Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Majalah Biomorfologi (Biomorphology Journal - MBIOMJ) aims to publish scientific papers with an open-access policy that focus on the variation and modulation of basic and functional biomorphology in humans.

The scope of this journal includes anatomy, histology, and bioanthropology. The manuscript contains analysis at the levels of biomolecular, cellular, tissue, organs, and body systems. We also welcome studies based on animal models related to disease and/or abnormalities that occur in humans.

Section Policies

ORIGINAL RESEARCH REPORT

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

SCOPING REVIEW

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND/ OR META-ANALYSIS

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

CASE SERIES WITH SCOPING REVIEW DISCUSSION

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

The submitted manuscript will be subjected to a double anonymous peer-review to assess the originality of the topic and its contribution to the body of science, the soundness of theory and methodology, analysis coherence, and communicability to the readers. The double-anonymous peer-review means that the identities of both reviewer(s) and author(s) are concealed from each other throughout the review process. The review process is conducted by at least two independent peer reviewers. When two independent peer-reviewers have opposing decisions, the editor-in-chief will make the final decision. The whole process takes approximately 5–15 weeks.

Publication Frequency

Majalah Biomorfologi (Biomorphology Journal-MBIOMJ) is published twice a year (January and July).

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content based on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

This journal (p-ISSN:0215-8833; e-ISSN:2716-0920) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the CLOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

Plagiarism Statement

The submitted manuscript must be free from plagiarism. Also, it must pass the turnitin screening at a rate of less than 20% with no similarity of more than 10 words in a sentence. Any manuscript that does not meet this requirement must be revised by its authors prior to re-submission. Authors must obtain permission to reproduce any copyright material and include an acknowledgement of the source in their article. Authors must be aware that the unreferenced use of published and unpublished ideas, writings, or illustrations by others from any source (including research grant applications) or submission of a complete paper under 'new' authorship in the same or a different language constitutes plagiarism.

Publication Ethics

Universitas Airlangga, as the publisher of Majalah Biomorfologi (Biomorphology Journal - MBIOMJ) takes its duties of guardianship at all publishing stages seriously, and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that either advertisement, re-printing, or additional commercial revenue has no impact and/or influence on the editorial decision. When needed, editorial boards assist in communication with other parties and/or publishers.

The ethical rules of conduct are established by all parties involved in publishing articles in this journal, including the authors, the editor-in-chief, the editorial board, peer reviewers, and the publisher. This statement is adopted by the Committe on Publication Ethics (COPE), the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), and the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC).

Duties for Editor

Publication decisions: Based on the review report of the editorial board, the editor can accept, reject, or request modifications to the manuscript. Editors must ensure the quality of the material they publish and maintain the integrity of the published record.
Manuscript review: The editor should organize and use peer review fairly and wisely. Editors should explain their peer review processes in the information for authors and indicate which parts of the journal are peer-reviewed. Editors should use appropriate peer reviewers for papers considered for publication, selecting people with sufficient expertise and avoiding conflicts of interest.
The editor must ensure that the aims and scope are consistent with Majalah Biomorfologi and proper citations.
Fair play: The editor must ensure that each manuscript received by the journal is reviewed for its intellectual content without regard to the authors' sex, gender, race, religion, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy; please refer to APA language guidelines.
Confidentiality: The editor keeps manuscripts confidential, sharing information only with authorized reviewers. Confidential discussions are kept private, except in exceptional cases.
Disclosures and conflicts of interest: The journal editor will not use unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript for his own research without the author's written consent. Privileged information or ideas obtained by editors while handling the manuscript will be kept confidential and not used for their personal advantage.
The Editorial Board makes the final decision and publication; the author may appeal this decision, but the Editor-in-Chief will decide on the manuscript.

Duties for Reviewer

The manuscript undergoes a double-blind peer-review process, which means both the author and peer-reviewer are blinded to each other. This ensures the author's and peer-reviewer's anonymity for an unbiased assessment.
Confidentiality: Information regarding manuscripts submitted by authors should be kept confidential and treated as privileged information. They must not be shown or discussed with others unless authorized by the editor.
Contribution to editorial decisions: Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions and, through editorial communications with authors, may assist authors in improving the manuscripts. Peer review is at the heart of a scientific endeavor.
Standards of objectivity: Reviewers must be objective in their reviews of submitted manuscripts. They should express their views clearly with supporting arguments. They should also be constructive and provide feedback that will help the authors improve their manuscripts.
Promptness: The reviewers should respond in a reasonable time frame. Any invited reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should immediately notify the editors and decline the invitation to review so that alternative reviewers can be contacted.
Acknowledging sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that the authors have not cited. Any statement that is an observation, derivation, or argument that has been reported in previous publications should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also notify the editors of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other (published or unpublished) they know personally.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Conflicts of interest from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with authors, companies, or institutions should prevent reviewers from considering manuscripts.

