期刊名称：BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY-BIOCHIMIE ET BIOLOGIE CELLULAIRE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Published since 1929, this bimonthly journal explores every aspect of general biochemistry, and includes up-to-date coverage of experimental research into cellular and molecular biology, review articles on topics of current interest, and notes, contributed by recognized international experts. Special issues each year are dedicated to expanding new areas of research in biochemistry and cell biology. Papers are published electronically within 6 weeks of acceptance.
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Instructions to Authors
Submission
To submit your manuscript in hard copy and on diskette, please refer to Instructions to Authors for Submission of Hard copy and Diskette
Submission of manuscripts
Preparing Manuscripts for Web Submission
Style and presentation
Organization of manuscript
Illustrations
Submission of Electronic graphics
Proofs and reprints
Biochemistry and Cell Biology (Biochem. Cell Biol.) publishes reports of original research in English and French. A full paper reports a completed definitive study. A note reports a completed project of a smaller scope and should not exceed 4 printed pages. Minireviews, up to 5 printed pages total, present a critical perspective on a topic of current interest. Normally submission of minireviews is by invitation, but potential authors may contact the Editors with proposed topics. In addition, the Journal publishes invited reviews and symposia. Prospective authors or organizers of such contributions should communicate with the Editors to establish the suitability and timeliness of the topic for publication.
Delays in publication can be avoided by adherence to the instructions below.
Submission of manuscripts
New Manuscripts ¡ª Authors may submit manuscripts at the BCB Web Manuscript Submission site. This site employs Secure Socket Layer (SSL), 128 bit encryption and supports Microsoft Explorer 5 or Netscape 4.0 and higher.
Preparing Manuscripts for Web Submission
There are 2 Options available to you for submitting manuscripts.
Option 1: Submit a PDF (all tables and figures must be embedded in one file).
Option 2: Submit a word processing or PostScript file , all tables and graphics must be embedded in one file.
Your file will be converted to PDF automatically.
The PDF file will be used during the Peer Review process only, these files are not suitable for publication. Please verify your PDF file for accuracy.
The following guides are available to assist you in preparing your file for web submission:
Please refer questions to:
Dr. J.R. Davie, Biochemistry and Cell Biology Journal, CancerCare Building, Room 5008A, 675 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0V9, Canada (telephone: 204-787-4170; fax: 204-787-4172; e-mail: bcbeo@cc.umanitoba.ca).
Authors may suggest names of Associate Editors (for listing, see Notice to Authors) and of referees that may or may not be used, but the selection of the Associate Editor and referees is at the discretion of the Editors. When suggesting referees, please provide full addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail if available.
Authors must affirm that no part of their manuscript is or will be submitted elsewhere for publication while under consideration by Biochemistry and Cell Biology. The corresponding author must confirm that all authors have read and approved the manuscript.
Whenever a manuscript contains material (tables, figures, charts, etc.) that is protected by copyright, the author must secure written permission from the holder of the copyright to reproduce the material in both print and electronic formats. These letters must accompany the submitted manuscript.
Submission of Accepted Manuscripts ¡ª Authors are requested to submit the final accepted manuscript, figures and tables at the BCB Web Manuscript Submission site. Text files and figure files should be submitted in separate files. Text (including tables) should be provided in a word-processing format. TeX macros for preparing papers for submissions are available at ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/nrc/, ftp:// ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/nrc/, and ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/ macros/latex/contrib/supported/nrc/. For figures, see the section Preparation of electronic graphic files.
Style and presentation
All parts of the manuscript must be typewritten double-spaced and formatted for 21.5 ¡Á 28 cm (8.5 ¡Á 11 in.) paper with margins of 2.54 cm (1 in.). For material that is to be set in italics, use an italic font. Use capital letters only when the letters or words should appear in capitals.
Spelling should follow that of Webster¡¯s Third New International Dictionary or the Oxford English Dictionary. Authors are responsible for consistency in spelling.
