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Author Guidelines

The authors are requested to prepare their manuscripts as per the instructions/specifications given below. It should be noted that the review process is solely depend upon the significance of the work and the care used by authors to represent it, in the form of their manuscripts. Therefore, authors are strongly encouraged to read these instructions carefully before preparing/submitting their manuscript for publication. Submission implies that the manuscript has not been published previously, and is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Submission also implies that the corresponding author has consent of all authors. Whenever applicable, submissions must include the following elements: title, authors, affiliations, contacts, abstract, introduction, main text, conclusions, acknowledgement, references. Upon acceptance for publication, transfer of copyright will be made, author will be requested to pay a mandatory publication charge. Article submission implies author agreement with this policy. Manuscripts should be written in English. Other languages will not be accepted. Authors are advised to follow the format of the final version at this stage. All the papers should ideally not exceed 30 pages. Authors may suggest 2-4 reviewers when submitting their works, by providing us with the reviewers' title, full name and contact information. The editor will decide whether the recommendations will be used or not. Please read our Publication Ethics before submitting.

Revised version should follow the same requirements as for the final version to format the paper, plus a short summary about the modification’s authors have made and author's response to reviewer's comments. Authors are requested to use the Journal Style for preparing the final camera-ready version. An example paper is available. Template in MS word can also be downloaded. Authors are requested to strictly follow the guidelines specified in the template. Only PDF format, DOC and DOCX format is acceptable. The PDF document should be sent as an open file, i.e. without any data protection. Authors should submit their revised paper electronically to the Journal's submission address. Please always quote the paper ID in the submissions and any further enquiries. Authors will receive the notification of acceptance by email from our Editor-in-Chief, with the guidelines of how to finalize the other publication procedures.

International Journal of Biology and Life Sciences is a self-supporting organization and does not receive funding from any institution/government. As costs are involved in every stage of the publication process, like manuscript handling form submission to publication peer-review, copyediting, typesetting, tagging and indexing of articles, electronic composition and production, host the final article on dedicated servers, electronic archiving, server and website update and maintenance, supporting sales and marketing costs to ensure global dissemination and administrative and overheads, the author is asked to pay an article publication fee. The author's company or institution will be requested to pay a publication fee of 499 USD for an accepted manuscript regardless of the length of the paper. The publication charges are mandatory. Authors can order extra hard copies of the issue with a price of 100 USD for 1 hard copy. And the delivery will be free of charge.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • 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 adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • SettingsThe text is double-spaced; uses a 10-point font; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

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