Welcome to Information for Authors
BioMed Central's open access journals offer you the perfect
place to publish and reach the largest possible audience of biomedical
professionals within your field. All research articles published in our journals are free to access immediately online, published quickly, peer reviewed to the highest standard, included in PubMed and many of our journals are "citation-tracked by Thomson Scientific (ISI)".
BioMed Central has over 500,000 registered users internationally
receiving email alerts and updates on a regular basis with over 5
million pages downloaded per month across 199 journals. Publish your article with BioMed Central and join tens of thousands of authors who have already experienced the benefits of Open Access publishing.
How to choose a BioMed Central journal
We publish 199 titles across all areas of Biology and Medicine
including both broad interest titles and a range of specialist titles.
Visit our journal overview page, which lists the different types of BioMed Central journal, and can help you to choose the right journal for your research.
You can also visit our journals A-Z or journals by subject pages to view the list of BioMed Central journals in its entirety and to navigate to the journals' individual websites.
Instructions for authors
To help you submit your paper we've created a quick instructions guide
to the online submission process, including tips and advice as well as
detailed instructions for authors for each journal. You can also find
all of the author publishing tools that you need online together with
handy links to the software you might need.
Reasons to publish
There are many reasons why increasing
numbers of researchers choose to publish in our Open Access journals,
including the promise of rapid and thorough peer review; immediate free
access to the research; the scope and reputation of our journals and
much more. Find out more about why authors choose to publish in our
journals; and consider the benefits of publishing in our journals.
Peer review policy
All journals published by BioMed Central operate a thorough system
of peer review for their research articles. The precise form of peer
review is left to those with editorial control of the journal. Find out more
about the peer review policy for each of our journals and look forward
to fast and efficient peer-review processing when publishing in BioMed
Central journals.
BMC Proceedings
Authors of manuscripts to be submitted for publication in BMC Proceedings should send their articles to the organising group, not to BioMed Central. If you require information about articles to be published in BMC Proceedings, please contact BioMed Central by email: supplements@biomedcentral.com.
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