Download the template for doc files from here.
However, if the prospective author with at least ten years of experience in the subject would like to submit a review article, he/she must first send half to full page of the concept paper covering the main content accompanied by his/her cv and a list of previous publications related to the submitted review article, to be considered.
have similar subject scope to the regular research article, except that they are relatively short, containing no more than 10 typed pages (1.5 line spacing, single column) with the maximum of 4 Figures and/or Tables. They are accepted as short but essentially complete works.
In all cases, authors will be expected to supply high-quality manuscript with originality and appropriate citation. Submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently is unacceptable in scientific community and considered an unethical publishing behavior.
A checklist can be downloaded to help in preparation and checking prior to submission of the manuscript.
Manuscripts submitted to ScienceAsia must conform to the guidelines of the journal. The authors must send a cover letter along with your submission (see example here ) and suggest 3 names of reviewers with affiliation and email address. The manuscripts must be written in good English, professional language editing service is recommended in case English is not your native language. The manuscript with continuous line number from the start to the end should be divided into the following sections:
Authors are strongly advised to ensure that the author group, the corresponding author, and the order of authors are correct at submission. Adding and/or deleting authors during the revision stages are generally not permitted. Please note that changes to authorship cannot be made after acceptance of a manuscript.
Note: Web page should not be given as reference unless there is really no alternative.
Figures – All Figures (graphs and maps) must be supplied as vector format file types (EPS or PDF) which can be generated directly from the graph or map drawing program used. Figures/Photos should be submitted as high- resolution JPG or TIFF files. Use (a), (b), (c), etc to label sub-figures. Lettering in the figures including axis labels and numbers should be clear with adequate size to be legible after reduction. Half-tone illustrations could be accepted, provided that they have sufficient contrast. A scale should appear on photomicrographs. Figure legends should be typed 1.5 line spacing at the end of the text, on a separate page.
For Figures/Photos, color plates are welcome for the online version without charge if color is necessary for contribution to the understanding of the information. For the hard copy version, the authors will have to pay the additional charge for color plates (see under “Page charge” on the journal website or contact for rate to print color figures).
Non-mathematical manuscripts can be prepared as OpenDocument (.odt) or MSWord (.doc) files. MS word users should download our template file at the top of this page. MS must be submitted via the online submission system as both word and PDF files, together with the cover letter file. The PDF files should include all figures and tables in the appropriate places in the text for the convenience of the referees. If the PDF file is larger than 2MB, please try to reduce the size by decreasing the resolution of the included figures. High resolution figures/photos could be submitted at the post-referee review stage.
Manuscripts with a heavy mathematical content will only be accepted as PDF files, prepared by using LaTeX. Authors must use the ScienceAsia class file (and, if they wish, the BibTeX style file) which can be downloaded in the below section. MS must be submitted via the online submission system as described above for non-mathematical manuscripts.
(1) Use one-and-a-half spacing.
(2) Times New Roman with font size 12 is preferred.
(3) To create section and subsection headings, use the pulldown menu to select heading type, instead of selecting bold font yourself.
(4) Add line numbers to the manuscript from start to finish (continuous format - do not reset the numbers on each page).
(5) Try to avoid using MathType for displayed equations in your document unless it is absolutely necessary. Do not use MathType for mathematical expressions inside the text. [If you think that you need to use MathType a lot, then you should be using LaTeX instead of MSWord.]
(6) Include figures and tables at convenient places within the text. If they are high resolution figures, reduce the resolution before including them, so that the file size is not too large.
Export as PDF file. [ Click here to download freeware for creating pdf file ]
Preparing manuscripts using LaTeX (for Math MS)
Click here for detailed guide on preparing manuscripts using LaTeX.
(1) Click here to download the latest version of the zip file which contains the ScienceAsia class file (scias.cls), the ScienceAsia BibTeX class file (scias.bst), other style (.sty) files which are needed, and the template file (scias_template.tex).
(2) Unpack the zip file. Put the contents of the zip file in the same directory (folder) as your manuscript .tex file (or somewhere else where LaTeX can find it).
(3) Copy the file scias_template.tex to a name of your choice, for example, ms.tex and open it with your favourite editor.
(4) You will see that the first line says
\documentclass[onecolumn,submit]{scias}
The next few lines are just comments (remember that anything on the same line following a % is a comment)
(5) Place your title inside \title{}
(6) Find the line that starts with \author{}
and put the name of the first author inside the curly brackets.
For example, \author{Frederick R. Bloggs}
Do the same for each additional author. For example, if the second author is Joe Soap, add \author{Joseph Q. Soap} below.
(7) If there is more than one author, you will need to specify who the corresponding author is. To do this, insert [*] before the curly brackets enclosing the author name. For example, if Joe Soap is the corresponding author, then you will need to have \author[*]{Joseph Q. Soap}
(8) Use \address{} to specify the address. For example, \address{Mathematics Department, Camford University, Camford, CM7 6TY, UK}
(9) If there is more than one address, give additional address commands. For each you will need to indicate which author is associated with which address by adding [a], [b], etc. before the curly brackets for both author and address. For example, if Fred
Bloggs is from Camford and Joe Soap is from CalSci, you would need
\author[a]{Frederick R. Bloggs} \author[b,*]{Joseph Q. Soap}
\address[a]{Mathematics Department, Camford University, Camford, CM7 8QT, UK}
\address[b]{Mathematics Department, California School of Science and Technology, Oxnard, California 93030, USA}
(10) Use \ead{} to give the email address of the corresponding author.
(11) Place your abstract inside \abstract{ }
Note that you do not need to write the word ABSTRACT: - this is generated automatically.
(12) Place a list of keywords separated by commas inside \keywords{ }
(13) You should now run latex on the file to see it has worked so far. The output should show the 'frontmatter' part of the paper.
(14) Put the rest of your manuscript after \section{Introduction} in the usual way.
(15) The line numbers are added automatically, but normally you will you need to run latex more than once before they look OK.
Note : The manuscript created this way will be single-spaced. You do not need to change this.