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.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Author Guidelines
Manuscript Submission & Instructions for Authors
Authors Benefits
Maintain a quick publication procedure — manuscripts are published within 5-9 weeks of submission, provided that no major revisions are required
Publish full open access journals — readers can access all articles published on this platform for free, including state-of-the-art review articles
Publish citation-tracked journals — Green Publication is working towards quick coverage and citation-tracking of all journals in Scopus.
English Editing
Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English and should be according the manuscript layout described in the author guidelines. Authors are advised to use the Green Publication Author Services prior to submission, publication or manuscript revision. A reduction of the Author Services fees is possible in combination with the submission of a manuscript to one of the journals published by Green Publication.
Funding of APCs and BPCs
Many funding agencies and institutions explicitly allow the use of research grants for the payment of APCs for publishing open access articles and books.
Discounts on APCs
Green Publication provides discounts for authors under the following conditions:
APC Waive (Full/partial)
Limited financial funds
For scientists with limited financial funds (solely reserved for payment of publication fees), a (partial) waive of APC is possible when he/she can prove this limitation.
Low/middle income countries
Reduction/waiver of the Article Processing Charge is possible. We use data from the gross national income (GNI) per capita for the previous year defined by the World Bank.
Income classifications by GNI per capita are for the year 2021 as follows: Lower-middle income: $1,046 to $4,095 Upper middle income: $4,096 to $12,695 High income: $12,6969 or more.
Waivers may be granted at the Publisher’s discretion and should be discussed with the editorial office when submitting the article. The editorial decision-making is decoupled from the authors’ ability to pay the Processing Charges, however, authors should consider in advance whether they have sufficient funds to cover the full APC/BPC.
To apply for APC Waive the APC Waiver Application Form needs to be completed and mailed to the Editorial Office (editor@journalofappliedbioanalysis.com)
General Peer-Review and Editorial Procedures
All manuscripts sent for publication in our journals are strictly and thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts (this includes research and review articles, spontaneous submissions, and invited papers). The Managing Editor of the journal will perform an initial check of the manuscript’s suitability upon receipt. The Editorial Office will then organize the peer-review process performed by independent experts and collect at least two review reports per manuscript. We ask our authors for adequate revisions (with a second round of peer-review if necessary) before a final decision is made. The final decision is made by the academic editor (usually the Editor-in-Chief of a journal or the Guest Editor of a Special Issue). Accepted articles are copy-edited and English-edited.
Editorial Decision and Revision
All the articles, reviews and communications published in Green Publication journals go through the peer-review process and receive at least two review reports. The in-house editor will discuss each step of the process with the external academic editor and communicate decisions to the authors regarding the following:
Accept in Present Form: The paper is accepted without any further changes.
Accept after Minor Revisions: The paper is in principle accepted after revision based on the reviewer’s comments. Authors are given five days for minor revisions.
Reconsider after Major Revisions: The acceptance of the manuscript would depend on the revisions. The author needs to provide a point by point response or provide a rebuttal if some of the reviewer’s comments cannot be revised. Usually, only one round of major revisions is allowed. Authors will be asked to resubmit the revised paper within ten days and the revised version will be returned to the reviewer for further comments.
Reject and Encourage Resubmission: An article where additional experiments are needed to support the conclusions will be rejected and the authors will be encouraged to re-submit the paper once further experiments have been conducted.
Reject: The article has serious flaws, makes no original contribution, and the paper is rejected with no offer of resubmission to the journal.
Long-Term Archiving
To ensure permanent access to our publications, we work with different partners to archive our content:
Life science-related journals are added into PubMed Central once eligible.
Authors are encouraged to self-archive the final version of their published articles into institutional repositories (such as those listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositories).
Copyright Notice
Reuse of article Content
Green Publication journals apply the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license to articles and other works we publish. If you submit your paper for publication, you agree to have the CC BY license applied to your work.
Under this Open Access license, you as the author agree that anyone can reuse your article in whole or part for any purpose, for free, even for commercial purposes. Anyone may copy, distribute, or reuse the content as long as the author and original source are properly cited.
Content Owned third parties
If your manuscript contains content such as photos, images, figures, tables, audio files, videos, etc., that you or your co-authors do not own, we will require you to provide us with proof that the owner of that content (a) has given you written permission to use it, and (b) has approved of the CC BY license being applied to their content.
If you do not have owner permission, we will ask you to remove that content and/or replace it with other content that you own or have such permission to use.
Don’t assume that you can use any content you find on the Internet, or that the content is fair game just because it isn’t clear who the owner is or what license applies. It’s up to you to ascertain what rights you have—if any—to use that content.
Already published Article Content
Many authors assume that if they previously published a paper through another publisher, they own the rights to that content and they can freely use that content in their manuscript, but that’s not necessarily the case – it depends on the license that covers the other paper. Some publishers allow free and unrestricted re-use of article content they own, such as under the CC BY license. Other publishers use licenses that allow re-use only if the same license is applied by the person or publisher re-using the content.
If the paper was published under a CC BY license or another license that allows free and unrestricted use, you may use the content in your manuscript provided that you give proper attribution, as explained above.
If the content was published under a more restrictive license, you must ascertain what rights you have under that license. At a minimum, review the license to make sure you can use the content.
Contact the publisher if you have any questions about the license terms.
If the license does not permit you to use the content in a paper that will be covered by an unrestricted license, you must obtain written permission from the publisher.
Removal of Content Without License Rights
Green Publication reserves the full right to remove any photos, captures, images, figures, tables, illustrations, audio and video files, and the like, from any paper, whether before or after publication, if we have reason to believe that the content was included in your paper without permission from the owner of the content.
