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Nigerian Journal of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

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Instruction to Authors

Nigerian Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology publishes papers in all areas of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.  Manuscripts  should be  sent online to Professor GOC Onyeze,     Federal      University     of    Technology Owerri, P.M.B 1526,    Owerri, Nigeria. Email: gocbchm@yahoo.com or goconyeze@yahoo.com

Manuscripts, written in English Language which should be concise and clear, should be forwarded. Originals of illustrative materials should be forwarded as well. When photographs are included, they should be on glossy print. All photographs will appear as black and white or coloured.

Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that the work has not been published before and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. The submission of the manuscript by the author(s) implies that the author(s) automatically agree to assign exclusive copyright to the Journal if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication.

Manuscripts should be typewritten, with double spacing and wide margins. Tables, illustrations, graphs (and their accompanying legends) should be an integral part of the text and should flow normally with the rest of the text. Graphs should be electronically plotted in MS Word or Excel or any other software that allows their formatting. Authors are to ensure that legibility of any part of the text (including legends) would not be lost when re-sized (downwards) to 2.48x3.00 (hxw).

The first page should contain the title of the manuscript, name(s) of all the authors and their address(es). Where there are more than one author, the corrsponding author (and his/her e-mail) should be indicated. An abstract (of not more than 200 words) should follow the authors' names and addresses. This should adequately summarise the pertinent findings of the paper. The main body of the paper may be divided into (a) Introduction, (b) Materials and Methods, (c) Results, (d) Discussion, (e) Acknowledgement and (f) References. "c" and "d" may be combined for conciseness and clarity.

If the research involves the use of human subjects, including collection of human blood or other human specimens, an Institutional ethical clearance document should be submitted with the manuscript. Alternatively, a clear statement should be made, in the 'Materials and Methods' section indicating that informed consent of the experimental subject(s) and/or of an appropriate ethical committee had been obtained.

References are to be arranged in alphabetical order at the reference section after citation by name and year in the text. Full titles of papers cited should be included, and abbreviations of journals should conform to those of Biological Abstracts. Note the following examples:

·         Cheung, W. Y. (1980) Calmodulin plays a pivotal role in cellular regulation. Science 207, 19-27.

·         Akanji, M. A., Olagoke, A. A. and Oloyede, O. B. (1993) Effect of chronic consumption of metabisulphite on the intergrity of the rat kidneycellular system. Toxicol. 81, 173 - 179.

·         Brodulius, P. (1983) Immobilized plant cells. In: Immobilized Cell and organelles. Vol.1 (B. Mattiason, ed.), pp.27 - 55. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

Author(s) should send a handling fee of N1,500 only along with their manuscript(s). Charge for publishing a paper is $100 for authors outside Nigeria, or N10,000.00 only for authors within Nigeria. The corresponding author shall be duly informed regarding payment when paper has been reviewed and found to be publishable. Payment should be made to:

Account Number: 2792010098175

Bank: First Bank of Nigeria Plc

Branch: Owerri Main.

Authors may ask for a waiver, which shall be at the discretion of the Editorial

Office.

When the manuscript has been duly reviewed and found publishable, a formal letter of acceptance of manuscript for publication shall be sent to the author(s) for their further action. Upon publication which shall be online, the author(s) shall be notified by a soft copy of the paper. All papers published in a volume of the Journal shall be bound into a hard copy which may be purchased from the Editorin-Chief.

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