Submission policies
Biotech Express is monthly periodical, publishes online and print on 15th of every month. The content submission deadline is 10th of every month or 14th in urgent situation.
Biotech Express do not charge a any fee for publication of articles.
Biotech Express publishes articles in the field of biotechnology and allied sciences in the form of Editorials, Guest Articles, Reports, Views and Interviews, Correspondence, Comments, Current News, Research Highlights and Notifications of Events, Jobs, Research Proposals. It covers broadly everything that include bioscience and/or Life sciences like Genetics, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Plant Biotechnology, Environmental Biotechnology, Neurology, Medical Sciences etc.
When you submit a manuscript to Biotech Express, we will take it to imply that the manuscript has not already been published or submitted elsewhere. If similar or related work has been submitted elsewhere, then you must provide a copy with the submitted manuscript. You may not submit your manuscript elsewhere while it is under consideration at Biotech Express.
The primary affiliation for each author should be the institution where the majority of their work was done. If an author has subsequently moved, the current address may also be stated.
We reserve the right to reject a paper even after it has been accepted if it becomes apparent that there are serious problems with its scientific content, or our publishing policies have been violated.
Responsibilities of the ‘Authors’
The authors need to ensure the following:
1. The Article submitted is an original work that is fully referenced and does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity and cannot be considered as plagiarising any other published work.
2. Openly disclose the source of all data and third party material, including previously unpublished work by the authors themselves. Anything that could compromise the originality of the submission should be expressly avoided and/or discussed with the editorial office in the first instance. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.
3. Anyone who has made a significant contribution to the article has been listed as an author. Minor contributors have been noted in the Acknowledgements section.
4. Provide accurate contact details for a designated corresponding author, who shall be deemed by the publisher and editor as fully responsible for the authorship of the paper and all communications concerning the ethical status and originality of the paper.
5. The corresponding author is required to ensure that all co-authors are included in the paper, and that the co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
6. Necessary written permission has been obtained in respect of third party material from the appropriate copyright owner or authorities for the reproduction in the Article and in the Journal of any text, illustration or other material.
7. Declare any potential conflict of interest in the research that might be construed to influence the results or their interpretation in the manuscript or if publication were to benefit a company or services in which the author(s) has a vested interest. This can be done by including a statement to that effect in the manuscript.
8. Any support from a third party has been noted in the Acknowledgements.
9. All sources of financial support for the work should be disclosed (including the grant number or other reference number if any).
10. Sign a copyright form on acceptance of their work, which will assume that the Corresponding author is empowered to assign copyright to the publisher.
11. Correspond and fully comply with the editor and publisher in any requests for source data, proof of authorship or originality in a timely manner.
12. The Article is not currently under submission to, or consideration by, any other journal or publication, and has not been published before in its current or a substantially similar form.
13. Upon discovery of any significant error in the published work, it is the responsibility of the authors to promptly notify the editors and cooperate in the retraction or correction of the paper.
Open Access statement
This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.
ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT
To ensure the highest standards of publication ethics and prevent ethical misconduct, the authors are expected to read and understand our Ethics policy before making submissions to Biotech Express . The intent of our Ethics policy is to detail the roles and responsibilities of our authors, editors, and reviewers so as to maintain the scholarly integrity of the journal.
Our publication ethics and malpractice statement draws on the guidelines for journals developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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In submitting an article to any of the journals published by Biotech Express I certify that:
- I am authorized by my co-authors to enter into these arrangements.
- I warrant, on behalf of myself and my co-authors, that:
- the article is original, has not been formally published in any other peer-reviewed journal, is not under consideration by any other journal and does not infringe any existing copyright or any other third party rights;
- I am/we are the sole author(s) of the article and have full authority to enter into this agreement and in granting rights to Biotech Express are not in breach of any other obligation;
- the article contains nothing that is unlawful, libellous, or which would, if published, constitute a breach of contract or of confidence or of commitment given to secrecy;
- I/we have taken due care to ensure the integrity of the article. To my/our – and currently accepted scientific – knowledge all statements contained in it purporting to be facts are true and any formula or instruction contained in the article will not, if followed accurately, cause any injury, illness or damage to the user.
- I, and all co-authors, agree that the article, if editorially accepted for publication, shall be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.
- I, and all co-authors, agree that, if the article is editorially accepted for publication in Biotech Express, data included in the article shall be made available.
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Peer review policy
The practice of peer review is to ensure that only good science is published. All contributions submitted to Biotech Express that are selected for peer review are sent to one or more independent reviewers, selected by the editors.
Authors are welcome to suggest suitable independent reviewers and may also request that the journal excludes one or two individuals or laboratories. The journal sympathetically considers such requests and usually honours them, but the editor’s decision on the choice of referees is final.
A final decision to accept or reject the manuscript will be sent to the author along with any recommendations made by the referees, and may include verbatim comments by the referees. Referees advise the editor, who is responsible for the final decision to accept or reject the article.
Editors, authors and reviewers are required to keep confidential all details of the editorial and peer review process on submitted manuscripts. Unless otherwise declared as a part of open peer review, the peer review process is confidential and conducted anonymously; identities of reviewers are not released.
Reviewers must maintain confidentiality of manuscripts. If a reviewer wishes to seek advice from colleagues while assessing a manuscript, the reviewer must consult with the editor and should ensure that confidentiality is maintained and that the names of any such colleagues are provided to the journal with the final report.
Regardless of whether a submitted manuscript is eventually published, correspondence with the journal, referees’ reports and other confidential material must not be published, disclosed or otherwise publicised without prior written consent.
Reviewers should be aware that it is our policy to keep their names confidential and that we do our utmost to ensure this confidentiality. We cannot, however, guarantee to maintain this confidentiality in the face of a successful legal action to disclose identity. Biotech Express reserves the right to contact funders, regulatory bodies, journals and the authors’ institutions in cases of suspected research or publishing misconduct.
Copyright policy
- Copyright on any open access article in a journal published by Biotech Express is retained by the author(s).
- Authors grant Biotech Express a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
- Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.
- The Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles.