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2021年4月29日星期四
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Editorial Policies
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Advance Articles and Production
About the Journal
GENETICS is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes 12 issues per year online.
Some papers in GENETICS may have associated charges. Please refer to the Charges section below.
Once a paper is accepted and final files provided, GENETICS will publish a pre-copyedited, pre-proofed version of the paper online within 1 week. This is replaced by a copyedited, proofed version of the paper as soon as it is ready.
Please read these instructions carefully and follow them closely. The Editors may return manuscripts that do not follow these instructions.
Scope of the Journal
GENETICS, published by The Genetics Society of America, publishes high-quality, original research presenting novel findings bearing on genetics and genomics. The journal publishes empirical studies of organisms ranging from microbes to mouse to man, as well as theoretical work. GENETICS also publishes Review, Commentary (current issues of interest to geneticists), and Perspectives (historical) articles, as well as Primer articles focused on the teaching of genetics.
GENETICS is a peer-reviewed, peer-edited journal. All editorial decisions are made through collaboration of at least two peer-editors.
GENETICS research articles are organized by sections as described here.
GENETICS considers for publication manuscripts that are of general interest to a wide range of genetics and genomics investigators or of extraordinary interest to specialists. The results presented must provide strong support for the conclusions reached. The study must also provide significant new insights into a biological process, or demonstrate novel and creative approaches to an important biological problem, or describe development of new resources, methods, technologies, or tools of interest to a wide range of geneticists.
Please consider submitting manuscripts that do not fit these criteria to our sister journal G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics.
Because the editors appreciate that competing studies often complement each other, recent publication of similar articles by others does not necessarily preclude consideration of a manuscript for publication in GENETICS.
Editorial Policies
For full details of Oxford University Press’s editorial policies, please see Publication Ethics.
Authorship
Authors are those who contributed substantially to the research documented in the paper and share responsibility for the resulting article. The names of these researchers should appear in the byline. Those who assisted peripherally but are not authors should be recognized in the Acknowledgments. All authors are responsible for the article's content. A Co-corresponding Author(s) can be designated, but the Corresponding Author has the authority to act on behalf of all authors. Authorship data entered during manuscript submission appears in the published-ahead-of-print version, so be sure to complete all fields. To avoid production delays post-acceptance, please be sure that the author list is final and accurate at time of first submission. If there are changes post-acceptance please contact the Editorial Office to discuss the authorship changes. GENETICS follows COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines and will obtain approval from the editor and all authors for authorship changes.
Peer Review
This journal uses single blind peer review.
Open Peer Review
GENETICS offers authors the option to publish the decision and review history of their article. This is offered on an opt-in basis after the article is accepted for publication.
The decisions and reviews document will include all decision letters, reviewer comments to the authors, author responses, and the review timeline. Reviewer identities will not be made public unless the reviewer signs the review. We welcome your questions and feedback on Open Peer Review at GENETICS: genetics-gsa@thegsajournals.org.
Portable Peer Review
If your manuscript was previously peer reviewed prior to submission at GENETICS and you are interested in including and responding to those reviews as part of your GENETICS submission, please 1) contact the editorial office at genetics-gsa@thegsajournals.org and 2) indicate such in your cover letter. The editorial office will contact the previous editorial office to request the decision letter, reviews, and if possible, reviewer identities. We will then provide this information to the editors handling your manuscript to aid in the decision-making process. Editors may choose to have the manuscript sent for further review either by the original reviewers or new reviewers. In that case, you will be given the opportunity to decline additional review and withdraw your submission.
Editor and Reviewer Suggestions and Exclusions
Authors are encouraged to suggest experts who could provide an unbiased review of their work. Please do not list close associates, collaborators, family members, or researchers who are at your institution. If authors wish to exclude editors or reviewers from handling their work, they should provide a brief (2-4 sentence) statement explaining the reason for exclusion in the submission form. We strive to honor requests.
Preprint Policy
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.
Self-Archiving Policy
You may self-archive versions of your work on your own webpages, on institutional webpages, and in other repositories. If you want more information about the reuse rights you retain if you publish with us, please visit our Author Self Archiving Policy page.
Conflict of Interest
When submitting a paper, you and your co-authors must declare any potential conflicts of interest. You must do this by providing the relevant details on our online submission site and by including a Conflict of Interest statement in your submitted manuscript. For a detailed definition of conflicts of interests, please see Conflict of interest.
Please also describe any affiliations that may present a conflict of interest in either the choice of Senior Editors, Associate Editors, or reviewers. This information will remain confidential.
Informed Consent/Privacy and Confidentiality
Authors must ensure that these guidelines are followed, as recommended directly by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals at http://www.icmje.org:
"Patients have a right to privacy that should not be violated without informed consent. Identifying information, including names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, or pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that an identifiable patient be shown the manuscript to be published. Authors should disclose to these patients whether any potential identifiable material might be available via the Internet as well as in print after publication. Patient consent should be written and archived with the journal, the authors, or both, as dictated by local regulations or laws."
