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Inviting articles for publishing in the Souvenir being brought out on the occasion of the First International buyer-seller meet and Conference on Herbal and medicinal plants.

The Herbal and Medicinal Plant Secretariat invites articles for publishing in the Souvenir being brought out during the Conference focusing on the theme "Opportunities and challenges in developing national and international markets for herbal and medicinal plants". The Souvenir would provide an opportunity to various organizations to share their experience and bring out their success stories.

Interested persons/ organizations may kindly send their articles to Herbal and Medicinal Plant Secretariat manoj@isapindia.org  at an early date.

Deadline for Submission of Paper  :      December 31^st , 2006

Instructions for Authors

Instructions for Authors

1. General

1. All papers will be published only in English.
2. All papers must be made available in electronic form (a word processor file that can be opened in an IBM-PC platform; please convert Macintosh files to IBM-PC format), either on 3-½ inch floppy disk (please give two copies) or on a compact disk (CD). Preferably send the file ahead by email.
3. Please use only Word or Word Perfect for word-processing. If not available, the file may be supplied in .TXT format.
4. The electronic file SHOULD NOT have illustrations/photographs embedded within the text; these must be submitted in originals along with the paper. Please mark the figure number clearly at the back of each input (use either a dark pencil or a quick-drying ink pen; alternatively, the number may be pasted using a clear adhesive tape) and mark position only in the text file.
5. A hardcopy printout of the paper must be sent along with the electronic file, as well as all other materials such as illustrations and photographs.
6. Illustrations and photographs will also be accepted as electronic files, but must not be supplied exclusively as such.
7. All papers must have an abstract of not more than 300 words, describing all the key aspects discussed in the paper.
8. The printout, electronic file and originals of all supporting materials (illustrations, charts, photographs) of an article must be sent to the Herbal and Medicinal Plant Secretariat by the due date.

2. Text Format

1. Papers should be typed in A4 size format, with 26 mm (1 inch) margin on all sides.
2. Please use 11 pt Times New Roman font for the text.
3. Do not indent paragraphs to separate them; instead please use 1 line space.
4. The text matter must be left aligned (flush left); not full justified.
5. Please use 18 pt normal typefaces for the title.
6. Name(s) of author(s) and institutional affiliation(s) must follow the title.
7. Please do not use bold face in body text or headings/sub-headings.
8. Italics may be used where required (technical terms, titles of books, words in foreign language, etc.)
9. Please limit the hierarchy of heading/subheadings to three items, and the use the following style:

Heading (16 pt)
       Sub-heading (14 pt)
           Sub-sub-heading (12 pt)

10. Please do not use all upper case for headings/subheadings; only the first alphabets of key words need to be in upper case. Example:
    KNOWLEDGE INFRASTRUCTURE IN MALAYSIA (Incorrect)
    Knowledge Infrastructure In Malaysia (Correct)
11. Within the text, please indicate (in sequence) the places where captions of figures (illustrations and photographs) are to appear. Example:
    Nine Keys to a Knowledge Infrastructure:
    A Proposed Analytic Framework for Organizational Knowledge Management as shown (Figure 1).
12. Please do not include the figure captions within the text. The list of figure captions must be given at the end of the paper.
13. Footnote markings may be given within the text but the text of the footnotes must be appended in sequence at the end of the paper, before the list of figure captions.
14. All Tables, along with appropriate captions, must be included within the text. The places they are to appear must be clearly marked in the text (as in item k above).
15. If mathematical formulas or special characters are used in the text, please ensure that these have come out clearly and correctly in the printout.

