Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. All submissions will be assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected.

Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included with the submission, such as photos, documents and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study's country.

An editor may desk reject a submission if it does not meet minimum standards of quality. Before submitting, please ensure that the study design and research argument are structured and articulated properly. The title should be concise and the abstract should be able to stand on its own. This will increase the likelihood of reviewers agreeing to review the paper. When you're satisfied that your submission meets this standard, please follow the checklist below to prepare your submission.

1. Scope and Contribution

WRJ publishes:

• Original research articles
• Short communications
• Review and mini-review articles
• Systematic and theoretical studies with clear conceptual advancement

Submissions should present novel scientific insights, robust methodology, and broader relevance beyond local or descriptive observations. Manuscripts that are purely incremental, descriptive surveys without analytical depth, or that fail to engage with recent relevant research may be returned without external peer review.

2. General Formatting

Key requirements:

• Manuscript in English (MS Word format)
• Use Times New Roman, 12-pt font with line numbering
• Include complete ORCID IDs and affiliations for all authors
• Follow International System of Units where applicable
• Ensure proper figure resolution (RGB, 300 dpi) and table formatting
• Cite references using the Vancouver style, numbered consecutively

3. Novelty and Contextualization

Submissions must:

✔ Clearly state the research gap addressed
✔ Demonstrate engagement with recent and relevant literature
✔ Explain how the study advances current knowledge beyond descriptive reporting

Manuscripts that do not sufficiently justify novelty or relevance may be rejected at editorial screening.

4. Methodological and Analytical Rigor

WRJ emphasizes:

• Transparent methodology enabling reproducibility
• Appropriate statistical analyses justified in the text
• Adequate experimental design and replication
• Well-supported interpretation of results

Manuscripts lacking clear methodological detail or analytical justification are subject to editorial return before review.

5. Ethical Compliance and Declarations

All submissions must include:

• A Competing Interests statement (even if none exist)
• Ethical approval statements for studies involving humans or animals
• Data availability and source declarations where relevant

Failure to comply may result in rejection without review.

6. Manuscript Categories

Refer to Section Policies for detailed requirements for:

• Research Articles
• Short Communications
• Review Articles
• Systematic & Taxonomic Papers

Authors of reviews are encouraged to have published primary research in the focus area and must list key contributions in the cover letter.

7. Reference Limits

• Research/Special articles: up to 50 references
• Review articles: up to 100 references

All references must be cited in the text in numerical order.

Note to Authors

WRJ conducts rigorous editorial screening to ensure suitability for peer review. Manuscripts may be returned without further review if they do not meet novelty, relevance, or methodological standards.

We encourage authors to carefully review these guidelines and prepare manuscripts accordingly to enhance the likelihood of progressing through the review process.

Formatting

Manuscripts require formatting in journal's style at the time of submission. 

Title: Centered, Bold font, in sentence case. 

Abstract: Justified, not less than 200 and maximum 250 words.

Keywords: 4–6 keywords, separated by semicolon (;) should be written after the abstract, which can identify the most important subject of the manuscript, in alphabetical order. 

TEXT: All text should be justified (i.e., flush with the left margin—except where indented). The manuscript text may be divided into:

Introduction: A brief and clear description of the purpose of the investigation relating the previous research and essential arguments should be mentioned.

Materials and Methods: This section should be written well defined to understand the steps of investigation done which allows other researchers to reproduce the result.

Results: The findings of the manuscripts should be presented with appropriate evidence in a single heading or may be presented in separate headings depending on the requirement and need of author(s).

Discussion: The findings of the manuscripts should be discussed in a single heading or may be presented in separate headings depending on the requirement and need of author(s).

Conclusion: Mention conclusion of the study in few sentences.

Sub headings styles: See MS template file for details.

Reference: The journal uses the Vancouver reference style which is a citation style that uses numbers within the text that refer to numbered entries in the reference list. Your reference list should appear at the end of the manuscript with the entries listed in Arabic numbers and in the same order that they were cited in the text. 

NOTE:- References within the text should start from 1. They should be cited under the References section in the order you have cited them in the text (ie. no need to sort the reference list alphabetically).

Tables and Figures: Tables need to have a title above the table and figures need to have title below the figure.

Tables are numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals and submitted separately from the text. They have a title and a footnote explaining any abbreviation used in that table. Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters. Double documentation of the same points in figures and tables is not acceptable.

Important: Obtain permission and include the acknowledgment required by the copyright holder if a figure is being reproduced from another source.

Save colour illustrations as RGB at max. 300 dpi (JPG or PNG preferred) which should be inserted in the manuscript file during submission and may be submitted separately after the manuscript is accepted for publication. All figures (photographs, illustrations or graphs) should be cited in the text, and numbered consecutively throughout (Fig. 1, etc.) and must be referred to in the text. Figure parts should be identified by upper-case letters (A, B, etc.), "I" or "O" are not used. Scale bars are included on illustrations with measurement. Figure legends must be brief, self-sufficient explanations of the illustrations. The legends (if any) should be placed at the end of the text.

All taxa newly described in the manuscript should be accompanied by a good quality line drawing. All lines and symbols should be of uniform thickness, and professional quality and proper dimensions (approx. 2 mm high after reproduction). All line drawings are scanned and submitted as 1200 dpi TIFF files.

Place Tables and Figures after References in the manuscript file itself (all text, tables and figures in one file).

Equations need to be left aligned; equation numbers should be right aligned; equations quoted in the manuscript need to conform to this form.  (Eqn. 1)

Taxonomy manuscripts

Make sure that the names of the author(s) of the plant names are abbreviated as per the "Authors of the Plant Names" by 'Brummit & Powell (1992)' and its subsequent online version of 2010.

NOTE:- Manuscripts reporting new species or other types of taxonomy articles need not use the above journal style. Instead, refer a recently published article in World Research Journal and follow the style.

Image Raw Files

You may keep original raw files of the images with you and must submit if requested. A raw file is the image as seen by the camera's sensor. You may think of it like unprocessed film. Depending on the camera setting, it may be saved as JPEG, TIFF or other formats. You may submit it as supplementary material or keep it with you for verification by the WRJ editors/reviewers.

Reference Style Guide

In the Vancouver Style, citations are numbered consecutively in the order in which they appear in the text, and each citation corresponds to a numbered reference, containing publication information about the source cited, in the reference list at the end of the publication, essay or assignment. Once a source has been cited, the same number is used in all subsequent references. No distinction is made between print and electronic references when citing within the text.

Source: https://libguides.murdoch.edu.au/Vancouver

 Multiple citations may be refered as: (1, 3) or (1, 3, 5) or (3–7) as the case may be.

The list should be arranged in the order of citation in the text of the publication, assignment or essay, not in alphabetical order. List only one reference per reference number.

Source: https://libguides.murdoch.edu.au/Vancouver

The references in the bibliography must follow a set format: there are examples of this below.

List of Examples

To see more information about the formats below, either click on the format headings in this list of examples.
Source: https://libguides.murdoch.edu.au/Vancouver