期刊名称：WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology publishes independently refereed research papers, short communications, technical communications and review articles on all aspects of applied microbiology and biotechnology, including virology. The Journal seeks to provide a forum for research work directed towards microbiological and biotechnological solutions to global problems, such as agriculture and food supplies and environmental issues including pollution, waste management, metal recovery, bioleaching, biological control agents, etc. However, it is recognized that many global issues, for example improving crop productivity and public health, have more acute consequences in the developing world than elsewhere. The Journal therefore aims to emphasize the role of biotechnological advances, for and from the developing world whilst encouraging contributions from all scientists who have an interest in tackling these global problems. The editors also encourage contributions on aspects of education in microbiology and biotechnology, and invite papers or reviews commenting on the social issues attendant with biotechnological applications. The Journal also publishes from time to time special review issues in which a topic of current interest is reviewed in depth by a group of invited scientists usually under the special editionship of a key leader in the area.
Instructions to Authors
Kluwer Academic Publishers request the submission of manuscripts and figures in electronic form in addition to a hard-copy printout. The preferred storage medium for your electronic manuscript is a 3 1/2 inch diskette. Please label your diskette properly, giving exact details on the name(s) of the file(s), the operating system and software used. Always save your electronic manuscript in the word processor format that you use; conversions to other formats and versions tend to be imperfect. In general, use as few formatting codes as possible. For safety¡®s sake, you should always retain a backup copy of your file(s). After acceptance, please make absolutely sure that you send the latest (i.e., revised) version of your manuscript, both as hard-copy printout and on diskette (submission in electronic form of the final version of your article is compulsory).
Kluwer Academic Publishers prefer articles submitted in word processing packages such as MS Word, WordPerfect, etc. running under operating systems MS DOS, Windows and Apple Macintosh, or in the file format LaTeX. Articles submitted in other software programs can also be accepted.
For submission in LaTeX, Kluwer Academic Publishers have developed a Kluwer LaTeX class file, which can be downloaded from: http://www.wkap.nl/authors/jrnlstylefiles/
Use of this class file is highly recommended. Do not use versions downloaded from other sites. Technical support is available at: texhelp@wkap.nl
For the purpose of reviewing, articles for publication should be submitted as hard-copy printout (fourfold) and a diskette to the publisher at the following address:
Journals Editorial Office
Attention: Deborah Magnin
World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology
P.O. Box 990
3300 AZ Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Manuscript Presentation
The journal¡®s language is English. British English spelling and terminology should be used consistently throughout the article. Manuscripts should be printed or typewritten on A4 or US Letter bond paper, one side only, leaving adequate margins on all sides to allow reviewers¡® remarks. Please double-space all material, including notes and references. Quotations of more than 40 words should be set off clearly, either by indenting the left-hand margin or by using a smaller typeface. Use double quotation marks for direct quotations and single quotation marks for quotations within quotations and for words or phrases used in a special sense.
Number the pages consecutively with the first page containing:
running head (shortened title)
title
author(s)
affiliation(s)
full address for correspondence, including telephone and fax number and e-mail address
Summary
Please provide a short abstract of 100 to 250 words. The summary should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references. It should be page 2 of the manuscript with the title repeated on that sheet.
Key Words
Please provide 5 to 10 key words or short phrases in alphabetical order.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be explained at first occurrence in the text though extensive mathematical symbols should be defined collectively before the introduction begins on page 3. A list of abbreviations which need not be defined is given in Table 1 (next page).
Article Types
Five types of manuscripts may be submitted:
Full-length Papers
These should describe new and carefully confirmed findings, and experimental procedures should be given in sufficient detail for others to verify the work. The length of a full paper should be the minimum required to describe and interpret the work clearly.
Short Communications
A Short Communication is suitable for recording the results of complete small investigations or giving details of new methods, techniques or apparatus. The style of main sections need not conform to that of full-length papers. Short communications are two printed pages in length. Progress reports are not acceptable.
Short Notes
Short Notes are one printed page in length. They are suitable for reports of simple findings such as the properties of an already well-described enzyme or of observations not requiring elaboration. They should be written with a short (40-word) summary, no main sub-divisions, they may contain one table or figure, or two if the text is brief, and no more than three references.