3. References

1. References to other works (books, articles, etc.), if any, need to be mentioned (authors' name and year of publication) in the text within parentheses. Examples (please note that there is no comma between the author's name and the year of publication, and that two references are separated by a semicolon):
   
   

The rapid growth of the Internet has resulted in an enormous number of heterogeneous and often unstructured electronic documents. In this scenario, knowledge management, especially for business intelligence, highlights a need for tools that can synthesize and organize knowledge on any given topic of interest from a corpus of documents (Chorng-Shyong Ong 2003)

According to Malhotra Y. (2003), " Measuring knowledge assets of a nation: Knowledge systems for Development"

2. If a reference has more than two authors, please cite only the first author, followed by the term "et. al". Example:

The Multidimensional view of commitment and the theory of reasoned action : a comparative evaluation (McCain et al. 1988; Ryschka et al. 1991; Oka 1995).

3. When citing more than one reference of the same author, or group of authors, please arrange them in sequence according to the year of publication (see example above).
4. If there is more than one reference pertaining to a particular year, please sequence them alphabetically according to the author's name. Example: (Clark 1991; Londoño 1991; Soderstrom 1991)
5. More than one reference pertaining to one author (or group) may be cited as follows: (Clark and Londoño 1990, 1991, 1998)
6. All references cited in the text must be supported by a detailed bibliographical listing given at the end of the paper (before list of footnotes and list of figures).
7. The bibliographic listing must contain the following elements in the following sequence:

                                                                      i.      Author(s). All authors; not just the first author followed by “et  al”,

                                                                    ii.      Year of publication

                                                                   iii.      Title of the article (or book)

                                                                  iv.      Title of the book/journal (if reference is to an article in the   

             book/journal)

                                                                    v.      Volume/issue numbers or dateline (if the reference involves a

            journal or newspaper)

                                                                  vi.      Publisher’s name and location

                                                                 vii.      Page number of the reference cited (if the reference is to an  

            article/paper in a book)

                                                               viii.      Total number of pages (if the reference is to a book)

8. Some examples of bibliographic listing are given below as guidance:
   
   

Dagilis, T.D.; Turcke, D.J. 1996. An economical bamboo particleboard. In Ganapathy, P.M.; Janssen, J.A.; Sastry, C.B. ed., Bamboo, people and the environment, Vol. 3, Engineering and utilization. Proceedings of the Vth International Bamboo Workshop, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, 19th – 22nd June 1995. International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, New Delhi, India. pp. 165 - 173.   [Example of a paper included in the Proceedings]

Duraiappah, A.K. 1994. A state-of-the-art review on the socio-economics of the bamboo and rattan sector in Southeast Asia. INBAR Working Paper No. 1. International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, New Delhi, India. 31 pp.  [Example of a report in a series]

Huang, L.C.; Huang, B.L.; Chen, W.L. 1989. Tissue culture investigations of bamboo IV - Organogenesis leading to adventitious shoots and plants excited from shoot apices. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 29(3), 307-315.  [Example of an article in a journal]

Ohrnberger, D.; Goerrings, T. 1985. The bamboos of the world. International Book Distributors, Dehra Dun, India.  [Example of a book]

4. Checklist

1. Has the paper been checked for language (grammatical errors, lack of clarity, etc.)?
2. Does the paper carry the name(s) of the author(s) and their institutional affiliations?
3. Does the paper have an abstract of less than 300 words?
4. Has a printout of the paper been taken with all figures, formulas, special characters, etc?
5. Is the paper available in electronic format (IBM-PC format, Word or Word Perfect), without embedded graphics (illustrations, charts or other figures)?
6. Have all the supporting material (illustrations, photos, slides, etc.) been marked at the back with their sequential numbers (Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.)?
7. Has the paper been marked to indicate the place where the figures must appear?
8. Does the paper include at the end a list of captions of the figures?
9. Have the texts of all footnotes been given at the end of the paper (before the figure captions)?
10. Does the paper follow all formatting instructions (A4 format; Times New Roman font; 11 pt for text; 16, 14 and 12 pts for headings/sub-headings; 18 pt for title; one line space between non-indented paragraphs) given under Item 2 (a-o)?
11. Have all the in-text references been given as per instructions given under Item 3(a-e)?
12. Have all the in-text references been listed fully in the bibliographic listing as per instructions given under Item 3(f-g)?