A manuscript will be reviewed for possible publication with the understanding that it is being submitted to the Journal of Experimental Biology and Zoological Studies (EBIOZ) alone at that point of time and it has not been published anywhere, simultaneously submitted, or already accepted for publication elsewhere.

The journal expects that authors would authorize one of them to correspond with the Journal for all matters related to the manuscript. The Journal will correspond only with the corresponding author and not with any co-authors. All manuscripts received are duly acknowledged.

On submission, the manuscripts are first checked for plagiarism. Only in cases of minor duplication or similarity with previous published work, the authors may be provided an opportunity to rectify the same; in all other cases, the manuscript will be desk rejected informing the percentage of similarity index.

All other manuscripts are subjected to a comprehensive screening by the Editorial Team to check their adherence to reporting guidelines and robustness in rationale and methodology. Manuscripts with major scientific or technical flaws and/or lack of a significant message are rejected at this stage.

Manuscripts that are selected by the Editorial Team are sent to two or more expert reviewers. The journal follows a double-blind review process where both reviewers and authors remain anonymous throughout the review process.

The Editor-in-Chief, based on the comments and recommendations of reviewers, takes a final decision on the manuscript. If a manuscript requires revision, the corresponding author is requested to provide a point-by-point response to reviewers' comments and submit a revised version. All changes in the revised manuscript must be highlighted in yellow.

The whole process of submission of the manuscript to final decision and sending and receiving proofs is completed through Email: ebiozjournal@gmail.com

The manuscript should be submitted in the form of two separate files as mentioned below, and figures if any must be submitted as separate clear images as JPEG files with high resolution.

The text of original articles amounting to up to 3000 words (excluding Abstracts, references and Tables) with the title of the manuscript should be divided into sections with the headings: Abstract (structured, less than 250 words), Key-words (four to six), Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, References, Tables and Figure legends. Sub-headings are not allowed. The maximum number of tables and figures allowed is six.

• Ethics: A statement on ethical practices and ethics committee/IRB permission with IRB approval number and date must be included at the beginning of the 'Materials and Methods' section.
• Study Design: Describe selection of participants clearly, including eligibility and exclusion criteria. Identify methods, apparatus, and procedures in sufficient detail to allow reproduction of results.
• Statistics: Quantify findings with appropriate indicators of measurement error or uncertainty. Use upper italics (P 0.048). For all P values include the exact value. Specify the computer software used.
• Results: Present results in a logical sequence. Do not repeat in the text all the data in the tables or illustrations.
• Discussion: Include summary of key findings, strengths and limitations, interpretation and implications. Limitations of the study must be mentioned as the last paragraph.
• Conclusion: Address controversies raised by the study and future research directions. About 30 references can be included. Generally should not have more than six authors.

Review articles must be general or systematic reviews written by individuals who have done substantial work on the subject or are considered experts in the field. Prescribed word count is up to 3000 words excluding tables, references and abstract. The manuscript may have about 90 references. The manuscript should have unstructured Abstracts (250 words). The maximum number of tables and figures allowed is six.

These should be short and decisive observations, preferably related to articles previously published in the Journal. Up to 500 words and 5 references. Generally authored by not more than four authors.

Editorial, Guest Editorial, Brief reports, and Short Communication are solicited by the Editorial Board.

References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first mentioned in the text (not in alphabetic order). Identify references in text, tables, and legends by Arabic numerals in superscript with square bracket after the punctuation marks.

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.

Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to each of the three components mentioned below:

• 1Concept and design of study or acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data;
• 2Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
• 3Final approval of the version to be published.

Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship.

The authors must disclose whether they used Artificial Intelligence (AI) assisted technologies (such as Large Language Models [LLMs], chatbots, or image creators) in the production of submitted work.

• If AI was used for writing assistance, describe this in the acknowledgment section.
• If AI was used for data collection, analysis, or figure generation, describe this in the methods section.
• Chatbots (such as ChatGPT) should not be listed as authors because they cannot be responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of the work.
• Authors should carefully review and edit AI-generated content as it can be incorrect, incomplete, or biased.
• Authors should be able to assert that there is no plagiarism in their paper, including in text and images produced by the AI.

• Tables should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material.
• Tables with more than 10 columns and 25 rows are not acceptable.
• 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 alphabets in lower case in sequence from "a" to "z" in superscript.
• Tables with their legends should be provided at the end of the text after the references.

• Provide images in JPEG format with high resolution. File size should be within 4 MB.
• Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they have been first cited in the text.
• Labels, numbers, and symbols should be clear and of uniform size, legible after reduction to fit the width of a printed column.
• Titles and detailed explanations belong in the legends for illustrations, not on the illustrations themselves.
• The figures should be trimmed to remove all unwanted areas.
• If a figure has been published elsewhere, acknowledge the original source and submit written permission from the copyright holder.
• Legends for illustrations: maximum 40 words, excluding the credit line, using double spacing with Arabic numerals corresponding to the illustrations.
• The Journal reserves the right to crop, rotate, reduce, or enlarge the photographs to an acceptable size.

The revised version of the manuscript should be e-mailed in a manner like that used for initial submission. When submitting a revised manuscript, contributors are requested to highlight the changes in yellow in the manuscript.

Comment file (itemised list of changes made in the revised manuscript) that is available on the website must be downloaded and provided as per requirements. The page numbers and line numbers where the changes have been incorporated must be mentioned in the last column of the comment file.

Manuscripts are judged on the interest and importance of the topic, intellectual and scientific strength, clarity of presentation and relevance to EBIOZ readers.

Minor scientific errors in a published article are allowed if inevitable. It will be corrected by inserting an "Erratum" in the next issue after its publication provided the author notifies the error to the Editorial Office by email immediately after publication of the manuscript.