Manuscript Structure

Authors submitting to Biomedical and Chemical Applications (BIOCA) should organize their manuscripts according to the structure below and use the journal's manuscript template to ensure consistency in presentation and formatting.

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Authors are required to use the following templates when preparing and submitting manuscripts to Biomedical and Chemical Applications (BIOCA).

Original Research Article Template Download ↗
Review Article Template Download ↗
Cover Letter Template Download ↗
Title Page Template Download ↗
Response to Reviewers Template Download ↗
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MANDATORY SUBMISSION DOCUMENTS

All authors MUST submit the following three documents when submitting a new manuscript to Biomedical and Chemical Applications (BIOCA).

1. Manuscript Download Original Research Article Template↗ or Download Review Article Template  ↗
2. Cover Letter  Download Cover Letter Template ↗ 
3. Title Page  Download Title Page Template ↗ 
 
Section Requirements
1. Title and Author Information
  • Provide a concise, informative title that reflects the main focus of the study.
  • List the full names of all authors and their institutional affiliations, including department, institution, city, postal code (if available), and country.
  • Clearly identify the corresponding author and provide a valid institutional email address.
  • Select the appropriate article type, such as Original Research, Review, or Short Communication, if accepted by BIOCA.
2. Abstract
  • Write one concise paragraph of approximately 150–250 words.
  • Follow the IMRAD logic: Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion.
  • Briefly state the research background or knowledge gap, objective, principal methods, key findings, and main conclusion.
  • Report specific findings where possible. Avoid references, undefined abbreviations, unsupported claims, and information absent from the main text.
3. Keywords Provide five keywords that represent the main concepts, materials, methods, or applications of the study. Prefer specific scientific terms and avoid overly broad or repetitive terms.
4. Introduction
  • Introduce the research topic and explain its scientific or practical significance.
  • Synthesize relevant literature to describe the current state of knowledge.
  • Identify the research gap, unresolved problem, or limitation addressed by the study.
  • Explain the study rationale and clearly state its objective and, where appropriate, hypotheses.
  • Use relevant and reliable references and follow BIOCA's numerical citation style.
5. Research Methods Describe the study design and procedures in sufficient detail to support evaluation and reproducibility. Subsections may be adapted to the research field and may include:
  • Materials, reagents, and equipment: samples or specimens, chemicals, reagents, suppliers, grades or purity, and relevant equipment.
  • Study design and experimental procedures: sample selection, groups and controls, preparation steps, experimental conditions, and outcome measurements.
  • Characterization and analytical methods: analytical techniques, instrument settings, calibration, and quality-control procedures, where applicable.
  • Statistical analysis: sample size, definition of replicates, statistical tests, software and version, significance threshold, and reporting format, where applicable.
  • Ethical approval: provide committee details, approval number, and relevant consent or animal-welfare information for studies involving humans, identifiable human data, or animals. State when not applicable if required.
6. Results and Discussion
  • Present findings in a logical order aligned with the study objectives.
  • Use clearly numbered tables and figures with descriptive titles or captions, and refer to each in the text.
  • Explain the meaning and significance of the results without simply repeating all table or figure data.
  • Compare findings with relevant previous studies and discuss similarities, differences, implications, and limitations.
  • Discuss possible mechanisms only when they are supported by the evidence.
  • Subheadings may be used to organize distinct results, analyses, or research objectives.
7. Conclusions Summarize the principal findings and their significance in relation to the research objective. Do not introduce results that have not been reported in the manuscript. Mention key limitations or future directions briefly, where appropriate.
8. Acknowledgments Acknowledge individuals, facilities, or organizations that contributed to the work but do not meet the criteria for authorship. Ensure that acknowledged individuals have agreed to be named.
9. Funding Name the funding agency and grant or project number, where applicable. If the research received no specific funding, provide a clear statement to that effect.
10. CRediT Authorship Contribution Statement Specify each author's contributions using appropriate CRediT roles, such as Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Supervision, or Funding acquisition. Assign only roles that accurately reflect each author's contribution.
11. Declaration of Competing Interests Disclose financial or personal relationships that could have influenced the research. If none exist, include a statement declaring that the authors have no known competing interests.
12. Ethics Statement Where applicable, provide relevant ethics committee approval details, informed consent information, animal research approval, or other ethical declarations. Avoid unnecessary duplication of details already given in the Research Methods section.
13. References
  • Use the Vancouver referencing style.
  • Number references consecutively in the order they first appear in the text, using square brackets (e.g., [1], [2,3], [4–6]).
  • Ensure every in-text citation corresponds to a reference-list entry and every listed reference is cited in the manuscript.
  • Include available DOIs and check the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of all references.

General Formatting and Presentation

  • Use the official BIOCA manuscript template for layout, fonts, headings, and other formatting details.
  • Use clear, numbered section headings and concise subheadings where appropriate. Do not number the abstract as a main-text section.
  • Ensure that all tables and figures are numbered, have appropriate titles or captions, and are mentioned in the manuscript text.
  • Check that the manuscript is consistent in terminology, units, abbreviations, citations, and reference formatting before submission.
Important
The requirements above summarize the structure in the BIOCA manuscript template. Authors should adapt method subsections to their study type while retaining all applicable declarations and required sections.

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