Author Guidelines Information About FEBS Open Bio
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Author Guidelines Information about FEBS Open Bio .......................................................................................................... 1 Editorial Policies ............................................................................................................................................. 2 Types of manuscripts .................................................................................................................................... 4 Preparing your manuscript ....................................................................................................................... 5 After Acceptance .......................................................................................................................................... 12 Frequently asked questions ..................................................................................................................... 13 Information about FEBS Open Bio Aims and Scope FEBS Open Bio is an online-only open access journal for the rapid publication of research articles in molecular and cellular life sciences in both health and disease. The journal's peer review process focuses on the technical soundness of papers, leaving the assessment of their impact and importance to the scientific community. FEBS Open Bio publishes experimental findings, critical analysis, methodological and technical innovations, and hypotheses. Novel or innovative work is encouraged, but papers describing sound science of a confirmatory nature in developing fields or extending knowledge of an important topic from one organism to another will also be considered. Articles originally submitted to other FEBS Press publications (FEBS Letters , The FEBS Journal and Molecular Oncology) can be transferred for consideration by FEBS Open Bio with their original reviewer reports, without the need to resubmit or reformat the manuscript. Why publish in FEBS Open Bio? FEBS Open Bio offers: • Easy online manuscript submission and tracking system • Fast and helpful peer review - median time to first decision 28 days in 2016 • Transfer service for articles from other FEBS journals, conserving peer reviews • Fast publication • Accepted articles published online within 7 days • Author-corrected final version available within 20 days • All articles are deposited in PubMed Central and indexed in PubMed Editorial board Information about the journal’s editorial board is available here: https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/22115463/editorial-board/editorial-board Contact us For inquiries relating to the submission or reviewing process, please contact the Editorial Office at [email protected]. Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, will be provided by our publishers, Wiley. November 2018 1 Open access license and article processing charge Open access license This journal is Open Access; all articles will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper. FEBS Open Bio offers corresponding authors the following license agreement: Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY To preview the terms and conditions of this open access agreement, please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Article processing charge FEBS Open Bio is an Open Access journal with no subscribers. A fee is payable by the author or research funder to cover the costs associated with publication. This ensures each article will be immediately and permanently free for anyone to access. The Open Access publication fee for this journal is $1495, excluding taxes. Authors will be asked to pay the article publication charge on acceptance of their article. For articles for the Education Section, the publication costs will be covered by FEBS. Your institute or funder may have an agreement with Wiley to pay all or some of the article publication charge on your behalf. You can check here. Waivers and discounts are available to authors from countries eligible for the Research4Life programs. You can check the lists of countries here. Questions related to Open Access publication fees and waivers should be sent to [email protected] Education Section The Education section of FEBS Open Bio is devoted to research articles in molecular and cellular life sciences education, with the aim of disseminating advice on education techniques and resources. Articles dealing with best practice, innovative methods, teaching bioinformatics, and use of technology in education are welcome, as are those more specifically aimed at internationalization, training or career planning. There is no cost to authors for this section as the publication costs will be covered by FEBS. Editorial Policies Ethical standards All submissions to FEBS Open Bio should conform to standard ethical guidelines, details of which can be found on the website of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). See also Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals http://www.icmje.org November 2018 2 FEBS Open Bio employs a plagiarism detection system (iThenticate). By submitting your manuscript to this publication you accept that your manuscript may be screened for plagiarism against previously published works. Conflict of interest All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. Funding sources You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in: study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. Authorship Authors are required to meet the criteria for authorship as recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). The specific contributions of each author must be described in an Author Contributions statement. Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, after acceptance of your paper must be sent to the Editorial Office and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors, including those authors added or omitted, that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names after the article is published online will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum. Work involving human or animal subjects or tissues The work described in your article must have been carried out in accordance the ARRIVE Guidelines for reporting in vivo animal experiments (http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/arrive-guidelines). Please include, in the Materials and Methods section, details of ethical guidelines (national or institutional) that were followed, and a description of any surgical procedures and peri-operative care. Research involving human subjects or human tissues should comply with The Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki). Please include a statement within the Materials and Methods section, indicating that written informed consent has been obtained from each subject, and that the study methodologies have approval from the appropriate local ethics committee. Preprints and data availability Preprints FEBS Open Bio supports rapid and open scientific communication. Authors are free to upload their work to their personal website, their company’s/institution’s repository or archive, or a not-for-profit subject-based preprint server or repository ahead of or concurrently with submission to the journal. Posting a manuscript to a recognised preprint server does not constitute prior publication. Data accessibility FEBS Open Bio encourages authors to share the data behind the results in their paper. Submission of a research article is taken to imply that the authors are willing to make available to academic researchers November 2018 3 any cell lines, DNA clones, antibodies or similar materials that have been used in the experiments reported. Authors should comply with available field-specific standards for the preparation and recording of data. We recommend authors refer to the Minimum Information for Biological and Biomedical Investigations (MIBBI) Portal for prescriptive checklists for reporting biological and biomedical research where applicable: http://www.biosharing.org/standards/mibbi. Authors must deposit all ‘structured’ data sets (e.g. gene sequences, protein structures, microarray data, etc.) in the appropriate public databases and include the accession number in their paper. On the title page, please include a statement briefly describing the data sets and giving the accession numbers or DOIs. In addition, throughout the text, accession numbers for data stored in external databases will be hyperlinked to provide access to these data if provided in