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Author Guidelines

Indonesian Journal of Biotechnology (IJBiotech) is a multidisciplinary journal, publishing original research/ review article across the whole spectrum of biotechnology, in topics such as:

  • Food and agricultural biotechnology
  • Health and medicine biotechnology
  • Biomaterials
  • Environmental biotechnology
  • Industrial biotechnology
  • Omics
  • Bioinformatics.

We welcome submissions from all the above-mentioned fields, provided that they are novel and able to make a great impact.

By submitting to IJBiotech, authors attest that:

  1. The submission is an original work, free from any form of plagiarism (text, data, and figures).
  2. The submission has not been published previously in English or any other language, nor is it under consideration by another journal.
  3. The submission has been approved by all co-authors and relevant authorities (e.g. an institution or sponsor).
  4. The manuscript has been (to the best of the authors’ abilities) written in good English (Either British or American English spelling, not a mixture of both) and is free of grammatical errors. It has been checked with a proofreading tool (e.g. Grammarly) and, if possible, proofed by a language editor.

These submission guidelines will help you prepare your submission so as to greatly reduce its processing time. As per initial submission, we do require the manuscript conforms to the document structure laid out below, so reviewers are able to assess the paper based on its scientific merits.

Our 3-steps Submission Process

  1. Prior to the submission – be familiar with these following things
    • Focus and scope – ensure that your submission’s topic is within our scope (learn more)
    • Article type specifications – understand the type of articles you want to submit
    • Editorial policies make sure that you read and agree to our editorial policies (learn more)
    • Fees – learn about our article-processing charges (learn more)
    • Language editing service – ascertain that your submission is readable and error-free 
    • Publication ethics and malpractice Statement – learn about our ethics agreement (learn more)
  2. Ready to submit – understand the policies and formatting guidelines (learn more)
    • Author(s) information and required documents
    • General formatting guidelines
  3.  Manuscript selection – be informed with the following review process

Article Type Specifications

  • Original research article

Research articles should report on original primary research and are expected to present a major advance (total words up to ~3500 words, excluding references).

  • Review article – by invitation

Reviews should describe and provide substantial coverage of mature subjects, evaluations of progress in specified areas, and/or critical assessments of emerging technologies, highlight future directions (total words 5,000-10,000; excluding abstract references)

Language Editing Service

Authors whose first language is not English (and many times even those for whom it is) will greatly increase the chance of their article being published if it is checked by a language editor or native speaker prior to its submission. A well-written manuscript enables editors and reviewers to accurately assess the content of the manuscript, thus accelerating the reviewing process. It also ensures that the scientific merit of the research can be fully conveyed to readers. If you need help with writing in English you should consider:

  • Asking a fellow worker who is a native English speaker to check your manuscript for clarity
  • Using a proofreading tool (e.g. Grammarly)
  • Using a professional language editing service

Please be informed that the use of a language editing service is only a suggestion and does not imply or guarantee that the article will be selected for peer review or acceptance.

Required documents

Here is a list of required documents to send:

  • Main file section: manuscript file (in docx format), please refer to general formatting guidelines for details.
  • Supplementary section: cover letter (in pdf format), figure files, references file (in BibTeX format;.bib), any other additional files.

For instance, if your manuscript contains four figures and three tables, then you will have seven files to submit: (1) manuscript file, (1) cover letter, (4) PNG/ JPEG files, and (1) references file in BibTeX format (.bib).

Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to IJBiotech undergo a rigorous screening and review process to ensure that they fit into the journal's scope and are of sufficient academic quality and novelty to appeal to IJBiotech's readership.

Initial screening. A newly submitted manuscript will be screened by the Editor-in-Chief for its conformity to IJBiotech’s scope and basic submission requirements.

Peer-review. If the manuscript passes the initial screening stage, it will be assigned to a handling editor, who will then send it to at least two experts in the relevant field to undergo a double-blind peer-review. Manuscripts that fail to pass the initial screening will be rejected without further review.

