The Journal of the Bahrain Medical Society (JBMS) and its Publisher, Bahrain Medical Society (BMS),
follow the COPE Code of Conduct (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines) and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers and the ICMJE’s
Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.
As a part of this, the publication expects the authors, reviewers and editors to follow the best-practice
guidelines on ethical behavior contained therein.
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that the manuscript has not been previously published, nor has been submitted to another journal for
consideration. Post acceptance of the article, the authors should submit the copyright form to JBMS.
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the right to use the article as long as they respect its integrity and credit the article's authors,
citation information, and publisher.
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Repository policy
Journal of the Bahrain Medical Society allows authors to deposit the published version of their article in their institutional or any other repository of their choice without embargo.
