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JOURNAL
OF BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING AND BIOREFINERY ISSN:
2168-5134 (Print); EISSN: 2168-5142 (Online) Copyright
© 2000-
American Scientific Publishers. All Rights Reserved.
Instructions for
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Journal
of Bioprocess Engineering and Biorefinery is a peer-reviewed
multidisciplinary journal consolidates research activities in the
fields of biotechnology, bioprocess engineering and biorefinery. The
journal publishes original (i) full research articles, (ii) rapid
communications of important new scientific and technological
findings, (iii) timely state-of-the-art reviews with author's photo
and short biography. Journal of Bioprocess Engineering and
Biorefinery includes the following broadly defined research areas
within the journal's scope, but not limited to: |
- Bioprocess engineering principles: bioseparation, cell
culture, continuous culture, control;
- Fermentation, genetic manipulation, kinetics, reactor
analysis, stability and sustainability;
- Biotransformation and chemical transformation of sustainable
bioresources;
- Biological waste treatment, waste biomass to chemicals,
materials and energy;
- Biotechnology, molecular and cellular bioengineering,
biosystems, biocontrol science;
- Bioprocess optimization and applications in industry;
- Stem cell cultivation;
- Food and bioproducts processing, fermentation, molecular
enzymology;
- Biochemical pharmacology, medicine, microbial products;
- Biocatalysts, metabolic engineering;
- Bioresource engineering, renewable agriculture biomass
feedstock utilization;
- Biopolymers, fibers, biomaterials;
- Biorefinery processes;
- Conversions to bioenergy, biofuels and biochemicals; and
- Environmental impact, regulatory policies
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Authors will
receive the following benefits:
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- Electronic submission of articles
- Fast reviews and publication
- No page charges
- Free color where justified
- Distinguished editorial board
- Availability in print and online editions
- Wide readership: open online access
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JOURNAL POLICY: It is Journal
of Bioprocess Engineering and Biorefinery policy to publish only
100% original and unpublished research work, therefore, the Journal
of Bioprocess Engineering and Biorefinery does not wish to
receive any papers on research work that has already been reported
in parts or contains already published text, data, figures, tables
or other illustrations or any copyright materials whatsoever that
has been submitted or accepted for publication either in a journal
or conference proceedings elsewhere in any form, in print or in
electronic media. When submitting a manuscript, authors should make
a full statement to the Editors that the research work contained in
their manuscript is completely original and unpublished. If
redundant or duplicate publication is attempted or occurs authors
should expect immediate editorial action to be taken including
prompt rejection of the submitted manuscript. Submission of any
manuscript that contains redundant or duplicate publication of the
same or very similar research work violates the policies of this
journal.
It is the sole responsibility of all authors to
ensure that all manuscripts are new, original and not published
previously in any form any media, shall not infringe upon or violate
any kind of copyrights of others and does not contains any
plagiarized, fraudulent and improperly attributed materials.
Extended and modified versions of previously published abstracts,
papers in any conference or journal are not allowed whatsoever.
Corresponding
author should provide a clear statement confirming this while
submitting manuscript to any ASP journal. Is this manuscript 100%
original and unpublished? Has this manuscript been published in
parts (figures/text/tables) in any conference proceedings or journal
in any media or language or format whatsoever? Is this manuscript
from free from plagiarism (including self-plagiarism) and copyright
infringement?
Authors must follow this "Journal
Policy" strictly.
PUBLISHING ETHICS:
American Scientific Publishers strictly follows guidelines set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, available at www.publicationethics.org. All Authors, Peer-Reviewers and Editors work together in a great harmony to ensure the highest ethical standards in publishing quality research work in our journals.
ETHICAL COMPLIANCE: Research
papers reporting animal or clinical studies should, where
appropriate, contain a statement that they have been carried out
with animal or human ethics committee approval. All scientific
studies should be carried out in accordance with the relevant
national and local guidelines. Each author(s) warrants that his or
her research institution has fully approved the protocol for all
scientific studies involving animals or humans and that all
experiments of any kinds were conducted in compliance with ethical
and humane principles of research after ethics committee approval.
