Guide For Authors
Authorship
Research on all areas of biomedical and related sciences is published quickly in the international, peer-reviewed, open access ABMRC Journals. The papers that were submitted should not be published or considered for publication in any way, anywhere else in the world. Each author must have contributed enough to the effort, either practically or intellectually, to be held publicly accountable for the article’s content, including the idea, planning, and execution of the experiment, as well as the interpretation of the data. A statement acknowledging their agreement to all authorship requirements and copyright transfer must be signed by each author. The authors must be careful not to plagiarize when copying content from other publications and materials because Turnitin is used to evaluate the submitted manuscripts for the Similarity Index.
Potential Reviewers
Authors are invited to provide three to four names of well qualified relevant reviewers, with their complete details (designation, institute, postal address, telephone, fax, and current e-mail IDs).
Article Types
The following article types are considered for publication in ABMRC Journals.
Research Articles
Articles discuss the findings of a specific study, the creation of novel methods, or the use of those novel methods. A complete document should be brief to adequately describe and interpret the study. A list of keywords (3-6), an abstract (200–250 words), the introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and acknowledgments should all be included in the main paper. The manuscript must conclude with references, tables, and illustrations.
Review Articles
A review article usually summarizes and critically assesses previously published material while taking into account the state of current research in order to shed light on a certain issue or subject. Although there are no official restrictions on the length of articles, they should normally have more than 70 references. Reviews can be submitted without first consulting the editors, and they are encouraged. There are no official restrictions on how many pages or photos can be included in evaluations.
Mini Reviews
Mini-reviews must meet the same standards as full reviews, but they are shorter and have a smaller scope. Though they are usually described as having fewer than 50 references, mini-reviews are not subject to official page limits.
Short Communications
Brief manuscripts that conclusively report either instructive observations or experimental results will be considered for publication in this category. There can be no more than two figures and one table with 1500–2500 words in short communications. The following modifications are made to the preceding list of manuscript preparation items for Short Communications: Experimental protocols may be included in Figure Legends and Table footnotes in place of a separate Materials and Methods section; (1) abstracts are restricted to 100–200 words; (2) results and discussion should be merged into a single section.
Case Studies
Original case reports are included in case studies, which will help readers better grasp general scientific concepts.
Opinions
Opinions are short essays (no more than 2,500 words and 25 references) that offer unique, well-developed ideas without comprehensive evidence. This article type gives equal weight to novel ideas that are presented in a way that summarises an issue, offers a fresh synthesis, and/or is appropriate for further experimental testing, even though biology and related subjects are essentially experimental sciences.
Editorials
Editorials cover topics related to science, politics, or policy and are written internally by members of the Editorial Board or editorial staff. They should be no more than 1000 words in length, without an abstract, with as few references as possible, and without figures or tables (though they may include an author’s photo for illustration purposes).
Spotlights
Spotlights are brief essays that highlight new developments in science or politics. Article names have to be brief. Highlight pieces should be between 1,500 and 2,000 words long, with no more than 20 references and an abstract of no more than 80 words. It is advised to use no more than two tables and/or figures to emphasise and condense important ideas.
Perspectives
Perspectives examine one or a group of recently released papers or a hot issue in research right now, where an author’s viewpoint illuminates important research findings. Brief reviews (no more than 2,000 words) and abstracts with no more than 150 words are considered perspectives.
Commentaries
Commentaries are brief invited essays that cover published papers or topics of particular interest and have a word count of no more than 1,000. Peer review may or may not be applied to them. Abstracts from authors should be no more than 150 words. A commentary’s body may have paragraph lead-ins and/or section titles.
Methods and Protocols
Major methodological and technical advancements in biomedical sciences are described in Methods and Protocols articles, which have a word restriction of 5,000. Each method or procedure must be described with findings showing how well it performs in comparison to current state-of-the-art approaches, as well as validation of or application to a pertinent and significant biological topic. Articles will be chosen based on their methodological performance, field significance, and thorough explanation to allow for instant application.
Correspondence
Letters responding to articles published specifically in ABMRC Journals are required to be submitted to the editorial board within 10 weeks of the publication of the material in question, be no more than 450 words in length, and include five or six references. They may also contain corrections of previously published peer-reviewed articles in the journal.
