Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- Under full moral and legal responsibility, I/We state that the article submitted to the Editorial Board of International Journal of Life Sciences (IJLS) for publication is the result of original research conducted by the author/s.
- The submission file is in .doc/.docx, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- That it does not violate copyright or the rights of any other third party.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- That sources and references are cited in accordance with the rules of scientific methodology.
- That the manuscript has not been published under this or any other title in any other scientific journal, in print or electronic version. Nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- That you have obtained permission from the copyright holder to reproduce in the article material not owned by you, and that you have acknowledged the source.
- That, if the manuscript is subsequently re-published or re-used in any scientific journal or other publication, in the country or abroad, it will be duly noted that it was first published in the International Journal of Life Sciences (IJLS) with according reference.
- That in term of the case of a multi-authored article you have obtained authorization to enter into this Agreement on ALL CO-AUTHORS’ behalf and that they have read and agreed with the terms of this Agreement, granted you as the author for correspondence.
- I/We will submit upon request files that describe processes, argumentation, calculations, proofs, based on quantitative analysis such as data sets, calculations, files produced by lab instruments and other supplementary files that reviewers and editors request.
- The authors of the manuscript hold no conflict of interest that may affect the integrity of the manuscript and the validity of the findings presented in it.
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Articles published in IJLS can be copied, communicated and shared in their published form for non-commercial purposes provided full attribution is given to the author and the journal. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
This copyright notice applies to articles published in IJLS volumes 4 onwards. Please read about the copyright notices for previous volumes under Journal History.
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