期刊名称：PLASMID
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Plasmid
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Plasmid is a bi-monthly journal that publishes original research on microbial chromosomes and extrachromosomal elements with the emphasis on functions that contribute to their maintenance and transmission. The journal is also a forum for articles on plasmids, bacteriophages, and mobile genetic elements, including transposons and genomic islands, that contribute to microbial antibiotic resistance, pathogenicity and evolution. Plasmid publishes full articles, short communications, and timely reviews. |
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Audience
Postgraduate students and researchers in: antibiotic resistance, biochemistry, bioremediation, biotechnology, ecology and evolution biology, genetics, microbiology, molecular biology and pathogenesis.
Instructions to Authors
Plasmid is a bi-monthly journal that publishes original research on microbial chromosomes and extrachromosomal elements with the emphasis on functions that contribute to their maintenance and transmission. The journal is also a forum for articles on plasmids, bacteriophages, and mobile genetic elements, including transposons and genomic islands, that contribute to microbial antibiotic resistance, pathogenicity, and evolution. Plasmid publishes full articles, short communications, and timely reviews.
Submission of Manuscripts
Authors are encouraged to transmit their manuscripts electronically via e-mail (plasmid@elsevier.com), computer disk, or FTP (ftp.elsevier.com, with username anon and password essd4acc), each time a new version is sent. E-mail submission is acceptable provided that all files are included in a single archive less than 2 megabytes in size. Please ensure that the files are not saved as read only.
Hard-copy printouts of the manuscript and art that exactly match the electronic file must also be supplied. In the case of a mismatch between the electronic version and the hard copy, the hard copy will be taken as the definitive copy.
If authors are unable to submit manuscripts electronically, then hard copies should be submitted in quadruplicate (one original and three photocopies), including four sets of figures, to:
Plasmid
Editorial Office
525 B Street, Suite 1900
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Telephone: (619) 699-6408
Fax: (619) 699-6700
E-mail: plasmid@elsevier.com
Each manuscript should be accompanied by a letter outlining the basic findings of the paper and their significance. Authors may suggest assignment to an Editor/Editor-in-Chief at the time of manuscript submission. Authors may elect to submit manuscripts directly to an appropriate member of the Editorial Board. There are no submission fees or page charges.
Author Warranties
The submission of a manuscript will be taken to imply that the material is original and has not been submitted in equivalent form for publication elsewhere. All persons listed as authors must have given their approval for the submission, and any person cited as a source of personal communication, or recognized in the acknowledgments as having contributed in anyway, must also approve the citation or acknowledgment.
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to transfer copyright (for more information on copyright, see http://authors.elsevier.com). This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. A letter will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript. A form facilitating transfer of copyright will be provided after acceptance.
If material from other copyrighted works is included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: contact Elsevier Global Rights Department, P.O. Box 800, Oxford OX5 1DX, UK; phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail: permissions@elsevier.com.
Category and Lengths of Papers
Primary research articles should be no more than 10,000 words and may have up to 10 figures and tables. Short communications are preliminary reports of important findings, such as physical and genetic maps of plasmids and related elements, for which a utility has been demonstrated. Papers should comprise a short abstract, a continuous text, acknowledgments and references. Illustrative material should include no more than four figures and tables. Reviews should not exceed 10,000 words and should have an abstract and a concluding section. The main text may be divided into sections, with subheadings. The use of tables and figures is encouraged.
Preparation of Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout. Pages should be numbered and organized as follows:
The Title Page (p.1) should contain the article title, authors' names and complete affiliations, the contact details of the corresponding author (including e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers), and footnotes to the title.
The Abstract (p. 2) should be a single paragraph that summarizes the main findings of the paper in less than 200 words. A list of up to 6 keywords that will be useful for indexing or searching should be included after the abstract.
The Introduction should not include subheadings but should explain the motivation behind the study, including key background information.
Materials and methods should be sufficiently detailed to enable experiments to be reproduced.
Results and Discussion may be combined but should preferably be organized into subheadings.
Acknowledgments should be brief.
References should be cited in the text using author names and the year of publication in parentheses. Only articles that have been published or are in press should be included in the references. Unpublished results or personal communications should be cited as such in the text. The names of journals should be abbreviated according to the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index. References should be listed alphabetically using the following style:
1. Reference to a journal publication:
Dube, T., Thomson, J.A., 2003. Conjugal transfer of plasmid pTF-FC2 from Agrobacterium to plant cells in the absence of T-DNA borders Plasmid 50, 1-11.
