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Selection of Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology

Interested in submitting your manuscript to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page as well as Submission section. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the six-step process.

Before submitting your manuscript to the Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology, you have to consider the advantages and disadvantages of selecting this journal.

The advantages are:

1. Open access journal (each article in both pdf and HTML format)
2. Peer reviewed journal
3. Web of Science impact factor: 1.143 (2021)
4. Online submission and tracking of your manuscript
5. Article available online immediately after acceptance
6. Each article has a cover page with DOI and matrices
7. Copyright to authors (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0)
8. There is only manuscript submission fee [10 (ten) US dollar only]. It is not refundable and does not ensure the acceptance of your paper 

The disadvantages are:

1. Only online version. No hard copy
2. Requires video clip of methodology (one method in detail) in case of research article
3. Both internal review (by the editorial board member) and external peer review
4. Annual acceptance rate is around 10% (ten percent)
5. About 60-90 days are required from submission to publication
6. You have to submit ORCID ID with information, fill-up the Conflict of Interest form during acceptance of the manuscript
7. Plagiarism check of each article by a software “Plagiarism Detector”
8. Each article is checked before publication to identify the grammatical mistake using Grammarly.com
9. Article may be retracted if needed
10. Need knowledge about online submission of manuscript (e-mail submission is not allowed); skill in preparing video with subtitle

Type of manuscript

The number of disadvantages are more than the advantages. Even then if you decide to submit your manuscript, follow the policies and formatting guidelines.

Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology publishes the following article types:

• Mini-review 
• Meta-analysis
• Visual Experiment
• Clinical trial
• Research Article 
• Letter to the Editor

Once you decided your type of manuscript, then browse a few published papers and watch video clips to understand the format. 

Preparing your manuscript

Write manuscript according to our journal style. Manuscript must be typed in MSWord file in Font "Book Antique", Size 9 point and double space. The use of other fonts may lead to missing symbols within the text. Text within the Figure will be Arial, 7 point.

Research Article: All text (title page, abstract, body and references) should be submitted as one document.

Title page: The title page should:

1. Present a title
2. List the full names and institutional addresses for all authors
3. Name of the corresponding author with email address

Abstract: The abstract should not be more than 150 words. There will be a single paragraph. Avoid abbreviations, diagrams, and references within the abstract.

Keywords: Three to ten keywords representing the main content of the article.

Text: The body of the text in the Research Article should be divided into the following sections: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion and Conclusion. Introduction will be within 500 words. In the Materials and Methods section, one of the methodologies must be in the video form that will help the reader to understand the quality of your methodology. Initially it is not necessary to submit the video component. The editor will inform the corresponding author to make and submit the video component of one of the methodologies. The protocol of one of the methodologies must be written in detail. The Results section should not be merged with the Discussion section. After the Conclusion section, you have to write the Funding Source, Ethical Issue, Conflict of Interest and Acknowledgement(s).

Human and Animal Rights: When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors have to write whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed. The work will be rejected if there is lack of evidence. 

Funding: The source(s) of funding for the research published must be declared. The role of funding body in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript must be declared.

Conflict of interest: All authors of the submitted manuscript are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within two years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. We customized the format of ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) conflict of interest form. We provided that form to fill-up by each author to submit separately from each author's email after completion of the peer review of the manuscript.

Acknowledgements: Acknowledgements, if any, should be placed at the end of the body of the text and be limited to no more than 100 words. This section may be used to acknowledge the help of those who do not qualify for authorship or to acknowledge funding, donated resources, or significant material contributions to the research.

References: All references should appear at the end of the article in alphabetical order. Be sure to cite all references in the text. Include only references that are actually cited in the text. Examples of the Journal's style are listed below.

Book Chapter: Goadsby PJ. Pathophysiology of headache. In: Wolff's headache and other head pain. Silberstein SD, Lipton RB, Dalessio DJ, (eds). 7th ed. Oxford, England, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 57-72.

