期刊名称：MICROBIOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
SCOPE
The journal Microbiology (Mikrobiologiya), founded in 1932, covers a wide range of problems in the areas of fundamental and applied microbiology. The journal publishes experimental and theoretical papers, reviews on modern trends in different fields of microbiological science, and short communications with descriptions of unusual observations. Attention is devoted to events in Russian and international science; reviews of new books are published. This journal is intended primarily for specialists at research institutes. It can also be a valuable source of essential information for university research departments; industrial, agricultural, and environmental-control laboratories; and, to a certain extent, medical departments.
Microbiology is abstracted and/or indexed in:
Abstracts in Anthropology, Academic Search, AGRICOLA, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Biotechnology Citation Index, CAB Abstracts, CAB International, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Chinese Science Citation Database, CSA/Proquest, Current Abstracts, Current Contents/ Life Sciences, EMBiology, Environment Index, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, Global Health, Google Scholar, Highbeam, IBIDS, INIS Atomindex, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, OCLC, Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), SCOPUS, Summon by Serial Solutions, TOC Premier.
Instructions to Authors
INTRODUCTION
The international journal Mikrobiologiya is published concurrently in Russian and in English ( Microbiology, Moscow) and is distributed both in print and electronic form. Manuscripts originally submitted in Russian for publication in the Russian version will also be translated and published in the English version. In order to preclude breach of copyright, the authors are requested to properly fill in and sign an agreement (samples can be downloaded from http://www.naukaran.ru/dogovor.shtml) by which copyright to the submitted material (article) is transferred to the Publisher upon accepting the material for publication and deemed void in case the manuscript is rejected or not accepted by the Editorial Board. Authors of papers written in fulfillment of their duty under a contract should obtain a clearance from the employer and attach it to the copyright transfer agreement. These documents (one copy for the Russian and two for the English version) are submitted to the Editorial Board along with the manuscript.
AIMS AND SCOPE
Microbiology publishes papers describing experimental work relating to all fundamental issues of microbiology. Submitted manuscripts should present new results of original research or describe new theoretical or methodological approaches to microbiological problems. Papers concerned predominantly with medical, veterinary, or phytopathological issues will not be considered. Published in the “Short Communications” section are only original experimental papers of priority nature, requiring fast publication, no longer than five typewritten pages including figures, tables, and the list of references. Experimental data appearing in “Short Communications” will not be republished in the journal.
Microbiology publishes reviews and theoretical papers devoted to topical problems in microbiology written at the request of the Editorial Board or prepared by authors on their own and approved by the Editorial Board. Also published are reviews of scientific books, reference books, textbooks, and handbooks that have come out in Russia or elsewhere. In the “Chronicle” section, information on the work of microbiological institutions, anniversaries, scientific meetings, conferences, etc., is published.
In order for the manuscript to be considered by the Editorial Board, the guidelines below should be strictly followed.
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS FOR REVIEW
The Editorial Board considers manuscripts submitted in print (accompanied by their digital version on electronic media) and in digital form (from overseas authors only) as attachments to e-mails sent to the Editorial Board at redakcia@newmail.ru.
All submitted material—the main text, figures and tables (each on a separate sheet), figure legends, the list of references, and an abstract—should be presented in two copies. Information about all the authors, including their full names and mailing addresses, telephone numbers (office and home), fax numbers, and e-mails, as well as the name of the corresponding author should be presented on a separate page. The manuscript must be signed by all the authors. The first page of one copy of the manuscript should be free of any signatures, inscriptions of authorization or endorsement.
All pages should be numbered in sequence, including the main text, tables, and references. No two pages can have the same number (e.g., 2a, 2b, etc.).
A digital version of the manuscript can be provided on a 3.5'' diskette or a CD disk. The text part of the manuscript along with an abstract, a list of references, legends to figures, and tables should be included in a single file, while each figure should come in a separate file.
