Editorial policies
Editorial policies
Table of contents
Overview
Ethics and consent
Research involving animals
Research involving plants
Consent for publication
Trial registration
Availability of data and materials
Standards of reporting
Describing new taxa
Competing interests
Authorship
Citations
Duplicate publication
Text recycling
Peer review
Confidentiality
Misconduct
Corrections and retractions
Appeals and complaints
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Overview
BioMed Central is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and endorses the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) Policy Statement on Geopolitical Intrusion on Editorial Decisions. BioMed Central also endorses the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.
Submission of a manuscript to a BioMed Central journal implies that all authors have read and agreed to its content and that the manuscript conforms to the journal’s policies.