期刊名称：GUT MICROBES
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Aims and scope
Aims & Scope: The intestinal microbiota plays a pivotal role in human physiology. Characterizing its structure and function has implications for health and disease, impacting nutrition and obesity, brain function, allergic responses, immunity, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, cancer development, cardiac disease, liver disease, and others. Gut Microbes provides a platform for presenting and discussing cutting-edge research on all aspects of microorganisms populating the intestine.
Gut Microbes brings together a multidisciplinary community of scientists working in the areas of:
- Profiling the intestinal microbiota
- Gastrointestinal disease: mechanisms, host defense, diagnosis, epidemiology
- Host-pathogen interactions
- Quorum sensing and toxicity
- Probiotics and prebiotics
- Novel treatments and clinical trials
- Role of intestinal microbiota in health and disease
Gut Microbes offers a variety of formats including Original Research articles, Short Reports, Reviews, and Commentaries.
Please submit your manuscript at http://www.editorialmanager.com/gutmicrobes. All submissions are assessed by the Editor-in-Chief and, if found suitable for Gut Microbes, they are peer-reviewed by independent experts.
Gut Microbes has an outstanding Editorial Board and a flexible Open Access (OA) policy. Immediate OA can be purchased for a reasonable fee.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Group, 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Instructions to Authors
Contents
About the Journal
Gut Microbes is an international, peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality, original research. Please see the journal's Aims & Scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy.
Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.
Gut Microbes accepts the following types of article:
- Research Papers/Reports
- Brief Reports
- Reviews
- Commentaries and Views
- Article Addenda
- Letters to the Editor
- Case Report
Article Publishing Charge
Publication cost forms will be provided to the corresponding author at the proofs stage. The completed form must be returned within 7 business days. Failure to return a completed form will result in delayed final publication of the Version of Record.
Standard page charges to publish in Gut Microbes and optional print color art charges appear below:
Research Paper: $110/page
Brief Report: $110/page
Review: $110/page
Commentary: $110/page
Supplementary Files: $110/total text, figures, tables
Supplementary Movies: $163/first movie + $56/subsequent movie files
Print Color Art 1st page: $375
Additional pages: $163/page (no limit)
Open Access (Rates as of September 1, 2016)
Taylor & Francis recognizes that an increasing number of research-funding agencies require agency-funded research be deposited in public repositories. It is our mission to help authors comply with their institutions and funding agencies. Open Access prices vary based on paper type of paper.
Research Paper: $865
Brief Report: $578
Review: $578
Commentary, Addendum: $292
Peer Review and Ethics
Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be single blind peer reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics.
Preparing Your Paper
All authors submitting to medicine, biomedicine, health sciences, and allied and public health journals should conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals, prepared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
Research Papers/Reports
- Should contain a structured abstract of 250 words. The primary goal of the abstract should be to make the general significance and conceptual advance of the work clearly accessible to a broad readership. References should not be cited in the abstract.
- Should contain between 5 and 10 keywords. Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization.
Should be written with the following elements in the following order:
- Introduction.
- Results: Present results in a logical sequence in tables and illustrations. In the text, explain, emphasize or summarize the most important observations. Units of measurement should be expressed in accordance with Systeme International d'Unites (SI Units).
- Discussion: Do not repeat in detail data given in the Results section. Emphasize the new and important aspects of the study. Relate observations to other relevant studies. On the basis of your findings (and others'), discuss possible implications/conclusions. When stating a new hypothesis, clearly label it as such.
- Patients and Methods/Materials and Methods: Describe the selection of patients or experimental animals, including controls. Do not use patients' names or hospital numbers. Identify methods, apparatus (manufacturer's name and address) and procedures in sufficient detail to allow other workers to reproduce the results. Provide references and brief descriptions of methods that have been published. When using new methods, evaluate their advantages and limitations. Identify drugs and chemicals, including generic name, dosage and route(s) of administration. Indicate whether the procedures were approved by the Ethics Committee of Human Experimentation in your country, or are in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975. For reagents listed in the Materials and Methods section, the company that supplied the reagent and the catalog number should be listed in parentheses; do not list the company location.
