期刊名称：JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
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The Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (JIM&B) builds bridges between academia and industry whilst keeping you informed of the most important developments. On a truly international basis, JIM&B covers all aspects of the industrial applications of biotechnology, fermentation, environmental microbiology, biodegradation, biodeterioration, genomics, bioinformatics, quality control and other areas of applied microbiology.
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Instructions to Authors
Instructions for authors
Editorial procedure
Manuscript preparation
Preparing your manuscript
Electronic supplementary material
Proofreading
Offprints
Online First
Legal requirements
Springer Open Choice
After Acceptance
Editorial procedure
Authors should submit their articles online to facilitate even quicker and more efficient processing. Electronic submission substantially reduces the editorial processing and reviewing time and shortens overall publication time.
Please log directly onto the link below and upload your manuscript following the instructions given on screen.
All manuscripts are subject to review by at least two members of the journal's editorial board or other experts.
Upon receipt, manuscripts will be assigned a manuscript tracking number and forwarded to a Senior Editor. The corresponding author will be notified via e-mail when the manuscript is received and informed of the manuscript tracking number and the Senior Editor who will be handling the review. Queries regarding the review and revisions of the manuscript should be directed to the Senior Editor. The manuscript tracking number should be included in all correspondence regarding the submission.
The Senior Editor advises the corresponding author of his/her and the reviewers' comments. If minor or major revisions are recommended, revised manuscripts should be returned to the Senior Editor handling the manuscript. Revised manuscripts should be submitted directly to the Senior Editor as e-mail attachments. At this point in the review process, higher-quality figures may be requested if necessary. Accepted manuscripts will not be forwarded to the publisher without an electronic copy of the final revision. Papers that do not conform to the journal norms will be returned to the authors for revision before being considered for publication. When the Senior Editor is satisfied that the manuscript is ready for acceptance, s/he forwards it to the Editor-in-Chief for final acceptance.
The journal accepts manuscripts for the following sections:
Original Papers should normally not exceed 16 printed pages (one printed page corresponds to about 850 words of text or 3 illustrations with their legends).
Short Communications should not exceed 3 printed pages.
Letters to the Editor should not exceed 2 printed pages.
Review Papers, including mini-reviews, should be critical reviews on subjects of interest to industrial and applied microbiologists. The length of the article will depend on the subject. Authors considering preparation of a review should contact the Editor-in-Chief in advance to determine the suitability of the topic.
All manuscripts are subject to copy-editing after acceptance.
ONLINE SUBMISSION
Manuscript preparation
General remarks:
Manuscripts should be typed double spaced, including figure legends, any footnotes to tables or figures, and references.
All manuscripts must conform to the current edition of the CBE Style Manual for Biological Editors and are subject to copy-editing.
Title page:
The title page must include the name(s) of the author(s), a concise and informative title, the affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s), and the e-mail address and telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author.
Abstract:
Each paper, including Reviews, must be preceded by an abstract of approximately 250 words or less presenting the questions being addressed or the hypothesis being tested, the general methods used (e.g. liquid chromatography and mass spectroscopy) and the most important results and conclusions.
Keywords:
Up to 5 keywords should be supplied after the Abstract for indexing purposes.
Abbreviations:
All abbreviations should be introduced parenthetically in the text when the term first appears (except for standard physiological and biochemical abbreviations). Subsequently only the abbreviation should be used.
Footnotes:
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively. Those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters, beginning with "a" in each table. (Asterisks may be used for statistical values or data.)
Introduction:
The Introduction should state the purpose of the investigation and give a short review of the pertinent literature. It should conclude with a concise statement of the author's objectives.
Materials and Methods:
The Materials and Methods section should follow the Introduction and should provide enough information to permit repetition of the experimental work. The name of suppliers or sources of equipment and chemicals should be given parenthetically, with the city, state/province/county and country. This information need not be given for common equipment found in most laboratories (balances, pH meters, spectrophotometers) or common chemicals (NaCl, DNA) the source of which is not crucial to repetition of the work. The grade of chemicals should be stated if it is important for repetition of the work.
Results:
Present your findings, stating the major trends shown by data in figures or tables, but do not repeat in the text data that are obvious from the figures or tables. The number of replicates involved and the number of independent repetitions of the experiment or measurement should be stated here or as a footnote to a table.