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SUBMISSION OF
MANUSCRIPT: Authors are kindly advised to read Journal of
Bioprocess Engineering and Biorefinery policy and also the uniform
requirements for manuscripts submission. Authors are encouraged to
submit high quality original research work that has not been
published or nor under consideration by other journals or conference
proceedings elsewhere. Authors should submit manuscript online as a
single file
(title/affiliations/abstract/keywords/text/references/figures/tables/captions)
to the Manuscript
Tracking System. Authors are highly encouraged to
submit manuscript electronically to save time for the reviewing
process.
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Authors should submit a
list of FIVE (5) potential referees accompanied with their
complete mailing address, telephone, fax and email address, who may
be contacted for reviewing the manuscript though refereeing, is done
by anonymous reviewers selected by the Editor-in-Chief.
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COVER ART: Authors are
encouraged to submit high quality color figure/illustration to have
their published paper featured.
MANUSCRIPT PROCESSING
FEES: Authors should understand that there are many occurring
publishing expenses per journal page associated with manuscript
processing, editorial, production, typesetting, printing, paper,
binding, shipping, web-hosting, and archiving. However authors pay
no publication fees as well as the costs of any color
figure/illustration in a print edition to American Scientific
Publishers whatsoever, therefore, publisher is doing all services to
authors free of costs and/or at fractional costs, hence, publisher
is not obligated to provide any hard/softcopies of journal issue
and/or research article to anyone whatsoever. Authors may download
pdf file of their published papers from Ingenta after paying
fractional costs. If authors require a hardcopy of the journal issue
having their research articles then authors may also purchase
hardcopies of the journal issue or subscribe to the journal by
contacting the publisher. No free hard/softcopies of journal issue
and/or research article are provided. On the other hand, if authors
want to support the journal by paying full manuscript processing
fees plus all costs of color figures/illustrations/photos in a print
edition through their research grants or affiliated institutions,
then publisher will provide hardcopy of journal issue or pdf file of
his/her research article after receiving a full payment. American
Scientific Publishers highly appreciate for author's kind
understanding and support.
LETTERS: Highest
priority will be given to the communications reporting important new
scientific and technological findings. Rapid publication is provided
for concise and up-to-date reports. These articles should not exceed
three-four published pages. No section headings should be used for
these short communications.
RESEARCH ARTICLES: Full
length papers that report original research work on new ideas in any
fields of science, engineering and medicine.
REVIEWS:
The state-of-the-art review articles with author's short
biography and photo are published. Reviews are limited to a maximum
length of 15 journal pages having more than 100 references. It is
authors' responsibility to obtain written copyright permissions to
reproduce any copyright materials from other sources. Authors are
advised to cite proper references in figure/tables captions of all
previously published figures/tables/illustrations including their
own published work and obtain copyright permissions from appropriate
publishers and authors.
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TYPING: All manuscripts
must be in English, typed double-spaced on one side of the page
throughout (including footnotes, references, tables, legends) on 8.5"
x 11" or A4 white paper leaving at least 1 inch left hand
margin. |
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INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL: The
first page of the manuscript should have a concise title limited to
about 15 words and the names of all authors, complete mailing
address for correspondence, telephone, fax numbers and email
address. Please indicate with an asterisk (*) the author to whom
correspondence regarding the manuscript should be directed. |
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ABSTRACT: All
manuscripts must contain an informative 150 to 300 words abstract
explaining the essential contents of the work, key ideas and
results. |
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FIGURES: It is very
important to supply high quality figures in a form suitable for
reproduction. All figures, tables, illustrations, photographs should
be prepared in such a way that they could be printed in a single
column size with a width of 3 1/4 inches or 8.25 cm. Use 14
ARIAL BOLD font for legends and 11 ARIAL font for
numbering/wordings in figures, use the same font for all figures.
Only if absolutely necessary should figures/tables/photos occupy
double columns. Each figure must be referred to in the text and will
be printed in black and white unless otherwise instructed by the
authors. Each Figure should be submitted on a separate sheet and
marked with the name of the author, title of manuscript and figure
number. All formulae and figures should be carefully drafted and
never drawn freehand. High quality original figures and glossy
prints of all photographs are required. Photocopies of the figures
and photographs are not acceptable.
FREE COLOR
PRINTING: Color illustrations are most welcome by the journal as
they are effective in conveying complex graphs and photographs. Free
color printing at the publisher's discretion, will provide an
opportunity to publish color figures/illustrations in print at NO
COST to the authors.
PHOTOGRAPHS: Half-tone
illustrations should be supplied as clear, glossy, unmounted prints.
