Submission
This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts for online submission and peer review.
Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided on the 'Preparing your materials' page.
Queries can be directed to the BJN Editorial Office at: [email protected]
Format-neutral submission
BJN has format-neutral submission in place for original submissions only. This means that authors do not need to format their article to journal style at this stage; and figures and tables can be kept in their original locations in the text. We do ask however that your article is line-numbered and is in an easily readable layout, which will aid our Editors and Reviewers in reviewing your paper. Please note that revised manuscripts will be subject to full formatting requirements of the journal.
Author Affiliations
Author affiliations should represent the institution(s) at which the research presented was conducted and/or supported and/or approved. For non-research content, any affiliations should represent the institution(s) with which each author is currently affiliated. For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.
Nominating referees
At submission, authors are asked to nominate at least four potential referees who may be asked by the Editorial Board to help review the work. You must recommend at least four potential reviewers for your submission. Please do not nominate reviewers who are located at the same affiliation as any of the authors of the manuscript or potential reviewers with whom any of the authors have ongoing or recent (last 3 years) collaborations. You may also notify the journal of any reviewers who you do not wish to review your paper.
Paperpal Preflight
Prior to submission we recommend that authors use Paperpal Preflight, a service that instantly checks your manuscript against submission guidelines and flags any potential issues that might prevent your paper from passing the initial checks made by the Editorial office. The tool is free to use, however there is also an optional paid-for service that provides a tracked-changes version of the submission in a report with suggested modifications. These also include recommendations about spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
Authors using the service should then submit their manuscript to the journal in the normal way (i.e. without any tracked changes from using the Paperpal Preflight tool). Authors should also note that usage of the tool is entirely separate from the peer review process and will not impact upon any editorial decisions made.
ORCID
BJN requires that all corresponding authors identify themselves using their ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript to the journal, and we. If you don’t already have an iD, you can register for one directly from your user account on ScholarOne or via https://ORCID.org/register.
If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting, either by linking it to your Scholar One account or supplying it during submission by using the “Associate your existing ORCD iD” button.
Although not mandatory, we encourage all authors of a paper to include their ORCID iD as part of their submission.