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About the Journal

The American Journal of Bioethics accepts the following types of article: target articles, open peer commentaries, response to open peer commentaries, editorials, clinical ethics and research ethics cases and commentaries, and letters to the editor.

 

The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB) is a refereed journal and articles are accepted on a non-remunerative basis. Submitted manuscripts must wholly comprise original material and are reviewed with the explicit understanding that their essential substance or contents have not been and will not be submitted for publication elsewhere in any form, unless and until such time as AJOB rejects said material. Authors wishing to discuss manuscript ideas are encouraged to email the AJOB Editorial Office at editor@bioethics.net. The Taylor & Francis Group and The American Journal of Bioethics accept no responsibility for the statements and opinions expressed by contributors. Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences, and the scope and nature of peer review and peer commentary in AJOB, no clinical use of AJOB should be attempted. Discussions, views, and recommendations as to medical procedures, choice of drugs, and drug use are the responsibility of the authors. The names The American Journal of Bioethics and AJOB are copyrighted.

Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.

 

Open Access

You have the option to publish open access in this journal via our Open Select publishing program. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership and impact of your research. Articles published Open Select with Taylor & Francis typically receive 95% more citations* and over 7 times as many downloads** compared to those that are not published Open Select.

Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access. Visit our Author Services website to find out more about open access policies and how you can comply with these.

You will be asked to pay an article publishing charge (APC) to make your article open access and this cost can often be covered by your institution or funder. Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.

Please visit our Author Services website if you would like more information about our Open Select Program.

*Citations received up to 9th June 2021 for articles published in 2016-2020 in journals listed in Web of Science®. Data obtained on 9th June 2021, from Digital Science’s Dimensions platform, available at https://app.dimensions.ai
**Usage in 2018-2020 for articles published in 2016-2020.

Peer Review and Ethics

Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed. Further information on our preprints policy and citation requirements can be found on our Preprints Author Services page. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.

Preparing Your Paper

All authors submitting to medicine, biomedicine, health sciences, allied and public health journals should conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, prepared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Structure

Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction,  discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Word Limits

Please include a word count for your paper.

A typical paper for this journal should be between 500-1500 for commentaries and 7500 for Target Articles words

Style Guidelines

Please refer to these quick style guidelines when preparing your paper, rather than any published articles or a sample copy.

Please use American spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.

Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”.

Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.

Formatting and Templates

Papers may be submitted in Word format. Figures should be saved separately from the text. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s).

Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use.

If you are not able to use the template via the links (or if you have any other template queries) please contact us here.

 

Manuscript categories:­

Target Articles: The American Journal of Bioethics typically publishes work that (i) offers an unusually significant theoretical or conceptual contribution that formally models or systematizes a body of research; or (ii) a novel interpretation, synthesis, or critique of existing experimental or theoretical work. Occasionally, articles dealing with social, cultural or philosophical aspects of bioethics will be considered. Manuscripts may not exceed 7500 words in length (excluding references) and should be in Microsoft Word format.

Open Peer Commentaries: The purpose of the Open Peer Commentary (OPC) is to provide a concentrated constructive interaction between author(s) of a Target Article and author(s) who wishes to provide critical commentary about the target article. Commentators should provide substantive criticism, interpretation, and elaboration, as well as any pertinent complementary or supplementary material, such as figures or illustrations. Commentaries should range between 500-1500 words and contain no more than ten citations. Proposals for open peer commentaries are solicited for select Target Articles each month, which may be read and downloaded via the ScholarOne portal. All authors interested in writing an Open Peer Commentary must first submit a short proposal (2-4 sentences) via the ScholarOne portal. If your proposal is selected, you will receive an email informing you of the deadline for your submission. This email should not, however, be considered a guarantee of acceptance and publication of your commentary.

Letters to the Editor: Text limited to 800 or fewer words (reference list, footnotes, figure legend or table are excluded from the word count). Correspondence must be related to work published in the journal and will be referred to the author(s) for comment and the response will be published along with the letter. Where the letter concerns an item appearing in the journal, cite the item in the numbered references. The Editors reserve the right reject correspondence without explanation.

Other: All other manuscript types appear by invitation only, and author-initiated submissions will not be accepted.

