ARTICLE TYPES

Commuications

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 3–4 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 the fields of biomedical nanotechnology.

Reviews

The state-of-the-art review articles with author's short biography and photo will be published. Reviews are limited to a maximum length of 30 journal pages. It is author's 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. 

ORDER OF THE TEXT

Papers should be written in the below order：
Title–Author(s) (full names instead of are required)–Author affiliations–Corresponding author e-mail address(es)–Abstract–Keywords– Introduction–Experimental–Results and discussion–Conclusions–Acknowledgments–Conflict of interests–References–Supplementary information (if necessary)

Please insert pictures and tables in text.

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. Each name should be linked to an address by means of references 1, 2, ...

Abstract

All manuscripts must contain an informative 500 words abstract explaining the essential contents of the work, key ideas and results.

Keywords

A list of 5-10 "keywords" should be included with the abstract.

Figures

It is very important to supply high quality figures in a form suitable for reproduction. Each figure must be referred to in the text and will be printed in black and white unless otherwise instructed by the authors. All formulae and figures should be carefully drafted and never drawn freehand. Use same font and size for all figure legends. High quality original figures and glossy prints of all photographs are required. Photocopies of the figures and photographs are not acceptable. The total number of figures should be no more than 8. The resolution of figures should be at least 600dpi. Numbers of x- and y-axis must write large enough, because published figures are only 1/8 page.

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 Editor-in-Chief's discretion, will provide an opportunity to publish color figures/illustrations in print at NO COST to the authors.

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.

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. (e.g., 25.8 J·mol^–1·K^–1).

Abbreviations

No abbreviations are allowed in the title and abstract and should be defined the first time they are used within the text.

All abbreviations used in tables and figures should be defined in the table note or figure caption, respectively.

References

References should be in the proper format on a separate page, numbered in the sequence (1,2,3,4,5, ..) in which they occur in the text. Cite the references in the text as Arabic numbers in one consecutive series by the order of appearance in the text, with the text citations presented as unparenthesized superscripts. Include the title of the article in the cited reference. write only 3 authors with et al. References should be listed in the following style:

• Journal Article

Authors, Title. Journal, year, volume(issue): pages.

J.A. Kopechek, E. Park, C.S. Mei, et al., Accumulation of phase-shift nanoemulsions to enhance MR-guided ultrasound-mediated tumor ablation in vivo. Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2013, 4: 109-126.

• Book

Authors or editors, (Chapter tilte.) Book title. Publisher, year: pages.

H.S. Nalwa, Handbook of nanostructured biomaterials and their applications in nanobiotechnology. American Scientific Publishers, 2005: 35-46.
D.J. Kirwan, C.J. Orella, Crystallization in the pharmaceutical and bioprocessing industries. Handbook of industrial crystallization (second edition). Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002: 249-266.

• Conference Proceedings

Authors, Title. Conference. Place, date: pages
J. Kimura, H. Shibasaki, Recent advances in clinical neurophysiology. Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of EMG and Clinical Neurophysiology. Kyoto, Japan, Oct. 15-19, 1995: 36-42.

• Patent

Inventors, title. patent number, date of authorization

C.E. Larsen, R. Trip, and C.R. Johnson, Methods for procedures related to the electrophysiology of the heart. U.S. Patent 5529067, Jun 25, 1995.

These should be brief and placed at the end of the text before the references:

Conflict of Interests

Competing interests that might interfere with the objective presentation of the research findings contained in the manuscript should be declared in a paragraph after Acknowledgment section and before References. If there is no competing interest, please use the statement for example, "The authors declare that no competing interest exists".

Credit Author Statement

XXX: Conceptualization; XXX: Methodology, Software; XXX: Data curation, Writing-Original draf; XXX: Visualization, XXX: Investigation; XXX: Supervision, XXX: Validation; XXX: Writing- Reviewing & Editing.

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.

TOC (Table of Content) Figure

Auhors should provide a TOC (table of content) figure to be published alongside the published article on the home page. The size of the TOC figure shoud be 310 px (width) * 170 px (height).

Note: The Executive Editor in this process is one of the Associate Editiors or Editorial Board members, and is designated by the Editor-in-chief. 

This journal also publishes special/guest-edited issues. The peer review process for these articles is the same as the peer review process of the journal in general. Additionally, if a guest editor authors an article in their issue/collection, they will not handle the peer review process.

Initial check

The submitted manuscript will be initially checked by an associate editor. At this stage, a decision of "reject without review" would be made for the submissions which do not meet the guidelines set out in this document. In addition, all manuscripts submitted to Journal of Nano Biomedicine and Engineering will be screened for plagiarism by Crosscheck software iThenticate. Those with high overlap scores may also be rejected directly without further review. We are sorry that we cannot provide the detailed report for the text overlap check.

Preliminary assessment

Manuscripts which pass through the initial check will be preliminarily assessed by one or more editors. At this stage, the associate editor has sole discretion, with the help of the invited editors, on whether to send the manuscript for peer review or reject it without review.

Special emphases will be paid on the readability and the attractiveness of the submitted manuscripts. Manuscripts without an attractive abstract and/or a comprehensive and convincing introduction will be rejected at this stage without detailed comments.

Peer review

This journal utilizes a single-blind peer review process in which the reviewer's name and information is withheld from the author. Around four reviewers will be invited for peer review. The EIC is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles after review. The EIC's decision is final. 

Please use the template to compose your manuscript: