Why Publish in Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology?
Are you interested in submitting your manuscript (written paper pre-publication) to the Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology? We recommend you review our manuscript writing, online submission, policies, review, and publish sections. You are also requested to read the Table of Contents of some issues of our journal.
We have some areas of priority. [Some of the non-priority areas are, for example, antihypertensive drugs, anti-HIV agents, molecular docking without the data of wet lab, nanotechnology, polyherbal product]. If your title of the manuscript is related to our articles (written paper that has been published), then consider it written or rewrite according to our journal rules and finally submit it online. This will reduce your time, labor, and mental stress.
In the case of the Research Article, watch a few video clips previously published in our journal to understand the format. It is mandatory to submit when the Editor-In-Chief requests the corresponding author.
Before submitting your manuscript, you have to consider the advantages and disadvantages of selecting this journal. Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology is the right choice for authors who want to make their research available and discoverable for all.
Evaluation of Journal?
Evaluation of a scholarly journal is needed before selecting to submit your manuscript. You can evaluate the Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology based on advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages
- Open access journal (each article in both pdf and HTML format)
- Peer-reviewed journal
- Web of Science impact factor (2 years): 1.306 (2019)
- Online submission and tracking of your manuscript
- Article available online immediately after acceptance
- Each article has a cover page with DOI and matrices
- Copyright to authors (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0)
- No fee for manuscript submission, article processing, or publication
Disadvantages
- Only the online version. No hard copy
- Requires video clip of methodology (one method in detail) in case of Research Article. Skill in preparing video clips with subtitles is required
- Both internal review (by the editorial board member) and external peer review
- The annual acceptance rate is less than 8% (eight percent)
- About 110 days are required from submission to publication
- You have to submit an ORCID ID with 5 years of information, fill out the Conflict of Interest form during acceptance of the manuscript
- Plagiarism check of each article by a software Plagiarism Detector
- Each article is checked before publication to identify grammatical mistakes using the free software Grammarly.com
- Article may be retracted if needed
- Need knowledge and skill about the online submission of a manuscript (email submission is not allowed)
Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology receives more submissions than it can publish (less than 8 out of 100). It is unfortunate to say that when we accept one paper that means another good paper must be rejected.
MANUSCRIPT WRITING
Get Started
This section is for those who are new to the Bangaladesh Journal of Pharmacology regarding the submission of the manuscript. For those who have previous experience of submission of manuscript to this journal is not at all a problem.
- Read the authors’ guidelines of the Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology
- Do you have the following information for all authors in hand? One checklist may be helpful.
- Full names, including initials if used
- Order of authors
- Affiliation
- Email addresses
- ORCID iD of all authors
- Financial Support
- Check that your study follows the appropriate reporting guidelines
- Access to online submission
Types of Manuscript
Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology mainly publishes six varieties of articles:
- Research Article
- Clinical Trial
- Mini-Review
- Meta-Analysis
- Letter to the Editor
- Visual Experiment
While submitting your manuscript online for the first time to the Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology, the corresponding author must select the type of manuscript. If you are not new to the Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology, it is not a problem at all.
Style and Format
Style and format are important while writing and submission of manuscript to the Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology. That is why, you have to read this section carefully. In addition, refer to a current issue of the Bangladesh Journal Pharmacology for the correct style and format.
| File format | Manuscript files should be in MSWord (DOC or DOCX). The documents should not be password protected. PDF files or other formats are not allowed. | ||||||
| Length | The number of words in the different types of manuscripts varies. However, restrictions are applicable in some sections (abstract and Introduction) of the Research Article and Letter to the Editor. The number of Figures and Tables must be reduced in number. The most appropriate one should be included. Sometimes Tables or Figures are merged to reduce the number of Figures or Tables. We encourage you to present your findings in the result section concisely. However, the Dicussion section should be detailed and elaborate mainly on your positive findings. | ||||||
| Font | The text font will be “Book Antique” and its size will be 9 points, except for the font named “Symbolâ€. Please use the font size to 8 points in case of references. To add symbols to the manuscript, first place the cursor in the text where the symbol will be inserted. Then go to the INSERT menu bar and find the Symbol submenu bar in your MSWord file. Click the symbol submenu bar, choose the appropriate symbol, and insert it within the text. | ||||||
| Subheadings | Use subheadings in the Materials and Methods section, as well as the Results section. There will be no subheading in the Discussion section. | ||||||
| Layout and spacing | The manuscript text should be 1.5-spaced. Do not format the texts in multiple columns just like the printed PDF format article. Please type it as a normal file. We shall format it after acceptance. The color of the whole text should be black only. | ||||||
| Page and line numbers | Include the page number at the bottom of each page. We prefer not to use any line numbers within the submitted manuscript. | ||||||
| Footnotes | Footnotes are not permitted except in the Figure and Table. | ||||||
| Language | The manuscript must be written in American English. Please avoid British English. The use of both American and British English is strongly discouraged. | ||||||
| Numbers in Text | Writing out numbers from one to nine in words and using numerals for all other numbers. If a number falls at the beginning of a sentence, it should be written out in words. In a situation where abbreviations are used, use numerals, not number words, with the abbreviations. For example, 5 mL instead of “five mLâ€; 100 mL instead of “one hundred mLâ€. In the case of all data, use one digit after a period. The exception is in the case of statistical data like p<0.05. | ||||||
| Abbreviations | Define commonly used abbreviations upon the first appearance in the text both in the Abstract and the rest of the manuscript (e.g., Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion. The use of abbreviation(s) within the text must be minimal. It is better to avoid it. | ||||||
| Equations | It is recommended to use MathType for display and inline equations. This will provide the most reliable outcome. As an alternative, you can use Equation Editor or Microsoft’s Insert → Equation function is acceptable. | ||||||
| Nomenclature | Use established and correct nomenclature if possible.