Journal Article: Bullard RD, Wright BH. The quest for environmental equity: Mobilizing the African-American community for social change. Soc Nat Res. 1990; 3: 301-11. List all authors; do not use "et al".

Personal Communications: Reference to personal communications should be avoided.

Websites: Please avoid it. 

Illustrations: Illustrations submitted (line drawings, halftones, photos, photomicrographs, etc.) should be clean digital files. Digital files are recommended for highest quality reproduction and should follow these guidelines:

• 300 dpi or higher
• sized to fit on journal page
• EPS, TIFF, and PDF formats are preferred. JPG and GIF formats are acceptable
• submit as separate files, not embedded in text files

Tables and Figures: Data within the table should be not more than one digit after dot. All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed at the end of the manuscript. A short descriptive title should appear above each table with a clear legend and any footnotes suitably identified below. All units must be included. Provide two sets of Figure. One with completely labeled and another without label. Captions should be typed, double-spaced, on a separate sheet. 

Footnotes: For uniformity of style, authors should use symbols for footnotes such as "a" superscript, §, Please avoid one star "*", two star "**", three star "***".  

Letter to the Editor: There will be no abstract and subheadings. Text will be within 1,500 words with one/two Figures or Tables with up to 10 references. It will not be peer reviewed and published rapidly. 

Mini-Review: Mini-review is usually solicited by the editor but we also consider unsolicited manuscript. Please send pre-submission enquiry (with abstract) to the editor before writing a mini-review for Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology. During submission of manuscript you must mention your link of "Google scholar citation".

Visual Experiment: You can publish your scientific experimental method or protocol in video form. It will be peer reviewed before make it online. Visual Experiment contains abstract, introduction, protocol/procedure, chemicals, prepared solutions with strength, Equipment, cautions, discussion and references.

Clinical Trial: Please use the reporting guidelines provided by the Equator Network (http://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/consort/) while writing the manuscript on clinical trial. You have to submit the a) Data-Availability Statement and b) registration number from the https://register.clinicaltrials.gov during submission of the manuscript. The Editor-in-Chief may request to upload the following files into www.osf.io :

a) all raw data, b) filled consent forms, c) approved protocol, d) approval letter of your clinical trial obtained from the IRB/Ethical Committee, and other images

English Language Editing: You have to be careful about the English language of your manuscript if your mother tongue is not English. Submission of manuscript with incorrect English interrupts the review process of your manuscript either by the Editor or reviewer. Therefore, we have the following suggestions while preparing the manuscript: a) Ask your colleague who is a native English speaker to check the English grammar of your manuscript, b) Use free or paid software to check the English grammar. For example, www.grammarly.com or c) Use the professional language editing service. The use of a language editing service is not a requirement for publication in this journal and does not guarantee that the manuscript will be selected for peer review or accepted.

Plagiarism, duplication and misconduct: The journal has policies against any kind of plagiarism, duplication and misconduct. Each manuscript will be screened for plagiarism by a plagiarism detection software. The manuscript will be rejected with notification to the author(s)' institute in case of plagiarism detected more than 10%. If plagiarism, duplication or misconduct is seen after publication at any time, retraction will be done and notification to the author(s)' institute will also be subsequently done.

Informed Consent Guidelines: The research article related to clinical trial must have a statement that an informed consent document was filled-up by the volunteer/patient. The subjects in the study must participate willingly, having been adequately informed about the research.  In case of children, the researcher must first obtain the permission of parents in addition to the consent of the children. Informed consent documents should be written at a level appropriate to the subject population, generally at an 8th grade reading level. A best practice is to have a colleague or friend read the informed consent document for comprehension before submission with the IRB application. 

