期刊名称：BIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES ONLINE
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
About Biological Procedures Online
This page includes information about the aims and scope of Biological Procedures Online, editorial policies, open access and article-processing charges, the peer review process and other information. For details of how to prepare and submit a manuscript through the online submission system, please see the instructions for authors.
Aims & scope
Biological Procedures Online is an open access, peer-reviewed journal which publishes articles that improve access to techniques and methods in the medical and biological sciences.
We are also interested in short but important research discoveries, such as new animal disease models.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Reports of new research techniques and applications of existing techniques
- Technical analyses of research techniques and published reports
- Validity analyses of research methods and approaches to judging the validity of research reports
- Application of common research methods
- Reviews of existing techniques
- Novel/important product information
Biological Procedures Online places emphasis on multidisciplinary approaches that integrate methodologies from medicine, biology, chemistry, imaging, engineering, bioinformatics, computer science, and systems analysis.
The journal welcomes manuscripts from innovators who have overcome technical challenges or developed new methods.
Biological Procedures Online has been publishing for over 12 years and has a 5-Year Impact Factor of 2.0.
Open access
All articles published by Biological Procedures Online are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.
Authors of articles published in Biological Procedures Online are the copyright holders of their articles and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the article, according to the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement.
For authors who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, BioMed Central can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed.
Article-processing charges
Open access publishing is not without costs. Biological Procedures Online therefore levies an article-processing charge of £1345/$2250/€1620 for each article accepted for publication. We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. Generally, if the submitting author's institution is a Member the cost of the article-processing charge is covered by the membership, and no further charge is payable. In the case of authors whose institutions are Supporter Members, however, a discounted article-processing charge is payable by the author. For further details, see our article-processing charge page. A limited number of waivers for article-processing charges are also available at the editors' discretion, and authors wishing to apply for these waivers should contact the editors.
Indexing services
All articles published in Biological Procedures Online are included in PubMed, the most widely used biomedical bibliographic database service, which is run by the US National Library of Medicine. Other bibliographic databases that index articles published in Biological Procedures Online include:
- BIOSIS
- CABI
- CAS
- DOAJ
- Embase
- Global Health
- Google Scholar
- PubMed
- PubMed Central
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Scopus
- Zoological Record
The full text of all research articles is deposited in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and other digital archives including e-Depot (The Netherlands).
The full text of all research articles published by BioMed Central is also available on SpringerLink.
Biological Procedures Online is tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and has an Impact Factor of 0.95.
Publication and peer review process
Content overview
Research: reports of data from original research.
Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the scope of the journal.
Commentaries: short, focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the scope of the journal.
Methodology articles: presentations of a new experimental method, test or procedure. The method described may either be completely new, or may offer a better version of an existing method.
Short reports: brief reports of data from original research.
Peer-review policies
All submitted manuscripts are evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor or experts from the Editorial Board and suitable manuscripts are then sent for peer review. The reports of at least two reviewers are considered when deciding on acceptance or rejection of a manuscript; a further reviewer is invited in cases where these reviewers disagree. Final decisions, however, rest with the Editor-in-Chief, who aims to provide an initial decision within six weeks.
Edited by Shulin Li, Biological Procedures Online is supported by an expert Editorial Board.
Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript through the submission system at any time by logging into My Biological Procedures Online, a personalized section of the site.
Reprints
High-quality, bound reprints can be purchased for all articles published. Please see our reprints website for further information about ordering reprints.
Supplements
Biological Procedures Online will consider supplements based on proceedings (full articles or meeting abstracts), reviews or research. All articles submitted for publication in supplements are subject to peer review. Published supplements are fully searchable and freely accessible online and can also be produced in print. All full length articles (proceedings, reviews or research articles) are indexed by PubMed. PubMed displays the title of the supplement only in the case of meeting abstract collections. For further information, please contact us.
Editorial policies
All manuscripts submitted to Biological Procedures Online should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies.
Citing articles in Biological Procedures Online
Articles in Biological Procedures Online should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.
Article citations follow this format:
Authors: Title. Biol Proced Online [year], [volume number]:[article number].
e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. Biol Proced Online 2009, 1:115.
refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.
Why publish your article in Biological Procedures Online?
