期刊名称：MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Marine Biotechnology publishes articles describing the molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, and biochemistry of any aquatic prokaryote or eukaryote. Papers on biotechnological applications should address fundamental questions or demonstrate novel technical developments. Work on marine natural products will also be considered when it meets these criteria. The journal will publish articles describing innovative molecular techniques for the study and manipulation (including transgenesis) of marine and freshwater organisms or research pertaining to industrial applications (aquaculture/mariculture) of aquatic organisms.
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In order to maintain high scientific quality, Marine Biotechnology discourages authors from submitting the following types of manuscripts: 1. manuscripts reporting cloning of cDNA or genomic sequences alone without dealing with important biological information, 2. manuscripts reporting cloning and characterizing of microsatellite sequences but without applying the information to address questions of important biological significance, and 3. manuscripts reporting collection of ESTs but without using the collected ESTs to address significant biological problems. |
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Instructions to Authors
Marine Biotechnology welcomes high-quality research papers presenting novel data on the biotechnological applications of aquatic organisms. The journal publishes papers in the areas of molecular biology, genomics, proteomics, cell biology, and biochemistry, and particularly encourages submissions of papers related to genome biology such as linkage mapping, large-scale gene discoveries, QTL analysis, physical mapping, and comparative and functional genome analysis. Papers on technological development and marine natural products should demonstrate innovation and novel applications.
Current Instructions for Authors
The Editors welcome research papers presenting novel data on the biotechnology of aquatic organisms. The journal publishes high quality papers in the areas of molecular biology, genomics, proteomics, cell biology, and biochemistry, and particularly encourages submissions of papers related to genome biology such as linkage mapping, large-scale gene discoveries, QTL analysis, physical mapping, and comparative and functional genome analysis. Papers on technological development and marine natural products should demonstrate innovation and novel applications.
Please note: Marine Biotechnology will not consider papers which deal solely with cDNA cloning, gene cloning, cloning and characterizing of microsatellites, species identification using molecular markers, or EST papers with small collections (less than 2000), or mapping papers with a small number of markers, or papers describing development of cell lines, unless the papers also deal with functionality of genes, provide information on an important biological problem or are related to genome biology.
Electronic Submission of Manuscripts
We are pleased to announce that we have moved to an online system of manuscript tracking called ManuscriptCentral.
Authors are encouraged to submit their articles to Marine Biotechnology online. This will allow even quicker and more efficient processing of your manuscript.
Please log directly onto the site
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mbt
and upload your manuscripts following the instructions given on the screen.
Please note: if you have submitted to Marine Biotechnology before, please hit the "check for existing account" button. You will then receive an automatic e-mail with your user id and password. Otherwise please create a new account and then follow the instructions given on the screen.
The Editors will inspect the submission online and assign reviewer(s). Those reviewers will have access to the electronic manuscript that the author uploads and many weeks of time will be saved in the reviewing process.
System requirements
- Netscape 4.x or MS Internet Explorer 4.x/5.x
- Adobe Acrobat browser plug-in
- Electronic files of their article text
- Electronic files of their article graphics (scanned or exported)
Author Accounts
Authors entering the journal's Manuscript Central site can either create a new account or use an existing one. When you have an existing account, use it for all your submissions and you can track their status on the same page.
Getting Started
Once you have logged into your account, Manuscript Central will lead you through the submission process in a step-by-step orderly process. If you cannot finish your submission in one visit, you can save a draft and re-enter the process at the same point for that manuscript.
While submitting your electronic manuscript, you will be required to enter data about your manuscript in the system. These include title, subtitle, author names and affiliations, and so forth. Support for special characters is available. At any point during this process, there are Help buttons available to see common questions and a support link to ask a specific question via email.
Uploading Files
NOTE: All files uploaded for review in Manuscript Central should not exceed 1 MB in size.
Electronic files can be uploaded as DOC (MS Word), PostScript, or RTF. PostScript files should already contain the graphics within the file. (PostScript files are converted by the system into PDF so that Editors and reviewers may share them.
