1. The authors must declare that the submitted manuscript is their own original work, it has not been published anywhere else before and they are not willing to publish it anywhere later.
2. The authors must take responsibility for their publishing data sets, the content of their publication, and avoid using fraudulent material.
3. It is the sole responsibility of the author(s) to obtain written permission for reproducing figures or tables from other published material.
4. The authors and the Journal must agree that the Journal reserve the right to publish the accepted manuscript in electronic format after technical revision.
5. The authors must transfer copyright to the publisher of  NSP Journals.

Instruction of Manuscript submission

• Mail addresses of all authors.
• Name, email addresses and affiliations of four possible peer reviewers for your manuscript: none of them should be in the same institution as yourself or have been co-authors with any of the authors of your manuscript within the past five years.
• Correctly formatted manuscript (the detailed instructions for authors that are available in the link).
• Correctly formatted figures in one of the acceptable formats
• Cover letter that explains why the journal should consider your manuscript and declares any competing interest.

Instructions to Authors

Manuscript should be framed as British English in word file format. Text font size 12” and subheading might be 14  points. All manuscript should be following format: Title page, Author’s name and affiliation address, Abstract, Key words, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgement, Disclosures statement, Author’s Contributions, Biosketches, References, Tables (if any), Graphs (if any), Color Pictures (if any). Color pictures should be compressed size format using Microsoft word pictures. We would not accept large size (must be < 2 MB) color pictures. If it is large size many pictures, author could send different files of compressed size pictures.

Title: Title should be less than 50 words to cover wide range of topic or area followed by author’s and co-author’s name and affiliation address. Title should be bold in letter with Times New Roman, font size 16. We would not accept manuscript which belongs to non-affiliation address or independent researcher. Authors must mention corresponding author’s email address. Authors sequential order must place 1, 2, 3 (superscript) corresponding to affiliation address. An asterisk (*) must be placed before the corresponding author name (*superscript). Corresponding author’s email address must be provided. Corresponding author will be the responsibility to ensure that all co-authors are aware and approve the contents of the submitted manuscript.

Abstract: This section should include main objectives, statement problems, experimental approach, major findings and conclusion in one paragraph. Avoid abbreviation, diagram and references in the abstract. It should be 1.5 line spacing and should not exceed 200 words.

Key words: Author (s) must provide 4-6 key words. Key words should not be same as present in title of the manuscript. It should cover wide-range of topic related to the manuscript main content.

Introduction: The manuscript should include general topic in related to title page, introduce detail back ground problem of the study, should describe how to resolve problems through the present study, introduce in related to hypothesis or objectives and aims and objectives of the study. Introduction should not exceed 1000 words. Relevant information is necessary and arguments should be presented.

Materials and Methods: It includes information of study area, location, forest types, geographical co-ordinates, geomorphology, background of vegetation, tribe or people information, disturbance information (if any), climate and weather information of study area should be presented. Sampling duration, period of the study, sampling methods, herbarium deposition, flora and fauna identification methods, data analyses.

Results and Discussion:  Results should be precise and concisely. Results and discussion may be separate or combined based on experimental study outcomes. Tables and figures may be necessary to insert into the main text at respective place. Results and Discussion may have subheading if necessary. Labels of the table, graphs and figures must be necessary in the heading label. Color photographs and illustrations (line drawing, halftones, photos, photomicrographs etc.,) must be neat and clean. There are no extra charges for color images and digital images. Statistical values are necessary (if any) should be placed neatly in the relevant place. Discussion should be related to main findings with relevant references.

Conclusion: It must be short paragraph to describe in relation to main findings only. It may also recommend future study in relation to main findings.

 Acknowledgement: This section could provide at the end of the manuscript content before reference section. This section can be used to acknowledge to funders, institution, researcher, scientists, field assistance, lab, corporate company and significant contribution of the research.

References: Literature cites should be placed alphabetical order. Author’s name should be bold in letters. Authors should strictly follow reference format style. If more than five authors shall be listed follow by et al. Examples as follows:

For Journals: Ravikumar, K. & V. Lakshmanan. 1999. Novelties from high wavy Mountains, Southern Western Ghats, Theni District, Tamil Nadu, India. Rheedea 9: 55–75.

 Henry A.N., M. Chandrabose, M.S. Swaminathan. & N.C. Nair. 1984. Agastyamalai and its environs. A potential area for a biosphere reserve. Journal of Bombay Natural History Society 8: 282 – 290.

For Books and chapter:  Chithra, V. & V.J. Nair. 1999. Tamil Nadu .In: Mudgal,V. & Hajra, P.K. (ed.) Floristic Diversity and. Conservation Strategies in India. 3:1451 -1503. BSI, Kolkata.

Gamble, J. S. & C.E.C. Fischer. 1957. Flora of the Presidency of Madras (Repr. Ed.,), Adlard & Sons Ltd., London, Vols 1–3.

For Website Reference: Biotik- Western Ghats Version 1.0. 2007. http://www.biotik.org/species_list_india.html.

IUCN 2015 http://www.iucnredlist.org/

Ethics statement: Author must provide an ethics statement if study made use of human or vertebrate animal subjects and/or tissue. The text in this subject may be placed the text of the ethics statement in the body of your paper (if any).

 Authors Contributions: Authors must state that the contribution of each author for their accepted paper. To be listed according to authors’ order. It should be real and concrete contribution to the submission, and each author who contributed to the manuscript should be presented.

Bio sketches: Authors should provide information about each author’s present designation of the work, current research project and interest of the research study. It may also include academic background of the each author.

 Plagiarism Check: Accepted manuscripts should subject to Plagiarism Check.

 Publication fees: There is no publication charge for all accepted articles.

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