The Journal of Membrane Biology will publish papers on the nature the structure genesis and functions of biological membranes and on the physics and chemistry of artificial membranes with a bearing on biomembranes. It will publish articles dealing with plasma membranes (including cell surfaces and accessory surface structures such as bacterial or plant cell walls); intracellular membranes (e.g. membranes of organelles nuclei mitochondria chloroplasts vesicles intracellular reticula); membrane organs (e.g. skin urinary bladder gut kidney lung); biomembrane models (e.g. monolayers bilayers synthetic membranes); and general considerations of two-dimensional biological structures . Suitable topics are chemical and physical structure; immunochemical properties and fingerprinting; colloid and surface chemistry; transport and secretory functions including natural and artificial transport carrier systems membrane channels diffusion and pinocytosis; metabolic functions membrane-bound enzyme systems transduction; electrical phenomena in excitable membranes nerve muscle receptors etc; membrane - membrane interaction intercellular communication; membrane synthesis and replication; cell regulatory functions of membranes and cybernetic aspects; membrane genetics; evolution and comparative aspects of biomembranes.

《膜生物學雜志》將發表有關生物膜的性質、結構成因和功能，以及與生物膜有關的人工膜的物理和化學方面的論文。發表關于細胞膜的文章(包括細胞表面和細菌或植物細胞壁等附屬表面結構)；胞內膜(如細胞器、細胞核、線粒體、葉綠體、囊泡等)；膜器官(如皮膚、膀胱、腸道、腎、肺)；生物膜模型(如單層雙層合成膜)；以及二維生物結構的一般考慮。適宜的題目是化學和物理結構；免疫化學性質和指紋；膠體和表面化學；轉運和分泌功能包括天然和人工轉運載體系統、膜通道擴散和胞飲；代謝功能膜結合酶系統轉導；興奮膜、神經肌肉受體等電現象；膜-膜相互作用細胞間通信；膜的合成與復制；細胞膜的細胞調節功能和控制論方面；膜遺傳學；生物膜的進化與比較。