RTF (Rich Text Format) is a common export property of most popular word processors. Check your word processor to see if it can export or "SaveAs" your file in RTF format. MS Word and WordPerfect both contain this function. After uploading the RTF for text, you will be prompted for uploading graphics. Common graphics files such as GIF, JPEG, EPS, TIFF and many others are supported. After uploading the parts of the article in this manner, the system will convert the files to PDF. You will see the result of the conversion with the Acrobat plug-in in your browser. Keep copies of your word-processing and graphics files. You may want to revise the manuscript during the review process and you will need the original files if your manuscript is accepted. At any point during this process, there are Help buttons available to see common questions and a support link to ask a specific question via email.
You will also be notified by email that your submission was successful.
Graphics Quality
If you are submitting electronic graphics that you have scanned, be prepared to send the hard copy originals upon request. While the electronic files you have created are satisfactory for the review process, they may not be of sufficient quality for printing. This also holds true for files created in low-resolution graphics environments such as MS Powerpoint, etc.
Keeping Track
After submission, you may return periodically and monitor the progress of your submission through the review process.
Presentation of Manuscripts
Authors should always retain a copy of all material.
Text should be double-spaced. The title page should include the author's name(s), affiliations and the address to which all correspondence and proofs should be sent. A telephone number, FAX, and e-mail address should also be supplied. Present addresses of authors should appear as a footnote. A running title of not more than 50 characters should be provided together with up to six key words for indexing purposes.
A concise but informative abstract of no more than 250 words should be placed on a separate page immediately after the title page. The main text should be subdivided into Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion. Materials and Methods should be sufficiently detailed to enable the experiments to be reproduced. The Results and Discussion sections may be combined and can include additional subheadings.
All pages must be numbered consecutively. Tables, figure legends and acknowledgments 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 be avoided.
Standard abbreviations should be as recommended in Quantities, Units, and Symbols (The Royal Society, 1975). Abbreviations of nonstandard terms should follow, in parentheses, their first full usage.
Tables and Figures
Original drawings or photographs should be supplied for reproduction. Figures will be reduced to single-column width (80mm) or full-page width (165mm) and should be planned accordingly.
Photographs should be provided as glossy prints. Line diagrams should be drawn in black ink on tracing paper or white card or supplied as glossy prints. All illustrations should be labeled clearly with the figure number and author's name in soft black pencil, identifying the top edge.
Color figures: Color will be printed at the author's expense:
$1150 per article. Please contact the editorial office if color is essential but funding is unavailable.
References
Authors should use the Harvard system. Only full articles which have been published or are ``in press' may be included in the reference list. In the text, unpublished studies should be referred to as such, or as a personal communication. It is the author's 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: (Chen, 1989; Chen et al., 1989). The reference list should be in alphabetical order according to the first-named author. Papers with two authors should follow those of the first-named author, arranged in alphabetical order according to the name of the second author. Articles with more than two authors should follow those of the first-named author in chronological order. All authors' names and the title of the article must be included. Standard abbreviations of journal titles should be used, as in the American National Standard of Abbreviations and Titles of Periodicals.
The following provide examples:
Chen, T.T. (1987). Investigation of effects of environmental xenobiotics to fish at sublethal levels by molecular biological approaches. Mar Environ Res (in press).
Chen, T.T., Reid, P.C., Van Beneden, R., and Sonstegard, R.A. (1986). Effect of Aroclor 1254 and Mirexon estradiol induced vitellogenin production in juvenile rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri). Can J Fish Aqua Sci 43:169-173.
Maniatis, T., Fritsch, E.F., and Sambrook, J. (1982). Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Reviews: Abbreviated references are used, e.g., Southern, E. (1975) J Mol Biol 98:503-517.
Proofs
Only corrections and essential changes should be made at this stage. The cost of any 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.
Reprints
Reprints (in quantities of 100) may be ordered using the form supplied with the proofs.
Cover Photographs
Photographs suitable for the cover of MBT would be welcomed by the Editors. It is preferable, but not essential, that these be related to submitted papers.
