期刊名称：MICROBIOLOGYOPEN
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
MicrobiologyOpen
All articles accepted from 14 August 2012 are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. All articles accepted before this date, were published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License.
Edited by Pierre Cornelis, Microbial Interactions, VIB Department of Structural Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Online ISSN: 2045-8827
Society Information
Society partners and discounts
MicrobiologyOpen is supported by other journals published by Wiley-Blackwell, including a number of society-owned journals.
The Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM) has journals that participate in the Manuscript Transfer Program by referring articles of suitable quality and recommending that authors transfer their article and peer-review reports automatically to MicrobiologyOpen.
Authors who are individual members of SfAM are eligible for the noted discount when they submit directly to MicrobiologyOpen. To qualify for the society member discount the corresponding author must be a member in good standing and must obtain further discount information through the relevant society website.
MicrobiologyOpen - List of Supporting Societies and Discounts
Overview
Aims and Scope
MicrobiologyOpen is a peer reviewed journal delivering rapid decisions and fast publication of microbial science, a field which is undergoing a profound and exciting evolution in this post-genomic era. The journal gives priority to reports of quality research, pure or applied, that further our understanding of microbial interactions and microbial processes. MicrobiologyOpen gives prompt and equal consideration to papers reporting theoretical, experimental, applied and descriptive work in all aspects of microbiology.
The journal aims to serve the research community by providing a vehicle for authors wishing to publish interesting and high quality work in both fundamental and applied microbiology. MicrobiologyOpen will consider submissions across eukaryotic microorganisms, prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea) and viruses infecting or interacting with microorganisms, including genetic, biochemical, biophysical, bioinformatic and structural analyses.
The journal features original research articles, reviews and editorials. Original research papers must report well-conducted research with conclusions supported by the data presented in the paper.
MicrobiologyOpen publishes papers submitted directly to the journal and those referred from a select group of prestigious journals published by Wiley-Blackwell. List available here.
MicrobiologyOpen is a Wiley Open Access journal, one of a new series of peer-reviewed titles publishing quality research with speed and efficiency. For further information visit the Wiley Open Access website.
Open Access and Copyright
All articles published by MicrobiologyOpen are fully open access: immediately freely available to read, download and share. All MicrobiologyOpen articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright on any research article in a journal published by MicrobiologyOpen is retained by the author(s). Authors grant Wiley a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified. Further information about open access license and copyright can be found here.
Peer Review Policy
MicrobiologyOpen maintains the highest standards of peer review while increasing the efficiency of the process. All research articles published in the journal will undergo full peer review, key characteristics of which are:
Referred Papers
In addition to papers submitted directly to the journal, MicrobiologyOpen will also consider papers referred from other Wiley-Blackwell journals that are participating in the Manuscript Transfer Program.
Abstracting and Indexing Information
MicrobiologyOpen will deposit all articles into PubMed Central upon publication of an online issue. Once your article is deposited in PubMed Central, they will make it searchable on PubMed as soon as possible. The journal will be pursuing application for other appropriate abstract and indexing services to ensure wide visibility of articles published in MicrobiologyOpen.
Abstracting and Indexing Information
- Abstracts on Hygiene & Communicable Diseases (CABI)
- Biological Abstracts (Thomson Reuters)
- BIOSIS Previews (Thomson Reuters)
- CAB Abstracts® (CABI)
- CAS: Chemical Abstracts Service (ACS)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- Embase (Elsevier)
- Global Health (CABI)
- MEDLINE/PubMed (NLM)
- Science Citation Index Expanded (Thomson Reuters)
- SCOPUS (Elsevier)
- Tropical Diseases Bulletin (CABI)
- Veterinary Bulletin (CABI)
- VINITI (All-Russian Institute of Science & Technological Information)
- Web of Science (Thomson Reuters)
Instructions to Authors
Author Guidelines
MicrobiologyOpen – steps to publication
1. Submit or confirm your submission at http:mc.manuscriptcentral.com/microbiologyopen.
2. We will send you an email confirmation of your submission details.
3. After review and acceptance, you will be prompted to sign the Open Access Agreement form. Payment of the article publication charge will be required. You can then track the progress of your article through Wiley Author Services.
