Guide for Authors

Submission to this journal proceeds totally online and you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. Authors can upload their manuscript as a Microsoft (MS) Word document. All correspondences, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, take place by e-mail and authors’ dashboard on the journal's website.

Title page information

A title page is required while submitting your manuscript. This page must include:

• Title. Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
  • Author names and affiliations. Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled.
• Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of manuscript evaluation, publication, and also post-publication.  

 

Manuscript Requirements

The manuscript should include the following sections:

• Title
• Abstract: concise and factual, should not be longer than 250 words.
• Keywords: provide a maximum of 5 keywords that will be used for indexing. At the end of the abstract, up to six keywords that best describe the content of the research should be listed. The term "Keywords" should appear in bold, followed by a colon. The first letter of each keyword is capitalized, and keywords are separated by a comma. It is suggested to use the AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus and other thesauri.
  
• Introduction: provide an adequate background of the subject and state the objectives in the last paragraph.
• Material and Methods: Provide sufficient details to allow the work to be reproduced. Methodologies that are already published should be indicated by suitable references. Only relevant modifications should be described.
• Results and Discussion: Results should be clear and concise using a combination of text, graphs, and tables. Report only your work.  When discussing, it is essential to maintain clarity as regards which results/achievements are your work and which are the work of others. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.
• Conclusions: The main points, results, and achievements of the study should be briefly presented in this section.
• References: All publications cited in the text should be presented in the list of references following the main body of the manuscript. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the spelling of the author's names and dates are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list.

  

Formatting requirements

Formulae:

All formulae should be presented consistently and clearly concerning the meaning of each symbol and its correct location. Formulae must be typed throughout using MS Word equations.

 

Figures

Ensure that each illustration has a caption. A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.

Tables

Authors should take notice of the limitations set by the size and layout of the journal. Large tables should be avoided. Reversing columns and rows will often reduce the dimensions of a table.

Please ensure that figures and tables are included in the manuscript MS Word file and placed next to the relevant text, rather than at the bottom or the top of the file. The corresponding caption should be placed directly below the figure or table.

 References

In the text refer to the author's name and year of publication, Examples: "Since Song (2001) has shown that ...." "This is in agreement with results obtained later (Song and Ramer, 2005)".

For publications written by more than two authors, the name of the first author should be used followed by "et al." in the main body of the manuscript.

References cited together in the text should be arranged chronologically. The list of references should be arranged alphabetically on authors' names, and chronologically per author.

If an author's name in the list is also mentioned with co-authors the following order should be used: publications of the single author, arranged according to publication dates - publications of the same author with one co-author - publications of the author with more than one co-author. Publications by the same author(s) in the same year should be listed as 1994a, 1994b, etc.

 

Use the following system for arranging your references:

For periodicals

Yang, Q., 1993. Classification of apple surface features using machine vision and neural networks. Comput. Electron. Agric. 9, 1-12.

For a special issue of the journal

Glaser, R., Bond, L. (Eds). 1981. Testing: Concepts and Research (special issue). American Psychologist 36 (10).

For books

Peart, R.M., Brooks, R.C. (Eds.), 1992. Analysis of Agricultural Energy Systems. Energy in World Agriculture, 5. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

For multi-author books

Price, D.R., Chen, T.H., Peart, R.M. 1992. Acknowledge-based decision system for control of waste heat for a greenhouse-aquaculture complex. In: Peart, R.M., Brooks, R.C. (Eds.), Analysis of Agricultural Energy Systems. Energy in World Agriculture, 5. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 33-46.

Further notes on the list of reference preparation

Unpublished data and Personal communications should not be cited in the reference list but may be mentioned in the text.

Do not abbreviate the titles of periodicals mentioned in the list of references; alternatively, use the International List of Periodical Title Word Abbreviations.

In the case of publications in any language other than English, the titles of publications should be transliterated, and a notation such as "(in Russian)" or "(in Greek with English abstract)" should be added.

Work accepted for publication but not yet published should be referred to as "In-press".

The authors are encouraged to use a reference management software system. A standard Endnote style for the BBR journal is available here. 

 

The following section may also be included in a manuscript:

Funding sources: List funding sources in this standard way to facilitate compliance with funder's requirements:

Acknowledgments: Collate acknowledgments in a separate section at the end of the article before References. 

Declaration of competing interest: All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. All authors, including those without competing interests to declare, should create a declaration of competing interest statement (which, where relevant, may specify they have nothing to declare).

Required files to be uploaded: Five essential files must be submitted through the manuscript submission system: 1. The main file of the manuscript (without the names of the authors); the manuscript should be prepared based on the template. 2. Title page in the mentioned format, 3. Authorship form (must include the title of the article and the name and surname of all authors and be signed by all authors), 4. Conflicts of Interest form (must be signed by the Corresponding Author and uploaded with the article file), and 5. Cover letter.

 

BBR Authorship and Disclosure Form

Authors must use this Form to state financial disclosures and authorship and submit this along with their manuscript. The completed Authorship and Disclosure Form must be uploaded in PDF format.

 

Conflict of Interest Form
The journal of Biomechanism and Bioenergy Research (BBR) requires all authors and reviewers to declare any conflicts of interest that may be inherent in their submissions.  Thus, the lead corresponding author should complete the Form to demonstrate a commitment to transparency and help to maintain trust in the scientific process.