期刊名称：PROTIST
 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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Protist is the international forum for reporting substantial and novel findings in any area of research on protists. The criteria for acceptance of manuscripts are scientific excellence, significance, and interest for a broad readership. Suitable subject areas include: molecular, cell and developmental biology, biochemistry, systematics and phylogeny, and ecology of protists. Both autotrophic and heterotrophic protists as well as parasites are covered. The journal publishes original papers, short historical perspectives and includes a news and views section. |
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Instructions to Authors
Protist publishes papers that report substantial and novel findings in any area of research on protists. Suitable subject areas include: molecular, cell and developmental biology, biochemistry, systematics and phylogeny, and ecology of autotrophic and heterotrophic protists. The journal will not, in general, publish floristic/faunistic accounts, descriptions or redescriptions of taxa which are not based on new original data, taxonomic work which lacks reproducibility or papers that are preliminary or merely confirmatory. The criteria for acceptance of manuscripts are scientific excellence, significance, and interest for a broad readership.
Copyright
Submission of a manuscript implies that the submitted work has not been published before (except as part of a thesis or lecture note or report, or in the form of an abstract ); that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors as well as by the authorities at the institute where the work has been carried out; that written permission of copyright holders was obtained by the authors for material used from other copyrighted sources; that, if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors hand over the transferable copyrights of the accepted manuscript to the publisher; and that the manuscript or parts thereof will thus not be published elsewhere in any language without the consent of the copyright holder. Copyrights include, without spatial or timely limitation, the mechanical, electronic and visual reproduction and distribution; electronic storage and retrieval; and all other forms of electronic publication or any other types of publication including all subsidiary rights.
Organization of Manuscripts
Manuscripts should be written in concise, logical, and grammatically correct English, and all pages should be numbered. Poorly written papers will be returned to the authors without further review. The manuscript should be organized in the following order: Title Page, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Results, Discussion, Methods, Acknowledgements, References, Tables and Figure Legends. The Title Page should include the authors' full names and affiliations, a running title of less than 40 characters (including spaces), the FAX number and e-mail address of the corresponding author. Any change of address may be given in numbered footnotes. The Abstract should be a single paragraph not exceeding 200 words. It must stand on its own with no reference to the text, and abbreviations and reference citations should be avoided. Up to six Keywords should be given in alphabetical order, following the Abstract. Results and Discussion can be subdivided further if subheadings give the manuscripts more clarity. Methods should reference all standard procedures but must be complete enough to enable the experiments to be reproduced. Scientific names of organisms used (including authorities), and their sources should be provided in this section. Trade names should be capitalized and the manufacturers'names and addresses given. Only SI (Système International d'Unités) units should be used throughout the manuscript. It is recommended that authors consult a current issue of Protist for guidance on format, organization, and preparation of
figures, legends, tables, and references.
Conventions
In general, this journal follows the conventions of the CBE Style Manual (Council of Biology Editors, Inc., 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20841, 1983, 5th edn). For chemical nomenclature, the Subject Index of Chemical Abstracts should be followed. Genetic loci as well as scientific names of organisms should be italicized (underlined in typed copy); protein products of the loci are not italicized, nor are journal names or foreign phrases. Nonstandard
abbreviations should be spelled out on first mention, followed by the abbreviated form in brackets. A footnote of nonstandard abbreviations used in the paper, in alphabetical order, followed by its spelled-out version should be supplied.
Figures and Legends
Each copy of a submitted manuscript should be provided with a set of figures of sufficient quality for reviewers to judge the data. Manuscripts submitted with substandard figures will be returned to the authors without further review. Figures should be cited in numerical order in the text. Arabic numerals should be used for figures and upper case letters for multiple parts of a single figure.
Line drawings. Figures may be prepared as original drawings, laser prints or sharp glossy prints. They will be reduced to one column (8.3 cm) or less whenever practical. Authors should plan the size of numbers, letters and symbols to meet a height of 1.5-2 mm after reduction of the figure to a width of 8.3 cm.
