期刊名称：JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Aims & scope
TopAbout the journal
J. R. Soc. Interface is a new international journal publishing articles from the interface between the physical sciences, including mathematics, and the life sciences. It provides a high-quality forum to publish rapidly and interact across this boundary in two main ways: J. R. Soc. Interface publishes research applying chemistry, engineering, materials science, mathematics and physics to the biological and medical sciences; it also highlights discoveries in the life sciences that allow advances in the physical sciences. Both sides of the interface are considered equally. Accepted articles are published immediately online and the hard copy version of the journal appears every two months.
TopArticle types
Articles
Articles are contributions up to 8000 words containing original scientific research.
Reports
Reports are short, letter-style contributions (up to 2500 words), which are published rapidly. Preliminary and more speculative work of high-quality is strongly encouraged.
Both articles and reports should be written for audiences in a wide range of disciplines.
Reviews
Reviews are articles of the highest quality and aim to be of interest to communities working at the physical sciences-life sciences interface. Reviews cover the latest developments in an area of cross-disciplinary research. They put such research into a wider context and are written in a style that makes them accessible to readers in a wide range of disciplines. Reviews are normally published by invitation; however, we are also keen to receive proposals for prospective articles. Complete literature surveys are not encouraged. Free access is allowed to all review articles from the moment of online publication.
J. R. Soc. Interface welcomes articles on a diverse range of topics including, but not limited to
- biocomplexity
- bioengineering
- bioinformatics
- biomaterials
- biomechanics
- bionanoscience
- biophysics
- chemical biology
- computer science (as applied to the life sciences)
- medical physics
- synthetic biology
- systems biology
- theoretical biology
- tissue engineering
TopSelection criteria
The review process will give equal weighting to sciences on both sides of the interface. The criteria for selection are scientific excellence, originality and potential interest to a wide spectrum of scientists. All articles are peer-reviewed to a high standard and published rapidly under the control of the Editor and his distinguished Editorial Board.
TopConditions of publication
Articles must not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The Editor has final authority in all matters relating to publication.
TopElectronic submission details
The Royal Society’s electronic-submission and peer-review service provides J. R. Soc. Interface authors with the facility to submit their papers electronically. The service allows you to upload files in a reliable and user-friendly way, using a Web-based system. When your article is received, you receive an immediate acknowledgement that details how you can track your contribution online.
Instructions to Authors
Style and policy guide
J. R. Soc. Interface welcomes original contributions from the interface between the physical sciences including mathematics and the life sciences. It provides a high quality forum for work applying physics, mathematics, engineering and chemistry to the life sciences and also discoveries in the life sciences that allow advances in the physical sciences including mathematics. Both sides of the interface will be considered on an equal footing. Preliminary and more speculative work is encouraged. The journal also publishes high quality review articles.
Articles must not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Furthermore, the main findings of the article should not have been reported in the mass media. Like many journals, J. R. Soc. Interface employs a strict embargo policy where the reporting of a scientific article by the media is embargoed until a specific time. The Editor has the final authority in all matters relating to publication. Acceptance of a article will be determined by its quality and interest.
Articles should conform to recommendations for authorship provided by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (the Vancouver Group). For further details, see the following address: http://www.icmje.org
It is worth stressing that articles published in J. R. Soc. Interface should be accessible to readers from a wide variety of scientific backgrounds. We therefore encourage equations and technical details to be published in appendices rather than in the main article.
Access to data policy
Animal testing
Article types
Colour
Figures
LaTeX submissions
Lisence to publish
Media promotion
Media summary
References
Spelling
Structure
Tables
Units and abbreviations
TopAccess to data policy
As a condition of acceptance authors agree to honour any reasonable request by other researchers for materials, methods, or data necessary to verify the conclusion of the article.
Supplementary data up to 10Mb is placed on the Society's website free of charge and is publicly accessible.
Large datasets must be deposited in a recognised public domain database by the author prior to submission. The accession number should be provided for inclusion in the published article.
Where there is no recognised public domain database please contact the Society's publishing team for guidance. TopAnimal testing
Articles will be accepted only if they are considered ethically sound.
