期刊名称：INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Insect Molecular Biology |
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Published on behalf of the Royal Entomological Society
Edited by:
Linda M. Field
Anthony A. James
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Print ISSN: 0962-1075
Online ISSN: 1365-2583
Issues per Volume: Bi-monthly
Current Volume: 12
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2002: 3/64 (Entomol) |
Insect Molecular Biology is the first international journal entirely for those applying molecular genetic techniques to the study of insects.
The Journal publishes only high-quality original research articles on the structure, function, mapping, organization, expression and evolution of insect genomes. It serves both the fundamental and applied aspects of insect molecular biology, and papers relating to the medical and agricultural sectors are welcome. However, it will not publish papers that report a molecular technique, or use such a technique, solely to identify members of a species complex, unless this analysis is used to answer a biological question or establish novel data on molecular evolution. The scope of Insect Molecular Biology is intentionally broad and the Journal aims to provide the widest possible coverage of all aspects of insect molecular biology.
Instructions to Authors
Author Guidelines
**No Page Charges**
All correspondence should be addressed to either:
Prof. Linda M. Field, Ph.D.
BCH Division
Rothamsted Research
Harpenden
Herts
AL5 2JQ
UK
Tel:+44 (0) 1582 763133 (Extension 2355)
Fax +44 (0) 1582 762595
email: lin.field@bbsrc.ac.uk
or
Prof. David A. O'Brochta, Ph.D.
Center for Biosystems Research
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
9600 Gudelsky Drive Rockville
MD 20850
USA
Tel: +1-240-314-6343
Fax: +1-240-314-6255
email: obrochta@umbi.umd.edu
Papers should be as concise as possible, compatible with clarity and completeness, and should occupy between 2 and 10 printed pages (1400-7000 words). Only complete reports will be published; preliminary communications will not be considered. Sequence data alone will not be published unless supported by other data indicating its biological significance. An abstract of up to 120 words should be provided. The text should be divided into Introduction and Results and Discussion sections. Experimental Procedures should follow the Discussion.
Short reviews will be published in areas of particular interest and current importance. Offers of reviews should be made to the Reviews Editor Dr George Dimopoulos - gdimopou@jhsph.edu
Insect Molecular Biology will also publish a small number of Notes in each volume. Notes are of the same scientific quality as full-length papers: preliminary or incomplete studies will not be published. Notes should be no more than 2500 words long, including up to four figures and tables and 20 references.
Publication date
Papers accepted for publication in Insect Molecular Biology will be placed on the online version of Synergy, OnlineEarly, as soon as they are ready for publication. This can occur several weeks in advance of the cover date of the printed issue. Authors should take this into account when planning their intellectual and patent activities related to a document.
Submission of Manuscripts
Papers from outside North America should be sent to Prof Linda M. Field and all those from within North America should be directed to Prof D. A. O'Brochta. Every effort will be made to ensure rapid publication. Authors will normally receive reviewers' comments within 6 weeks of submission. The decisions of the Editors are final. No page charges will be levied. Papers must be submitted exclusively to Insect Molecular Biology and are accepted on the understanding that they have not been, and will not be, published elsewhere. All authors of papers citing other papers from the same authors as in press, must provide draft copies or copies of the galley proofs of the cited paper. Copies of any other papers, submitted or under review, that are relevant to the submitted paper, must also be provided. Authors reporting the results of analyses based on data provided by others e.g. genome sequence consortia, prior to publication by the data providers, should supply the Editors with assurance that the data are being used with the providers' permission. The provision of such data should also be recognised in the Acknowledgements.
Submission dates are set when all materials relevant to the review of the paper are received in the Editorial Office. If accepted, papers become the copyright of the Journal. Authors must give signed consent to publication in a letter sent with the paper, but permission to use material elsewhere (e.g. in review articles) will normally be granted on request.
Authors are encouraged to provide the names (and contact information if available) of up to five people as potential reviewers of the manuscript.
Presentation of manuscripts
Manuscripts should preferably be sent as e-mail attachments to the relevant Editor. The text should be organised in the journal format and submitted as an attached Word file. Figures should be submitted as one or more Word files (but not embedded in the text) or as PDF files. Alternatively four hard copies of each manuscript may be submitted. The text should be double-spaced and Authors should always retain a copy of all material.
The title page should include the authors name(s), affiliations and the address to which all correspondence and proofs should be sent. A telephone, fax number and email address should also be supplied. Present addresses of authors should appear as a footnote. A running title of not more than 50 characters, including spaces, should be provided and up to five key words for indexing purposes.
All papers must include an abstract not exceeding 120 words which should be made as far as possible intelligible to a more general audience. The main text should be subdivided into Introduction, Results, Discussion and Experimental Procedures. The Results and Discussion sections may be combined and can include additional subheadings. Experimental Procedures should be sufficiently detailed to enable the experiments to be reproduced and should follow the Discussion.
