✔Ensure your manuscript aligns with Ukwuru Science

• Check the publication criteria and journal scope to confirm that your work fits within the topics we publish. 

• Ukwuru Science does not accept presubmission inquiries.

✔ Look out for potential editors

• Browse the Editorial Board to find members whose expertise aligns with your research. You’ll be asked to provide this information during submission.

✔ Familiarize yourself with journal policies

• Carefully review the editorial and publishing policies to ensure your submission complies with the journal’s requirements.

✔ Prepare funding and conflict of interest statements

• Check our guidelines on how to disclose funding sources and declare any competing interests.

✔ Get your data ready

• Ensure your data is deposited in a suitable repository or formatted as Supporting Information for your manuscript. Be ready to provide a Data Availability Statement. Refer to our policy on data availability for more details.

✔ Verify your author list
     Ensure you have all necessary details for each author, including:

• Full names (with initials, if applicable)

• Affiliations

• Email addresses

• Any relevant competing interests

• Information about funding

• Author contributions

• List authors in the correct order

Make sure the corresponding author has an ORCID iD, and confirm that all authors are informed about the submission. Review the author list preparation guidelines.

You can also check our sample files to ensure your submission meets our formatting guidelines:
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[Download sample manuscript body (PDF)]

✔ Confirm that your study follows proper reporting guidelines

• Consult the recommended reporting guidelines for your study type to ensure compliance.

✔ Review the license agreement

• Ukwuru Science publishes under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. This license allows your article to be freely reused, provided proper credit is given to the author and source. Be ready to sign the license agreement on behalf of all authors. Read more about our license and copyright policies.

✔ Consider sharing a preprint

• Ukwuru Science encourages authors to share preprints to accelerate the distribution of their research. For life and health sciences, you can use our partnerships with bioRxiv and medRxiv, or you can provide the DOI of a preprint posted on any repository. Learn more about preprints.

✔ Access the submission portal

• Submit your manuscript via our online submission system.

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