Every Journal of Biological Methods submission will be pre-screened by the editors to ensure its adherence to the scope, policies, and style of the journal before peer review. Author(s) may suggest up to 4 academically qualified reviewers for consideration per submission. Authors should insert the current contact details, including full name, email address, and affiliation, of the reviewers, and state the reason(s) for recommendation in the cover letter. However, the editorial team strives to ensure that the peer review process is fair and unbiased; therefore, there is no guarantee that a recommended reviewer will be approached to perform the peer review. In addition, the author(s) may indicate the names of individuals who should not be invited as peer reviewers and provide the reasons in the cover letter.

Editor-in-Chief will decide on the submissions that should be considered for publication, and assign reviewers from inside the editorial board or outside, depending on the topic, to initiate double-blind peer review. Based on the review reports and reviewers’ recommendations, the Editor-in-Chief makes one of the following editorial decisions: accept, minor revision, major revision, and reject.

If the decision made necessitates minor revisions to the paper, the author(s) should spend no more than 7 days to prepare and submit the revision file containing the revised manuscript, title page and back matter, cover letter, and response/rebuttal letter. If the decision made necessitates major revisions to the paper, the author(s) should spend no more than 30 days to prepare and submit the revision file. The revision file will be once again pre-screened by an editor and subsequently reviewed by the assigned reviewers.

The peer review process is considered complete for submissions once it has been accepted for publication in Journal of Biological Methods. Only accepted papers will be arranged for copy-editing, typesetting, and proofreading before being published online.