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2021年4月27日星期二
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For Authors
SCOPE
The Journal of Bacteriology (JB) publishes primary-research articles that probe fundamental processes in bacteria, archaea, and their viruses and the molecular mechanisms by which they interact with each other and with their hosts and their environments.
Note that a manuscript rejected by one ASM journal on scientific grounds or on the basis of its general suitability for publication is considered rejected by all other ASM journals.
SUBMISSION, REVIEW, AND PUBLICATION PROCESSES
Initial Submissions
For initial submissions, JB welcomes papers in any format (format-neutral submissions). At this stage, authors may upload a single PDF that incorporates the full text, tables, and figures. The reference style, the arrangement of sections of the paper, and other formatting issues are at the discretion of the author at initial submission. However, to assist the reviewers, manuscript pages should have continuous line numbers and page numbers. (For revised submissions and resubmissions, formatting guidelines are described in detail below.)
Submission Process
All submissions to JB must be made electronically via the eJournalPress (eJP) online submission and peer review system at the following URL: https://jb.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex. (E-mailed submissions will not be accepted.) First-time users must create an Author account, which may be used for submitting to all ASM journals. Instructions for creating an Author account are available at the above URL via the "help for authors" link, and step-by-step instructions for submitting a manuscript via eJP are also available through the same link on the log-in screen or on the account holder's Home page. Information on file types acceptable for electronic submission can be found under the Files heading in the help for authors screen.
Review Process
All manuscripts are considered to be confidential and are reviewed by the editors, members of the editorial board, or qualified ad hoc reviewers.
To expedite the review process, authors should recommend at least two editors and also at least three reviewers (i) who are either editorial board members or otherwise qualified scientists who are not members of their institution(s), (ii) who have not recently been associated with their laboratory(ies), and (iii) who could not otherwise be considered to pose a conflict of interest regarding the submitted manuscript. Please provide their contact information where indicated on the submission form. Impersonation of another individual during the review process is considered serious misconduct.
To facilitate the review, copies of in-press and submitted manuscripts that are important for judgment of the present manuscript should be included as Miscellaneous Files Not for Publication.
When a manuscript is submitted to the journal, it is given a control number (e.g., JB00123-20) and assigned to one of the editors. (Always refer to this control number in communications with the editor and the Journals Department.) From there it may be assigned to independent experts for peer review. A single-blind review, where authors’ identities are known to reviewers, is applied. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to inform the coauthors of the manuscript's status throughout the submission, review, and publication processes. The reviewers operate under strict guidelines set forth in "Reviewer Guidelines" (https://journals.asm.org/content/reviewer-guidelines) and are expected to complete their reviews expeditiously.
The corresponding author is notified, generally within 4 to 6 weeks after submission, of the editor's decision to accept, reject, or require modification. When modification is requested, the corresponding author must either submit the modified version within 2 months or withdraw the manuscript. A point-by-point response to all of the reviews must be uploaded as a separate Response to Reviewer Comments file. Additionally, a Marked Up Manuscript file (without figures) highlighting all of the changes from the original manuscript submission must be uploaded as a separate file. For the benefit of editors and reviewers assessing revisions, all changes in this file should be highlighted, no matter how minor. Please note that a manuscript may not necessarily be processed editorially until a version with all changes noted has been submitted.
Manuscripts that have been rejected with the option to resubmit, or withdrawn after being returned for modification, may be resubmitted to the same ASM journal if the major criticisms have been addressed. A manuscript rejected on scientific grounds or on the basis of its general suitability for publication by one ASM journal, with the exception of mBio® (see below), is considered rejected by all other ASM journals. A manuscript rejected solely on the basis of scope may be resubmitted to a more appropriate ASM journal.
The cover letter of every resubmitted manuscript must state that the manuscript is a resubmission, and the former manuscript control number must be provided. A point-by-point response to the review(s) must be uploaded as a separate file (identified as such), and a copy of the revised manuscript tracking the changes must be included as a Marked Up Manuscript. Manuscripts resubmitted to the same journal are normally handled by the original editor. Manuscripts rejected with the option to resubmit may be resubmitted only once unless permission has been obtained from the original editor or from the editor in chief.