Guidelines for Authors Submitting Work on Genomics / Proteomics
Marine Biotechnology encourages submission of papers on genomics and proteomics of aquatic species. The journal welcomes papers that address significant biological problems using genomic approaches or studies which provide insights into the structure and function of the genomes themselves. Editors would like to provide the following guidelines for contributing authors.
MBT discourages submission of work describing only small numbers of molecular markers, but invites submissions of papers focusing on the following areas:
- Large-scale development of genomic resources; some examples of this category include development of large numbers of microsatellites, and large numbers of ESTs with a high rate of novel gene discovery.
- Genome characterization by mapping a large number of markers to linkage maps, or physical mapping of a large number of genes or a significant proportion of the genome under study.
- Systematic approach to the characterization of genes and their expression involved in specific molecular and cellular pathways using genomic approaches.
- Data mining using bioinformatics for the production of large sets of genomic resources, or for generating other data sets (in areas such as comparative genomics) relevant to marine biotechnology.
It is the policy of the journal that all DNA sequences presented or discussed in an article published by Marine Biotechnology should be deposited in and available from the public databases (e.g. GenBank), and cited in the article by accession number. By submitting an article to the journal, authors accept that all renewable resources cited in the article (such as libraries, DNA clones and novel vectors) will be made available to all bona fide academic investigators who request them. Large datasets such as those derived in microarray transcript profiling experiments reported in articles published by Marine Biotechnology shall be made publicly available by placing the data on a website. The data should be accompanied by complete descriptions of the experiments, as embodied for example in the MIAME protocol or equivalent (Nature Genetics, volume 29 no. 4 pp 365 – 371).
Guidelines for Minireviews/Reviews
Minireviews/Reviews are brief (limit of 6 double-column printed pages, i.e., approximately 4000 words), 10 pages for reviews (approximately 7000 words, exclusive of references) biographical profiles, historical perspectives, or summaries of developments in fast-moving areas. They must be mostly based on published articles, but can also include some unpublished material from the author(s) that may be useful to round off the perspective; they may address any subject within the scope of the journal.
Minireviews/Reviews may be either solicited or proffered by authors responding to a recognized need. Irrespective of origin, Minireviews/Reviews are subject to review and should be submitted via Manuscript Central http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mbt. The covering letter should state whether the article was solicited and by whom.
Minireviews/Reviews should have an abstract highlighting the main conclusions from the reviewed material.
Book reviews, invited by the editor, should be one-page (inclusive of references) wide-perspective evaluation of recent books in the scope of the journal.
Guidelines for Electronically Produced Illustrations for Print
General
Send illustrations separately from the text (i.e. files should not be integrated with the text files). Always send printouts of all illustrations.
Vector (line) Graphics
Vector graphics exported from a drawing program should be stored in EPS format.
Suitable drawing program: Adobe Illustrator. For simple line art the following drawing programs are also acceptable: Corel Draw, Freehand, Canvas.
No rules narrower than .25 pt.
No gray screens paler than 15% or darker than 60%.
Screens meant to be differentiated from one another must differ by at least 15%.
Spreadsheet/Presentation Graphics
Most presentation programs (Excel, PowerPoint, Freelance) produce data that cannot be stored in an EPS format. Therefore graphics produced by these programs cannot be used for print.
Halftone Illustrations
Black & white and color illustrations should be saved in TIFF format.
Illustrations should be created using Adobe Photoshop whenever possible.
Scans*
Scanned reproductions of black and white photographs should be provided as 300 ppi TIFF files.
Scanned color illustrations should be provided as TIFF files scanned at a minimum of 300 ppi with a 24-bit color depth.
Line art should be provided as TIFF files at 600 ppi.
* We do prefer having the original art as our printers have drum scanners which allow for better reproduction of critical medical halftones.
Graphics from Videos
Separate files should be prepared for frames from a video that are to be printed in the journal. When preparing these files you should follow the same rules as listed under Halftone Illustrations.
Guidelines for Electronically Produced Illustrations for ONLINE
Video
Quicktime (.mov) is the preferred format, but .rm, .avi, .mpg, etc. are acceptable.
