Author Guidelines
ALTEX – Alternatives to Animal Experimentation publishes open access academic articles on the development and implementation of alternatives to the use of animals for scientific purposes and informs on international developments in this field.
The use of animals for scientific purposes includes all experimental procedures involving the use of animals in testing, research, and education or to obtain tissues, organs, and other animal-derived products which may cause pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm to animals. ALTEX is committed to ensuring that all research published gives full consideration to animal welfare and ethical issues.
ALTEX recommends the substitution of all materials that are obtained or derived from animals subjected to pain or suffering. Such materials include among others fetal bovine/calf serum, Matrigel, antibodies obtained from ascites fluid, primary cells from animals and other animal-derived products obtained by invasive sampling.
ALTEX publishes research articles, concept articles, opinion articles, reviews, consensus reports, short communications, letters, comments, corners and meeting reports. Current news and events are posted online.
Submission of a manuscript to ALTEX requires confirmation that it is not before another journal for consideration and has not been previously published in whole or in part except on a not-for-profit preprint server, such as bioRxiv. Authors must still be in possession of copyright and are responsible for updating preprint information on the server upon acceptance of the manuscript by ALTEX.
All content is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is appropriately cited (CC-BY). Copyright on any article, short communication, meeting report or letter published in ALTEX is retained by the author(s). Unedited Epub versions of main articles and short communications are published with open access upon their acceptance.
SUBMISSION
Research articles, opinion articles, concept articles, reviews, consensus reports, short communications and letters
After completing all items in the submission preparation checklist, upload your manuscript as one full pdf file with page and continuous line numbers and including figures, tables and boxes. Supplementary data for review may be included in the pdf or provided as additional files, e.g. databases or videos. The manuscript does not need to adhere to the "Style requirements for publication" at this stage but should include all elements necessary for an evaluation of the scientific content of the work. Specifically, studies involving animal experiments must be reported in accordance with the ARRIVE guidelines. Images, tables and statistics must be prepared in accordance with good practice and details given in figure and table legends. All data, program code and other methods must be appropriately cited.
Authors are encouraged to upload a cover letter alerting the editor to the scientific importance of the manuscript, to any copyright issues, in case it is published on a preprint server (include link and/or DOI) and/or suggesting up to five potential reviewers who are not recent coauthors (provide full names, affiliations, and e-mails).
For submission, you will need to enter full names, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and ORCID ID (if available) for each author as well as up to five keywords.
Opinion articles may be suggested for the Food for Thought ... section. "t4 Workshop Reports" are consensus reports authored only by members of the t4 collaboration.
Meeting reports, corners, news, letters, comments
ALTEX welcomes submissions that are relevant to the 3Rs field for these sections. Please contact the editorial office to discuss the appropriate length and layout.
EVALUATION
Articles having no relevance to alternatives to animal experimentation or articles of low scientific value are rejected upon internal review. Two external experts’ reviews are obtained for academic articles that pass internal review. In case of disagreement, a third review is commissioned. The evaluation takes into account the scientific merit of a manuscript and its contribution to animal welfare and the 3R principle. Reviewers recommend whether the manuscript should be accepted, revised or rejected. The editor in chief decides whether to request revisions, require resubmission of a revised version, accept or reject a manuscript. The blinded content of the external reviews is sent to the authors independent of whether the manuscript is accepted for publication. Revised versions must be uploaded together with a detailed point-to-point reply whereupon the editor may request reviewers to reassess the manuscript before making a final decision.
PUBLICATION
Upon acceptance for publication, upload separate .doc, .docx, .odt or .rtf files of text, tables and boxes as well as separate figure files and supplementary data files prepared according to the "Style requirements for publication" detailed below.
ALTEX will bill authors an article processing charge of € 2,000 per full manuscript (Food for Thought ... articles, research articles, reviews, consensus reports) and € 1,000 per short communication upon acceptance for publication. These publication costs include the costs of publishing manuscripts upon acceptance as an unedited online first version and of publishing the final manuscript in the print and online version of the journal. Include a billing address with the final version of the manuscript. For letters and meeting reports ALTEX will bill authors an article processing charge of € 75 per printed page; for corners ALTEX will bill authors who are not members of ALTEX Edition € 400. These publication costs include the costs of publishing the final manuscript in the print and online version of the journal. Institutional members of ALTEX Edition benefit from a 10% discount on all article processing costs and free corners. Note that ALTEX is an open access journal listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Numerous funding institutions, university libraries and scientific institutes support open access publication by contributing to the publication fees. If your organization has no means to cover the publication costs, please state this in the cover letter and ALTEX may choose to waive these. The request for waiver must be co-signed by an institutional official certifying that the authors do not have research funds available for publication costs.
Accepted manuscripts will be published in the Latest Articles section upon receipt of final files and clarification of all open issues.
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