طلبات النشر

إرشادات المؤلف

All papers submitted to the Libyan Journal of Science are to be assessed by two independent referees and an adjudicator if necessary. The manuscript should be written in a  good English or Arabic within single column. Authors are required to write and prepare their manuscripts according to the instructions and specifications listed below. An Arabic translation of the abstract will be provided by the Editorial Board where it is not submitted by the author.

Manuscript: The manuscript should be prepared on Microsoft Word documents, using Times New Roman font, on A4 paper size (21cm x 29.7cm) with the margin settings adjusted to 3.5 cm from left and right and 4.5 cm from top and bottom.

Manuscript contents: Authors should organize the contents of their papers according to the following scheme as closely as possible: (1) title of paper; (2) Name(s) of author(s) and affiliation(s) with email(s); (3) Abstract and keywords; (4) Introduction; (5) Procedures, techniques, experiments, materials used or studied, a real description etc.; (6) Computations, analysis and results; (7) Discussion; (8) Conclusion;

(9) Acknowledgments (optional); (10) author contributions (11) References; and (12) Appendices (if included).

Article title: The title should be concise, informative and aligned at the centre and written in Times New Roman in 14 bold with only the first letter capitalized in all. It should be displaced 2 cm below the top margin.

Names of author and affiliations: A list of all authors should be provided with their first and last names written in full, 1 cm below the article title. Affiliations with emails should follow the list of authors, specifically 0.5 cm below the list, and should be indented in the same way as the title and written in regular Times New Roman font with size 11 point.

 Abstract: An abstract should accompany each manuscript. It should be completely self- contained, very informative, not exceeding 300 words and written as a single paragraph in Times New Roman font with size 11. The heading title “Abstract” should be centred, written in boldface with size 12 and placed 1cm below the last line of affiliation and 0.5 cm above its main content. The abstract should be justified in alignment and indented 0.5 cm from the left and right margins.

Keywords: A list of five keywords, at most, separated by semicolons is required. The list is placed 0.5 cm below the abstract and 1cm above the introduction. It should be written with the same font style and size as the abstract.

Main article text: The article text should be divided into sections and subsections (if necessary), specified with a short descriptive title. The main article text should begin with an informative introduction and end with a short conclusion, summarizing the results obtained and the goals achieved. All titled headings for sections should be centred and subsections left justified and written in boldface with size 12. The text should be justified in alignment and written in regular times new roman font with size 12 point.

Acknowledgments and appendices: The acknowledgment (if included) should come after the conclusion in a short section. Technical details that interrupt the flow of any section may be consigned to an appendix. Appendices should be placed after the references (if included). If there are two or more appendices they should be denoted by Appendix A, Appendix B, etc. Equations in an appendix should be numbered as (A.1), (A.2), etc.

Author contributions

 The Libyan Journal of science requires that all authors take public responsibility for the content of the work submitted for review.

Tables and figures: Tables and figures should be numbered with bold Arabic numerals of size 11 in the order of their citation in the text; e.g. Table 1., Table 2., Figure 1. Figure 2., etc. In the text, tables are referred to as table 1, table 2, etc, and figures as Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc. Each table and figure should have a brief but informative caption. written in regular Times New Roman font with size 11. A table caption is placed just above the table whereas a figure caption is placed just below the figure. Tables and figures should be centred and never exceed the text area of the page. Moreover, they should be embedded at the top or bottom of the page, as close as possible to the point where they are first referenced. Table footnotes should be indicated by superscript letters and listed just below the table. If a figure has parts then label them below as (a), (b), etc, and identify them all in one caption. Figures and tables should be clear, well-illustrated and of good quality.

Mathematics: Mathematical equations and symbols should be neatly written either by the built-in Equation Editor in the Microsoft Word (2007 or later versions) or by the MathType product. Authors should make sure that the Equation Editor or MathType fonts and sizes are set up to match the text of the article. Equations should be centred and numbered sequentially with Arabic numerals, in parentheses, on the far right hand-side. In the text, equations should be referred to by numbers alone such as (1), (2), etc.

References: All cited references should be presented in a list at the end of the article. References un-cited in the text will be deleted (by the editors) form the references list. Citations in the text may take either of the following forms: (a) authors’ name and year of publication, e.g., Smith and Davidson (1988), Pettijohn (1957, p.508), Andersen et al. (2004), or (Keller, 1969), In the latter case, if there is more than one reference by the same author in the same year, they should be distinguished in both the text and the reference list by small letters following the year of publication; e.g. Smith (1978a) ; (b) key number in parentheses without the authors’ name, e.g. [1] or [2,3,4]. In the former case, the list of references should be arranged alphabetically; while in the latter, the key numbers should be listed serially. Journal titles should be written in full or abbreviated according to the standard abbreviation of periodical titles.

The style of entries for books should be as follows:

Schwabl, F. (2002). Quantum Mechanics, 3rd edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 210p.

For unpublished thesis:

Nolland, D. J. (2000). Quantum Field Theories with Fermions in the Schrodinger Representation, Ph.D. thesis, University of Durham, Durham, England.

For journal articles:

Knill, R. J. (1971). On the homology of a fixed point set, Bull., Am. Math. Soc., 77, 184-190.

Mansfield, P. (1995). The vacuum functional at large distances, Phys. Left., B 358, 287-296.

For articles published in symposia:

Jafri, S. M. H. and Rateeb, F. B. (1978). Chenopodiaceae. In: The Flora of Libya (Jafri,. S. M. H. and A. El-Gadi, eds). University of Tripoli, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, Tripoli, Libya, No. 58.

Headings and indents: titled headings for all sections should be 0.5 cm just above the subsequent text and 0.5 cm just below the preceding text. The first line of each paragraph in the main text should be indented 0.5 cm from the left margin.

Genera and Species: The scientific names of genera and species are to be written in an italic font. This is in accordance with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.

Geographic names: The National Atlas should be followed for all the geographic names within Libya.

 The Libyan Journal of Science University of Tripoli

Faculty of Science Editorial Office

P.O. Box 13503 Tripoli, Libya

URL: https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs