期刊名称：PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Plant, Cell & Environment
Publishing only the best work, Plant, Cell & Environment publishes original research, either theoretical or experimental, that provides novel insights into the ways that plants respond to their environment. Thus the Journal covers plant biochemistry, molecular biology, biophysics, cell physiology, whole plant physiology, crop physiology and physiological ecology, together with structural, genetic, pathological and meteorological aspects as related to plant function. Work at any scale, from the molecular to the community level, is welcomed.
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- ASCA
- BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences
- Current Contents
- Environmental Periodicals Bibliography
- Science Citation Index
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Instructions to Authors
Completed manuscripts should be sent by first-class mail, or air-mail to:
Keith A Mott
Editor-in-Chief
Plant, Cell and Environment
5306 Old Main Hill
Utah State University
Logan
UT 84322-5306
USA
E-mail: pce@biology.usu.edu
General
Manuscripts may be submitted either in electronic form by email, or on paper by post. Electronic submission is preferable as it accelerates the peer review process.
Manuscripts must be submitted exclusively to Plant, Cell & Environment and are accepted on the understanding that they have not been, nor will be, published elsewhere. If accepted, papers become the copyright of the Journal. Manuscripts should be accompanied by a completed Copyright Assignment Form in which all authors give signed consent to publication; permission to use published material elsewhere will be granted on request.
Guidelines on the electronic submission of manuscripts
Plant, Cell & Environment is pleased to accept manuscript submission by email. Our submission procedure is very simple. You are asked to prepare your MS as a Microsoft Word file, complete a simple MS information form, and send the two files to the Editorial Office attached to an email message comprising the covering letter. We then convert the Word document to an Acrobat PDF file for peer review. Electronic submission accelerates the progress of the MS through the review process. The procedure consists of four simple steps:
- Covering letter
Prepare an email message addressed to the Managing Editor. This letter should provide any information additional to that requested in the MS information form (see below), perhaps including aspects of the paper that you wish to highlight, suggestions for potential reviewers, requests for the exclusion of specific reviewers on conflict grounds, etc. If the MS is a resubmission of a previous MS, the covering letter MUST include full details of all changes made, keyed to the comments of the reviewers and Subject Editor of the original MS.
- Manuscript File
Prepare your MS using Microsoft Word for the PC, or convert it to a form that can be read by Word for the PC. We cannot deal with unconverted Mac files, or with files created by non-standard word processing programs. [If your MS contains complex mathematical symbols not covered by standard versions of Word, please contact the Managing Editor for advice on submission.] Follow the standard Instructions to Authors for the preparation of manuscripts as outlined separately below.
Embed all tables, figures and other graphic elements into a single Word file wherever possible - we do not wish to deal with multiple files for a single MS.
Keep the file as small as possible, as files greater than 2-3 MB may be rejected by internet service providers. Give the file a sensible name (i.e., if the First Author is Darwin, the file name DarwinMS would be appropriate). Attach the file to the Covering Letter email message.
- MS Information Form
Download the MS Information Form and carefully complete all parts. Name this file appropriately and attach to the Covering Letter email message.
- Send email
Send the email message with the attachments to: pce@biology.usu.edu
Manuscript Submission on Paper
One (1) clear copy should be submitted, typed double-spaced on one side only with margins of at least 3 cm. The manuscript will be scanned and converted into an Acrobat pdf file for peer review. If manuscripts contain colour, or black/white photographs, five (5) copies of these must accompany the single copy of the manuscript. (This is to provide enough copies for despatch to referees and the editor, in cases where scanning of these elements is not feasible). Authors should retain copies of the manuscript and all associated material as the Editorial Office will not return these items.
Cover Images
Plant, Cell & Environment uses images associated with published papers as covers for the journal. Authors are invited to submit candidate images, either with their manuscript or separately, preferably in electronic form, for consideration for the cover. Authors should make sure the orientation of their candidate images is suitable for the space available on the front cover. Images should seek to be aesthetically pleasing and, wherever possible, to present a message related to the specific topic of the paper or the general coverage of the journal. Authors should submit a suitable brief caption to the image together with a photo-credit where appropriate. Images submitted as prints or transparencies will be returned to authors, if requested.
