期刊名称：JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
From 2012 Journal of Biological Dynamics will be Open Access . All articles published in the Journal will be permanently open to access online immediately upon publication, enabling anyone to read, download and share that research. In addition, all articles in the archive (volumes 1-5) will be Open Access. This is part of a wider Taylor & Francis Open Access initiative for 2012, Taylor & Francis Open . For more information, see the Journal's Instructions for Authors.
Journal of Biological Dynamics publishes state of the art papers dealing with the analysis of dynamic models that arise from biological processes. The Journal focuses on dynamic phenomena at scales ranging from the level of individual organisms to that of populations, communities, and ecosystems in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology, population dynamics, epidemiology, immunology, neuroscience, environmental science, and animal behavior. Papers in other areas are acceptable at the editors’ discretion. In addition to papers that analyze original mathematical models and develop new theories and analytic methods, the Journal welcomes papers that connect mathematical modeling and analysis to experimental and observational data. The Journal also publishes short notes, expository and review articles, book reviews and a section on open problems.
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Peer Review Policy
All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.
Article Processing Charges
Each article published in Journal of Biological Dynamics is published Open Access , which means that, upon payment of
an article publishing charge (APC) , the article is freely available in perpetuity on Taylor & Francis Group's online platform http://www.tandfonline.com . There is no additional subscription fee, article pay-to-view fee or any other form of access fee; and no publication embargo is applied.
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For further details, please review the APC information provided for Journal of Biological Dynamics at the top of the page.
For 2013, this fee is set at an introductory rate of US $995/£622/€829. The fee is paid via an e-commerce transaction and invoicing will take place after acceptance of the article following peer review. Payment can be made via credit card, or an invoice can be requested. Further processing of the article will be deferred pending payment.
It is likely that your research funder, sponsor, or host institution has funding available for open access publication fees.
Can the publication fee be discounted or waivered?
Journal of Biological Dynamics provides fee waivers and discounts to support researchers in developing and emerging regions. Authors are eligble to apply for a waiver if the corresponding author and majority of co-authors are based in countries as specified by the Research4Life partnership http://www.research4life.org/institutions.html . Other waivers will be granted on a case-by-case basis depending on the authors' circumstances. Authors should request a waiver during the submission process.
To reflect the transfer from subscription based-journal to Open Access, articles originally submitted before February 2012 but accepted after this date, will not be subject to the publishing fee.
For more information on payment of the Article Publishing Fee, including circumstances under which a refund can be offered, please see here .
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Instructions to Authors
Journal of Biological Dynamics considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that
- the manuscript is your own original work, and does not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work.
- the manuscript has been submitted only to Journal of Biological Dynamics ; it is not under consideration or peer review or accepted for publication or in press or published elsewhere.
- the manuscript contains nothing that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, or illegal.
Please note that Journal of Biological Dynamics uses CrossCheck™ software to screen manuscripts for unoriginal material. By submitting your manuscript to Journal of Biological Dynamics you are agreeing to any necessary originality checks your manuscript may have to undergo during the peer-review and production processes.
Any author who fails to adhere to the above conditions will be charged with costs which Journal of Biological Dynamics incurs for their manuscript at the discretion of Journal of Biological Dynamics ’s Editors and Taylor & Francis, and their manuscript will be rejected.
Journal of Biological Dynamics is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single blind and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts .
This journal is compliant with the Research Councils UK OA policy. Please see the licence options and embargo periods here .
Open access
Each article published in Journal of Biological Dynamics is published Open Access , which means that, upon payment of an article publishing charge (APC) , the article is freely and permanently available on Taylor & Francis Group's online platform http://www.tandfonline.com . There is no additional subscription fee, article pay-to-view fee or any other form of access fee; and no publication embargo is applied.
