Archives of Virology
Submission guidelines
Instructions for Authors
Authorship Policy
Authorship should incorporate and should be restricted to those who have contributed substantially to the work in one or more of the following categories:
• Conceived of or designed study
• Performed research
• Analyzed data
• Contributed new methods or models
• Wrote the paper
Types of papers
Archives of Virology publishes Original Articles, Brief Reports, Brief Reviews, Annotated Sequence Records, and Special Issues.
Please submit your manuscript in the correct format for each article type. Manuscripts in an incorrect format will be immediately returned to the authors for reformatting.
Every submitted manuscript will be examined by the software "ithenticate" for evidence of plagiarism. Manuscripts that are flagged by this software will be returned to the authors for rewriting.
The journal will accept manuscripts with high-quality electron micrographs of viruses representing new taxa. Genomic variants and papers without proof of novelty will not be considered for peer review. Electron micrographs of poor contrast, unsharp and of small size, as well as micrographs without an indication of dimensions or of the methods used will be rejected. Complete particle descriptions, comparisons with viruses of the same host groups, discussion of relationships and evidence of novelty must be presented.
Original Articles
Papers describing sequences only will only be considered for publication as “Original Articles” or “Brief Reports” if the genomic organization derived from the nucleotide sequences determined differs fundamentally from those of typical members of the virus genus/family. Preferably, the biological significance and function of certain sequence differences should also have been experimentally addressed.
If a manuscript only describes the c•o•m•p•l•e•t•e sequence of a virus for which no or only very limited sequence information is available, the manuscript can be considered for submission in the format of an Annotated Sequence Record (see link ‘Annotated Sequence Records’)”. To facilitate a thorough review of any sequence-based manuscript, sequences generated by the author(s) and described in the manuscript must be either available from GenBank or some other public database, or provided as FASTA (or similar) files together with the submitted manuscript.
Original articles should not exceed 20 pages when printed (a manuscript pages with 3600 characters usually results in one printed page).
Their content should be arranged as follows:
Title Page (see below)
Abstract (see below)
Introduction: The Introduction should supply sufficient background information to establish the context of the present study—it should allow the reader to see the rationale for the present work and to understand and evaluate present results—it should not be too general, nor should it take the form of an exhaustive review of the subject. The Introduction should usually end with one or two sentences that capture the essence of the article: e.g., “In this paper we report the discovery of …”
Materials and methods: The Materials and methods section should provide sufficient information to permit the work to be repeated. For commonly used methods, a brief description (to avoid constant need to refer to previous publications) and citation of a reference are sufficient. New methods should be described completely, giving sources of unusual chemicals, equipment, and supplies. When large numbers of viruses, mutants, etc., are used in a study, a table may be used to identify sources, properties, etc.
……
更多详情：
https://www.springer.com/journal/705/submission-guidelines
