WCSC Journal of Yoga for Human Excellence

Submitting the Manuscript to the Journal

Manuscripts to the Indian Journal of Yoga for Human Excellence should be submitted online through https://www.vethathiri.edu.in /email: ijyhe@vethathiri.ac.in.  It should include a covering letter, scanned copy of the contributors’ form signed by all the contributors, Tables, illustrations and photographs has to be attached along with the manuscript through the online submission process.

The covering letter must include

1. Title of the article
2. Names of the authors (including surnames) and qualifications, institutional affiliations,
3. Information on prior or duplicate publication or submission elsewhere of any part of the work

Study; and

4. A statement of financial or other relationships that might lead to a conflict of interest.

Copies of any permission(s) to reproduce published material, and to use illustrations or report information about identifiable people must accompany the manuscript.

The journal does not charge for submission and processing of the manuscripts.

Preparation of the Manuscript

Templates for writing original papers, case reports and review articles have been provided below. These can be followed for writing the articles as per the instructions.

The text of observational and experimental articles should be divided into sections with the headings: Title, Abstract, KeywordsIntroduction, Material &Methods, Results, Discussion,Conclusion,References, Tables, Figures, Figure legends, and Acknowledgment.

The preferred format of all manuscript is MS Word. Illustrations (figures) and images must be inserted in the manuscript at the position they should appear when published. Mode of Presenting Paper is English. Each manuscript should be typed single-spaced on A4 (8.5″ × 11″) paper size with 1 inch margins.

Use double spacing throughout. Number pages consecutively, beginning with the title page. The language should be British English 

Title Page

Title Page Title page should contain title of the paper in bold face, title case (font size 14),names of the authors in normal face, upper case (font size 11pt) followed by the address in normal face lower case. The author to whom all correspondence be addressed(font size 9pt) should be denoted by an asterisk mark. The title should be as short as possible and precisely indicate the nature of the work in the communication. Names of the authors should appear as initials followed by surnames. At the bottom left corner of the title page, please mention “*Address For correspondence” and provide a functional e-mail address. Address of the corresponding author to whom all correspondence may be sent should be given only if it is different from the address already given under authors’ names.

The title page should carry

1. Type of manuscript
2. The title of the article, which should be concise, but informative;
3. Running title or short title not more than 50 characters;
4. The name by which each contributor is known (Last name, First name and initials of middle name), and institutional affiliation;
5. The name of the department(s) and institution(s) to which the work should be attributed;
6. The name, address, mobile phone numbers, facsimile numbers and e-mail address of the contributor responsible for correspondence about the manuscript (corresponding author name);

Abstract 

An abstract for Case Reports and brief reports should be not more than 150 words and250 words for original articles. The abstract should be structured and states the Context (Background), Aims, Material and Methods, Results and Conclusions. The abstract should be typed in single-space to distinguish it from the Introduction. Abstracts should briefly reflect all aspects of the study, as most databases list mainly abstracts. The manuscript should have an abstract 150- 250 words(font size 10pt).

Key words

Below the abstract, should provide four to six (4-6)appropriate key words(font size 10pt).

Introduction

Introduction must be in clear & stating that reasons for carry out of research work, background regarding the research nature of hypothesis should be clearly stated. The introduction should be understandable to reaches from various science disciplines. A short introduction of the research problem followed by a brief review of literature and objective of the research. In the introduction state the purpose of the article and summarize the rationale for the study or observation (font size 10pt).

Material and Methods

Describe the materials used in the experiment, year of experimentation, site etc. Describe the methods implied for collection of data in short. Describe the selection of the observational or experimental subjects (patients including controls) clearly. Identify the age, sex, experience in yoga and other important characteristics of the subjects. Identify the methods, apparatus (give the manufacturer’s name and address in parentheses), and procedures in sufficient detail. Give references to established methods, including statistical methods; provide references and brief descriptions for methods; describe new or substantially modified methods, give reasons for using them, and evaluate their limitations.

Reports of randomized clinical trials should present information on all major study elements, including the protocol, assignment of interventions (methods of randomization, concealment of allocation to treatment groups), and the method of masking (blinding).Authors submitting reviewmanuscripts should include a section describing the methods used for locating, selecting, extracting, and synthesizing data. These methods should also be summarized in the abstract (font size 10pt).

Abbreviations, Units Etc

The journal strictly follows the rules defined in the IUPAC Manual of symbols and terminology for physicochemical quantities and units.

Ethics

While reporting experiments on human subjects, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committeeon human experimentation (institutional or regional) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (available at http://www.wma.net/e/policy/17-c_e.html). Do not use patients’ names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in illustrative material.

(NB: Authors publishing results from in vivo experiments involving animals or humans should state whether due permission for conduction of these experiments was obtained, from the relevant ethics committees, in the Materials and Methods section. In addition, authors wishing to publish research work involving human studies should also send a notary verified letter of approval from the Ethics Committee or the Institutional Review Board).

Statistics

When possible, quantify findings and present them with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty (such as confidence intervals). Report losses to observation (such as dropouts from a clinical trial). Put a general description of methods in the Methods section. When data are summarized in the Results section, specify the statistical methods used to analyze them. Define statistical terms, abbreviations, and most symbols. Use upper italics (P < 0.05).

