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2021年4月15日星期四
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Author Guidelines
Sections
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
Organization and Sub-Headings
References
Abbreviations
Figures
Tables
Spelling and Grammar
Production Process
EarlyView
Proofs
Reprints
Availability of Materials
Ethics of Experimentation
Copyright
For authors signing the non-standard CTA
Note to Contributors on Deposit of Accepted Version
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MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
The journal to which you are submitting your manuscript employs a plagiarism detection system. By submitting your manuscript to this journal you accept that your manuscript may be screened for plagiarism against previously published works.
Manuscripts must be submitted electronically. For complete instructions on how to do so, go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/biofactors and follow the instructions for creating an account and submitting a manuscript.
When submitting your article to Scholar One Manuscripts, upload as many files as needed for your manuscript. These files will be combined into a single PDF document for the peer review process.
Microsoft Word Format is preferred for manuscript submission. Electronic versions in ASCII or PDF are not acceptable. Each figure must be uploaded separately as an image file using TIFF formatting. Each image file must include all subparts (A, B, C, etc.) to the figure. Subparts should not be uploaded individually. Tables should appear at the end of the manuscript text in the main document and should not be uploaded as separate image files. A figure legend/list of captions should appear at the end of the manuscript text as well. All submissions should have a complete title page and abstract in the main document file.
Images should be minimally processed and accurately reflect the original data. Accepted manuscripts go through image screening check prior to publication. Already published papers are investigated for all instances of alleged scientific misconduct (including, but not limited to, plagiarism, inappropriate data processing, and duplicate publication). Depending on the outcome of our investigation, we may publish a correction, retract published papers, or publish an editorial statement of concern.
In instances where we are considering revoking acceptance, retracting a published article, or issuing an editorial statement of concern, we will contact the corresponding author’s institution during the course of our investigation. As Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) members, we abide by COPE guidelines in managing investigations of possible misconduct.
Graphical abstract
Authors are required to submit a Graphical abstract with their submission to be published in the online Table-of-Contents of the Journal. The Graphical abstract should summarize the contents of the article in a concise, pictorial form designed to capture the attention of a wide readership online. Authors must provide images that clearly represent the work described in the article. Please supply an image that is colorful, mostly square and of high enough quality for online publication. Legends on the figure should be minimal and in large font only. The image should be in tiff or eps format at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Graphical abstracts should be submitted as a separate file in the online submission system.
DATA INTEGRITY AND IMAGE GUIDELINES
Data Integrity and Image Guidelines: Best Practices
Images should be minimally processed and accurately reflect the original data. Image processing may be necessary and is appropriate in most instances.
No specific feature within an image should be enhanced, obscured, moved, removed, or introduced
Dividing lines are to be added between juxtaposed images taken from different parts of the same gel or from different gels, fields, or exposures
Adjustments of brightness, contrast, or color balance are permitted if they are applied to the entire image and they do not enhance, erase, or misrepresent any information present in the original, including the background.
Use of duplicated images within the manuscript; any reuse of images, including control data, across multiple figures should be explicitly stated and justified in the legend.
Nonlinear adjustments (e.g., changes to gamma settings) must be disclosed in the figure legend
Cropping is sometimes a useful tool, for example, to focus attention on a particular object within a larger image by removing irrelevant parts of the image. If the removal of parts of the image does not affect inferences that are made from the image, it is usually acceptable
Adjusting color settings is a not uncommon practice since doing so creates more vibrant and eye-catching images. However, when the conclusions made from an image are dependent on its precise color, color adjustments are inappropriate.
Cloning, whether to add features that were not present in the first place or to clean up the background, is strongly discouraged and highly questionable. If for some reason the tool is used, the manipulation made should be reported in detail in the figure legend.
Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
The journal expects that data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository. Whenever possible the scripts and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper should also be publicly archived. Exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the editor for sensitive information such as human subject data or the location of endangered species. Authors are expected to provide a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, to accompany their paper.
MANUSCRIPT CATEGORIES
Research Communications
Research Communications are expected to be complete, original, short studies of broad biological interest. They must present remarkably significant findings that provide new mechanistic understanding of biologically relevant phenomena and their possible connection to human pathology or medicine.