Letters to the Editor
Summaries of original research are presented in letters, and scientists and researchers from various disciplines will find them interesting. It should outline how your findings might advance a particular scientific area. Letters can’t be longer than 850 words. The title of the letter must be unique and must be present on both the submission form and the document. A synopsis that briefly discusses the connection between your work and several study topics must be included at the beginning. There should be very few figures and tables.
Analysis and Survey Reports
Reports on survey results and metadata analysis are invited for publishing by ABMRC. Your analysis and survey report abstract should be presented as a structured summary that includes the following sections: Background, Methods, Result, and Conclusion. All users must be able to access and read the data repositories they examine. A “Recommendation” paragraph that outlines future approaches to a particular issue for policymakers must be included after the survey report.
Without citations, it shouldn’t be more than ten pages. Although a maximum of 20 references is preferred, if necessary, the number may be increased to 30.
Wild Ideas
This section aims to give academics and students who are creative a platform to explore concepts and models from a different perspective than the ones that are often accepted. They may have a more limited and specialised point of view and are more futuristic and forward-looking. Though they could reflect the writers’ opinions, they shouldn’t be considered fiction. Their primary goal is to spark debate and innovative research.
They can be no more than 3,000 words and two to three pages. There shouldn’t be more than 20 references. An unstructured overview must be given at the beginning of the article. You may expand on your notion with four or five subheadings.
The Editor Board reviews all proposals before they are published.
Conference proceedings
Special issues or proceedings from scientific events such as conferences, seminars, congresses, and symposiums are published by ABMRC Journals. Requests for special issues may be made by the organising committee. It is possible to publish entire articles or abstracts.
Open Access
Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the wider public with permitted reuse. Open Access by
ABMRC is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License based on work at
https://abmrc.net/.
Article Processing Charges (APCs)
The
ABMRC journals are open-access journals supported by article processing charges (
APCs). There are no submission charges.
Manuscript Submission
Article manuscripts can be submitted
online or as email attachments in Word format to the ABMRC Editorial Office (
editor@abmrc.net).
Submission should be made through “
ABMRC Journals – Manuscript Submission and Tracking System”.
Submission enquiries:editor@abmrc.net
General enquiries: info@abmrc.net
Manuscript Style
Text formatting
Font: Arial
Font Size: 12
Line spacing: 1.5
Journal language
The journal‘s language is English.
The spelling and language used in the article may be either American or British English. It is strongly advised that non-native English speakers who contribute make sure their article has been evaluated by a colleague who speaks the language well, if none of the writers do.
The manuscript should be written in clear, concise, and grammatically correct English. Indent new paragraphs.
Manuscript parts
The manuscript should be presented in the following order;
Title page
This should contain:
Title for the article, along with the running title
Name(s) of author(s), their academic qualifications and current affiliations
Number of table(s) and figure(s) in the manuscript
Name, mailing and e-mail addresses of the corresponding author
Acknowledgment of financial support, if any
The title represents the subject matter of the manuscript. The title should be brief and comprehensive.
Abstract
Original research articles must include a structured abstract on the second page that is no more than 250 words long, written in full sentences, and that summarizes the main findings, experimental strategy, issues, and conclusion in a single paragraph. Steer clear of abstract allusions, diagrams, and acronyms.
Keywords
The author (s) must give key words (5 to 8) which can identify the most important subjects covered by the paper. They must be placed at the end of the abstract.
Introduction
Clearly state the purpose of the article. Summarize the rationale and background for the study or observation, giving only strictly pertinent references. Do not include methods, data, results, or conclusions from the work being reported. The Introduction should be limited to 1.5 manuscript pages.
Materials and methods
Provide sufficient details of the techniques employed to enable the work to be repeated. Do not describe or refer to commonplace statistical tests in this section but allude to them briefly in Results.
Results
Present your results in a logical sequence in the text, tables, and figures. Do not present specifics of data more than once, and do not duplicate data from tables or figures in the text; emphasize or summarize only important observations. Do not present data from individual subjects except for very compelling reasons. Report losses to observation (such as dropouts from a clinical trial). Use boldface for the first mention of each table or figure.
Discussion
The purpose of the discussion is to present a brief and pertinent interpretation of the results against the background of existing knowledge. Normally a comparison between your results and results from previous works should be given in the Discussion.
Conclusion
Any assumptions on which conclusions are based must be stated clearly. The main conclusions should be conveyed in a final paragraph with a clear statement of how the study advances knowledge and understanding in the field.