Gels. Photographs of gels will be reduced to a lane width of 4-5 mm (single column width or less preferred). The letters and numbers labeling these photographs should be planned so that they are 1.5-2 mm high after reduction to the Journal's specifications.
Micrographs. All halftone photographs should be submitted in the size that they will appear in the journal; they must be printed to fit one column (8.3 cm) or two columns (17.1 cm) in width and no more than 18 cm in length so that the legend will fit on the same page as the illustration. Multiple halftones should be mounted with no spaces separating the prints. Illustrations must be labeled to a professional standard. Only press-on symbols and Helvetica lettering should be used. Magnification bars should be given on electron and light micrographs. All figures must be identified with the figure number and authors' names in soft pencil or on labels on the back.
Figure Legends. Legends should be typed double spaced in paragraph form on sheets separate to those containing the figures. They should contain sufficient information to be understood without reference to the text and without repeating information presented in the text and should not contain methods. All symbols and abbreviations used in the figures should be explained. Each figure should be provided with a short title.
Digital Images
Digital images should always be accompanied by a high quality hardcopy printout from the same file to be used as camera copy in the event that the digital image cannot be accessed and/or comparison for output. The primary criteria for usable files are: the file should be submitted in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) or Tag Image File Format (TIFF) form that can be brought into Adobe Photoshop and should be at least 300 dpi at final size for halftones and color, 600 dpi for combinations, and 1200 dpi for line shots. The hardcopy output should be the same size as the digital file. For color, the file must be in the CMYK format. Because of variations in output devices, color variations may occur between hardcopy and the printer's match print. Requests to rescan art to match a color will be charged to the author.
Tables
Tables should be typed double-spaced on separate sheets. They should have a brief descriptive title and be self-explanatory. Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals as they are mentioned in the text. No vertical rules should be used. Explanatory material and footnotes should be inserted below the table and designated with lowercase letters in the order in which they are referenced in the table.
References
References should be cited in the text by name and date of publication and not by number (e.g. Cohen and Beisson 1988). Joint authors should be referred to by et al. if there are more than two, e.g. Wilson et al. (1996). More than one paper from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters a,b,c, etc., placed after the year of publication. Listing of several references in the text should be alphabetical (Falkowski 1995; Simpson and Maslov 1994). References should be typed double-spaced on a separate sheet in alphabetical order and should contain complete titles and inclusive page numbers. The names of journals should be abbreviated as in the Serial Sources for the Biosis Data Base (published annually by Bio-Sciences Information Service of Biological Abstracts, Philadelphia, PA 19103). Unpublished results, including personal communications and submitted manuscripts should be cited in the text only, not in the reference list. Personal communications must be accompanied by permission letters unless they are from the authors' laboratories. Unpublished work must not be cited in the Methods section. Citation of abstracts in the reference list is not permitted. In press' citations must have been accepted for publication and the name of the journal or publisher included. In the reference list the following style should be used:
Wilson RJM, Denny PW, Preiser PR, Rangachari K, Roberts K, Roy A, Whyte A, Strath M, Moore DJ, Moore PW, Williamson DH (1996) Complete gene map of the plastid-like DNA of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. J Mol Biol 261: 155-172
Cohen J, Beisson J (1988) The Cytoskeleton. In Görtz HD (ed) Paramecium. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp 363-392
Margulis L, Corliss JO, Melkonian M, Chapman DJ, eds (1990) Handbook of Protoctista. Jones and Bartlett Publ, Boston
Submission of Papers
Manuscripts may be submitted as hard copies or electronically.
Hard Copy Submission. Three copies of each paper should be submitted. Papers should be typed double-spaced on one side only of A4 or American quarto paper with margins of at least 30 mm all round. Manuscripts will be returned without review if they are submitted with less than double spacing or on a dot matrix printer that does not produce letter quality text. High-quality figures should be provided with each copy of the manuscript (photocopies of halftone figures are unacceptable). The original illustrations and electronic files should not be included initially. These must be sent with the revised manuscript. Protist prefers to use electronic artwork because it is easier to work with and it improves the quality of figures on the printed page (see Digital Images). Electronic files may be sent as floppy disk, CD-ROM or ZIP disk. They must contain the final revision, include operating system and word processing program used and must be accompanied by one hard copy printout.
