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Editorial PolicyClick here for information on our Editorial Policies. Peer Review and Manuscript Evaluation ProcessClick here for detailed information on our peer review process. Landes Bioscience recognizes that some authors prefer that their research be freely available to all potential readers upon publication, and that certain funding agencies including, but not limited to, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, MRC, NIH, and The Wellcome Trust, require open access of agency-funded research within six months to one year of publication. Manuscript SubmissionPre-submission inquiriesPre-submission inquiries are encouraged but not necessary. These may include either an abstract or a full length manuscript as an email attachment (Microsoft Word). Pre-submission inquiries should be emailed to the Editor-in-Chief, Shahidul Islam.
We now utilize an online submission and tracking system which is designed to provide a better, more efficient service to authors. Please read the directions below and then click here to submit a manuscript to Islets: coming soon All submissions must be accompanied by a completed copyright transfer form. Fax to Managing Editor at 512.637.6079 |
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Non-Native Speakers of EnglishAuthors who are not native speakers of English and submit manuscripts to international journals often receive negative comments from referees or editors about English-language usage. These problems can contribute to a decision to reject a paper. To help reduce the possibility of such problems, we strongly encourage such authors to take at least one or both of the following steps. 1. Have your manuscript reviewed for clarity by a colleague whose native language is English. 2. Use a service such as one of those listed below. An editor will improve the English to ensure that your meaning is clear and identify problems that require your review. Note that the use of such a service is at the author's own expense and risk and does not guarantee that the article will be accepted. Landes Bioscience accepts no responsibility for the interaction between the author and the service provider or for the quality of the work performed. American Journal Experts (AJE) provides professional language editing services to authors around the globe who wish to publish in scientific, technical, medical and humanities journals. AJE employs expert editors with post-graduate training in a wide variety of fields who will check your manuscripts not only for terminology and language specific to your field but also for proper English usage, grammar, punctuation, spelling, verb tense, and phrasing. In addition, AJE's professional editors will make sure the text sounds natural and the sentences are well constructed. Receive a 10% discount: enter code 'Landes' into your account to receive your discount. Bioedit English Language Editing Bioedit Ltd, an online English editing company, offers unprecedented, high-quality English editing of biomedical texts destined for submission to peer-reviewed journals in the life sciences. The texts are edited by a large, expert team of native English-speaking editors with PhDs and years of experience in a broad range of disciplines in medicine and biology.
First-time clients will receive a special 20% rebate if they are submitting their work to a Landes Bioscience journal. Editage, a leading international English editing, writing, and publication service provider, offers multiple-level editing services that check for meaning, punctuation, grammar, sentence construction, logic, structure, and journal formatting. Editage is a preferred brand for nonnative English speakers in East Asia. • Subject-matter expertise—editors from bioscience disciplines To submit a manuscript, please visit the website in your choice of language: Japanese | English |Traditional Chinese | Korean Mention “Landes Bioscience” as “Reference” while submitting manuscript and receive a flat 10% discount. Global BioEditing is a specialist service for the editing of English in biological documents. Our editing will not only make your manuscripts appear as though written by a native speaker of English but will also clarify your writing. Inter-Biotec also provides a free online writing course to help biomedical scientists whose first language is not English to write and publish their papers in English-language journals. Manuscript PreparationText should be prepared in Microsoft Word, double-spaced, with page numbers throughout. Papers should be written as concisely as possible in clear, grammatical English and organized in the following manner:
