Bioethics; Ethics; Environmental ethics; Ethics in biotechnology
Medical Ethics and Law Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences – International Association of Islamic Bioethics – Institute for Bioethics and Health Law
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Author Guidelines
Submission Checklist
Authors / corresponding author of articles are requested to pay attention to the following before submitting an article.
Cover letter
In cover letter should be Written essential information of the corresponding author include: his/her First and last name, the full postal address of the work place, Telephone and mobile numbers, the 16-digit- ORCID code and academic e-mail address.
Commitment Form
This form has been signed by all author to inform the editor of the journal that this article has not been published in another journal and all of them confirm the accuracy of the content.
Explain of any conflict of interest.
Individuals or institutions Participate in or support the study, can be thanked and appreciated.
Title Page
The title should be written entirely in Persian and English.
The names of the authors should be mentioned first and then the last name.
The highest academic degree(s) of authors should be written.
The name of the institute(s), including the department(s), organizational affiliation(s) of the authors at the time of study, city and country should be mentioned.
The 16-digit ORCID code of the first and corresponding author should be mentioned.
Clinical trial registration number, IRCT code (Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials) should be mentioned for experimental articles.
Abstract
The abstract should be written separately in Persian and English.
Abstracts for original research articles, short reports and reviews should be structured. There is no limit to the number of words, but it is better not to exceed 500 words.
Abstracts of letters to the editor can be unstructured.
Ethical considerations should be briefly explained.
The number of keywords should be at least 3 and at most 7.
Manuscript Body
Main text should be written in Persian.
All English names in the Persian text should be written in English and phonetic translation into Persian should be avoided.
The full text of the article should be uploaded in the system in two forms without name and with name along with English and Persian abstracts.
In the section of ethical considerations, the code of the ethics committee should be mentioned for articles that have human and animal subjects.
References
References should be written based on the Vancouver style.
Resources must be written using End Note software.
All references should be written in English and if the source is in Persian, it should be translated into English. The title of the article and the names of the authors should be based on the English abstract of the published article.
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