The author's name, title of manuscript and figure number should be
written on the back.
TABLES: Each table must be
referred to in the text. Each table should be typed double-spaced on
a separate sheet and identified sequentially by Arabic numerals
corresponding to the order in which they appear in the text. Each
table should have a brief explanatory title, which should be labeled
unambiguously. The position of each table should be clearly marked
in the text.
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UNITS: Internationally
accepted units of measurement must be used. The units of measurement
are used in conjunction with their numerical values; the units
should be abbreviated as suggested below. If more commonly used
units are adopted, conversion factors should be given at their first
occurrence. Greek symbols may be used.
%, ºC, nm, µm
(not um), mm, cm, cm3, m, h (not hr), min, s (or sec), µg, mg,
g (not gm), kg, cal, kcal, in. (or write out inch), ml [write out
liter(s)].
The APS style guide can be used as a general
reference on matter of units, grammar and formatting. |
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ABBREVIATIONS: No
abbreviations are allowed in the title and abstract and should be
defined the first time they are used within the text. The "Journal
of Bioprocess Engineering and Biorefinery" should be
abbreviated as J. Bioprocess Eng.
Biorefinery. for the reference citation purpose.
FORMATS
FOR ONLINE SUBMISSION: Authors are advised to convert all
text/figures/tables from Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPont formats
to a single PDF file and submit the manuscript as a single file
in a PDF format. All submitted figure images must have resolutions
of at least 300 dpi.
Authors are advised to use these
formatting guidelines. Manuscripts that do not follow the
preparation guidelines may be returned to the authors.
REFERENCES:
References should be in the proper format on a separate page,
sequences in an alphabetical order. Do not use abstracts and
websites as references. References to papers accepted but not
yet published should be designated as "in press".
Information from manuscripts submitted but not accepted should be
cited in the text as "unpublished observations" with
written permission from the source. Avoid citing a "personal
communication" unless it provides essential information not
available from a public source. For scientific articles, authors
should obtain written permission and confirmation of accuracy from
the source of a personal communication. References should be listed
in the following Harvard style using names and year where authors
and year are in parenthesis such as (Koziara et al., 2006)
and then arranged in an alphabetical order in the reference list.
Research article titles should be given in full, followed by the
journal abbreviated title. For abbreviations of journal titles to be
used in the reference list, please use Chemical Abstracts
Service Source Index.
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1. Journal Article
Koziara JM, Lockman PR, Allen DD, and Mumper RJ (2006),
The Blood-Brain Barrier and Brain Drug Delivery, J. Nanosci.
Nanotechnol. 6:2712- 2735.
2. Book Nalwa HS
(2005) Ed., Handbook of Nanostructured Biomaterials and Their
Applications in Nanobiotechnology, Vol. 1-2, American Scientific
Publishers, Los Angeles.
3. Chapter in a Book Schalkhammer
T (2004), Bionanodevices, in Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology, Edited by Nalwa HS, Vol. 1, pp.329-360. American
Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles.
4. Conference
Proceedings Kimura J and Shibasaki H (1995),
Editors, Recent advances in clinical neurophysiology,
Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of EMG and Clinical
Neurophysiology; Kyoto, Japan.
5. Conference Paper
Bengtsson S, Solheim BG (1992), Enforcement of data
protection, privacy and security in medical informatics, In: Lun
KC, Degoulet P, Piemme TE, Rienhoff O, Editors. MEDINFO 92.
Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Medical Informatics;
September 6-10, 1992; Geneva, Switzerland. Amsterdam: North-Holland;
pp.1561-1565.
6. Scientific Report Field MJ,
Tranquada RE, Feasley JC (1995), Editors. Health
services research: work force and educational issues,
Washington: National Academy Press; Contract No.: AHCPR282942008.
Sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
7.
Dissertation Kaplan SJ (1995), Post-hospital
home health care: the elderly's access and utilization [dissertation],
St. Louis (MO): Washington University, USA.
8. Patent
Larsen CE, Trip R, Johnson CR (1995), Inventors;
Novoste Corporation, assignee; Methods for procedures related to
the electrophysiology of the heart. US Patent: 5,529,067.