No video file should be larger than 2MB. To decrease the size of your file, consider changing one or more of the following variables: frame speed, number of colors/greys, viewing size (in pixels), or compression. Video is subject to Editorial review and approval.
Appendices and Supplementary Material
Authors who wish to publish electronic supplementary material to their article (Excel files, images, audio/video files) are requested to submit their manuscript via our online submission system, with a note in the author comments box that supplementary material will be submitted separately by email. This email, containing the supplementary material, should be sent to the Production Editor. In the email, the title of the submitted manuscript as well as the name of the corresponding author should be given.
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief:
J. Grant Burgess
Professor of Marine Biotechnology
School of Marine Science and Technology
Armstrong Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
UK
E-mail: grant.burgess@ncl.ac.uk
Zhanjiang Liu
Director of Aquatic Genomics
Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures and
Program of Cell and Molecular Biosciences
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849 USA
E-mail: zliu@acesag.auburn.edu
Nobuhiro Fusetani
Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences
Hokkaido University
3-1-1 Minato-cho
Hakodate 041-8611
Japan
e-mail: anobu@fish.hokudai.ac.jp
Journal Administrator:
Editorial Offices
Dove Marine Laboratory
Newcastle University
United Kingdom
E-mail: newmbtoffice@googlemail.com
Photo editor:
Reindert Nijland
Department of Medical Microbiology
UMC Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Reviews Editors:
Rene Wijffels
Wageningen Agricultural University
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Yonathan Zohar
Center of Marine Biotechnology
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Associate Editors:
Michael Hall
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Chris Bowler
Ecole Normale Superieure
Paris, France
Editorial Board:
Takashi Aoki, Tokyo University of Fisheries, Tokyo, Japan
Doug Bartlett, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA
Vincent Buonaccorsi, Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA, USA
Songling Chen, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fisheries Science, China
Thomas T. Chen, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
K.H. Chu, Department of Biology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Roy Danzmann, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Susan Douglas, Institute for Marine Biosciences, National Research Council, Canada
Patrick Gaffney, University of Delaware, Graduate College of Marine Studies, Lewes, DE, USA
Lucia Irene Gonzalez, Boston Life Science Corp., Baltimore, MD, USA
Ximing Guo, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, NJ, USA
Perry Hackett, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
Patrick Hallenbeck, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Ute Hentschel, Institut für Molekulare Infektionsbiologie, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Russell T. Hill, Center of Marine Biotechnology, Baltimore, MD, USA
Marcel Jaspars, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Chiaki Kato, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan
Frithjof Küpper, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, UK
Georgios Kotoulas, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Greece
Yves Le Gal, Muséum National d?Histoire Naturelle and Celle`gede France, Concarneau, France
Rick Goetz, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
Andrew Gracey, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
C.M. Lin, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
Tadashi Maruyama, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, Marine Ecosystem Research Department, Japan
Tadashi Matsunaga, Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Takeshi Naganuma, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Japan
Peter D. Nichols, CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart, Australia
Yniv Palti, USDA-ARS-NCCCWA, Kearneysville, WV, USA
Francesco Pietra, Accademia Lucchese di Scienze, Palazzo Ducale, Italy
Song Qin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, China
Valery Rasskazov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia
Matthew Rise, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada
Frank Robb, Center of Marine Biotechnology, Baltimore, MD, USA
Philippe Roch, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Naotsune Saga, Hokkaido University, Japan
Daniel Sellos, College de France, Concarneau, France
Brian Shepherd, Great Lakes Water Institute, ARS/USDA, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Yoshihiro Shiraiwa, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Frank Sin, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Anchalee Tassanakajon, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Mario Tredici, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Mikio Tsuzuki, Tokyo Pharmaceutical University, Tokyo, Japan
Filip Volckaert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Greg Warr, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
Shugo Watabe, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Mark Westerman, Intrinsic Life Sciences LLC, San Diego, CA, USA
Phillip Wright, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Goro Yoshizaki, Tokyo University of Fisheries, Tokyo, Japan
Rongqing Zhang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Shicui Zhang, Ocean University of China, Shandong, China
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