Symbols for quantities and units of measurements should conform to international recommendations such as those of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). SI units (Syst¨¨me international d¡¯unit¨¦s) should be used or SI equivalents should be given. This system is explained and other useful information is given in the Canadian Metric Practice Guide (1989) published by the Canadian Standards Association (178 Rexdale Blvd., Etobicoke, ON M6N 3T3, Canada). For practical reasons, some exceptions to SI units are allowed.
Nomenclature and abbreviations should follow the rules recommended by the International Union of Biochemistry (IUB) Committee of Editors of Biochemical Journals with support of IUPAC. These will be found in Biochemical Nomenclature and Related Documents, 2nd edition, published in 1992 for the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (available from Portland Press Inc., P.O. Box 2191, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-2191, U.S.A.), and Enzyme Nomenclature: Recommendations (1992) of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Academic Press, San Diego, Calif.). Standard abbreviations that need not be defined are listed in the first issue each year of the Biochemical Journal. All other abbreviations must be defined in a footnote on the title page. Symbols and unusual or Greek characters should be identified clearly. As a general guide for biological terms, The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers: Scientific Style Format (6th ed., 1994), published by the Council of Biology Editors, Inc., Chicago, IL 60603, U.S.A., is recommended.
Organization of manuscript
All manuscripts should contain a title page (p. 1), an abstract (p. 2), followed by Introduction (p. 3), Materials and methods, Results, Discussion, and Acknowledgements sections, plus references, tables, figure legends, and appendices, in that order. Tables and captions for illustrations should be on separate pages and placed after the list of references, which follows the text. Each page of the manuscript should be numbered, beginning with the title page.
The title page should contain only the title, authors¡¯ names and affiliations, the telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address of the corresponding author, and any relevant footnotes. The authors¡¯ address(es) must be the institution(s) where the work was done. Authors¡¯ present address(es), if different, should be given in a footnote.
An abstract is required with every contribution. It should not exceed one page (200 words) for a paper and should be much shorter for a note or a minireview. No abbreviations or references should appear in the abstract. Authors who can submit abstracts in both fluent English and fluent French are encouraged to do so. Directly below the abstract, authors should provide three to five key words.
All authors, Canadian or foreign, who describe experiments on animals are required to give assurance in the Materials and methods that the animals were cared for in accordance with guidelines such as the Guide to the Care and Use of Experimental Animals (Vol. 1, 2nd ed., 1993, and Vol. 2, 1984, available from the Canadian Council on Animal Care, Constitution Square, Tower 2, Suite 315, 350 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON K1R 1B1, Canada or on their Web site at www.ccac.ca ) or the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (1996, published by National Academy Press, 2101 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20055, U.S.A.).
The degree of reproducibility of experiments should be indicated either in general statements in Materials and methods and Results or, preferably, as statistical treatments of numerical data cited in tabular or graphic form.
Authors of papers describing new protein structure determinations must be prepared to submit all structural data required to validate the discussion to the Protein Data Bank (Biology Department, Bldg. 463, P.O. Box 5000, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, U.S.A.). All relevant nucleic acid sequence information must be deposited in the GenBank data base (GenBank Submissions, National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bldg. 38A, Room 8N-803, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, U.S.A.; e-mail, gbsub@ncbi.nim.nih.gov) and the accession number must be noted in the manuscript.
References¡ªEach reference must be cited in the text, using the surnames of the authors and the year, e.g., (Green 2000) or Green and Brown (2001). Depending on the sentence construction, the names may or may not be in parentheses, but the year always is. If there are three or more authors, the citation should give the name of the first author followed by et al. (e.g., Green et al. 2002). If references occur that are not uniquely identified by the authors¡¯ names and year, use a, b, c, etc., after the year (e.g., Green 1999a, 1999b; Green and Brown 1998a, 1998b) for the text citation and in the reference list.
Electronic citations should use the following form: Jablonski, S. 1999. Online multiple congenital anomaly/mental retardation (MCA/MR) syndromes [online]. U.S. National Library of Medicine, Medical Subject Headings Section. ©1999. Available from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/jablonski/syndrome_title.html [updated 28 September 2000; cited 8 March 2001].
The reference list must be double-spaced. References must be listed in alphabetical order according to the name of the first author and not numbered. References should follow the form used in current issues of the Journal. References with the same first author are listed in the following order.
