The Scientific Committee of 3nd Bali BICHS (Biennial International Conference on Health Sciences) is responsible for the decision of the articles submitted to the Conference. All full text paper submissions will be initially screened whether the manuscript has followed author guidelines. All submitted full paper text will be screened using Turnitin for plagiarism checking before being sent to reviewers. The full paper text will be sent to section editor and will be reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers in your field.

Every article submitted will go through an Editorial Review and Double-Blind Peer Reviews. The full paper text that do not sufficient for publication, not meet the general interest or inappropriate to the focus and scope and/or have many errors in many aspects would be directly rejected without peer review. The manuscripts that meet the editorial requirement would be processed for peer review by at least two reviewers. The purpose of peer review is to evaluate the paper’s quality and suitability for publication. In a condition when particular advice is required the editor has the right to appoint additional reviewer. The decision on one manuscript is made by the Editorial Board meeting. The decision would be based on the advice from the reviewers and could categorized into:

  • Accepted, with minor editorial correction,
  • Minor revision, when author is invited to revise and no further review is needed;
  • Major revision, when author is invited to revise and need to resubmit for review;
  • Rejected, when there are major conceptual/technical/interpretational problems.

The reviewers of the Conference have the responsibility to do a useful report that help the editors in making final decision on a full text paper. The author has the responsibility to clearly stated the changes that are made in the revised full text paper. A careful examination on the sentence structure, text accuracy and completeness, self-explanatory tables and figures should be done by the author. The editors have the right to make editing to the manuscript in terms of style, format and clarity. Acceptance of a manuscript is decided in the Editorial Board meeting. The final decision on a full text paper would be given by the Conference Editor.