Focus and Scope
Archives of Advances in Biosciences journal (Arch.Adv.Biosci.) (ISSN: 2008-4978; PISSN: 2008-496X) is an open access, quarterly (with 8 articles in each issue), peer-reviewed journal which publishes high-quality research articles in all areas of the subject. We warmly welcome manuscripts that have not been published (or submitted simultaneously), at any language, elsewhere. The aim is to develop the frontiers of knowledge and to publish research findings at international level.
Archives of Advances in Biosciences journal covers all relevant bioscience disciplines including Biological Sciences, Hemic and Immune System, Health Information Sciences, Epidemiologic Methods.
All high quality and innovative manuscripts in the form of Editorial, Original Article, Review Article, Case Report, Short Communication, and Letter to the Editor will be considered for publication within the aforementioned areas.
Manuscript Style
All submissions have to be in Word 2010 (or up) format and all article pages have to be numbered. The article format has to be as follows:
Title Page
A separate page is devoted to the title page. In the Title Page (the first page), the following should exactly be followed:
The title of article
Author(s) information (including full name, the related institution (Department, School or Research Institute and University), ORKID id and e-mail
The address of the Corresponding Author (including e-mail and telephone number)
All names have to be clearly indicated in the order they wish to be indicated in Archives of Advances in Biosciences. No name change will be permitted once the ordering is submitted.
Abstract
The Abstract is in English.
It should be submitted along with the article in one package.
The format of the Abstract is based on Article Types.
Keywords
The Keyword is prepared in one line under the Abstract.
Each article may have a keyword of between 3-5 words.
The initial letter of each of the words is capitalized.
Comma separate the keywords; no punctuation mark is used after the last keyword.
Article Content
The Article Content follows ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) format.
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Formulas
All formulas have to be typed; otherwise, they have to be photographed as pictures and submitted as was said in the picture formatting.
Tables
Write tables at the end of the manuscript. Every table in a separate page.
Each table should have borders with normal style without any colored row or column.
The style of table should be simple. Remove vertical lines and extra horizontal lines.
Each cell must contain only one paragraph or one line.
Conflict of Interest
Authors should disclose, at the time of submission, information on financial conflicts of interest or other interests that may influence the manuscript. Authors should declare sources of funding for the work undertaken, too.
Acknowledgements
All logistic, financial and technical assistance along with the nature of the support have to be noted.
In case the article is previously approved by an organization, the approval number and the funding organization have to be mentioned.
In case the article is a part of an educational proposal, the educational rank, the name of the university, the faculty, and the related department have to be mentioned.
References
Archives of Advances in Biosciences journal follows the Vancouver style. Vancouver is a numbered referencing style, and consists of:
Citations to someone else's work in the text, indicated by the use of a number.
A sequentially numbered reference list at the end of the document providing full details of the corresponding in-text reference.
The authors are responsible for the accuracy of the bibliographic information.
Personal communications and unpublished data including manuscripts submitted but not yet accepted for publication should not be used as a reference; nonetheless, they may be placed in parentheses in the text.
Periodical titles should be abbreviated according to the Index Medicus.
Enter author's surname followed by no more than 2 initials when there are six or less. In the case of seven or more authors, the names of the first six authors followed by et al should be listed. For more information click here.
Submission Rules
The Editorial Team holds the right to admit, reject, edit, or summarize the submitted articles in any form, or by any means.
All submissions have to be in English.
The submitted articles should not have been published elsewhere under any format.
Once the article is submitted, the author(s) shall not send it to other publications or journals for consideration, unless they are informed of the Editorial Team's decision for the rejection of the article, or no response is received within three months following submission notification.
The author(s) have to inform Archives of Advances in Biosciences Editorial Office in cases where the submitted article had been previously presented and /or published in a conference, or convention/ or their proceedings. The Editorial Team will keep the right for decision for publication of the article. For more information click here.
The preliminary announcement of the scientific outcomes of an article submitted to Archives of Advances in Biosciences and not yet published is against policies. The authors have to inform the Archives of Advances in Biosciences Editorial Office on the results of their article. The Editor-in-Chief will decide whether to publish it or not.
The authors can complain to editor-in-chief when he/she is faced with any problem and/or difficulty during submission processing or after publishing the paper.
Publication Fee
Archives of Advances in Biosciences journal being a nonprofit Journal, does NOT charge publication/processing fees from the Author(s). NO subscription fee is levied for Libraries / Individuals. NO fee is levied for accessing published articles.
Archives of Advances in Biosciences journal is an Open Access Journal (OAJ) and has no article processing charges (APCs). The published articles can be downloaded freely.
Ethical Guideline
Each paper is required to contain adequate details and references in order that it would give others a chance to replicate the work. Falsified and intentional inaccurate statements are regarded as an unethical behavior and are seriously unacceptable and offensive.
The authors of the works involving chemicals, procedures or equipment with any sort of scarce hazards inherent in their use, are asked for openly identifying all the aforementioned points in their manuscript.
All the authors are required to address all the ethical considerations within the section entitled Materials & Methods.
The authors are asked to ensure that the manuscript contains the statement that every single procedure was performed in compliance with all the pertinent laws and institutional guiding principles and that the pertinent institutional committee (i.e., institutional review board or ethics review committee) has approved them.
In case the investigators happen to lack formal ethics review committees, the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki is to be followed.
Authors are requested to include a statement in the manuscript indicating that the written informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. They should also state that written informed consent has been obtained from all human adult participants and from the parents or legal guardians of minors. It is also mandatory to state how the written informed consent has been obtained from the study participants.
Authors must, at all times, observe the privacy rights of human subjects.
Editors may demand authors to provide documentation of the formal review and recommendation from the institutional review board or ethics committee responsible for the oversight of the study.
The authors should ensure that what they present is the original work, and in case they have used the work and/or words of others, this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
In case of discovering a significant error or inaccuracy in the published work, the author is obliged to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or the publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the precision and accuracy of the original paper.