BJN has format-neutral submission in place for original submissions only. This means that authors do not need to format their article to journal style at this stage; and figures and tables can be kept in their original locations in the text. We do ask however that your article is line-numbered and is in an easily readable layout, which will aid our Editors and Reviewers in reviewing your paper. Please note that revised manuscripts will be subject to full formatting requirements of the journal.

Author Affiliations

Author affiliations should represent the institution(s) at which the research presented was conducted and/or supported and/or approved. For non-research content, any affiliations should represent the institution(s) with which each author is currently affiliated. For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.

Nominating referees

At submission, authors are asked to nominate at least four potential referees who may be asked by the Editorial Board to help review the work. You must recommend at least four potential reviewers for your submission. Please do not nominate reviewers who are located at the same affiliation as any of the authors of the manuscript or potential reviewers with whom any of the authors have ongoing or recent (last 3 years) collaborations. You may also notify the journal of any reviewers who you do not wish to review your paper.

ORCID

BJN requires that all corresponding authors identify themselves using their ORCID iD when submitting a manuscript to the journal, and we. If you don’t already have an iD, you can register for one directly from your user account on ScholarOne or via https://ORCID.org/register.

If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting, either by linking it to your Scholar One account or supplying it during submission by using the “Associate your existing ORCD iD” button.

Although not mandatory, we encourage all authors of a paper to include their ORCID iD as part of their submission.