Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. The Indian Veterinary Journal (An official organ of the Indian Veterinary Association) publishes papers of original research works as full papers, clinical articles, and short communications in Veterinary and Animal Sciences. It also serves as a medium of news regarding the veterinary profession and deals with the issues of professional importance from time to time through its editorial columns.
2. Manuscripts are accepted for publication on the clear understanding and undertaking that:
   1. They have neither been published nor sent for publication elsewhere earlier. All the authors should sign a certificate to this effect in respect of each manuscript sent for publication. Names, affiliations, and Email IDs of all authors must be provided while submitting the manuscripts. The address of the corresponding author with PIN code, phone no. and Email ID, where the work was carried out, must be clearly mentioned.
   2. A certificate to the fact that the research work had been conducted with the approval of the Institutional Animal Ethical Committee, duly signed by all the authors. The authors should also enclose the permission letter obtained from the authorities concerned on emerging and exotic diseases.
   3. All the authors are jointly and solely responsible to different authorities for the contents of their manuscripts. The Editorial Committee shall not be held responsible in any manner whatsoever for the contents of the manuscript and the views and interpretations expressed by the authors in the manuscripts. All disputes regarding any legal issue in the journal shall be within the jurisdiction of the Madras High Court, Chennai.
3. A non-refundable processing fee of Rs. (INR) 500 and US$20 for Indian and foreign manuscripts, respectively, must be sent with the manuscript in the form of a Demand Draft or International Cheque, drawn in favour of The Editor, Indian Veterinary Journal and to the Editor, T he Indian Veterinary Journal. However, payment of processing fees alone will not ensure publication of the manuscript in the Journal. On acceptance of the manuscript for publication, the authors should send a publication fee of Rs.(INR)4,500 and US$200 for Indian and foreign manuscripts, respectively, to the Editor, The Indian Veterinary Journal. Foreign authors should make online payment of the above amounts to the Account No. 091710101063557 of Canara Bank with IFSC code of CNRB0000917, T. Nagar Branch, Chennai of IVJ and the transaction details (No. and Date) and need to be mailed to ivj83@yahoo.com at once.
4. The manuscripts should be typed on A4-sized paper with 1½ spaced lines, using Times New Roman font with 12 font size. Two copies of the manuscripts with all enclosures should be sent to the Editor, The Indian Veterinary Journal, 11/7, Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Road (Chamiers Road), Nandanam, Chennai – 600035, India (or through ivj83@yahoo.com).
5. The decision of the Editorial Board / Committee is final in all matters regarding the publication of manuscripts. The Editorial Committee has the right to do editorial revision of the accepted manuscripts, reducing the number of pages of the manuscripts, tables, or figures. Manuscript once received will not be returned to the author(s) under any circumstances. The copyright of the published papers shall rest with the Journal, and no part of the published paper in IVJ will be reproduced without permission from the Editor.
6. Each manuscript received will be allotted a Registration Number by the Editorial Committee. The author(s) will indicate this number in all their future correspondence and the author(s) should send the revised manuscripts based on the referees’ / editorial comments both in hard copy and in so ft copy, in IVJ format (as in S.No. 8). The revised manuscripts sent by the author(s) should also accompany the original manuscript and t he referee’s / editorial comments for reference and records. The revised manuscripts should be submitted to the IVJ office within 30 days of receipt of referees’ comments, failing which the manuscripts may not be considered for publication. Only on the receipt of full payments of processing and publishing fees, along with the revised manuscripts in soft copy, the manuscripts will be considered for publication.
7. The General Format of a paper published in the Indian Veterinary Journal is:
   1. Title: The title should be specific, not too long, indicating the complete details of the paper submitted. The title should be followed by the name of the first author with initial(s) after the name and the name(s) of co-author(s) with initial(s) at the front of each name and their affiliations in the footnote. Below the list of author(s), the department/laboratory/institution in which the research was undertaken should be given with full postal address. Full address and the email ID of the corresponding author are mandatory.
   2. Research Papers: A full-length research paper should have an Abstract (not more than 100 words in a single paragraph), Keywords (not more than 4 words), Introduction (with no subtitle), Materials and Methods (or Methodology of the Study), Results and Discussion, Summary (or Conclusion), Acknowledgment (Optional), and References (not exceeding 15, Review articles can have more). In general, the full papers should not exceed 5 – 6 pages, including tables and figures.
   3. Clinical Articles: They should have an Abstract (not more than 50 words), Keywords (not more than 3 words), Introduction (with no subtitle), Case History and Observation, Treatment and Discussion, Summary, Acknowledgement (Optional), and References (not exceeding 10). Clinical articles should not exceed 3 – 4 pages, including tables and figures.
   4. Short Communications: Although there is no specific format for Short Communications, the articles that do not fall under the categories of Research Papers and Clinical Articles will be considered under Short Communications. No subtitles are permitted in short communications.
   5. All Tables should be numbered with upper-case Roman numerals (I, II, III, …) and all Figures should be numbered with Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, …).
8. Citing references: In the text, the references should be cited by the name(s) of author(s) followed by the year of publication, with a comma or within brackets, as the case may be. In case of more than two authors, the name of the first author must be followed by et al. For e.g., for the single author, it should be given as Singh (2021), for two authors, it should be given as Mohanambal and Sivaraman (2022) and for more than two authors, it should be given as Arya et al. (2023).
9. At the end of the manuscript, all the references cited must be listed in alphabetical order with full details. The first author’s name should have his / her initial(s) at the end, but all the co-authors’ names must have their initials at the front. Before the last author, the word ‘and’ must be added. The year of publication of the reference must be added after the last author in parentheses. The journal’s name must be given in full and not in an abbreviated form, in italics. The volume and issue no. must be in bold form, followed by a colon and the starting and ending pages, separated by a hyphen. While citing books, the title of the book, year of publication, name of the publisher, place of publication, edition no., and the relevant page numbers must be provided. If websites are included in the reference, the date of access to that website/webpage must be indicated.

E.g.:

Singh, R.K. (2021), Prevalence of ketosis in dairy animals, The Indian Veterinary Journal, 97(4): 12 – 16.

Mohanambal, L. and S. Sivaraman (2022), Treatment of haemoglobinuria in a milch cow – A case report, The Indian Veterinary Journal, 98(7): 40 – 41.

Arya S. Nair, M. Thirunavukkarasu and C. Balan (2023), Predicting the small ruminant population in 2030 in India – An analysis, The Indian Veterinary Journal, 99(6): 20 – 24.

10. All correspondence regarding the status of the manuscript must be made to the Editor, IVJ (ivj83@yahoo.com) or by post to the Editor, The Indian Veterinary Journal, 11/7, Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Road (Chamiers Road), Nandanam, Chennai – 600035, India.