The submission should be accompanied by a letter from the institution where the work was carried out stating that the same work has neither been submitted to nor published in another journal. For authors that are citizens of the Russian Federation, the letter should state that the given paper has no security limitations and was prepared as part of their regular work at the institution where they are employed. This letter should be accompanied by one copy of a security clearance issued by a commission of experts as required under regulations effective in the Russian Federation.
Manuscripts submitted for publication should be carefully edited by the authors. Information on the methods used and experimental results obtained should be given in a concise and clear form. The title should be short (no subtitles allowed) and accurately reflect the contents of the manuscript. Serial papers of the type “Report 1,” “Report 2,” etc., will not be considered for publication.
There can be three-level headings. Headings of level I are formatted as a separate paragraph and typed in caps, e.g.,
Heading of level II come in a separate paragraph and are typed in italics in lower-case letters:
Oxidase Washout from Lichen Thallus
Heading of level III are composed as part of paragraph and typed in bold, e.g., Amplification and sequencing of 16s rRNA genes and RBPC.
The title of the manuscript should be formatted as follows:
EXPERIMENTAL PAPERS
UDK 541.123:546.21'831'832
USING IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION TO TRACE CYANOBACTERIAL CELLS
N. L. Bel’kovaa,1 (Footnote 1: Corresponding author; e-mail: belkova@lin.irk.ru), C. M. Chungb, and T. S. Ahnc
aLimnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk
bNational Institute for Environmental Studies, Seoul, South Korea
cKangwong National University, Chunchon, South Korea
Received
[followed by Abstract and keywords]
The manuscript must include the following sections:
Abstract (without title and indentation) typed on a separate page (250 words at most) and a list of keywords (up to 10, typed in lower-case. For example: Keywords: alkalophiles, sulfidogenegis, anaerobic degradation of cellulose);
an Introduction (without title), outlining research background and, in a separate paragraph, briefly stating the goal of the work;
the MATERIALS AND METHOD section, presenting information on the object of the study and describing new procedures employed. This description should concise but still allow their reproduction (references are given to well-known methods and methods published elsewhere);
the RESULTS AND DISCUSSION section;
the REFERENCES section (up to 30 publications), naming all the authors and giving full titles of all the papers cited.
Figure captions, indicating numbers of the corresponding figures are printed on a separate page. The overall length of the manuscript, including tables, figures, and references, should not exceed 20 pages. Reviews are limited to 30 pages (including references).
All parts of the manuscript, including the list of references and figure captions, should be printed (29 – 30 lines on a page, Times New Roman font, 14 pt.) on one side of standard A4 paper, allowing a 3- to 4-cm margin on the left side of the page. Acknowledgements are given at the end of the paper on the last page.
The initials and the surname are always separated by a space. The initials are separated by spaces only in the list of authors appearing on the title page.
No period is placed after the name of the rubric, the “UDK,” the title, the list of authors, addresses, headings and subheadings, table titles, or dimension abbreviations (s, second; h, hour; min, minute; and g, gram).
Use a period after footnotes (including those in tables), table notes, figure captions, abstract, keywords, and the following abbreviations: ca., circa; e.g., for example; Eq(s)., equation(s); Fig(s)., figure(s); i.d., inner diameter; o.d., outer diameter; sh., sheet; st., stock, street; and vs., versus. The period is never used in subscripts.
Use × rather than x as a symbol of multiplication sign, e.g., 5 × 10 mol/l. The symbol · can be used only in dot products ( a · b ) and chemical formulas (CuSO4 · 2H2O). English subscripts are not italicized whenever they represent abbreviations of words ( Hmin, Tmax) and italicized otherwise ( Cp).
Greek symbols are not italicized except when the entire paragraph is set in italics.
Use a period, not a comma, for decimals: 5.25, correct; 5,25, incorrect.
Do not leave a space between the numeric value and signs of percent, pro mil, and degrees (temperature), e.g., 15%, 25‰, and 60°C, leave a space in the case of any other unit of measure. Fractional units can be represented both by using negative powers (12 μg l-1 day-1) and parentheses (562.2 μg/(m2day)), but the style chosen for the given unit should be used consistently throughout the paper.