4. You will receive notification that your proof is ready for review, and be able to make corrections to your article.
5. Your article will publish on Wiley Online Library. If you have previously signed up for alerts through Wiley’s Author Services, you will be sent an email when your article is published online.
PUBLICATION FORMS
You will be prompted to sign the Open Access Agreement electronically after manuscript review and acceptance. We have introduced a convenient new process for signing your Open Access Agreement electronically (eOAA) that will save you considerable time and effort. The author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper. You may preview the copyright terms and conditions here.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Pierre Cornelis
pierre.cornelis@microbiologyopen.com
Address correspondence to the Editorial Office:
oa-microbiology@wiley.com
SUBMISSION
The Journal requires that authors submit electronically via the online submission site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/microbiologyopen
MANUSCRIPT TYPES
Original articles
Review articles
Commentaries
Editorials
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
Manuscripts must be submitted in grammatically correct English. Manuscripts that do not meet this standard cannot be reviewed. Authors for whom English is a second language may wish to consult an English-speaking colleague or consider having their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English. A list of independent suppliers of editing services can be found at http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/english_language.asp. All services are paid for and arranged by the author, and use of one of these services does not guarantee acceptance or preference for publication. A manuscript is considered for review and possible publication on the condition that it is submitted solely to MicrobiologyOpen, and that the manuscript or a substantial portion of it is not under consideration elsewhere.
Dual Use Research
MicrobiologyOpen expects that all authors will conform to the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) guidelines for Dual Use Life Sciences Research (http://oba.od.nih.gov/biosecurity/). For further information, and a description of ‘dual use research of concern’, please refer to the June 2007 NSABB report (http://oba.od.nih.gov/biosecurity/pdf/Framework for transmittal 0807_Sept07.pdf). If any of the reported studies may fall in any of these categories, the Editor-in-Chief must be informed at the time of manuscript submission.
Distribution of Strains and Materials
The publication of an article in MicrobiologyOpen is subject to the understanding that authors will distribute freely any strains, clones or antibodies described therein for use in academic research. Authors might wish to make their plasmid constructs available free of charge through Addgene (www.addgene.org).
Informed Consent
MicrobiologyOpen requires that all appropriate steps be taken in obtaining informed consent of any and all human and/or experimental animal subjects participating in the research comprising the manuscript submitted for review and possible publication. A statement indicating that the protocol and procedures employed were reviewed and approved by the appropriate institutional review committee must be included in the Methods section of the manuscript. For research involving recombinant DNA, containment facilities and guidelines should conform to those of the National Institutes of Health or corresponding institutions. For those investigators who do not have formal ethics review committees, the principles outlined in the Helsinki Declaration should be followed.
Disclosure Statement
MicrobiologyOpen requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise, that might be perceived as influencing an author’s objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to, patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker’s fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication in this journal.
If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission.
It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to list on the cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief, in the manuscript (under the Acknowledgements section), and in the online submission system ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.
Manuscript Preparation
We place very few restrictions on the way in which you prepare your article, and it is not necessary to try to replicate the layout of the journal in your submission. We ask only that you consider your reviewers by supplying your manuscript in a clear, generic and readable layout, and ensure that all relevant sections are included. Our production process will take care of all aspects of formatting and style. The list below can be used as a checklist to ensure that the manuscript has all the information necessary for successful publication.
Title page, including title, authors’ names, authors’ affiliations, and contact details (especially email address) for the person to whom the proof notification is to be sent.
