Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Reviews (bmbr) (ISSN: 1538-2273) provides rapid publication of reviews on biotechnology and molecular biology. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. 

Our goal

 

Biotechnology and molecular biology are rapidly expanding fields of research activities. During the last ten years, overwhelming articles have been published and more are pouring in daily. Keeping current with all the recent developments in these fields can be very challenging if not impossible. This necessitates the need to extract out of the lot vital information and present them in a precise, logical and informative manner. Our objective is to obtain a synthesized identified research advances in Biotechnology and Molecular Biology.

 

 

Scope

 

We publish articles that cover all fields of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology. These include the fields of Microbial/Environmental, Agricultural, Animal/Plant and Medical/ Pharmaceutical Biotechnology.

Audience

 

Our primary readers are students and scientists in all fields of Life Sciences in Africa, Asia and beyond.

 

Types of paper

 

Mini Review (Opinion)

 

This section will contain short reviews articles expressing scientific views and questions on topics and trends in the fields of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology.

 

 

 

Standard Review (Comprehensive)

 

This section will contain a comprehensive critical review of CURRENT research efforts.

 

We intend to keep our readers up-to-date with research efforts, highlight unanswered research questions, and to present expert views of future trends in the fields of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology.

Submission of manuscript

 

Authors are requested to submit manuscripts electronically as e-mail attachments to bmbr@academicjournals.org or bmbr_acadjourn@yahoo.com. 

 

 

Follow these steps:

 

Step 1. Prepare the text in Microsoft Word.

 

Step 2. Prepare graphics at publication quality resolution, using applications capable of generating high resolution GIF, TIFF, and JPEG. Each file should be about 5 MB or less. Microsoft Power point graphics may be accepted in some instances. Number each figure. Tables should be prepared in Microsoft Word.

 

Step 3. Submit manuscripts electronically as e-mail attachments to bmbr@academicjournals.org or bmbr_acadjourn@yahoo.com. You will need:

 

Contact information for the Submitting Author (address, e-mail and telephone number).

Information about the authors and the manuscript; A cover letter with information for the Editor and Associate Editors, and two to four suggested reviewers for the manuscript and/or individuals to whom the paper should not be sent (bmbr may designate other reviewers).

The text and graphic files for your manuscript. Graphics should be on separate file(s).

Step 4. A manuscript number will be e-mailed to the submitting author.

 

Review Process

 

Members of the editorial board will review all manuscripts to determine whether they are appropriate for evaluation by expert reviewers. Decisions will be made as rapidly as possible, and the journal strives to return reviewers’ comments to authors within 4 weeks and. The editorial board will re-review manuscripts after authors have made final revisions, Accepted articles will be published in the next edition of BMBR.  Our goal is make our publication quarterly, starting from March 2006.

 

Organization of the Manuscript

 

Organize manuscripts into the following sections: 

Title

Abstract (250 words max.) and key words (7 max.).

Table of content

Introduction Concise with no sub-headings.

The main text of the paper should be divided under various headings as appropriate to the article

Acknowledgements

References

Figure Legends

Tables

 

Figures (Graphics should be on separate file(s).

 

The Title Page should include the authors' full names and affiliations, a running title of 40 characters or less, and the telephone and fax numbers and E-mail address of the corresponding author. The Abstract should stand on its own with no reference to the text. It should contain approximately 50 to 150 words. The main text should be subdivided further with subheadings to give the manuscript more clarity.

In general, standard review papers should not exceed 10 journal pages (longer reviews will be published only if the editorial board judges that the content is sufficiently novel to warrant a long paper). Ten published pages in bmbr correspond to approximately 30 manuscript pages, including tables and figure legends and an average of  six one-column figures. Mini-reviews must not exceed 4 journal pages (about 12 manuscript pages).

