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期刊名称：SKELETAL MUSCLE
 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
Skeletal Muscle is a peer-reviewed, open access, online journal that publishes articles investigating molecular mechanisms underlying the biology of skeletal muscle. A wide range of skeletal muscle biology is included: development, metabolism, the regulation of mass and function, aging, degeneration, dystrophy and regeneration. The emphasis is on understanding adult skeletal muscle, its maintenance, and its interactions with non-muscle cell types and regulatory modulators.
Skeletal Muscle aims to provide a venue for the publication of novel, cutting-edge research and technological developments involving the application of molecular biology, cellular biology, and biochemistry-based approaches, and to answer questions relevant to the understanding of skeletal muscle.
Main areas of interest include:
- differentiation of skeletal muscle
- atrophy and hypertrophy of skeletal muscle
- aging of skeletal muscle
- regeneration and degeneration of skeletal muscle
- biology of satellite and satellite-like cells
- dystrophic degeneration of skeletal muscle
- energy and glucose homeostasis in skeletal muscle
- non-dystrophic genetic diseases of skeletal muscle, such as Spinal Muscular Atrophy and myopathies
- maintenance of neuromuscular junctions
- roles of ryanodine receptors and calcium signaling in skeletal muscle
- roles of nuclear receptors in skeletal muscle
- roles of GPCRs and GPCR signaling in skeletal muscle
- other relevant aspects of skeletal muscle biology
In addition, articles on translational clinical studies that address molecular and cellular mechanisms of skeletal muscle will be published. Case reports are also encouraged for submission.
Skeletal Muscle reflects the breadth of research on skeletal muscle and bridges gaps between diverse areas of science for example cardiac cell biology and neurobiology, which share common features with respect to cell differentiation, excitatory membranes, cell-cell communication, and maintenance. Suitable articles are model and mechanism-driven, and apply statistical principles where appropriate; purely descriptive studies are of lesser interest.
Open access
All articles published by Skeletal Muscle 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.
As authors of articles published in Skeletal Muscle you are the copyright holders of your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate your article, according to the BioMed Central license agreement.
For those of you 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. Skeletal Muscle therefore levies an article-processing charge of £1565/$2450/€1995 for each article accepted for publication. 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. We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. For other countries, article-processing charge waivers or discounts are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors with insufficient funds. Authors can request a waiver or discount during the submission process. For further details, see our article-processing charge page.
Indexing services
All articles published in Skeletal Muscle are included in:
- DOAJ
- Google Scholar
- PubMed
- PubMed Central
- Scopus
The full text of all articles is deposited in digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by BioMed Central on SpringerLink.
Skeletal Muscle is included in the Web of Science and due to receive an Impact Factor in 2016.
Peer-review policy
Edited by Kevin P Campbell, David J Glass and Michael A Rudnicki, Skeletal Muscle is supported by an expert Editorial Board.
Skeletal Muscle operates a closed peer-review system. Manuscripts are initially screened by the Editors-in-Chief and suitable manuscripts are sent to at least two reviewers for consideration. Decisions will be made on the recommendations of the reviewers, but final decisions lie with the Editors-in-Chief.
Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript at any point of the peer review process by logging into the submission system.
Editorial policies
All manuscripts submitted to Skeletal Muscle should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies.
Citing articles in Skeletal Muscle
Articles in Skeletal Muscle 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. Skeletal Muscle [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. Skeletal Muscle 2009, 1:115.
refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.
Appeals and complaints
If you wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint you should, in the first instance, contact the Editor who will provide details of the journal's complaints procedure. For complaints that cannot be resolved with the Editor, the authors should contact the Publisher.
Why publish your article in Skeletal Muscle
High visibility
Skeletal Muscle 's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience.
Speed of publication
Skeletal Muscle 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.
Flexibility
Online publication in Skeletal Muscle gives you 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 Skeletal Muscle are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be highlighted on Skeletal Muscle ’s pages and on the BioMed Central homepage.
In addition, articles published in Skeletal Muscle 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 Skeletal Muscle . A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BioMed Central is available here.
Copyright
As an author of an article published in Skeletal Muscle you retain the copyright of your article and you are free to reproduce and disseminate your work (for further details, see the BioMed Central license agreement).
For further information about the advantages of publishing in a journal from BioMed Central, please click here.
Instructions to Authors
Submission Guidelines
Before you submit your manuscript, please ensure that you have satisfied all formatting requirements and have all the required supporting information as listed below. If you have any questions about the submission process or preparation of your manuscript, please contact info@biomedcentral.com.
Manuscripts cannot be submitted to more than one journal at a time and cannot be submitted by anyone other than one of the authors. The submitting author takes responsibility for the submission on behalf of all authors. All authors must consent to the submission.
1. Correctly format your manuscript
Skeletal Muscle publishes the following article types. Please click on the relevant article type below for instructions on how to format your manuscript.
Figures
Figures must be uploaded as separate files and not embedded in your manuscript.
See Preparing figures for more information.
Tables
Smaller tables that are considered integral to the manuscript can be pasted at the end of the manuscript file in A4 portrait or landscape format. Larger tables can be uploaded separately as additional files.
See Preparing tables for more information.
Additional files
You may provide datasets, tables, movies, or other information as additional files. These will be published along with the article. Do not include files such as patient consent forms, certificates of language editing, or revised versions of the main manuscript document with tracked changes.