- References: No more than 85.
- Figure legends.
- Tables: Tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals and include descriptive titles and legends.
Brief Reports
- Should be no more than 15 pages, inclusive of the abstract, references.
- Should contain a structured abstract of 0 words.
- Should contain between 5 and 10 keywords. Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization.
- A total of four display items (Figures and Tables) are allowed.
Reviews
- Should contain a structured abstract of 150 words.
- Should contain between 5 and 10 keywords. Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization.
- Reviews should be recognized as scholarly by specialists in the field being covered, but should also be written with a view to informing readers who are not specialized in that particular field, and should therefore be presented using simple prose. Please avoid excessive jargon and technical detail. Reviews should capture the broad developments and implications of recent work. The opening paragraph should make clear the general thrust of the review and provide a clear sense of why the review is now particularly appropriate. The concluding paragraph should provide the reader with an idea of how the field may develop or future problems to overcome, but should not summarize the article. To ensure that a review is accessible to as many readers as possible, it may be useful to ask a colleague from another discipline to read the review before submitting it. Submitted reviews are subject to the same page charges as full-length reports—whether and how page charges will apply for commissioned reviews will be determined upon each commission. Reviews should cite no more than 150 references.
Commentaries and Views
- Should contain a structured abstract.
- Should contain between 5 and 10 keywords. Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization.
- Commentaries and Views may be short and focused opinion articles, commentaries on papers recently published in Gut Microbes or elsewhere, or commentaries on significant conceptual changes, important trends or new directions in the field. These may include figures and up to 30 references.
Article Addenda
- Should be between 1000 and 3000 words.
- Should contain a structured abstract of 150 words.
- Should contain between 5 and 10 keywords. Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization.
- Addenda are essentially an auto-commentary. The Editor or Editorial Board will solicit authors of the most significant recent and forthcoming papers, published elsewhere, to provide a short summary with additional insights, new interpretations or speculation on the relevant topic. These manuscripts may include data or models, which due to space limitations were not included or discussed in the original paper. In other words, the authors may provide biased and uncensored points of views, complementing their article. As with other papers published in Gut Microbes, Addenda will appear online and in print. Addenda will appear simultaneously, or very soon after, publication of the original paper. The typical length of an addendum will be approximately 1000-3,000 words and may include up to 50 references. There will be no page charges for Article Addenda and you are encouraged to include figures; however, please note the journal policy regarding color charges below. Please include the following: Abstract (one paragraph of fewer than 150 words) The citation for the original article including the full author list, title of article and journal information should be included on the title page.
Letters to the Editor
- Should be no more than 4500 words.
- Should contain a structured abstract of 120 words.
- Letters to the Editor are aimed at publishing short, but important, breakthrough data not embedded within a complex story. This can also be what is considered a Small Publishable Unit. In other words, data that is sufficient in itself to be published, but not a part of a larger story that would comprise an entire research article. Letters to the Editor can also be mini-reviews with a small addition of novel data. The abstract should not be longer than 120 words. The paper should be structured as a research paper (see above), but without the headings and subheadings. No more than 50 references.
Case Report
- Should be no more than 2500 pages.
- Should contain a structured abstract of 250 words. Case reports in Gut Microbeshighlight unique presentations of GI infection and GI disease to expand current knowledge on infections and diseases caused by gut microbes, as well as new treatments and improvement of patient comfort. A case is worth publishing if it (1) advances basic understanding of a disease or disease process; (2) increases clinical skill; (3) suggests useful research. A useful case report should be factual, concise, logically organized, clearly presented, and readable.
The total report generally should be kept under 2,500 words and include the following sections:
- Abstract: A single paragraph of up to 250 words that summarizes the case(s).
- Keywords: For indexing purposes, 3-6 keywords should be included.
- Introduction: A brief introduction about the infectious disease (causative agent, molecular biology, symptoms and epidemiology) and the treatment used.