Articles describing experiments with vertebrates/higher invertebrates will be accepted only if the procedures used are clearly described and conform appropriate regulations for avoiding unnecessary suffering to the animals. A brief statement identifying the institutional and/or licensing committee approving the experiments should be included at the end of the article.
For studies relating to animal behaviour authors are asked to confirm that:
This research adhered to the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour/ Animal Behavior Society Guidelines for the Use of Animals in Research (published on the Animal Behaviour website), the legal requirements of the country in which the work was carried out, and all institutional guidelines.
For experiments involving human subjects, the committee approving the experiments should be identified and the research must have been conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki (http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm). The authors should confirm that informed consent was obtained from all subjects.
In addition, referees are invited to express any ethical concerns regarding animal experimentation, human studies and conservation issues.
TopArticle types
Articles: Full research articles should contain original scientific research. Their length should be between 2500 and 8000 words.
Reviews: Review articles should be around 8000 words, but there is some scope for flexibility. They should aim to interest communities working at the physical sciences/life sciences interface and should cover the latest developments in an area of cross-disciplinary research. These articles should put such research in a wider context and be written in a style that will make them accessible to readers in a wide range of disciplines. Reviews will normally be published by invitation, although we are keen to receive proposals for prospective articles from authors. Complete literature surveys are not encouraged.
Reports: Reports are short, letters-style contributions of no more than 2500 words, (including references and figure captions) and up to four displays (ie figures and tables), of which no more than two should be figures. These articles are published rapidly and preliminary and more speculative work of high quality is strongly encouraged.
J. R. Soc. Interface welcomes the submission of articles containing colour illustrations. However, owing to the high cost of colour reproduction, authors may be asked to contribute a portion of the extra cost.
TopFigures
All Royal Society journals require figures in electronic format. To ensure high-quality reproduction, and to prevent delays in publication, it is essential that figures be supplied in the correct format. Hand-drawn illustrations are not acceptable. For detailed instructions please view the following PDF.
TopLaTeX submissions
For LaTeX submissions on Manuscript Central, please note the following guidelines.
- TeX files submitted must be compatible with LaTeX2e. Manuscript Central supports version 7.4.5 and earlier.
- All files that are needed to compile the TeX source correctly must be uploaded with the submission.
- Please do not send master TeX files containing file call-ups (except to figures); the TeX file must be complete with all article sections and references. This includes BIB and BBL files, which cannot be processed.
- When submitting papers in TeX, figures created from TeX code must also be supplied as PS or EPS files (PDF, JPEG, GIF or TIFs will not be converted).
- Type 3 fonts are not accepted. Vector fonts (such as Type1, truetype, opentype etc.) are preferred.
- Guidelines for document and image conversions in Manuscript Central can be found in the “Get Help Now?tab.
- A list of all sty/cls files accepted by Manuscript Central can be found in the “Get Help Now?tab.
TopLicence to publish
Our policy is that the author retains copyright, but must provide us with a ‘Licence to publish? This agreement allows the authors to post their own postprint of the accepted article on an institutional or subject-based repository 12 months after publication. Authors participating in EXiS Open Choice will be able to post the final published version on repositories as soon as the article is published.
All authors must ensure that all necessary permissions have been obtained for reproducing any other copyright material, including permission to reproduce and publish electronically anywhere in the world.
Figures reproduced under copyright restrictions from another publication should carry a line of acknowledgement, as specified by the copyright holder.
TopMedia promotion
The Society's Press Office promotes articles that appear in our scientific journals through weekly lists of media summaries to journalists. Please note that like many publishers, the Royal Society employs a strict embargo policy whereby the reporting of a scientific article by the media is embargoed until a specific time. If you are approached by a journalist prior to publication, please contact the Society's press office.
A good idea is to alert your institution's press office to the fact you are having an article published as given enough advance warning they may want to produce a press release to coincide with the weekly list from the Society's press office. Closer to the time of publication, Society’s press office will contact you to confirm the online publication date for your paper and provide additional information on the Society’s embargo policy and when you may expect to receive calls from journalists.
