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Author Guidelines
Prepare your manuscript
Format and style
Manuscript text must:
be in English or French
be double-spaced
be single-column
include page numbers
include continuous line numbers (before acceptance only)
be 8.5 x 11 inches in page size (or ISO A4)
follow this order: title page, abstract, keywords, body text (Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion), acknowledgements, references, tables, figure captions, figures, appendices
Abbreviations and acronyms
Define abbreviations and acronyms when they are first mentioned in the text.
Footnotes
In body text, try to avoid footnotes. If unavoidable, cite footnotes using superscript Arabic numbers (1,2,3), in order of appearance (starting with the title page), and include the footnote at the bottom of the page on which it is cited. Do not include footnotes in the reference list.
In tables, cite footnotes using symbols (in the order *, †, ‡, §, ||, ¶, #) or superscript lowercase italic letters (a,b,c).
Mathematical expressions
Identify equations by calling out with numbers in parentheses placed flush with the left margin (for the Canadian Journal of Physics, place on the right).
A letter or symbol should represent only one entity and be used consistently throughout the paper.
Each variable (including those representing vectors, matrices, and tensors) must be clearly identified and defined in the text.
Supply complex equations in an editable format by using LaTeX or a math editor (MathType).
Supply simple, inline equations in Word, without using MathType. Insert symbols from Word’s “Symbol” palette, using “normal text” or “Symbol” fonts only. Insert symbols using MathType ONLY if they cannot be found in the “Symbol” palette under one of those two fonts.
Reporting guidelines
Study reporting guidelines can help authors report their work transparently and accurately. We encourage their use. Up-to-date guidelines can be found at the EQUATOR Network, where authors can consult the flow chart or wizard to identify which guideline(s) to use. A completed copy of the guideline checklist may be submitted with the manuscript as a Supplementary file.
Spelling
Spelling should follow that of Webster's Third New International Dictionary or the Oxford English Dictionary. Authors are responsible for consistency in spelling.
Statistical analyses
The assumptions and (or) the model underlying any statistical analysis should be clearly stated. Do not use symbols such as * and ** to denote levels of significance unless accompanied by actual p values.
Units of measure
Use SI units of measure (Système international d’unités). If non-SI units are used, at first mention, supply the equivalent in SI units in parentheses.
Parts of the manuscript
Title page
Title
Should be accurate, informative, and brief. Include keywords in the title to optimize search engine discovery.
Author list
List all author names on the title page: check author order, spelling, capitalization, initials, and hyphens.
Format names as: first name (or initial) middle name (or initial) last name (surname/family name).
List affiliation(s) for each author that include: institution (department and university or organization), city, state or province, country. An author’s affiliations should reflect where the research was conducted. If an author changes institution, the new affiliation can be listed in a footnote.
Do not include academic degrees and professional titles.
Authorship criteria: We subscribe to the ICMJE definition of authorship. Any person listed as an author must meet each of these authorship criteria, and anyone who meets these authorship criteria must be listed as an author. Contributors who do not meet authorship criteria should be listed in the Acknowledgements section. See our Publishing Policy for details.
Author group names: If a group name appears on a paper in place of an author:
if there is space, all group members will be included individually as authors, or
if there are too many authors to fit on the first page of a paper, an Editor will decide who is included (e.g., only the Chair of a committee); or that
the group name and the full list of names in the group will appear in the Acknowledgements section.
Corresponding author
Clearly identify the corresponding author and their email address on the title page. Note that the corresponding author must supply their ORCID iD during submission; however, it is not required on the title page.
Abstract
Provide the abstract in the manuscript text file on page 2, after the title page. Abstracts will be translated by the journal translator.
The abstract should be a single paragraph that summarizes the article. It helps readers decide whether to keep reading. Briefly describe the study rationale, objectives, methods, findings, and impact. Use keywords (and their plain-language synonyms) in the abstract to optimize search engine discovery. Do not include headings, reference citations, tables, figures, or acronyms.
Keywords
List keywords after the abstract. Good keywords are common to your field and accurately describe your topic. Use keywords in the title, abstract, and manuscript text to optimize search engine discovery. (Consider what words you would enter in a search box to find your work online.)