For manuscripts rejected from mBio and resubmitted to JB, the author is not required to disclose the details of the previous submission. It is the author's option whether to disclose the mBio submission in the cover letter and/or provide a response to the mBio reviews.
Manuscripts Reviewed by Non-ASM Journals
JB offers expedited review for manuscripts previously reviewed by selective non-ASM journals. Please send an inquiry to Editor in Chief Thomas Silhavy (tsilhavy@princeton.edu) if you wish to discuss whether your manuscript is a good candidate for this submission track. After this discussion, if you feel that the manuscript may be suitable for publication in JB, please include the following items in your submission:
A cover letter declaring the previous submission and requesting expedited review
A PDF file of the entire previously submitted manuscript uploaded as a Miscellaneous File Not for Publication
A Response to Reviewer Comments file containing the previous decision letter(s), all previous reviews, any manuscript correspondence, and your point-by-point response to the reviews, including page and line numbers where changes have been made
A tracked-changes file showing the revisions made, uploaded as a Marked Up Manuscript file
Manuscripts considered for expedited review may be accepted for publication without additional rounds of review, depending on any additional revisions that might be requested by the editor.
Notification of Acceptance
When an editor has decided that a manuscript is acceptable for publication on the basis of scientific merit, the author and the Journals Department are notified. A PDF version of the accepted manuscript is posted online as soon as possible (see below).
The text files undergo an automated preediting, cleanup, and tagging process specific to the particular article type, and the illustrations are examined. If all files have been prepared according to the criteria set forth in these Instructions and those in the eJP online manuscript submission system, the acceptance procedure will be completed successfully. If there are problems that would cause extensive corrections to be made at the copyediting stage or if the files are not acceptable for production, ASM Journals staff will contact the corresponding author. Once all the material intended for publication has been determined to be adequate, the manuscript is scheduled for the next available issue. The editorial staff of the ASM Journals Department completes the editing of the manuscript to bring it into conformity with prescribed standards.
Accepted Manuscripts
For its primary-research journals, ASM posts online PDF versions of manuscripts that have been peer reviewed and accepted but not yet copyedited. Accepted manuscripts are accessible from the Journals website. The manuscripts are published online as soon as possible after acceptance, on a weekly basis, before the copyedited, typeset articles are published. They are posted "as is" (i.e., as submitted by the authors at the modification stage) and do not reflect ASM editorial changes. No corrections/changes to the PDF manuscripts are accepted. Accordingly, there likely will be differences between the accepted JB manuscripts and the final, typeset articles. The manuscripts remain listed on the Accepted Manuscripts page until the final, typeset articles are posted. At that point, the manuscripts are removed from the Accepted Manuscripts page. The manuscripts are under subscription access control until 6 months after the typeset articles are posted, when free access is provided to everyone (subject to the applicable ASM license terms and conditions). Supplemental material intended, and accepted, for publication is not posted until publication of the final, typeset article.
The ASM embargo policy allows a press release to be issued as soon as the accepted manuscript is posted on the Accepted Manuscripts page. To be notified as soon as your manuscript is posted, please sign up for e-Alerts at https://jb.asm.org/alerts?destination=.
Instructions on how to cite such manuscripts may be found in "References".
Page Proofs
Page proofs, together with a query sheet and instructions for handling proofs, will be made available to the corresponding author electronically. Queries must be answered on the query page, and any changes related to the queries, as well as any additional changes, must be indicated on the proofs. Note that the copy editor does not query at every instance where a change has been made. Queries are written only to request necessary information or clarification of an unclear passage or to draw attention to edits that may have altered the sense. It is the author's responsibility to read the entire text, tables, and figure legends, not just items queried. Corrected proofs must be returned within two business days after notification of availability.
The proof stage is not the time to make extensive corrections, additions, or deletions. Figures as they appear in the proofs are for validation of content and placement, not quality of reproduction or color accuracy. Print output of figures in the PDF page proofs will be of lower quality than the same figures viewed on a monitor. Please avoid making changes to figures based on quality of color or reproduction in proof.