TopMedia summary
The media abstract should be no more than 100 words and aim to outline, to a lay audience, your research and any relevant findings. If possible try highlight why the research is important, i.e. does your research discover something new? Does it change perceptions or previous understanding? If possible, try to link your research with to examples or analogies as this enables journalists to understand and relate to your work. Please avoid using excessive jargon or statistics, unless absolutely necessary. If you have any questions, please contact the Royals Society press office.
If you have already supplied a media abstract to accompany your paper, this will be issued to journalists a week before your paper is due to be published. The Royal Society press office will contact you shortly to confirm this date and also provide additional information on how your paper will be promoted, including our embargo policy, and advice on when you may expect to receive calls from journalists.
TopReferences
All references to the literature cited should be given in alphabetical order at the end of the paper, and each reference should contain some or all of the following elements:
- Author surnames with initials
- Year of publication
- Title of paper (roman) or book (italic)
- Journal name (italic), using standard abbreviation
- Volume number (bold)
- First and last page numbers
- DOI
Note that for a book, the edition the chapter(s) and its/ their page range(s), the editor(s), the place of publication (if it is not obvious) and the name of the publisher should be given, for instance:
- Falconer, D. S. 1981 Introduction to quantitative genetics, 2nd edn. London: Longman.
- Falkenmark, M. 1993 Landscape as life support provider: water-related limitations. In Population-the complex reality (ed. F. Graham-Smith), pp. 103-116. London: The Royal Society.
- Nilsson, L. A. 1988 The evolution of flowers with deep corolla tubes. Nature 334, 147-149.
References in the text are listed according to the Harvard style (not by number), ie by giving the names of authors and the date of publication, for instance:
- This action has been described frequently elsewhere (Brown 1974; Clarke 1974; Clarke & King 1974).
Authors are encouraged to quote digital object identifiers (DOIs) - standardised article reference codes - where known, in addition to providing full citations, for instance:
- Hamilton, W. D. & Brown, S. P. 2001 Autumn tree colours as a handicap signal. Proc. R. Soc. B 268, 1489-1493. (DOI 10.1098/rspb.2001.1672.)
The DOI is a unique electronic tag applied by certain publishers (and online databases, such as CrossRef) to their published papers. DOI hotlinks take a reader directly from the paper they are reading to the abstract of the paper they have selected. Any DOI can be accessed online in the following format: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2001.1672
TopSpelling
Spelling should conform to the preferred spelling of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
TopStructure
Each article should contain the following in order:
- Title
- Authors and full addresses where their work was carried out
- Summary of no more than 200 words
- Key index words or phrases (3? choices)
- Main body of the work, divided into sections and described by short headings
- Acknowledgements
- References (of all articles cited in the text)
- Figure captions (numbered in sequence as they appear in the text)
- Short title for page headings
The summary should be concise and informative. It should be complete by itself, and must not contain references or unexplained abbreviations. It should not only indicate the general scope of the article but also state the main results and conclusions. Please note that footnotes are not used.
In addition to providing the addresses where the work was carried out, the current addresses, where different, should be given.
In order that J. R. Soc. Interface be accessible to readers from a wide variety of backgrounds, it is often necessary for authors to publish equations and some technical details online as electronic supplementary material (ESM). Therefore, ESM in practice form a very important element of many of our articles, and should be considered when thinking about the structure of your article.
Tables, however small, should be numbered and referred to in the text by their numbers. Table captions should be brief, with descriptions of experimental detail given directly beneath, in parentheses. Column headings should, wherever possible, be in lower-case type, and the units of measurement and any numerical factors should be placed at the head of each column. Units should be contained within parentheses, eg distance (cm).
TopUnits and abbreviations
As far as possible the recommendations based on the International System of Units (SI) contained in Quantities, units and symbols should be followed (The Royal Society, 1975, price ?.50, available from the Sales Office on +44 (0)20 7451 2645.
Abbreviations should be given in full at the first mention. In the list of references, widely recognized abbreviations for journals should be used. If in doubt, give the full title of the journal.
Editorial Board
Editor
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