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Article types
Research Articles
Research Articles should be fully documented reports of original research and are always peer reviewed. The total length of the article should not exceed 8000 words, including figure legends but not references, with no more than eight display items (figures and tables). Supplementary items (figures, tables, movies, datasets) may be published online at the discretion of the Editor and reviewers. Supplemental material is normally limited to 5 Mb per article. For more information on how to prepare a Research Article, please see the manuscript preparation page.
The Journal will also consider useful reports of negative results.
Methods & Techniques
These peer-reviewed articles describe a novel method or an advance of an existing method, and must include the validation of the method. If possible, they should also include application of the method, but this is not a requirement. Methods must be described in sufficient detail to allow others to replicate and verify it. If it is a computational method, then the source code and an executable version of the method must be deposited on GitHub (or equivalent) and included in the supplemental information as a compressed archive. Methods & Techniques articles should follow the standard format for Research Articles, as described above.
Future Leader Reviews
As part of its support for early-career researchers, BiO publishes reviews from future leaders in the biological sciences. Find out how to apply.
Meeting Reviews
Recipients of Scientific Meeting Grants from The Company of Biologists are eligible to apply to publish a Meeting Review free of charge in BiO. Find out how to apply.
Correspondence
Should a reader have cogent criticisms of a paper published in BiO, the journal will consider publishing them in the form of a letter of no more than 1000 words with no more than 10 references. Correspondence authors will be required to pay an Article Processing Charge of $1000 (plus VAT if applicable). The authors of the original paper(s) under discussion are given the final right to reply, and any such response may be published together with the Correspondence. The Editor reserves the right to edit items of Correspondence/Response and they may be peer reviewed. As a courtesy, we usually share the contents of the Response with the Correspondence authors before publication, but it is intended that the Correspondence authors focus on the original papers (and not on the Response that results from their Correspondence).
To submit a Correspondence to the journal, please contact the Managing Editor with a brief description of the article.
Manuscript preparation
1. General information
BiO requires authors to submit their manuscripts online using the Bench>Press manuscript processing system. Authors are required to read our journal policies before preparing their manuscripts, and all manuscripts should adhere to the journal’s Terms of Submission.
All pre-submission or general editorial queries should be directed to the Editorial Office.
BiO supports the policies of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). The manuscript preparation guidelines below follow the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals.
Articles that are transferred to BiO from Development, Disease Models & Mechanisms, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology are NOT required to reformat or alter their articles. BiO accepts transferred Research articles in short and long format (e.g. Short reports, Research Reports) and Methods & Techniques type papers (e.g. Tools & Techniques and Resources).
1.1. New submissions – format free
To make manuscript submission as easy as possible for authors, BiO offers format-free submission.
At first submission, authors may submit their manuscript in any format; however, we do encourage authors to read the manuscript preparation guidelines below and to consider how easy a manuscript is to read by reviewers and editors (e.g. using appropriate line spacing, line and page numbers, and ensuring that figures are carefully numbered and/or accompanied by their legend).
All manuscripts must adhere to our guidelines regarding manuscript length.
1.2. Revised submissions
On BiO, roughly 95% of revised submissions are accepted for publication.
All revised manuscripts should adhere to the guidelines below on preparing text and tables, figures, movies and supplementary information.
Authors should complete and submit a submission checklist with their manuscripts. This form asks authors to confirm that they have followed best practice guidelines regarding experimental subjects, data reporting and statistics. The checklist is based on the NIH Principles and Guidelines for Reporting Preclinical Research and is intended to help ensure high standards for reporting and to aid reproducibility.
2. Manuscript length
Research Articles should be fully documented reports of original research and are always peer reviewed. The total length of the article should not exceed 8000 words, including figure legends but not references, with no more than eight display items (figures and tables). Supplementary items (figures, tables, movies, datasets) may be published online at the discretion of the Editor and reviewers. Supplementary information is normally limited to 50 Mb per article. For more information on how to prepare a Research Article, please see the manuscript preparation page.
3. Preparing the text and tables
The information below relates to a standard Research Article. For all other article types, please refer to the style and layout guidelines provided on our Article types page.