Important new information that has become available between acceptance of the manuscript and receipt of the proofs may be inserted as an addendum in proof with the permission of the editor. If references to unpublished data or personal communications are added, it is expected that written assurance granting permission for the citation will be included. Limit changes to correction of spelling errors, incorrect data, and grammatical errors and updated information for references to articles that have been submitted or are in press. If URLs have been provided in the article, recheck the sites to ensure that the addresses are still accurate and the material that you expect the reader to find is indeed there.
Questions about proofs should be directed to the ASM Journals Department (e-mail, bzwadyk@asmusa.org; telephone, 202-942-9214).
PDF Files
The corresponding author will have limited access (10 downloads, total) to the PDF file of his/her published article. An e-mail alert will automatically be sent to him/her on the day the issue is posted. It will provide a URL, which will be required to obtain access, and instructions. An article may be viewed, printed, or stored, provided that it is for the author's own use.
Should coauthors or colleagues be interested in viewing the paper for their own use, the corresponding author may provide them with the URL; a copy of the article may not be forwarded electronically. However, they must be made aware of the terms and conditions of the ASM copyright. (For details, go to https://journals.asm.org/content/copyright-and-license-information.) Note that each such download will count toward the corresponding author's total of 10. After 10 downloads, access will be denied and can be obtained only through a subscription to the journal (either individual or institutional) or after the standard access control has been lifted (i.e., 6 months after publication).
Funding Agency Repositories
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) requests that its grantee and intramural authors provide copies of their accepted manuscripts to PubMed Central (PMC) for posting in the PMC Public Access Repository. JB authors are automatically in compliance with this policy and need take no action themselves. For the past several years, ASM has deposited in PubMed Central all publications from all ASM journals. Further, ASM policy is that all primary-research articles are made available to everyone, free, 6 months after publication through PubMed Central, HighWire, and international PubMed Central-like repositories. By having initiated these policies, ASM is in full compliance with NIH Policy. For more information, see https://publicaccess.nih.gov/.
ASM also allows JB authors whose work was supported by funding agencies that have public access requirements like those of the NIH (e.g., the Wellcome Trust) to post their accepted manuscripts in publicly accessible electronic repositories maintained by those funding agencies. If a funding agency does not itself maintain such a site, then ASM allows the author to fulfill that requirement by depositing the manuscript (not the typeset article) in an appropriate institutional or subject-based open repository established by a government or noncommercial entity.
Since ASM makes the final, typeset articles from its primary-research journals available free of charge on the ASM Journals and PMC websites 6 months after final publication, ASM requests that when submitting the accepted manuscript to PMC or a similar public access site, the author specify that the posting release date for the manuscript be no earlier than 6 months after publication of the typeset article by ASM and that a link to the published manuscript on the journal website be provided.
ORGANIZATION AND FORMAT
Editorial Style
The editorial style of ASM journals conforms to the ASM Style Manual for Journals (American Society for Microbiology, 2020, in-house document [you may find the ASM Word List helpful]) and How To Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, 7th ed. (Greenwood, Santa Barbara, CA, 2011), as interpreted and modified by the editors and the ASM Journals Department.
The editors and the Journals Department reserve the privilege of editing manuscripts to conform with the stylistic conventions set forth in the aforesaid publications and in these Instructions. Please note that ASM uses the serial comma.
On receipt at ASM, an accepted manuscript undergoes an automated preediting, cleanup, and tagging process specific to the particular article type. To optimize this process, manuscripts must be supplied in the correct format and with the appropriate sections and headings.
Type every portion of the manuscript double-spaced (a minimum of 6 mm between lines), including figure legends, table footnotes, and references, and number all pages in sequence, including the abstract, figure legends, and tables. Place the last two items after the References section. Manuscript pages should have continuous line numbers. The font size should be no smaller than 12 points. It is recommended that the following sets of characters be easily distinguishable in the manuscript: the numeral zero (0) and the letter “oh” (O); the numeral one (1), the letter “el” (l), and the letter “eye” (I); and a multiplication sign and the letter “ex” (x). Do not create symbols as graphics or use special fonts that are external to your word processing program; use the “insert symbol” function. Set the page size to 8.5 by 11 inches (ca. 21.6 by 28 cm). Italicize any words that should appear in italics, and indicate paragraph lead-ins in boldface type.
Manuscripts may be editorially rejected, without review, on the basis of poor English or lack of conformity to the standards set forth in these Instructions.