A range of positive temperatures is designated as 20–45°C, but write from –18 to –4°C for a range of negative temperatures.
Each table and figure should be referred to in the text. Every table and its columns should come with headings that are concise but without abbreviations.
The number of figures (submitted in two copies) should be kept to a minimum. They should be computer- printed in black and white and carry a minimum number of internal legends (these should preferably be replaced by numbers or single-letter labels explained in the figure caption; a caption should not be printed next to the figure). Indicate the recommended place for each figure in the margins and make a reference to it in the text. The use of photographs is discouraged unless absolutely necessary. In this case, provide copies of photographs in sufficient contrast, in black tone, and on glossy paper. Do not forget to indicate scale bars on micrographs. Only one copy of each photograph should carry inscriptions. Write in pencil on the back of each figure the name of the author, the title of the manuscript, the figure number, and the name of the journal (i.e., Microbiology).
A digital version of the manuscript on electronic media (CD disks or diskettes) should be formatted in the normal style using fixed interline an intersymbol spaces and not using templates. Authors should be aware that automatic numbering in lists (e.g., in the References section) is lost when the text is loaded in the typesetting program.
Articles are expected to report the authors' own results, so only references to the most important works should be given. Neither the text nor footnotes should contain the titles of works cited. In the References section, the papers cited should come in the order they were mentioned in the text and be numbered consecutively. In the text, papers are referred to by giving their numbers in brackets (e.g., [1]).
In the References section, book references should appear as follows: surnames and initials of all the authors, title of book [italicized], city, publisher, year of publication, volume and edition [if applicable]. References to articles in journals should be formatted as follows: surnames and initials of all the authors, full title of the paper, abbreviated title of the journal, year of publication, volume number, issue number, and page numbers. Items for references to articles or chapters in books or collections of articles should appear in the following order: surnames and initials of all the authors, full title of the article, full title of book (italicized), full list of editors, city, publisher, year of publication, volume and chapter [if applicable], page number(s). Examples of references to different types of publications are given below.
Papers in journals:
Imhoff, J.F. and Thiemann, B., Influence of Salt Concentration and Temperature on the Fatty Acid Composition of Ectothiorhodospira and Other Halophilic Phototrophic Purple Bacteria, Arch. Microbiol, 1991, vol. 156, pp. 370–375.
Articles in a collection of articles:
Huber, H. and Stetter, K.O., Genus I. Sulfolobus, Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., Boone, D.K. and Castenholz, R.W., Eds., New York: Springer, 2001, vol. 1, part B, pp. 198–200.
Books:
Brock, T.D., Thermophilic Microorganisms and Life at High Temperatures, Berlin: Springer, 1978.
Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., Boone, D.K and Castenholz, R.W., Eds., New York: Springer, 2001, vol. 1.
Patents and inventor’s certificates:
Norman, I.O., US Patent 4 379 752, 1983.
Ivanov, S.A., USSR Inventor’s Certificate no. 127, Byull. Izobret., 1983, no. 9, p. 195.
Reference to an “in press” paper implies that the paper was accepted for publication in the journal indicated. Every paper cited in the text must be included in the References section.
Use only generally accepted and contemporary abbreviations of units of measure, terms, and physical, chemical, and mathematical quantities (see author guidelines published in Biochemistry). All quantities should be expressed in units of the Systeme International d’Unites (SI); temperature should be given in degrees Celsius. Names of enzymes should follow the official nomenclature. This also applies to designations of mutant and recombinant forms of microorganisms. Three-letter designations of genes are always set in italic; use lower-case letters to denote genes of bacteria and mutant genes of yeasts, and upper-case letters for dominant genes of yeasts.
Manuscripts failing to comply with these guidelines will be returned to the authors for correction without being considered for publication. Manuscripts sent back to the authors for revision on the advice of the referees should be returned to Microbiology within two months; otherwise, the actual date the revised manuscript is received at the editor’s office will be taken as the new “date received.” Manuscripts rejected on the opinion of the referees are not returned to the authors.
