期刊名称：COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES
 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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The journal Comptes Rendus Biologies covers the following fields:
Molecular biology and genetics
Biological modelling
Genetics
Development and reproduction biology
Cell biology
Biochemistry
Neurosciences
Physiology
Animal biology and pathology
Plant biology and pathology
Immunology
Microbiology: bacteriology, mycology, parasitology, virology
Pharmacology, toxicology
Medical sciences
Biophysics
Populations biology
Epidemiology
Ecology
Evolution
Taxonomy
Agronomy
Anthropology
Ethology
Atricles presented are originals notes describing briefly an important discovery, short review papers or historic chronicles. Several thematic issues, coordinated by guest editors, will be published in 2003.
A note to the Comptes Rendus is the initial report of a novel discovery or a significant result. The Comptes Rendus Biologies aim at keeping a high scientific level and a prime position among the rapid publication scientific reviews. The scientific quality of articles is guaranteed by international peer-reviewing.
The periodicity of this series, 12 issues per year, allows rapid publication. You will be able to read articles about scientific discoveries, two or three months after their submission. Articles are written mainly in english. Articles in French are accompanied by a synthesis of at least one page in English.
Texts come from the entire international community and distribution of the journal is regularly widening thoughout the world, with an increasing number of readers and authors, especially in countries where the contributions to scientific advance are particularly active.
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Instructions to Authors
Acad¨¦mie des sciences
23, quai de Conti, 75006 Paris, France
Tel. : (+33) (0)1 44 41 43 77
Telecopie : (+33) (0)1 44 41 43 74
e-mail: champigny@academie-sciences.fr
The Comptes rendus Biologies publish monthly communications dealing with all biological and medical research fields. Manuscripts selected for publication will be full length papers describing original research, or review articles devoted to the most topical subjects in modern biological research. The journal provides for rapid publication (within 12 weeks of acceptance of the manuscript) and for a worldwide distribution. Please follow these instructions carefully so that your manuscript may be handled expeditiously. They are liable to modifications. As a consequence, we request that authors always consult the last issue available, or the publisher?s web site (http://www.elsevier.fr).
Submission and reviewing of manuscripts
Submission of a research paper implies that it reports unpublished work and that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The manuscripts (in quadruplicate) must be submitted to a member of the Academy, a foreign associate or a correspondent, who will communicate the paper to the editorial office. Alternatively, the manuscript may be submitted directly to the executive secretary of the editorial committee who will then find an appropriate person to present it. The scientific field under which it is to be published must be indicated at the time of submission. A list of headings is found regularly in the journal. Every article will be reviewed by appropriate referees selected by the editorial office. Changes requested by the reviewer(s) will be forwarded to the corresponding author who will return the revised manuscript as soon as possible.
Preparation of manuscripts
- Language and length
Articles can be submitted either in French or in English. In all cases, they should include two short abstracts (English and French), each of 100 words maximum, accompanied by keywords. Articles in French must include an abridged version in English of about two pages, without refering to figures or citing references. Help for translation may be given to non-French speaking authors for the abridged version in French.
The manuscript may extend to 10 printed pages in total; the abridged version should consist of between one and two printed pages (a printed page is equivalent to 6 000 characters in total, including letters, symbols and spaces; a quarter-page figure is equivalent to 1 500 characters).
Bilingual articles must include an abridged version in the other language, without refering to figures or citing references., i.e. between 6 000 and 12 000 characters.
An article not conforming to these guidelines will be returned to the author.
- Presentation and section of the manuscript
It must be typed, double spaced, on one side of the paper only, and each page must be numbered. Each copy will be accompanied by figures and tables.
Manuscripts should be divided into the following section sequence: title page, abstracts, keywords (maximum 7, in English and French), abridged version in the second language (for bilingual articles), text of the article in the first language, acknowledgements (if desired, maximum 3 lines), references, figure captions, figures, tables. The abstract (100 to 150 words) and keywords must be written in French and in English. Section headings should be numbered following the international numbering system (1.; 1.1.; 1.1.1.). Footnotes are not permitted.
- Title page
The first page must indicate: the scientific field under which the article is to be published (only one); the title in English and in French, short (maximum 80 characters), specific and informative, and including one or two words for indexing purposes; the author?s first name followed by her/his surname (spelled in full); the authors? addresses, including the department, institution, city with postal code, and country. The author to whom proofs are to be sent must be indicated and his/her address must include his/her telephone/fax numbers and e-mail address.
- References
References must be numbered and listed sequentially as they appear in the text (all autotext, field, bookmark, caption, cross-reference, etc. options must be avoided since they cannot be exploited). All entries in the reference list must correspond to references in the text and vice versa. References must be cited in the text by their number between square brackets.
The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the international rules. of Biosciences Information Service (Biosis) or those of the List of Serial Title Word Abbreviations (conforming to ISO 4, Centre international de l?ISSN, Paris, and available from http://www.issn.org). Words for which no abbreviation is given should be written in full. Bold and italic characters should not be used in the reference list, except when made necessary by the context. Multiple references under the same number are not permitted.
Examples are given below of the layout to be used in the reference list.
Article (all authors must be mentioned):
[1] A. Alperovitch, R.G. Will, Predicting the size of the vCJD epidemic in France, C. R. Biologie 325 (2002) 33-36.
