Information For Authors

MJ Cell Press is an independent, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, and open access publishing house committed to facilitating the dissemination of research findings across all fields. Our journals offer a rapid and straightforward publication process without altering the quality of the peer review and all articles published are made freely and permanently accessible online. All articles published by MJ Cell Press journals are posted online immediately as they are ready for publication.

General requirements

When preparing and before submitting their manuscript, authors must ensure that:

The manuscript is original, relevant, unpublished and is not under consideration in another journal for publication.
The manuscript is one of the following article’s types: Research Article, Review, Systematic Review, Brief Report, Case Report, Communication, Hypothesis, Protocol, Project Report, Registered Report, Technical Note, Essay, Opinion, Letter to Editor, Book Review, Abstract and Proceeding Paper, Conference Report.
The manuscript is written in clear and concise English.
The text, figures and tables adhere to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements of MJ Cell Press.

Manuscript preparation

The manuscript should be typed, double-spaced on standard A4 sized paper (8.5″ x 11″) with 1″ margins on all sides. Times New Roman font 12 pt should be used.

The manuscript must include the title page, abstract and key words, the main text of the manuscript, Conclusion, Acknowledgment, Funding, Competing interest statement, Authors’ Contributions, and References.

Title page

The title page should contain a clear, concise, and informative title of the article followed by the full names and affiliations of the authors. The affiliation should comprise the department, institution, country and should be typed as a footnote to the author’s name. The Corresponding Author must indicate his or her complete mailing address, office/cellular phone number, fax number, and email address at the lower left of the Title Page.

Abstract and key words

The abstract should not be more than 350 words, should not be structured but should provide brief details about the background, objectives of the study, materials and methods, results, and conclusions in a single paragraph without subheadings. The abstract must be followed by four to six keywords.

Main text

All papers should have a brief introduction (with recent references) and Conclusion. All the other parts of the main text should be divided into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should also be numbered for example: 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, …), 1.2, etc.). The text should be intelligible to readers and technical terms should be defined.

Tables and figures

All tables and figures should be inserted into the main text close to their first citation and must be numbered following their order of appearance.

Acknowledgment

The authors can acknowledge any support given which is not covered by the author contribution or funding sections.

Competing interest statement

All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. If there are no conflicts of interest, authors should state so.

Funding

Authors must state how the research and publication of article was funded, by naming financially supporting body followed by associated grant number, if any.

Author Contributions

The individual contributions of authors to the manuscript should be specified, and initials should be used to refer to each author’s contribution.

References

In the References section, cited papers or materials should appear as APA citing and referencing. References should not include unpublished source materials and at least 40% of references should be taken from recent years (last five years). Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references.

Online submission

All manuscripts should be submitted via the MJ Cell Press submission system. Please follow the hyperlink Submit a Manuscript and upload all your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.

Editorial process

After submission, the manuscript will undergo initial check which consists of Technical Check (compliance with guidelines related to conflicts of interest, reporting standards, acknowledgments, authors’ complete details, etc.), Plagiarism Check (Using Crossref plagiarism detection tool) and Author’s Verification (to ensure author authenticity).

After the initial check and depending on the Editor-in-Chief’s initial decision, the manuscript may be:

Rejected or transfer to any other suitable journal with author’s consent, if the manuscript is not within the scope of the submitting journal,

Returned for Revision, the authors will be notified, and the revised version can be resubmitted.

Sent to Peer Review, if the manuscript is within the scope of the submitting journal.

The reviewers will complete the review and sent report. The editor compiles the different reports and make decision (minor revision, major revision, accept in current state, reject) based on reviewers’ recommendation and the overall scientific quality of the paper. After corrections (when necessary), if the manuscript is suitable for publication based on reviewers’ recommendation and the overall scientific quality of the paper, the editor-in-chief will decide on its provisional acceptance.

After provisional acceptance

Upon provisional acceptance, the corresponding or submitting author is given 1 week of time for the completion of the article processing charge (APC) payment. Upon receiving the payment, English language editing, copyediting, and typesetting are done. Then, the manuscript is formatted to make a galley proof.

The galley proof is sent as a PDF file to the corresponding or submitting author, and 3 days are given for the necessary corrections by the authors. The purpose of the galley proof is to check for typesetting or conversion errors and the completeness and accuracy of the text, tables, and figures. Substantial changes in content, e.g., new results, corrected values, title, and authorship, are not allowed without the approval of the Editor-in-Chief.

Publication charges

All articles published by MJ Cell Press journals are published in full open access. In order to provide free access to readers, and to cover the costs of peer review, copyediting, typesetting, long-term archiving, and journal management, an Article Processing Charge (APC) of 500 USD applies to papers accepted after peer review.

Until December 31, 2025, an 80% discount is applied to APCs, which means that authors will pay a publication fee of 100 USD.

There are no charges for rejected articles, no submission charges, and no surcharges based on the length of an article, figures, or supplementary data. APCs are not refundable once the accepted manuscript has been published online.

Online Publication

Articles are immediately published online as soon as all final corrections have been incorporated. Articles published online are complete and definitive. Once published, publication certificate will be provided to all author with the detail of published article by an email.

Copyright and license

Upon submitting an article, authors should be agreed to abide by an open-access Creative Commons license. Under the terms of this license, authors retain ownership of the copyright of their articles. However, the license permits any user to download, print out, extract, reuse, archive, and distribute the article, so long as appropriate credit is given to the authors and the source of the work. The license ensures that the article will be available as widely as possible and that the article can be included in any scientific archive.

Disclaimer

The author(s) of each article appearing in MJ Cell Press Journals is/are solely responsible for the content and all statements made in their work. Any other person involved in the creation, production or distribution assumes no responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, correctness, or usefulness of any information provided in MJ Cell Press Journals. MJ Cell Press Journals remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published institutional affiliations.