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Author Guidelines
Manuscript preparation instructions
Scope
FEMS Yeast Research offers efficient publication of high-quality original Research Articles, Mini-reviews, Letters to the Editor, Perspectives and Commentaries that express current opinions. The journal will select for publication only those manuscripts deemed to be of major relevance to the field and generally will not consider articles that are largely descriptive without insights on underlying mechanism or biology. Submissions on any yeast species are welcome provided they report results within the scope outlined below and are of significance to the yeast field.
The scope of the journal
Articles must contribute to improving our understanding of the biology or impact of yeasts.
Topics that are relevant include physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, signalling, genetics, genomics, systems biology, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, biodiversity, molecular diagnostics, industrial applications, yeast pathogenesis, fermentation and biotechnology.
Articles that use yeast as a model organism for studying human diseases or that study general biological phenomena of broad interest.
New methods and protocols of wide relevance to the yeast community.
The following types of articles are not generally considered
Straightforward descriptions of new yeast species
Survey-type studies that cultivate, describe and provide only preliminary characterisation of yeasts from a particular habitat (e.g. food, environmental or clinical)
Papers that report phenomenon or phenotypes without addressing underlying mechanisms. This includes studies that report the effects of extracts, drugs, chemicals, reagents and environmental conditions on yeast but do not determine the basis of these effects.
Papers that provide confirmatory evidence or merely extend observations firmly established in one species, field site or biological context to another.
Studies that mainly re-analyse existing mutants (e.g, from collections) for new phenotypes but do not follow-up with deeper analysis.
Clinical case studies.
Straightforward heterologous expression studies – e.g. expression of a particular enzyme of biotechnological interest but no particular innovation.
Solid papers that are scientifically sound but do not significantly advance knowledge or application of yeasts.
Editorial Policy
Please visit our Editorial Policies page for a full list of our Editorial and Ethical Policies
FEMS Yeast Research will only consider articles that are within the published scope of the journal, are original submissions, are not preliminary or incomplete, and are of significance the field of yeast research. The Editor in Chief or Editors will reject papers, with an immediate decision, that are outside the scope of the journal, lack significance, or which they believe do not meet the required standards for other reasons. Retained papers will be assigned a handing Editor who will make decisions on acceptance, revision, resubmission or rejection based on independent referees’ reports. All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least two qualified members of the Editorial Board or other appropriate experts. Authors who feel that there are substantial grounds for disagreement with an Editor’s decision should contact the Editor in Chief, whose decision will be final. Details of the journal Editors and Editorial Board are available on the journal website.
Peer Review Process
All submissions to the journal are initially reviewed by the Editor and his Associates. At this stage manuscripts may be rejected without peer review if it is felt that they are not of high enough priority or not relevant to the journal. This fast rejection process means that authors are given a quick decision and do not need to wait for the review process. Manuscripts that are not instantly rejected are sent out for peer review, usually to two independent reviewers. Based on the feedback from these reviewers and the Editors’ judgment a decision is given on the manuscript.
Manuscripts may also be sent out for statistical review.
The average time from submission to first decision is 35 days.
Submission
Please read these instructions carefully and follow them closely to ensure that the review and publication of your paper is as efficient and quick as possible. The Editors reserve the right to return manuscripts that are not in accordance with these instructions.
All material to be considered for publication in FEMS Yeast Research should be submitted in electronic form via the journal's online submission system. Once you have prepared your manuscript according to the instructions below, please follow this link for instructions on how to submit your manuscript online.
All manuscripts must be accompanied by a cover letter, which should include a short statement, in 3–4 sentences, describing:
how the work related to the scope of journal i.e. why it should be published in this journal?
the aims of the study and their significance with regard to previously published work
the novelty and originality of the findings.
Manuscripts for MiniReviews may be submitted directly, solicited from international leading investigators or proposals for reviews may be sent to the Chief Editor.
Such proposals should contain:
an outline (1–3 pages)
a short statement describing the aim, scope and relevance of the review, and an indication of why the review is timely
information on whether there has been any review covering this or a related field in the past few years, and, if so, the specific importance of the proposed review
a statement as to when the completed review might be expected
full contact details of four experts in the field who are familiar with the topical list of recent key references showing the contributions to the field made by the author(s).
a list of recent key references showing the contributions to the field made by the author(s).