- Patient Presentation: This section should detail patient presentation, diagnosis and outcome.
- Discussion: This section should include a brief review of the relevant literature and how this case brings new understanding to the disease or treatment process.
- References: Generally up to 20.
Style Guidelines
Please refer to these quick style guidelines when preparing your paper, rather than any published articles or a sample copy.
Please use American spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”. Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
Papers may be submitted in Word or LaTeX formats. Figures should be saved separately from the text. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s).
Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use.
If you are not able to use the template via the links (or if you have any other template queries) please contact us here.
References
Please use this reference guide when preparing your paper.
Taylor & Francis Editing Services
To help you improve your manuscript and prepare it for submission, Taylor & Francis provides a range of editing services. Choose from options such as English Language Editing, which will ensure that your article is free of spelling and grammar errors, Translation, and Artwork Preparation. For more information, including pricing, visit this website.
Checklist: What to Include
- Author details. Please ensure everyone meeting the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) requirements for authorship is included as an author of your paper. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript. Where available, please also include ORCiDs and social media handles (Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn). One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted. Read more on authorship.
- You can opt to include a video abstract with your article. Find out how these can help your work reach a wider audience, and what to think about when filming.
- Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
For single agency grants
This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
For multiple agency grants
This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
- Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial interest or benefit that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. Further guidance on what is a conflict of interest and how to disclose it.
- Supplemental online material. Supplemental material can be a video, dataset, fileset, sound file or anything which supports (and is pertinent to) your paper. We publish supplemental material online via Figshare. Find out more about supplemental material and how to submit it with your article.
- Figures. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PDF, PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word. For information relating to other file types, please consult our Submission of electronic artwork document.
- Tables. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please supply editable files.
- Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable. More information about mathematical symbols and equations.
- Units. Please use SI units (non-italicized).
Using Third-Party Material in your Paper
You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission. More information on requesting permission to reproduce work(s) under copyright.
Disclosure Statement
Please include a disclosure statement, using the subheading “Disclosure of interest.” If you have no interests to declare, please state this (suggested wording: The authors report no conflict of interest). For all NIH/Wellcome-funded papers, the grant number(s) must be included in the declaration of interest statement. Read more on declaring conflicts of interest.
Clinical Trials Registry
In order to be published in a Taylor & Francis journal, all clinical trials must have been registered in a public repository at the beginning of the research process (prior to patient enrolment). Trial registration numbers should be included in the abstract, with full details in the methods section. The registry should be publicly accessible (at no charge), open to all prospective registrants, and managed by a not-for-profit organization. For a list of registries that meet these requirements, please visit the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP). The registration of all clinical trials facilitates the sharing of information among clinicians, researchers, and patients, enhances public confidence in research, and is in accordance with the ICMJE guidelines.
Complying With Ethics of Experimentation
Please ensure that all research reported in submitted papers has been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner, and is in full compliance with all relevant codes of experimentation and legislation. All papers which report in vivo experiments or clinical trials on humans or animals must include a written statement in the Methods section. This should explain that all work was conducted with the formal approval of the local human subject or animal care committees (institutional and national), and that clinical trials have been registered as legislation requires. Authors who do not have formal ethics review committees should include a statement that their study follows the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
Consent
All authors are required to follow the ICMJE requirements on privacy and informed consent from patients and study participants. Please confirm that any patient, service user, or participant (or that person’s parent or legal guardian) in any research, experiment, or clinical trial described in your paper has given written consent to the inclusion of material pertaining to themselves, that they acknowledge that they cannot be identified via the paper; and that you have fully anonymized them. Where someone is deceased, please ensure you have written consent from the family or estate. Authors may use this Patient Consent Form, which should be completed, saved, and sent to the journal if requested.
Health and Safety
Please confirm that all mandatory laboratory health and safety procedures have been complied with in the course of conducting any experimental work reported in your paper. Please ensure your paper contains all appropriate warnings on any hazards that may be involved in carrying out the experiments or procedures you have described, or that may be involved in instructions, materials, or formulae.
