期刊名称：BIOTECHNOLOGY & GENETIC ENGINEERING REVIEWS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
 A well-established hardcover review series with one new volume published each year. Each volume contains approximately 15 original, major review articles covering important developments in industrial, agricultural and medical applications of biotechnology (wide sense), with particular emphasis on the genetic manipulation of the organisms concerned.
BGER is a well established hardcover annual reviews series from the National Centre for Macromolecular Hydrodynamics and published by Nottingham University Press. It benefits from the longstanding relationship of the NCMH with the Biotechnology Industry. Each volume contains approximately 13-17 original, major invited review articles covering important developments in industrial, agricultural and medical applications of Biotechnology (widest sense). Following requests from authors and readers, and to celebrate 25 years of the volume we are moving from book to journal format.
Instructions to Authors
Manuscript:
Please submit either by email or on disc/CD. Please note if emailing, graphics files can be rather large and if>5MB may not transmit. Indicate whether PC (preferred) or MAC. One hard copy should be also sent by regular mail, so we can check there have been no corruptions in the electronic transfer.
- All pages must be numbered consecutively including the title page.
- Although some editorial/reviewer changes may be requested/suggested, authors are requested to ensure their manuscripts are final format.
- Specify any unusual non-keyboard characters on the front page of the hard copy. Symbols in text. Male and female symbols within the text should be flagged somehow within curly brackets to enable setter to do a swift global search.
- Do not right justify text.
- Do not set a left hand margin.
- Make sure you distinguish numerals from letters, eg zero (0) from O; one (1) from l (el) and I.
- Distinguish hyphen with ¡ª
en rule with --
em rule with ---
- Use one carriage return only to indicate beginning of paragraphs. First paragraphs under headings are full out left, subsequent paragraphs are indented. (These indents will be specified by typesetter when the paper is run out to page).
- Be consistent with presentation of each grade of headings. (see below)
Text Font: Times, double spaced
Title Page FULL Title (18pt) using Title case and bold,
followed by three carriage returns to:
NAME (12pt) in capitals (forenames or initials) without academic titles
followed by one carriage return to:
Institutional Address, (12pt) in Title case, italics
Corresponding author: indicated by *.
Abbreviations (10pt) These should be listed as one paragraph of text. Each abbreviation should be followed by a comma, a space, the meanings, a semi-colon, a space, and so on. The paragraph should end with a full-stop.
Text Font size: 11pt
All papers should have an Introduction, Acknowledgements (where applicable) and References. (These Acks and Refs should be at the end of the paper). Table and figure legends should be separate from the main text, either at the end of the paper or in a separate file. There is no Abstract.
Three levels of headings should be followed
(all should be ranged left with a line space above):
Main: Title Case, Bold
Sub-heading: UPPER CASE, NOT BOLD
Minor-heading: Title Case, italics
Generic and specific names are to be in italics. Footnotes should be avoided but endnotes can be accommodated at the end of the paper before the references.
References. At the end of the paper, to be listed alphabetically. Author¡¯s Name (in Small Capitals) except for the initial letter, followed by comma, followed by one space then initials without spaces between (if there are two authors insert "AND" before next name, if more than two authors each name to be followed by a comma), followed by date in brackets then single space then the title of the article (regular font) and the title of the journal in full (in italics). Journal volume in bold, followed by the page numbers (in regular font).
Reference to articles in Edited books should follow this example:
Weiner, M.L. (1992). An overview of the regulatory status and of the safety of chitin and chitosan as food and pharmaceutical ingredients. In Advances in Chitin and Chitosan eds. C.J. Brine, P.A. Sanford and J.P. Zikakis, pp 670-672. London: Elsevier Applied Science.
References to books should follow this example:
TANFORD, C. (1961). Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules. Chap. 5, New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Do not indent turnovers, these will be set up by typesetter when run out to page.
Tables Each table should be keyed into text but typed at the end of the paper (or in a separate file). They should be designed to fit across the width of the page (115mm). The table title (legend) will have the Table number in bold followed by double space then first word of title.
ARTWORK Figures should not be embedded into the text file; they should be keyed into the text or placement should be indicated on the hard copy. All artwork is in black and white, and should be submitted electronically. To keep costs down we have adopted a policy of no colour: many apologies if this causes an inconvenience.
Figures should be designed to fit across the width of the page (115mm), the depth of page is 190mm but allowance must be made for the legend to go underneath. Landscape figures to fit a depth of 115mm which includes the legend.
Drawings Drawings, if not on disk, should be black on white card, with a line weight and lettering suitable for the same reduction throughout (ideally not more than 40%). After reduction the smallest lettering should not be less than 10pt (3mm).
All artwork must have paper title, author and fig number indicated, outside of the image area, and must be free of pencil, glue or tape marks.
Tracing paper should be avoided because of the possibility of shadows when scanned.
Photographs All photographs, if not submitted on disk, should be prepared to final size or reproduction, mounted on stiff card and labelled with press-on lettering. After reduction the smallest lettering should not be less than 10pt (3mm).When components should be abutted, trimmed as regular rectangles or close trimmed up to edge of specimen. They can be mounted on white or black background: a black background must be evenly black all over: any background must be free of all pencil and glue marks within the image area.
Joints etc can be removed at the scanning stage but at extra cost.
Cropping instructions, if any, should be indicated on an overlay or marked on a photocopy of the figure.
Size Maximum size of artwork for use on flat bed scanners in A3. Larger artwork has to be reduced photographically prior to scanning, therefore adding to expense.
Editorial Board
Editor: Professor Stephen Harding, University of Nottingham
Executive Editor:
S.E. Harding MA, DSc (Oxon.)
Associate Editor:
M.P. Tombs MA, DPhil (Oxon.)
Advisory Board:
B.S. Blumberg MD (Columbia, USA), DPhil (Oxon.), FACP
R. Doi PhD (Davis, California, USA)
R.B. Flavell BSc, PhD (Malibu, California, USA)
Y. Murooka PhD (Osaka, Japan)
I. Karube Dr Eng (Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan)
S. Neidleman MS, PhD (Emeryville, California, USA)
P.B. Poulsen MSc, Biochem Eng, BComm (Bagsvaerd, Denmark)
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