期刊名称：MICROBIAL ECOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Microbial Ecology is an international journal whose aim is the advancement and dissemination of information describing the interactions between microorganisms and the biotic and abiotic components of their environments. Microbial Ecology features articles of original research and brief reviews.
The Editor encourages submissions in the following areas:
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- ecology of microorganisms in natural and engineered environments
- advances in molecular-based understanding of microbial interactions and phylogeny
- microbially driven biogeochemical processes
- interactions among microbial populations and communities
- microbial processes and interactions in extreme or unusual environments
- ecological studes pertaining to animal, plant and insect microbiology
- microbial processes and interactions associated with environmental pollution
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Instructions to Authors
Instructions for Authors
Electronic Submissions
Preparation of manuscripts
Guidelines for Electronically Produced Illustrations for Print
Guidelines for Electronically Produced Illustrations for ONLINE
Electronic Submissions
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 Microbial Ecology online. This will allow even quicker and more efficient processing of your manuscript.
Please log directly onto the site
http://meco.manuscriptcentral.com
and upload your manuscripts following the instructions given on the screen.
Please note: if you have submitted to Microbial Ecology 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.
Please note that all manuscripts are blindly reviewed and should only include the manuscript title. All author information should be included in the Cover Letter section in Manuscript Central for Editors viewing only.
System requirements
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Netscape 4.x or MS Internet Explorer 4.x/5.x
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Adobe Acrobat browser plug-in
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Electronic files of their article text
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Electronic files of their article graphics (scanned or exported)
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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
Electronic files can be uploaded as PDF, PostScript, or RTF. PDF and 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.
Preparation of manuscripts
Microbial Ecology publishes manuscripts of original research as well as mini-reviews on a wide range of topics pertaining to the ecology of microorganisms in natural and engineered environments.
All manuscript should contain the following sections:
Title page: To include the title of the paper, author's name, institution, city, country and other contact information including phone and e-mail. As separate items include the complete name and address of the author to whom page proofs and correspondence should be sent, the date submitted, and a short version of the title for use as a running head.
Abstract: A concise but informative abstract should be placed on a separate page immediately after the title page.
Text: The text should be organized into an introductory section, conveying the background and purpose of the report, and then into sections titled "Methods," "Results," and "Discussion." Please use line numbers on each page, to facilitate the review process.
Acknowledgments: Acknowledgments of collaboration or preparation may be included at the end of the text. Grant support should also be indicated here.
References: Only essential references that are also cited in the text should be listed. These should be arranged in alphabetical order under the first author's name and numbered. In the text, references should be cited by number only. Names of journals should be abbreviated according to the Bibliographical Guide for Editors & Authors (American Chemical Society, 1974). References to unpublished data, personal communications, theses, and abstracts should not be in the reference list, but should be inserted in the text enclosed by parentheses.
Examples of references:
Ducklow HW, Clausen K, Mitchell R (1981) Ecology of bacterial communities in the Schistosomiasis vector snail Biomphalaria glabrata. Microb Ecol 7:253-274
Macnab RM (1980) Sensing the environment: bacterial chemotaxis. In: Goldberger R (ed) Biological regulation and development, vol. 2, Plenum Press, New York, pp 377-412
Tables: Each table should be typed on a separate page. The data should be arranged so that columns of similar material read down, not across. Tables should be numbered consecutively with appropriate legends at the top. All tables must be cited in the text.
Figures: Illustrations should be professionally drawn or generated by high-quality imaging techniques or computer graphics. All figures, including halftones, must be submitted in triplicate. Original artwork or black-and-white negatives should not be submitted. Each figure should have a label pasted on its back, indicating figure number, authors, and top of figure.
Color Figures: Color will be printed at the author's expense: $1150.00 for the first page and $575.00 for each additional page within the same article. Please contact the Editorial Office if color is essential but funding is unavailable.
Legends: Legends for illustrations should be typed double spaced on a separate sheet, and numbered consecutively in correspondence with the figures. All figures must be cited in the text.
Nomenclature and Style: The style of the journal essentially conforms to the CBE Style Manual (5th ed., 1983). The Handbook of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (3rd ed., Fasman, G.D., ed., CRC Press, Inc.) should be consulted for biochemical abbreviations and names. Unusual abbreviations should be defined and introduced parenthetically the first time they appear in the text. Enzyme activity should be stated in terms of international units (Enzyme Nomenclature, Elsevier Publishing Co., 1965) and the EC number should be given parenthetically at the first use in the text. For microorganisms, the correct name conforming with international rules of nomenclature, must be given.
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.
Editorial Board
Akira Hiraishi
Dept. of Ecological Engineering
Toyohashi University of Technology
Toyohashi, Japan
Manfred Höfle
GBF, National Research Center for Biotechnology
Braunschweig, Germany
William E. Holben
Division of Biological Sciences
The University of Montana
Missoula, Montana
Thomas Kieft
Department of Biology
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, New Mexico
Nancy Kinner
Kingsbury Hall
Department of Civil Engineering
University of New Hampshire
Durham, New Hampshire
Allan Konopka
Department of Biological Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
John Lawrence
National Hydrology Research Institute
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Laura Leff
Biological Sciences
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
Michael Lemke
Biology Department
University of Illinois, Springfield
Springfield, Illinois
Steven Lindow
Department of Plant and Microbial Ecology
University of California
Berkeley, California
Derek R. Lovley
Department of Microbiology
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts
Rod Mackie
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois
Aaron Mills
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Ralph Mitchell
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Bill Mohn
Department of Microbiology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
Toshi Nagata
Ocean Research Institute
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Hans W. Paerl
Institute of Marine Sciences
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Morehead City, North Carolina
Karsten Pedersen
Department of General and Marine Microbiology
University of Göteborg
Göteborg, Sweden
Jim Prosser
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Marischal College
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Department of Environmental Biology
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon
Eric Roden
Biology Department
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Dwayne Savage
Department of Microbiology
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
Tom Schmidt
Department of Microbiology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Kate Scow
Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources
University of California
Davis, California
Michael A. Sleigh
Department of Biology
University of Southampton
Southampton, United Kingdom
David A. Stahl
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Curtis Suttle
Department of Oceanography
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
Gerald W. Tannock
Department of Microbiology
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand
Bess Ward
Department of Geosciences
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
Gideon Wolfaardt
Department of Microbiology
University of Stellenbosch
Matieland, South Africa
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