Duties of Authors

Reporting manuscript standards: Authors must present an accurate account of the original article (original research report, systematic review and/or meta-analysis, scoping review, and case series with scoping review discussion), as well as an objective discussion. A manuscript should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Authors should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification, or inappropriate data manipulation. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. The author(s) must disclose any applicable funding sources and conflicts of interest, and submit, along with the manuscript, the ethical clearance for the original research report or the signed informed consent for study participation and publication from the patient(s) and/or legal guardian(s) for the case study articles. The author must follow the study type checklist and ensure no academic dishonesty or ethical misconduct occurred.
The author must actively engage in the peer-review process and thoroughly address reviewers' comments. Adherence to these guidelines ensures ethical publication practices and upholds research integrity.
The author must complete and upload all required documents, which can be downloaded
Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure the submitted work is original and has not been published elsewhere. The manuscript should not be submitted concurrently to more than one publication. Relevant previous work and publications should be properly acknowledged and referenced by other researchers and the author's own.
Please be advised that all manuscripts submitted to the Majalah Biomorfologi (Biomorphology Journal - MBIOMJ) will be screened for plagiarism and duplication. Authors are required to paraphrase all reference citations in their own words. This is to prevent any misunderstandings regarding plagiarism. When a particular citation would lose its original meaning and essence if paraphrasing is attempted, the journal requires authors to enclose the citation in quotation marks (" ”) to indicate that it is a direct quote from the source. However, excessive quotation marks are discouraged and should be utilized only when absolutely necessary. Majalah Biomorfologi (Biomorphology Journal - MBIOMJ) adopts a zero-tolerance policy toward plagiarism. Failure to comply with these instructions will result in manuscripts being rejected outright without peer review, and appropriate action will be taken.
Data access and retention: Authors may be asked to provide their study's raw data along with the manuscript for editorial review, and they should be prepared to make the data publicly available if possible.
Duplicate and redundant publications (dual submission): Authors must avoid duplication. Similar research should not be published in multiple journals. Multiple publications arising from a single research project should be clearly identified as such, and the primary publication should be referenced.
Submissions that are identical (or substantially similar) to those previously published, accepted for publication on any platform previously, or that have been submitted in parallel to other conferences are not appropriate for submission to Majalah Biomorfologi (Biomorphology Journal - MBIOMJ) and violate our submission policy, thus will not be further processed. The editors reserve the right to immediately reject all submissions that they deem to be excessively similar by the same authors. "Shotgun submissions” are unacceptable, unfair to authors who submit single original papers, and place an additional strain on the review process.
Authors should acknowledge all data sources used in the research and cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given.
Authorship of the paper: Research publications should accurately reflect individuals' contributions to the work and its reporting. The authors ensure that all authors have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript. Other co-authors who have made significant contributions must be listed. Authorship should be limited to those who have contributed significantly to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study.
Disclosures and conflicts of interest: Authors must clearly disclose any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that may influence manuscript results or interpretation. They should also disclose all sources of financial support for the project.
Fundamental Errors in Published Works: In the event that the author discovers an error or inaccuracy in their submitted manuscript, they should promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to correct the paper. The author(s) must ensure their submitted manuscript is free from fallacy, fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism.
Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects: The author should clearly identify in the manuscript if the work involves chemicals, procedures, or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use. If the work involves using animals or human participants, the authors should ensure that all procedures comply with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committee(s) has approved them; the manuscript should contain a statement to this effect. The authors should also include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human participants. The privacy rights of human participants must always be observed. Please follow the protocols of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and comply with the Declaration of Helsinki.
Subject consent forms: Subjects have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying details (written or photographic) should be omitted if they are not essential, but subject data should never be altered or falsified in an attempt to attain anonymity. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, and a consent form should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of subjects is inadequate protection of anonymity. When informed consent has been obtained, it should be indicated in the published article.
Withdrawal and retraction of a manuscript: The author(s) can request withdrawal of a submitted manuscript via email to the Editor-in-Chief, and it must be done before the manuscript undergoes the review process. It cannot be granted if a withdrawal is requested during or after the review process. The retraction guidelines and withdrawal request of a published article are done by the editorial board which must follow the protocols in COPE.
Ethics committee approval: Authors must sign a declaration that the research was conducted within the guidelines below and in accordance with all relevant local legislation. The editors reserve the right to determine whether the use and treatment of humans or animals in experiments for publication in the journal is appropriate.
Human experiments: All work must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Papers describing experimental work on human participants that carries a risk of harm must include (1) a statement that the experiments were conducted with the understanding and consent of each participant and (2) a statement that the responsible, ethical committee has approved the experiments.
Animal experiments: In papers describing experiments on living animals, include (1) a full description of any anesthetic and surgical procedure used and (2) evidence that all possible steps were taken to avoid animals' suffering at each experiment stage. In experiments involving the use of muscle relaxants, describe the precautions taken to ensure adequate anesthesia. Experiments on isolated tissues: Indicate precisely how you obtained the donor tissue. The NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals gives guidelines for the acquisition and care of animals.
Author must ensure that the study using animal models adheres to the Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement (3Rs) principles for animal subjects and follows the ARRIVE.

Article Processing Charge

We do not apply any publication charges. We also do not apply for any other charges, i.e., submission and processing charges.