期刊名称：NATURE PROTOCOLS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Nature Protocols is an interactive online resource for laboratory protocols for bench researchers. Protocols are presented in a 'recipe' style providing step-by-step descriptions of procedures that users can take to the lab bench and immediately apply in their own research. Protocols on the site are fully searchable and organized into logical categories to be easily accessible to researchers.
Our Protocols come from a variety of sources. The core content, the Nature Protocols, are high quality, peer-reviewed procedures commissioned by the Nature Protocols editorial team. These protocols must have proven themselves in the laboratory, having been used to acquire data reported in published research papers.
The site also contains protocols derived from supplementary information from Nature Research Journals, supplier protocols and content posted directly on the site by the scientific community using social software. This content is within the Protocols Network.
To enable timely publication, the Protocols Network protocols are not further styled, peer reviewed or copy edited, but posted live soon after submission. Brief details of each protocol type and how to submit can be found at for authors.
Nature Protocols aims to publish the protocols being used to answer outstanding biological and biomedical science research questions, including methods grounded in physics and chemistry that have a practical application to the study of biological problems. Further details of our scope can be found here.
Instructions to Authors
Nature Protocols
These protocols are the core content for Nature Protocols. Commissioned by the Nature Protocols Editors, these are peer reviewed, fully edited and styled prior to publication. Through interaction between authors and the Editorial team, these protocols are developed to contain a summary, followed by separate sections comprising a brief introduction, materials, procedure-with critical steps highlighted, troubleshooting, anticipated results and references. Figures and diagrams are included, where appropriate. Our 'Guide to authors' contains further information about the format we require for these protocols. If you would like to propose a protocol for consideration by the Editors please submit a presubmission enquiry using our Manuscript Tracking System. If you have any problems using this system please contact us.
Protocols Network
To enable timely publication, these protocols are posted directly on the Protocols Network by the author [hence they have not been further styled, peer reviewed or copy edited]. We encourage authors to adopt a similar structure to that used in Nature Protocols to help consistency and clarity. A specific 'Guide to Authors' for users of this system can be found here.
Protocols submitted by authors of research papers in Nature journals
These are the protocols used by recent Nature Journal authors to perform the research discussed in their papers. Information on how to submit these protocols is supplied when manuscripts are accepted in principle by the respective journals, and the submission form can be found here. If you have a protocol that is related to a previously published primary research paper and would like further information about how to submit, please contact us and include full citation details of the appropriate original Nature Journal paper.
Protocols submitted by the research community
Any researcher who has developed a new protocol is invited to upload it to the Protocols Network as a service to the community via our submission system. Authors who think their protocol would make a useful addition to the Nature Protocols collection are welcome to upload a pre-submission enquiry using our Manuscript Tracking System.
Supplier Protocols
Company protocols can be submitted by product suppliers and will not be peer-reviewed or copy edited. Companies wishing to submit protocols should use the protocol submission system, where protocols can be uploaded as text or pdfs.
Our sister journal, Nature Methods, publishes Application Notes. Application Notes describe the technical performance of interesting new products or applications of laboratory technologies and are written in a narrative format, whereas company protocols describe the use of products or equipment for a specific application and are written in a numbered recipe style. We invite companies wishing to submit application notes to go to the Application Notes site and use that on-line submission system.
Editorial Board
Chief Editor: Chris Surridge
Chris joined Nature Protocols in November 2009 and leads the editorial team of Nature Protocols. Chris gained a PhD in Biophysics from Imperial College, London in 1992 studying the dynamics of microtubule assembly. He left the bench for scientific publishing in 1993 initially as Assistant Editor on Nature Structural Biology, and then as a member of the editorial team at Nature where he has handled topics as diverse as structural biology, plant biology, neuroscience and systems biology. In 2005 he joined the Public Library of Science (PLoS) as the Managing Editor of PLoS ONE, before returning to Nature as a Senior Editor in 2008. Chris has also spent time as Nature's Web Editor and as the Editor of the now defunct Brief Communication section.
Managing Editor: Katharine Barnes
Katharine joined Nature Protocols in January 2006 as Chief Editor and led the editorial team of Nature Protocols until November 2009, when she stepped down from the Chief Editor role to become Managing Editor. Before joining Nature Protocols Katharine was Editor of Trends in Pharmacological Sciences. A graduate of the University of Durham, UK, she completed her PhD in cancer pharmacology at the Institute of Cancer Research, London. Her postdoctoral research, based in the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Pharmacology, was focused on the phosphatase CDC25 and its potential as a target for anti-cancer drug development.
Senior Editor: Dorothy Clyde
Dorothy Clyde obtained her PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she investigated sex-specific gene expression in Drosophila under the guidance of Prof. Mary Bownes. Dot began her post-doctoral career with Prof. Stephen Small at New York University, where she studied pattern formation in the early Drosophila embryo. On her return to the UK, she continued her studies on Drosophila embryonic development, this time focusing on the molecular and cellular events involved in the process of dorsal closure. Dorothy joined Nature Protocols in January 2006. Contact Dorothy at d.clyde@nature.com.
Associate Editor: Bronwen Dekker
Bronwen Dekker did a masters in Natural Product Chemistry (under Dulcie Mulholland, University of Natal) and worked in the toxicology section of a forensic science laboratory before doing a PhD under Jamal Zweit and Alastair Watson in the Radiochemical Targeting and Imaging group at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research. After a radiochemistry post-doc in Steve Mather's laboratory at St Bartholomew's hospital, she joined Nature Protocols in February 2006. Contact Bronwen at b.dekker@nature.com.
Editorial Assistant: Samantha Bateman
Samantha joined Nature Protocols in June 2008. Contact Samantha at protocols@nature.com.
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