AUTHOR GUIDELINES Molecular Microbiology Updated June 2020

AUTHOR GUIDELINES Molecular Microbiology updated June 2020 Sections 1. Aims and Scope 2. Submission Process 3. Article Types 4. Peer Review Process 5. After Acceptance 1. Aims and Scope Molecular Microbiology publishes studies of Bacteria, Archaea, eukaryotic microorganisms, and their viruses. Research papers should lead to a deeper understanding of the molecular principles underlying basic physiological processes or mechanisms. Appropriate topics include gene expression and regulation, pathogenicity and virulence, physiology and metabolism, synthesis of macromolecules (proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, polysaccharides, etc.), cell and structural biology, subcellular organization, membrane biogenesis and function, traffic and transport, cell-cell communication and signaling pathways, evolution and gene transfer. Articles focused on host responses (cellular or immunological) to pathogens or on microbial ecology should be directed to our sister journals Cellular Microbiology and Environmental Microbiology, respectively. Molecular Microbiology editorial team has experience in all areas of research covered by the journal. Authors should generally choose the Editor whose interests are closest to their own (see below) but may select another editor if they wish. Editors will reassign papers if they consider that there is a conflict of interest, that another Editor would be more appropriate, or that the chosen Editor cannot handle the manuscript in a timely fashion, in which case the authors will be informed. If in doubt, authors should submit their manuscript to the Editor-in-Chief (John Helmann), who will assign it to the appropriate Editor. Editorial Board: • Melanie Blokesch (Bacterial pathogens, environmental microbiology) • Carmen Buchrieser (Bacterial pathogens, host-pathogen interaction, virulence gene regulation, genomics) • Steve Harris (Fungal molecular biology and pathogenesis) • John Helmann (Editor-in-chief; Bacterial gene regulation, transcriptional control mechanisms, stress responses) • James Imlay (Microbial physiology, enzymology, metabolism) • Tracy Palmer (Bacterial cell surfaces, physiology and energetics, protein traffic, transport) • Dominique Soldati (Parasitology) 2. Submission Process Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mmi. Click here for more details on how to use ScholarOne. For help with submissions, please contact: Editor-in-Chief John D. Helmann - [email protected]. Authors should kindly note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium. Prior posting of articles to a preprint server is encouraged but not required (see below). This journal does not charge submission fees. Article Preparation Support Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence. Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript. Format free submission Molecular Microbiology now offers format free submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process. Before you submit, you will need: • Your manuscript: this can be a single file including text, figures, and tables, or separate files—whichever you prefer. All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including abstract, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Figures and tables should have legends. References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript. If the manuscript, figures or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers. If your manuscript is difficult to read, the editorial office may send it back to you for revision. • The title page of the manuscript, including statements relating to our ethics and integrity policies (see information on these policies below): o data availability statement o funding statement o conflict of interest disclosure o ethics approval statement o permission to reproduce material from other sources • Your co-author details, including affiliation and email address. • An ORCID ID, freely available at https://orcid.org. If articles are formatted using another journal’s style, and have been previously reviewed, expedited review (see below) may be an option. If you are invited to revise your manuscript after peer review, the journal will request the revised manuscript to be formatted according to journal requirements as described below. Open Access Molecular Microbiology is part of Wiley’s OnlineOpen program offering an open access option within hybrid (subscription-based) journals. With OnlineOpen, on acceptance of your article you can choose to pay an Article Publication Charge (APC) to make the article immediately, freely available online for all to read, download, and share. You can learn more on our OnlineOpen page. Preprint policy Please find the Wiley preprint policy here. Note the section on subscription/hybrid open access journals. Molecular Microbiology will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. You may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. You are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article. Registered Reports See the Registered Reports Author Guidelines for full details. Data Sharing and Data Availability This journal expects data sharing. Review Wiley’s Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and select the data availability statement that is right for your submission. Data Citation Please review Wiley’s Data Citation policy. Funding You should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. You are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature. Depending on their source of funding, and existing agreements with funding agencies (e.g. NIH, see below), Wiley will automatically transfer the final accepted version of the manuscript to PubMed Central for release 12 months after on-line publication. To facilitate manuscript transfer to PMC, authors will be asked to enter the funder names during the submission process and are also asked to include the full name of the grant agency in their acknowledgments (e.g. National Institutes of Health), and not simply cite a grant number. Authorship All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. Review editorial standards and scroll down for a description of authorship criteria. Joint first or senior authorship: In the case of joint first authorship, a footnote should be added to the author listing, e.g. ‘X and Y should be considered joint first author’ or ‘X and Y should be considered joint senior author.’ ORCID This journal requires the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID ID when submitting a manuscript. Please refer to Wiley’s resources on ORCID for additional information. Reproduction of Copyright Material If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is your responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners. For more information visit Wiley’s Copyright Terms & Conditions FAQ. The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining written permission to reproduce the material "in print and other media" from the publisher of the original source, and for supplying Wiley with that permission upon submission. Conflict of Interest The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include, but are not limited to: patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships. 3. Article Types Molecular Microbiology publishes three main types of papers: Research Papers, MicroReviews, and solicited MicroCommentaries to accompany accepted articles. MicroReviews MicroReviews should be aimed at as broad a readership as possible and can be on any topic within the scope of Molecular Microbiology, or on related topics that are likely to be of interest to our readers. Please contact the appropriate journal editor to discuss your proposed review topic prior to submission. The editor will determine if the proposed review topic is appropriate for and, importantly, if a review on

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