Editorial Policy It is the special policy of RNA Biology to guarantee a decision to accept a manuscript for publication within five business days from the date of receipt manuscripts that have been previously submitted to journals with an impact factor of 10 or higher (including all Cell journals, all Nature journals, Science, PNAS, EMBO Journal, Plant Cell, and New England Journal of Medicine) that have undergone peer review and for which the complete reviewers' comments are made available to RNA Biology. Click here for more information. Peer Review Click here for more information. 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. Pre-Submission Inquiries Pre-submission inquiries are encoruaged. 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, Renee Schroeder. Electronic Submission All papers should be accompanied by a cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief that briefly outlines the content of the manuscript. The author should also affirm that all contributing Authors know of and concur with the submission of this manuscript. Authors are also responsible for recognizing and disclosing any conflict of interest that could be perceived to bias their work, acknowledging all financial support and any other personal connections. We now utilize an online submission and tracking system which is designed to provide a better, more efficient service to authors. - Authors can submit manuscripts online from anywhere in the world. Please read the directions below and then click here to submit a manuscript to RNA Biology: http://rnabiol.msubmit.net/ All submissions must be accompanied by a completed copyright transfer form. Non-Native Speakers of English Authors 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. Click here for more information. Text should be prepared in MS 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: 1. Title page, including titles, author's names, email addresses, degrees and affilitations The citation of your article will be sent to PubMed within one week of acceptance so please ensure all information is correct. Types of Papers Research Papers should include the following sections:
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. All submissions will be peer reviewed. 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 reveiw and provide a clear sense of why ther eview
is now particularly appropriate. The conclusing paragraph shoud
provide the reader with an idea of how the field may develop or
future problems to be overcome, but should not summarize the article.
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 150 words. Addenda are essentially an auto-commentary. The 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 RNA Biology, addenda will appear on-line, in print and eventually on MedLine/PubMed. Addenda will appear simultaneously, or very soon after, publication of the original paper. Meeting Reports. Authors are encouraged to contact the journal (Email Dr. Schroeder) with proposals for meeting reports. Please contact the meeting organizers to verify that reports will be permitted. Text Files and Tables Please 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) Click here for guidelines on figure preparation and the required formats. References Click here to view our reference format. References for review articles are limited to 150. For Research Papers, please limit references to 85. For Addenda, and Commentaries and Views, please limit references to 30. The reference format for RNA Biology is the same as that for Cell Cycle. Click here to download this output style from EndNotes. Supplementary Files Click here for more information. Page and Color Charges Original 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 four page article with 3 figures (approx 9cmx9cm, =3.5" x 3.5") and 100 references would consist of approximately 3200 words of text including figure legends. 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 Proofs Page 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. Reprints A reprint order form will be sent to the author prior to the issue going to press or you may download it here. RNA Biology 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 RNA Biology 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. RNA Biology 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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