NIH funded authors
Taylor & Francis will deposit all open-access articles published in Taylor & Francis Open journals immediately in .pdf and .xml formats; no embargo on public access is applied. This ensures compliance with the NIH “Public Access Policy” which mandates NIH-funded authors to submit to PMC, or have submitted on their behalf, at the point of acceptance, their peer-reviewed accepted author manuscript. arXiv.org
We encourage authors to display their first draft (pre-print) of manuscripts on http://arxiv.org . We ask that the entry is updated, if your paper is accepted, with a reference to the final published version in the Journal. Submissions can be made at http://arxiv.org/help/submit .
Manuscript preparation
1. General guidelines
- Manuscripts are accepted in English. UK English spelling is preferred. Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’. Long quotations of 40 words or more should be indented without quotation marks.
- Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
- Abstracts of 150 words are required for all manuscripts submitted.
- Each manuscript should have 2 to 5 keywords . Authors are encouraged to provide 2-6 AMS 2010 Subject Classification codes .
- Search engine optimization (SEO) is a means of making your article more visible to anyone who might be looking for it. Please consult our guidance here .
- Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
- All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal style) and the online article.
- All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.
- Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
- Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as an Acknowledgement on the title page of the manuscript, in a separate paragraph, as follows:
- For single agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx]."
- For multiple agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency 1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency 2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency 3] under Grant [number xxxx]."
- Authors must also incorporate a Disclosure Statement which will acknowledge any financial interest or benefit they have arising from the direct applications of their research.
- For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms must not be used.
- Authors must adhere to SI units . Units are not italicised.
- When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.
- Authors must not embed equations or image files within their manuscript.
2. Style guidelines
- Please provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
- Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the manuscript file.
- Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
- All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the manuscript (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
- Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the manuscript, and numbered correspondingly.
- The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.
4. Publication charges
Article publishing charge (APC)
Each article published in Journal of Biological Dynamics is published Open Access , which means that, upon payment of an article publishing charge (APC), the article is freely available in perpetuity on Taylor & Francis Group's online platform http://www.tandfonline.com . There is no additional subscription fee, article pay-to-view fee or any other form of access fee; and no publication embargo is applied. The publication fee for Journal of Biological Dynamics is $995 for 2014.
The APC should be paid after acceptance of the article following peer review; corresponding authors should acknowledge who has funded their research when submitting their manuscript. They should also indicate the payee(s) of the APC, including to whom invoices should be directed.
Waivers and discounts on the APC are available to support researchers in developing and emerging regions unable to pay this charge. Please consult our author guidance here for more information.Authors are eligble to apply for a waiver if the corresponding author and majority of co-authors are based in countries as specified by the Research4Life partnership http://www.research4life.org/institutions.html . Other waivers will be granted on a case-by-case basis depending on the authors' circumstances. Authors should request a waiver during the submission process.
Submission fee
There is no submission fee for Journal of Biological Dynamics .
Page charges
There are no page charges for Journal of Biological Dynamics .
Colour charges
In consideration of the APC, colour figures will be reproduced in colour in the online edition of the Journal free of charge.
5. Reproduction of copyright material
If you wish to include any material in your manuscript in which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, prior to submission. Such material may be in the form of text, data, table, illustration, photograph, line drawing, audio clip, video clip, film still, and screenshot, and any supplemental material you propose to include. This applies to direct (verbatim or facsimile) reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).
You must ensure appropriate acknowledgement is given to the permission granted to you for reuse by the copyright holder in each figure or table caption. You are solely responsible for any fees which the copyright holder may charge for reuse.
The reproduction of short extracts of text, excluding poetry and song lyrics, for the purposes of criticism may be possible without formal permission on the basis that the quotation is reproduced accurately and full attribution is given.
This journal offers authors the opportunity to license their work under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence which permits others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. Please ensure that the rights holder of any third party copyright materials included in your paper has either granted you permission to publish their material under the appropriate licence terms, or has granted you permission to use their material with the appropriate copyright notice.
For further information and FAQs on the reproduction of copyright material, please consult our Guide .
6. Supplemental online material
Authors are encouraged to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication.