Discussion:
State your conclusions from the data and discuss how they compare with previously published information on the subject. If appropriate, suggest theoretical implications and propose future studies. It may be appropriate to combine Results and Discussion, particularly where the results of one experiment are the basis for the next experiment reported in this paper.
Acknowledgements:
These should be as brief as possible. Any grant that requires acknowledgement should be mentioned. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
References:
The list of references should include only works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Abstracts, theses and presentations at meetings are not acceptable as references. Personal communications should be mentioned in the text with the affiliation of the individual providing the communication and not included in the list of references.
Citations in the text should be identified by numbers in square brackets, and the list of references at the end of the paper should be both alphabetized under the first author's name and numbered. References by the same author or team of authors should be listed in chronological order. Here are a few examples of the style of references:
1. Atlas RM (2005) Handbook of media for environmental microbiology. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla, USA
2. van Ginkel CG, Middlehuis BJ, Spijk F, Abma WR (2005) Cometabolic reduction of bromate by a mixed culture of microorganisms using hydrogen gas in a gas-lift reactor. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 32:1-6
3. Heeschan W, Hahn G (1982) Quality control of media for Lactobacillus and Streptococcus. In: Corry JE (ed) Culture media. GIT, Darmstadt, Germany, pp 109--119
If available, the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the cited literature should be added at the end of the reference in question, e.g. ¡°...J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 30:1-5. DOI 10.10007/s10295-002-0001-5¡±
Illustrations and Tables:
All figures (photographs, graphs or diagrams) and tables should be cited in the text, and both figures and tables should be numbered separately and consecutively throughout. Figure parts should be identified by lower-case letters.
Line drawings:
Please submit high-quality images. Inscriptions should be clearly legible. See "Preparing your manuscript" for preferred file formats.
Halftone illustrations:
Black-and-white and color halftone illustrations should be submitted as well-contrasted images correctly aligned with the top facing up. Magnification should be indicated by a scale bar.
Size of figures:
Figures should match the width of either one column (8.6 cm) or two columns (17.6 cm). The maximum length is 23.5 cm, including the legend.
Figure legends:
Legends must be brief, self-sufficient explanations of the illustrations. The legends should be placed together at the end of the text.
Tables:
Each table should have a title. Abbreviations, except widely used ones (e.g. s, M, or cm), should be identified in a footnote. Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters, beginning with ¡°a¡± in each table. (Asterisks may be used for significance values and other statistical data.)
Color illustrations
Online publication of color illustrations is free of charge. Since JIMB does not have funds to support color illustrations, authors wishing to have illustrations in color will be required to pay € 950 (plus 19% VAT), irrespective of the number of color figures in the article.
Preparing your manuscript
Layout guidelines:
1. Use a normal, plain font (e.g., Times Roman) for text.
Other style options:
a) For textual emphasis, use italics.
b) For special purposes, such as for vectors, use boldface.
2. Use the automatic page-numbering function to number the pages.
3. Lines should be numbered consecutively throughout the text.
4. Do not use field functions.
5. For indents use tab stops or other commands, not the space bar.
6. Use the table functions of your word processing program, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
7. Use the equation editor of your word processing program or MathType for equations.
8. Place any figure legends or tables at the end of the manuscript.
9. Submit all figures as separate files and do not integrate them into the text.
Data formats:
Save your text file in an MS Word-compatible format.
Illustrations:
The preferred figure formats are EPS for graphics exported from a drawing program and TIFF for halftone illustrations. Legible, lower-quality formats (JPG, JPEG) may be used in order to meet file size restrictions on initial submission, but the original, higher-quality files may be requested during the review process. Each figure should be in a separate file, and the file name should include the figure number. Figure legends should be appended to the text after the reference list and not placed in the figure files.
Color illustrations:
Store color illustrations as RGB (8 bits per channel) in TIFF format. Legible, lower-quality formats (JPG, JPEG) may be used in order to meet file size restrictions on initial submission, but the original, higher-quality files may be requested during the review process.
Scan resolution:
Scanned line drawings should be digitized with a resolution that will yield a resolution of at least 800 dpi in the published figure. For digital halftones, 300 dpi is usually sufficient.
Vector graphics:
Fonts used in the vector graphics must be included. Do not draw with hairlines. The minimum line width is 0.2 mm (0.567 pt) in the published figure.