First decision. A decision on a peer-reviewed manuscript will only be made upon the receipt of at least two review reports. In cases where reports differ significantly, the handling editor will invite an additional reviewer to get a third opinion before making a decision. At this stage, a manuscript can either be rejected, asked for revisions (minor or major), accepted as is, or (if significant changes to the language or content are required) recommended for resubmission for a second review process. If it is accepted, the manuscript will be returned to the submitting author for formatting. The final decision to accept the manuscript will be made by the Editor-in-Chief based on the recommendation of the handling editor and following approval by the board of editors.

Revision stage. A manuscript that requires revisions will be returned to the submitting author, who will have up to three weeks to format and revise the manuscript, following which it will be reviewed by the handling editor. The handling editor will determine whether the changes are adequate and appropriate, as well as whether the author(s) sufficiently responded to the reviewers' comments and suggestions. If the revisions are deemed to be inadequate, this cycle will be repeated (the manuscript will be returned to the submitting author once more for further revision).

Final decision. At this stage, the revised manuscript will either be accepted or rejected. This decision is dependent whether the handling editor finds the manuscript to have been improved to a level worthy of publication. If the author(s) are unable to make the required changes or have done so to a degree below IJBiotech's standards, the manuscript will be rejected.

Proofing and typesetting. If the manuscript is accepted, it will go through a final round of editing and proofreading by an in-house language editor, following which it will be typeset and returned to the submitting author for final approval. All authors must approve this final version of the article before it can be officially published.

Manuscript Processing Time

Processing time varies from one manuscript to another, depending on how long it takes to receive all of the reviewers' reports and how quickly the author(s) revise the manuscript. On average, IJBiotech's manuscript processing time ranges from 8 to 12 weeks. IJBiotech cannot guarantee a specific publishing time for a manuscript, nor can it under any circumstances promise a sped-up publication process.

 

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.

  1. This submission is an original work, free from any form of plagiarism (text, data, and figures).
  2. The submission has not been published previously in English or any other language, nor is it under consideration by another journal.
  3. This submission has been approved for publication by all co-authors and relevant authorities (e.g. an institution or sponsor).
  4. The submission, which includes all supplemental files (cover letter, image files, tables file, and references in .bib), has been formatted and prepared in accordance with the submission guidelines.
  5. The manuscript has been (to the best of the authors’ abilities) written in good English (Either British or American English spelling, not a mixture of both) and is free of grammatical errors. It has been checked with a proofreading tool (e.g. Grammarly) and, if possible, proofed by a language editor.
  6. The authors comply to the ethical standards as outlined in the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
 

Copyright Notice

Creative Commons License

  • Articles published in IJBiotech are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. You are free to copy, transform, or redistribute articles for any lawful purpose in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and IJBiotech, link to the license, indicate if changes were made, and redistribute any derivative work under the same license.
  • Copyright on articles is retained by the respective author(s), without restrictions. A non-exclusive license is granted to IJBiotech to publish the article and identify itself as its original publisher, along with the commercial right to include the article in a hardcopy issue for sale to libraries and individuals.

 

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

 

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (USD)
The Indonesian Journal of Biotechnology does not charge an article submission fee. However, a penalty of 150 USD will be charged for authors who retract their submission after the review results are delivered.

Article Publication: 200.00 (USD)

This journal charges the following author fees as of January 1, 2024.

All accepted articles will be charged 200 USD per article. There will be additional charges for a manuscript more than 10 pages long, per extra page costs 15 USD. 

Since starting from 2021, Indonesian Journal of Biotechnology only will be published online, there will be no additional charge for color photo(s) page.

Waiver Policy

At IJBiotech, we believe that financial barriers should not prevent a good article from being published.

We offer waivers for article publication charges to corresponding authors who are based in low-income countries. Authors based in Indonesia who have limited or no funding can also apply for a discount.

Authors who fulfill these criteria can include a waiver or discount request in their cover letter, along with proof of their circumstance. All requests are evaluated and decided on by IJBiotech's Editorial Board.