Submission Checklist

Pre-Submission Checklist for Authors

✓ Before You Submit

To facilitate a smooth editorial assessment and peer-review process, authors are encouraged to carefully review the checklist below before submitting their manuscripts to the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Therapeutics (JMCT). Ensuring compliance with the journal's submission requirements will help minimize unnecessary delays and improve the efficiency of manuscript processing.


Manuscript Preparation

  • ☐ The manuscript is original, has not been published previously, and is not under consideration by another journal.
  • ☐ The manuscript complies with the JMCT Author Guidelines.
  • ☐ The manuscript is written in clear, concise, and grammatically appropriate English.
  • ☐ The title, abstract, and keywords accurately represent the content of the manuscript.
  • ☐ All figures, tables, chemical structures, schemes, graphical abstracts, and supplementary materials are properly numbered, cited within the text, and submitted in appropriate quality.
  • ☐ Experimental and/or computational methods are described with sufficient detail to support scientific evaluation and reproducibility.

Ethical Compliance

  • ☐ All authors have read, approved, and agreed to the submission of the manuscript.
  • ☐ The order of authorship has been agreed upon by all authors.
  • ☐ All potential conflicts of interest have been disclosed.
  • ☐ Funding sources and relevant acknowledgements have been provided where applicable.
  • ☐ Ethical approval for research involving humans or animals has been obtained and clearly stated in the manuscript, where applicable.
  • ☐ The study complies with the journal's Publication Ethics and Research Integrity policies.

Research Integrity

  • ☐ All references are accurate, relevant, and appropriately cited.
  • ☐ The manuscript has been checked for plagiarism and inappropriate text overlap before submission.
  • ☐ The submitted work contains no fabricated, falsified, selectively manipulated, or misleading data.
  • ☐ Experimental results, chemical structures, biological data, computational analyses, and statistical results are accurately reported.
  • ☐ Any use of AI-assisted tools has been transparently disclosed in accordance with the journal's AI-Assisted Content Policy, where disclosure is required.

Medicinal Chemistry & Computational Research

  • ☐ Chemical structures, compounds, formulations, or synthetic schemes are accurately represented and properly labeled.
  • ☐ Experimental procedures and characterization data are reported sufficiently to support evaluation of the reported chemical work, where applicable.
  • ☐ Molecular docking, molecular dynamics, QSAR, virtual screening, pharmacophore modeling, ADME/ADMET prediction, or other computational methods are appropriately described, where applicable.
  • ☐ Computational parameters, software, databases, model settings, and relevant methodological details are reported sufficiently to support reproducibility, where applicable.
  • ☐ Computational predictions are not presented as experimentally validated findings unless supported by appropriate experimental evidence.

Submission Requirements

  • ☐ The manuscript has been prepared in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format unless another format is specified by the journal.
  • ☐ Author names, affiliations, email addresses, ORCID iDs (if available), abstract, keywords, and references have been correctly entered into the online submission system.
  • ☐ The corresponding author's contact information is accurate and up to date.
  • ☐ All supplementary files, datasets, graphical abstracts, chemical structures, supporting information, or other relevant materials have been uploaded where applicable.
  • ☐ The manuscript and supplementary files contain no unnecessary identifying information that could interfere with the journal's peer-review process.

Copyright & Publishing

  • ☐ The authors agree to the journal's Open Access, Copyright, and Licensing policies.
  • ☐ The authors understand that accepted articles will receive a permanent DOI through Crossref, where applicable.
  • ☐ The corresponding author confirms that all information provided during submission is complete and accurate.
  • ☐ The authors confirm that the manuscript is not simultaneously submitted to or under consideration by another journal.

Author Declaration

By submitting a manuscript to the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Therapeutics (JMCT), the corresponding author confirms that all information provided is accurate, all listed authors have approved the submission, and the manuscript complies with the journal's editorial policies, publication ethics, research integrity requirements, and submission guidelines.


Important Notice

Incomplete submissions or manuscripts that do not comply with the journal's formatting requirements, scientific standards, ethical requirements, or editorial policies may be returned to the corresponding author for technical or editorial revision before entering the peer-review process.


Need Assistance?

If you have any questions regarding manuscript preparation, formatting requirements, ethical documentation, or the online submission process, please contact the Editorial Office at jmct@journals.blrcl.org. We are pleased to assist authors throughout the submission and publication process.