The Editors of The American Journal of Bioethics strive to review your work promptly and to the highest standards of scholarship and literacy. The speed and, to some extent, the quality of this review depend on the condition of your manuscript when it is submitted. By delivering a manuscript prepared according to the standards that follow, you will do much to help us review your work quickly and well. It is recommended that authors not fluent in the English language have their manuscripts edited by an expert in the language prior to submission to the journal

Acceptance Criteria for Target Articles:

To be eligible for publication, an author-initiated target article should not only meet the standards of a journal such as Science or The New England Journal of Medicine in terms of conceptual rigor, empirical grounding, and clarity of style, but it should also offer a clear rationale for soliciting Open Peer Commentary, which is the decisive consideration. Controversy is not a sufficient criterion for soliciting commentary, nor is the mere presence of interdisciplinary aspects sufficient. Some appropriate rationales for seeking Open Peer Commentary would be that:

the material bears in a significant way on some current controversial issues in The American Journal of Bioethics;

its findings substantively contradict some well-established aspects of current research and theory;

it criticizes the findings, practices, or principles of an accepted or influential line of work;

it unifies a substantial amount of disparate research; it has important cross-disciplinary ramifications;

it introduces an innovative methodology or formalism for consideration by proponents of the established forms;

it meaningfully integrates a body of relevant bioethical data; and

it places a previously dissociated area of research into a bioethical perspective.

Technical Requirements for Target Articles:

For the mechanics of manuscript preparation, please observe the guidelines below without exception.  The Editors reserve the right to reject any manuscript that does not conform to these standards.

1. Please define, describe, and simplify any technical terminology and/or specialized concepts.
2. Manuscripts may not exceed 7500 words in length (excluding references), and should be in Microsoft Word format.
3. Title Page: The name, address and professional affiliation of all authors should appear on the title page only.
4. Abstract: An abstract of no more than 150 words should precede the text of the manuscript. Six keywords should be included for indexing purposes as well.
5. Main Document: Please remove all identifying information about the author(s) unless the author(s) are cited in the text.Information about the authors(s) should be given in the Title Page only.Additionally, please remove acknowledgements.
6. Graphics: Please convert all graphics to TIFF or EPS format. Line art should be a minimum of 600 dpi, and halftones a minimum of 266 dpi in resolution.
7. References: The author(s) are responsible for the accuracy and thoroughness of citations. Please see the reference appendix for examples.
8. Notes: Avoid extracts, tables, and paragraphing in notes. Footnotes will be converted to endnotes in the typeset version.
9. Quotations: Quotations of more than two lines should be set off in a separate paragraph with double indentation. Quotations of less than two lines may remain in the main body of the text, placed within double quotation marks. All extract citations must include page numbers.
10. Copyright: Authors of accepted articles will be asked to sign a Transfer of Copyright form transferring copyright of the article to the publisher, or retaining said copyright, under certain circumstances.
11. Conflicts of Interest: If your work is accepted, you will be asked to submit any financial or other material, professional, or scholarly relationships that involve the area under discussion in the manuscript. This includes honoraria, payments, stock holdings, and other relationships. All disclosed conflicts of interest will be reviewed by the conflict of interest committee. This committee will make recommendations as to the disclosure to peer reviewers, and the nature of disclosure required should the article be accepted. All appropriate disclosures will be printed alongside each article in the paper and online AJOB.
12. If your paper is accepted as a Target Article, you will be asked for a final version of your manuscript before posting, which should include any acknowledgements, conflict of interest information, and ethics approval & funding information. Once the article is posted for Commentary, author(s) can no longer alter it but can respond formally to all commentaries accepted for publication. The target article and commentaries then co-appear in AJOB, and authors’ responses appear in subsequent issues. Continuing commentary and replies can appear as well in later issues.
13. Please note: For any instances of generic third-person pronouns that are not referring to a specific person whose gender is clear, the journal prefers authors use “they” instead of “he or she” or “him or her.”

Acceptance Criteria for Open Peer Commentary:

As previously stated, the purpose of the Open Peer Commentary is to provide a concentrated constructive interaction between author(s) of a Target Article and author(s) who wishes to provide critical commentary about the target article. Commentaries are original text limited to 1500 words and should provide substantive criticism, interpretation, and elaboration as well as any pertinent complementary or supplementary material, such as illustrations.

Proposals for open peer commentary are solicited for select Target Articles, which may be read and downloaded via the ScholarOne portal. All authors interested in writing a commentary must first submit a short proposal (2-4 sentences) via ScholarOne. If your proposal is selected, you will receive an email informing you of the deadline for your final commentary, uploaded as a Word file in accordance with the manuscript submission requirements listed below. This email should not, however, be considered a guarantee of acceptance and publication of your commentary.

