Author Guidelines

I. Biology & Medicine Subjects

All submissions to biomed journals shall include the Competing Interests Statement. download

General Author Guidelines              MS-Word  and  PDF
Template for Original Article            Paper and Title Page
Template for Review Article             Paper and Title Page
Template for Case Reports              Paper and Title Page
Application Form for Free Print Journals   MS-Word (Authors only)
Response to Comments                            MS-Word (Authors only)
Article Publication Agreement                   MS-Word (Authors only)
Reviewer Suggestion Form                       MS-Word (Authors only)

II. Article Selection

The Association for Health Sciences and Education has developed a manuscript-selection system called the Star System for Journal Quality. We process manuscripts in four steps: 

Step 1: Basic Check
The editor or editorial assistant checks a received manuscript to determine whether it fits the journal’s aim and scope. Manuscripts out of the journal’s scope are rejected. Articles published fully or partly in other publications/websites are not reviewed or accepted.

Step 2: Similarity Check
Please be aware that we check all submitted manuscripts for plagiarism. We use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate, the leading plagiarism-detection system) to check for similarity to previously published documents. All manuscripts containing plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, and dishonesty are rejected.

Step 3: Peer Review
We use a double-blind system for peer review; both reviewers’ and authors' identities remain anonymous. The submitted manuscript is peer reviewed by 2-4 reviewers. In some rare cases, according to the recommendations from editors and reviewers, a second round of peer review may be initiated. Please see a sample of Result of Review.

Step 4: Acceptance/Rejection Decision
The decision to accept an article is based on the average score given by reviewers. The reviewers grade a submitted manuscript on a scale of 1 to 5. To be accepted for publication, the manuscript must obtain an average score not less than 2.5 (some journals require a higher score). However, we may reject a manuscript with a score higher than 2.5 when an editor or reviewer thinks it is not suitable for publication.

III. Authorship, Misconduct and Ethical Issues

We follow the the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)'s Core Practices and its advices. It covers: authorship, conflict of interest, data, ethical problems, peer review, plagiarism, redundant (duplicate) publication, and Whistleblowing.

IV. Retraction

We follow the the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)'s Retraction Guidelines.