Electronic Submission. Manuscripts may be submitted as a single Adobe Acrobat PDF file. Graphics should be prepared at publication quality resolution in TIFF or EPS form (see Digital Images) and saved in PDF format. Manuscripts not submitted as a PDF file may be submitted as separate text and graphic files (graphics will only be accepted as TIFF or EPS files). Separate source files for text and graphics as well as one hard copy are required when the manuscript is accepted for publication (the PDF file is not suitable for publication).
Authors are welcome to provide the names, addresses, FAX numbers and E-mail addresses of up to five potential referees. All manuscripts should be submitted to the Editorial Office:
Prof. Michael Melkonian, Editor-in-Chief, Protist, Botanisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Gyrhofstr.15, D-50931 Köln, Germany; e-mail michael.melkonian@uni-koeln.de . Questions regarding submitted manuscripts should be directed to the Editor-in-Chief.
Review Process
Papers submitted to Protist will be reviewed by members of the editorial board and expert ad-hoc reviewers. Decisions will be made as rapidly as possible (in general within four weeks after submission). When a manuscript is returned to authors for revision, the revised version must be submitted within three months of the authors'receipt of the referee reports. A manuscript received later will be treated as a new submission.
Page Proofs
Authors will receive one set of proofs, which should be corrected and returned to the Editorial Office within 48 hours of receipt by express (overnight) mail, or by FAX if necessary. With the exception of typographical or printer's errors, no changes will be made in the manuscript at the proof stage.
Reprints
Twenty-five reprints of each article will be supplied free. Additional reprints may be ordered at the prices shown on the Price List which will be sent to the author together with the reprint order form included with the page proofs. The reprint order form must be returned before the Journal goes to press. As indicated on the forms, an institutional purchase order must be sent to the publisher before reprints will be released.
No Page Charges
There will be no page charges. Color illustrations are reproduced at the authors?expense.
Registration of Sequences
Papers published in Protist that deal with nucleotide or amino acid sequences must carry a statement that the data have been deposited with an appropriate data bank (e.g. EMBL, GenBank, DDBJ). The data base accession number must be given in the Methods section of the manuscript. Any accepted manuscript that does not have such numbers by the page
proof stage will be held until the numbers are provided.
Distribution of Material
Publication of a paper in Protist implies that authors will distribute freely to researchers, for non-commercial purposes, all propagative materials such as protist cultures, cell lines, recombinant plasmids, vectors, viruses and monoclonal antibodies that were used to obtain results presented in the article and that are not available from commercial suppliers. Protist requires authors to state in the Methods section that these materials will be available on request.
Editorial Board
Michael Melkonian
(President of the International Phycological Society)
Universität zu Köln, Botanisches Institut,
Gyrhofstr. 15, D-50931 Köln, Germany
Phone: + 49 (0) 221/ 470-24 75
Fax: + 49 (0) 221/ 470-51 81
e-mail: michael.melkonian@uni-koeln.de
Editorial Board
Robert A. Andersen, West Boothbay Harbor, ME/USA
Donald M. Anderson, Woods Hole, MA/USA
Janine Beisson, Gif-sur-Yvette/France
John O. Corliss, Bala Cynwyd, PA/USA
Bland J. Finlay, Ambleside/UK
Keith Gull, Manchester/UK
Richard Kessin, New York, NY/USA
Eric Meyer, Paris/France
Dieter Mollenhauer, Biebergemünd/Germany
Saul Purton, London/UK
Larry Simpson, Los Angeles, CA/USA
Mitchell L. Sogin, Woods Hole, MA/USA
Ulrich Sommer, Kiel/Germany
Egbert Tannich, Hamburg/Germany
R. Iain Wilson, London/UK
George B. Witman, Worcester, MA/US
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