Authors who are unsure of proper English usage should have their manuscripts checked by someone proficient in the English language or engage a professional language editing service for help.
First-time claims should be avoided. Manuscripts should report new and significant findings that advance the understanding of microbiology; therefore, first-time claims are unnecessary.
Manuscript Submission Checklist for Modified Manuscripts and Resubmissions
Double-space all text, including references and figure legends.
Number pages.
Number lines continuously.
Present statistical treatment of data where appropriate.
Provide accession numbers for all newly published sequences in a dedicated "Data availability" paragraph, and if a sequence or sequence alignment important for evaluation of the manuscript is not yet available, provide the information as a Miscellaneous File Not for Publication or make the material available on a website for access by the editor and reviewers.
Format references in ASM style.
Provide references for accession numbers and code (with URLs).
Confirm that genetic and chemical nomenclature conforms to instructions.
Include as Miscellaneous Files Not for Publication in-press and submitted manuscripts that are important for judgment of the present manuscript.
Supplemental Material
Supplemental material will be peer reviewed along with the manuscript and must be uploaded to the eJournalPress (eJP) peer review system at initial manuscript submission. The decision to publish the material online with the accepted article is made by the editor. It is possible that a manuscript will be accepted but that the supplemental material will not be.
All supplemental text, tables, and figures should be combined in a single self-contained document (PDF), and no supplemental material should be included in the main manuscript. Supplemental data set and movie files may be uploaded separately. Scalable vector graphic (SVG) files must be uploaded separately. The number of supplemental material files is limited to 10. Supplemental files should be submitted in the following standard formats.
Text, figures, tables, and legends should be included in a single PDF file (exception: SVG files must be provided separately). All figures and tables should be numbered independently and cited at the relevant point in the manuscript text, e.g., "Fig. S1," "Fig. S2," "Table S1," etc. Do not duplicate data by presenting them in both the text of the manuscript and a supplemental figure. Each legend should appear below its corresponding figure or table. The maximum file size is 8 MB. Please review this sample file for guidance.
Data set (Excel [.xls]) files should include a brief description of how the data are used in the paper. The maximum file size is 20 MB. Please review this sample file for guidance.
Movies (Audio Video Interleave [.avi], QuickTime [.mov], or MPEG files) should be submitted at the desired reproduction size and length, and should be accompanied by a legend. The maximum file size is 20 MB.
Unlike the manuscript, supplemental material will not be edited by the ASM Journals staff and proofs will not be made available. References related to supplemental material only should not be listed in the References section of an article; instead, include them with the supplemental material. Supplemental material will always remain associated with its article and is not subject to any modifications after publication.
Material that has been published previously (print or online) is not acceptable for posting as supplemental material. Instead, the appropriate reference(s) to the original publication should be made in the manuscript.
Copyright for the supplemental material remains with the author, but a license permitting posting by ASM is included in the copyright transfer agreement completed by the corresponding author. If you are not the copyright owner, you must provide to ASM signed permission from the owner that allows posting of the material, as a supplement to your article, by ASM. You are responsible for including in the supplemental material any copyright notices required by the owner.
See also “Publication Fees.”
Research Articles
Research Articles should include the elements described in this section.
Title, running title, byline, affiliation line(s), and corresponding author. Each manuscript should present the results of an independent, cohesive study; thus, numbered series titles are not allowed. Avoid the main title/subtitle arrangement, complete sentences, and unnecessary articles. On the title page, include the title, the running title (not to exceed 54 characters and spaces), the name of each author, all authors' affiliations at the time the work was performed, the name(s) and e-mail address(es) of the corresponding author(s), and a footnote indicating the present address of any author no longer at the institution where the work was performed. Place a number sign (#) in the byline after the affiliation letter(s) of the author to whom inquiries regarding the paper should be directed (see "Correspondent footnote" below). Indicate each author's affiliation with a superscript lowercase letter placed after the author's surname in the byline (separate multiple affiliation letters with commas but no space). Each affiliation should have its own line and its own superscript affiliation letter preceding it. Do not consolidate different departments at one institution into one address with a single affiliation letter, even if all affected authors belong to all of those departments. If more than one co-first author is designated, authors are required to state how the order of names was decided as an additional footnote on the title page.
