Ethical policy Journal of bioresources (JBR) aims to provide a means to communicate quality and original research work, sharing of ideas and information to scientific community and society as a whole in proper and accurate manner. Therefore, it is mandatory and strictly advised to follow certain ethics by authors to publish an article in JBR, editors to edit and reviewers to review the article submitted to JBR. The authors, editors and reviewers need to strictly adhere to following code of ethics to enhance the quality of JBR.

Authorship Only individuals who made significant contribution to the work, at least a section of the work, are to be given chance of author and other individuals should be acknowledged. Authors and co-authors need to ensure the accuracy and validity of all the results prior to submission. Authors should not present results obtained by others.

Plagiarism Reproduce of text from other papers without proper credit to source or produce of many papers with the same content by the same author and submitting the same paper to more than one journal concurrently is unethical and is not acceptable. Authors should acknowledge the work of others used in their research and paper. Once the article is submitted, the plagiarism shall be checked using plagiarism software available with the publishers.