"Nonessential identifying details should be omitted. Informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt that anonymity can be maintained...If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance, and editors should so note, that such alterations do not distort scientific meaning."
For GENETICS, when informed consent is deemed necessary and has been obtained, please indicate in the Methods section the manner in which that informed consent was obtained. Editors may ask authors to provide documentation of the formal review and recommendation from the institutional review board or ethics committee associated with the research. See also Human Subject Data in these instructions.
Protection of Human and Animal Subjects
Authors must ensure that these guidelines are followed, as recommended directly by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors in the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals at http://www.icmje.org:
"When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 (5). If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed."
Scientific Misconduct
GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics take allegations of scientific misconduct seriously and investigate each on a case by case basis. We consult the guidelines provided by COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) during this process.
GENETICS and G3 reserve the right to contact the authors’ institutions, funders, or regulatory bodies if needed. Should the allegations occur prior to publication of the article, we reserve the right to halt the peer review and publication process until the investigation is complete. In the case of published articles we will take the appropriate steps to correct the scientific record. These may include issuing an expression of concern or retraction of the published article.
We encourage authors to follow the guidelines for good research practice outlined at the following sites.
COPE
Responsible Conduct of Research NIH
National Research Ethics Centre
Authors should follow our journal guidelines for declaring authorship, conflicts of interest, statement of informed consent/privacy and confidentiality, and statement of human and animal rights. Additional areas for concern include, but are not limited to, falsification or distortion of data, failure to provide data post acceptance, duplicate publication, and plagiarism.
GENETICS and G3 do not consider cases of unintentional error to be misconduct. In those cases, where a small portion of the publication contains an honest error, or the author list is incorrect, we will publish a Corrigendum.
Please address any concerns or questions regarding GENETICS to genetics-gsa@thegsajournals.org.
Image Manipulation
Images must not be manipulated in any way that misrepresents the original data. Examples of inappropriate manipulations include:
Selective alteration of specific features or regions within an image, e.g. removing or obscuring bands in a gel photo, or enhancing brightness for a specific cell within a group;
Grouping together images without clearly indicating the edit using dividing lines or some other visual marker, e.g. combining lanes from different gels into a composite image;
Selectively making the image background appear more uniform, e.g. “erasing” background noise;
Duplicating images (e.g. controls) in different figures or parts of a figure without clearly indicating this duplication in the figure legend.
Adjustments to brightness, contrast, and color balance that clarify presentation of the data are acceptable only if they are applied uniformly to the entire image. Non-linear adjustments (such as gamma setting adjustments) should be noted in the text.
If editors suspect any images in your manuscript have been inappropriately manipulated, they may request the original image files for comparison. If original files are not available or reveal inappropriate manipulations, the editors may reject or withdraw acceptance of your manuscript.
Third-Party Permissions
If you wish to reproduce any material for which you do not own the copyright—including quotations, tables, or images—you must obtain permission from the copyright holder. The permissions agreement must include the following documents:
nonexclusive rights to reproduce the material in your article in GENETICS
both print and electronic rights, preferably for use in any form or medium
lifetime rights to use the material
worldwide English-language rights
Please see Copyright and Permissions Guidelines for further information on obtaining permissions.
GENETICS and TPB Partnership
GENETICS and Theoretical Population Biology (TPB) have developed a partnership to save time and effort for authors and reviewers and streamline the publication process. Manuscripts submitted to GENETICS that focus on theoretical topics in genetics and are judged meritorious but not in the scope of the journal can be forwarded to TPB together with the reviews of the manuscript (provided the reviewers agree). Authors will be notified of the possibility of transfer to TPB in the decision letter, with instructions for transferring the manuscript. TPB editors will make an independent decision on the suitability of the manuscript for publication in their journal.
Data Policy
Availability of Data and Materials
When you publish in GENETICS, you help to catalyze scientific advances by sharing your experimental reagents, results and interpretations. For these articles to have the greatest impact, authors need to make unique research materials and data freely available to other investigators (see Genetics, 184: 1).
GENETICS requires all authors to publicly release all data and software code underlying any published paper as a condition of publication. Authors are required to include a Data Availability Statement in their article.
Data must be presented in the main manuscript, as supplemental material, or deposited in a public repository. 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.
For full details on our Data Policy, including Frequently Asked Questions, please see here.
Data Availability Statement
The inclusion of a Data Availability Statement is a requirement for articles published in GENETICS. Data Availability Statements provide a standardized format for readers to understand the availability of data underlying the research results described in the article. The statement may refer to original data generated in the course of the study or to third-party data analyzed in the article. The statement should describe and provide means of access, where possible, by linking to the data or providing the required unique identifier.
The Data Availability Statement should be included in the end matter of your article under the heading “Data availability”.