Acknowledgments
Only those who have contributed significantly to the study should be acknowledged; authors must obtain written consent from all individuals named and provide a copy of the permission to the editor upon request; and authors must disclose any personal or financial ties to the company or organisation that sponsored the research at the time of the study.
Declarations
You must also include this information in your work under the headings below in the acknowledgments section. If you are at a loss for declarations, please include the following in your manuscript:
Funding: None
Conflict of interest: None declared
References
At the end of the article, a list of references should be included. In general, the number of references should not exceed 40 for original articles, 50 for review articles, and 20 for case reports. The authors are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the references and their citations in the text.
All citations in the text should refer to:
Single author: the author’s name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;
Two authors: both authors’ names and the year of publication;
Three or more authors: first author’s name followed by ‘et al.’ and the year of publication.
If an author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by a lower case letter like ’a‘ and ’b‘ after the date to distinguish the works, “as demonstrated (Allan, 1996a, 1996b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1995)”.
List: References should be arranged alphabetically by authors’ names and should be as full as possible, listing all authors, the full title of articles and journals, publisher, and year. Use journal names as abbreviated.
Reference to a journal publication
Journal article with DOI:
Hamer, M., Steptoe, A., 2009. A prospective study of physical fitness, adiposity, and inflammatory markers in healthy middle-aged men and women. Am. J. Clin. Nutr., 89(1): 85-89. doi:10.3945/ajcn.2008.26779
Standard journal article:
Jeffery, R.W., Wing, R.R., Sherwood, N.E., Tate, D.F., 2003. Physical activity and weight loss: does prescribing higher physical activity goals improve outcomes? Am. J. Clin. Nutr., 78(1): 684-9.
Corporate author:
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 2004. Care for your kitten. 3rd ed. Harper Collins, London.
Reference to a book and monographs
Personal authors:
Shils, M., Shike, M., Olson, J., Ross, A.C., 1998. Modern nutrition in health and disease. 9th ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore.
Committee report or corporate author:
Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, 2000. Dietary reference intakes for vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium and carotenoids. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.
Chapter in book:
Young, V.R., Tharakan, J.F., 2004. Nutritional essentiality of amino acids and amino acid requirements in healthy adults. 2nd. ed. In: Cynober LA, ed. Metabolic and therapeutic aspects of amino acids in clinical nutrition. FL: CRC Press, Boca Raton, 439-70.
Internet references
Website:
National Center for Health Statistics. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Version current 1 October 2003. Internet: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm (accessed 13 October 2003).
Online journal article:
Sinha, A., Madden, J., Ross-Degnan, D., Soumerai, S., Platt, R., 2003. Reduced risk of neonatal respiratory infections among breastfed girls but not boys. Pediatrics [serial online],112:e303. Internet: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/112/4/e303 (accessed 14 October 2003).
Tables
Every table has to be numbered on its own page and have a legend at the top. The text should refer to them as Table 1, etc. Avoid using the same data in both figures and tables, and avoid repeating a lot of table values in the text.
Figures
Appendices (if any) should come after the figures and their legends at the conclusion of the paper. If the figures are listed near the end of the text file, they should show up above the corresponding legend. In the text, the word figures should be shortened (e.g., Fig. 1; Figs. 2 and 3) unless a phrase is being introduced. It is also appropriate to refer to photographic illustrations as figures.
Appendices / Supporting information
Please be aware that supporting documentation could be released electronically. The material and methods section, appendices, tables, and figures may all be included in the supporting documentation. Following tables and figures, more content can be included in the same text file.
Symbols and Abbreviations
Abbreviations and symbols must be standard. SI units should be used throughout, except for blood pressure values which should be reported in mm Hg. Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
Footnotes
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data).
Copyrights
The copyrights of the published manuscripts belong to ABMRC.
Permissions
The copyright owner(s) must provide permission for both print and online formats, and authors must provide proof of authorization when submitting their papers if they want to include figures, tables, or text sections that have previously been published elsewhere. Without such proof, all information supplied will be taken to be from the authors. You are considered to have given the editor or publisher permission to publish your work when you send it in.
Proofs
After revision and approval, the proofs will be emailed to the writers for any necessary corrections. The writers have one week to return the work with just minor revisions.
Reprints
Since the journal is accessible online, the corresponding author will not get a physical copy of their paper upon publication. The manuscript will be freely accessible online for download from any location. The coloured prints, however, will be accessible upon payment if necessary.