The proposals are evaluated and authors may be invited to submit the review if the material is satisfactory and of general interest.
Nominated Reviewers
When suggesting reviewers for manuscripts, members of the Editorial Board and/or suitably qualified scientists should have no close affiliation with the authors and should give an objective review of the manuscript. Professional e-mail addresses must be provided, if available, rather than private e-mail addresses. The Editors retain the right to use their discretion to select reviewers they deem appropriate, which may or may not include those nominated by authors.
Revised Manuscripts
Manuscripts may be returned to authors for modification of the scientific content and/or for shortening and language corrections. Revised versions must be submitted online through ScholarOne Manuscripts by clicking on the link to upload a revised manuscript provided in the authors’ decision letter. This can also be achieved by clicking on the ‘‘create a revision’’ button in the corresponding author’s submitting author centre. A source file is required with text and tables (.doc, .docx or .rtf format, but not .pdf). Information must be provided on responses to Editor’s and referees’ comments through a cover letter. A clear indication is also required of changes that have been made. Authors must also upload a file as a supporting document in which original and revised text are compared using the ‘Track Changes’ facility.
Figures should be uploaded in separate files and at sufficient resolution (see section on Preparation of data). All obsolete files of the previous version should be deleted from the revised submission. If a paper that is returned to the authors for amendment is not resubmitted in revised form within one month after minor and two months after a major revision, the paper will be regarded as withdrawn, unless request for extension is made to the Editor dealing with the paper. Any revised version received after this deadline will be treated as a new, resubmitted manuscript.
Resubmitted Manuscripts
If extensive revision is required, including a requirement for additional experimental work or analysis, the manuscript may be rejected but with a recommendation to resubmit a substantially revised manuscript. A resubmitted manuscript should be submitted as a new manuscript but should include a letter outlining the revisions that have been made in response to the major criticisms of the original article. The article will be treated as a new submission, will typically be edited by the Editor who dealt with the original manuscript, but may not necessarily be reviewed by the same referees.
Manuscript Preparation and Support
Manuscripts must be written in English (consistent with either UK or US spelling) and should be clear and grammatically correct. Authors whose native language is not English should consider having their manuscript read by an English speaking colleague or have it professionally edited. This is not a mandatory step, but may help to ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers. Language editing does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted for publication but manuscripts that are not written in clear and legible English may be rejected without peer review.
There are a number of pre-submission language editing services available. FEMS is pleased to partner with Peerwith to provide editorial support for authors wishing to submit papers to FEMS journals. Peerwith is a platform for author services, connecting academics seeking support for their work with the relevant FEMS expert who can help out not only with language editing, but also translation, visuals, consulting, or anything else authors need to get their research submission-ready. Please follow this link to request a Peerwith quotation within 24 hours without obligation. Here are other useful links to help you through the manuscript submission process:
Online Submission Platform
Editorial Office: e-mail femsyr.editorialoffice@oup.com
Production Office: e-mail femsyr.production@oup.com
FEMS Journals Portal
FEMS (Federation of European Microbiological Societies) website
Availability of Data and Materials
Where ethically feasible, FEMS Yeast Research strongly encourages authors to make all data and software code on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to readers. We suggest that data be presented in the main manuscript or additional supporting files, or deposited in a public repository whenever possible. For information on general repositories for all data types, and a list of recommended repositories by subject area, please see Choosing where to archive your data.
Data Citation
FEMS Yeast Research supports the Force 11 Data Citation Principles and requires that all publicly available datasets be fully referenced in the reference list with an accession number or unique identifier such as a digital object identifier (DOI). Data citations should include the minimum information recommended by DataCite:
[dataset]* Authors, Year, Title, Publisher (repository or archive name), Identifier
*The inclusion of the [dataset] tag at the beginning of the citation helps us to correctly identify and tag the citation. This tag will be removed from the citation published in the reference list.
ORCID
FEMS Yeast Research requires submitting authors to provide an ORCID iD at submission to the journal. More information on ORCID and the benefits of using an ORCID iD is available. If you do not already have an ORCID iD, you can register for free via the ORCID website.