Submission of Manuscripts: Register yourself as an author and submit the manuscript by clicking online submission. Submit the name of all authors with all information (including ORCID iD). The information in ORCID about each author must be at least for the last 5 years. Authors must give three to four keywords that identify the most important subjects covered by the paper. On the title page, include full names of all authors (no initial), academic and/or other professional affiliations (where the work was done), the name of corresponding author (supervisor or student directly involved in research work) should be sent. Any person only involved in writing the manuscript will not be an author or corresponding author. Upload the text file. If it is more than 3 MB, then remove the illustrations and upload it separately. You have to upload illustration and video clips to www.drive.google.com and share the email of the Editor (dgdabd@gmail.com). 

Any question about a manuscript must be written to the editor who is handling the manuscript.

Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology receives more submissions than it can publish (10-12 out of 100). It is unfortunate to say that when we accept one paper that means another good paper must be rejected. 

Initial Internal Editorial Review: To avoid unnecessary delay to get a decision about the manuscript, initially we do internal editorial review. It takes about 3-10 days. Using this method, about one-third of all submitted manuscripts are rejected without peer-review. That is, initial rejection is often much quicker. In that case, authors have the option to submit their manuscript to another journal without unnecessary delay. The usual reasons for rejection at this stage are a) insufficient originality, b) the absence of important message to the scientific community, c) not written according to our journal style, or d) ill-written. We may screen a manuscript by reading only the abstract. So, the abstract should be structured (without subheading and paragraph), clear, complete and accurate as possible.

Peer-reviewed manuscripts: Among the all submitted manuscripts, Mini-review, Meta-analysis, Clinical Trial, Visual Experiment and Research Article are peer-reviewed. One exception is that “Letter to the Editor” is not peer-reviewed.

External Peer Review: If any manuscript passes the first step and meets the Criteria for Publication, then the manuscript is sent to two independent external reviewers for comment/advice. The whole process is single-blinded. This is done in order to save the time of the authors as well as reduce the workload of the peer-reviewers.

Selection of Reviewers: Reviewer selection is the critical and important part to the publication process. The choice of selection is based on several factors, including a) expertise, b) reputation, c) capability of giving recommendations, d) giving enough time to review and e) our own previous experience of a reviewer's characteristics. For example, the reviewer who is slow, careless, or do not provide definite comment is avoided.

Timing: 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 period of review is 3 weeks. A soft reminder email is sent to the reviewer when the allocated time is over. This process performs well.

Editorial Decision: The editor takes the final decision based on the reviewers' comment. The decision may be any one of the followings:

a) Accept for Publication, with or without any minor editorial revision

b) Inform the corresponding author to Revise the Manuscript to address the specific concerns before a final decision is reached. Submission of revised manuscript does not ensure the acceptance

c) Reject, but inform the corresponding author that further write-up might justify a Resubmission

d) Decline Submission, typically on grounds of specialist interest, lack of novelty, insufficient conceptual advance or major technical and/or interpretational problems

Confidential: Editor, editorial board members, authors and reviewers keep confidential of all details of the editorial and peer review process on submitted manuscripts. Even identities of the reviewer are not disclosed to the corresponding author. In addition, reviewers maintain the confidentiality of the manuscript. 

Proofs: All proofs must be corrected and returned to the publisher as early as possible. Only correction of typographical errors is permitted at the proof stage. 

Authorship: The corresponding author is responsible for all the information of these forms. He/she will confirm that all the authors have read the manuscript before submission. The following person(s) will be authors:

• concept. research question and study design
• data collection or processing

Any person only involved in writing the manuscript or analyzing the data will not be the author or corresponding author particularly in Research Article.

Errata guidelines: If author(s) identify a significant error after publication of the online versions of the article, it will be corrected, and an erratum will be published online. A significant error means incorrect information or mistake that changes the meaning of the article, equation, table, or figure. We will consider a spelling error that changes the meaning of the paper to be significant. We will also consider a misspelling of an author’s name or the name of a reference significant. Typographical errors that are still readable, grammar corrections, and discoveries made after the article was published are usually not considered to be grounds for an erratum. We will do our best to correct any errors found regardless of when they appeared online.

Deposited: All articles published in the Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology are deposited with Crossref.