Categories of Papers
Plant, Cell & Environment will consider for publication manuscripts in the following categories: Full Papers, Opinions, Technical Reports, Scientific Correspondence and Reviews. Plant, Cell & Environment will not consider for publication papers in pairs or series, or papers that report preliminary information in a brief format.
Full papers are papers of up to 8000 words in length presenting the results of a completed research project.
Opinions are intended to provide an opportunity for particular viewpoints on matters of topical interest to be aired.
Technical Reports should report new or modified methods that are likely to be of interest to a broad range of readership, and should be no more than a maximum of 4000 words.
Scientific Correspondence provides a vehicle for feedback on papers published in the journal.
P,C&E will consider publishing unsolicited Reviews, but authors should contact the Editor-in-Chief in advance.
Manuscript Format
The following format is designed for Full Papers, and should be modified appropriately for manuscripts in other categories. The typescript should be arranged as follows, with each section beginning on a separate page:
Title page
(i) Title: this should be concise and informative and a short running title should be provided.
(ii) List of authors names.
(iii) Institute or laboratory of origin.
(iv) The name and address ?including e-mail address ?of the author to whom proofs and offprint requests should be sent.
Abstract
This should provide a concise statement of the scope of the work and the principal findings. The abstract should be less than 200 words.
Keyword index
This is to contain keywords or phrases to enable retrieval and indexing by modern searching techniques. The list should not exceed 10 words and should not include words mentioned in the paper title.
Introduction
This should argue the case for your study, outlining only essential background, but should not include either the findings or the conclusions. It should not be a review of the subject area, but should finish with a clear statement of the question being addressed.
Materials and methods
This should provide sufficient details of the techniques used to allow them to be repeated.
Results
This should not include material appropriate to the Discussion section.
Discussion
This should highlight the significance of the results and place them in the context of other work. It should not introduce new material, be over-speculative, re-iterate the results, or exceed 20% of the total length. The Results and Discussion sections may be amalgamated for short papers if desired, but in this case, the final paragraph ought to provide a resum?of the main conclusions.
Acknowledgments
References
Tables
Figure legends
Illustrations
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. Alterations in the text, other than printers errors, may be charged to the author.
Illustrations
Illustrations should be labelled with the figure number and authors name in soft pencil on the back identifying the top edge and must be planned to fit either a column or the full width of two columns on reduction to the desired final size. Wherever possible, digital versions of figures should be included on the disk submitted after acceptance. Ideally these should be sent in native format or PICT if created on a Mac, or in native format or WMF if created in Windows. Files saved as PS, EPS, GIF and TIF may also be used, but please note it may not be possible to modify them. Avoid using tints if possible; if they are essential to understanding of the figure, try to make them coarse as this aids their clear reproduction.
Photographs suitable for the cover of the journal are particularly welcomed. It is preferable, but not essential, that these should be related to submitted papers. Free colour reproduction of the cover image and 25 free copies of the cover will be provided to the author supplying the photograph reproduced thereon.
Photographs (half-tones) should be glossy prints of good contrast and well matched for tonal range. An overlay should be used to indicate masking instructions, lettering or arrows. The charges for inclusion of these in any one article are as follows: first figure, free; all subsequent figures, ?00 (plus VAT at 17.5%) each. A paper cannot be put into production before a signed colour work agreement form is received from the author. This form should be downloaded from this site and submitted with the paper (alternatively it is available from the Managing Editors office).
Legends should be typed on a separate sheet. Any explanatory material should be placed in the legend and not in the figure; enough detail should be given so that the figure can be understood without reference to the text.
Tables
Each Table should be typed on a separate page, numbered with Arabic numerals and accompanied by a title and explanatory caption at the top. Each table must be referred to in the text and an indication of preferred position in the text should be given. Data must not be presented in both tabular and graphical form.
References
The reference list should be in alphabetical order and include the full title with the name of the journal given in full, thus:
Atkin O.K., Botman B. & Lambers H. (1996) The relationship between the relative growth rate and nitrogen economy of alpine and lowland Poa species. Plant, Cell & Environment 19, 1324-1330.
Schjoerring J.K. (1991) Ammonia emission from the foliage of growing plants. In: Trace Gas Emissions by Plants (eds T. D. Sharkey, E. A. Holland & H. A. Mooney), pp. 267-292. Academic Press, San Diego.
