General Considerations:
Because articles are submitted online, authors are asked to register and create an account before submitting their articles. Submitted manuscripts must be written in English and checked for grammar. Italics must be used for expressions of Latin origin, for example et al., in vivo. Use decimal point (not commas). Italics must be used for generic and specific names and for genes. Text should be typed in Times New Roman point size 12 on a double-spaced, single column page with a 2.5-cm margin at all sides. Each new paragraph must be indicated clearly. Tables and High-resolution figures (500 dpi) must be included at the end of the manuscript. All pages must be numbered consecutively. Line numbers must be sequentially included on each page.
Title Page considerations:
Provide the following data on the title page (in the following order):
Title: Concise and informative. Avoid abbreviations.
Author names and affiliations: Provide full for surname and initial for first name(s) (e.g. Shaalan, E. A., Zain, N., Abdel-Wahab, H.) with no “and” before the last author’s name. Authors' affiliations are addressed below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name.
Corresponding author: Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication as well as post-publication. Ensure that his email address is provided.
Abstract: A maximum 300 words abstract is required. It should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions.
Keywords: Five (5) keywords that can be used for indexing purposes must be provided.
Manuscript Sections Considerations:
The manuscript should be organized in the following order: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements, Conflict of Interests, ORCID, Author contribution, and References.
Introduction: Consist of the objectives of the work and an adequate background.
Materials and methods: Contains sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced whilst methods already published should be indicated by reference and any modifications should be described. Apparatus used for the study and described the method used for the data collection.
Please give references for the statistical methods used.
Results: It should provide complete findings of the research using texts, Graphs, Charts, tables etc. Results should be concise. Tables and graphs should be kept to a minimum in separate pages and should not be embedded in the text and labeled consecutively.
Discussion: This should explore the significance of the results of the work not repeat them.
Conclusion: Should state briefly the outcomes of the research.
Funding agency: Mention any fund received and its source.
Ethics/bioethics committee approval, if relevant: All studies on animals or humans require ethics approval from relevant rexearch or institutional ethics committee.
Acknowledgments: Should contain information of funds or any assistance received, if applicable.
Conflict of interest statement: Where authors have no conflict of interests, the statement “The author declares that they have no conflict of interests.” Is recommended. Mention if any conflict of interest exists if applicable.
ORCID: Orcid numbers for all authors are given.
Author Contribution: A statement indicating the contributions of authors should be included.
References: APA style for citing references is adopted by ASTB. Only references cited in the text should be included in the list at the end of the paper.
References within the text should be cited as follows: “…it has been shown (Tom, 2000)…” or “…as shown by Tom (2000)…”. If there are two authors both should be named, for example “…it has been shown (Tom & Mordue, 2000)…”. If there are more than two authors, only the first author needs to be named, followed by “et al.” in the text, for example “…as shown by Tom et al. (2000)…” or as: “…it has been shown (Tom et al., 2000)…”. If several references are cited consecutively in the text, they should be arranged in chronological order; any with the same date should be in alphabetical order.
In the Reference list, all articles must be arranged alphabetically by name(s) of author (s) if there are no more than two; articles by more than two authors should follow any by the first author alone or with one co-author and should be arranged alphabetically by the first author's name only; secondary arrangement, of all references, should be chronological, using lower-case letters (a, b, etc.) after the date if necessary.
Citations of journal articles should include: (i) Name(s) and initial(s) of all the authors (for long author list, the eleventh and subsequent authors should be abbreviated as “et al.”) (ii) year of publication, (iii) full title of article, (iv) full journal title, (v) volume number, (vi) first and last page numbers/ article ID, (vii) DOI of a cited article, if present, must be included in its citation "Please ensure the “https://doi.org/” to be inserted prior to the DOI number", e.g.,
Service, M.W. (1992). Importance of ecology in Aedes aegypti control. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 23: 681-690.
Low, V.L., Takaoka, H., Adler, P.H., Tan, T.K., Weng, F.C.-H., Chen, C.-Y., Lim, Y.A.L., Ya’cob, Z., Chen, C.D., Sofian-Azirun, M. et al. (2018). A novel molecular and chromosomal lineage of the anthropophilic Simulium (Simulium) rufibasis subgroup (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Taiwan. Parasitology Research 117: 3137-3143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-6011-7.
Citations of preprint articles should include: (i) Name(s) and initial(s) of all the authors (for long author list, the eleventh and subsequent authors should be abbreviated as “et al.”) (ii) year of publication, (iii) full title of paper, (iv) name of the preprint server, (v) article ID, if any, (vi) “[Preprint]”, (vii) DOI must be included in its citation, e.g.,
Bar, D.Z., Atkatsh, K., Tavarez, U., Erdos, M.R., Gruenbaum, Y. & Collins, F.S. (2016). Biotinylation by antibody recognition - A novel method for proximity labeling. BioRxiv 069187 [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1101/069187
If there is a peer-reviewed published version of the preprint article, ONLY the published version must be cited in the manuscript.
Citations of conference papers should include: (i) name (s) and initial (s) of all the authors (for a long author list, the eleventh and subsequent authors should be abbreviated as “et al.”) (ii) year of conference, (iii) full title of paper [paper presentation], (iv) conference title, (v) location, e.g.,
Shaalan E. A. (2009). Larvicidal activity of some volatile oils against the dengue vector Aedes aegypti. 45th scientific seminar of the Malaysian Society of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Citations of books should include: (i) name(s) and initial(s) of the author(s), (ii) year of publication, (iii) title of the book, (iv) edition (v) Publisher, e.g.,
Service, M.W. (2008). Medical Entomology for Students, 4th edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. U.K.
Citations of chapters from books should include: (i) name(s) and initial(s) of the author(s), (ii) year of publication, (iii) title of the book chapter, (iv) editor(s) if appropriate, (v) town of publication and publishers, (vi) first and last page numbers, e.g.,
Belsey, C. (2006). Poststructuralism. In: The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory, Malpas, S. & Wake, P. (Editors), 2nd edition. London: Oliver & Boyd, pp. 51–61.
Citations of the online documents should include: (i) name(s) and initial(s) of the author(s), (ii) year of publication, (iii) title of article, (iv) name of website, (v) link of website, (vi) date of access, e.g.,
Slat, B. (2019). Whales are likely impacted by Great Pacific garbage patch. The Ocean Cleanup. https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/whales-likely-impacted-by-great-pacific-garbage-patch/Accessed 19 April 2019.
Citations of the dissertation should include: (i) name and initial of author, (ii) year of publication, (iii) title of thesis, (iv) name of university, e.g.,
Wassif, S.F. (1969). Dissertation: Survey of the Egyptian culicines in the Nile Delta with special reference to filarial transmission. Ain Shams University.
Publication Fees Considerations:
The journal charges 1000 Egyptian pounds for the 10 pages manuscript as Article Processing Charges from Egyptians and 50 US Dollars from non-Egyptians. For extra pages, Egyptians are charged 50 Egyptian pounds.