The Alexandria Journal of Veterinary Sciences (AJVS) encourages authors to adhere to the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), which provides ethics guidelines for international publishing.

The publication ethics includes;

I. Ethics in publishing:

Submission declaration

• When authors submit an article AJVS, it is implied that:
• The work described has not been published previously except in the form of a pre-print, an abstract, a published lecture, academic thesis or registered report
• The article is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• The article's publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out.

Authorship

-  All authors should have made significant contributions to the design of the study, or collection of data, or analysis and interpretation. Drafting the article or revising. Also, final approval of the version to be submitted.

- Authors should appoint a corresponding author to communicate with the journal during the editorial process.

Changes to authorship

No changes to authorship will be permitted once a manuscript has been accepted.

Declaration of interests

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence or bias their work. 

Funding sources

• Authors must disclose any funding sources who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article.
• If no funding has been provided for the research, it is recommended to include the following sentence: this research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Plagiarism is not acceptable in AJVS submissions.

Process for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct:

1. Publisher and editors take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including but not limited to plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others.
2. In no case does the journal or its editors encourage such misconduct or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.
3. In the event that the publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article in the journal, the publisher or editor shall follow COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.
4. The journal takes care to ensure high ethical and professional standards.
5. Publisher and editors take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including but not limited to plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others.
6. In no case does the journal or its editors encourage such misconduct or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.
7. In the event that the publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article in the journal, the publisher or editor shall follow COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.
8. The journal takes care to ensure high ethical and professional standards.

Vigilance over the Published Record:

The editor works to safeguard the integrity of the published record by reviewing and assessing reported or suspected misconduct. Such measures will generally include contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration to the respective complaint or claims made but may also include further communications to the relevant institutions and research bodies. The editor presented with convincing evidence of misconduct will coordinate with the publisher to arrange the prompt publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other correction to the record, as may be relevant.

Ethical Notes for Reviewers:

The manuscript and review details must be kept secret.

Contacting the authors directly without the permission of the journal is not acceptable.

English editing

To facilitate peer-reviewing duty and understanding of your manuscript by future readers, it is necessary to submit a grammatically correct English. In case you are not fluent in English, we recommend that authors professionally edit the manuscript by a native English-speaking colleague. More information can be read under the  English Editing Guidelines for Authors.

Suggesting Reviewers

During the submission process, authors are pre encouraged to list three names of potential reviewers with the appropriate expertise to review the manuscript. The editors will not necessarily approach these referees. Please provide detailed contact information (address, homepage, phone, e-mail address). Proposed reviewers should be from different institutions to the authors. You may identify appropriate Editorial Board members of the journal as potential reviewers.

Data availability statements

All original research must include a data availability statement. This statement should explain how to access data supporting the results and analysis in the article, including links/citations to publicly archived datasets analyzed or generated during the study.

Writing and formatting

Articles (in English, prepared in MS Word format) should be typed on one side of the paper  in Arial font with wide margins and 1.5 line space. Electronic submission of manuscripts is strongly encouraged, provided that the text, tables, and figures are included in a single Microsoft Word file.

Article structure

The article with successive line number.

Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Each heading should appear on its own separate line

Title

should be a brief phrase describing the contents of the paper.

The Title page should include the authors' full names and affiliations, the name of the corresponding author along with phone, fax and E-mail information. Present addresses of the corresponding author should appear as a footnote.

• Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that all contact details must be kept up to date by the corresponding author.

Abstract

Each manuscript should begin with short abstract (250-300 words). The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions, do not cite references in the abstract.

This should be followed by a list of 4 - 6 keywords and a running title for abstracting and indexing purposes. Please minimize the use of abbreviations in the keywords, only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible.

Short running title: Minimize the article title into short title that will be use as a header for the published paper

1. INTRODUCTION
State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.

2. MATERIAL AND METHODS
Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described. Capitalize trade names and include the manufacturer's name and address. Subheadings should be used. Methods in general use need not be described in detail.

3. RESULTS
Results should be clear and concise.

4. DISCUSSION
This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined Results and Discussion section is also allowed. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.

5. CONCLUSIONS
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusion section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.

6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proof reading the article, etc.).

7. REFERENCES

Citation in text
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication.

The Harvard system whereby author’s names and date of publication appear in the text will be used. Where there are joint authors, only the name of the first should be given in the text followed by et al. References to several works by the same author published in one year should be distinguished as 2009a, 2009b, e.t.c. The list of references must be alphabetically arranged on a separate page.

Examples:
1- Reference to a journal publication:
 Atienzar, F.A., Jha, A.N. 2006. The random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) assay and related techniques applied to genotoxicity and carcinogenesis studies: a critical review. Mut. Res. 613: 76-102.

2- Reference to a book:
 Strunk Jr W, White EB. The elements of style. 4th ed. New York: Longman; 2000.
3- Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
 Mettam GR, Adams LB. How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In: Jones BS, Smith RZ, editors. Introduction to the electronic age, New York: E-Publishing Inc; 2009, p. 281–304.

4- Web references
Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.

Figures and Photographs:

Electronic artwork
General points
• Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
• Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Figures should be referred to as Fig. 1, Fig. 2 e.t.c.
• Provide captions (legends) to illustrations separately

Artwork Formats:
If your electronic artwork is created in a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), when your electronic artwork is finalized, please 'Save as' or convert the images to one of the following formats TIFF (or JPEG): Color or grayscale photographs.

Figure captions (Legends)
Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.

Tables:
Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the table body. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. They should be referred to as Table 1, Table 2, and e.t.c.

After Acceptance:

Upon acceptance, your article will be exported to Production to undergo typesetting. Shortly after this you will an e-mails containing a request to confirm your affiliation, and  to arrange rights and payment of any associated publication cost.

Proof reading:

The purpose of the proof is to check for typesetting or conversion errors and the completeness and accuracy of the text, tables and figures. Substantial changes in content, e.g., new results, corrected values, title and authorship, are not allowed without the approval of the Editor.

Online First:

The article will be published online after receipt of the corrected proofs. This is the official first publication citable with the DOI. After release of the printed version, the paper can also be cited by issue and page numbers.

Production and Publication: Once accepted, the manuscript will undergo professional copy-editing, English editing, proofreading by the authors, final corrections, pagination, and, publication on the www.mdpi.com website.

Publishing agreement

Authors will be asked to complete a publishing agreement after acceptance. The corresponding author will receive a link to the online agreement by email.