Do
not use the phrases "et al." and "ibid." in the
reference section. Instead, the names of all authors in a reference
must be listed. |
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: These
should be brief and placed at the end of the text before the
references. |
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PROOFS: Page proofs for the
correction of printer's errors only will be dispatched to the
corresponding author denoted with an asterik (*) unless otherwise
requested. Alterations at this stage are not allowed as they are
expensive and may have to be charged to the authors. The proofread
copy and reprint order form must be returned within 72 hours. |
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OFFPRINTS: Authors may
order offprints of articles with a minimum of 100 from American
Scientific Publishers (ASP) prior to publication. An order form
accompanying the page proofs will be sent directly to the
corresponding author (*). Please return your offprint order form
with the page proofs.
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Upon
acceptance of the manuscript for publication, authors should submit
to the publisher a single file in MS WORD format
(title/affiliations/abstract/keywords/text/references/figures/tables/captions)
containing the final version of the manuscript with a signed
Copyright Transfer Agreement. The preferred medium is Windows/MS-DOS
or Macintosh having MS Word file or TeX. We are also able to accept
line artwork/graphics if you supply us the source files to enables
us to modify the artwork as required for the journal format.
REFEREEING:
If you are interested in reviewing the manuscripts for the
Journal of Bioprocess Engineering and Biorefinery, please send 20-30
keywords in the field of your research expertise, your short
biography and your complete mailing address, phone, fax and email
address to the Editor.
Reviewer's report can be submitted
by e-mail to the editor. To speed up the reviewing process, editors
will communicate with authors and the referees via email. ASP or
Editors will not return manuscripts to authors and keep any records
whatsoever after a formal decision has been made about the
manuscript. Editors have the right to reject the manuscript.
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WARRANTIES AND COPYRIGHTS: By
submitting the manuscript, the authors warrant that the entire work
is original and unpublished; it is submitted only to this Journal
and all text, data, figures/tables or other illustrations included
in the research article are completely original and unpublished, and
these have not been previously published or submitted elsewhere in
any form or media whatsoever. All authors are responsible for the
complete contents of their manuscript. The author(s) warrant that
the work contains no unlawful or libelous statements and opinions
and liable materials of any kind whatsoever, do not infringe on any
copyrights, intellectual property rights, personal rights or rights
of any kind of others, and does not contains any plagiarized,
fraudulent, improperly attributed materials, instructions,
procedures, information or ideas that might cause any harm, damage,
injury, losses or costs of any kind to person or property. Each
author(s) agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless American
Scientific Publishers and the Editors for any breach of such
warranties. It is authors' responsibility to obtain written
copyright permissions from other sources (publishers) for
reproduction of any figures, tables, photos, illustrations, text or
other copyright materials from previously published work. It is the
policy of American Scientific Publishers to own the copyright of all
contributions it publishes. To comply with the U.S. Copyright Law, a
Copyright Transfer Form that transfer copyright of the article to
the publisher must be completed by the authors prior to publication
of an accepted article in this journal. Authors must submit a signed
copy of the Copyright Transfer Agreement with their manuscript.
ETHICAL
ISSUES: Authors cannot submit a manuscript for publication to
other journals simultaneously. It is waste of valuable resources
because editors and referees spent a great deal of time processing
submitted manuscripts. It is also unethical to republish similar
research articles (text/figures/tables) again because journals have
limited page space and it most likely violates copyrights which have
already been transferred to the first journal. Therefore, all
journals require a signed author's copyright transfer agreement
stating the originality of the research work submitted through a
manuscript. As stated above that authors should submit original, new
and unpublished research work to the journal. The ethical issues
such as plagiarism, fraudulent and duplicate publication, violation
of copyrights, authorship and conflict of interest are serious
issues concerning ethical integrity when submitting a manuscript to
a journal for publication.
WITHDRAWAL OF MANUSCRIPTS:
If the author requests withdrawal of manuscript after submission
within the time span when the manuscript is still in the
peer-reviewing process with Editors/Referees, author is allowed to
withdraw the manuscript without paying any withdrawal penalty
whatsoever. However, it is unethical to withdraw a submitted
manuscript from one journal if accepted by another journal. The
withdrawal of manuscripts from the journals after submitting to the
publisher will incur a withdrawal penalty from American Scientific
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must always pay $200 per page manuscript processing charges as
withdrawal penalty to the publisher even if the withdrawal is
permitted. The withdrawal of the conference papers by conference
organizers will never be permitted and the conference organizers
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after withdrawal penalty has been fully paid to the American
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