Book:
[2] M.B. Brown, Cotton: history, species, varieties, morphology, breeding, culture, diseases, marketing and uses, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1938.
Chapter in a book:
[3] S. Kubin, Measurement of radiant energy, in: Z. Sestak, J. Catsky, P.G. Jarvis (Eds.), Plant Photosynthetic Production. Manual of Methods, Junk, La Haye, 1971, pp. 702-765.
A list of all the other possibilities (journal supplements, proceedings of a congress, accepted articles, edited books, translations, theses, patents, standards, etc.) is available on request from the Editorial Board.
- Figures
All illustrations (schemes, plates, photographs, etc.) should be labelled as figures and numbered using Arabic numerals. Every figure must be cited in the text. A set of original documents or photographs should be provided for reproduction of the figures. Whenever possible, figures should be submitted in their desired final size, i.e. 80 mm wide. Double column figures - if they cannot be avoided - should not exceed 175 mm in width. No original document should exceed A4 size (21 X 29.7 cm). Photographs and half-tones should contain good contrasts. See section below concerning documents supplied in electronic format. Figures in colour are published free of charge at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief (within a limit of 16 pages per year); otherwise they will be charged to the authors (EUR 457 for the first one and EUR 228 for each following one, inclusive of tax).
- Tables
They should be together at the end of the manuscript, even if they appear within the text. They should be numbered using Roman numbers and should be in numerical order in the text. There should not be vertical lines in the tables. A caption is required for each table.
- Conventions and abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined in brackets after their first mention in the text. Internationally accepted units and nomenclature must be used (ISO 31 and ISO 1000). Standard units of measurements and chemical symbols of elements may be used without definition in the manuscript.
- Formulae and equations
Mathematical or chemical equations and formulae must be clearly set out; in particular, exponents and indices should be carefully placed. Less common symbols should either be indicated in the margin of the manuscript or in a list. If necessary, special instructions or explanations for the printer should be clearly set out on a separate sheet attached to the manuscript. Moreover, no sentence should begin with a mathematical formula. Each numbered formula must be cited in the text by its number.
- Electronic documents
All articles must be supplied on disk or Zip (Macintosh or PC formatted - see the document Instructions for the preparation of electronic files, sent to authors by the ?Service des Comptes rendus? and available on the publisher?s web site at the following address: www.elsevier.fr). The following information should be mentioned on the disk: name of the file, operating system (ex: MS DOS, Apple, Unix), word processor and version number (ex: Word 5.1). Texts will have been preferably edited in Word. Tables must be saved in a separate file, in Word or Excel formats only. Figures should be saved in TIFF (minimum 400 dpi resolution), EPS or Adobe Illustrator formats. EPS format is therefore not suitable for text-containing files. Figures in Word format cannot be used. It is important to check that the files on the disk correspond to the final version. Only Zip disks can be returned, and only if the authors ask for it.
Proof reading
Proofs should be checked immediately (only corrections of typographical errors can be made on the proofs) and returned within 48 hours by express (special delivery) mail or by fax to Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier (ESME), 23, rue Linois, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France. If there is no reply within 8 days, the article will be published with just the publisher?s corrections. ?Author?s corrections?, i.e. any substantial changes to the text and figure made by the author on the proofs, other than typesetting errors or corrections required by the Editor-in-Chief of the Comptes rendus, will be charged to the authors at the normal rate adopted in the printing industry, i.e. EUR 19 inclusive of tax per page with corrections, with a minimum of EUR 38 inclusive of tax per article.
Reprints
Authors will receive 25 reprints of their article free of charge. Additional copies can be obtained at the authors? expense. Reprint order forms are sent out with the proofs and must be returned with them if additional reprints are required.
Return of original figures
Authors wishing to have their original figures returned should request this when returning their corrected proofs.
Availability of materials
Publication of a research article in the Comptes rendus implies that the authors agree to make freely available to colleagues in academic research any cell clones, or DNA, or antibodies, etc. that were used in the experiments reported and are not commercially available. Nucleic acids and protein sequences should be deposited in the appropriate data bank before publication, and access numbers should be provided at the proof stage for mention in the article.
Editorial Board
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- Editorial Director
- N. Le Douarin, Acad¨¦mie des Sciences, 23 qui de Conti, 75006 Paris, France
- Editors-in-Chief:
- J. Rosa, Paris, France
S.J. Edelstein, Geneva, Switzerland
- Associate Editors:
- P. Buser
M. Thellier
- Scientific secretaries:
- M-L. Champigny
H. Wajcman
- Editorial Board:
- J-F. Bach
E-E. Beaulieu
H. Chap
P. Cossart
I. Dawid, (Bethesda, USA)
H. D¨¦camps
A. Dejean
L. Dubertret
H. Galjaard, (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
P. Gruss, (Goettingen, Germany)
J. Hoffmann
A. Klier
H. Korn
B. Mach, (Geneva, Switzerland)
J. Mallet
D. Meyer
R. Monier
M. van Montagu, (Gand, Belgium)
J.-P. Mornon
G. Nossal, (Victoria, Australia)
J.-P. Revillard
C.A. Rodriguez-Pousada, (Oeiras, Portugal)
J.-P. Tassin
J.P. Thi¨¦ry
G. Tocchini-Valentini, (Roma, Italy)
J.L. Vives-Corrons, (Barcelona, Spain)
M. Yaniv
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