Graphical abstract
(Optional) Authors are encouraged to submit an illustration, diagram, equation, or other informative visual that explains the central message of the article and entices readers. The maximum allowable size is 40 mm (150 pixels) high by 85 mm (320 pixels) wide. Graphical abstracts appear online only.
Introduction
In 1–3 paragraphs, explain the study rationale and objective(s).
What is the problem, and why is it important?
What is known on the topic? Establish context: provide background, briefly review the key literature, and mention existing gaps or controversies in the field.
What is the overall aim of the study? State your research question, hypotheses, and predictions.
Materials and methods
Describe what you did (and how you did it) clearly and comprehensively enough for the study to be replicated.
Include as appropriate the study design; primary and secondary outcome measures; computational, experimental, and statistical methods; materials; locations.
Avoid long descriptions of known procedures; provide relevant references instead.
Specify materials used (e.g., laboratory or field equipment, chemicals, biologic materials) and their sources (provide company name, city, and country in parentheses).
Ethics approval
For studies involving human participants:
name the institutional ethics review committee that approved the study; and
confirm that participants gave informed consent before participating in the study.
For studies involving animals:
name the animal care review committee that approved the study;
name the animal care guidelines that were followed (must be in line with the Canadian Council on Animal Care guidelines or the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals);
confirm that research involving endangered species was conducted in accordance with all applicable laws; and
if permits were required for fieldwork, supply the research permit and (or) license numbers.
For studies involving collection of specimens:
confirm that research involving collection of specimens was conducted in accordance with all applicable laws, guidelines, regulations; and
if permits were required for fieldwork, supply the research permit and (or) license numbers.
Results
Report results that are directly relevant to your research question. Raw data and other observations may be submitted with the manuscript as Supplementary files or uploaded to a recognized data repository.
Use subheadings, tables, and figures to organize and communicate your findings.
Begin sections and (or) sentences with high-level observations, followed by statistical data.
State the statistical tests used (if applicable), and when reporting numbers:
define the values provided (e.g., mean and standard deviation or standard error, median, and interquartile range), and
include the absolute value of N when describing frequencies (i.e., percentages, proportions, ratios).
Discussion or Conclusion
Compare your findings with previously published work; include points of agreement and difference. Describe the limitations and main contributions of your work. Propose avenues of future study. Speculation should be clearly identified and based on observations related to the manuscript.
Author statements
Acknowledgements
The names and contributions of institutions and people who contributed to the work but do not meet authorship criteria may be listed in the Acknowledgements section. This section should be written in the third person. Authors are responsible for ensuring that people named in the Acknowledgements agree to be named.
Competing interests statement
Authors are responsible for disclosing all financial and non-financial relationships that might bias or be seen to bias their work. Supply a statement of competing interests during submission and on the article title page. Authors who are unsure what to list may wish to consult the ICMJE form for disclosure of competing interests.
If there is nothing to declare, the statement should read: “Competing interests: The authors declare there are no competing interests.”
If there are competing interests to declare, specify authors by full name. Statements should take the form of “Competing interests: AUTHOR is an employee and shareholder of COMPANY. AUTHOR has received speaker fees and travel honoraria from COMPANY.”
Contributors’ statement
Supply an author contribution statement, identifying authors by their initials, and specifying contributions according to the CRediT roles selected for each author in the peer-review system during submission.
Funding statement
Supply a funding statement that lists what support the authors received to carry out the research.
If the study was unfunded, state “Funding: The authors declare no specific funding for this work.”
If the study received funding, include each funding agency name written out in full, followed by its grant or award number in parentheses. E.g., “Funding: This research was supported by FUNDING AGENCY NAME (grant No. ###).”
Data availability statement
Supply a data availability statement that says whether the data underpinning the work are available. If yes, specify how data can be accessed and under what conditions data can be reused. Supply repository name, persistent unique identifier (PID: DOI/compact identifier/accession number), and hyperlink.
