Journal of Biological Research offers multiple article types to maximize your options for disseminating your work. Ensure that any manuscript you submit conforms to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) https://publicationethics.org/ and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) https://www.icmje.org/ recommendations for ethics, as well as to the general JBR article requirements. All submitted manuscripts will be checked by plagiarism detection software.

All JBR articles are peer-reviewed, receive a DOI, and are citable, published in PDF format, and submitted for indexing in relevant digital archives.

 

Original Research

Original Research articles report on primary and unpublished studies. Original Research articles are peer-reviewed, have a maximum word count of 12,000 and may contain no more than 10 Figures/Tables. Original Research articles should have the following format: Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion.

 

Review

Review articles cover topics that have seen significant development or progress in recent years in biology science. Reviews should present a complete overview of the state and discuss fundamental concepts, issues, and problems, current research gaps and potential developments in the field. Review articles are peer-reviewed, have a maximum word count of 10,000 and may contain no more than 10 Figures/Tables. Review articles should have the following format: Abstract, Introduction, and Subsections relevant for the subject, Discussion.

 

Short communication

Short Communications should not exceed 2500 words and include no more than two tables or figures. They should have an abstract but no other divisions.

 

General standards

Article type

JBR requires authors to select the appropriate article type for their manuscript and to comply. Please pay close attention to the word count limits.

 

Templates

To prepare your manuscript, please use our Word template. During the interactive review, authors are encouraged to upload versions using track changes. Reviewers can only download the final file of the submitted manuscript.

 

An index to the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)

The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is a classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool. Authors are required to indicate the UDC of the area and object of study presented in the manuscript. UDC Summary is available as linked data (https://udcsummary.info/php/index.php?lang=ru or https://teacode.com/online/udc/).

 

Title

The title should be concise and be a statement of the main result or conclusion presented in the manuscript. Abbreviations should be avoided within the title.

Authors should avoid titles that are a mere question without giving the answer, unambitious titles starting with "A description of", "A characterization of" or "Preliminary study on". Also should avoid vague titles, for example starting with "Role of", "Link between", or "Effect of" that do not specify the role, link, or effect.

 

Authors and affiliations

Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled. Provide exact and correct author names as these will be indexed in official archives. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.

Affiliations should be keyed to the author's name with superscript numbers and be listed as follows: Laboratory, Institute, Department, Organization, City, State abbreviation (only for United States, Canada, and Australia), and Country (without detailed address information such as city zip codes or street names).

Example: Alexandra Gold1 1 Department of Biology, National Institut of Biology Science, New York, NY, United States.

 

Corresponding author 

The corresponding author(s) should be marked with an asterisk in the author list. Clearly indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication.  This responsibility includes answering any future queries about Methodology and Materials. Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author.

 

Equal contributions

The authors who have contributed equally should be marked with a symbol (†) in the author list of the doc file of the manuscript uploaded at submission.

 

Abstract

As a primary goal, the abstract should make the general significance and conceptual advance of the work clearly accessible to a broad readership. A concise and factual abstract is required (150-250 words). The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. Minimize the use of abbreviations and do not cite references, figures or tables. Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.

 

Keywords

All article types require a minimum of five and a maximum of eight keywords. Avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (for example, “and”, “of”). Only abbreviations recognized in a specific field may be eligible. Keywords will be used for indexing purposes.

 

Text

The entire document should be single-spaced and must contain page and line numbers in order to facilitate the review process. The manuscript should be written using either Word. See above for Word templates.

 

Nomenclature

The use of abbreviations should be kept to a minimum. Non-standard abbreviations should be avoided.

Italicize gene symbols and use the approved gene nomenclature where it is available. For human genes, please refer to the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC). https://www.genenames.org/ Nomenclature committees for other species are listed here. Protein products are not italicized.

Nucleic acid sequences. Submit new nucleic acid sequences for the primary organism(s) of interest to GenBank or a similar public database and report accession numbers.

Authors should use governing biological nomenclature, as laid down in the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria, and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Virologists should consult the latest Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses for proper nomenclature and spelling.

Names of Organisms. Scientific names should be included for all organisms that are subjects of the research. Use the scientific name in the introduction and the abstract. After first use of binomials, the name can be written by abbreviating the genus, e.g., O. felineus.

Chemical compounds and biomolecules should be referred to using systematic nomenclature, preferably using the recommendations by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).

All biotica (crops, plants, insects, birds, mammals, etc.) should be identified by their scientific names when the English term is first used, with the exception of common domestic animals.