Preprint and Self-archiving policies
Authors retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels, and this does not prevent submission to the journal. For further information see our Online Licensing, Copyright and Permissions policies. If accepted, the authors are required to update the status of any preprint, including your published paper’s DOI, as described on our Author Self-Archiving policy page. Please note reuse of the accepted version of your manuscript and the final, published version, is restricted. You may post the accepted version of your manuscript to a personal webpage or to an institutional non-commercial repository immediately on publication on the proviso that this version is not made publicly available until 12 months after publication. Please see our Author Self-Archiving policy page for more information on the acceptable reuse of the manuscript.
Manuscript Format and Structure
Manuscripts can now be submitted to FEMS Yeast Research without being formatted into journal style. Manuscripts will need to be formatted for revision, after acceptance. Manuscripts can be submitted in any common document format that can be easily opened and read by others. A single PDF or Word file is usually reliable. At first submission, please ensure your manuscript adheres to the basic formatting guidelines provided below.
After initial review, you may be asked to supply editable files that match journal formatting requirements, and high-resolution figures. For more details, please consult the journal's mini style checklist.
Basic formatting guide
On the first page please include manuscript title, author names and affiliations including country, and the address (including email) of the corresponding author.
Provide a short abstract (up to 200 words), avoiding abbreviations and reference citations.
Define non-standard abbreviations at the first occurrence.
Number tables and figures consecutively by appearance, and provide a legend for each. Avoid overcrowding in tables and unnecessary clutter in figures. The initial submission can have figures and text in one file, if desired. Upon request, please be prepared to provide high-resolution figures separately, in a common image format (e.g. eps, tif, jpg).
Videos can be published in the online article, with a still image representing the video appearing in the print version. Submit videos in MP4 format if possible. All videos should have an accompanying legend.
References can be formatted in any readable style at submission. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references. Later, authors may be asked to comply with the journal’s citation convention (as given in the mini style checklist).
Include acknowledgements, details of funding sources and grant numbers at the end of the text. Use author initials to indicate which authors were in receipt of grants.
Please include at submission all files containing supplementary material cited in the text.
Funding
Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'Acknowledgements' section. The following rules should be followed:
The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …’
The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health’ or simply 'National Institutes of Health' not ‘NCI' (one of the 27 subinstitutions) or 'NCI at NIH’ (full RIN-approved list of UK funding agencies)
Grant numbers should be complete and accurate and provided in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number ABX CDXXXXXX]’
Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers ABX CDXXXXXX, EFX GHXXXXXX]’
Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)
Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'.
An example is given here: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [P50 CA098252 and CA118790 to R.B.S.R.] and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [HFY GR667789].
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements and details of non-financial support must be included at the end of the text before references and not in footnotes. Personal acknowledgements should precede those of institutions or agencies. Please note that acknowledgement of funding bodies and declarations regarding conflicts of interest (if any CoI exists) should be given in separate 'Funding' and 'Conflicts of interest' sections, respectively.
Article types
Research Articles describe original experimental work leading to significant advances within the scope of the journal. There is no maximum length for papers, but the length should be justified by the content and authors are urged to be concise. Excessively long reference lists should be avoided. Repetition of information in the text and illustrations should not occur.
MiniReviews are concise articles reviewing topics of current interest or controversial aspects of subjects within the scope of the journal. Articles providing new concepts, critical appraisals and speculation are welcomed. The style for MiniReviews is the same as for research papers, except that the maximum length of the text is about 7,000 words, with a maximum combined total of six figures and tables. There is no rigid format for MiniReviews but they should generally include an Abstract and a brief Introduction in which the background to the article is presented. The remainder of the text should be arranged under a single, or a maximum two levels of subheading, finishing with a Conclusion or Outlook section that highlights the novelty of the MiniReview.
Current Opinion, Perspective and Commentary articles enable authors to present their views on important topical issues, to discuss new conceptual approaches and to consider, critically, future developments. Their format is flexible but follows that of MiniReviews, with similar maximum length.