Please review this sample title page for guidance.
Study group in byline. A study group, surveillance team, working group, consortium, or the like (e.g., the Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Team) may be listed as a coauthor in the byline if its contributing members satisfy the requirements for authorship and accountability. The names (and institutional affiliations if desired) of the contributing members may be given as a separate paragraph in Acknowledgments.
If the contributing members of the group associated with the work do not fulfill the criteria of substantial contribution to and responsibility for the paper, the group may not be listed in the author byline. Instead, it and the names of its contributing members may be listed in the Acknowledgments section.
Correspondent footnote. The e-mail address for the corresponding author should be included on the title page of the manuscript. This information will be published in the article as a footnote to facilitate communication and will be used to notify the corresponding author of the availability of proofs and, later, of the PDF file of the published article. No more than two authors may be designated corresponding authors.
Two-part abstract. Research Articles have structured abstracts consisting of two sections with their own headings: “Abstract” and “Importance.” Because the structured abstract will be published separately by abstracting services, it must be complete and understandable without reference to the text. Please refer to the sample structured abstract for guidance.
The Abstract section should be no more than 250 words and should concisely summarize the basic content of the paper without presenting extensive experimental details.
The Importance section should be no more than 120 words and should provide a nontechnical explanation of the significance of the study to the field. Avoid abbreviations and references, and indicate the specific organism under study. When it is essential to include a reference, use the format shown under “References” below (see the “Citations in abstracts” section).
Introduction. The introduction should supply sufficient background information to allow the reader to understand and evaluate the results of the present study without referring to previous publications on the topic. The introduction should also provide the hypothesis that was addressed or the rationale for the present study. Use only those references required to provide the most salient background rather than an exhaustive review of the topic.
Results. The Results section should include the results of the experiments. Reserve extensive interpretation of the results for the Discussion section. Present the results as concisely as possible in one of the following: text, table(s), or figure(s). Avoid extensive use of graphs to present data that might be more concisely presented in the text or tables. For example, except in unusual cases, double-reciprocal plots used to determine apparent Km values should not be presented as graphs; instead, the values should be stated in the text. Similarly, graphs illustrating other methods commonly used (e.g., calibration plots for molecular weight by gel filtration or electrophoresis) need not be shown except in unusual circumstances. Limit photographs (particularly photomicrographs and electron micrographs) to those that are absolutely necessary to show the experimental findings. Number figures and tables in the order in which they are cited in the text, and be sure to cite all figures and tables.
Discussion. The Discussion should provide an interpretation of the results in relation to previously published work and to the experimental system at hand and should not contain extensive repetition of the Results section or reiteration of the introduction. In short papers, the Results and Discussion sections may be combined.
Materials and Methods. The Materials and Methods section should include sufficient technical information to allow the experiments to be repeated. When centrifugation conditions are critical, give enough information to enable another investigator to repeat the procedure: make of centrifuge, model of rotor, temperature, time at maximum speed, and centrifugal force (× g rather than revolutions per minute). For commonly used materials and methods (e.g., media and protein concentration determinations), a simple reference is sufficient. If several alternative methods are commonly used, it is helpful to identify the method briefly as well as to cite the reference. For example, it is preferable to state "cells were broken by ultrasonic treatment as previously described (9)" rather than to state "cells were broken as previously described (9)." This allows the reader to assess the method without constant reference to previous publications. Describe new methods completely, and give sources of unusual chemicals, equipment, or microbial strains. When large numbers of microbial strains or mutants are used in a study, include tables identifying the immediate sources (i.e., sources from whom the strains were obtained) and properties of the strains, mutants, bacteriophages, and plasmids, etc. Enzyme purifications should be described in this section, but the results of such procedures should be described in the Results section.
A method or strain, etc., used in only one of several experiments reported in the paper may be described in the Results section or very briefly (one or two sentences) in a table footnote or figure legend. It is expected that the sources from whom the strains were obtained will be identified.
As noted on ASM Journals' Data Policy page, a paragraph dedicated to new accession numbers for nucleotide and amino acid sequences, microarray data, protein structures, and gene expression data should appear at the end of Materials and Methods with the paragraph lead-in "Data availability." Please also provide references (with URLs) for the accession numbers.
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