Short Reviews
These papers are concise and focused reviews of topical issues in the biological sciences. They should not be comprehensive of all published literature in a given field but rather represent the author’s creative interpretation of the results in a given scientific area. The length of Short Reviews and their illustrations is not strictly defined and it is left to the authors to make optimal usage of a necessarily limited space.
Review Process
These manuscripts are examined by the editors and to outside referees for critical review. Authors are required to suggest at least four potential reviewers, at least one of whom will often be recruited as a referee. Every effort will be made to provide the corresponding author with an editorial decision within 3 weeks of manuscript receipt. Accepted manuscripts will usually be published in less than 2 months from the date of acceptance.
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
Contributions should be written concisely in English and should be typed using double-spacing with 30-40 mm margins. All articles should include a brief, informative abstract that will appear at the beginning of the paper. Five to ten keywords should also be included for searching purposes, as well as a running title of less than 60 characters. Authors should familiarize themselves with the style of articles by perusing a recent issue of the Journal.
Data and opinions appearing in the published articles and advertisements are the sole responsibility of the contributor or advertiser concerned. Accordingly, the publishers, the editorial board and editors and their respective employees, officers and agents accept no responsibility or liability for the consequences of published material.
Abbreviations such as those used in the Biochemical Journal (http://www.biochemj.org/) may be used without definition; other abbreviations should be defined.
Organization and Sub-Headings
Original research articles should generally be organized as follows: Abstract, Introduction, Experimental Procedures, Results, and Discussion. Critical Reviews should begin with an Abstract, followed by an Introduction and by the text of the article.
References
References should be cited in the text in numerical order in parentheses (e.g. (1) or (1-3)). If a reference is cited more than once the same number should be used each time. References should be numbered in the order of appearance in the manuscript, and compiled in numerical order in a list at the end of the paper. Only published works should be included in the reference list. Unpublished observations, manuscripts in preparation, and personal communications should instead be included in the text. All personal communications or endorsements must be confirmed in writing by the person(s) involved. References of articles with six or more authors should be formatted to include the first five authors followed by et al. Use the following format to reference journals, books, and book chapters.
Journal article
[1] Gal, S., Klein, J. W. (2000) A case for college molecular biology classes: a right to her genes. Biochem. Mol. Biol. Educ. 28, 267-271.
Book
[2] Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B. (1979) The Elements of Style, 3rd ed., Macmillan, New York.
Edited book
[3] Letheridge, S., Cannon, C.R., Eds. (1980) Bilingual Education: Teaching English as a Second Language, Praeger, New York.
Article or chapter in edited book
[4] Gurman, A.S., Kniskern, D.P., in Gurman, A.S., Kniskern, D.P., Eds. (1981) Handbook of Family Therapy, Brunner/Maazel, New York, pp. 742-775.
Proceedings
[5] Chaddock, T.E., in: Daniel, E.E., Ed. (1974) Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Gastrointestinal Motility, Mitchell Press, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, pp. 83-92.
Preprint
[6] Yu, F., Wu, X.-S. (1992) Physics Review Letters 68 2996(hep-th/9112009).
URL
[7] World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources: http://molvisindex.org/ (revised 2001)
Journal names should be abbreviated according to Chemical Abstracts.
The suggested EndNote reference style can be downloaded here: http://endnote.com/downloads/style/biofactors
Abbreviations
All abbreviations used in the text must be defined in a single footnote inserted in the text immediately after the first abbreviation is cited. Abbreviations such as those used in the Biochemical Journal (http://www.biochemj.org/) may be used without definition; other abbreviations should be defined. The abbreviations of some important biochemical compounds, e.g. ATP, NADH, DNA, and amino acids in proteins, need not be defined.
Figures
To ensure the highest quality production, your figures must be submitted in TIFF or JPEG format according to the following minimum resolutions:
1200 dpi (dots per inch) for black and white line art (simple bar graphs, charts, etc.)
