Manuscripts should be submitted online as a Word document at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jmba. Authors may track the progress of their manuscript(s) at any time via the submission website. For assistance with online submission, please email the Editorial Office at [email protected].

At submission, please suggest the names, institutions and e-mail addresses of up to four potential reviewers. Suggested reviewers should be selected from an international (at least three different countries) and not a local (from author(s) own country or laboratory) group of scientists in the research field of the paper. You will also be asked to select a recommended Editor whose area of expertise closely matches the topic of your manuscript; see the journal’s website for a full list of Editorial Board members and their areas of expertise.

Authors are advised of the decision on their manuscript via email. Where papers are sent back to the authors for revision, they must be resubmitted within three weeks.

Please note that the journal uses software to screen papers where there is reason to believe that material may not be original. By submitting your paper you are agreeing to any necessary originality checks your paper may have to undergo during the peer review and production processes.