A Complete Guideline
Biomedica Sphere Journal is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes 2 issues per year in print and online formats. Please read these instructions carefully and follow them closely. The Editors may return manuscripts that do not follow these instructions.
Scope of the Journal
The Biomedica Sphere Journal publishes manuscripts pertaining to the design, delivery and mechanism of action of drugs and dosage forms with a view to developing and improving current therapeutic drug strategies.
The Biomedica Sphere Journal keeps pace with new research on how drug action may be optimized by new technologies, and attention is given to understanding and improving drug interactions in the body. At the same time, the journal maintains its established and well-respected core strengths in areas such as pharmaceutics and drug delivery, experimental and clinical pharmacology.
Preparation of the Manuscript
The Biomedica Sphere Journal considers all on the condition that the manuscript is original work and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including the author's own work.
Submission Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
Manuscript Structure
The following standard headings should be used in this journal based on most research papers' common structures.
Title
The title summarizes the main ideas of your research. A good title contains a few words to adequately describe the main content and main purpose of your research paper. The title must be simple, direct, accurate, appropriate, specific, functional, concise/brief, unambiguous, informative, unique, and it should not be misleading.
Abstract
An abstract summarizes the major aspects of the entire paper in a prescribed sequence. It should reflect the contents of the main text of the paper accurately, highlight the selling point of the manuscript, and succeed in luring the reader to read the complete. The main part of an abstract is the purpose of the study, the methodology design of the study, major findings or trends found as a result of your analysis, and the originality which allows your research to be distinct from the existing literature. The supporting part of an abstract in a research limitation for further research to cover, a brief summary of the practical and social implications of your research.
Introduction
The introduction should outline the aims of your paper, as well as describe why the topic is important and what it contributes to the body of knowledge. It establishes the scope, context, and significance of the research being conducted by summarizing current understanding and background information about the topic, stating the purpose of the work in the form of the research problem supported by a hypothesis or a set of questions, explaining briefly the methodological approach used to examine the research problem, highlighting the potential outcomes your study can reveal, and outlining the remaining structure and organization of the paper.
Literature Review
The literature review provides an analysis and generalization of relevant works (papers, monographs, reports, theses, etc.), which describe the essence of the problem and/or give an understanding of the previous efforts to solve it. The Literature Review should comply with the aim of the research (“fitness for purpose”) and represent the results of a critical analysis of the analytical base for testing the research hypothesis. The literature review must not be limited only by works, which were published in the country where the author lives and works (the problem should be studied globally). Particularly it concerns the authors from non-English speaking countries (they are recommended to thoroughly analyze the works published in English).
Research Methods
The research methods section describes the main stages and procedures of the research to investigate a research problem and the rationale for the application of specific procedures or techniques used to identify, select, process, and analyze information applied to understand the main problem of the research. In detail, research methods must be explaining the methods used, the influences that determined your approach, and why you chose samples, etc. This section must focus on answers about collected or generated data, and the process to analyze data with the relevant analytical tools. The writing should be direct and precise and always written in the past tense.
Result and Discussion
The result and discussion section are the main part of the author's contribution to the research by providing a report in the form of an explanation of the findings of the research-based upon the methodology you applied to gather information. The results section should state the findings of the research arranged in a logical sequence without bias or interpretation. A section describing results is particularly necessary if your paper includes data generated from your own research. The purpose of the discussion is to interpret and describe the significant findings of the research considering what was already known about the research problem being investigated and to explain any new understanding or insights that emerged as a result of the research process to answer of the problem. The discussion will always connect to the introduction by way of the research questions or hypotheses you posed and the literature you reviewed.
Conclusion
The conclusion should summarize the main state of the findings at the point of writing and consider the next steps. This section also the synthesis key points of the result and, if applicable recommend new areas for future research.
Manuscript Requirements
MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES
Format
Articles should be between 4500 and 7000 words in length. This includes all text, for example, the structured abstract, references, all text in tables, and figures and appendices.
Article length / wordcount
An abstract summarizes the major aspects of the entire paper in a prescribed sequence. It should reflect the contents of the main text of the paper accurately, highlight the selling point of the manuscript, and succeed in luring the reader to read the complete. The main part of an abstract is the purpose of the study, the methodology design of the study, major findings or trends found as a result of your analysis, and the originality which allows your research to be distinct from the existing literature. The supporting part of an abstract in a research limitation for further research to cover, a brief summary of the practical and social implications of your research.
Article title
The title of the manuscript should fully reflect the topic of the research and its content. It must be simple, direct, accurate, appropriate, specific, functional, concise/brief, unambiguous, informative, unique, and it should not be misleading (not more than 15 words).
Author details
Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled. The names of all contributing authors should be listed in the order in which you would like them to be published. Each contributing author will extract the following details:
Structured abstract
The abstract should be no more than 250 words. All submissions must include a structured abstract, following the format outlined below. These five sub-headings and their accompanying explanations must always be included:
Keywords
Please include 4-5 main words that represent the content of the manuscript for indexing purposes.
Paper Type
The following types of manuscripts can be submitted to the journal:
Reference Guidelines
Manuscripts should include adequate reference citations to support methodology and discussion of the research study. Manuscript is expected involve approximately 20-25 primaries and update references to assert a high quality of the contribution to the knowledge development. Citations and references must strictly follow APA (American Psychological Association) style. References should relate only to the content that is cited within the text of the manuscript. References should be those of the last ten years publication (>80%), except for key references (80%). Referring to any textbook should be minimized (<20%). Consulting the APA style manual is highly recommended for compiling manuscript submissions.