Technical Communications
These are reports of processes or procedures which may be published as an annex to a full-length paper or on their own provided that the work described is of sufficient interest to other workers in the field.
Review Papers
These should be submitted only after consultation with the Editor. They will be limited to no more than 8 printed pages.
Symbols and Units
Only recommended SI units should be used. Authors may use either superscript presentations (mg ml-1 or the solidus presentation (mg/ml). When giving the concentration of a solution in a solvent the correct description is, for example, l0 g glucose/100 ml, not 10 g/100 ml glucose. The term % used to express a concentration must be used correctly, i.e. g per 100 g solution; otherwise % (v/v) or % (w/v) should be used for solutions of concentration greater than 1%. For solvent mixtures use, for example, butan-1-ol/acetic acid/water (4:1:1, by vol.) or chloroform/methanol (2:1, v/v).
Nomenclature
Chemical and biochemical nomenclature should follow the IUPAC-IUB Commission guidelines; appropriate guidelines are given in, for example, Policy of the Journal and Instructions to Authors, The Biochemical Society, 59 Portland Place, London W1N 3AJ, UK. Fax: (+44) (0)171 323 1136, and references therein. The Enzyme Commission (EC) number for enzymes should be given at the first time of mention; see Enzyme Nomenclature (1992), Academic Press; London & New York. Microorganisms must be correctly named using the current codes for bacteria, yeasts, fungi, algae and protozoa; (see Microbiology 1999, 145 (January), p. viii). Guidelines for genetic nomenclature are quoted in the same publication. For further information on quantities and units, see Table 2 (below).
Figures and Tables
Submission of electronic figures
In addition to hard-copy printouts of figures, authors are requested to supply the electronic versions of figures in either Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) or TIFF format. Many other formats, e.g., Microsoft Postscript, PiCT (Macintosh) and WMF (Windows), cannot be used and the hard copy will be scanned instead.
Figures should be saved in separate files without their captions, which should be included with the text of the article. Files should be named according to DOS conventions, e.g. ¡¯figure1.eps¡®. For vector graphics EPS is the preferred format. Lines should not be thinner than 0.25 pts and in-fill patterns and screens should have a density of at least 10%. Font-related problems can be avoided by using standard fonts such as Times Roman and Helvetica. For bitmapped graphics, TIFF is the preferred format but EPS is also acceptable. The following resolutions are optimal: black-and-white line figures - 600 - 1200 dpi; line figures with some grey or coloured lines - 600 dpi; photographs - 300 dpi; screen dumps - leave as is. Higher resolutions will not improve output quality but will only increase file size, which may cause problems with printing; lower resolutions may compromise output quality. Please try to provide artwork that approximately fits within the typeset area of the journal. Especially screened originals, i.e. originals with grey areas, may suffer badly from reduction by more than 10-15%.
AVOIDING PROBLEMS WITH EPS GRAPHICS
Please always check whether the figures print correctly to a PostScript printer in a reasonable amount of time. If they do not, simplify your figures or use a different graphics program.
If EPS export does not produce acceptable output, try to create an EPS file with the printer driver (see below). This option is unavailable with the Microsoft driver for Windows NT, so if you run Windows NT, get the Adobe driver from the Adobe site (www.adobe.com).
If EPS export is not an option, e.g. because you rely on OLE and cannot create separate files for your graphics, it may help us if you simply provide a PostScript dump of the entire document.
HOW TO SET UP FOR EPS AND POSTSCRIPT DUMPS UNDER WINDOWS
Create a printer entry specifically for this purpose: install the printer ¡¯Apple Laserwriter Plus¡® and specify ¡¯FILE¡®: as printer port. Each time you send something to the ¡¯printer¡® you will be asked for a filename. This file will be the EPS file or PostScript dump that we can use.
The EPS export option can be found under the PostScript tab. EPS export should be used only for single-page documents. For printing a document of several pages, select ¡¯Optimise for portability¡® instead. The option ¡¯Download header with each job¡® should be checked.