References should use the Harvard system. Only full articles which have been published or are in press (i.e. accepted), may be included in the reference list. In the text, unpublished studies should be referred to as such, or as a personal communication with the authors initials and surname. It is the authors responsibility to obtain permission from colleagues to include their work as a personal communication. In the text, references should be inserted in parentheses, as follows: (Martinez, 1985; Martinez & Lawrence, 1985; Martinez et al., 1988). The reference list should be in alphabetical order according to the authors. All authors names and the title of the article must be included. Standard abbreviations of journal titles should be used, as in the Index Medicus. For examples see a recent issue of the Journal.
All pages must be numbered consecutively. Tables, figure legends and acknowledgements should be submitted on separate sheets following the main text. The preferred position of tables and figures should be indicated in the margin of the text. Footnotes should not be used.
'Supporting Information' can be made available on the Publisher's website when a paper is published. All such material must accompany manuscripts when they are submitted to the Editors. The arrangements for depositing the material on the web will be made by the Publisher after the manuscript has been accepted for publication.
Standard abbreviations should be as recommended in Units, Symbols and Abbreviations (Royal Society of Medicine, 1988) or for USA authors as recommended in the CBE Style Manual (5th Edition 1983, published by the Council of Biology Editors, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland). Abbreviations of non-standard terms should follow, in parentheses, their first full usage.
Pre-submission English-language editing
Authors for whom English is a second language may choose to have their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English. A list of independent suppliers of editing services can be found at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/english_language.asp? . All services are paid for and arranged by the author, and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication.
Accepted manuscripts
Accepted manuscripts should be submitted to the relevant Editor as word-processed files on a diskette or CD. An accurate hard copy must accompany each disk. Do not justify. Particular attention should be taken to adhere to the journal style in all respects. Further details can be obtained from the publisher.
Please note that unless specifically requested, Wiley-Blackwell will dispose of all submitted hardcopy or electronic material two months after publication. If you require the return of any material submitted, please inform the editorial office or production editor as soon as possible.
Original drawings or photographs should be supplied for reproduction. Figures will be reduced to single column width (80 mm) or full page width (169 mm) and should be planned accordingly.
Photographs should be provided as glossy prints. Line diagrams should be laser printed. All illustrations should be labelled clearly on the reverse with the figure number and the authors name in soft black pencil, identifying the top edge. Colour figures will be published by arrangement with the Editors and require the completion of a Colourwork Agreement Form before publication.
We would like to receive your artwork electronically in addition to hard copy. Please prepare your figures according to the publisher's Electronic Artwork Guidelines.
• Create EPS files for images containing lineart. EPS files should be saved with fonts embedded (and with a TIFF preview if possible). The following packages can be used to create EPS files: Adobe Illustrator 7.0 and above, Deneba Canvas 6.0 and above, CorelDRAW 7.0 and above, SigmaPlot 8.01 and above. Other programs may also be able to create EPS files – use the SAVE AS or EXPORT functions. EPS files can be produced from other applications [e.g. PowerPoint, Excel (see Electronic Artwork Guidelines)] BUT results can be unpredictable (e.g. fonts and shading not converted correctly, lines missing, dotted lines becoming solid).
• Create TIFF files images containing half-tones/photographs. For scanned images, the scanning resolution (at final image size, see above for a guide to sizes) should be as follows to ensure adequate reproduction: lineart, >800 d.p.i.; half-tones, >300 d.p.i. Figures containing both halftone and line images, >600 d.p.i. The following programs can be used to create TIFF files: Adobe Photoshop 4.0 and above, Adobe Illustrator 9.0 and GraphPad Prism 3. Other programs may also be able to create TIFF files – use the SAVE AS or EXPORT functions.
• Black and white images should be supplied as 'grayscale'; colour images should be supplied as CMYK.
• Multipart figures should be supplied in the final layout in one file, labelled as (A), (B) etc
• Supply figures at final size widths if possible: 80 mm (single column) or 165 mm (double column)
• Use sans serif, true-type fonts for labels if possible, preferably Arial or Helvetica, or Times (New) Roman if serif fonts required.
• Ensure all lines and lettering are clear.
OnlineOpen
OnlineOpen is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With OnlineOpen the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley InterScience, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive. For the full list of terms and conditions, see http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/authorresources/onlineopen.html#OnlineOpen_Terms.
Any authors wishing to send their paper OnlineOpen will be required to complete the payment form available from our website at:
https://secure.interscience.wiley.com/funded_access.html
Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform an Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper OnlineOpen if you do not wish to. All OnlineOpen articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.
Author Services
New: Online production tracking is now available for your article through Wiley-Blackwell's Author Services
Author Services enables authors to track their article, once it has been accepted, through the production process to publication online and in print. Authors can check the status of their articles online and choose to receive automated e-mails at key stages of production so they don't need to contact the production editor to check on progress. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/bauthor for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including FAQs and tips on article preparation, submission and more.
Copyright Assignment
An Exclusive Licence Form must be completed for all articles accepted for publication in the journal.