Types of PapersWe are flexible regarding the department in which a paper fits and recognize that some papers may include elements of more than one type of paper as listed below. Original Research/Reports Reports include the following sections: 1. Abstract: A single paragraph of fewer than 250 words. The primary goal of the abstract should be to make the general significance and conceptual advance of the work clearly accessible to a broad readership. References should not be cited in the abstract. Reviews Reviews should be recognized as scholarly by specialists in the field being covered, but should also be written with a view to informing readers who are not specialized in that particular field, and should therefore be presented using simple prose. Please avoid excessive jargon and technical detail. Reviews should capture the broad developments and implications of recent work. The opening paragraph should make clear the general thrust of the review and provide a clear sense of why the review is now particularly appropriate. The concluding paragraph should provide the reader with an idea of how the field may develop or future problems to be overcome, but should not summarize the article. To ensure that a review is likely to be accessible to as many readers as possible, it may be useful to ask a colleague from another discipline to read the review before submitting it. Submitted reviews are subject to the same page charges as full-length reports -- whether and how page charges will apply for commissioned reviews will be made clear when each review is commissioned. Reviews should include an abstract of 150 words and should cite no more than 150 referneces. Please include 5-10 key words for indexing purposes. Addenda Addenda are essentially an auto-commentary. The Editor or Editorial Board will solicit authors of the most significant recent and forthcoming papers, published elsewhere, to provide a short summary with additional insights, new interpretations or speculation on the relevant topic. These manuscripts may include data or models, which due to space limitations were not included or discussed in the original paper. In other words, the authors may provide biased and uncensored points of views, complementing their article. As with other papers published in Islets, Addenda will appear on-line and in print. Addenda will appear simultaneously, or very soon after, publication of the original paper. Please include an abstract of 150-200 words and 5-10 key words for indexing purposes. The citation for the original article including the full author list, title of article and journal information should be included on the title page. The typical length of an addendum will be approximately 500-1,000 words and may include up to 30 references. There will be no page charges for Addenda and you are encouraged to include figures; however, please note the journal policy regarding color charges below. Views and Commentaries Commentaries and/or views may be short and focused opinion articles, commentaries on papers recently published in Islets or elsewhere, or commentaries on significant conceptual changes, important trends or new directions in the field. These may include figures and up to 30 references. Please include an abstract of 150-200 words and 5-10 key words for indexing purposes. Meeting Reports Meeting reports consist of summaries of presentations from recent meetings in the field. Authors are encouraged to contact the Editor with proposals for meeting reports. Also, please contact the meeting organizers to verify that reports will be permitted. Please include an abstract of 150-200 words and 5-10 key words for indexing purposes. Text Files and TablesPlease save text and table files as Microsoft Word documents. Save tables in a file separate from text. Figure legends, however, should be at the end of the manuscript as text. Tables will be reformatted during production and therefore should only be minimally formatted in your text file. Figures (Illustrations)To aid in the processing and turnaround of issues, we ask that authors please adhere to the following figure guidelines. Authors will be asked to revise details and images if they do not adhere to the figure protocols. Any image processing should be explained clearly in the Materials and Methods section of your manuscript. Please note the quality of figures and ease of processing can greatly affect the turnaround time of your paper as noted under "manuscript submission". Figures should be as small and simple as is compatible with clarity. Unnecessary figures and panels in figures should be avoided: data presented in small tables or histograms, for instance, can generally be stated briefly in the text instead. Avoid unnecessary complexity, coloring and excessive detail. Figures should not contain more than one panel unless the parts are logically connected. Where possible, text, including keys to symbols, should be provided in the text of the figure legend rather than on the figure itself.
