Guidelines for Authors

2016-09-19

Steps to making a submission: 

  1. If you do not have an account yet, you need to create one on the website. Otherwise, skip to step 2. Click on the Register link on the top right of this page to create an account.
  2. Login to your account, click on New Submission and follow the steps to make your submisssion.
  3. Send a copy of your submission to the Editor-in- Chief (email to editorinchief@beonlinejournal.net).

Notes:

Submissions are to be electronic only, (using Microsoft Word or RTF format) through the journal's homepage and should contain:

  1. A separate title page containing the name, address (including e-mail address) of each author.
  2. An abstract of not more than 150 words followed by six key words before the main text.
  3. References (Author-Date style is preferred) or appropriate end notes and bibliography (i.e. Documentary style which is much less preferred) are to follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, 2003. (www.chicagomanualofstyle.org).
  4. Double quotations set off all quotations less than two lines; otherwise quotations are to be set off separately with double indentation.
  5. End notes are requested to be without extracts, graphs and paragraphing.
  6. Separate accompanying documents at the time of submission are: a list containing each author's important interests contributory to the article; the contributions of each author; and a declaration signed by each author that the essential substance of the submission has not been published before and is not being considered by any other journal.
  7. On acceptance of a work, author(s) shall not be required to relinquish the rights of the publication.

It is a principle of the journal to place emphases on articles with significant theoretical or social bioethical potential impact, backed by rigorous logic and presented in clear and delightful fashion. Articles in this category with global or cross cultural advantages will be given priority.