Minimal Requirements to Be Observed in Mentioning and/or Describing Microorganisms
- In any paper describing results of research dealing with particular strains of microorganisms, the first men tion of a microorganism both in the title and all sections of text (Abstract, Introduction, and Materials and Methods) should appear with the full Latin name of the genus; the Latin name of the species (where not available, use “sp.” as a standard abbreviation after the full genus name); and the full Latin name of the subspecies (variant, etc.). Latin names of genera, species and subspecies as well as names of higher order taxa (family, order, class, etc.) are italicized. Examples: Micrococcus luteus, Streptomyces sp., Mucor circinelloides var. mandshuricus.
In all cases, authors should adhere to the contemporary taxonomy and nomenclature of microorganisms.
- Upon subsequent mentions of microorganisms, the generic name can be abbreviated to the first (capital) letter or to any number of letters ensuring unambiguous taxon identification by the reader (e.g., a statement such as “an association of M. luteus and M. purpurogena” should be avoided; write instead “an association of Micrococcus luteus and Micromonospora purpurogena”); the name of the species, subspecies (variant), etc., should be given in full (starting with the lower case letter); when a specific epithet is not available and the “sp.” abbreviation is used, the generic name should not be abbreviated.
Examples: correct M. luteus, Streptomyces sp.; incorrect M. sp., Str. sp.
- In the Materials and Methods section, state the place where the strain is stored and who provided it to the author. This could be a collection or an institution (give their acronyms, if available) or a person (give a name). When an acronym is not available, the collection name is given in full. The designation of the strain (its number, symbol, etc.) should be exactly as used by the collection or the institution that provided this strain.
Examples: Micrococcus luteus ATCC 12352, Streptomyces sp. VKM Ac-273, Mucor circinelloides var. mandshuricus, strain A, obtained from I.I. Petrov, Department of Soil Biology, Moscow State University.
- When describing a new taxon, authors should be guided by internationally accepted rules for nomenclature of microorganisms, specifically, the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (for bacteria and archaea) and by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (fungi and algae).
When choosing and using bacterial and archaeal names, authors should refer to the continually updated Approved List of Bacterial Names (http://www.dsmz.de/bactnom/bactname.htm), and for the choice of fungal species names, authors are encouraged to refer to the most recent list of published species available from the Species fungorum database (www.speciesfungorum.org).
When previously published bacterial and archaeal names not included in Approved List of Bacterial Names are cited, these names should be enclosed in quotation marks.
- The type species should be indicated in descriptions of new genera of bacteria or archaea; this is also recommended for descriptions of new genera of other microorganisms. The type strain should be indicated in descriptions of new species of bacteria or archaea; this is also recommended for descriptions of new species of other microorganisms. The strain should be referred to by the author’s original designation and by the acronym and accession number assigned to it by the collection where it was deposited in for guaranteed storage and retrieval on request.
- When describing a new taxon of bacteria, a carefully edited description should be supplied in English, and for fungi (yeast), the description must be also in Latin.
Authors of new descriptions of bacterial and archaeal taxa published outside the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM) are advised to take timely steps towards validating the proposed names (their inclusion in the Approved List of Bacterial Names). To this end, a letter should be sent to IJSEM with two reprints of the original description. In addition to the proposed name, the letter should specify the author’s original acronym and number of the type strain and the numbers assigned to it by the collections where it can be obtained upon request.
The validation becomes effective upon the inclusion of the proposed name in the addendum to the Approved List of Bacterial Names published at regular intervals in IJSEM.
- Authors of new descriptions are encouraged to adhere to evolving “Minimal standards” recommended for description of particular microbial groups. These standards are developed and periodically revised by experts of taxonomic subcommittees on particular microbial groups under the International Committee on the Systematics of Prokaryotes. Upon adoption or revision, the standards are published in IJSEM. The Instructions for Authors of this journal (http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/misc/ifora.shtml) are a useful source of information for all authors of taxonomically-oriented manuscripts.
- Descriptions of new taxa, especially bacterial, archaeal, or viral, will normally include information upon characteristic primary sequences of nucleic acids and/or proteins. The authors of manuscripts submitted to Microbiology should note that timely on-line deposition and registration of sequence data in one of the public international databases are mandatory, and the accession number of the deposited sequence should be given in the text.