High visibility
Biological Procedures Online's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. Articles that have been especially highly accessed are highlighted with a 'Highly accessed' graphic, which appears on the journal's contents pages and search results.
Speed of publication
Biological Procedures Online offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through Biological Procedures Online, BioMed Central and PubMed Central and will also be included in PubMed.
Flexibility
Online publication in Biological Procedures Online gives authors the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).
Promotion and press coverage
Articles published in Biological Procedures Online are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be included in abstract books mailed to academics and are highlighted on Biological Procedures Online's pages and on the BioMed Central homepage.
In addition, articles published in Biological Procedures Online may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in Biological Procedures Online. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BioMed Central is available here.
Copyright
Authors of articles published in Biological Procedures Online retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement).
For further information about the advantages of publishing in a journal from BioMed Central, please click here.
Instructions to Authors
Biological Procedures Online is an open access, peer-reviewed journal which publishes articles that improve access to techniques and methods in the medical and biological sciences.
We are also interested in short but important research discoveries, such as new animal disease models.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Reports of new research techniques and applications of existing techniques
- Technical analyses of research techniques and published reports
- Validity analyses of research methods and approaches to judging the validity of research reports
- Application of common research methods
- Reviews of existing techniques
- Novel/important product information
Biological Procedures Online places emphasis on multidisciplinary approaches that integrate methodologies from medicine, biology, chemistry, imaging, engineering, bioinformatics, computer science, and systems analysis.
The journal welcomes manuscripts from innovators who have overcome technical challenges or developed new methods.
Biological Procedures Online has been publishing for over 12 years and has a 5-Year Impact Factor of 2.0.
Each article type published by Biological Procedures Online follows a specific format, as detailed in the corresponding instructions for authors; please choose an article type from the list on the left to view the instructions for authors.
The instructions for authors includes information about preparing a manuscript for submission to Biological Procedures Online, criteria for publication and the online submission process. Other relevant information about the journal's policies, the refereeing process and so on can be found in 'About this journal'.
Biological Procedures Online publishes the following article types:
We use plagiarism detection
 
This journal is a member of, and subscribes to the principles of, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Authors and referees are asked to declare any competing interests.
Copyright rests with the authors. For more information on copyright of articles, see our publisher's copyright and license policy.
Submission checklist |
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Please make sure you have satisfied the points on the following checklist before submitting your manuscript. If you have any questions about the submission process, please contact info@biomedcentral.com. If you are submitting a manuscript to a particular Special Issue, please refer to its specific name in your covering letter.
1. Email addresses
Do you have a list of the email addresses for all the co-authors of the manuscript? You will need to provide these so that we can inform the co-authors when the manuscript has been received and when it is published.
2. Instructions for Authors
Have you read the detailed Instructions for Authors for Biological Procedures Online? You may also like to read Biological Procedures Online's peer review policy.
If you are planning to submit a TeX file, please submit your TeX file as the main manuscript file and your bib/bbl file as a dependent file. Please also convert your TeX file into a PDF and submit this PDF as an additional file with the name 'Reference PDF'. This PDF will be used by internal staff as a reference point to check the layout of the article as the author intended.
3. Covering letter, peer reviewers and editorial board selection
Have you prepared a covering letter for your submission, explaining why we should publish your manuscript and elaborating on any issues relating to our editorial policies detailed in the instructions for authors, and declaring any potential competing interests? This should be provided using the 'cover letter' section of the submission process. And do you have the contact details (including email addresses) of at least two potential peer reviewers for your paper,which you will need at the same time? These should be experts in your field of study, who will be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript's quality. Any peer reviewers you suggest should not have recently published with any of the authors of your manuscript and should not be members of the same research institution. You will be asked to select the one or two Editorial Board members whose interests most closely match the subject of your manuscript.
4. Manuscript files
Do you have all the files for the manuscript in an acceptable format?
Main manuscript
Formats: DOC, DOCX , PDF , RTF (rich text format) , DVI , TEX
Tables less than 2 pages (about 90 rows) should be included at the end of the manuscript. Longer tables should be submitted, and referred to in the text, as additional files. TeX files must use the BioMed Central TeX template.