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Manuscript Title
The title of your manuscript is usually the first introduction to the readers and reviewers of your research work. That is why, you must have to select a title that grabs attention, accurately describes the contents of your manuscript, and makes people want to read it further. An effective title conveys the main topic of the study.
- Should be written in sentence case [capitalize only the first word of the title, the first word of the subtitle (if present), and any proper nouns and genus names].
- No need to write word such as “Clinical Trial, Meta-Analysis, Mini-review”. These words will be present in the right upper corner of the first page of the published article.
- Should not be more than 150 characters
- Do not use abbreviations.
- Botanical name must be italicisized. The first word will be Capitalized. The second word will be a small letter.
- Should be bold, font Book Antiqua, font size 14 and 1.5 spaced.
- Article title should not end with a period. A colon (:) must be used before starting the subtitle.
- Avoid the use of bracket symbols ( ), [ ], { } within the title.
- In the case of animal study, name of the animal must be included.
Full title
| Length | Guidelines | Example |
| 150 characters | Specific, concise, descriptive, and comprehensible to readers outside the field | Antimicrobial activities of Allium staticiforme and Allium subhirsutum |
Authorship
- The name of each author on the title page should be written in the following order:
- First name (or initials, if used)
- Middle name (or initials, if used)
- Last name (surname, family name)
- If the author’s name has first name and surname, then write it accordingly
- If the author name’s has a single name, then there is a limitation of our software. To solve that problem, we have to add a period in the first name.
- Do not include a title such as Professor, Dr., PhD, etc. Do not mention the position within an institution (e.g. Head of the Department, Department Chair, etc.).
- Who will be the first author, it will be decided by your team.
- In the case of multiple authors, the last name is also decided by your team.
- The name of the author will be published exactly as it appears in the accepted manuscript. Please double-check the author’s name carefully to make sure it is correct.
- For example, you write the names of multiple authors in the manuscript during submission. However, during the review process, it is reported to you that authorship may not apply to someone. Find out a good way to solve that problem.
- Numbers should be in superscripts such as a, b, c, etc. Other symbols such as numerical order (1, 2, 3, etc), *, &, ¶ should be avoided. It will be at the end of the name. No author should not write more than one symbol.
- You can write the word “First two authors contributed equally” if applicable.
- The word “and” should be written before the name of the last author.
- The following person(s) will be authors:
- concept, research question, and study design
- data collection or processing
- Each author should take responsibility for a specific part of the research work
- Any person only involved in writing the manuscript or analyzing the data will not be the author or corresponding author, particularly in the Research Article. In the case of thesis work, the authors will be limited to the student, supervisor, and co-supervisor (only three). The author name of other(s) may be included in the acknowledement.
- The recent trend is to write many authors names during submission of the manuscript in comparison to the bulk of research works (authorship abuse).
- No author name will be added after the manuscript is accepted. Instead, you can delete the author’s name.
- A study published in the British Medical Journal shows that 21% are inappropriate authorship (Gift authorship or Ghost authorship)
| Incorrect | Correct | |
| Arisha Taj Mahaboob Batcha, Ashish Wadhwani, Gowri Subramaniam | Arisha Taj Mahaboob Batcha, Ashish Wadhwani and Gowri Subramaniam
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Registration to ORCID iD
- Readers want to know who you are.
- All authors must have ORCID iD (for registration: www.orcid.org/register)
- All authors must provide an ORCID iD at the time of online submission of their manuscript (16 digits).
- To see the detailed process of registration to ORCID iD click here.
Check Other Related Terms
- Corresponding Author
- Affiliation
- Keywords
- Supporting Information
- English Language Editing
- Video Component
ONLINE SUBMISSION
PUBLISHING POLICIES
MANUSCRIPT REVIEW
You must go through the flowchart before reading this section.
- Editorial and peer review process
- Selection of reviewers
- Guide to review
- Manuscript after completion of review
- Revising your manuscript
- Respond to reviewer’s comment
PUBLISH ARTICLE
Timing to publish means the duration from submission of manuscript to online availability. It is about 90 days. Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology is committed to give rapid editorial decision and publication. To achieve the goal, an efficient editorial process is a valuable service both to our authors and to the scientific community as a whole. Therefore, we request the reviewers to respond promptly within three days to agree to do the review process. If a reviewer does not agree/respond to review a manuscript, then we request another reviewer. Once a reviewer agrees to review, the maximum allocated time of review is 3 weeks. A soft reminder email is sent to the reviewer when the allocated time is over. This process performs well. A revised manuscript needs to send to the reviewers several times.