Letters to the Editor are brief communications focusing on an article that has been published in the journal within the previous six months. They should focus on some aspect(s) of the paper that is, in the author’s opinion, incorrectly stated or interpreted, controversial, misleading or in some other way worthy of comment. All Letters to the Editor must address a scientific issue in an objective fashion, should have fewer than 1000 words (main body text), and will be externally refereed. Please choose the manuscript type ‘Letter to the Editor’ when uploading through the online submission system. If acceptable for publication, they will be offered to the original authors for comment.
Article Type
Word Limit*
Max. number of Figures & Tables
Research Articles
justified by the content
flexible
Current Opinion, Perspective and Commentary
7,000
flexible
MiniReview
7,000
6 in total
Letter to the Editor
1,000
0
* Word limit is including the abstract but excluding the title page, references and figure legends.
Journal Copyediting Style
This journal follows our standard Oxford SciMed style. By following the mini style checklist you can ensure that your manuscript follows the major style points.
Reproducibility of results and statistical tests
Authors should state how many times experiments were repeated and whether mean or representative results are shown. Variability should be indicated statistically wherever possible as part of, but not in place of, a proper statistical analysis. If results are expressed as percentages, the absolute value corresponding to 100% must be stated. Avoid values with unjustified numbers of significant figures; in most cases three significant figures is consistent with the accuracy attained in microbiological experiments.
Results of statistical tests should be presented wherever possible as evidence for conclusions reached. Such information must be presented concisely to illuminate the results, but not to dominate them. The tests used should be briefly described in the Materials and Methods section. Details of the diagnostic checks made for the assumptions of the statistical tests and for the validity of any transformations used should be stated clearly.
Description of New Species
Papers describing the isolation of new bacterial strains or species will be considered for publication providing they meet the standards specified for such descriptions as outlined in: B.J. Tindall, R. Rosselló-Móra, H.-J. Busse, W. Ludwig, and P. Kämpfer, Notes on the characterization of prokaryote strains for taxonomic purposes, Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2010 60: 249-266 (see this page), and that the strain is deposited in two recognised public culture collections.
In the submission letter the authors should state why the description merits publication in a FEMS journal, rather than publication in a specialized taxonomic journal such as International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology or Systematic and Applied Microbiology.
Nomenclature, abbreviations and units
Authors should follow internationally accepted rules and conventions. Authors should provide evidence for the thorough identification of new isolates and use the most recent acceptable name.
For genes/proteins, please state the full name if known, with the accepted abbreviation in brackets.
Bacteria and Archaea
The spelling of bacterial names should follow the list of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature. If there is a reason to use a name that does not have standing in nomenclature, the name should be printed in roman type and enclosed in quotation marks and an appropriate statement concerning the nomenclatural status of the name should be made in the text (for an example, see Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1980) 30: 547–556).
Fungi
The authors should use recently accepted binomials controlled by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Scientific names of yeasts can be found in: The Yeasts: a Taxonomic Study, 4th ed. (C. P. Kurtzman and J.W. Fell, ed., Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1998). Taxonomic texts should cite nomenclatural authorities at the first time a name is mentioned. Please follow this link for information about abbreviation of authors’ names. All taxa should be italicized.
Viruses
Names used for viruses should be those approved by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). If desired, synonyms may be added parenthetically when the name is first mentioned. Approved generic (or group) and family names may also be used.
Enzymes
For enzymes, please use the Recommended Name (or Common Name) and the Enzyme Commission (EC) number (as defined by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) upon first use in the body text and on first use in the Abstract. Do not use the EC number in titles or subheadings though they may be appropriate to use in a table if a large number of enzymes are being assayed for, for example. Names and numbers should be taken from the latest iteration of the BRENDA database. For not yet classified enzymes, use a ‘preliminary BRENDA supplied EC number’. As an example, “thiosulfate dehydrogenase (EC 1.8.2.2)” or, if preliminary “EC 1.8.2.B2”. It may at times be appropriate to list older/alternative names of the enzyme if there is much inconsistency in the literature as this will help readers to find your content – for instance in the case of the above mentioned enzyme, “thiosulfate oxidising enzyme” and “tetrathionate synthase” are still in use in some papers.
Genes
Genetic nomenclature should essentially follow the recommendations of Demerec et al. (Genetics (1966) 54: 61–76), and those given in the instructions to authors of the Journal of Bacteriology and Molecular and Cellular Biology (January issues).
