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Journal of Xi’an Shiyou University, Natural Science Edition peer-reviewed journal that publishes significant original scientific research, plus reviews and analyses of current research and science policy. We seek to publish papers that are influential in their fields or across fields and that will substantially advance scientific understanding. Selected papers should present novel and broadly important data, syntheses, or concepts. We welcome submissions from all fields of science and from any source.

Manuscripts should be submitted at our manuscript submission and information portal xisdxjxsu.asiaThe status of submitted manuscripts can also be tracked at this portal.

Authors should familiarize themselves with the overall editorial policies for the Science Journals before submitting their paper. These policies spell out the rights and responsibilities that authors agree to when submitting and publishing their papers.

Categories of manuscripts

Peer-Reviewed Research Manuscripts
Research Articles (up to ~4500 words, including references, notes and captions–corresponds to ~5 printed pages in the journal) are expected to present a major advance. Research Articles include an abstract, an introduction, up to six figures or tables, sections with brief subheadings, and about 40 references. Materials and Methods should be included in supplementary materials, which should also include information needed to support the paper's conclusions.

Science also accepts a few Research Articles for online presentation. These are expected to present significant research results that cannot be fully presented in the print format and merit the extra length and attention provided by this presentation. The cover letter should indicate why the additional length is merited. These can be up to 8000 words and include methods, additional figures and potentially videos, as part of the main article. Additional supplementary materials which include information needed to support the paper's conclusions, are allowed. The full text will be included in all digital versions of Science, and a structured abstract will be included in the print version. A pdf of the full article can be downloaded.

Reports (up to ~2500 words including references, notes and captions–corresponds to ~3 printed pages in the journal) present important new research results of broad significance. Reports should include an abstract, an introductory paragraph, up to four figures or tables, and about 30 references. Materials and Methods should be included in supplementary materials, which should also include information needed to support the paper's conclusions.

In Research Articles and Reports Science requires the Materials and Methods section to provide sufficient detail to allow replication of the study. In addition, for papers in the life sciences that involve a method that would benefit from the publication of a step-by-step protocol, we encourage authors to consider submitting a detailed protocol to our collaborative partner Bio-protocol.

Reviews All Reviews, except reviews in Special Issues, are now published online, where additional length, references, and enhanced media, are possible. The full text will be included in all digital versions of Science, and an enhanced abstract consisting of 550-600 words divided into 3 sections headed Background, Advances, and Outlook will be included in the print version. Reviews can be up to 6000 words and include up to 100 references, and 4-6 figures or tables. Reviews do not contain supplementary material. They should describe and synthesize recent developments of interdisciplinary significance and highlight future directions. They include an abstract, an introduction that outlines the main themes, brief subheadings, and an outline of important unresolved questions. Unsolicited offers of Reviews are considered.

The main submission form is a series of tabbed windows, which you can move among by clicking the tabs at the top of the form. (The form may be filled out in any order.) You will move between the following tabs.

1. Authors: Names, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses for all authors, including designation of at least one as corresponding author. An ORCID ID is required for first and corresponding authors and is strongly encouraged for all authors.

2. Manuscript Information:

  • The Article type you are submitting
  • maximum for Research Articles and Reports)
  • Short title (40 character maximum)
  • Field codes (select one or two fields/disciplines that describe your manuscript)
  • A cover letter which should include
    • Reference to any pre-submission discussions with editors.
    • The title of the paper and a statement of its main point.
    • Any information needed to ensure a fair review process, including related manuscripts submitted to other journals.
    • Names of colleagues who have reviewed the paper.
    • A statement that none of the material has been published or is under consideration for publication elsewhere.
    • A statement that none of the material has been published or is under consideration for publication elsewhere.
    • A statement that none of the material has been published or is under consideration for publication elsewhere.
    • A statement that none of the material has been published or is under consideration for publication elsewhere.
    • A statement that none of the material has been published or is under consideration for publication elsewhere.
  • You will have the opportunity to request a specific editor, but this is not required and editor assignment also depends on availability, relative loads and other factors.
  • We require you to list all funding sources. This can be done through a dropdown if your funder is included in FundRef’s controlled vocabulary list.

3. Reviewers: Names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses of up to five potential reviewers and up to five excluded reviewers.

4. Upload Documents: Upload a cover letter, a combined PDF (manuscript including figures, tables, and Supplementary Material) to be used during the evaluation process, the manuscript in MS Word .docx format, and any auxiliary files. Please follow our instructions for Preparing an Initial Manuscript. LaTeX users should use our LaTeX template and at the initial stage should either convert files to Microsoft Word .docx or submit a PDF file Supplementary Material may also be submitted as a single separate file in .docx or PDF format. The manuscript file and the Supplementary Material file each have a 25MB size limit. Supplementary multimedia or large data files that cannot be included in the Supplementary Material file should be uploaded as Auxiliary Supplementary Materials or Movies.

5. Publication : Most papers are published in print and online 4 to 8 weeks after acceptance. In addition, Science selects papers for earlier online publication in First Release, using the accepted version of the paper with minimal copyediting. The official publication date of these papers is the date of First Release publication. Requests for accelerated online publication should be explained to the editors in the cover letter.

Journal does not take any kind of publication fee/acceptance fee/ review fee. It is free journal. Article Processing Charge (APC) is not a publication fee of the journal. APC is to be taken by publication house that is ‘Shiyou’journal cannot take any kind of publication fee, acceptance fee, review fee. APC is applicable for per paper one time. It means, have to pay for every paper (article). Author is free to withdraw his/her paper at any time but before signing the copyright. There is no any force. After signing the copyright, paper can not withdraw at any condition.