Figure files
Formats: EPS , PDF (for line drawings) , PNG , TIFF (for photographs and screen dumps) , JPEG (for photographs and screen dumps) , BMP , DOC, DOCX , PPT, PPTX
Must be separate files, not embedded in the main manuscript.
Additional files
May be any standard type of file, eg. movies, datasets, large tables etc.
Files must be named with the three letter file extension appropriate to the file type (eg .pdf, .xls, .txt)
Additional material files should include necessary material that cannot be included in the PDF version of the published article, such as large datasets or movies . Tables should ordinarily be included in the manuscript file, unless they are exceptionally large (more than 2 manuscript pages or 90 rows). The manuscript file should include a short description of any additional files and software necessary to view them.
Please refer to the Instructions for Authors for further information about suitable file types.
5. Article-processing charges
An article processing charge of £1345/US$2250/€1620 is payable for articles accepted for publication in Biological Procedures Online.
If your institution, society or other organization is a member, this cost may be wholly or partly covered by the membership arrangement. If you are applying for an institutional membership payment, the submitting author must be affiliated with the member institution.
Article processing charge waivers or discounts are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors who lack funds. To apply for a waiver or discount, please request one during the submission process. A decision on the waiver will normally be made within two working days.
Submission of the article to the journal can be completed once the payment method has been agreed. Any applicable article processing charge must be paid prior to publication.
Submissions from EU countries are subject to VAT (Value Added Tax). EU customers must supply their VAT Number to be exempt from VAT charge. UK Customers are not exempt from VAT charge. If you choose to pay by a method other than by credit card, there is an administration surcharge applicable.
For more information, see our article processing charge FAQ. Find out how to recommend that your institution become a member.
6. Are you one of the authors of this article?
If not, you cannot submit the article on behalf of the authors.
As part of the submission process you will assign a contact author for the article, and this can be yourself or a co-author where they are registered. Once the manuscript is submitted the contact author takes responsibility so only they will be able to access the manuscript online in the 'My manuscripts' section of the website and receive correspondence sent throughout the peer review and production process.
7. Conditions of submission and BioMed Central Copyright and License Agreement
Do you confirm that all the authors of the manuscript have read and agreed to its content and are accountable for all aspects of the accuracy and integrity of the manuscript in accordance with ICMJE criteria? Do you confirm that readily reproducible materials described in the manuscript will be freely available to any scientist wishing to use them for non-commercial purposes , and that you have ethical approval for any human or animal experimentation (for more information see our Instructions for Authors)? Do you confirm that the manuscript is original, has not already been published in a journal and is not currently under consideration by another journal? By clicking the button below, you are confirming these points and agreeing to these and all other terms of the BioMed Central Copyright and License Agreement and Open Data policy, which we strongly recommend you read.
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Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
- Shulin Li The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America
Associate Editor
- Marina Cretich Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Editorial Board members
- Wim D'Haeze Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc., United States of America
- Marxa Figueiredo Louisiana State University, United States of America
- Julie Gehl University of Copenhagen in Herlev Hospital, Denmark
- David Gewirtz Virginia Commonwealth University, United States of America
- Todd Giorgio Vanderbilt University, United States of America
- Ching-Hung Hsu Shanghai InnoStar Biotech Co. Ltd., China
- Sek-Wen W Hui Roswell Park Cancer Institute, United States of America
- Robert Kapsa University of Melbourne, Australia
- Hans-Peter Kiem University of Washington, United States of America
- Song Li University of Pittsburgh, United States of America
- David Liberles University of Wyoming, United States of America
- Bolin Liu University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, United States of America
- Vinata B Lokeshwar University of Miami School of Medicine, United States of America
- Claudio Luparello Università di Palermo, Italy
- J. Michael Mathis LSU Health Sciences Center, United States of America
- Lluis Mir National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
- Tom Misteli National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States of America
- Craig Nunemaker University of Virginia, United States of America
- Mauro Provinciali Advanced Technology Center for Aging Research, Italy
- Rajagopal Ramesh The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America
- Paul Shapshak USF College of Medicine, United States of America
- Bairong Shen Soochow University, China
- Yu Shyr Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, United States of America
- Masatoshi Tagawa Chiba Cancer Center Research Institute, Japan
- Lily Wu David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, United States of America
- Qing Yi The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America
- Liangfang Zhang University of California, United States of America
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