期刊名称：BIODEGRADATION
 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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Biodegradation publishes papers on all aspects of science pertaining to the detoxification, recycling, amelioration or treatment of waste materials and pollutants by naturally-occurring microbial strains or associations or recombinant organisms. Areas of particular interest include:
- biochemistry of biodegradative pathways
- genetics of biodegradative organisms and the development of recombinant biodegrading organisms
- enhancement of naturally-occurring biodegradative properties and activities
- applications of biodegradation and biotransformation technology, e.g. to sewage, heavy metals, organohalogens, high-COD wastes, straight-, branched-chain and aromatic hydrocarbons
- modelling and scale-up of laboratory processes and design of bioreactor systems
- international standardisation
- economic and legal aspects of biological treatment of waste.
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Instructions to Authors
Manuscript submission
Online Manuscript Submission
Kluwer Academic Publishers now offers authors, editors and reviewers of Biodegradation the option of using our fully web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. To keep the review time as short as possible (no postal delays!), we encourage authors to submit manuscripts online to the journal's editorial office. Our online manuscript submission and review system offers authors the option to track the progress of the review process of manuscripts in real time. Manuscripts should be submitted to: http://biod.edmgr.com
The online manuscript submission and review system for Biodegradation offers easy and straightforward log-in and submission procedures. This system supports a wide range of submission file formats: for manuscripts - Word, WordPerfect, RTF, TXT and LaTex; for figures - TIFF, GIF, JPEG, EPS, PPT, and Postscript.
NOTE: By using the online manuscript submission and review system, it is NOT necessary to submit the manuscript also in printout + disk. In case you encounter any difficulties while submitting your manuscript on line, please get in touch with the responsible Editorial Assistant by clicking on "CONTACT US" from the tool bar.
General
- No page charges are applicable, but prospective authors should condense their pages as much as possible.
- Biodegradation welcomes general papers, review papers and original research papers.
- General papers describing original research should not exceed ten pages of printed text, including tables, figures and references (one page of printed text = approx. 600 words). These will usually be published within six months after acceptance.
- Review papers not exceeding 25 pages of printed text, including tables, figures, and references, will usually be published within six months following acceptance. However, in scheduling manuscripts for publication, preference will be given to original research reports.
- Papers already published or in press elsewhere will not be accepted. If any part of the subject matter or experiments included in a manuscript submitted to the Journal have been the subject of any prior publication, this prior publication must be identified. Papers of restricted local importance will not be accepted.
- The Journal requests the submission of manuscripts on diskette. Submitting your text on diskette should expedite publication. Submit conform the following guidelines:
- Manuscripts should be written in standard English and submitted (the original manuscript plus six carbon or photocopies, each including all tables, figures, and references). The author should retain a complete copy of the manuscript.
- Manuscripts should be typed clearly, double-spaced throughout on one side of A4 paper with margins of 3-5 cm. All papers (including the tables, figures, legends and references) should be numbered consecutively.
- As a guide for acceptable style please consult: Council of Botany Style Manual, 6th edition (1987), available from the American Institute of Biological Sciences, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.
- The manuscript should be arranged in the following order:
Title page (page 1)
- The title should be brief but informative.
- A subtitle may be used to supplement and thereby shorten an excessively long main title.
- The author's full name (if more than one, use `&' before the last name and indicate to whom correspondence should be addressed).
- Affiliation(s)/Address(es) should be complete.
Key words/Abstract/Abbreviations (page 2)
- Key words (a maximum of 6, in alphabetical order, suitable for indexing).
- Abstract (brief and informative, not to exceed 250 words). No abbreviations should be used in the abstract.
- Abbreviations (arranged alphabetically, only those which are not familiar and/or commonly used).
Main text
- The text should, if possible, be developed under the following headings: Introduction, Materials and methods, Results / Discussion and Conclusions.
- The relative importance of headings and subheadings should be clear. The approximate location of figures and tables should be indicated in the margin.
- New paragraphs should be clearly indented.