References
See journal-specific guidelines for information on preferred citation style. Note the following:
Unpublished reports, private communications, and submitted manuscripts do not belong in the reference list. Include them as footnotes or parenthetically in the body text, e.g., (J. Jones, personal communication, 2010).
For books and articles that are in press (accepted but not yet published), include them in the reference list.
Tables and Figures
In general:
Cite each figure and table, and name them in order of first appearance in the text (Figure 1, Figure 2, Table 1, Figure 3, Table 2, etc.)
Figures and tables should add information to the article, not duplicate results that are (or could be) explained briefly in the text.
Figures and tables should be understandable without having to read the article. Any abbreviations or symbols used should be defined in the caption (figures) or in the Note (tables).
Table specifications:
Supply tables in an editable format, i.e., Word (table function in DOC or DOCX) or Excel (spreadsheet in XLS or XLSX). Each data point should be in a separate cell.
Provide a table caption (e.g., Table 1. Xxx).
Footnotes should be designated by symbols (order: *, †, ‡, §, ||, ¶, #) or superscript lowercase italic letters (a,b,c).
Use a Note under the table for additional information.
Figure specifications:
See How to prepare figures for figure specifications and guidance.
A caption explains how to read a figure, independent of the article text. Follow the guidelines below:
Terms, abbreviations, and symbols used must be defined and correspond with those in the text.
List tools and settings used for image capture.
Maps: captions must attribute the source (e.g., Google Map attribution guidelines) or, if original, list the software used to create the map.
Include a permission statement for figures adapted, modified, or republished from elsewhere. Upload a copy of your permission from the original copyright holder with your files, or send by email to the journal editorial office.
Appendices
An appendix should be able to stand alone, as a separate, self-contained document. Figures, equations, and tables used in an appendix should be numbered sequentially but separately from those used in the main body of the paper, e.g., Fig. A1, eq. (A1), Table A1.
Supplementary files
Supplementary files consist of extra tables, figures (maps), detailed calculations, and data sets produced by the authors as part of their research, but not essential for understanding or evaluating the manuscript.
Number figures, equations, and tables in a supplementary file sequentially but separately from the numbering used in the manuscript (e.g., Fig. S1, eq. S1, Table S1).
Cite supplementary files in the manuscript in a footnote.
During submission, use the “Supplementary Data” file designation when uploading supplementary files.
Supplementary files are not edited or converted and, therefore, will appear exactly as submitted.
Supplementary files should be named by manuscript number followed by “suppla”, “supplb” etc. e.g., APNM-2019-0401suppla.
Multimedia files
Authors may incorporate audio and video clips into their paper; these are published online, adding a dimension to the paper that cannot be achieved in print. For submission guidelines and accepted formats, see technical specifications under How to prepare a video abstract.
Data availability
We encourage authors to make their primary research data publicly available for all articles reporting original research.
See journal-specific instructions for recommended repositories by discipline. You may also identify an appropriate repository with org or re3data.org, or use a generalist repository like Dryad or figshare.
Supply a data availability statement.
Cite the data in your manuscript, e.g.:
In-text citation: (data are available in the Dryad Digital Repository, DOI: ###)
Reference list entry: Authors. Year. Title [dataset]. Data repository. Version. Persistent unique identifier.
Guidelines per Journal
Please select the information you want to see:
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Author Guidelines for
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Nomenclature
Nomenclature of microorganisms
You must use the correct name of all organisms referenced in your article, conforming with international rules of nomenclature:
Prokaryotes: International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes
Viruses: International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature
Algae and fungi: International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi, and Plants
Protozoa: International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Yeasts: The Yeasts, A Taxonomic Study, 5th Edition
Many microorganisms are known by their common and scientific names. You may use the common term, but also correctly name the microorganism the first time it is mentioned in your article. You may also add synonyms or vernacular names in parentheses when the name is first mentioned, if you wish to do so.
Chemical and biochemical nomenclature
Follow the recommendations of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) for chemical nomenclature, and those of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) and the IUPAC–IUBMB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature for biochemical nomenclature. Similarly, follow the IUBMB system for enzyme nomenclature.
