Information For Authors

Review Process

JCBIF is following a double blind review process.In JCBIF,the full consideration are given to each submitted paper. Submitted papers are first considered by the Managing Editors and then may be allocated to a Handling Editor, which may be the Associate Editor who is a specialist on that topic. Papers that are not desk rejected are then typically sent out to two referees. If any selected reviewer turn down the invitation to provide a review, than other referees will subsequently be appointed. Normally, two authoritative reviews are needed before the Managing Editors can make a provisional decision (On a recommendations of Managing Editor, if the Handling Editor is an Associate Editor) as to whether to accept, reject, or ask for a revision of the submitted paper. However, it is up to the Editor in Chief of journal to make a final decision.

Two major revisions will be allowed for each paper, followed by a minor revision. Major revisions must be resubmitted within 1 month from request for revision and minor revisions should not take more than 2 weeks, unless there are unavoidable circumstances. All major revisions that are not submitted within the expected time frame will be 'dropped' and no more consider for potential publication. Authors can re-submit a previously rejected paper.

Article structure

Authors should ensure that following items with minimum 4000 words are present in Article,

-Title

-Abstract (Maximum words=280)

-Keywords (Minimum=3)

-Introduction

-Methodology

-Conclusions

-References

-Acknowledgements(Optional)

-Funding source

-Statement of 'conflict of interest'

-Supplementary data (if any)

Case Study Structure

Case study should be structured in a thought provoking manner wherein reader should be urged to arrive at the solution to the problem presented in the case, based on his understanding of related concepts.

All authors should prepare the research work according to format of JCBIF Journal as provided here, MS Word Template file.

Journal Plagiarism policy

Plagiarism must be carefully addressed before submission of the work. As per journal policy, criteria for Similarity Index is less than 19%.

To verify originality, each submitted article be checked by the originality detection service Turnitin

Artical Processing Charges

JCBIF article processing charges are zero.