3.1 File formats
For manuscript text and tables, our preferred file format is Microsoft Word .docx (or .doc). We also accept Pages (rtf format) and LaTeX.
Please include tables as part of the manuscript file. Tables must be editable and not embedded as an image.
Authors working in LaTeX can download and use our template. Please upload a single PDF at first submission and include any component files, such as .st (style file), .cls (class file) and .bib (bibliography file) at revision submission. Please note that LaTeX files will be converted to Microsoft Word files during the production process and that authors will be required to check the conversion of symbols and special characters carefully at the proofing stage.
For mathematical equations, our preferred file format is MathType. We also accept Equation Editor (Microsoft Word) and LaTex.
3.2. Article sections
3.2.1.Title page
This section should include a title of 150 characters or less that clearly and concisely summarises your specific findings and avoids specialist abbreviations, a running title of 32 characters or less, the full names (including middle initials) and affiliations of all authors (including present addresses for authors who have moved), and the corresponding author’s email address. Please note any cases where authors contributed equally to the work. Please also include 3-6 key words for indexing purposes (select key words that will make your manuscript easily searchable).
3.2.2. Summary statement
Provide a brief Summary Statement for use in emailed and online tables of content alerts. The text should be between 15 and 30 words, and should explain, without overstatement, why someone should read the article. Please do not simply repeat the title, and avoid unfamiliar terms and abbreviations, as the text should be comprehensible to non-experts. We reserve the right to edit the text.
3.2.3. Abstract
Provide a brief abstract of no more than 200 words. This should succinctly and clearly introduce the topic of the paper, summarise the main findings and highlight the significance of the data and main conclusions. The abstract is used by abstracting services without modification and is often read more frequently than the full paper and therefore needs to be comprehensible in its own right. Do not include subheadings or references, and avoid any non-standard abbreviations. It is essential that the abstract contain all important key words, to ensure that the article appears in the appropriate search results.
3.2.4. Introduction
This section should succinctly provide the background information that is required to set the results into their proper biological context. It should not contain subheadings.
3.2.5. Results
This section should describe the results of the experiments performed and should be broken up by subheadings to organise the findings presented and walk the reader through the results. Reproducibility of results must be included – see our submission checklist for further information. Please ensure that the distinction between new results and published findings/established facts is clear.
3.2.6. Discussion
This section should explain the significance of the results and should place them into the broader context of the current literature. The Discussion may contain subheadings to highlight important areas that are expanded on in the text.
3.2.7. Materials and Methods
This section should include sufficient detail to understand and to replicate the experiments performed, in conjunction with cited references. To facilitate detailed description of materials and methods (allowing the reader to fully understand and replicate the experimental protocols), this section does not count towards the word limit for article length. The materials and methods should be divided into sections, and should include subsections detailing reagents, animal models and statistical analysis. Please provide names for ALL equipment and reagent suppliers. Give Latin names for all experimental species. Reporting standards should follow those recommended in our Journal Policies and submission checklist. In exceptional cases where the materials and methods are particularly lengthy, more detailed experimental protocols or descriptions of computational analyses may be included as supplementary materials and methods (though all methods must be mentioned in the main text). Materials such as primers, antibodies and strains may be provided as supplementary text or tables. Note that the Editor or production team may request changes to the materials and methods to ensure compliance with these guidelines.
3.2.8. Acknowledgements
This section should mention any individuals or groups that are not named as authors but have contributed to the research presented (e.g. in terms of reagents, time, expertise) or writing of the manuscript. Please also include details of support from core facilities.
3.2.9. Competing interests
Include a statement to identify any potential influences that readers may need to know about when thinking about the implications of the presented research. For more specific information regarding the affiliations and associations that must be disclosed, please see our Journal Policies page. Authors without financial or competing interests should explicitly assert this and include the statement ‘No competing interests declared’.
3.2.10. Funding
Details of all funding sources must be provided. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to provide the relevant funding information from ALL authors. Please provide the official funding agency name as listed on the Crossref Funder Registry, i.e. 'National Institutes of Health', not 'NIH', and all relevant grant numbers. If your Funder is not listed in the Registry, please provide the name in full.
Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding, please add initials after the relevant agency or grant number. Please use the following format: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S., BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789]. Where no specific funding has been provided for the research, please state ‘This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors’.
3.2.11. Data availability
All publicly available datasets supporting your work should be included in the Data availability section. Details should include repository name, identifier such as accession number or doi and, where possible, include a hyperlink to the URL of the dataset. Datasets should be made publicly available at the time of publication. For more information on our data deposition requirements, see please see our Journal Policies.
Please note that BiO endorses the Force 11 Data Citation Principles and recommends that references to datasets should also be included in the reference list with DOIs/accession numbers and hyperlinks, where available.
3.2.12. References
All references cited in the text, tables and figure legends should be included in a single reference list at the end of the article. We strongly encourage the citation of the primary literature over review articles wherever possible, and for this reason do not have a limit on the number of references that can be included. For specific information about reference formatting, please see the References section below.
3.2.13. Figure legends
Figure legends should be listed at the end of the manuscript. The first sentence of the legend should summarise the figure and be in bold. Each figure legend should stand alone and should contain enough information to ensure that the figure is understandable without having to refer to the main text. Figure panels should be labelled with uppercase letters (A, B, C, etc.), and each panel should be described in the legend. Any abbreviations not given in the main text should be defined. For further details on what should be included in figure legends, please refer to our submission checklist.
3.3. Preparing the text
3.3.1. General information
Prepare manuscripts in English (either US or UK spelling is acceptable but be consistent within the manuscript). Your writing should be comprehensible to editors and reviewers, and your writing style should be concise and accessible. If English is not your first language, please consider using a language editing service prior to submission.
Ensure that the language in your manuscript is original and does not contain previously published passages of text (including those from your own publications) – see our Journal Policies for more details. All accepted manuscripts are routinely screened using plagiarism-detection software.
Use 1.5 line spacing and continuous line numbering throughout the paper in order to facilitate online reviewing.
Please ensure pages are numbered.
Do not embed figures in the text.
Cite each figure, table and movie in the text in numerical order. Figure or table parts should be labelled with uppercase letters (A, B, C, etc.). Use the following format for citations: Fig. 1A,B or Figs 1, 2 or Table 1 or Movie 1.
If necessary, display equations should be cited using the following format: Eqn 1.
For supplementary figures, tables and equations, cite as Fig. S1, Table S1, Eqn S1.
Define abbreviations at first mention.
For special characters not available on a standard keyboard (e.g. Greek characters, mathematical symbols), use the Symbol font or the ‘Insert Symbol’ function in Microsoft Word, where possible. For special characters that are not available via this route, please use MathType characters; do not use embedded images (e.g. GIF).
3.3.2. Units and nomenclature
Units of measurement should follow the SI system, e.g. ml s-1 rather than ml/s. Guidance on using the SI convention can be found here. Type a space between a digit and a unit, e.g. 1 mm (except 1%, 1oC).
Use s.e.m. and s.d. for standard errors, etc.
Taxonomic nomenclature: the Latin names and taxonomic authority (e.g. Linnaeus) should be provided for all experimental species. All species names should be italicized.
Genetic nomenclature: gene names should be in italic type, but the protein product of a gene should be in Roman type. Genetic nomenclature should be in accordance with established conventions and should be approved by the relevant nomenclature curator if applicable. See below for some relevant links.
HGNC list of genome databases: https://www.genenames.org/useful/all-links#ovgdb
Caenorhabditis elegans: https://www.wormbase.org
Dictyostelium: https://dictycr.org/
Chicken: http://birdgenenames.org/cgnc/guidelines
Drosophila: https://flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:Nomenclature
Human: https://www.genenames.org/about/guidelines
Maize: https://www.maizegdb.org/maize_nomenclature.php
Mouse: http://www.informatics.jax.org/mgihome/lists/lists.shtml
Saccharomyces cerevisiae: https://www.yeastgenome.org/
Schizosaccharomyces pombe: https://www.pombase.org/submit-data/gene-naming-guidelines
Xenopus: https://www.xenbase.org/gene/static/geneNomenclature.jsp
Zebrafish: https://zfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/general/pages/1818394635/ZFIN+Zebrafish+Nomenclature+Conventions
3.3.3. References
3.3.3.1. References in text
References in the text should be cited using the Harvard (name, date) referencing system.