General information on data delivery:
After acceptance of a manuscript, it will be forwarded electronically to the publisher at the following address:
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If additional materials (i.e. print-quality figures) are required, the publisher will contact the corresponding author at the e-mail address listed on the submission. The publisher will also provide proofs electronically to the corresponding author for review prior to publication.
Electronic supplementary material
Electronic supplementary material (ESM) for a paper will be published in the electronic edition of the journal provided the material is:
1. Submitted in electronic form together with the manuscript
2. Accepted after peer review
ESM may consist of:
Information that cannot be printed: animations, video clips, sound recordings (use QuickTime, AVI, MPEG, animated GIFs, or any other common file format)
Information that is more convenient in electronic form: sequences, spectral data, etc.
Large quantities of original data that relate to the paper: additional tables, large numbers of illustrations (color or black-and-white), etc.
Legends for ESM tables and figures must be brief, self-sufficient explanations. ESM is to be numbered and referred to as S1, S2, etc. After acceptance for publication, ESM will be published as received from the author in the online version of the article only. It is referred to in the printed version.
Proofreading
Authors are informed by e-mail that a temporary URL has been created from which they can obtain their proofs. Proofreading is the responsibility of the author. Authors should make their proof corrections (formal corrections only) on a printout of the PDF file supplied, checking that the text is complete and that all figures and tables are included. Substantial changes in content, e.g. new results, corrected values, title and authorship, are not allowed without the approval of the responsible editor. In such a case please contact the journal¡¯s Editorial Office before returning the proofs to the publisher. After online publication, corrections can only be made in exceptional cases and in the form of an erratum, which will be hyperlinked to the article.
Offprints
Twenty-five offprints of each contribution are supplied free of charge. Orders for additional offprints can be placed by filling out the order form that is provided with the proofs. When ordering additional offprints, an author is entitled to receive, upon request, a PDF file of the article for personal use.
Online First
Papers will be published online about one week after receipt of the corrected proofs. Papers published online can be cited by their DOI. After release of the printed version, the paper can also be cited by issue and page numbers.
Legal requirements
The author(s) guarantee(s) that the manuscript will not be or has not been published elsewhere in any language without the consent of the copyright holder (the Society for Industrial Microbiology); that the rights of third parties will not be violated; and that the reviewers, editors, publisher, or SIM will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
Authors wishing to include figures, tables or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright holder(s) and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors. Authors of an article published in JIMB may use figures and tabular material in their own subsequent publications without permission, as long as the original JIMB paper is credited.
The editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not comply with the above requirements. The author will be held responsible for false statements or failure to fulfill these requirements.
Authors must provide a signed Copyright Transfer Statement for their paper (see "After Acceptance")
Springer Open Choice
In addition to the traditional publication process, Springer now provides an alternative publishing option: Springer Open Choice (Springer's open access model). A Springer Open Choice article receives all the benefits of a regular article, but in addition is made freely available through Springer's online platform SpringerLink. To publish via Springer Open Choice upon acceptance of your manuscript, please click on the link below to complete the relevant order form and provide the required payment information. Payment must be received in full before free access publication.
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After Acceptance
Upon acceptance of your article you will receive a link to the special Author Query Application at Springer¡¯s web page where you can sign the Copyright Transfer Statement online and indicate whether you wish to order OpenChoice,
paper offprints, or printing of figures in color.
Once the Author Query Application has been completed, your article will be processed and you will receive the proofs.
Copyright transfer
Authors will be asked to sign the Copyright Transfer Statement for their paper. This will ensure the widest possible protection and dissemination of information under
copyright laws.
Open Choice articles do not require transfer of copyright as the copyright remains with the author. In opting for open access, they agree to the Springer Open Choice Licence.
Offprints
Additional offprints can be ordered by the corresponding author.
Color illustrations
Online publication of color illustrations is free of charge. For color in the print version, authors will be expected to make a contribution towards the extra costs.
Proof reading
The purpose of the proof is to check for typesetting or conversion errors and the completeness and accuracy of the text, tables and figures. Substantial changes in content, e.g., new results, corrected values, title and authorship,
are not allowed without the approval of the Editor.
After online publication, further changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum, which will be hyperlinked to the article.
Online First
The article will be published online after receipt of the corrected proofs. This is the official first publication citable with the DOI. After release of the printed version, the paper can also be cited by issue and page numbers. Print
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