Abstract and 4–6 keywords
Text (introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion)
Literature cited (see below for tips on references)
Tables (may be sent as a separate file if necessary)
Figure legends
Acknowledgements, including details of funding bodies with grant numbers
Genetic Nomenclature
Standard genetic nomenclature should be used. For further information, including relevant websites, authors should refer to the Genetic Nomenclature Guide in Trends in Genetics (Elsevier Science Ltd, 1995). For other detailed information, authors should consult Bachman (Microbiol Rev 47: 180–230, 1983) for E. coli K-12, Sanderson and Roth (Microbiol Rev 47: 310–453, 1983) for Salmonella typhimurium; ,Holloway et al. (Microbiol Rev 43: 73–102, 1979) for Bacillus subtilis; Perkins et al. (Microbiol Rev 46: 426–570, 1982) for Neurospora crassa; and the Handbook of Genetics Vol. 1 (R. C. King, ed., Plenum Press, 1974) for Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nomenclature for DNA restriction and modification enzymes and their genes should follow Roberts et al. (Nucleic Acids Res 31: 1805-1812, 2003).
References
As with the main body of text, the completeness and content of your reference list is more important than the format chosen. A clear and consistent, generic style will assist the accuracy of our production processes and produce the highest quality published work, but it is not necessary to try to replicate the journal’s own style, which is applied during the production process. If you use bibliographic software to generate your reference list, select a standard output style, and check that it produces full and comprehensive reference listings. A guide to the minimum elements required for successful reference linking appears below. The final journal output will use the ‘Harvard’ style of reference citation. If your manuscript has already been prepared using the ‘Vancouver’ system, we are quite happy to receive it in this form. We will perform the conversion from one system to the other during the production process.
Minimum Reference Information
Journal Article
Author(s) in full
Year of publication
Article title
Journal title (preferably not abbreviated)
Volume number
Issue number
Page range
Book
Author(s) in full
Year of publication
Book title
Place of publication
Publisher
No. Pages
Book Chapter
Author(s) in full
Year of publication
Chapter title
Book Author/Editor
Book title
Place of publication
Publisher
Page range
Online Resources
References to online research articles should always include a DOI, where available. When referring to other Web pages, it is useful to include a date on which the resource was accessed.
Tables
All tables must be cited in the text in the order that they should appear.
Figures
All figures must be cited in the text in the order that they should appear. Illustrations are an important medium through which to convey the meaning in your article, and there is no substitute for preparing these to the highest possible standard. Therefore, please create your illustrations carefully with reference to our graphics guidelines (see http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/illustration.asp). It is very difficult to improve an image that has been saved or created in an inappropriate format. We realize that not everyone has access to high-end graphics software, so the following information may help if you are having difficulty in deciding how to get the best out of the tools at your disposal.
1. Check your software options to see if you can ‘save as’ or ‘export’ using one of the robust, industry-standard formats. These are:· Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)
· Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
· Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
· Portable Document Format (PDF)
2. As a general rule of thumb, images that contain text and line art (graphs, charts, maps, etc.) will reproduce best if saved as EPS or PDF. If you choose this option, it is important to remember to embed fonts. This ensures that any text reproduces exactly as you intend.
3. Images that contain photographic information are best saved as TIFF or PNG, as this ensures that all data are included in the file. JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) should be avoided if possible, as information is lost during compression; however, it is acceptable for purely photographic subjects if the image was generated as a JPEG from the outset (many digital cameras, for example, output only in JPEG format).
4. If you are not sure which format would be the best option, it is always best to default to EPS or PDF as these are more likely to preserve the high-quality characteristics of the original.
5. Microsoft Office. If you have generated your images in Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), or similar, it is often best simply to send us the files in their native file formats.
6. Please ensure all images are a minimum of 600 dpi.
Metric System
The metric system should be used for all measurements, weights, etc. Temperatures should be expressed in degrees Celsius (centigrade).