Genetic nomenclature
Take care to distinguish between genes in italics (e.g. gag) and the proteins that they encode in Roman font (e.g. Gag, p15gag).
Insertion sequences should be named as given in the ISfinder Database.
Abbreviations of scientific names
Although the names of genera and higher categories may stand alone to refer to the taxa with which they are associated, specific and subspecific epithets may not. A generic name followed by a specific epithet should be spelled out the first time it is used in the text; subsequently, it may be abbreviated to its capitalised initial letter if the context makes the meaning clear. In lists of names of species of the same genus, the genus name may be abbreviated after its first use for subsequent species in the list. If there are several generic names in the text with the same initial letter, the names should be spelled out at each occurrence.
Patent strains
If the strains under study are involved in a patent process, please make sure this is clearly indicated both in the article and in your submission cover letter. Strains other than the type strain should carry the superscript ‘PP’ if a patent is pending and ‘P’ if a patent has been issued.
Abstract
Abstracts should not exceed 200 words for all article types.
Length per manuscript type
Article type
Description
Specifications (word, table/fig, reference limits)
Note
Reports a completed project of a smaller scope and should not exceed 4 printed pages.
3000 words including references, tables and figures.
Minireviews
Present a critical perspective on a topic of current interest. Normally submission of minireviews is by invitation, but potential authors may contact the Editor with proposed topics.
5000 words (including tables, figures, references).
Invited reviews, symposia
Prospective authors or organizers of such contributions should communicate with the Editor to establish the suitability and timeliness of the topic for publication.
10,000 words (including tables, figures, references).
Article
Reports results of a substantial, completed work.
Length of no more than 10,000 words.
Note
Reports a completed project of a smaller scope and should not exceed 4 printed pages.
3000 words including references, tables and figures.
Discussions
Presents a discussion of a recent article, should be brief and introduce a technical or interpretive issue.
2000 words including references, tables and figures.
Replies
Replies to such discussions are invited from the original authors and are generally published in the same issue
Methods
Validation of a new/modified methodology that (i) shows the new/modified method presents either a technological advance and (or) confers some advantage over existing methods, and (ii) clearly outlines experimental protocols and timeliness.
2000 words including references, tables and figures.
As of July 1, 2020, Biochemistry and Cell Biology will not be able to consider manuscripts with a focus on the expression pattern and impact of microRNAs and non-coding RNAs in disease states. This decision is based solely on an imbalance in the large volume of submissions we receive in this area and on the editorial and reviewer expertise required to assess these papers. Authors are encouraged to submit such works to more specialized journals.
Data registration
Nucleic acid sequences
Authors must submit the relevant data to an appropriate database. The accession number assigned to the deposited sequence must be provided in the manuscript. Learn more about submitting to these databases:
GenBank
ENA (European Nucleotide Archive, EMBL-EBI)
DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan)
RDP (Ribosomal Database Project)
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Protein structure determinations
Authors must submit all structural data required to validate the discussion to the RCSB Protein Data Bank.
Clinical trials
Clinical trials must have been registered in a publicly accessible clinical trial registry before patient enrolment. Supply the name of the clinical trial registry and the study’s registration number online at submission, and list them at the end of the abstract in the manuscript text file. A data sharing statement is also required. Based on ICMJE guidelines on trial registration, the statement should indicate:
whether individual deidentified participant data (including data dictionaries) will be shared (“undecided” is not an acceptable answer);
what data will be shared;
what additional, related documents will be available (e.g., study protocol, statistical analysis plan);
when the data will become available and for how long; and
by what access criteria data will be shared (including with whom, for what types of analyses, and by what mechanism).
References
This journal uses the Harvard citation style. In-text citations take the form (Author Year). References must be listed in alphabetical order according to the name of the first author and not numbered. References with the same first author are listed in the following order.
Papers with one author only are listed first in chronological order, beginning with the earliest paper.
Papers with dual authorship follow and are listed in alphabetical order by the last name of the second author.
Papers with three or more authors appear after the dual-authored papers and are arranged chronologically. Include DOIs and hyperlinks whenever possible, and do not number the references. If your article is accepted for publication, we will format the list for you.