Guidelines for figure preparation: Resolution. All submitted images must be of high quality and have resolutions of at least 300 dpi ready for print. Formats. We require figures in electronic format. Please do not send PowerPoint or Word processing, presentation files, or paint files as they are inadequate for the creation of high quality images. Much of the information contained in PowerPoint or other file types is lost or skewed in the conversion of images. Figures should be provided as TIFF, Photoshop, EPS files or high resolution PDF files. Compatible graphic art programs are Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Figure size. Figures should be submitted at the size they are to be published. The maximum height is 9.5 inches and maximum width 7.5 inches (2250 pixels by 2850 pixels). If possible, figures should conform one of the following sizes: -Up to 1 column wide: figure width should be 3.67 inches -1 to 1.5 columns wide: figure width should be 5 to 6 inches -2 columns wide: figure width should be 7.5 inches For multi-panel figures (such as figure 1a, 1b, 1c, etc), each panel should be assembled into one image file. Do not include separate panels on multiple pages, i.e. A, B, C and D should all fit on one page. Each panel should be sized so that the figure as a whole can be reduced by the same amount and reproduced on the printed page at the smallest size at which essential details are visible (i.e.- all type should always be readable). Color mode. Save all color figures in CMYK mode at 8 bits/channel. Layering type directly over shaded or textured areas and using reversed type (white lettering on a colored background) should be avoided. Type. The font size should be no greater than 9 pt. and no smaller than 6 pt. Please be sure to embed all fonts. Fonts used should be sans serif such as Helvetica. Lettering in figures (labeling of axes and so on) should be in lower-case type, with the first letter capitalized and no full stop. Please keep font size relatively the same throughout the figures so as to avoid scaling issues. Also note that readability suffers if type is layered over a pattern or color other than white. Units. Units should have a single space between the number and the unit, and follow SI nomenclature or the nomenclature common to a particular field. Thousands should be separated by commas (1,000). Unusual units or abbreviations should be defined in the legend. Please use the proper microsymbol (denoting a factor of one millionth) rather than a lower case u. ReferencesThere are no limits on the number of references. Include in the reference list only those articles that have been published or are in press. Unpublished data or personal communications must be cited within the text. The list of references should be numbered consecutively according to the first time mentioned within the article. Cite only the number assigned to the reference:
When referring the reader to specific references as part of a sentence please state:
Journal References The reference format is the same for all of our journals. You may download the output style for Cell Cycle from Endnotes. Abbreviate journal names according to the style used in Index Medicus or a comparable source and omit punctuation after journal titles. Spell out foreign or less commonly known journal names. List all authors up to 6 authors. If there are more than 6 authors, please list the first 6 authors followed by "et al." [Author's last name] [Author's initials], [All other author's last names followed by their initials]. [Title of article with only the first word capitalized]. [Journal's standard abbreviated name] [Year]; [Volume (number)]:[Inclusive pages]. For Example:
Book References [Author's last name] [Author's initials], [Other authors' last names followed by initials]. [Chapter title]. In: [Editor's last name] [Editor's initials], ed(s). [Book Title]. [Number of edition]. [City]:[Publisher], [Year]:[Inclusive pages]. For Example:
Supplementary FilesPlease provide supplementary material in the following formats:
Page and Color ChargesOriginal research papers are published on the understanding that the author will pay a charge of $100 U.S. dollars for each page or part-page used. Publication of color images is free for the online version of the journal, but carries a page charge of $340 US dollars for the initial page and $150 for each additional page in the print edition. If you prefer that color figures appear online only and in black and white for the print version, please make sure that the figure legends for each version of the figure are provided. For guidance, a five page article with 3 figures (approx 9cmx9cm, =3.5" x 3.5") and 100 references would consist of approximately 2000 words of text including figure legends. A four page article with 2 figures (approx 9cm x 9cm, =3.5" x 3.5") and 75 references would consist of approximately 2000 words of text including figure legends.These word counts do not include the references. Under exceptional circumstances, where there are no funds to cover page charges and articles cannot be reduced in size, authors may appeal directly to the Editor for page charges to be waived. This appeal must be supported by a letter signed by finance official at the author's institution, confirming that no funds are available to cover page charges. Page ProofsPage proofs should be returned within two working days, preferably by email or fax. Corrections should be marked on the actual proof and provided in a numbered list. Lengthy additions should be avoided, but where necessary should be provided in a MS Word file with explicit instructions regarding placement. ReprintsA reprint order form will be sent to the author prior to the issue going to press or you may download it here. Cover Image SubmissionsIslets publishes cover illustrations that are taken from articles in each issue, or that are designed to accompany an accepted article. The cover illustration should be scientifically interesting and visually attractive. The illustration need not be a figure from the paper but should be closely related to the subject of the paper. If you are interested in submitting a figure for use as the cover of Islets please email a high-resolution version of your image, conforming to the specifications below, and an explanatory caption of 50-60 words to Kathryn Sauceda. Islets Cover Image Specifications: All potential cover images should be sized to fill the entire cover. 12'' high and 9'' wide should be the minimum size. Larger files are even better. Please remove all text, captions, etc. from the image. If you have variations of the image you may send additional files. Please send no more than 2 alternate versions. Accepted formats and resolution:
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