Results

This segment should focus on the fulfillment of stated objectives as given in the introduction. It should contain the findings presented in the form of tables, figures and photographs.
Present the results in logical sequence in the text, tables, and illustrations. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables or illustrations; emphasize or summaries only important observations.Results of research articles or manuscripts should be present with clarity and precise. Previous publisher’s findings should be written in present tense. Results should be explained. Discussion, interpretation should be included in the results but should be put into the discussion section (font size 10pt).

Discussion

Discussion part of the research paper includes the sub heading, significance of the results related to research work.Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study and the conclusions that follow from them. Do not repeat in detail data or other material given in the Introduction or the Results section. Include in the Discussion section the implications of the findings and their limitations, including implications for future research. Relate the observations to other relevant studies (with references).In particular, contributors should avoid making statements on economic benefits and costs unless their manuscript includes economic data and analyses. Avoid claiming priority and alluding to work that has not been completed. State new hypotheses when warranted, but clearly label them as such. Recommendations, when appropriate, may be included (font size 10pt).

Conclusion

Provide summary of the main findings, implications, and contributions of the study. It’s the final section that wraps up the research, providing an overview of what was discovered, what it means, and what future research directions might be worth exploring(font size 10pt).

1. Summarizes key findings – Restates the main results and implications.
2. Interprets results: Provides an interpretation of the findings in the context of existing literature.
3. Highlights contributions: Emphasizes the study’s contributions to the field.
4. Suggests future research: Outlines potential avenues for future research.
5. Provides a final thought: Leaves the reader with a lasting impression or call to action.

The conclusion should be concise, clear, and well-supported by the research. It’s often around 5-10% of the article’s total length.

Acknowledgments

This section should be thanks to people, granting body, university departments / college departments should be in a brief manner.

• As an appendix to the text, one or more statements should specify
• Contributions that need acknowledging but do not justify authorship, such as general support by a departmental chair;
• Acknowledgments of technical help; and

Acknowledgments of financial and material support, which should specify the nature of the support. This should be the last page of the manuscript (font size 10pt).

References

In the text, a reference identified by means of an author‘s name should be followed by the year of the reference in parentheses. When there are more than two authors, only the first author‘s name should be mentioned, followed by ’et al‘. In the event that an author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by a lower case letter like ’a‘ and ’b‘ after the date to distinguish the works (Pls. see the examples)(font size 10pt).

Examples:

(Sivakumar et al., 2011), (Prakash, 2003), (Karmegam, 2004), (Jayakumar and Karmegam, 2012), 

(Sivakumar, 1998; Karmegam, 2000a, b; Prakash, 2010&2011), (Sathishkumaret al.,2008)

References should be listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order. Articles in preparation or articles submitted for publication, unpublished observations, personal communications, etc. should not be included in the reference list.Use the style of the examples below, which are based on the formats used by the NLM in Index Medicus. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the style used in Index Medicus. Use complete name of the journal for non-indexed journals. 

Avoid using abstracts as references. Information from manuscripts submitted but not accepted should be cited in the text as “unpublished observations” with written permission from the source. Avoid citing a “personal communication” unless it provides essential information not available from a public source, in which case the name of the person and date of communication should be cited in parentheses in the text. For scientific articles, contributors should obtain written permission and confirmation of accuracy from the source of a personal communication.Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of the references.

Articles in Journals

1. Standard journal article: (List the first six contributors followed by et al.) Kulkarni S.B, Chitre R.G, and Satoskar R.S (1960). Serum proteins in tuberculosis. J Postgrad MedVol.:6:113-20.
2. Volume with supplement: Shen H.Mand Zhang Q.F. (1994). Risk assessment of nickel carcinogenicity and occupational lung cancer. Environ Health Perspect; 102 Suppl 1:275-82.
3. Issue with supplement: Payne D.K, Sullivan M.D, and Massie M.J. (1996). Women’s psychological reactions to breast cancer. Semin Oncol; 23(1, Suppl 2):89-97.
4. Books and Other Monographs:

1. Personal author(s): RingsvenM.Kand Bond D. (1996). Gerontology and leadership skills for nurses. 2nd ed. Albany (NY): Delmar Publishers; pp.560.
2. Editor(s), compiler(s) as author: Norman I.J, and Redfern S.J, editors (1996). Mental health care for elderly people. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 
3. Chapter in a book: Phillips S.J and Whisnant J.P. (1995). Hypertension and stroke. In: Laragh J.H, Brenner B.M, editors. Hypertension: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management. 2nd Ed. New York: Raven Press; pp. 465-78.
4. Ph.D Thesis: Devilakshmi. 2023. Effect of SKY yoga on Selected Physical, Physiological and Psychological variables among Geriatric Age Group wellbeing. Ph.D. Thesis, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore,Tamil Nadu, India, pp.139.

