Author Guidelines

Tile should be brief and precise technical enough to explain the content it holds in the manuscript. It is usually free from acronyms, abbreviations or punctuations.

Author(s): Author names need to be mentioned as Last name followed by their concern Initials without space or any punctuation. In case of more than one author is present they should be differentiated by the conjunction ‘and’ in between. Their affiliations are numbered after the initials in superscript. Corresponding author is represented with a superscript star.

Eg: Peter SG 1, Sudan HS 2 and Gracia LI 2 *

Affiliation(s): Author Affiliations must be provided as: Department, University, Country. email:

Eg: Peter SG 1, Sudan HS 2 and Gracia LI 2 *

1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California, USA. email:peter@university.com

2Department of Cardiology and Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada. email:gracia@university.com

*Corresponding author: Last Name followed by Initials, Department, University, Complete Postal Address, Country, Telephone details;

Fax No., Email.

Eg: Christy LI, Department of Cardiology and Surgery, University of Toronto, 172 St George St, Toronto, ON M5R 0A3, Canada, Tel:

123-456-7890; Fax: 123-456-7890; Email: christy@university.com

 The word limit for Abstract is 250 or fewer words. Abstract must summarize specifically the scientific content in the manuscript. Abstracts are short and accurate. Abstracts must be free from citations.

 Keywords serve as main tool for Indexers as well as Readers to locate your manuscript. Keywords enhance the chances of getting more citations and high readership to your manuscript. An article might contain up to maximum of 4-6 Keywords.

Eg: Lung cancer; Biomarkers; Cancer therapy

Abbreviations must be separated by semicolon and all the abbreviations used in the manuscript must be mentioned.

Respective Manuscript types must be written with the above mentioned structure format. Any of the mentioned structure missing will be resent to the author for further modifications.

For mathematical symbols, Greek letters and other special characters, use normal text or Symbol font. MathType is used only for formulae that cannot be produced using normal text or Symbol font.

 SI/IU Units must be represented.

Supplementary information is usually provided as an essential background to the Article such as any example, large data sets, methods, calculations, etc. If the manuscript contains any Supplementary data the authors are asked to refer the supplementary data at an appropriate point in the main body of the manuscript. The supplementary information should not contain any figures. It may have Supplementary tables. They are published as raw dataset along with the manuscript.

Houston Publishers follows author-number system (Vancouver Style) where all the references including URLs are numbered successively within square brackets, in the same order of their appearance in the text.

Houston Publishers requires tables and figures to be submitted at the end of the manuscript. Please ensure that all the figures submitted comply with our Image integrity.

Figures submitted should be atleast 300 dpi, submitted in Tiff, Giff or JPEG formats only. All the figures submitted must be compatible with clarity. It should be intelligible for the readers to understand related to all disciplines. Excessive color and unnecessary details must be avoided. Allowable pixel size for the Figures is 800 pixels (Standard) and 1200 pixels (high resolution). All the figures submitted must be in standard or high resolution quality.

Figure legends must be short and mentioned below each figure. The respective Figure numbers must be mentioned in the body of the manuscript sequentially within round brackets.

Tables: Houston Publishers requires Tables to be small and presented in Table format. Pie diagrams, Charts etc are considered as “Figures”. Tables presented in figure formats are not acceptable. Table legends must be mentioned above the Table. Tables must be provided at the end of the manuscript below figures. Symbols and Abbreviations used in the tables must be presented below the Table.

*Note: Small table denotes that it should fit normally into the windows. Else it should be added as a supplementary table.