Thank you for choosing us to facilitate the publication process of the book and book chapters.
We extend to authors the opportunity to publish their books and chapters on the Leaves and Dew platform, an open-access initiative that ensures the unrestricted dissemination of your research to a global audience with internet connectivity.
Our books are of the highest quality, cutting-edge research, externally reviewed by subject experts and trusted by readers. We know how important books are to authors and offer a flexible, personal approach to the author-publisher relationship.
The guidelines for the author include:
- We accept the manuscript typed in font size 12 point, Times New Roman in MS Word doc/docx format only written in English language.
- The manuscript should have single spacing with first line indent 0.5 cm with page margin top 2.0 cm, bottom 1.5 cm with a customed page size 18 cm and height 25 cm.
- The chapter length should be minimum approx. 12 pages (35000 characters with spaces or 4500-5000 words) and maximum approx. 25 pages (68000 characters with spaces or 4500-5200 words)
- The chapter should have:
- Suitable Title for The Chapter
- Write the name of the author and Co-authors (First name followed by last name), Institution (s), City.
- Email address of the corresponding author.
- Abstract: Every submit chapter must have a abstract of 200-250 words which must introduce the topic, highlights of the book chapter and finally a short conclusion.
- Keywords: Give the suitable number keywords (not less than 5 and more than 10 words) which describes best your manuscript. Keywords must be arranged in alphabetical orders and separated by the comma.
- Introduction: The introduction section must provide good information about your manuscript. It must be clear and easy to understand as some reader might not be from your subject domain and may not have enough expertise to understand. It must be number as first heading.
- Section headings: The manuscript must contain atleast one section heading where author may explain the methodology, research findings, data interpretation and discussion.
- This section may be further breakup with formatting numbers with several subheadings (2.1, 2.2) and sub sub headings with formatting number like 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2 etc.
- Conclusion (s): The manuscript must contain a conclusion which summarize all the content of the manuscript.
- All the citing references must be listing in the reference section.
- All the figures included must be of high resolution. The acceptable format are JPEG, JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, EPS, or PDF. The figure should not be more than 14 cm wide and 190 cm in height and having caption beneath.
- The tables inserted should not be in image format. All the tables inserted must be in portrait format and must be less than 14 cm width. The title of the table must be above the table only.
- While citing the table and Figure in the text do not use abbreviation such as ‘Tab’ or ‘Fig’.
- For insertion of the equation please use Microsoft equation. Manuscript having equation inserted as PDF will be returned to authors for correction.
- Acronyms must be written in full followed by abbreviation in brackets.
- The appendices and nomenclature need to be inserted before the list of references.
- Acknowledgement may be given to the person contributed in preparation of the manuscript other than authors as well as funding organizations.
- Author may declare the statement of conflicts of interest.
- For inserting the tables or figures or text published elsewhere in the manuscript required to obtain permission for both print and online version by the author itself which may be asked at any stage of publication.
Manuscript Processing Charges
Leaves and Dew Publication is a non-profit earning entity and committed for open access work only. Our nominal charges are as follow:
- Complete Book: Rs 25000/-(for Indian Author) and USD $500 (Foreign Author)
- Publication charges for each Chapter is: Rs 5000/- (for Indian Author) and US $200 for (Foreign Author)