Please include all relevant safety precautions; and cite any accepted standard or code of practice. Authors working in animal science may find it useful to consult the International Association of Veterinary Editors’ Consensus Author Guidelines on Animal Ethics and Welfare and Guidelines for the Treatment of Animals in Behavioural Research and Teaching. When a product has not yet been approved by an appropriate regulatory body for the use described in your paper, please specify this, or that the product is still investigational.
Submitting Your Paper
This journal uses Editorial Manager to manage the peer-review process. If you haven't submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in Editorial Manager. Please read the guidelines above and then submit your paper in the relevant Author Center, where you will find user guides and a helpdesk.
If you are submitting in LaTeX, please convert the files to PDF beforehand (you will also need to upload your LaTeX source files with the PDF).
Please note that Gut Microbes uses Crossref™ to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to Gut Microbes you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.
On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript. Find out more about sharing your work.
Copyright Options
Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission. Taylor & Francis offers a number of different license and reuse options, including Creative Commons licenses when publishing open access. Read more on publishing agreements.
Complying with Funding Agencies
We will deposit all National Institutes of Health or Wellcome Trust-funded papers into PubMedCentral on behalf of authors, meeting the requirements of their respective open access policies. If this applies to you, please tell our production team when you receive your article proofs, so we can do this for you. Check funders’ open access policy mandates here. Find out more about sharing your work.
My Authored Works
On publication, you will be able to view, download and check your article’s metrics (downloads, citations and Altmetric data) via My Authored Works on Taylor & Francis Online. This is where you can access every article you have published with us, as well as your free eprints link, so you can quickly and easily share your work with friends and colleagues.
We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article. Here are some tips and ideas on how you can work with us to promote your research.
Article Reprints
You will be sent a link to order article reprints via your account in our production system. For enquiries about reprints, please contact Taylor & Francis at reprints@taylorandfrancis.com. You can also order print copies of the journal issue in which your article appears.
Queries
Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
Updated 28-02-2019
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Gail Hecht
Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine
Maywood, IL, US
Acquisitions Editor
Associate Editors
Timothy L. Cover - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Suzanne Devkota - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, US
James B. Kaper - University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, US
Purna C. Kashyap - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, US
Beth McCormick - University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, US
Andrew Neish - Atlanta, GA, US
Geoffrey A. Preidis - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, US
John F. Rawls - Duke University, Durham, NC, US
Nita H. Salzman - Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck - Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, US
James Versalovic - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, US
Gary D. Wu - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, US
Editorial Board
Sharon M. Donovan - University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, IL, US
Harry Flint - University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Dale Gerding - Hines VA Hospital, Hines, IL, US Andrew Gewirtz - Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, US
Glenn R. Gibson - University of Reading, Reading, UK
Uri Gophna - Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IL
Masanori Hatakeyama - University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JP
Kenya Honda - University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JP
Lora Hooper - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, US
John Y. Kao - University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, US
Ciaran Kelly - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US
Denise Kelly - University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Rob Knight - University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, US
Wayne Lencer - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US
John Leong - University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, US
Xi Ma - China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Virginia Miller - Chapel Hill, NC, US
Sven Pettersson - Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE
Dana J. Philpott - University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, CA
Eamonn Quigley - Cork University Hospital, Cork, IE
Yehuda Ringel - University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, US
Ilan Rosenshine - Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, IL
Mary Ellen Sanders - International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics,Davis, CA, US
Philippe Sansonetti - Institut Pasteur and Collège de France, Paris, FR
Balfour Sartor - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, US
Karla Fullner Satchell - Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, US
Fergus Shanahan - University College Cork, Cork, IE
Nanda Kumar Navalpur Shanmugam - Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Vanessa Sperandio - UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, US
Phil Tarr - Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, US
Gayatri Vedantam - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, US
V.K. Viswanathan - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, US
Fang Yan - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, US
Vincent B Young - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US
Liping Zhao - Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, CN
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