(1) Papers with one author only are listed first in chronological order, beginning with the earliest paper.
(2) Papers with dual authorship follow and are listed in alphabetical order by the last name of the second author.
(3) Papers with three or more authors appear after the dual-authored papers and are arranged chronologically.
The names of serials are abbreviated as given in CASSI (Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index, Chemical Abstracts, P.O. Box 3012, Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A.) or in BIOSIS Serial Sources (BIOSIS, 2100 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103-1399, U.S.A.). In doubtful cases, authors should write out the name of the serial in full. Material in press, with the name of the journal, may be used as a reference. Private communications, reports not yet accepted for publication, and unavailable documents are not references and must be put in as footnotes or in parentheses in the text giving all authors¡¯ names with initials.
Footnotes to material in the text should not be used unless they are unavoidable, but their use is encouraged in tables. Where used in the text, footnotes should be cited in the manuscript by superscript Arabic numbers (except in the tables, see below) and should be numbered serially beginning with any that appear on the title page. Each footnote should be typed on the manuscript page upon which the reference is made; footnotes should not be included in the list of references.
Equations should be clearly typed; triple-spacing should be used if superscripts and (or) subscripts are involved. Superscripts and subscripts should be carefully placed. A letter or symbol should represent only one entity and be used consistently throughout the paper. Each variable must be defined in the text, or in a List of symbols to appear after the reference list. Variables representing vectors, matrices, vector matrices, and tensors must be clearly identified. Numbers identifying equations must be in square brackets and placed flush with the left margin. In numbering, no distinction is made between mathematical and chemical equations.
Tables must be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals, have brief titles, and be referred to in the text. Column headings and descriptive matter in tables should be brief. Vertical rules must not be used. A copy of the Journal should be consulted to see how tables are set up and where the lines in them are placed. Footnotes in tables must be designated by symbols (*, †, ‡, ¡ì, ||, ¶, #) or superscript lower case italic letters. Descriptive material not designated by a footnote may be placed under a table as a Note.
Appendices¡ªFigures and tables used in an appendix should be numbered sequentially but separately from those used in the main body of the paper, for example, Figure A1, Table A1, etc.
Supplemental material¡ªThe National Research Council of Canada maintains a depository in which supplementary material may be placed, either at the request of the author or suggestion of the Editor. Such material may include extensive tables of data, detailed sections calculations, and maps not essential for understanding and evaluating the paper. Such material must be clearly marked when the manuscript is submitted. Tables and figures should be numbered in sequence separate from those published with the paper (e.g., Figure D1, Table D1). The supplemental material should be referred to by footnotes. Copies of material in the depository may be purchased from the Depository of Unpublished Data, CISTI, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada.
Illustrations
Each figure or group of figures should be planned to fit, after appropriate reduction, into the area of either one or two columns of text. The maximum finished size of a one-column illustration is 8.6 ¡Á 23.7 cm (3.4 ¡Á 9.3 in.) and that of a two-column illustration is 18.2 ¡Á 23.7 cm (7.2 ¡Á 9.3 in.). The figures (including halftones) must be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals, and each one must be referred to in the text and must be self-explanatory. All terms, abbreviations, and symbols must correspond with those in the text. Only essential labelling should be used, with detailed information given in the caption. A photograph, or group of them, should be planned to fit into the area of either one or two columns of text with no further reduction. The best results will be obtained if authors match the contrast and density of all photographs arranged as a single plate.
Colour illustrations may be accepted for reproduction, subject to the Editors¡¯ decision that the use of colour is essential. In general, colour reproduction is free; however, if the author requests changes or adjustments to the colour proofs, a charge will be made based on the costs incurred.
NRC Research Press prefers will use the submitted electronic graphic files whenever possible. However, if electronic files are not useable, high-quality, hard-copy originals will be requested and will be scanned. Note that the scanner will easily reproduce flaws (e.g., correction fluid, smudges). Submission of noncontinuous (screened) photographs and scanned illustrations printed out on laser printers is not recommended as moir¨¦s develop; a moir¨¦ is a noticeable, unwanted pattern generated by rescanning or rescreening an illustration that already contains a dot pattern.