References in the text should use the Harvard System and be in full on first mention (e.g. Brown, Smith & Williams 1995), but subsequently abbreviated to (Brown et al. 1995). When different groups of multiple authors with the same first author occur, they should initially be cited thus: (Smith, Ford & Williams 1996a, Smith, Jones & Brown 1996b), thereafter they would be cited as (Smith et al. 1996a, b). If the number of authors in a group is greater than three, they should always be cited thus: (Morris et al. 1997).
Units
Authors are encouraged to use the International System of Units (S.I., Système Internationale dUnités) for exact measures of physical quantities.
Scientific names
The complete scientific name (genus, species, authority and cultivar, if appropriate) should be cited for every organism when first mentioned. Subsequently, the generic name may be abbreviated to initials except where intervening references to other genera would cause confusion. Common names of organisms, if used, must be accompanied by the correct scientific name on first mention. Latin names should be underlined.
Abbreviations
Chemical symbols may be used in the text, together with the widely accepted abbreviations of longer chemical terms. Other abbreviations may also be used but the full term should be given on first mention.
Mathematical formulae
Mathematical formulae must be carefully typed with symbols properly aligned and correctly spaced. Adequate spacing should be allowed above and below displayed equations. All symbols should be typed if possible, including Greek notation; where handwritten symbols are inevitable, they should be explained by pencil notes in the margin. When a paper contains several mathematical equations, each principal equation should be identified by a number in parentheses (e.g. Eqn 1).
Corresponding authors will receive 25 free reprints.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Keith Mott, Logan, USA Editors:
Stephen P. Long, Urbana, USA
Tom Sharkey, Madison, USA
Mark Stitt, Heidelberg, Germany
Associate Editors:
Rick Amasino, Madison, USA
Neil Baker, Colchester, UK
Hans Bohnert, Urbana, USA
John Grace, Edinburgh, UK
Dirk Inze, Gent, Belgium
Werner Kaiser, Wurzburg, Germany
Mark Tester, Cambridge, UK
Tony Trewavas, Edinburgh, UK
Dan Yakir, Rehovot, Israel
Founding Editors:
Harry Smith, Nottingham, UK
John Raven, Dundee, UK
Paul Jarvis, Edinburgh, UK Editorial Board:
Jeff Amthor, Department of Energy, Maryland, USA
Dennis Baldocchi, Department of Environmental Science, Berkeley, USA
Dorothea Bartels, MPl für Züchtungsforschung, Koln, Germany
Susanne von Caemmerer, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Reinhart Ceulemans, University of Antwerpen (UIA), Wilrijk, Belgium
Jann Conroy, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Bert Drake, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Maryland, USA
Jim Ehleringer, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
John Evans, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Christine Foyer, IACR - Rothamsted, Harpenden, UK
David Grantz, Kearney Agricultural Center, California, USA
Howard Griffiths, University of Cambridge, UK
Michel Havaux, CEA/Cadarache, France
Steve Huber, North Carolina State University, USA
Hamlyn Jones, University of Dundee, UK
Maarten Koornneef, Lab. of Genetics, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Hans Lambers, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Richard Leegood, University of Sheffield, UK
Francesco Loreto, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Rome, Italy
Ulrich Luettge, Institut für Botanik, Darmstadt, Germany
Steve McGrath, IACR-Rothamsted, Harpenden, UK
Rana Munns, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia
John Passioura, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia
Robert Pearcy, Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, USA
Andrea Polle, Forstbotanisches Institut, Gottingen, Germany
Hanno Richter, Botanisches Institut, Vienna, Austria
Rowan Sage, University of Toronto, Canada
Dale Sanders, University of York, UK
Norbert Sauer, Erlangen, Germany
Bernard Saugier, Universit?Paris-Sud, France
Eberhard Schafer, Albert Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, Germany
Wendy Silk, University of California, USA
Andrew Smith, University of Oxford, UK
Alison Smith, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
John Sperry, University of Utah, USA
Ichiro Terashima, Osaka University, Japan
Mel Tyree, USDA Forest Service, Vermont, USA
Ian Woodrow, The Unversity of Melbourne, Australia
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