Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• "Author instructions" at https://bioresources.cnr.ncsu.edu and the template were used to prepare the document in MS Word or OpenOffice as a Research Article, Scholarly Review, or Editorial.
• Where available, DOIs for the references have been provided.
• The authors have noticed the "cover graphic candidate" option in "Author instructions"
• The authors plan to pay the page expenses ($125/page) if the article is accepted after peer review; I/we have read about the page expenses at “Author instructions” at https://bioresources.cnr.ncsu.edu/authors-and-reviewers/general-instructions/
  
• Authors must disclose the use of AI tools in the preparation of text, data analysis, and collation of references. The authors should describe which AI tool was used and how it was used in a separate Word document or in the Comments to the Editor. If no AI tools were used, no disclosure is necessary.
  Generative AI should not be used to prepare images, figures, graphs, or diagrams.
  
• As part of the BioResources submission process, you are required to provide the contact information for the accountant or finance personnel who will be making the payment of the Author Fee, if and when your article has been accepted for publication. Please add this information in the "Comments for the Editor" box below.
  
  Person who will be making the payment:
  Name: _____
  Email: _____
  Phone No.: _____
  Expected payment method (select one): Wire transfer; Credit card; Do not know
  
  
• How did you hear about BioResources? Please let us know in the "Comments for the Editor" box.
  
• Please adjust your email filters to allow any correspondence with “Biores” in the subject line to be sent to your inbox.