Preparation of electronic graphic files
Electronic files should have meaningful file names (i.e., figure number). The preferred software application of NRC Research Press for creating vector images is CorelDraw! (versions 5.0 and 8.0). For other applications that can be used, see the electronic graphics list. PC or Macintosh versions of True Type or Type 1 fonts should be used. Do not use bitmap or nonstandard fonts.
All figures should be submitted at their final published size. For figures with several parts (e.g., a, b, c, d, etc.) created using the same software application, assemble them into one file rather than sending several files.
To reduce the possibility of problems at output time, keep your artwork as simple as possible. Avoid complicated textures and shadings, especially in vector illustration programs.
Bitmap (raster) files¡ªBitmaps are image files produced using a grid format in which each square (or pixel) is set to one level of black, colour, or grey. One square is equal to one dot per pixel, hence "dots per inch" (dpi). Typically, bitmaps are used for photographic images. (*.tif format is preferred.)
The proper resolution should be used when submitting bitmap artwork. The minimum requirements for resolution are 600 dpi for line art, 1200 dpi for finelines (line art with fine lines or shading), 300 dpi for halftones and colour, and 600 dpi for combinations (halftones with lettering outside the photo area).
All colour files submitted must be as CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black). These colours are used in full-colour commercial printing. RGB graphics (red, green, and blue; colours specifically used to produce an image on a monitor) will not print correctly.
Vector files¡ªVector files are image files produced using elements such as lines and shapes. Typically these files are used for line drawings.
Bitmaps inside vector files¡ªBitmaps can be imported into vector and draw applications only for the purpose of adding and overlaying information, lines, text, etc. Bitmaps should not be resized, cropped, rotated, or otherwise manipulated after importing.
strongProofs and reprintsstrong
Once the paper has been accepted, all correspondence should be with NRC Research Press, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON KlA 0R6, Canada. NRC Research Press may make editorial changes as required, but will not make substantive changes in the content of a paper without consultation with the author and the Editors.
Galley proofs¡ªA galley proof, illustration proofs, the copy-edited manuscript, and a reprint order form are sent to the corresponding author. Galley proofs must be checked very carefully, as they will not be proofread by NRC Research Press, and must be returned within 48 hours of receipt. The proof stage is not the time to make extensive corrections, additions, or deletions, and the cost of changes introduced at the proof stage and deemed to be excessive will be charged to the author.
Reprints¡ªIf reprints are desired, the reprint order form must be filled out completely and returned with payment (cheque, credit card number, purchase order number, or journal voucher) together with the corrected proofs and manuscript. Orders submitted after the issue has been printed are subject to considerably higher prices. The Journal does not provide free reprints, and reprints are not mailed until a purchase order number or payment is received.
Copyright transfer¡ªAll authors are required to complete a copyright transfer form assigning all rights to NRC. Copyright transfer forms are available from the Editorial Office, in the February issue of the Journal, or on the Web site of NRC Research Press. Requests for permission to republish the paper, in whole or in part, should be sent to NRC Research Press.
Editorial Board
Editor:
James R. Davie
Biochemistry and Cell Biology
CancerCare Building
Room 5008A
675 McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3E 0V9
Canada
Telephone: (204) 787-4170
Fax: (204) 787-4172
E-mail: bcbeo@cc.umanitoba.ca
Assistant to the Editor:
Deborah Regier
Associate Editors:
J.E. Anderson, A.-P. Arrigo, N. Auersperg, J.J.M. Bergeron, P. Caiafa, J.W. Callahan, C.E. Cass, A.F. Chambers, W. Deppert, D.J. Fujita, J. Honek, A.V. Hubberstey, R.E. Huber, N.P.A. Huner, V.I. Kalnins, K.M.W. Keough, N. Marceau, C.R. McMaster, T.H. MacRae, M. Michalak, M. Opas, M.M. Palcic, M. Puceat, M. Ringuette, H. Schachter, G.S. Stein, A.G. Szabo, R.M. Tanguay, H. Vogel, J. Weiner, D.B. Young
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