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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration.
  • Research presented in the submission has been approved by a Research Ethics review board, where required.
  • Authors have the copyrights or the reproducing rights of all figures and tables included in the submission.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word, or RTF.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in detail in the Author Guidelines.
  • Where available, references' DOI have been provided.

Author Guidelines

The Journal welcomes submission of previously unpublished articles that address issues relevant to this publication.

Articles submitted should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 150 words and three to six key words. A complete set of Author guidelines can be downloaded here.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with OLBI Journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the OLBI Journal (OLBIJ) right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in the OLBIJ.
  • Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the OLBIJ's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in the OLBIJ.
  • Authors will not simultaneously submit the same piece of work for possible publication to more than one academic journal at a time.

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