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Guide for AuthorsWelcome to the electronic manuscript submission website for Cell Research. The instructions below are structured so you can quickly and easily answer the following questions:
Cell Research publishes 12 issues Cell Research a year and is abstracted or indexed in:
Benefits of Publishing with CRCell Research (CR) is committed to publishing high quality, independently peer-reviewed research and review material.The journal is published in partnership with Nature Publishing Group (NPG), which uses pioneering technologies, innovative formats and world-class production to provide premium information for scientific researchers in the public and private sectors, government agencies and educators. A key strength of NPG is its close relationship with the scientific community. By working closely with scientists, listening to what they say, and always placing emphasis on quality rather than quantity, NPG is the leading scientific publisher at finding innovative solutions to scientists' information needs, both for the Nature-branded publications and those, like CR, published in partnership.
QualityAuthors who choose to publish in any NPG journal can be assured that its staff's publishing, editorial and production skills are committed to maintaining the highest possible quality and standards.
Exposure - widest possible readershipAll NPG journals, including CR, are available online via site licenses to academic, corporate and government institutions and consortia. Journals are available to members of these institutions at the click of a mouse, adding speed and visibility to authors' research papers.Regular free e-mail alertsContent published in CR has the potential to reach scientists around the world who have signed up for NPG's free table of contents e-alerts, ensuring additional exposure to authors. These e-alerts allow recipients to click through to the full article if they subscribe or work at an institution with a site license, or click through to the article's abstract for other readers.Focused subject areas on nature.comFrom immunology to physics, genetics to materials, subject-specific areas provide a focused environment for readers, providing a monthly updated focus for a particular field.Media coverageThe Nature News Service provides information about exceptionally interesting papers published throughout NPG. More than 2,000 journalists and media organizations worldwide subscribe to the press service, ensuring that papers receive maximum exposure in the world's most important media channels including newspapers, magazines, radio and television.Extending science further - global collaborationsNPG support a number of global collaborations aimed at making current research available to a broader community of scientists and practitioners.All NPG journals, including CR, are in WHO's HINARI program, and in FAO's AGORA program, which provide free or low cost access to public institutions in developing countries.
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ScopeCell Research publishes results of significance and originality in all disciplines of cell biology and molecular biology. The journal has an international authorship and a broad scope in basic research including:
Format of PapersPreparation of manuscripts Cell Research publishes peer-reviewed original articles, invited reviews, commentaries, and letters to the editor. Original articles report significant original basic research that describe novel molecular and cellular processes and events and/or address biological mechanisms. Reviews and Commentaries review or comment on current progress in any field covered by the journal. Reviews are generally invited in advance by the editors. Letters to the editor report novel findings that have an immediate major impact on current biological research with only one figure and less than 10 references. The manuscript should be legibly typed in A4 or American quarto format. All sections of the manuscript must be double-spaced with generous margins. Number each page, including the title page. Underline only words or letters to appear in italics. Please indicate the position of each figure and table in the margin.
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Please note that the use of Nature Publishing Group Language Editing is at the author's own expense and in no way implies that the article will be selected for peer review or accepted by an NPG journal (or any other journal). The decisions that the editors of any NPG journal make based on the quality and suitability of a manuscript for that journal are entirely independent of whether that manuscript has been language-edited by Nature Publishing Group Language Editing.
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Abbreviations References The references should include only articles that are published or in press. The references are each numbered, ordered sequentially as they appear in the text. List all authors unless there are more than 6, in which case only the first 3 should be given, followed by “et al”. Please use the following style for references:
Article in a Journal:
Chapter in a Book:
A book:
Online Publication: Figures Figures and images should be labeled sequentially, numbered and cited in the text. Figure legends should be printed, double spaced, on a separate sheet titled ‘Titles and legends to figures’. Figures should be referred to specifically in the text of the paper but should not be embedded within the text. The use of three-dimensional histograms is strongly discouraged when the addition of the third dimension gives no extra information. If a table or figure has been published before, the authors must obtain written permission to reproduce the material in both print and electronic formats from the copyright owner and submit it with the manuscript. This follows for quotes, illustrations and other materials taken from previously published works not in the public domain. The original source should be cited in the figure caption or table footnote. Colour figures can be reproduced if necessary, but the authors will be expected to contribute towards the cost of publication. A quote will be supplied upon acceptance of your paper. Artwork GuidelinesDetailed guidelines for submitting artwork can be found by downloading the guidelines PDF. Using the guidelines, please submit production quality artwork with your initial online submission. If you have followed the guidelines, we will not require the artwork to be resubmitted following the peer-review process, if your paper is accepted for publication. Colour on the web Authors who wish their articles to have FREE colour figures on the web (only available in the HTML (full text) version of manuscripts) must supply separate files in the following format. These files should be submitted as supplementary information and authors are asked to mention they would like colour figures on the web in their submission letter. For Single Images:
For Multi-part Images :
Authors may be asked to pay the full colour fee for figures that are not submitted in the format described above. TablesThese should be labeled sequentially as Table 1, Table 2, etc. Each table should be typed on a separate page, numbered and titled, and cited in the text. Reference to table footnotes should be made by means of Arabic numerals. Tables should not duplicate the content of the text. They should consist of at least two columns; columns should always have headings. Authors should ensure that the data in the tables are consistent with those cited in the relevant places in the text, totals add up correctly, and percentages have been calculated correctly. Unlike figures or images, tables may be embedded into the word processing software if necessary, or supplied as separate electronic files. House Style As the electronic submission will provide the basic material for typesetting, it is important that papers are prepared in the general editorial style of the journal.
