Submissions

The journal promotes multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary studies in the field of ethics in medicine and health care, genetics, law, education, policy, science, social science research, and humanities.   Submit the article with a forwarding latter including a submission declaration that the article has not been submitted elsewhere or is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Authors have to declare the originality of their work and transfer of copyright to the Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics. All material should be submitted online journal platform.      

https://bjbio.bioethics.org.bd/index.php/BJBio/index  

Publication Frequency

The journal is published three times a year in March, July and November.

Submission Procesure: 

Article is published in English language only. Articles should not exceed 5000 words, although longer manuscripts may be accepted. Please contact to Editor beforehand. The word count includes the title page, abstract, keywords, tables, acknowledgments, and references. All articles are peer review system; therefore all manuscripts shall include a cover page stating the title; all authors, professional title, institutional affiliation, telephone number, email address, and ORCID of all authors. 

Manuscript:

The text shall include an introduction, methodology result, discussion, conclusion, and recommendation. The text shall be double-spaced, Arial, 10 Font on A4 paper. Don't include footnotes.  Acknowledgments for kind help, grants, funds, etc. shall be placed in a separate section before the References.  Please include the author's contribution and conflict of interest at the end of the article.

Referencing:

In-text references shall be numbered with superscript. Reference shall be written within the full stop.  A reference list shall appear at the end of the writing with the entries listed numerically and in the same order that they have been cited in the text. When an article has more than six authors, please write only the names of the first six authors followed by 'et al'.  Please include DOI for the journal article and URL with the accessed date for internet content.   Journals follow the Vancouver referencing system as the name(s) of the author(s), the title of the article, the title of the journal, year, volume number (Issues Number), and page numbers. For example:

Article within a journal    Soleimani N, Mohabati Mobarez A, Farhangi B. Cloning, expression and purification flagellar sheath adhesion of Helicobacter pylori in Escherichia coli host as a vaccination target. Clin Exp Vaccine Res. 2016 Jan;5(1):19-25. https://doi.org/10.7774/cevr.2016.5.1.19

Article within a book William L. An introduction to ethics. Allied Publishers Pvt.Ltd, New Delhi; 2003. ISBN...

Chapter in a book Park JE, Park K. Environment and Health. In Hamilton P, ed. Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine. 12th ed. New Delhi, Banarsidas Bhanot, 1989:357-372. ISBN....

Corporate author International Steering Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. BMJ 1991; 302: 338-41. DOI....

Link / URL Ray D Greek J. Animals in scientific research: medical research - Diabetes. 2009 http://www.navs.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ain_sci_medicalresearch_diabetes. (Accesse date)

These instructions comply with the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE); please visit http://www.icmje.org.

Please also include at the end of the Manuscript

1. Authors Contribution:

Each author should disclose publicly to readers what each author does for the manuscript  Author(S) Contribution should be mentioned at the end of the article.

Authorship Criteria:

Authors are those who have substantial intellectual, scholarly contributions to develop the ideas, design, conduct the study, analyze the data, or draft the manuscript and take public responsibility for its contents during any allegation of falsification and misconduct.  The journal follows authorship criteria according to ICMJE.

A single contribution is generally not adequate to justify authorship. Their contribution can be rewarded in the acknowledge section.

Acknowledgment: A single contribution is not adequate to justify authorship e.g the acquisition of funding, providing laboratory space, instrumentation, unusual materials, supervision position of a research group, involvement in patients or animal care, providing patient samples, the collection of data, statistical analysis, editing assistance, proofreading or editing of manuscripts, editors, statisticians, medical writers or translators. Their contribution can be rewarded in the acknowledge section.

Conflict of interest: 

Author/s should declare a conflict of interest (intellectual, financial, or technical) if any before submitting the article. Conflict of interest should be mentioned at the end of the article.

Funding: Author/s should declare the funding of the the research/article at the end of the manuscript.

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Complain Procedure:

Author(s) or readers can submit a complaint to the Editor regarding conflict of interest, plagiarism, and duplication of publication with valid documents. Contact for complaint: [email protected].

During the submission of an article, the number of author(s) in the author byline is final. Request for withdrawal or inclusion of author(s) is not encouraged at the production level.

Peer Review Process

The Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics uses a double-blind peer review process so that the author's and reviewers' names are withheld.

Article---Primary review by Editor whether the Article is in the scope of this Journal----respective Reviewer----Author----Reviewer (if author incorporates the reviewer's comments)----Executive Editor----Publication (if everything is OK) unless it goes back to author for corrections.

Editorial Decision after external review

• If the reviewers reject the article BJBio rejects it though the Editor's decision is final.
• If the reviewers give any correction/modification plan we communicate with the author to redo and resubmit the manuscript. After re-submission, we check whether their re-submission fulfills the reviewer’s satisfaction.
• If all these steps are completed then we send it for production level of publication.
• Duration of the review process: The review process takes around three months.

Proofs: All proofs must be corrected and returned to the publisher as early as possible.

Journal Policy on Plagiarism:
All articles submitted to the Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics are checked for plagiarism with the Crossref Similarity Check software powered by iThenticate.