Submissions

Author Guidelines

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.

✔ The submission of this article represents original, unpublished material that is not under editorial consideration elsewhere, in whole or in part.

✔ The submission file is Word-readable (e.g. odt, doc, docx, rtf, txt; do not use compressed file formats like zip or rar) or PDF; upload figures preferably as png. Each individual file must be smaller than 4 MB.

✔ This submission meets the requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

✔ Cover letter addressing to the Editor-in Chief or handling editor mentioning the purpose of your submission should be submitted along with the manuscript. 

✔ Manuscript should consist of Title page, Abstract and keywords, Main Text which includes Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion. Declarations section should include Acknowledgments, Funding Information, Authors Contribution, Conflict of Interest, Data Availability, Ethical Approvals and Consent for Publication.

✔ Supplementary materials should be submitted separately while submitting the articles.

✔ All references have been checked for accuracy and completeness.

✔ All tables and figures have been numbered and labelled.

✔ Permission has been obtained to publish all photos, datasets and other material provided with this submission.

✔ Fast Track publication is available in Human Biology Journal and authors has to check fast track publication charges before submissions.

✔ Authors must indicate whether or not they have a financial relationship with the organization that sponsored the research. This note should be added in a separate section before the reference list. If no conflict exists, authors should state: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

✔ The authors have clearly stated any potential conflicts of interest in the manuscript.

✔ Upon acceptance of the manuscript, the author(s) agrees to pay the publication fee as per the journal’s publication fee policy (Article Processing Charge, APC).

Section Default policies

Copyright Notice

When publishing articles open access in Human Biology Journal, the author(s) will retain the copyright in their work, and grant first publication rights to Foundation of Human biology Information. In consideration of the publication of the article, the authors grant to Human Biology Journal the licence to 1) publish, reproduce, distribute, display and store the article worldwide in all forms, formats and media now known or as developed in the future, including print, electronic and digital forms, and 2) to translate the article into other languages, create adaptations, summaries or extracts of the article. Please note that authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission for reproducing copyrighted material from other sources.

Authors submitting to Human Biology journal agree to publish their articles under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 licence, which dictates what others can do with the article once it has been published. This licence allows for the non-commercial reuse of the published paper so long as the published paper is fully attributed.

All commercial requests to re-use the article in whole or in part will be handled by the Foundation for Rehabilitation Information. Any permission fees will be retained by this organization. For the purposes of these terms, “commercial use” means use in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or monetary compensation, including but not limited to provision or distribution (including by way of hyperlink) of the article (including any abstract, figures or tables) in any format.

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