Submission of hard-copy figures
If no electronic versions of figures are available, submit only high-quality artwork that can be reproduced as is, i.e., without any part having to be redrawn or re-typeset. The letter size of any text in the figures must be large enough to allow for reduction. Photographs should be in black-and-white on glossy paper. If a figure contains colour, make absolutely clear whether it should be printed in black-and-white or in colour. Figures that are to be printed in black-and-white should not be submitted in colour. Authors will be charged for reproducing figures in colour.
Each figure and table should be numbered and mentioned in the text. The approximate position of figures and tables should be indicated in the margin of the manuscript. On the reverse side of each figure, the name of the (first) author and the figure number should be written in pencil; the top of the figure should be clearly indicated. Figures and tables should be placed at the end of the manuscript following the Reference section. Each figure and table should be accompanied by an explanatory legend. The figure legends should be grouped and placed on a separate page. Figures are not returned to the author unless specifically requested.
In tables, footnotes are preferable to long explanatory material in either the heading or body of the table. Such explanatory footnotes, identified by superscript letters, should be placed immediately below the table.
Section Headings
First-, second-, third-, and fourth-order headings should be clearly distinguishable but not numbered. Consult a current issue for the styles.
Appendices
Supplementary material should be collected in an Appendix and placed before the Notes and Reference sections.
Notes
Please use endnotes rather than footnotes. Notes should be indicated by consecutive superscript numbers in the text and listed at the end of the article before the References. A source reference note should be indicated by an asterisk after the title. This note should be placed at the bottom of the first page.
Cross-Referencing
In the text, a reference identified by means of an author¡®s name should be followed by the date of the reference in parentheses and page number(s) where appropriate. When there are more than two authors, only the first author¡®s name should be mentioned, followed by ¡¯et al¡®. In the event that an author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by a lower case letter like ¡¯a¡® and ¡¯b¡® after the date to distinguish the works. Note the use of the ampersand (&) in references.
Examples:
Cook (1998)
(Cook 1998)
(Dick & Quinn 1997b)
(Cook 1988; Tomkins 1991a,b; Tomkins 1992; Tomkins 1995)
(Olsen et al. 1995)
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the References.
References
References to books, journal articles, articles in collections and conference or workshop proceedings, and technical reports should be listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order. Articles in preparation or articles submitted for publication, unpublished observations, personal communications, etc. should not be included in the reference list but should only be mentioned in the article text (e.g., T. Moore, personal communication).
References to books should include the author¡®s name; year of publication; title; page numbers where appropriate; publisher; place of publication; ISBN number, in the order given in the example below.
Attwood, T.K. & Parry-Smith, D.J. 1999 Introduction to Bioinformatics. pp. 69-80. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman. ISBN 0-582-32788-1.
References to articles in an edited collection should include the author¡®s name; year of publication; article title; editor¡®s name; title of collection; first and last page numbers; publisher; place of publication; ISBN number, in the order given in the example below.
Steinbuchel, A. 1996 PHB and other polyhydroxyalkanoic acids. In Biotechnology, 2nd edn, Vol 6, ed. Rehm, H.-J. Weinheim: VCH Publishers.
References to articles in conference proceedings should include the author¡®s name; year of publication; article title; editor¡®s name (if any); title of proceedings; first and last page numbers; place and date of conference; publisher and/or organization from which the proceedings can be obtained; place of publication; ISBN number, in the order given in the example below.
Charnley, A.K. 1992 Mechanisms of fungal pathogenesis in insects with particular reference to locusts. In Biological Controls of Locusts and Grasshoppers: Proceedings of an international workshop held at Cotonou, Benin, ed Lomer, C.J. & Prior, C. pp. 181-190. Oxford: C.A.B. International. ISBN 0-5198779-6.
References to articles in periodicals should include the author¡®s name; year of publication; article title; full title of periodical; volume number (issue number where appropriate); first and last page numbers, in the order given in the example below.
Saha, B.C. & Zeikus, J.G. 1989 Improved method for preparing high maltose conversion syrups. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 34, 299-303.
References to technical reports or doctoral dissertations, which must be in the public domain, should include the author¡®s name; year of publication; title of report or dissertation; institution; location of institution, in the order given in the example below.