 

References

 

Cite references in the text by name and date of publication (Briggs 1963; Liscum and Briggs 1996; Poff et al. 1994) and not by number. List only the articles that are published or in press. References should contain complete titles and inclusive page numbers. Cite in the text all unpublished results, including personal communications and submitted manuscripts (for example, G. Sanders and H. Cheng, unpublished results). Provide permission letters for all personal communications unless they are from the author’s laboratory.  Citations for web sites (other than for primary literature) should be handled parenthetically in the text and not included in the reference list.  Authors should test all URL’s and links.

 

·        References for journals and books should be in the following styles:

 

Baker JO, Ehrman CI,  Adney WS, Thomas SR, Himmel ME (1998). Hydrolysis of cellulose using ternary mixtures of purified cellulases. Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 70:395-403.

Ogunseitan OA, Odeyemi O (1985)  Effects of lindane, captan, and malathion on nitrification, sulfur oxidation, phosphate solubilization, and respiration in a tropical soil.  Environ. Pollut. 37:343-354.

Traxler GS, Godoy-Avila, Falck-Zepeda J,  Espinoza-Arellano J (2003). Transgenic Cotton in Mexico: Economic and Environmental Impacts. In N. Kalaitzandonakes (ed) The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Agbiotech: A Global Perspective, Kluwer-Plenum Academic Publishers, New York.

 

Journal names are abbreviated according to Chemical Abstracts. Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of the references.

 

Abbreviations should be rarely used and be avoided as much as possible. All abbreviations used in the text must be defined in a single footnote inserted in the text immediately after the first abbreviation is cited. The abbreviations of some important biochemical compounds, e.g. ATP, NADH, DNA, and amino acids in proteins, need not be defined. Names of enzymes are usually not abbreviated except in terms of the substrates for which there are accepted abbreviations, e.g. ATPase and RNase.

 

Tables and Figures

 

The number of tables and figures used to present data essential to illustrate or prove a point should be kept to a minimum.

 

Tables should be number consecutively as they are first mentioned in the text.  Provide a concise title for each table, and label each column with an unambiguous heading. If footnotes are needed for clarity, designate them with lowercase letters in the order in which they are referenced in the table.

Table titles, legends (descriptive text), and footnotes should be input as regular text outside the table body.  Place all tables in your manuscript file.

 

Figures should have titles and explanatory legends containing sufficient detail to make the figure easily understood. All legends should be printed consecutively in a separate section of the manuscript. Appropriately sized numbers, letters, and symbols should be used so they are no smaller than 2 mm in size after reduction to a single column width(87 mm), a 1.5-column width (120 mm), or a full 2-column width(178 mm). Superscript and subscript characters are not excluded from this rule.

On the rare occasion an author cannot prepare a figure as an electronic file, the bmbr office should be contacted for assistance and instructions at bmbr@academicjournals.org or bmbr_acadjourn@yahoo.com.

 

 

Proofs and Reprints

 

The printer will deliver page proofs to the corresponding author electronically. The author will have access to a PDF file, which will contain PDF pages (with figures and tables).  Page proofs are considered to be the final version of the manuscript. With the exception of typographical or minor clerical errors, no changes will be made in the manuscript at the proof stage.  Because bmbr will be published freely online only for the first six months (to attract a wide audience), authors will have free electronic access to the full text (in both HTML and PDF) of the article. High quality print offprints of the papers may be requested for a charge.

 

 

Fees and Charges

 

There are no page charges or extra charges for color photographs. A handling fee will be billed to the authors for each manuscript published in bmbr. Publication of an article in bmbr is not contingent upon the author’s ability to pay the handling fee. Neither is acceptance to pay the handling fee a guarantee that the paper will be accepted for publication. Authors may still request (in advance) that the editorial office waive some of the handling fee under special circumstances.

 

 

Electronic Posting of Articles

 

Authors may post the published version of their manuscripts after the manuscripts have appeared in the online version of the journal. Authors do not need to request permission from bmbr to post their published manuscripts, but they must provide the proper citation and acknowledge bmbr as the copyright owner