 

Sections

The manuscript is organized by headings and subheadings. The section headings should be those appropriate for your field and the research itself. You may insert up to 3 heading levels into your manuscript (i.e.,: 3.2.2).

For Original Research articles, it is recommended to organize your manuscript in the following sections or their equivalents for your field.

 

Introduction

Succinct, without subheadings. State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.

 

Material and methods

Provide sufficient details to allow the work to be reproduced by an independent researcher. Methods that are already published should be summarized, and indicated by a reference. Any modifications to existing methods should also be described. For experiments reporting results on animal or human subject research, an ethics approval statement should be included in this section.

 

Results

Results should be clear and concise. This section may be divided by subheadings. Results section should contain a description of the experimental data, with a focus on consistent patterns in observations; include tables and figures, not duplicative.

 

Illustrative material (figures and tables)

All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. The text of the manuscript should contain links to figures. Each table should have a number and title, while each figures – a number and legend.

 

Discussion

This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. Discussions should cover the key findings of the study, discuss any prior research related to the subject, discuss the potential shortcomings and limitations on their interpretations, discuss their integration into the current understanding of the problem, and freely postulate theories that could be tested in the future.

 

Acknowledgments

This is a short text to acknowledge the contributions of specific colleagues or institutions that aided the efforts of the authors.

 

Funding sources

List funding sources in this standard way: This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan to frame project [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy].

 

Conflict of interest

This note should be added in a separate section before the reference list after the acknowledgment. If there exist no conflict, the authors should state no conflict of interest. All benefit from a commercial party, either directly or indirectly to the contents of this manuscript or any of the authors/co-authors must be recognized.

 

References

List of references should be presented in two sections, namely, LITERATURE and REFERENCES. References should be cited in accordance with GOST 7.32-2017 (requirement for publications included in the COKNVO list). The order of references in the list must match the order of their citation in the text, figures and tables. References to unpublished data are not allowed. References should be in square brackets. Number of sources in the original paper should not exceed 25, in a review manuscript no more than 50 sources.

1. Tamura K., Stecher G., Kumar S. MEGA11: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 11 // Molecular Biology and Evolution. – 2021. – Vol. 38(7). – P. 3022-3027. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab120.
2. Uakhit R., Smagulova A., Lider L., Leontev S., Berber A., Kiyan V. Species composition of wolf (Canis Lupus) helminth fauna in Kazakhstan // Eurasian Journal of Applied Biotechnology. – 2022. – Vol. 1. – P. 49–58. https://doi.org/10.11134/btp.1.2022.6.
3. Шабдарбаева Г. С., Ялышева С. В. Ретроспективный анализ распространенности эхинококкоза на территории Республики Казахстан // Вестник Национальной академии наук Республики Казахстан. – 2020. - № 6. – С. 68-70.

 

The second section REFERENCES must fully replicate the list of references in the original language. English sources are duplicated in the list of REFERENCES. Kazakh-language (and other) links should be brought to the Roman alphabet (Latin), and English translation. Reference must additionally contain DOI (Digital Object Identifier) or PMID (PubMed identifier or PubMed unique identifier) ​​​​if available.

1. Tamura K., Stecher G., Kumar S. MEGA11: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 11 // Molecular Biology and Evolution. – 2021. – Vol. 38(7). – P. 3022-3027. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab120.
2. Uakhit R., Smagulova A., Lider L., Leontev S., Berber A., Kiyan V. Species composition of wolf (Canis Lupus) helminth fauna in Kazakhstan // Eurasian Journal of Applied Biotechnology. – 2022. – Vol. 1. – P. 49–58. https://doi.org/10.11134/btp.1.2022.6.
3. Shabdarbaeva G.S., Jalysheva S.V. Retrospektivnyj analiz rasprostranennosti jehinokokkoza na territorii Respubliki Kazahstan (Retrospective analysis of the prevalence of echinococcosis in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan) // Vestnik Nacional'noj akademii nauk Respubliki Kazahstan. – 2020. – №. 6. – S. 68-70.

50% references must be of research/review papers published during past five years. Review article: 60% references must from papers published during past five years. References in the text should be given by placing in bracket [1], [1, 2, 3]. Reference list must be prepared accordingly.

 

Transliteration rules

Transliteration of the Kazakh or Russian text (Cyrillic) should be made through a simple transliteration. A free online program www.translit.net can be used for transliteration of Russian text into Latin.