Thank you for choosing to submit your paper to us. Please take the time to read and follow the instructions as closely as possible, as doing so will ensure your paper matches the journal’s requirements.
Journal of Microbial Biology (Former name "Biological Journal of Microorganisms") considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they adhere to journal's Author submission guidlines. Failure to follow them may result in rejection of your paper.
Article processing charges (APCs): BJM articles are Open Access and available online at no cost to read, download, distribute or reuse. To support Open Access publishing, BJM charges a publication fee to offset peer review management, journal production, language editing and online hosting and archiving.
These fees include: 2,500,000 Rials for Acceptance which are payable upon acceptance.
English articles are free of charge
1- At the time of submission, the following files should be supplied.
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- Manuscript. This file should be anonymized, and the file name should also preserve your anonymity.
- Conflict of interest. This file can be downloaded here and you are required to fill out this form.
- Publishing Agreement: This file can be downloaded here and you are required to fill out this form.
2- The Biological journal of Microorganism of the University of Isfahan, welcomes to the following research topics:
- Ecology and systematics of microorganisms
- Immunology and resistance of microorganisms
- Industrial and environmental biotechnology
- Genetics and molecular biology of microorganisms
- The structure and physiology of microorganisms
- Food microbiology
3- Please consider the followings before submitting the article:
- The article should not be published earlier or submitted to other publisher simultaneously.
- The formal language of the journal is Persian. However, English articles would be in consideration.
- The text should reflect original research and reflects author(s) investigations.
- Article provided by MSc. and PhD. students in cooperation with their supervisor and advisor, should be submitted by supervisor. Otherwise, it will not open to the editorial board
4- The article should arrange as follows:
Click here to download the author submission guidelines ( for Farsi Papers )
Click here to download the author submission guidlines ( for English Papers )
- Full title of the article in Persian and in English, Name of the author(s) in Farsi and in English (the name of the corresponding author will be marked with an asterisk).
- Academic status and name of institution or place of employment of the author(s) in Persian and English.
- Full address of the author responsible for correspondence, including postal address, telephone number, fax number and E-mail address in Persian and in English. Please avoid using these specifications in other pages of the paper.
- If the financial expenses of the research or the preparation of the article are provided by an institution, or if the article is derived from a research project with the financial support of other institutions and organizations, it is necessary to obtain permission to print the results of the project or research from the appropriate institution and submit it to the journal office when submitting the article, and if requested by the institution, the name of that institution should be included in the footer of the first page.
- In the text refer to number of charts, tables, notes and outline their approximate location.
- Submitted article would be sent to three unonmous reviewers.
- The corresponding author is legally responsible for the scientific and accuracy of the article.
- Translated texts are not acceptable.
- The journal reserves the right to accept, reject, edit and keeping the article.
5- Rejected or withdrawn article will remove from journal archives after three months and the journal has no responsibility in this regard.
Note 1: The journal is free to review, accept or reject the paper.
