Editorial Policy

The Editorial Committee of Acta Medico-Biotechnica (AMB) reserves the right to decide whether a paper is acceptable for publication, to obtain peer reviews by an international Editorial Board for submitted papers, and if necessary, to require changes to the content, length or language.

A cover letter with the name, address, telephone and e-mail address of the corresponding authors must accompany each manuscript. This letter must include a statement that affirms that the publication has been approved by all co-authors, the work has not been published previously and that is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the above-mentioned requirements.

Review Process

Each manuscript is initially reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief, followed by double-blind peer review by at least two experts from a specific field (editorial members can be chosen to conduct the peer review), chosen by the Editor-in-Chief. The Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision regarding publication based on the suggestions received by the reviewers.

The aim of the peer review process is to establish the technical soundness of a submission and its suitability for publication by AMB.

Following completion of the peer review process, all accepted articles are subject to professional English editing.

Received contributions are first reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal who determines whether the contents of these contributions correspond to the concept of the journal:

  • If the contribution corresponds to the concept and criteria of the journal, editorial staff sends it to two anonymous reviewers. Articles that comply with the concept of the journal according to their content but do not correspond to other criteria may be returned to the author by the editorial staff for correction.
  • Regarding acceptance or rejection of the article, the author is informed within three months of article submission.
  • After the reviews are completed, the author receives the reviewers’ opinions with recommendations for improvements/corrections and in the case of rejection, the reasons for rejection.
  • The final decision on publication of the article is made by the Editor-in-Chief on the basis of the reviewers’ recommendations, and the justifications for his/her decision need not be given.
  • The text of the article should be prepared in accordance with the Instructions and guidelines for authors.
  • Authors upon submission of the article are required to confirm that the contribution is submitted in accordance with the Ethics of scientific communication.
  • All accepted articles are additionally proofread by English and Slovenian language proofreaders.

Obligations of reviewers

Reviewers must treat the contributions received as confidential and shall not provide their content to others. They may not use unpublished data from a paper for their own research work without the explicit consent of the author.

The review must be carried out objectively. The outcome must be made clearly and in line with the findings.

If the reviewer considers that he/she is not qualified enough to perform the review, he/she must report it to the editorial board and withdraw from the review.

If the reviewer considers that he is not qualified enough to perform the review, he or she must report it to the editorial board and withdraw from the review.

Legal requirements

Manuscript submitted for publication must contain a statement that all human studies have been reviewed by the appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki. It must be clear that all persons gave informed consent before their inclusion in the study.

All manuscripts that report the use of laboratory animals have to include the statement that all studies were conducted in accordance with the EU Directive 20201/63/EU and according to review of appropriate ethical committees for tetsing the animals.

Conflict of Interest

A competing interest statement is required for all papers submitted to AMB. If there is no conflict of interest, a statement declaring this must still be included in the paper.

The statement included in the article file must be explicit and unambiguous, describing any potential competing interest (or lack thereof) for EACH contributing author.

In case of no competing interests, the authors are required to include the following statement:
Conflict of Interests
The author(s) declare no competing interests.

Disclaimer

The statements, opinions and data contained in this publication are solely those of the individual authors and not of the publisher and the Editors. Neither the publisher nor the Editors can accept any legal responsibility for any errors that may be made.

Similarity Check

All submitted manuscripts are screened using the software Detector of Similar Content of the producer University of Maribor, Faculty of Computer and Information Science and iThenticate to check for instances of overlapping or similar text in previously published articles.

Publication Costs

AMB is a journal with open access (Open Access) and does not charge APC (article publication costs). This means that there are no fees for submission, publication or open access.