Journal Policy
Data Availability Policy
Journal of Biological and Sustainability Sciences
Policy Statement
The Journal of Biological and Sustainability Sciences supports transparency, reproducibility, and responsible sharing of research data. Authors are encouraged to make the data supporting their published findings available whenever legally, ethically, and practically possible.
Data availability statements help readers, reviewers, and editors understand where the research data can be accessed, how it can be reused, and whether any restrictions apply.
Authors should provide a clear data availability statement at the time of manuscript submission and ensure that the statement remains accurate after publication.
Data Availability Statement
Each manuscript should include a data availability statement. The statement should describe whether data are publicly available, available on request, included within the article, included in supplementary files, deposited in a repository, or restricted due to ethical, legal, institutional, or privacy reasons.
Example data availability statements:
- The data supporting the findings of this study are included within the article and its supplementary materials.
- The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
- The data are available in a public repository, and the repository name, accession number, DOI, or permanent link is provided in the manuscript.
- Data sharing is not applicable to this article because no new datasets were generated or analyzed.
- The data are not publicly available due to ethical, privacy, or institutional restrictions.
Public Data Repositories
Authors are encouraged to deposit datasets, sequence data, molecular data, environmental data, computational outputs, code, and other supporting materials in suitable public repositories whenever possible.
Repository records should include permanent identifiers such as a DOI, accession number, or stable URL. Authors should ensure that repository records are accessible and correctly linked before publication.
For biological, genomic, proteomic, environmental, chemical, clinical, or computational datasets, authors should select repositories that are appropriate for the data type and accepted by the relevant research community.
Supplementary Data
Authors may submit supplementary files when additional data, extended tables, figures, protocols, raw observations, or supporting information are important for understanding the work.
Supplementary files should be clearly labeled, cited in the manuscript, and prepared in a readable format.
Data on Request
If data cannot be deposited publicly, authors may state that data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Requests may be subject to ethical approval, institutional permission, confidentiality, intellectual property, or legal restrictions.
Confidential, Sensitive, or Restricted Data
Some datasets cannot be shared publicly because they contain confidential, sensitive, proprietary, personal, clinical, institutional, or ethically restricted information.
In such cases, authors should clearly explain the restriction in the data availability statement and describe the conditions under which data may be accessed, where appropriate.
Authors must not share identifiable human participant data unless appropriate consent, ethical approval, privacy safeguards, and legal permissions are in place.
Research Materials, Code, and Protocols
Authors are encouraged to share research materials, computational code, scripts, protocols, primers, strain information, plasmid maps, workflows, statistical files, and other supporting resources when these materials are essential for reproducibility.
- Computational studies should describe software, databases, versions, parameters, and analysis settings where possible.
- Experimental studies should provide sufficient methodological details to allow replication.
- Sequence, omics, structural, and molecular datasets should include accession numbers where available.
- Statistical analysis files and raw numerical data should be shared when necessary for verification.
Author Responsibilities
- Provide an accurate data availability statement in the manuscript.
- Ensure that repository links, accession numbers, and DOIs are correct and functional.
- Confirm that shared data do not violate ethical approval, confidentiality, privacy, institutional policy, or legal requirements.
- Preserve data for a reasonable period after publication according to institutional, funder, or disciplinary standards.
- Respond appropriately to reasonable data access requests after publication.
Editorial Assessment
Editors and reviewers may request additional information about data, methods, analysis, supplementary materials, or repository records during manuscript evaluation. Failure to provide adequate data availability information may delay editorial processing or affect editorial decisions.
Questions About Data Policy
Authors with questions about data availability statements, supplementary data, repository deposition, or restricted data may contact the editorial office before submission.