2.Reference to a book: Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E.F., Maniatis, T., 1989. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, p. 28.
3. Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Campbell, A., 2001. Campbell model. In: Brenner, S., Miller, J.H. (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Genetics, vol. 1. Academic Press, Orlando, FL, pp. 260-262.
Legends to Figures. Define all symbols and uncommon abbreviations used in the figure, provided they have not been defined in the text. Experimental details, if extensive, should be described in the methods section, not in the legends.
Tables should be typed on separate sheets numbered with Arabic numerals, and should have short descriptive titles. Footnotes to tables, indicated by lowercase letters, should be typed directly below the tables.
Sequence Data. New macromolecular sequences must be deposited into an appropriate database that is freely accessible to the scientific community.
Authors wishing to enable other scientists to use the accession numbers cited in their papers via links to these sources should type this information in the following manner: For each and every accession number cited in an article, authors should type the number in bold, underlined text. Letters in the accession number should always be capitalized (see example below). This combination of letters and format will enable the typesetter to recognize the relevant texts as accession numbers and add the required links to GenBank sequences.
Example: "GenBank accession nos. AI631510, AI631511, and BF223228), a B-cell tumor from a chronic lymphatic leukemia (GenBank accession no. BE675048), and a T-cell lymphoma (GenBank accession no. AA361117)."
Authors are encouraged to check accession numbers used very carefully. An error in a letter or number can result in a dead link. In the final version of the printed article, the accession number text will not appear bold or underlined. In the final version of the electronic copy, the accession number text will be linked to the appropriate source in the NCBI databases, enabling readers to go directly to that source from the article.
In addition to obtaining an accession number for nucleic acid and protein sequences, manuscripts describing new insertion sequences (alone or as part of larger sequencing projects) are recommended to contact the IS database, ISfinder: http://www-is.biotoul.fr for an attribution number
Papers devoted solely to nucleic acid sequences are not considered unless their biological interest is made apparent.
Figures
Figures should be submitted in a form suitable for publication, separate from the manuscript and only one to a page. They must be labeled with Arabic numbers and author names on the reverse, indicating the figures' orientation. Magnification should be shown using a scale bar. Halftone artwork (photographs) must be submitted electronically or as glossy prints or originals. Please visit our Web site at http://authors.elsevier.com/artwork for detailed instructions on preparing electronic artwork.
One color plate will be published free of charge in each article. Additional color plates in the same article will be charged to the author.
Proofs
Proofs will be sent as PDFs via e-mail unless the author specifically requests that they be sent by post. To avoid delays in publication, proofs should be checked for typographical errors only, and returned to the production editor within 48 hours of receipt. Excessive alterations may delay publication of the article to a subsequent issue and alterations that exceed 10% of the total cost of composition will be subject to a charge.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
D.K. Chattoraj, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland
Editors:
R. Bernander, Department of Molecular Evolution, Uppsala University, Norbyvagen 18C, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
R. Calendar, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, 401 Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3202, USA
A.M. Chakrabarty, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, E-704 Medical Sciences Building, 835 South Wolcott Avenue, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612-7344, USA
M. Chandler, Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Genetique Moleculaire, CNRS UMR5100, 118 Rte de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cedex, France
M. Espinosa, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, Velazquez, 144, Madrid E-28006, Spain
P.J. Farabaugh, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, USA
D.H. Figurski, Department of Microbiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 701 West 168th Street, New York, New York 10032, USA
K. Gerdes, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
D.R. Helinski, Department of Biology, University of California at San Deigo, 9500 Gilman Drive, M-034, Building 0322, La Jolla, California 92093-0322, USA
S.A. Khan, Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
I. Kobayashi, Division of Molecular Biology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan
S.B. Levy, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University Medical School, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
K. Nordstrom, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, S-751 24, Uppsala, Sweden
R.P. Novick, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, 540 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
A.M. Osborn, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, UK
J.I. Rood, Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
M. Salas, Centro de Biologia Molecular 'Severo Ochoa', Autonoma University, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
K. Smalla, Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology and Biosafety, Messeweg 11-12, D-38104 Braunschweig, Germany
C.J. Smith, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, East Carolina University, Moye Boulevard, Greenville, North Carolina 27858, USA
G. Wegrzyn, Department of Molecular Biology, Gdansk University, Kladi 24, 80-822 Gdansk, Poland
G.M. Weinstock, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
E.L. Zechner, Institute of Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Microbiology, Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz, Universitaetsplatz 2, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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