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Editorial PolicyWhen a manuscript is submitted, the Editors assume that no similar paper has been or will be submitted for publication elsewhere. Further, it is understood that all authors listed on a manuscript have agreed to its submission. Upon acceptance, authors must transfer copyright to Landes Bioscience. Download copyright transfer form. Manuscripts should conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (URMSBJ), which can be found in full at www.icmje.org. This is in addition to their need to conform to our general guidelines about layout etc. In particular, the attention of authors is drawn to the following conditions (which are extracted from the URMSBJ). Availability of Materials and DataAs a condition of publishing in any Landes Bioscience journal, authors should be able to provide any materials and/or protocols used in published experiments to other qualified researchers for their own use. Materials include (but are not limited to): cells, DNA, antibodies, reagents, organisms, mouse strains, and Drosophila strains. These should be made available in a timely manner and it is acceptable to request reasonable payment to cover the cost of maintenance and transport. If there are restrictions to availability, this should be made clear in the cover letter and in the Materials and Methods section of the Research Paper or Report. For materials such as mutant strains and cell lines, authors are encouraged to use established public repositories and provide relevant accession numbers wherever possible. Repositories include: Jackson Laboratory (mouse strains) MMRRC (Mutant Mouse Regional Resource Centers) Papers reporting protein or DNA sequences and molecular structures should provide an accession number to any of the three major collaborative databases: DDBJ, EMBL or GenBank. It is only necessary to submit to one database as data are exchanged between DDBJ, EMBL and GenBank on a daily basis. The suggested wording for referring to accession-number information is: 'These sequence data have been submitted to the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases under accession number U12345.' 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.
To address these requirements, we provide the following options for our authors: (1) One year after publication. ALL papers will become open access to ALL users throughout the world after having been published online for one year. Authors may deposit a PDF of the final manuscript with PubMed Central or UK PubMed Central once the paper has been made freely availble at the journal's website. (2) Immediately upon publication. Authors may purchase open access of their paper at the proof stage and the paper will be made freely available at our website. Again, if the paper is funded by a NIH, MRC or Wellcome Trust grant, authors may deposit a PDF of the final manuscript with PubMed Central or UK PubMed Central. The fee for open access is $750. Manuscript SubmissionPre-submission inquiriesSubmissionWe utilize an online submission and tracking system which is designed to provide a better, more efficient service to authors.
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. Visit their website for more information or to submit a document for their journal editing service. 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.
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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 PapersAll submissions will be peer reviewed. ReportsReports 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. Technical Papers contain original research, however, they differ from Research Papers in that they describe new approaches, methods, or reagents rather than new understanding of a natural molecule or biological process. Papers may be submitted as either Technical or Research Papers, but the assignment to either category is the discretion of the Editors. Brief Reports These are short experimental papers that may present as little as a single experiment or observation. Brief Reports should constitute unusually interesting data combined with a discussion of what the data might mean, or an explantation of why the data contradicts current paradigms. Abstract includes a single paragraph of fewer than 150 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. Please include 5-10 key words for indexing purposes. Short Communications are aimed at publishing short, but important, breakthrough data not embedded within a complex story. Please include an abstract of 100-150 words. The paper should be structured as a research paper (see above) but without the headings and subheadings. No more than 50 references. 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.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. 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. Reviews should include an abstract of 150-200 words and should cite no more than 150 references. Please include 5-10 key words for indexing purposes. Focused Review Series The Editors invite members of the scientific community to consider topics of interest to our readers and to organize small series of focused reviews in particular areas. This will involve proposing a topic of interest, contacting potential authors for two-four or more reviews and providing the titles of the reviews, the names of the authors, and when they would be ready. Please also note in writing reviews that we are most interested in content and that there is flexibility in word count, number of references or number of figures. Please contact the Editor-in-Chief if you are interested in organizing a Focused Review Series. Point of View articles should follow the same general guidelines as reviews, however there is considerable flexibility in the length and content. These articles are intended to address controversial issues, express new ideas, or expand on work already published. They may contain new data, and like other submissions, are subject to peer review. Like review articles, they should be accessible to a wide readership. Point of View articles are generally commissioned from authors of the most important recent papers to offer additional insights. Unsolicited Point of View articles are also welcome, and these may discuss the authors' own work or recent significant work in their field. These should be structured like reviews and be 1500 to 2500 words. Responses to Point of View articles are encouraged and will also be published as Point of View articles. Responses may be considerably shorter and structured as letters. Please include an abstract of 100-150 words. Commentaries and Views may be short and focused opinion articles, commentaries on papers recently published in mAbs 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 100-150 words and 5-10 key words for indexing purposes. Perspectives A focused review or theoretical paper that is primarily addressed to the experts in the field. It may emphasize an opinion of the authors', present a concept, or authors' credo. Please include an abstract of 100-150 words and 5-10 key words for indexing purposes. Journal Club Journal Club articles include descriptions and critiques of major advances published in other leading journals. This will be modeled after and driven by journal club presentations held in most institutions around the country. Please include an abstract of 100-150 words and 5-10 key words for indexing purposes. Research Philosophy and Profiles and Legacies The Editors invite prominent scientists and clinicians to write about their careers and experiences and and will publish his or her photo on the cover. Each article in the "Profiles and Legacies" section contains the subsections "Biographical Information" detailing briefly the person's career path, the main text section which could carry any subtitle(s) they choose or could simply be "Philosophical Views." There is often a section entitled "Vision of/for the Future" where they comment and advise on the future direction of their field of research. 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)We require figures in electronic format. They should be provided as TIFF or Photoshop files (300 dpi or greater), EPS files, Powerpoint Files or PDF files. Compatible graphics programs are Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Powerpoint. Any image processing should be explained clearly in the Materials and Methods section of your manuscript. Figures should be as small and simple as is compatible with clarity. Figures must conform to the following guidelines or authors will be asked to revise them. Guidelines for figure preparation:
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 ReferencesThe 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. [Author's last name] [Author's initials], [The first six author's last names followed by their initials and et al.]. [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 ChargesStarting with Volume 2, Issue 2, page charges will be applied to articles classified as Reports, Technical Papers, Brief Reports and Short Communications. For these article types, publication is based on the understanding that the author will pay a charge of $100 US dollars for each page or part-page used. No page charges are applied to other article types, e.g., reviews, perspectives, points of view. 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. To indicate that you wish to convert color images to grayscale for the print edition, please mark the appropriate box on the publication forms provided during the page proof stage. 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 provided in a numbered list or marked on the actual proof that is accompanied with a numbered list. Lengthy additions should be avoided, but where necessary should be provided in a MS Word file with explicit instructions regarding placement. Publication charges forms and a copyright transfer form (if the author has not completed and returned one at the time of submission) will be included with the email containing the formatted galley sent to the author for corrections. These forms should be returned with the page proofs. If this is not possible, please contact the Managing Editor. ReprintsA reprint order form will be sent to the author prior to the issue going to press or you may request one directly from the Managing Editor. Cover Image SubmissionsmAbs 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 mAbs please email a high-resolution version of your image, conforming to the specifications below, and an explanatory caption of 50-60 words to Nicole Todd. mAbs 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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