Supporting Information and Data Deposition
Supporting Information can be a useful way for an author to include important but ancillary information with the online version of an article. Examples of Supporting Information include additional tables, data sets, figures, movie files, audio clips, 3D structures, and other related nonessential multimedia files. Supporting Information should be cited within the article text, and a descriptive legend should be included. It is published as supplied by the author, and a proof is not made available prior to publication; for these reasons, authors should provide any Supporting Information in the desired final format.
For further information on recommended file types and requirements for submission, please visit: http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/suppinfo.asp.
It is the policy of MicrobiologyOpen that sequence data must be deposited in the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ Nucleotide Sequence Data Libraries, the accession number cross-referenced in the published manuscript, and the data made fully available at the time of publication. It is only necessary to submit to one database. The suggested wording for referring to accession-number information is: ‘These sequence data have been submitted to the DDBJ/eMBL/ GenBank databases under accession number U12345’. Details of data submission can be found at: DDBJ/DNA Data Bank of Japan: http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp. EMBL: www.ebi.ac.uk GenBank: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
Microarray datasets should be presented in compliance with current practices (see, for example, (MGeD Society at http://www.mged.org/) and deposited in an accredited data base such as Array express (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray-as/ae/) or GEO (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/). The corresponding reference to the database entry should be included in the text.
Search Engine Optimization for Your Paper
Please consult our SEO Tips for Authors page in order to maximize online discoverability for your published research. Included are tips for making your title and abstract SEO-friendly, choosing appropriate keywords, and promoting your research through social media.
Cover Images
MicrobiologyOpen encourages you to propose one of the figures in your paper as a possible online journal cover, and for potential publication on the official blog of Wiley Open Access: http://wileyopenaccess.wordpress.com
CrossCheck
CrossCheck is a multi-publisher initiative to screen published and submitted content using iThenticate. To find out more about CrossCheck visit http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck.html. By submitting your manuscript to MicrobiologyOpen you accept that your manuscript may be screened, using the iThenticate tool, for textual similarity to other previously published works.
Proofs
Soon after acceptance, you will receive an email containing your PDF proof. Once you have submitted your corrections, the production office will finalize the layout of your article for publication.
Reprints
As this is an open access journal, you have free, unlimited access to your article online. However, if you wish to obtain printed reprints, these may be ordered online: http://offprint.cosprinters.com (email: offprint@cosprinters.com).
Production Questions
Please direct any questions regarding the production of your article to the Production Editor at MBO@wiley.com.
Editorial Board
Edited by Pierre Cornelis, Microbial Interactions, VIB Department of Structural Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Associate Editors
Sonja-Verena Albers, Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
Eric Cascalès, Université Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France
Jennifer Cavet, University of Manchester, UK
Victor J. Cid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Jonathan Shaw, University of Sheffield, UK
Mark S. Thomas, University of Sheffield, UK
Editorial Board
Simon C. Andrews, University of Reading, UK
Scott Beatson, University of Queensland, Australia
Wilbert Bitter, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jesús Blazquez, CSIC, Spain
Daniel Charlier, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Eric Dézièl, INRS-Laval, Canada
Steve Diggle, University of Nottingham, UK
Friedrich Götz, University of Tübingen, Germany
Emmanuel Lesuisse, Institut Jacques Monod, France
Roland Lloubès, Université Aix-Marseille, France
Jose L. Martinez, CSIC, Spain
Skorn Mongkolsuk, Mahidol University, Thailand
Cheryl A. Nickerson, Arizona State University, USA
Julian Parkhill, The Sanger Institute, UK
Mathieu Picardeau, Institut Pasteur, France
Wim J. Quax, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Jacques Ravel, University of Maryland, USA
Edson Rocha, East Carolina University, USA
Fernando Rojo, CSIC, Spain
Lígia Saraiva, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, UNL, Portugal
Isabelle Schalk, ESBS, France
Konstantin Severinov, Rutgers University, USA
Stephen Spiro, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Alain Stintzi, University of Ottawa, Canada
Miguel A. Valvano, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Laurence Van Melderen, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Cynthia Whitchurch, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Liping Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
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