Singh, K.L. 1997 Physiological and biochemical studies on microbes isolated from the harsh conditions. Ph.D Thesis, BHU, Varanasi, India.
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 changes 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 (50) 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.
Page Charge and Colour Figures
No page charges are levied on authors or their institutions. Colour figures are published at the author¡®s expense only.
Copyright
Authors will be asked, upon acceptance of an article, to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher. This will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information under copyright laws.
Permissions
It is the responsibility of the author to obtain written permission for a quotation from unpublished material, or for all quotations in excess of 250 words in one extract or words in total from any work still in copyright, and for the reprinting of figures, tables or poems from unpublished or copyrighted material.
Additional Information
Additional information can be obtained from:
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Journals Editorial Office
Attention: Deborah Magnin
Van Godewijckstraat 30
P.O. Box 17
3311 GX Dordrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: (+31) 78 6576900
Fax: (+31) 78 6576254
Editorial Board
Editor:
Colin Ratledge
Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, UK: c.ratledge@hull.ac.uk
Peter J. Large
Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, UK: p.j.large@hull.ac.uk
Editorial Advisor:
E. DaSilva
Chief, Life Sciences Section, UNESCO, Paris, France
Assistant Editors:
F. Acevedo, Dept. of Biochemical Engineering, Universidad Cat¨®lica de Valparaiso, Chile (Fermentation engineering; Bioleaching of minerals);
D. Borthakur, Dept. of Molecular Biosciences & Bioengineering, University of Haiwaii, Honolulu, USA;(Plant-microbe interactions; Nitrogen fixation; Molecular biology and biotechnology)
I.S. Maddox, College of Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand (Microbial physiology; Fermentation technology; Fungal and solid-state fermentation);
M. Vicente, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Consejo Superior de Investigaci¨®nes Cient¨ªficas, Madrid, Spain (Molecular biology (bacteria); Gene expression (in bacteria);
O.P. Ward, Dept. of Biology, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada (Extracellular enzymes; Biotransformations; Biodegradations; Bioremediation; Microbial lipids);
T. Yoshida, International Center for Biotechnology, Osaka University, Japan (Biochemical engineering; Product recovery/process development)
Editorial Board:
M. Aldea, Lleida, Spain; D. Allsopp, Wiltshire, UK; P. van Berkum, Beltsville, MD, USA; L. Bordeleau, Quebec, Canada; J. Botsford, New Mexico, USA; G. Bradley, Plymouth, UK; T.J. Britz, Stellenbosch, South Africa; C. Bucke, London, UK; H.D. Burges, Worthing, UK; J. Buswell, Hong Kong, PR of China; B.B. Chattoo, Baroda, India; L.G. Dover, Birmingham, UK; B. Faison, Hampton, VA, USA; H.H.P. Fang, Hong Kong, PR of China; L. Frontali, Rome, Italy; C. Gaylarde, Pôrto Alegre, Brazil; C.J. Hewitt, Birmingham, UK; T. Keshavarz, London, UK; J.S. Knapp, Leeds, UK; P. Lindblad, Uppsala, Sweden; J. Luiz Lima Filho, Recife, Brazil; J.M. Lynch, Surrey, UK; D. Maslin, Wolverhampton, UK; L.A. Materon, Edinburg, TX, USA; G.B. Nair, Dhaka, Bangladesh; G.H. Palmer, Edinburgh, UK; M.J. Penninckx, Brussels, Belgium; J.C. du Preez, Bloemfontein, South Africa; N. Qureshi, Urbana, IL, USA; D.J. Reynolds, Worcestershire, UK; M. Ringpfeil, Berlin, Germany; P. Romano, Potenza, Italy; B.C. Saha, Peoria, IL, USA; H. Sahm, J¨¹lich, Germany; J.A.T. Sandoe, Leeds, UK; F. Siñeriz, PROIMI, Argentina; P. Singh, Ulster, N. Ireland; K.H. Steinkraus, Ithaca, NY, USA; O.H. Tuovinen, Columbus, OH, USA; A.K. Vidaver, Lincoln, NE, USA
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