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Author Guidelines

Scope

Before submitting, please read our Aims and Scope to make sure your work fits IAJLB's focus on life sciences and biotechnology. We publish Original Research Articles, Review Articles, Case Reports and Short Communications.

Authorship

Authorship follows the ICMJE criteria. Each author must have made a substantial contribution to the conception, design, analysis or interpretation of the work; drafted or critically revised it; approved the final version; and agreed to be accountable for all of it.

Preparing Your Manuscript

  • Write in clear, grammatically correct English
  • Prepare the manuscript for double-blind review, with author names and affiliations in a separate file from the main text
  • Give an ORCID iD for the corresponding author, and for other authors where possible
  • Use the standard structure: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion and References
  • Italicise scientific names and gene symbols as convention requires, and identify strains, cell lines, plasmids and antibodies precisely, with RRIDs or catalogue numbers where available

Required Statements

Every submission must include:

  • A Conflict of Interest (Competing Interests) statement
  • A Data Availability Statement
  • A Funding statement disclosing all sources of support
  • Ethics approval, biosafety clearance and informed consent statements, where people, animals or genetically modified organisms were involved
  • An AI Use Declaration naming any generative AI tool used

Reporting Guidelines

Describe experimental design, controls, replicates and statistical methods in enough detail for others to reproduce the work. We recommend ARRIVE for animal studies, MIQE for qPCR and the relevant MIAME/MINSEQE standards for omics data.

Originality

All manuscripts are checked with iThenticate before peer review, under the Plagiarism Policy.

Peer Review

Submissions receive double-blind review from at least two independent reviewers. First decisions usually arrive within 12–14 weeks.

Copyright and Licensing

Accepted articles are published under CC BY 4.0. You keep your copyright, and there is no copyright transfer agreement to sign.

Article Processing Charges

An Article Processing Charge applies on acceptance, based on the corresponding author's country income level and the article type, with full waivers available where eligible. See Article Processing Charges.

References

Cite datasets, software and earlier work accurately and completely, with DOIs wherever they exist.

Submission Preparation Checklist

Before you submit, please check that your manuscript meets every item below. Submissions that miss any of them will be returned to you before peer review, which only delays your work.

Scope and Originality

  • The manuscript fits the journal's Aims and Scope and is one of our article types: Original Research Article, Review Article, Case Report or Short Communication.
  • It has not been published before and is not under consideration by another journal. Any related preprint or conference abstract is disclosed in the cover letter.
  • The text is original and all sources are properly cited, in line with the Plagiarism Policy. We screen every manuscript with iThenticate.

Preparing for Double-Blind Review

  • Author names, affiliations and contact details are in a separate title page file, not in the main manuscript.
  • Self-citations are written in the third person, and file properties do not reveal the authors' identities.
  • An ORCID iD is given for the corresponding author, and for co-authors where possible.

Manuscript Content

  • The manuscript follows the Author Guidelines: title, abstract, keywords, main text and references in the standard structure.
  • Experimental design, controls, replicates and statistical methods are described in enough detail to reproduce the work.
  • Strains, cell lines, plasmids, antibodies and reagents are identified precisely.
  • All tables and figures are numbered, labelled and cited in the text, and images have not been inappropriately manipulated.
  • All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness, with DOIs wherever they exist.

Required Statements

  • A Conflict of Interest (Competing Interests) statement, including "none" where that applies
  • A Funding statement disclosing every source of support
  • A Data Availability Statement, with accession numbers for sequence, structure and omics data
  • An AI Use Declaration naming any generative AI tool used and for what
  • Ethics approval (human or animal), biosafety clearance and informed consent statements with reference numbers, where applicable

Permissions and Authorship

  • Permission has been obtained to reuse any figures, tables, photos, datasets or other material that the authors did not create.
  • Every listed author meets the ICMJE authorship criteria and has approved the submitted version.

Publication Costs

  • The authors have read the Article Processing Charges page. Any waiver request is included with this submission, because requests made after acceptance cannot be considered.

Articles

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Copyright Notice

Copyright

Authors who publish in IAJLB keep the copyright in their work. You do not transfer copyright to the journal or the publisher. Instead, you grant IAJLB a non-exclusive licence to publish, distribute and archive the article in its published form.

Licence

Every IAJLB article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). It allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are properly credited.

Under this licence, authors and anyone else may:

  • Read, download and share the article free of charge
  • Copy, distribute and transmit it in any medium or format
  • Adapt, remix, transform and build on it for any purpose, including commercial purposes
  • Reuse figures, tables and text in new work, with proper citation

Authors' Rights

The licence does not limit the authors' right to:

  • Post the published article on personal websites, in institutional repositories or on preprint servers, with a link to the published version
  • Make separate, non-exclusive arrangements to distribute the published version, as long as its first publication in IAJLB is acknowledged

Third-Party Material

If your manuscript includes material you did not create, such as figures, tables or long quotations, and it is not already under a compatible open licence, you are responsible for obtaining permission to reuse it. Always give proper attribution.

No Copyright Transfer Agreement

IAJLB does not ask authors to sign a copyright transfer agreement. By submitting a manuscript and having it accepted, you agree to publish it under CC BY 4.0 as described above.

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