- The use of footnotes should be avoided. However, if essential, they should be typed on the appropriate page, but clearly separated from the text with a line above them.
After the main text
- Acknowledgements (also grants, support etc, if any) should follow the text and precede the references.
- Notes should be numbered consecutively with superscript numerals and listed in numerical order after Acknowledgements.
References
- Literature references should be listed alphabetically, typed double-spaced, and in the text referred to by author name and year of publication enclosed in parentheses, e.g. (Smith 1989; Brown & White 1990).
- Citations of personal communications and unpublished data should be avoided, unless absolutely necessary. Such citations should in text appear only as: (D. Wilman, pers. comm.), (C.S. Andrew, unpubl.), and not in the reference list.
- Abbreviate titles of periodicals according to the style of the Bibliographic Guide for Editors and Authors (Biosis, Chemical Abstract Service and Engineering Index, Inc., 1974).
- References should contain: author(s) name(s) followed by author(s) initials, year, title of article (only first word and proper nouns capitalized), journal (not underlined), volume number, and inclusive page numbers. Books must include the location and name of the publisher.
Examples
Periodicals
Gonzalez AE, Martinez AT, Almendros G & Grinbergs J (1989) A study of yeasts during the delignification and fungal transformation of wood into cattle feed in Chilean rain forest. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 55: 221-236
Books (edited by someone other than author of article)
Smith EL, Austen BM, Blumenthal KM & Nyc JF (1975) Glutamate dehydrogenases. In: Boyer PD (Ed) The Enzymes, Vol 11 (pp 293-367). Academic Press, New York
Books (Monographs)
Hicks CR (1973) Fundamental Concepts in the Design of Experiments. Holt, Rinehard and Winston, New York
Tables
- Each table should be typed on a separate page.
- Tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals, followed by the title. Horizontal rules should be indicated, and verticals avoided. Table footnotes should be marked with superscript numbers.
- Each table must be mentioned in the text.
- Tables may be edited by the publisher to permit more compact typesetting.
Figures
- Each figure should be mentioned in the text.
- Line drawings must be in black ink on white paper or blue graph paper, and should not contain shading.
- Extremely small type should be avoided as figures are often reduced in size.
- Photographs should be supplied as black-and-white high contrast glossy prints.
- Halftone reproductions must be clear, well-contrasted glossy prints trimmed at right angles: original halftones must be supplied with each copy of the manuscript.
- Colour plates will be inserted only at the author's expense. Quotes will be provided for each individual case. Diapositives (colour transparencies) give better colour plates than do photographs.
- Figures as well as legends should be identified by Arabic numbers and headed "Fig. 1', etc.
- Where multi-part figures are used, each part should be clearly identified in the legend, preferably with (lower case) letters.
- The top of the figure should be indicated on the back and each figure should be identified by lightly writing the manuscript number and title and figure number on the back.
- Do not give magnification or scales in the figure legends: instead draw bar scales directly on the figures.
Abbreviations and units
If a non-standard abbreviation is to be used extensively, it should be defined in full on page 2 and follow the abstract.
Proofs
Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author by e-mail (if no e-mail address is available or appears to be out of order, proofs will be sent by regular mail).
Your response, with or without corrections, should be sent within 72 hours. Please do not make any corrections to the PDF file.
Minor corrections (+/- 10) should be sent as an e-mail attachment to: proofscorrection@wkap.nl. Always quote the four-letter journal code and article number and the PIPS No. from your proof in the subject field of your e-mail.
Extensive corrections must be clearly marked on a printout of the PDF file and should be sent by first-class mail (airmail overseas).
Offprints
Fifty offprints of each article will be provided free of charge. Additional offprints (both hard copies and PDF files) can be ordered by means of an offprint order form supplied with the proofs.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Bruce E. Rittmann
Dept. of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Managing Editor:
Edward J. Bouwer
Dept. of Geography & Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Ronald L. Crawford
Dept. of Bacteriology, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA
Tom Egli
EAWAG, D¨¹bendorf, Switzerland
David A. Stahl
Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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