期刊名称：EXTREMOPHILES
 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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Extremophiles
Life Under Extreme Conditions
Chief Editor: K. Horikoshi
ISSN: 1431-0651 (print version)
ISSN: 1433-4909 (electronic version)
Journal no. 792
Springer Tokyo
Online version available
Online First articles available
Extremophiles features original research articles, reviews, and method papers on the biology, molecular biology, structure, function, and applications of life at high or low temperature, pressure, acidity, alkalinity, salinity, or oxygen concentration; or in the presence of organic solvents, heavy metals, normally toxic substances, radiation, or host defense mechanisms.
Fields covered:
molecular biology
biodiversity
genetics
genomics
proteomics
bioinformatics
survival strategies
macromolecular structure
development
growth
biotechnology / fermentation technology
ultrastructure
biotransformation
metabolism
enzymology
biomembranes
bioenergetics
physiology
cell biology
symbiosis
ecology
bioremediation
methodologies
evolution
isolation
phylogeny
taxonomy
Abstracted/Indexed in:
BIOSIS, Current Contents/ Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, Current Contents/ Life Sciences, Index Medicus
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Instructions to Authors
Submission
Submit your paper to an editor in the appropriate field.
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K. Horikoshi
Alkaliphiles: molecular biology, genetics
Psychrophiles
Piezophiles
Industrial applications
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G. Antranikian
Thermophiles: physiology, metabolism, molecular biology, genetics
Industrial applications
Macromolecular structure, function
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A. Driessen
Bioenergetics
Transport
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W.D. Grant
Alkaliphiles: systematics, ecology, phylogeny
Acidophiles: systematics, ecology, phylogeny
Halophiles
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J.N. Reeve
Molecular biology of Archaea
Methanogenesis
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F. Robb
Molecular biology
Genomics
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J. Wiegel
Thermophiles
Anaerobes
Biotechnology
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D.A. Cowan
Reviews
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If your paper covers a field not mentioned above, please submit it to the Chief Editor.
General
Authors transfer the copyright to their articles to Springer-Verlag effective when the articles are accepted for publication.The copyright covers the exclusive and unlimited rights to reproduce and distribute an article in any form of reproduction (printing, electronic media, or any other form); the copyright also covers translation rights for all languages and countries. For U.S. authors, the copyright is transferred to the extent transferable. The Copyright Transfer Statement, which appears regularly in the journal, should accompany manuscripts on submission.
Papers should be written in English.
A paper should be written only when a piece of work has been completed. The editors prefer one comprehensive paper rather than a series of papers on the same subject as results come to hand.
Three types of papers are accepted by the editors: original research papers, method papers, and reviews. The text should be as clear and concise as possible. Illustrations should be restricted to the minimum needed to illustrate the points made (if they cannot be described in the text), to summarize, or to record important quantitative results. The same data should not be presented in both table and graph form.
The author should mark in the margin where figures and tables may be inserted, and both the form and content of the manuscript should be carefully checked to preclude the need for correction in proof. Should extensive corrections in proof be unavoidable, the correction cost will be charged to the author. However, new results may be given at the end of the paper in a "Note added in proof."
Submissions of reviews covering recent discoveries or topics of current interest are welcome and encouraged. Reviews should be concise and no longer than 6 printed pages (18 pages of double-spaced typescript, including figures, tables, and references).This corresponds to about 5500 words. They should not be extensive reviews covering the full history of the topic. Please send the title and short summary of the proposed topic to the Reviews Editor for approval before submitting a manuscript. Reviews will be peer-reviewed.
To ensure rapid and accurate publication, it is essential that manuscripts conform to the instructions that follow.
When preparing the manuscript the author should consult a copy of the journal and follow its style. Manuscripts should be typed in double-line spacing with wide margins. Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts electronically in PDF form, instead of paper submission. Electronic submission of manuscripts will substantially reduce the editorial processing and reviewing time and will accelerate publication. Alternatively, four complete sets of manuscripts should be submitted (original manuscript typed on one side of the paper only plus three copies photocopied on both sides to save on postage). Lines should be numbered consecutively through the entire text. To reduce mailing costs further, rejected manuscripts will be returned to the authors only if they contain important comments from the referees. Illustrations will be returned only at an author's request.
