Authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, paid expert testimony, patent

applications/registrations, and grants or other funding.

Plagiarism:

It is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and representing them as one's own original work. 

Self plagiarism (recycling fraud) is the re-use of significant, identical or near-identical parts of one's own work without citing the original work.

The worst form is to steal the whole article from some journal and publish it under one's own name in another journal.

The editorial committee of BFSTJ will blacklist any author found to be guilty of plagiarism and the name of the author(s) will also be disseminated to editors of other medical journals.

Additional information:

Multiple submissions are not accepted, and such papers, together with future submissions from the authors, will be rejected directly.

Submission also implies that all authors have approved the paper for release and are in agreement with its content.

Article withdrawal policy:

• Submission of an article implies that the work has NOT been published or submitted elsewhere, therefore, the journal is strongly against unethical withdrawal of an article from the publication process after submission.
• Once submitted, the editorial board is granted full publishing rights and has the absolute right to decide on article withdrawals.
• For genuine withdrawal, the corresponding author should submit a request which must be signed by all co-authors explaining the reason of withdrawing the manuscript. It will then be processed by the editorial board and only serious genuine reasons will be considered possible.
• Decision of the editorial board will be final and not negotiable.
• Unethical withdrawal or no response from authors to editorial board communication will be subjected to sanction a ban of 4 years to all authors and their institute will be notified.

Changes to authorship:

List and order of authors should be considered carefully before submission.

The definitive list should be provided at the time of the original submission.

Privacy statement:

Names and email addresses entered in the journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of the journal and will not be made available for any other purpose and will not be shared to any other party.

Open access:

Articles are freely available to both subscribers and the public.