Tables

• Tables should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material.
• Table must be preparing in MS Word
• Tables with more than 10 columns and 25 rows are not acceptable.
• Type or print out each table with double spacing on a separate sheet of paper. If the table must be continued, repeat the title on a second sheet followed by “(contd.)”.
• Number tables, in Arabic numerals, consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and supply a brief title for each.
• Place explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading.
• Explain in footnotes all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table.
• Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and provide a credit line in the footnote.
• For footnotes use the following symbols, in this sequence: *, †, ‡, §, ||, , **, ††, ‡‡
• Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. 
• Tables can be placed either next to the relevant text in the article, or on separate page(s) at the end. 
• Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in them do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. 
• Please avoid shading in table cells.

Illustrations (Figures)

• Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they have been first cited in the text.
• Symbols, arrows, or letters used in photomicrographs should contrast with the background
• Titles and detailed explanations belong in the legends for illustrations not on the illustrations themselves.
• When graphs, scatter-grams or histograms are submitted the numerical data on which they are based should also be supplied.
• If photographs of people are used, either the subjects must not be identifiable or their pictures must be accompanied by written permission to use the photograph.
• If a figure has been published, acknowledge the original source and submit written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce the material. A credit line should appear in the legend for figures for such figures.
• The Journal reserves the right to crop, rotate, reduce, or enlarge the photographs to an acceptable size.

Legends for Illustrations

• Type or print out legends (maximum 40 words, excluding the credit line) for illustrations using double spacing, with Arabic numerals corresponding to the illustrations.
• When symbols, arrows, numbers, or letters are used to identify parts of the illustrations, identify and explain each one in the legend.
• Explain the internal scale and identify the method of staining in photomicrographs.

​Protection of Patients’ Rights to Privacy

Identifying information should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, sonograms, CT scans, etc., and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian, wherever applicable) gives informed consent for publication. Authors should remove patients’ names from figures unless they have obtained informed consent from the patients. The journal abides by IJYHE guidelines:

1)     Authors, not the journals nor the publisher, need to obtain the patient consent form before the publication and have the form properly archived. The consent forms are not to be uploaded with the cover letter or sent through email to editorial or publisher offices.

2)    If the manuscript contains patient images that preclude anonymity, or a description that has obvious indication to the identity of the patient, a statement about obtaining informed patient consent should be indicated in the manuscript.

Copyrights

The whole of the literary matter will be the copyright of the Editorial Board. The Journal, however, grants to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, perform and display the work (either in pre-print or post-print format) publicly and to make and distribute derivative works in any digital medium for any reasonable non-commercial purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship and ownership of the rights. The journal also grants the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal non-commercial use. The journal also grants the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal non-commercial use under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International Public License.

Instructions for Online Submission of Manuscripts

• Articles should be submitted online from https://www.vethathiri.edu.in / Email:ijyhe@vethathiri.ac.in. New authors will have to register as author, which is a simple two step procedure. For online submission, articles should be prepared in two files (first-page file and article file). Images should be submitted separately. All manuscripts (must be in English and in MS Word format) and should be submitted via our online system or through e-mail as an attachment for quick evaluation.
• First Page File: Prepare the title page, covering letter, acknowledgement, etc. using a word processor program. All information which can reveal your identity should be here. Use text/rtf/doc files. Do not zip the files.
• Article file: The main text of the article, beginning from Abstract till References (including tables) should be in this file. Do not include any information (such as acknowledgement, your names in page headers, etc.) in this file. Use text//doc files. Do not zip the files. Limit the file size to 400 kb. Do not incorporate images in the file. If file size is large, graphs can be submitted as images separately without incorporating them in the article file to reduce the size of the file.
• Images: Submit good quality color images. Each image should be less than 400 kb in size. Size of the image can be reduced by decreasing the actual height and width of the images (keep up to 1024×760 pixels or 5 inches). All image formats (jpeg, tiff, gif, bmp, png, eps, etc.) are acceptable; jpeg is most suitable. Do not zip the files.
• The photographs should be scanned and should be in JPEG files. These should be scanned at 72 dpi, size not more than 3X4 inches (or 300×400 pixels), with only the necessary portion of the photographs. Wherever necessary scan at greyscale (e.g. x-rays, ECGs). The images should NOT be incorporated in the text itself (which increases the file size).
• Legends: Legends for the figures/images should be kept ready for copy-paste during the submission process.
• Since the articles are submitted online there is no need to send hard copies of the articles. The scanned copy of copyright form with the signature of all authors should be submitted through online. 
• Submission Preparation Checklist
• As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

Integrity 

Editors of the Journal ensure there is no consideration about the author’s gender, religion, sex, origin, religion, political philosophy and citizenship in evaluating the manuscript.

Privacy

All publication related correspondence must be sent to corresponding author by authorized email id only. Information collected must be treated as confidential and strict privacy policy must be adhered to.

Click here to download instructions

​These ready to use templates are made to help the contributors write as per the requirements of the Journal.Save the templates on your computer and use them with a word processor program. 
Click opens the file and saves as the manuscript file.In the program keep ‘Document Map’ and ‘Comments’ on from ‘View’ menu to navigate through the file.

Download Template for Original Articles/ABSTRACT Reports.

​Download Template for Case Reports.  

Download Template for Review Articles.

Download Template Covering Letter to the Editor-in-Chief  

Download Copyright form