Manuscript submission
All submissions should be made online at the Journal of Biological Dynamics Scholar One Manuscripts website. New users should first create an account. Once logged on to the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Online user guides and access to a helpdesk are available on this website.
Manuscripts may be submitted in any standard editable format, including Word and EndNote. These files will be automatically converted into a PDF file for the review process. LaTeX files should be converted to PDF prior to submission because ScholarOne Manuscripts is not able to convert LaTeX files into PDFs directly. All LaTeX source files should be uploaded alongside the PDF.
If you have any queries regarding your submission, you can contact the Editorial Office at the address below:
Journal of Biological Dynamics , Taylor & Francis, 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4RN; Email: j bd@tandf.co.uk .
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Copyright and authors' rights
All contributing authors are asked to grant Taylor & Francis the right to publish her or his article as the final, definitive, and citable Version of Scholarly Record. . Authors are required to sign an Open Access Article Publishing Agreement to facilitate this. Articles published in the Journal of Biological Dynamics are published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence which permits others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. Authors do however have the choice of opting for the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial Licence should they so choose. Reuse conditions will be subject to the license type chosen by the author. Copyright policy is explained in detail here .
Free article access
As an author, you will receive free access to your article on Taylor & Francis Online. You will be given access to the My authored works section of Taylor & Francis Online, which shows you all your published articles. You can easily view, read, and download your published articles from there. In addition, if someone has cited your article, you will be able to see this information. We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article and have provided guidance on how you can help . Also within My authored works , author eprints allow you as an author to quickly and easily give anyone free access to the electronic version of your article so that your friends and contacts can read and download your published article for free. This applies to all authors (not just the corresponding author).
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Open Access
Taylor & Francis Open Select provides authors or their research sponsors and funders with the option of paying a publishing fee and thereby making an article permanently available for free online access – open access – immediately on publication to anyone, anywhere, at any time. This option is made available once an article has been accepted in peer review.
Full details of our Open Access programme
Last updated 19/03/2014
Editorial Board
Editors in Chief:
J. M. Cushing - Department of Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona, 617 N. Santa Rita, Tucson AZ 85721-0089, USA .
Saber N. Elaydi - Department of Mathematics, Trinity University, One Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX 78212-7200, USA .
Advisory Board:
Roy M. Anderson FRS, FMedSci - Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK
Simon A. Levin - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA
Book Review Editor:
Christian T. K.-H Stadtländer - St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Editorial Board:
Linda J. S. Allen - Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Texas Tech University, USA
Fred Brauer - Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia, Canada
Rafael Bravo de la Parra - Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Chris Cosner - Department of Mathematics, University of Miami, USA Brian Dennis - Fish and Wildlife Resources, University of Idaho, USA
Jozsef Z. Farkas - Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, UK Karin Frank - Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany
Bruce Graham - School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling
Mats Gyllenberg - Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Finland
Shandelle Henson - Department of Mathematics, Andrews University, USA
Frank Hilker - Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, UK
Peter Hinow - Department Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Ying-Hen Hsieh - Department of Public Health, China Medical University, Taiwan
Tanya Kostova - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA
Roland Lamberson - Department of Mathematics, Humboldt State University, USA
Michel Langlais - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University Victor Ségalen - Bordeaux 2, France
Mark Lewis - Department of Mathematical and Statistical Science / Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada
Jia Li - Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
Frithjof Lutscher - Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, Canada
Maia Martcheva - Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, USA
Alan Perelson - Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA
Andrea Pugliese - Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Trento, Italy
Sebastian Schreiber - Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California at Davis, USA
Timothy Secomb - Department of Mathematics / Department of Physiology, The University of Arizona, USA
Yasuhiro Takeuchi - Department of Systems Engineering, Shizuoka University, Japan
James Watmough - Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Gail SK Wolkowicz - Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Canada
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu - Department of Mathematics, Howard University, USA
Ma Zhien - Department of Mathematics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, PR China
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