Editorial policies

Editorial policies

Table of contents

• Overview
• Ethics and consent
• Research involving animals
• Research involving plants
• Consent for publication
• Trial registration
• Availability of data and materials
• Standards of reporting
• Describing new taxa
• Competing interests
• Authorship
• Citations
• Duplicate publication
• Text recycling
• Peer review
• Confidentiality
• Misconduct
• Corrections and retractions
• Appeals and complaints

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Overview

BioMed Central is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and endorses the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) Policy Statement on Geopolitical Intrusion on Editorial Decisions. BioMed Central also endorses the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.

Submission of a manuscript to a BioMed Central journal implies that all authors have read and agreed to its content and that the manuscript conforms to the journal’s policies.