300 dpi for halftones (black and white photographs)
600 dpi for combination halftones (photographs that also contain line art such as labeling or thin lines)
Vector-based figures (usually created in Adobe Illustrator) should be submitted as EPS.
Do not submit figures in the following formats: JPEG, GIF, Word, Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, PowerPoint, PDF, Corel Draw.
Graphs must show an appropriate grid scale. Each axis must be labeled with both the quantity measured and the unit of measurement. Color figures must be submitted in a CMYK color space. Do not submit files as RGB.
Tables
Tables should not be embedded in the text, but should be included as separate files. A short descriptive title should appear above each table with a clear legend and any footnotes suitably identified below. All units must be included. Figures should be completely labeled, taking into account necessary size reduction. Captions should be entered in the spaces provided.
Spelling and Grammar
All manuscripts must be submitted in English and should be as concise as possible. Either standard American spelling and grammar or standard British spelling and grammar are acceptable, but each manuscript must conform to only one of the two styles. Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (10th ed.) should be followed for matters of standard American (English) spelling, compound words, and word division. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English (Clarendon Press, Oxford) should be followed for questions of British (English) spelling and grammar.
Production Process
All material accepted for publication is subject to copyediting. Authors will receive page proofs of articles before publication, and should answer all queries and carefully check all editorial changes at this stage. Authors are asked to check for misprints or syntactic errors and not to otherwise revise the manuscript.
EarlyView
Once a corrected proof is received by the publisher from the author and reviewed with the Editor, individual articles are published on-line in the EarlyView service maintained by the publisher. This makes articles available before they are placed into an issue and reduces publication time to about 2 months. Articles are available as HTML full-text, and each article includes a digital object identifier (DOI) and a collaborative reference linking service through which readers can click on a reference citation and immediately access article content. Once articles are published electronically, it is not possible for authors to make further changes before issue in which it appears is posted.
Proofs
One set of proofs will be sent to the corresponding author in form of a PDF file. Changes made at this time should reflect corrections of typographical or factual errors. Due to the rapid publication of this journal, proofs must be carefully checked and returned within 48 hours of receipt. Articles will be added to an issue in the order that the publisher receives the proofs. Failure to return proofs within 48 hours may result in the article being delayed for publication until a later issue.
Reprints
Reprints may be purchased at https://caesar.sheridan.com/
Availability of Materials
As a condition of publication in BioFactors, authors must agree to make every reasonable effort to provide colleagues in academic research with any of the cell lines, antibodies, nucleic acids, and other related materials used in the research reported that are not freely available from commercial sources. Nucleic acid sequences, protein sequences, and X-ray crystallographic coordinates must be deposited in the appropriate databases prior to the publication of an article.
Ethics of Experimentation
Contributors are expected to conform to accepted international standards of animal and human experimentation, and to provide evidence of institutional review and approval of animal and human experimental protocols. In cases of dispute, the currently accepted IUBMB guidelines will be followed.
Copyright
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
For authors signing the non-standard CTA
If the OnlineOpen option is not selected the corresponding author will be presented with the BioFactors non-standard CTA to sign. The terms and conditions of the non-standard CTA can be previewed below:
Terms and Conditions. Please do not complete this PDF until you are prompted to login into Author Services as described above.
Note to Contributors on Deposit of Accepted Version
Funder arrangements
Certain funders, including the NIH, members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Wellcome Trust require deposit of the Accepted Version in a repository after an embargo period. Details of funding arrangements are set out at the following website: http://www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement. Please contact the Journal production editor if you have additional funding requirements.
Institutions
Wiley has arrangements with certain academic institutions to permit the deposit of the Accepted Version in the institutional repository after an embargo period. Details of such arrangements are set out at the following website: http://www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement
For authors choosing OnlineOpen
If the OnlineOpen option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):
Creative Commons Attribution License OAA
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial -NoDerivs License OAA
To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp and visit http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html.
If you select the OnlineOpen option and your research is funded by The Wellcome Trust and members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license supporting you in complying with Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK requirements. For more information on this policy and the Journal’s compliant self-archiving policy please visit: http://www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement.
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