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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 has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Main articles or essays should not exceed 7500 words, while commentaries should not exceed 2500 words, including any notes but excluding references.
Submissions are to be electronic only, (using Microsoft Word or RTF format) through the journal’s home page and should contain:

  1. A separate title page containing the name, address (including e-mail address) of each author.
  2. An abstract of not more than 150 words followed by six key words before the main text.
  3. Only graphics in TIFF or EPS format with a minimum resolution of 600dpi for Line art and 266dpi for halftones.
  4. References (Author-Date style is preferred) or appropriate end notes and bibliography (i.e. Documentary style which is much less preferred) are to follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, 2003. (www.chicagomanualofstyle.org).
  5. Double quotations set off all quotations less than two lines; otherwise quotations are to be set off separately with double indentation.
  6. End notes are requested to be without extracts, graphs and paragraphing.
  7. Separate accompanying documents at the time of submission are: a list containing each author’s important interests contributory to the article; the contributions of each author; and a declaration signed by each author that the essential substance of the submission has not been published before and is not being considered by any other journal.
  8. On acceptance of a work, author(s) shall be required to sign a document relinquishing the rights of the publication to the publishers.

It is a principle of the journal to place emphases on articles with significant theoretical or social bioethical potential impact, backed by rigorous logic and presented in clear and delightful fashion. Articles in this category with global or cross cultural advantages will be given priority.

 

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BeOnline® accepts no responsibility for article contents and expressly affirms that all conclusions expressed are at best tentative and do not constitute policies or materials for similar use, 

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The Bioethics Online (BeOnline®) Journal is a publication of the Center for Bioethics and Research which publishes peer-reviewed Bioethics-related articles quarterly.

It is a principle of the journal to place emphases on articles with significant theoretical or social bioethical potential impact, backed by rigorous logic and presented in clear and delightful fashion. Articles in this category with global or cross-cultural advantages will be given priority.

Submission of articles is a proposition to transfer the rights to the publishers and only articles with substances not yet published and not being simultaneously presented to any other journal are accepted for considerations. Such articles will also not be presented to any other journal unless and until it is rejected by the journal or formally and expressly withdrawn by the author(s).

BeOnline® accepts no responsibility for article contents and expressly affirms that all conclusions expressed are at best tentative and do not constitute policies or materials for similar use, as such.

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The Bioethics Online (BEOnline®) Journal is a publication of the Center for Bioethics and Research which publishes peer-reviewed Bioethics-related articles quarterly. Submission of articles is a proposition to transfer the rights to the publishers and only articles with substances not yet published and not being simultaneously presented to any other journal are accepted for considerations. Such articles will also not be presented to any other journal unless and until it is rejected by the journal or formally and expressly withdrawn by the author(s).


BEOnline ® Journal accepts no responsibility for article contents and expressly affirms that all conclusions expressed are at best tentative and do not constitute policies or materials for similar use, as such.


BEOnline Journal is a registered title.