The maximum file size for additional files is 20MB each, and files will be virus-scanned on submission.
See Preparing additional files for more information.
2. Prepare supporting information
Please make sure you have the following information available before you attempt to submit your manuscript:
Author information
Full names and email addresses of all co-authors on your manuscript.
Cover letter
A cover letter that includes the following information, as well as any additional information requested in the instructions for your specific article type (see main manuscript section above):
- An explanation of why your manuscript should be published in Skeletal Muscle
- An explanation of any issues relating to journal policies
- A declaration of any potential competing interests
- Confirmation that all authors have approved the manuscript for submission
- Confirmation that the content of the manuscript has not been published, or submitted for publication elsewhere (see our duplicate publication policy)
- If you are submitting a manuscript to a particular special issue, please refer to its specific name in your covering letter
You may suggest potential peer reviewers for your manuscript. If you wish to do so, please provide institutional email addresses where possible, or information which will help the Editor to verify the identity of the reviewer (for example an ORCID or Scopus ID). Intentionally falsifying information, for example, suggesting reviewers with a false name or email address, will result in rejection of your manuscript and may lead to further investigation in line with our misconduct policy. See our editorial policies for guidance on suggesting peer reviewers.
Excluding peer reviewers
During submission you may enter details of anyone who you would prefer not to review your manuscript.
The following information must be included under the Declarations section of your manuscript. You will be asked about this information during submission of your manuscript.
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate
Manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must include a statement on ethics approval and consent. Studies involving animals must include a statement on ethics approval.
See our editorial policies for more information.
Consent to publish
All manuscripts containing any individual person’s data in any form require consent to publish from that person, or in the case of children, their parent or legal guardian.
See our editorial policies for more information.
Availability of data and materials
For all journals, you must include an 'Availability of data and materials' section within the ‘Declarations’ of your manuscript detailing where the data supporting your findings can be found. For some journals, deposition of your data is mandatory (see information on individual article types above). For journals where data deposition is not mandatory, BioMed Central strongly encourages all datasets on which the conclusions of the manuscript rely be either deposited in publicly available repositories or presented in the main paper or additional supporting files. If you do not wish to share your data, please state that data will not be shared, and state the reason.
See our editorial policies and preparing your manuscript for more information.
Competing interests
All financial and non-financial competing interests must be declared in this section. You will be asked about this during submission of your manuscript.
See our editorial policies for more information on competing interests.
Funding
All sources of funding for the research reported should be declared.
3. Agree to conditions of submission, BioMed Central’s copyright and license agreement and article-processing charge (APC)
Copyright and license agreement
During submission, you will need to accept and confirm the following conditions of submission:
- All 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
- That the manuscript is original, has not already been published in a journal, and is not currently under consideration by another journal
- That you agree to the terms of the BioMed Central Copyright and License Agreement and Open data policy, which we strongly recommend you read. For authors who are prevented from being copyright holders (for instance where Crown Copyright applies or researchers are US government employees) BioMed Central can accommodate nonstandard copyright lines. If this applies to you, please contact us and provide details of your situation
- For more information see our Copyright and license policy
Article-processing charge
An article-processing charge (APC) applies for each article accepted for publication in Skeletal Muscle . For details of the journal's APC see About Skeletal Muscle and for answers to some frequently-asked questions please see our article-processing charge page.
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief Kevin P Campbell, University of Iowa, USA David J Glass Novartis, Institutes for Biomedical Research, USA Michael A Rudnicki, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada
Editorial Board members
David L Allen, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Elisabeth R Barton, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Mary Baylies, Sloan Kettering Institute, USA
Alan Beggs, Harvard Medical School, USA
Carmen Birchmeier, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Germany
Helen Blau, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Sue Bodine, University of California, USA
Andrew Brack, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Jeffrey Chamberlain, University of Washington School of Medicine, USA
Ronald Cohn, University of Toronto, Canada
Kay Davies, University of Oxford, UK
Robert Dirksen, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Kenneth Fearon, University of Edinburgh, UK
Paul Gregorevic, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Australia
Denis Guttridge, Ohio State University, USA
Susan Hamilton, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Robert Krauss, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Nigel Laing, University of Western Australia, Australia
Se-Jin Lee, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Leslie Leinwand, University of Colorado, USA
John McDermott, York University, Canada
Lynn Megeney, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada
Luciano Merlini, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Italy
Antonio Musaro, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Pura Muñoz-Cánoves, University Pompeu Fabra , Spain
Ichizo Nishino, National Institute of Neuroscience and National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan
Kathryn North, Children's Hospital at Westmead and Univ of Sydney, Australia
Eric N Olson, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Bradley Olwin, University of Colorado, USA
Grace Pavlath, Emory University, USA
Mario Pende, Inserm , France
Rita Perlingeiro, University of Minnesota, USA
Michael Polkey, Royal Brompton Hospital and National Heart and Lung Institute, UK
Scott Powers, University of Florida, USA
Pier Lorenzo Puri, Burnham Institute, USA
Thomas Rando, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Frederic Relaix, International Research Training Group for Myology, France
Markus Rüegg, University of Basel, Switzerland
Marco Sandri, University of Padova, Italy
Vittorio Sartorelli, National Institutes of Health, USA
Stephen Tapscott, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Kenneth Walsh, Boston University , USA
Zipora Yablonka-Reuveni, University of Washington , USA
Peter Zammit, King's College London, UK
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