Each reference cited in the text must be listed in the Reference list and vice versa: please check these carefully. Where references are cited only in supplementary information, please provide a separate supplementary reference list and do not include these in the main reference list.
Literature citations in text are as follows.
One author – (Jones, 1995) or (Jones, 1995; Smith, 1996).
Two authors – (Jones and Kane, 1994) or (Jones and Kane, 1994; Smith, 1996).
More than two authors – (Jones et al., 1995) or (Jones et al., 1995a,b; Smith et al., 1994, 1995).
Manuscripts accepted for publication but not yet published: include in Reference list and cite as (Jones et al., in press).
Manuscripts posted on preprint servers but not yet published: include in Reference list and cite as (Smith et al., 2016 preprint).
Citation of unpublished work: we discourage citation of unpublished data; if it is necessary, use the format (S. P. Jones, unpublished observations/data). Unpublished data cannot be included in the Reference list.
PhD theses: include in Reference list and cite as (Smith, 2016).
Website URLs: cite in the text but do not include in the Reference list; provide the URL and, if the website is frequently updated, the date that the site was accessed.
Personal communications (i.e. the unpublished observations of other scientists): when a person who is not an author on the paper is the source of unpublished data, those data should be cited as a personal communication using the format (full name, institution, personal communication). Personal communications should not be cited in the Reference list and will only be published when substantiated by written permission (e.g. email) from the scientist cited.
Dataset: we recommend that all publicly available datasets are referenced in the reference list with an accession number or unique identifier such as a DOI. Cite as (Jones and Jane, 1994).
Authors should avoid citing articles from journals that are suspected to be predatory in nature (see https://thinkchecksubmit.org/ for an online resource designed to help researchers identify trusted journals).
Citation of retracted articles is strongly discouraged. If it is necessary to cite a retracted paper, the notice of retraction must also be cited and it must be obvious to the reader that the article has been retracted. Editors may question why a retracted publication has been cited.
3.3.3.2. Reference List
References are listed in alphabetical order according to surname and initials of first author.
Use the following style:
Journal
Rivera, A. R. V., Wyneken, J. and Blob, R. W. (2011). Forelimb kinematics and motor patterns of swimming loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta): are motor patterns conserved in the evolution of new locomotor strategies? J. Exp. Biol. 214, 3314-3323.
Book
Hochachka, P. W. and Somero, G. N. (2002). Biochemical Adaptation: Mechanism and Process in Physiological Evolution. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Book chapter
Feller, G. (2008). Enzyme function at low temperatures in psychrophiles. In Protein Adaptation in Extremophiles (ed. K. S. Siddiqui and T. Thomas), pp. 35-69. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Preprint server
Baillie-Johnson, P., van den Brink, S. C., Balayo, T., Turner, D. A. and Martinez Arias, A. (2014). Generation of aggregates of mouse ES cells that show symmetry breaking, polarisation and emergent collective behaviour in vitro. bioRxiv doi:10.1101/005215.
PhD thesis
Jones, A. R. (2016). Title of thesis. PhD thesis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Dataset with persistent identifier
Zheng, L.-Y., Guo, X.-S., He, B., Sun, L.-J., Peng, Y. and Dong, S.-S. (2011). Genome data from sweet and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). GigaScience Database. https://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100012.
Kingsolver, J. G., Hoekstra, H. E., Hoekstra, J. M., Berrigan, D., Vignieri, S. N., Hill, C. E., Hoang, A., Gibert, P. and Beerli, P. (2001). Data from: The strength of phenotypic selection in natural populations. Dryad Digital Repository. https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.166.
If there are more than 10 authors, use 'et al.' after the 10th author.
Within a group of papers with the same first author, list single author papers first, then papers with two authors, then et al. papers. If more than one reference exists for each type, arrange in date order. Use a and b for papers published in the same year.
'In press' citations must have been accepted for publication and the name of the journal or publisher included.
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