Persatuan Pembangunan &Industri Enau Malaysia

Journal of Natural Fibre Polymer Composites (JNFPC)

Manuscript Preparation:

These instructions are written in a form that satisfies all of the formatting requirements for the author manuscript. Please use them as a template in preparing your manuscript. Authors must take special care to follow these instructions concerning margins. The basic instructions are simple:

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Submission : please email to  jnfpc.ppiem@gmail.com

Structure

The manuscript should be organized in the following order: Title of the paper, Authors' names and affiliation, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Body of the paper (in sequential headings), Conclusion, Acknowledgements (where applicable), References, and Appendices (where applicable).

Title

The title is aligned the left on the page and is capitalized each word (Font: Times New Roman, Font size 18 pt). It should adequately describe the content of the paper. An abbreviated title of fewer than 60 characters (including spaces) should also be suggested.

Author’s Name and Affiliation

The author's name(s) should be aligned to the left of the page and is bold (Font: Times New Roman, Font size 10 pt). A blank line is required between the title and the author's name(s). Last names should be spelled out in full and succeeded by author's initials. The author's affiliation, complete mailing address, and e-mail address (all in font size 8 pt) are provided below.

Abstract

Font: Times New Roman. Font size 9. A blank line is required between the affiliation and the abstract. A single paragraph of about 200 words maximum. For research articles, abstracts should give a pertinent overview of the work. We strongly encourage authors to use the following style of structured abstracts, but without headings: (1) Background: Place the question ad-dressed in a broad context and highlight the purpose of the study; (2) Methods: briefly describe the main methods or treatments applied; (3) Results: summarize the article’s main findings; (4) Conclusions: indicate the main conclusions or interpretations. The abstract should be an objective representation of the article and it must not contain results that are not presented and substantiated in the main text and should not exaggerate the main conclusions.

Keywords

Should be listed such as keyword 1; keyword 2; keyword 3 (List three to five keywords specific to the article yet reasonably common within the subject discipline.)

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Introduction

Font: Times New Roman. Font size 10. The introduction should briefly place the study in a broad context and highlight why it is important. It should define the purpose of the work and its significance. The current state of the research field should be carefully reviewed and key publications cited. Please highlight controversial and diverging hypotheses when necessary. Finally, briefly mention the main aim of the work and highlight the principal conclusions. As far as possible, please keep the introduction comprehensible to scientists outside your particular field of research. References should be numbered in order of appearance and indicated by a numeral or numerals in square brackets—e.g., [1] or [1], [2], or [1]–[3]. See the end of the document for further details on references.

Materials and Methods

The Materials and Methods should be described with sufficient details to allow others to replicate and build on the published results. Please note that the publication of your manuscript implicates that you must make all materials, data, computer code, and protocols associated with the publication available to readers. Please disclose at the submission stage any restrictions on the availability of materials or information. New methods and protocols should be described in detail while well-established methods can be briefly described and appropriately cited.

Research manuscripts reporting large datasets that are deposited in a publicly available database should specify where the data have been deposited and provide the relevant accession numbers. If the accession numbers have not yet been obtained at the time of submission, please state that they will be provided during review. They must be provided prior to publication.

Interventionary studies involving animals or humans, and other studies that require ethical approval, must list the authority that provided approval and the corresponding ethical approval code.

Results and Discussion

This section may be divided by subheadings. It should provide a concise and precise de-scription of the experimental results, their interpretation, as well as the experimental conclu-sions that can be drawn.

Text Layout

The manuscript must be typed single spacing. Use extra line spacing between equations, illustrations, figures, and tables. The body of the text should be prepared using Times New Roman. The font size used for the preparation of the manuscript must be 10 points. The first paragraph following a heading should not be indented. The following paragraphs must be indented 12 mm. Note that there is no line spacing between paragraphs unless a subheading is used. Symbols for physical quantities in the text should be written in italics.

Section Headings

Section headings should be typed in align left hand side on the page and capitalized each word. The type, fonts and style above (New Times Roman 10 point bold) are an example of a section heading. Do not underline section headings. A bold font should be used for section headings. The headings should be numbered.

Sub Headings

Sub headings should be typed in align left hand side on the page, and capitalized each word. The type, fonts and style above (New Times Roman 10 point italic) are an example of a sub heading. Do not underline sub headings. An italic font should be used for section headings. The headings should be numbered.

Subsub Headings

Subsub headings should be typed in align left hand side on the page, and capitalized each word. The type, fonts and style above (New Times Roman 10 point) are an example of a subsub heading. Do not underline section headings. A normal font should be used for section headings. The headings should be numbered. Bulleted lists look like this:

•  First bullet;

•  Second bullet;

•  Third bullet.

Numbered lists can be added as follows:

1.  First item;

2.  Second item;

3.  Third item.

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Equations and Mathematical Expression

Equation numbers should appear in parentheses and be numbered consecutively. All equation numbers must be centred of the equation and should be referred to within the text. Two different types of styles can be used for equations and mathematical expressions. The text following an equation need not be a new paragraph. Please punctuate equations as regular text.

Figures and Tables

Figures (diagrams and photographs) should be numbered consecutively using Roman numbers. They should be placed in the text soon after the point where they are referenced. Figures should be centered in a column and should have a figure caption placed underneath. Captions should be centered in the column, in the format “Figure 1” and are in upper and lower case letters. When referring to a figure in the body of the text, the abbreviation "Figure" is used Illustrations must be submitted in digital format, with a good resolution. Table captions appear centered above the table in upper and lower case letters. When referring to a table in the text, "Table" with the proper number is used. Captions should be centered in the column, in the format “Table 1” and are in upper and lower case letters. Tables are numbered consecutively and independently of any figures. All figures and tables must be incorporated into the text (in Portrait orientation).

Units

The use of SI units is strongly recommended and mixed units are to be avoided.

Conclusion

This section is not mandatory but can be added to the manuscript if the discussion is unu-sually long or complex.

Acknowledgment

In this section, you can acknowledge any support given which is not covered by the author contribution or funding sections. This may include administrative and technical support, or donations in kind (e.g., materials used for experiments).

References

References must be numbered in order of appearance in the text (including citations in tables and legends) and listed individually at the end of the manuscript. Font: Times New Roman. Font size 10. Please use IEEE Reference Style. We recommend preparing the references with a bibliography software package, such as Mendeley, EndNote, Reference Manager or Zotero to avoid typing mistakes and duplicated references.  Include the digital object identifier (DOI) for all references where available.

In the text, reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ] and placed before the punctuation; for example [1], or [1], [2] or [1]–[3]. For embedded citations in the text with pagination, use both parentheses and brackets to indicate the reference number and page numbers; for example, [5] (p. 10), or [6] (pp. 101–105).

1. M. M. Harussani, S. M. Sapuan, U. Rashid, A. Khalina, and R. A. Ilyas, “Pyrolysis of polypropylene plastic waste into carbonaceous char: Priority of plastic waste management amidst COVID-19 pandemic,” Sci. Total Environ., vol. 803, p. 149911, Jan. 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149911.

2. R. A. Ilyas, S. M. Sapuan, and M. R. Ishak, “Isolation and characterization of nanocrystalline cellulose from sugar palm fibres (Arenga Pinnata),” Carbohydr. Polym., vol. 181, pp. 1038–1051, Feb. 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.11.045.

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