Authors are strongly advised to use Microsoft Word, either on a PC or Macintosh, to prepare their manuscripts. After the manuscript has been reviewed and accepted for publication, please send the files according to the Technical Instructions that are regularly published in this journal.
Technical instructions (pdf, 183 Kb)
Arrangement of the manuscript
The title page should comprise: title of paper, first name(s) and surname(s) of author(s), laboratory or institution, address to which proofs are to be sent, and a list of nonstandard abbreviations. Standard abbreviations as used in the biochemical literature, as shown in Eur J Biochem 1:259-266, need not be defined.
To facilitate communication between the authors, editors, and publisher, the author should furnish a fax number and an e-mail address, if available, on the title page of the manuscript.
Each paper should be preceded by a brief abstract from which readers should be able to determine quickly whether the subject of the particular paper relates to their specific needs. Furthermore, if the abstract clearly relates the problem, methods, results, and conclusions reported by the article, it can be used immediately by current awareness publications or other information retrieval systems.
The abstract should be as short as possible and should not exceed 200 words. Normally, complete sentences, active verbs, and the third person should be used, and the abstract should be written in the past tense. Standard nomenclature should be used. Unfamiliar terms, abbreviations, and symbols must be defined at first mention.
Immediately following the abstract, five to eight key words should be supplied, indicating the scope of the paper.
Taxonomic names (genus, species, and strains) and any part of the text requiring emphasis should be italicized or marked for italics by underlining.
The introduction should be concise and define the scope of the work in relation to other work done in the same field. It should not as a rule give an exhaustive review of the literature. Materials and methods should give sufficient detail to allow the experiments to be repeated, but there is no value in detailed description unless of a genuine innovation.
Reference to the strain under investigation should be given: genus, species, and variety name (italics), designation of the strain, collection number,or source. When a new bacterial name is proposed, please contact an international authority on nomenclature. Newly isolated bacteria must be deposited in an internationally recognized culture collection if the scientific content of the manuscript is essentially dependent on the respective strain.
Results should be presented with clarity and precision. The discussion should be confined to interpretation of the results without repeating them. Footnotes that do not refer to the title of the article should be numbered consecutively and typed on a separate sheet.
References
References should be cited in the text by the author and year. The reference list at the end of the paper should include only works cited in the text and should be arranged alphabetically by the name of the first author. Citations regarding "unpublished results" or papers "in preparation" should be included in the text but not in the reference list.
References should be cited as follows:
journal papers - names and initials of all authors, year in parentheses, full title, journal as abbreviated in Chemical Abstracts, volume number, first and last page numbers;
books - names and initials of all authors, year, names of all editors, full title, edition, publisher, place of publication.
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Example of a journal paper citation:
Marczynski GT, Shapiro L (1995) The control of asymmetric gene expression during Caulobacter cell differentiation. Arch Microbiol 163:313-321
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Example of a book citation:
Fiechter A (1995) Microbial and enzymatic bioproducts. Springer, Berlin
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Example of an article quoted from a book:
Fantes P (1992) Control of the cell cycle in yeasts. In: Russo VEA, Brody S, Cove D, Ottolenghi S (eds) Development: the molecular genetic approach. Springer, Berlin, pp 150-164
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Figures and tables
Figures are costly and should be used with discretion. An illustration is justified only if it clarifies or reduces the text. Information given in captions should not be repeated in the text. Previously published illustrations are not usually accepted.
Figures and tables must be mentioned in the text and should be numbered sequentially with arabic numerals. A brief descriptive legend should be provided for each figure; legends are part of the text and should be appended to it on a separate page. Figures in a form suitable for reproduction should be submitted separately from the text. The top of the figure, the author's name, and the figure number should all be indicated lightly in soft pencil on the back of each figure. Each of the three manuscript copies should include a copy of each figure; photographs (not photocopies of photographs) must be supplied in triplicate.