Technical Requirements for Open Peer Commentary: 

1. Style and format for commentaries: Peer commentaries range between 500-1500 words and contain no more than ten citations. Spelling, capitalization, and punctuation should be consistent within each article and commentary and should follow the style recommended in the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. It may be helpful to examine a recent issue of AJOB to read over past commentaries.
2. All submissions must include an indexable title, followed by the authors’ names in the form preferred for publication, full institutional addresses, and electronic mail addresses.
3. Illustrations: Tables and figures (i.e., photographs, graphs, charts, or other artwork) should be numbered consecutively. Every table should have a title; every figure, a caption. At least one reference in the text must indicate the appropriate locations.
4. Papers published in conference proceedings are treated like chapters in books. If further detail is needed on citation or reference list formatting, please consult chapters 15-17 of the Chicago Manual of Style.
5. Notes: Avoid extracts, tables, and paragraphing in notes. Footnotes will be converted to endnotes in the typeset version.
6. Quotations: Quotations of more than two lines should be set off in a separate paragraph with double indentation. Quotations of less than two lines may remain in the main body of the text, placed within double quotation marks. All extract citations must include page numbers. When inserting quotations from the Target Article related to your commentary, please mark page numbers as (XX) rather than using the page number from the Target Article manuscript. This will better help us facilitate insertion of correct page number following typesetting. 
7. References: The author(s) are responsible for the accuracy and thoroughness of citations. Please see the reference appendix for examples.
8. Please note: For any instances of generic third-person pronouns that are not referring to a specific person whose gender is clear, the journal prefers authors use “they” instead of “he or she” or “him or her.”

 

References

Please use this reference guide when preparing your paper.

Taylor & Francis Editing Services

To help you improve your manuscript and prepare it for submission, Taylor & Francis provides a range of editing services. Choose from options such as English Language Editing, which will ensure that your article is free of spelling and grammar errors, Translation, and Artwork Preparation. For more information, including pricing, visit this website.

Checklist: What to Include

1. Author details. Please ensure everyone meeting the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) requirements for authorship is included as an author of your paper. Please ensure all listed authors meet the Taylor & Francis authorship criteria. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript. Where available, please also include ORCiDs and social media handles (Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn). One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted. Read more on authorship.
2. Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 for Target Articles only; Commentaries do not carry Abstracts words. Read tips on writing your abstract.
3. You can opt to include a video abstract with your article. Find out how these can help your work reach a wider audience, and what to think about when filming.
4. Between 3 and 5 keywords. Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization.
5. Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
   For single agency grants
   This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
   For multiple agency grants
   This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
6. Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial or non-financial interest that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. If there are no relevant competing interests to declare please state this within the article, for example: The authors report there are no competing interests to declare. Further guidance on what is a conflict of interest and how to disclose it.
7. Data availability statement. If there is a data set associated with the paper, please provide information about where the data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found. Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). Templates are also available to support authors.
8. Data deposition. If you choose to share or make the data underlying the study open, please deposit your data in a recognized data repository prior to or at the time of submission. You will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-reserved DOI, or other persistent identifier for the data set.
9. Supplemental online material. Supplemental material can be a video, dataset, fileset, sound file or anything which supports (and is pertinent to) your paper. We publish supplemental material online via Figshare. Find out more about supplemental material and how to submit it with your article.
10. Figures. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word. For information relating to other file types, please consult our Submission of electronic artwork document.
11. Tables. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.
12. Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable. More information about mathematical symbols and equations.
13. Units. Please use SI units (non-italicized).

Using Third-Party Material

You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission. More information on requesting permission to reproduce work(s) under copyright.

Disclosure Statement

Please include a disclosure statement, using the subheading “Disclosure of interest.” If you have no interests to declare, please state this (suggested wording: The authors report no conflict of interest). For all NIH/Welcome-funded papers, the grant number(s) must be included in the declaration of interest statement. Read more on declaring conflicts of interest.

Clinical Trials Registry

In order to be published in a Taylor & Francis journal, all clinical trials must have been registered in a public repository, ideally at the beginning of the research process (prior to participant recruitment). Trial registration numbers should be included in the abstract, with full details in the methods section. Clinical trials should be registered prospectively – i.e. before participant recruitment. However, for clinical trials that have not been registered prospectively, Taylor & Francis journals requires retrospective registration to ensure the transparent and complete dissemination of all clinical trial results which ultimately impact human health. Authors of retrospectively registered trials must be prepared to provide further information to the journal editorial office if requested. The clinical trial registry should be publicly accessible (at no charge), open to all prospective registrants, and managed by a not-for-profit organization. For a list of registries that meet these requirements, please visit the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP). The registration of all clinical trials facilitates the sharing of information among clinicians, researchers, and patients, enhances public confidence in research, and is in accordance with the ICMJE guidelines.