File Formats: File formats for manuscript files, figures and tables that are acceptable for our electronic manuscript submission process are given on the online forms. Further advice on file types is also available from the Tips webpage. Please follow our artwork guidelines for submitting figures, and use a common word-processing package (such as Microsoft Word) for the text. Either embed tables converted into images at the end of your Word document, or as a separate files in which ever program you used to generate them. If you submit raw data, this can be done in Excel, or tab/comma delimited format.
Supplementary information
Supplementary information is peer-reviewed material directly relevant to the conclusion of an article that cannot be included in the printed version owing to space or format constraints. It is posted on the journal's web site and linked to the article when the article is published and may consist of data files, graphics, movies or extensive tables.
The printed article must be complete and self-explanatory without the supplementary information. Supplementary information enhances a reader’s understanding of the paper but is not essential to that understanding.
Supplementary information must be supplied to the editorial office in its final form for peer review. On acceptance the final version of the peer reviewed supplementary information should submitted with the accepted paper. Supplementary information is not subedited, so authors should ensure that it is supplied ready for publication online.
To ensure that the contents of the supplementary information files can be viewed by the editor(s), referees and readers, please also submit a ‘read-me’ file containing brief instructions on how to use the file.
The supplementary information may not be altered, nor new supplementary information added, after the paper has been accepted for publication. Supplying supplementary information files
Please supply the supplementary information via eJP, the electronic manuscript submission and tracking system, in an acceptable file format (see below).
Accepted file formats
File sizes must be as small as possible, so that they can be downloaded quickly. Images should not exceed 640 x 480 pixels (9 x 6.8 inches at 72 pixels per inch) but we would recommend 480 x 360 pixels as the maximum frame size for movies. We would also recommend a frame rate of 15 frames per second. If applicable to the presentation of the supplementary information, use a 256 colour palette. Please consider the use of lower specification for all of these points if the supplementary information can still be represented clearly. Our recommended maximum data rate is 150 KB/s.
The number of files should be limited to eight, and the total file size should not exceed 8 MB. Individual files should not exceed 1 MB. Please seek advice from the editorial office before sending files larger than our maximum size to avoid delays in publication. Further questions about the submission or preparation of supplementary information should be directed to the editorial office.
Submission of papersThe first thing you need to do, if you have not done so already, is register for an account. After this, please consult the instructions below to enable you to submit your article through our secure server. Please be sure that your browser is set to accept cookies. Our tracking system requires cookies for proper operation. (If you have Windows XP the defaults will need changing. For more details on this, please refer to the 'Tips' function on this site.)
Navigating the System
When you first access our tracking system, you will be taken to your Home page, where different categories of tasks are listed. If you are required to perform a pending action item or task, there will be a red arrow At any time please press HOME to go to the submission home page.
Process for Manuscript SubmissionPlease make sure you have gathered all the required manuscript information listed above BEFORE starting the submission process. The manuscript submission process starts by pressing the "Submit Manuscript" link on your "Home" page. The manuscript submission process is broken down into a series of 4 screens which gather detailed information about your manuscript and allow you to upload the pertinent text and figure/image files. The screens run in this order:
You will need to have the following details for all authors before commencing online submission. Items in parenthesis may not be compulsory for co-authors:
In addition you will need:
Adobe Acrobat
Once you have submitted your files and the conversion is in progress, you may log off the Internet and come back later to check and approve the conversion. This process can take up to 5 - 10 minutes before the PDF, created in the conversion process, is ready for approval. Please remember that your manuscript will not be submitted until you have approved the converted files.
Getting Help If you need additional help, you can click on the help signs
Manuscript Status After you approve your manuscript it is submitted and you will receive an acknowledgement email. You can check the status of your manuscript at any time in the review process by:
Licence to Publish The corresponding author must complete and sign the Licence to Publish form upon acceptance of the manuscript and return it to the editorial office. Failure to do so will result in delays to the publication of your paper. A copy of the Licence to Publish form can be found at http://mts-cr.nature.com/letters/cr_publish.pdf Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences does not require authors of original research papers to assign copyright of their published contributions. Authors grant Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences an exclusive licence to publish, in return for which they can re-use their papers in their future printed work. NPG's author licence page provides details of the policy and a sample form. Authors are encouraged to submit their version of the accepted, peer-reviewed manuscript to their funding body's archive, for public release six months after publication. In addition, authors are encouraged to archive their version of the manuscript in their institution's repositories (as well as on their personal web sites), also six months after the original publication. Authors should cite the publication reference and doi number on any deposited version, and provide a link from it to the published article on the NPG website. This policy complements the policies of the US National Institutes of Health, the Wellcome Trust and other research funding bodies around the world. NPG recognizes the efforts of funding bodies to increase access of the research they fund, and strongly encourages authors to participate in such efforts.
Proofs Once the manuscript has been accepted, the corresponding author will receive PDF proofs and are responsible for proofreading and checking the entire article. Authors should correct only typesetting errors, no major alteration of the text will be accepted. Page proofs must be returned within 48 hours to avoid delays in publication along with the reprint order if required. Offprints Offprints may be ordered using the order form available for download with the proofs. Later orders submitted after the journal is printed are subject to increased reprint prices. Page Charges Page charges are currently 400 RMB (US$50) per print page in black and white and 1500-1200 RMB (US$200) per color page in the journal. These charges can be paid to Cell Research by Telegraph Transfer or Check by International Express Companies or through Post Office registered letter to avoid losses. (1) Telegraph transfer: Item Title: Publication fee to Cell Research Bank Name: Agricultural Bank of China, Shanghai Branch. Account No.: 033924-00801048006 Account Name: Cell Research, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Address: Room 401, Building 31B, 319 Yueyang Road, Shanghai 200031, China. (2) Remittance through Post Office Account Name: Cell Research Address: Room 401, Building 31B, 319 Yueyang Road, Shanghai 200031, China.
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