Bentham OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING THE TEMPLATE

The authors may use Bentham OPEN Journal’s template for the preparation of their manuscripts, which will assist them in providing much of the formatting details as well as the overall style of the manuscript, in which the manuscript should be submitted. The submission of the manuscript through the template will facilitate the reviewing process, thereby expediting the publication procedure.

START USING OF TEMPLATE

The authors should use the template exactly as per the below instructions, without making any attempts to modify the template.

1) The initial step to apply the template is to download the template file ”bentham-template.dot” from the Bentham OPEN Journal’s official website www.bentham.org/open/bentham-template.dot and select the option “save target as” from the popup menu.

2) Save the file as a template in the template directory of Microsoft Word (for example C:/program files/Microsoft Word template).

3) This document will be saved in the templates folder with a .dot extension and will appear only as a General tab in the New dialogue box

To open the template

1. To open the template, choose File and then click New. The Bentham OPEN Journal’s template will become available for use under the General tab.

2. Select the Bentham OPEN Journal’s template and make sure that the option Create new: Document (not Template) is selected. A file containing sample text sections will appear. This text can be formatted with the paragraph style appropriate for the section.

3. In addition, a popup Styles toolbar will also appear on your screen listing the template styles available for the template. This toolbar can be closed and reopened for later use when needed (View, Toolbars, Bentham OPEN Journal’s template).

Note: The template file contains macros and seeks your command to either Disable Macros, Enable Macros, or Not Open the file. It is safe to enable the macros. Select Enable Macros. The macro is a popup box containing the Word Styles needed for using the template and it does not contain any viruses

Using the template to upload a manuscript

There are several ways to upload a manuscript within this template:

1) Type / paste the manuscript directly on the existing template, especially designed for the purpose.

• After opening the Bentham-open.dot file, you will see a manuscript already written there in this template
• Highlight the title of the manuscript and paste the already copied title of your manuscript or simply start typing the manuscript’s title. You will see that unformatted title will take the formatting of template.
• The entities can be typed/pasted sequentially.
• This file can be saved with any name, without being damaged, and can be used again and again.

2) Use the blank Template/Delete entire content of the template and start formatting the manuscript by using Bentham OPEN Journal’s convenient template tools.

• Open the Bentham-open.dot file, paste the already copied manuscript.
• This will provide you with an unformatted manuscript in your template.
• Click to select (highlight) the complete title of the manuscript and then click on the “manuscript title” in the Bentham OPEN Journal’s template style tool bar.
• Similarly, please highlight the author’s name and click on “Author’s name” in the Bentham OPEN Journal’s template style tool bar.
• Highlight the address and click on “Address” in the Bentham OPEN Journal’s template style tool bar.
• Your transformed file can be saved with any preferable name. Your template can never be overwritten and at the time of saving the file, simultaneously a new document is saved, maintaining the originality of the template.

How to insert figures in the template:

1. Place the cursor where insertion of the figure is required.
2. Click on Insert Figure tag on Bentham OPEN Journal’s template tool bar.
3. Find the figure to be inserted from your computer and click “insert” on browsing box.
4. Do not resize or add labels to the figure from within the template. If the resizing is required, resize it in a graphic program and repeat steps no. 1 and 2 (maximum width is 3 in. (8 cm)).

Inserting Chemical Structures in the template:

1. Use ChemDraw / ISISDraw
2. Copy the Structure and paste it into the template.
3. Do not save the structures as a file.

Save and send

1. After uploading the entire manuscript, delete all the irrelevant text from the template.
2. Click Save As (File menu) and save it as a "document" file (.doc).
3. Assign a file name that identifies your manuscript.
4. Save the file and send it to us.