For more information and example Data Availability Statements, please see Data Availability Statements.
Data Citation
GENETICS 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.
Research Materials
If your manuscript is accepted for publication, you agree to provide any unique research materials at reasonable cost to any investigator who requests them. You are permitted to require that the materials be used only for non-commercial purposes and that the recipient not transfer the materials to a third party without your consent. You may request reasonable payment for costs of sending the material (e.g. shipping and customs fees).
We also encourage authors to deposit unique research materials to established repositories. Examples include but are not limited to: Addgene, Drosophila stock centers, C. elegans stock centers, and other stock centers as appropriate.
Examples of unique research materials are strains, plasmids, antibodies (including cell lines producing monoclonal antibodies), and software programs or applications.
Submission
We will consider your manuscript as long as
it is your own original work and does not duplicate any previously published work, including your own;
it is not under consideration, in peer review, or accepted for publication in any journal other than GENETICS;
it has not been published in any other journal; and
it contains nothing abusive, defamatory, libelous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.
Authors should observe high ethical standards and obey publication best practices. The following are all unacceptable:
data falsification or fabrication
plagiarism, including duplicate publication of your own work without proper citation
misappropriation of work
We treat any case of ethical or publication malpractice very seriously. We will address them in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. See COPE Guidelines on Good Publication Practice for further information about OUP’s ethical policies.
Review Process
A submitted manuscript is assigned to the Senior Editor of the appropriate subject section. The Senior Editor assigns it to an Associate Editor who manages and adjudicates its review. The Editors will return manuscripts that are judged to be outside the scope of the journal. Manuscripts can be returned without review for reasons that include:
Grammar and style that is not of the quality expected in a published article;
The topic or scope of the work is not within the scope of the journal;
The manuscript describes the work in too little or too much detail;
The manuscript is not suitable for a broad audience of geneticists;
The methods or approaches are judged to be flawed.
At least two Editorial Board members collaborate in determining whether a manuscript will be returned without review. Manuscripts sent for review are examined by one or more reviewers selected for their expertise in the subject matter of the article. Reviewers will remain anonymous (unless they choose to reveal themselves). The Associate Editor makes one of the following decisions on the manuscript:
Accept
Accept pending minor revision
Reconsider upon revision
Reject
The average time from submission until first decision is around 35 days.
How to Submit
You must submit your paper via our web-based submission system, which may be found here https://genetics.msubmit.net. If you have not published with GENETICS before, you will need to create an account. Questions about submitting can be sent to the editorial office at genetics-gsa@thegsajournals.org.
Article Types
This journal publishes several different article types.
Investigations
Investigations are full-length research articles that present novel findings. There is no minimum or maximum length.
Communications
Communications provide a format for expedited publication of particularly significant and timely observations or advances. Communications receive the same rigorous peer review as Investigations, but ensure that authors can share time-sensitive results as quickly as possible.
Authors must submit a pre-submission inquiry that includes an abstract and a cover letter that explains why the findings are particularly significant and timely. Please submit this at https://genetics.msubmit.net and note it's a Communications presubmission inquiry and if you'd like this to be directed to a specific editor.
If the editors invite submission of your Communication, we recommend the manuscript text not exceed 2500 words, (excluding abstract, tables, and figure legends). You may format it either with or without subheadings. Limit figures and tables to the minimum number necessary to describe the observation or advance. Describe the Materials and Methods in a separate section at the end of the manuscript.
Perspectives
Perspectives are critical examinations of the history of genetics. Proposals are welcome and should be uploaded as a presubmission inquiry at https://genetics.msubmit.net.
Reviews
Reviews are by invitation only and are peer reviewed. Page charges are waived. If you are interested in writing a review, please upload a presubmission inquiry containing a Cover Letter at https://genetics.msubmit.net.
Primers
GENETICS features Primer articles as their education articles. The Editors no longer consider original research articles on education for publication in the journal. Authors are encouraged to submit such articles for publication in the journal LSE-CBE. Please upload a please upload a proposal as a presubmission inquiry at https://genetics.msubmit.net.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor dealing with research and theory in basic genetics or with social issues of particular interest to geneticists are welcomed. Constructive comments on the subjects of articles from recent issues of GENETICS are appropriate as well as thought provoking commentary about issues of concern to geneticists. Figures, complex tables, and complex mathematical formulas should be avoided. The Editorial Board will choose to publish letters it considers most pertinent to the interests of the readers. Letters to the Editor should be submitted at https://genetics.msubmit.net.
Corrigenda
Corrigenda correct mistakes and omissions in published manuscripts. They should be as brief as possible, and describe no new methods or results.
Presubmission Inquiry
GENETICS welcomes presubmission inquiries, which consist of an abstract of the manuscript and a cover letter, submitted as a presubmission inquiry at https://genetics.msubmit.net. In your cover letter, please indicate which section your manuscript would belong in so that the appropriate Editorial Board member can be consulted.
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