Please use the correct form for the Editor who is handling your submission:
For Prof Field, use this form
For Prof O'Brocta, use this form
Note to NIH Grantees
Pursuant to NIH mandate, Wiley-Blackwell will post the accepted version of contributions authored by NIH grant-holders to PubMed Central upon acceptance. This accepted version will be made publicly available 12 months after publication. For further information, see www.wiley.com/go/nihmandate.
Proofs
Proofs will be sent via e-mail as an Acrobat PDF (portable document format) file. The e-mail server must be able to accept attachments up to 4 MB in size. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following Web site:
www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen, and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. Proofs will be posted if no e-mail address is available; in your absence, please arrange for a colleague to access your e-mail to retrieve the proofs.
Page proofs will be despatched about 6 weeks after acceptance of papers and should be corrected and returned within 3 days of receipt. Only corrections and essential changes should be made at this stage. The cost of extensive changes will be charged to the authors. The Editors reserve the right to make minor modifications to manuscripts that do not conform to accepted standards. Such alterations will always be submitted to the authors for approval at the proof stage.
Offprints
The corresponding author will receive a PDF file of the article free of charge. Additional offprints may be ordered from offprint@cosprinters.com
Distribution of strains and clones
The publication of an article in Insect Molecular Biology is subject to the understanding that authors will distribute freely any strains, clones or antibodies described therein for use in academic research.
Registration of sequences
DNA sequences published in Insect Molecular Biology must be deposited in the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ Nucleotide Sequence Databases and this is the responsibility of the author(s). An accession number for the database must be given in the paper.
Indexing and abstracting
The Journal is covered by Biotechnology Citation Index, Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences, Current Contents, Research Alert and SciSearch.
Cover photographs
Photographs suitable for the cover of Insect Molecular Biology are welcomed by the Editors. It is not essential that these should be related to submitted papers.
Author Services
Online production tracking is now available for your article through Wiley-Blackwell's Author Services. Author Services enables authors to track articles--once they have been accepted--through the production process to publication online and in print. Authors can check the status of their articles online and choose to receive automated emails at key stages of production so they do not need to contact the production editor to check on progress. Visit http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/ for more details on online production tracking and for a wealth of resources including faqs and tips on article preparation, submission, and more.
Editorial Board
Editors
Dr Linda M. Field
UK Editor
Insect Molecular Biology
BCH Division
Rothamsted
Harpenden
Herts
AL5 2JQ
email: lin.field@bbsrc.ac.uk
Dr Anthony A. James
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
University of California
3205 BioSci II,
Irvine
CA 92697-3900
USA
Tel:+1 (949) 824 5930
Fax: +1 (949) 824 2814
email: aajames@uci.edu
Editorial Board
Peter Atkinson, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, US
William C. Black IV, Department of Microbiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Mary Bownes, Institute of Cell & Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, Kings Building, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JR
R.K. Butlin, School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT
John R Carlson, Department of Biology, Kline Biology Tower, Yale University, P O Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520-8103, USA
Frank H. Collins, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Galvin Life Sciences, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Julian Crampton, School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool, L69 7BX, UK
Thomas H. Eickbush, Biology Department, University of Rochester, Box 270211, Rochester, NY 14627-0211, USA
Ann Marie Fallon, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, 219 Hodson Hall, 1980 Folwell Avenue, St Paul, MN 55108-1385, USA
David Finnegan, Institute of Cell & Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, Kings Building, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JR, UK
David M Glover, CRC Cell Cycle Research Laboratory, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK
Alfred M. Handler, Agricultural Research Service, U S Department of Agriculture, P O Box 14565, 1700 SW 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32604, USA
Janet Hemingway, School of Pure & Applied Biology, University of Wales, P O Box 915, Cardiff, CF1 3TL, UK
Dan Hultmark, Umea Centre for Molecular Pathogenesis, Umea University, S-90 187 Umea, Sweden
Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, School of Medicine, Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-4955, USA
Fotis C. Kafatos, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Postfach 102209, D-69012 Heidelberg, Germany
Christos Louis, IMBB-FORTH, P O Box 1527, Vassilika Vouton, GR-711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Louis H. Miller, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Health, Building 4, Room 126, 9000 Rockville Place, Bethesda, MD 20892-0425, USA
David OBrochta, Centre for Agricultural Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 2121 Agriculture/Life Sciences Surge Building, College Park, MD 20742-3351, USA
Nicole Pasteur, ISEM Laboratoire Genetique et Environment, Universit¨¦ de Montpellier, CC064 Place Eugene Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Jeffrey R. Powell, Department of Biology, 427 Osborn Memorial Laboratories, Yale University, 156 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8104, USA
Lynn M. Riddiford, Department of Zoology NJ-15, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Patricia Romans, Department of Zoology, 25 Harbord Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3GB, Canada
Michael A. Wells, Department of Biochemistry, Biological Sciences West, P O Box 210088, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Okitsugu Yamashita, School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-01, Japan
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