The figures should match the size of either the column width (8.6 cm) or the printing area (17.6 ¡Á 23.6 cm). Several figures may be grouped into a plate on one page (17.6 ¡Á 23.6 cm). If plates are submitted, the figures must be mounted on regular bond paper, not on cardboard. The figures, including legends, should not exceed the printing area.
In micrographs, a bar should be used as a size reference, with the length of the bar indicated in the figure legend. A magnification factor given in the legend is not acceptable.
Line drawings should be good-quality glossy prints in the desired final size. The inscriptions should be clearly legible.
Computer drawings are acceptable provided they are comparable in quality to line drawings. Computer-drawn curves and lines must be smooth. Letters (capitals) 2 mm high are recommended.
Half-tone illustrations should be well-contrasted photographic prints (not photocopies), trimmed at right angles and in the desired final size. Inscriptions should be about 3 mm high.
If reduction is absolutely necessary, please state the alternative scale desired. The publisher reserves the right to reduce or enlarge illustrations.
Color illustrations will be accepted. However, the authors will be expected to make a contribution toward the extra costs (approx. US$600 for the first and US$300 for each additional page). The cost for a limited number of color pages per issue will be waived at the discretion of the Chief Editor.
Offprints
Fifty offprints are provided free of charge for each paper. Additional offprints can be ordered when the corrected proofs are returned to the publisher.
Please contact for further information: Life Sciences Editorial, Springer-Verlag Tokyo, 3-3-13 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan (FAX +81-3-3812-4644 or 4699, e-mail: extremo@svt-ebs.co.jp).
Editorial Board
Koki Horikoshi (Chief Editor)
Frontier Research System for Extremophiles
(DEEP-STAR), JAMSTEC
2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan
e-mail: horikok@jamstec.go.jp
Fax: +81-3-3994-0438
Alkaliphiles (molecular biology, genetics),
Psychrophiles, Barophiles, Industrial applications
Garo Antranikian
Technical University Hamburg-Harburg
Institute of Technical Microbiology
Kasernenstrasse 12, 21073 Hamburg, Germany
e-mail: Antranikian@tuhh.de
Fax: +49-40-42878-2582
Thermophiles (physiology, metabolism, molecular
biology, genetics), Industrial applications, Macromolecular
structure and function
Arnold Driessen
Department of Microbiology
Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology
Institute, University of Groningen
Kerklaan 30, 9751 NN Haren, The Netherlands
e-mail: A.J.M. Driessen@biol.rug.nl
Fax: +31-50-363-2154
Bioenergetics, Transport
William D. Grant
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Leicester
P.O. Box 138, Medical Science Building
University Road, Leicester, LE1 9HN, UK
e-mail: WDG1@le.ac.uk
Fax: +44-116-252-5030
Alkaliphiles (systematics, ecology, phylogeny),
Acidophiles (systematics, ecology, phylogeny),
Halophiles
John N. Reeve
Department of Microbiology
The Ohio State University
484 West 12th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1292, USA
e-mail: reeve2@osu.edu
Fax: +1-614-292-8120
Molecular biology of Archaea, Methanogenesis
Frank Robb
COMB, University of Maryland,
Columbus Center, 701 E Part Street,
Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
e-mail: Robb@umbi.umd.edu
Fax: +1-410-234-8896
Molecular biology, Genomics
Juergen Wiegel
Department of Microbiology
The University of Georgia, Biol.
Sciences Building
Athens, GA 30602-2605, USA
e-mail: jwiegel@arches.uga.edu
Fax: +1-706-542-2674
Don A. Cowan
Department of Biotechnology
University of Western Cape
Bellville 7535, Cape Town, South Africa
e-mail: dcowan@uwc.ac.za
Fax: +27-21-959-3505
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