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Author Guidelines

Authorship
Biology and Molecular Medicine follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines. To qualify for authorship of a manuscript, a contributor must meet all of the following criteria:

  1. Substantially contribute to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data.

  2. Substantially contribute to drafting the work or critically revising it for important intellectual content.

  3. Provide final approval of the version to be published.

  4. Agree to be accountable for the accuracy and integrity of all parts of the work.

Contributors who do not meet these criteria should be listed in the Acknowledgments section.

Biology and Molecular Medicine may request confirmation that all listed authors meet these conditions. The corresponding author is responsible for keeping co-authors informed of any changes to the author list. All authors, including those who are removed, must approve any such changes.

AI Statement
Any use of AI tools must comply with COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines. Notably:

  • AI tools cannot be credited as authors, as they cannot take responsibility for manuscript content.

  • Authors are fully responsible for all content, including sections generated by AI, and are accountable for any ethical breaches.

AI tools may be used only to assist with editorial tasks such as improving language, grammar, and clarity. However, their use must not compromise the scientific integrity of the work and must be clearly disclosed in the Materials and Methods section.

Authors must ensure the following tasks are performed using their own judgment, not AI tools:

  • Selecting the appropriate study design

  • Choosing statistical methods for data analysis

  • Deciding what literature to cite

  • Drawing conclusions based on the results

AI tools (including large language models) are trained on extensive human-created datasets. Improper use can introduce bias or inaccuracies. Therefore:

  • Any AI-assisted edits should be approved by all co-authors.

  • Authors should thoroughly review any AI-generated or AI-edited content before submission.

Recommended Sources for Ethical AI Use

Submission Preparation Checklist

Manuscript Submission Checklist

Before submitting, authors should do the following:

  1. Review the Aims & Scope to assess if your manuscript is suitable for this journal
  2. Check that your piece follows the instructions regarding publication ethics, research ethics, copyright, authorship, figure formats, and data.
  3. Ensure all authors have complied with the journal’s ethical standards and approved of the manuscript’s content.
  4. Submit your manuscript as a Microsoft Word document.

Copyright Notice

Copyright

Accepted submissions will be published under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which allows any material to be shared, copied, redistributed, or adapted into any format for any purpose as long as appropriate attribution to the original authors is given. Upon submission, authors may be asked to fill out an author agreement form (download here).

 

  1. Copyright: By submitting your manuscript to BAMM you are hereby giving BAMM a perpetual non-revocable license to publish your work and all IP rights to permit them to produce, display, and promote your work in association with BAMM. You also hereby permit BAMM to share your work under a CreativeCommons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 license so that anyone who reads or wants to use the article can share or adapt the work so long as they give proper credit to the authors. You can read more here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  2. Exclusive License: By submitting Author’s Manuscript, Author is hereby giving BAMM an exclusive license to publish the Manuscript. The author guarantees that the Manuscript has not previously been published or is under consideration for publication by any other journal. By way of this exclusive license, the Author may not publish the article with any other journal once it has been accepted or is under peer review. Should the Manuscript be rejected (which may happen at various stages) and not be published by BAMM, the author is free to submit their Manuscript elsewhere.

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