A standard format of writing a manuscript can save the time of researchers and reviewers.
Agreed, but every journal maintain its own pattern/style of writing manuscript/referencing to maintain authenticity of its papers. Also, i think even if the patterns of all journals are same, it would not save much time as the patterns are generally similar.
Agreed! but I am talking about universal template. It is not all about the saving time but it could reflect global unity of scientific community. It may be different for different types of articles, viz. review article, research article, editorial article, etc. In this case, once you start writing a manuscript you do not need to refer particular journal style. I feel the main headings of the manuscript are almost similar in many journals (not in all), but citation and reference writing styles are quite different. If, the paper is rejected from a journal then these things consume your valuable time unnecessarily before submission in other journal.
Hello, i could see that your opinion has now changed, anyways, if you can plz refer to my previous answer, a journal maintains its own authentic standards/individuality for writing citation or reference style and also to avoid copyright issues as well as plagiarism which is a serious crime in scientific community.
As per the above discussion, I can value the scientific problem?
Actually having a unanimous publication template will definitely accumulate the extra time and the needless efforts of further submission process. Further, the copyright and plagiarism issues are truly not related to the Journal(s) style. These are actually deliberately adopted unethical scientific ways in publications in scientific community. So in my opinion, if we have a unanimous common publication template, then it may help in reducing the copyright and plagiarism issues as the common template with a familiar pattern can reflect these issue clearly (though to some extent). Moreover, the authenticity and impact of research articles in scientific journals cannot be exclusively correlated with the pattern/style of writing only, however, it mainly depends upon the scientific objective/ procedure and the scientific explanation presented in the article. Hence, I agree for a unanimous adopted publication template.
Well, i would like to say that science is not about an individual's opinion but the fundamentals are set up by the whole scientific community, a person's opinion hardly matters and each one of us in research are expected to follow certain guidelines whether established by a journal or scientific committees. Also, nobody can help further regarding this question.
Well, you will be agree that Science is lived and pursued by Scientist and even by any person with some scientific outlook. Every individual opinion is worth for transformation of the system; and you, Dr. Verma, and me and so many are the part of the scientific community. I agree with your opinion that we have to follow certain guidelines. However, we may initiate the transformation in old tracked guidelines. The question is, is it possible to have a uniform system? Answer lies as ‘Yes or No’. The answer ‘NO’ means no change and follows the existing guidelines. The answer ‘YES’ means a lot…means changes in the existing guidelines. Nevertheless, now the question is, is it difficult to have a unanimous publication template? Ok, at least I know that none of us can help further to put up a system with a common publication template. However, the question will always exist with its significance.
Diversity is the law of life. Human beings are diverse in their appearances, thinking, preferences, likes/dislikes, choices etc. Publishers' preferences reflect this human diversity. Monopoly and monotony are not preferred by many.
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