Preparing an Electronic Version of the Paper
The electronic version is provided by the author after the manuscript is accepted for publication and should include the revisions suggested by the referees. For communication convenience, the corresponding author is advised to give her or his e-mail address to the editorial office.
The electronic version of the paper should consist of a file with the text and file(s) with illustrations. If the illustrations are already embedded in the file together with the text, their copies are also to be provided in separate files.
Files with illustrations should be named such as to make clear both the manuscript they belong to and their number. Each file can contain only one illustration.
A separate file should be submitted with information essential for the publishers: the operation system, the text editor used, a list of all the other files, the name of the journal, the title of the paper, and the names and initials of the authors.
The electronic version should be scanned for viruses and supplied on a 3.5'' diskette or a CD disk. As an exception it can be sent to the editorial office by e-mail (redakcia@newmail.ru).
To upload your electronic version via FTP, first arrange to do this with the editorial office.
The Editorial Board is the sole authority entitled to accept or reject a manuscript. The decision of the Editorial Board is final.
According to this decision, a manuscript may be returned to the author(s) for revision, subject to further reviewing, or rejected on the basis of formal or scientific reasons. The Editorial Board does not enter into controversies with the author. The Editorial Board informs the author of its decision no later than 30 days after the decision was made. Returning a manuscript for revision does not imply it has been accepted. The revised version of the manuscript should be sent to the Editorial Board along with the initial version.
The manuscripts (and electronic media) are not returned to the author(s).
The galley proofs of the manuscript accepted for publication are e-mailed to the corresponding author to be checked for misprints and then sent back. No changes with respect to the original text are allowed. In exceptional cases, such changes could be admitted at the cost of author’s fee.
The authors are fully responsible for the scientific content of the article, the authenticity of the presented data, and nondisclosure of state secrets and classified proprietary information. After the paper is published, the authors are entitled to receive its English language version in an electronic form by sending a request to archop@mail.ru. The Russian language version of the paper in the pdf format is sent to the author’s e-mail address.
TO THE READERS
All rights to the materials published in the journal are reserved. No part of these materials may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission from the publisher. Requests concerning reproduction of such materials should be addressed to Nauka/Interperiodica International Academic Publishing Company.
Editorial Board
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
Mikhail V. Ivanov
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, RAS
DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
Vladimir K. Plakunov
Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Prof., Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, RAS, Moscow, Russia
EDITORIAL BOARD
Sergei S. Belyaev, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Prof., Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, RAS, Moscow, Russia; Elizaveta A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, RAS, Moscow, Russia; Aleksandr M. Boronin, Corresponding Member, RAS, Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, RAS, Pushchino, Russia; Vladimir G. Debabov, Corresponding Member, RAS, State Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms, Moscow, Russia; Svetlana N. Dedysh, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, RAS, Moscow, Russia; Valery F. Galchenko, Corresponding Member, RAS, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, RAS, Moscow, Russia; Ludmila A. Golovleva, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Prof., Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, RAS, Pushchino, Russia; Ruslan N. Ivanovskii, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Prof., Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Lev V. Kalakutskii, Corresponding Member, RAS, Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, RAS, Pushchino, Russia; Igor’ S. Kulaev, Corresponding Member, RAS, Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, RAS, Pushchino, Russia; Igor’ A. Tikhonovich, Academician, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, RAAS, St. Petersburg, Russia; Yurii A. Trotsenko, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Prof., Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, RAS, Pushchino, Russia; Georgii A. Zavarzin, Academician, RAS, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, RAS, Moscow, Russia; Dmitrii G. Zvyagintsev, Dr. Sci. (Biol.), Prof., Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
STAFF EDITOR
Elvira G. Surovtseva
Cand. Sci. (Biol.)
EDITORS OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Pavel A. Sigalevich, Cand. Sci. (Biol.) and Aleksandr V. Lebedinskii, Cand. Sci. (Biol.)
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