Complying with Ethics of Experimentation

Please ensure that all research reported in submitted papers has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner, and is in full compliance with all relevant codes of experimentation and legislation. All original research papers involving humans, animals, plants, biological material, protected or non-public datasets, collections or sites, must include a written statement in the Methods section, confirming ethical approval has been obtained from the appropriate local ethics committee or Institutional Review Board and that where relevant, informed consent has been obtained. For animal studies, approval must have been obtained from the local or institutional animal use and care committee. All research studies on humans (individuals, samples, or data) must have been performed in accordance with the principles stated in the Declaration of Helsinki. In settings where ethics approval for non-interventional studies (e.g. surveys) is not required, authors must include a statement to explain this. In settings where there are no ethics committees in place to provide ethical approval, authors are advised to contact the Editor to discuss further. Detailed guidance on ethics considerations and mandatory declarations can be found in our Editorial Policies section on Research Ethics.

Consent

All authors are required to follow the ICMJE requirements and Taylor & Francis Editorial Policies on privacy and informed consent from patients and study participants. Authors must include a statement to confirm that any patient, service user, or participant (or that person’s parent or legal guardian) in any type of qualitative or quantitative research, has given informed consent to participate in the research. For submissions where patients or participants can be potentially identified (e.g. a clinical case report detailing their medical history, identifiable images or media content, etc), authors must include a statement to confirm that they have obtained written informed consent to publish the details from the affected individual (or their parents/guardians if the participant in not an adult or unable to give informed consent; or next of kin if the participant is deceased). The process of obtaining consent to publish should include sharing the article with the individual (or whoever is consenting on their behalf), so that they are fully aware of the content of the article before it is published. Authors should familiarize themselves with our policy on participant/patient privacy and informed consent. They may also use the Consent to Publish Form, which can be downloaded from the same Author Services page.

Health and Safety

Please confirm that all mandatory laboratory health and safety procedures have been complied within the course of conducting any experimental work reported in your paper. Please ensure your paper contains all appropriate warnings on any hazards that may be involved in carrying out the experiments or procedures you have described, or that may be involved in instructions, materials, or formulae.

Please include all relevant safety precautions; and cite any accepted standard or code of practice. Authors working in animal science may find it useful to consult the International Association of Veterinary Editors’ Consensus Author Guidelines on Animal Ethics and Welfare and Guidelines for the Treatment of Animals in Behavioural Research and Teaching. When a product has not yet been approved by an appropriate regulatory body for the use described in your paper, please specify this, or that the product is still investigational.

Submitting Your Paper

This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts to manage the peer-review process. If you haven’t submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in ScholarOne. Please read the guidelines above and then submit your paper in the relevant Author Centre, where you will find user guides and a helpdesk.

Please note that The American Journal of Bioethics uses Crossref™ to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to The American Journal of Bioethics you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.

On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript. Find out more about sharing your work.

Data Sharing Policy

This journal applies the Taylor & Francis Basic Data Sharing Policy. Authors are encouraged to share or make open the data supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper where this does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid privacy or security concerns.

Authors are encouraged to deposit the dataset(s) in a recognized data repository that can mint a persistent digital identifier, preferably a digital object identifier (DOI) and recognizes a long-term preservation plan. If you are uncertain about where to deposit your data, please see this information regarding repositories.

Authors are further encouraged to cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability Statement.

At the point of submission, you will be asked if there is a data set associated with the paper. If you reply yes, you will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). If you have selected to provide a pre-registered DOI, please be prepared to share the reviewer URL associated with your data deposit, upon request by reviewers.

Where one or multiple data sets are associated with a manuscript, these are not formally peer-reviewed as a part of the journal submission process. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of data. Any errors in the data rest solely with the producers of the data set(s).

Publication Charges

There are no submission fees, publication fees or page charges for this journal.

Color figures will be reproduced in color in your online article free of charge. If it is necessary for the figures to be reproduced in color in the print version, a charge will apply.

Charges for color figures in print are £300 per figure ($400 US Dollars; $500 Australian Dollars; €350). For more than 4 color figures, figures 5 and above will be charged at £50 per figure ($75 US Dollars; $100 Australian Dollars; €65). Depending on your location, these charges may be subject to local taxes.

Copyright Options

Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission. Taylor & Francis offers a number of different license and reuse options, including Creative Commons licenses when publishing open access. Read more on publishing agreements.

Complying with Funding Agencies

We will deposit all National Institutes of Health or Wellcome Trust-funded papers into PubMedCentral on behalf of authors, meeting the requirements of their respective open access policies. If this applies to you, please tell our production team when you receive your article proofs, so we can do this for you. Check funders’ open access policy mandates here. Find out more about sharing your work.

My Authored Works

On publication, you will be able to view, download and check your article’s metrics (downloads, citations and Altmetric data) via My Authored Works on Taylor & Francis Online. This is where you can access every article you have published with us, as well as your free eprints link, so you can quickly and easily share your work with friends and colleagues.

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