such as equity ownership or an investing stake rights to a person's creations (e.g. patents, copyrights and royalties from such rights) holdings of a spouse or kids who could have a financial stake in the project.
Funding: X provided funding for this study (grant number X).
Author A has received research money from Company A, which presents a conflict of interest. Author B is a shareholder in Company Y and has received a speech fee from Company X. Member of committee Z is author C.
If there is no controversy, the writers should say:
Conflicts of Interest: The writers affirm that they are impartial.

Policy on Research Data

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Any researcher desiring to utilise the resources detailed in the publication for non-commercial reasons without violating participant confidentially will be entitled to do so without paying for them if they are submitted to the journal. This includes all relevant raw data.
The publication highly recommends that readers get access to all datasets used to support the paper's conclusions. We advise authors to make sure that their datasets are either given in the primary publication or supplementary supporting files wherever feasible, or that they are deposited in publicly accessible repositories (where available and acceptable). Where suitable, general repositories for all forms of research data, like figshare and Dryad, may be used.
The reference list may include references to datasets that have been given Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) by a data repository. The bare minimum recommended by DataCite for data citations is authors, title, publisher (repository name), and identifier.
DataCite

Where there is a well-established expectation among the research community for data to be archived in public repositories, submission to a community-endorsed public repository is required. The publication must include persistent identifiers (such DOIs and accession numbers) for pertinent datasets.

Submission to a publicly accessible repository recognised by the community is required for the following kinds of data sets:
Mandatory deposition Suitable repositories
Protein sequences Uniprot
DNA and RNA sequences Genbank
DNA DataBank of Japan (DDBJ)
EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (ENA)
Genetic polymorphisms dbSNP
dbVar
European Variation Archive (EVA)
Linked genotype and phenotype data dbGAP
The European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA)
Macromolecular structure Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB)
Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank (BMRB)
Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB)
Microarray data (must be MIAME compliant) Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)
ArrayExpress
Crystallographic data for small molecules Cambridge Structural Database
Availability of Data

The publication invites writers to include a note about the availability of data in their work. Data availability statements should provide information on the sources of the data used to support the findings in the article, including, if appropriate, hyperlinks to publically available datasets used in the analysis or generation of the data. If necessary, data availability declarations can additionally declare whether or not data are accessible upon request from the authors and when none are.

If necessary for numerous datasets, a mix of the following formats may be used for data availability statements:
  • 1. The [NAME] repository, [PERMANENT WEB LINK TO DATASETS], houses the datasets created for and/or analysed in the current study.
  • 2. The datasets created and/or analysed during the current study are not publically available because of [REASON WHY DATA ARE NOT PUBLIC], but they are available from the corresponding author upon justifiable request.
  • 3. Upon reasonable request, the corresponding author will provide the datasets created and/or analysed during the current work.
  • 4. Since no datasets were created or analysed for this article, data sharing is not relevant.
  • 5. This published paper [and its additional information files] contain all data produced or analysed during this investigation.

After Approval

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When your piece is accepted, you will receive a link in the mail that you may use to return the copyright transfer statement to the editor after signing it.
Your article will be processed when this step is finished, and you'll get the proofs.
Transfer of Copyright

Authors will be required to provide the publisher the article's copyright (or grant the publisher exclusive publication and dissemination rights). As a result, information will be protected and shared as widely as possible in accordance with copyright rules.

Offprints

The associated author may place an order for offprints.

Color Illustrations

Color illustrations can be published for free.

Checking for Accuracy

The proof's objective is to examine the text, tables, and figures for completeness and correctness as well as any typesetting or conversion mistakes. Significant material modifications, such as new findings, corrected values, title changes, and author changes, are not permitted without the Editor's consent.

Further edits after online publication are only permitted in the form of an erratum that links back to the original article.

Online Initial

After receiving the revised proofs, the article will be posted online. The official first publication that may be cited with a DOI is this one. The document can also be referenced by issue and page numbers after it has been published in print.

You may publish open access in Dream Science journals through special issues, increasing the visibility and use of your research as soon as it is published.

Benefits

Increased researcher involvement: Anyone with an internet connection may view SPECIAL ISSUES articles as soon as they are published.

Greater exposure and impact: SPECIAL ISSUES papers are read 4 times more frequently on average and are referenced 1.7 times more frequently on average in Dream Science journals than other journals.

Articles published under the terms of the CC BY Open Choice licence do not necessitate the transfer of any copyright because the author retains ownership of the material. The authors consent to publishing their work under the Creative Commons Attribution License by choosing open access.

Verify the licensing agreements (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Language Editing in English

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You must make sure the English language is of a suitable calibre to be understood if you want editors and reviewers to evaluate the work given in your submission appropriately. If you want assistance writing in English, take into account:
Requesting that a coworker who is a native English speaker go over your writing for clarity.
Seeking for the English language instruction that addresses the typical errors made when writing in English by using a professional language editing service, where editors will make your English more clear and point out any issues that need your assessment.
If your submission is approved, our copyeditors will review it for formality and spelling before publishing.