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    Submission Process

    All submissions to BJEM must be made electronically via online submission and peer review system on the journal webpage at the following URL. http://bioem.liau.ac.ir/ (E-mailed submissions will not be accepted.) First-time users must create an Author account, which may be used for submitting to the journal.

    Manuscript Submission Checklist

    -Double-space all text, including references and figure legends.

    -Number pages.

    -Number lines continuously.

    -Present statistical treatment of data where appropriate.

    -Provide accession numbers for all newly published sequences in a dedicated "Data availability" paragraph, and if a sequence or sequence alignment important for evaluation of the manuscript is not yet available, provide the information as a Miscellaneous File Not for Publication or make the material available on a website for access by the editor and reviewers.

    MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND PRESENTATION

    Manuscripts should be drafted as concisely as possible. As space in the Journal is at a premium, the Editors always reserve the right to require authors to reduce the length of their manuscripts. The overall English presentation of the submitted manuscripts should be standard.

    The main text of the manuscript should be prepared as a Word document (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf) file 

    Title page

    Title page should show the title of the manuscript; the names of authors and place(s) where the work was done; an abbreviated running headline not exceeding 35 letters and spaces; and the complete contact details for the corresponding author

    ABSTRACT

    A brief summary of about 150-250 words, should give the major findings of the investigation should be provided

    Keywords: A list of between 4-and 6 keywords should be added

    INTRODUCTION 

    State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results

     

    MATERIALS AND METHODS

    Ensure that the work can be repeated according to the details provided. The authors consent that biological material, including plasmids, viruses, and microbial strains, unobtainable from national collections will be made available to members of the scientific community for non-commercial purposes subject to national and international regulations governing the supply of biological material 

    RESULTS

     Well-prepared tables and figures must be a cardinal feature of the 'Results' section because they convey the major observations to readers who scan a paper. Information provided in tables and figures should not be repeated in the text, but focus attention on the importance of the principal findings of the study. In general, journal papers will contain between two or three tables and a maximum of 6 figures. 

    DISCUSSION

    This must not recapitulate the results and authors must avoid the temptation of preparing a combined 'Results and Discussion' section

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    Contributors who do not qualify as authors should be acknowledged and their particular contributions described. All sources of funding for the work reported, for all the authors, must be acknowledged. Both the research funder and the grant number (if applicable) should be given for each source of funds

    References

    The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Use last versions of software such as Endnote 20 or less for styling the references

    Citation of references having three or more names should be cited in the text as Mirdamadi et al. (2022) at the first and subsequent times of quoting the reference

    Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work. Please alphabetize according to the following rules: 1) For one author, by name of the author, then chronologically;2) For two authors, by name of the author, then name of coauthor, then chronologically; 3) For more than two authors, by name of the first author, then chronologically

    Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author lists (more than six authors should be considered)

    The following is an example of order and style to be used in the manuscript:

    Articles

    Heidari Z, Faezi Ghasemi M and Modiri L (2020) The synergistic antibacterial effect of bacteriocin produced by Lactobacillus casei ATCC 39392 and iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) on selected foodborne pathogens. Int J Mol Clin Microbiol, 10(1), 1301-1311

    Article by DOI 

    Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001090000086

    Book

    South J, Blass B (2021) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London

    Book chapter

    Brown B, Aaron M (2020) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd eds. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257

    Online document

    Cartwright J (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing Physics Web. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007

    Dissertation

    Trent JW (2018) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California

    Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal’s name according to the ISSN List of Title Word Abbreviations, see

    ISSN LTWA 

    Tables

    Tables must be prepared in the same format as the manuscript text, and should ideally appear in the text or at the end of the main manuscript file. Tables must not include ruled vertical or horizontal lines except for headers and a footer (see example below). The use of explanatory footnotes is permissible and they should be marked by the following (shown in order of preference): *, †, ‡, §, ¶, **, ††, etc 

     

     

     

     

    Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of bacteriocin produced by L. curvatus LAB-3H and reference antibiotics (control group) against four selected foodborne pathogens (µg/mL-1).

    P- value <0.05 is significant.

     

     

    Bacteriocin

    Ampicillin

    P-value

    Gentamycin

    P-value

    Chloramphenicol

    P-value

    L.monocytogenes PTCC1294

    >12.5

    2

    0.002

    2

    0.002

    aNT

    -

    S. aureus ATCC 29213

    25

    aNT

    -

    4

    0.473

    8

    0.231

    B. cereus PTCC1857

    >25

    32

    0.00

    16

    0.001

    8

    0.05

    E. coli  PTCC1276

    12.5

    8

    0.007

    4

    0.003

    8

    0.007

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Figures

    Supply all figures electronically

    Indicate what graphics program was used to create the artwork

    For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS; for halftones, please use TIFF format

    MS Office files are also acceptable. Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files 

    Name your figure files with "Fig" and the figure number, e.g., Fig1.eps

    Definition: Black and white graphic with no shading

    Do not use faint lines and/or lettering and check that all lines and lettering within the figures are legible at final size

    All lines should be at least 0.1 mm (0.3 pt) wide

    Scanned line drawings and line drawings in bitmap format should have a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi

    Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files

    Definition: Photographs, drawings, or paintings with fine shading, etc

    If any magnification is used in the photographs, indicate this by using scale bars within the figures themselves

    Halftones should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi

    All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals

    Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order

    Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.)

    Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file

    Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type

    No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be placed at the end of the caption

    Identify all elements found in the figure in the figure caption; and use boxes, circles, etc., as coordinate points in graphs

    Identify previously published material by giving the source in the form of a reference citation at the end of the figure caption

    CONFLICT OF INTEREST

    If no conflict of interest exists, then 'no conflict of interest declared' should appear within this section. Otherwise, authors should list all pertinent commercial and other relationships that may be perceived as a potential source of conflict of interest

     

    SUPPORTING INFORMATION (if applicable) 

    Supporting Information can be a useful way for an author to include important but ancillary information with the online version of an article. Examples of Supporting Information include additional tables, data sets, figures, movie files, audio clips, 3D structures, and other related nonessential multimedia files. Supporting Information should be cited within the article text. The availability of supporting information should be indicated in the main manuscript by a section headed 'Supporting Information', under which should be appropriate legends for the material. It is published as supplied by the author, and the proof is not made available before publication; for these reasons, authors should provide any Supporting Information in the desired final format