Biochemical compounds
Consult the European Journal of Biochemistry or the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Queen Mary Undergraduate Chemistry course page).
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should only be used as an aid to the reader and their use should be strictly limited. Define each abbreviation and introduce it in parentheses the first time it is used: e.g. ‘cultures were grown in Eagle minimal essential medium (MEM)’. Eliminate abbreviations that are not used at least six times in the manuscript. In addition to abbreviations to the international system of units of measurements, other common units (e.g., bp, kb, Da), chemical symbols for the elements, and the standard biochemical abbreviations (see Eur. J. Biochem.) should be used without definition. Standard chemical symbols and trivial names or their symbols (folate, Ala, Leu, etc.) may be used for terms that appear in full in the neighbouring text. Abbreviations other than those recommended by the IUPAC-IUB (Biochemical Nomenclature and related Documents, 1978) should be used only when a case can be made for necessity, such as in tables and figures.
Reporting numerical data
The international system of units (SI) should be used; mL is acceptable in place of cm3 for liquid measures. The form for units is mg mL-1 and not mg/mL, parentheses should be used to improve clarity, e.g. mL (g dry wt soil)-1 h-1. The prefixes k, m, m μ, n, and p should be used in combination with the standard units for reporting length, weight, volume and molarity for 103, 10-3, 10-6, 10-9, and 10-12, respectively. Use mg mL-1 or mg g-1 instead of the ambiguous ppm. Units of temperature are presented as follows: 37°C or 324 K
Figures and Illustrations
Please create your figures and illustrations with reference to the OUP guidelines.
Please be aware that the requirements for online submission and for reproduction in the journal are different: (i) for online submission and peer review, please upload your figures either embedded in the word processing file or separately as low-resolution images (.jpg, .tif, .gif or. eps); (ii) for reproduction in the journal, you will be required after acceptance to supply high-resolution .tif files. Minimum resolutions are 400 d.p.i. for colour or tone images, and 600 d.p.i. for line drawings. We advise that you create your high-resolution images first as these can be easily converted into low-resolution images for online submission.
Figures will not be relettered by the publisher. The journal reserves the right to reduce the size of illustrative material. Any photomicrographs, electron micrographs or radiographs must be of high quality. Wherever possible, photographs should fit within the print area or within a column width.
Please follow this link for useful information on preparing your figures for publication.
Colour figures are encouraged and free of charge.
Specifications
Figures should be supplied at twice their final size with wide margins. A single column figure is 80 mm, two-thirds page width is 114 mm and two-column width is 168 mm.
For line art:
All lines should be drawn at 1.5 point (0.5 mm wide), broken line styles may be used to differentiate multiple plot lines if desired.
Letters and numbers should be 16 point (capitals 4 mm high) non- serif (e.g. Windows: Arial, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Century Gothic and Lucida Sans Unicode; Mac and Unix: Helvetica, Lucida, Avant Garde).
Symbols in the figure itself should be 3 mm in diameter. Lines drawn to accompany the points should not go through hollow symbols.
Numbers used as axis labels should have minimum significant figures; amounts less than unity must carry a preceding zero (e.g. 0.5 not .5).
Larger composite figures may be designed to occupy two columns when this can achieve an overall saving in space. The character, line and symbol sizes should be adjusted accordingly to achieve the same sizes on the printed page.
Magnification should be indicated where appropriate by inclusion of a bar marker.
Photographs of electropherograms, etc., in which there is poor contrast may be better replaced by line drawings, but in this case the photographs should be submitted for scrutiny by the Editor.
If photographs have been digitally processed to enhance their quality, this should be stated.
Figure legends should consist of a preliminary sentence constituting a title, followed by a brief description of the way the particular experiment was carried out, and any other necessary description of symbols or lines. All abbreviations must be defined.
Featured Image and One-Sentence Summary
Authors publishing in FEMS journals are given the opportunity to include a ‘Featured image’ and One Sentence Summary that will appear alongside their article in the journal Table of Contents (TOC) and search results. Both Featured Images and One Sentence Summaries may be used by FEMS or OUP to promote your article via email content, social media, newsletters and online search results.
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