Editorial Offices Where the Manuscripts
Can Be Submitted
If a manuscript originates from a particular country, it does not necessarily mean that the manuscript should be submitted to the Editor in that country. Authors have the freedom to submit to any one of the editors. If the manuscript is submitted to an Editor other than the Editor-in-Chief, please forward a copy of the covering letter to the Editor-in-Chief at the time of submission. If the manuscript is submitted with separate files for figures, send the manuscript and figures only to the Editor-in-Chief.
The Editors reserve the right to redirect the manuscripts to other members of the Board of Editors or send to the Editor-in-Chief to assign an appropriate Editor.
Review by Referees
All articles will be subject to review by expert referees to ascertain scientific soundness. Authors should suggest a slate of five possible referees. The editors may or may not employ the recommended referees. Please include their complete mailing address, phone, fax and e-mail details of the suggested referees.
Revised Versions
Email the manuscript as an attachment to rhs07@albany.edu. Supply the complete manuscript as an MSWORD.DOC file. In creating the MSWORD.DOC file, if you experience problems in inserting your figures, supply the figures separately as .jpg, .tif or.eps formats. In addition to the MSWORD.DOC file, also email a PDF of the revised manuscript.
Category of Articles
Regular Articles: No page limitations. Normal time for publication of papers which do not undergo extensive revisions is between 3 to 5 months.
Express Communications: Timely discoveries need to be communicated at an accelerated pace, that is, within 2 to 3 months. Authors wishing to have their manuscripts published express should indicate so in the covering letter along with the arguments for immediate communication. Express articles normally should not exceed 12 pages including tables and figures. Editors and referees may disagree with the author's request for express handling, and in this case the article will be processed for normal publication.
Hypotheses: Publication as immediately as possible. Not to exceed four printed pages, papers in this section must propose interesting models and ideas satisfying the following criteria:
- New explanations, hypotheses of certain phenomenon, either recently observed facts not accounted for or well known facts whose "text book" explanations contradict new findings.
- The new hypothesis cannot be easily proven at present.
- There are specific ways to test the new hypothesis in the future, and short descriptions of these ways have to be presented.
Opinions: Publication as immediately as possible. Not to exceed 4 journal pages, papers in this section present new vision/perspective of recent developments; they may also critically address recent publications in any journal. In the latter case the criticized authors will be given a chance to write a prompt response. Articles in this section should primarily address unsolved controversies arising in current research.
Fonts and Special Characters
For text, tables and figure legends, please use the font "Times;" for Greek letters and symbols, use the "Symbol" font or use appropriate key board equivalents under "Times."
Manuscript Organization
The manuscript may be arranged in the following manner: Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Acknowledgments, References and Footnotes. The Materials and Method section should give sufficient details so that the experiments can be repeated. The subheading "Results and Discussion" in many instances can be replaced by a set of appropriate subheadings which reflect the contents. In the Abstract section, if there is a reference, please provide the complete reference (rather than the number in the reference section). This is because Chemical Abstracts and Biological Abstracts use the abstracts from the Journal directly.
The legends for figures and tables should appear under the appropriate figure and on top of the tables, respectively. Figure and Table numbers must be marked clearly. Figures are numbered using the Arabic system (i.e. 1, 2, 3 ...) and tables are numbered in the Roman manner (i.e. I, II, III ...).
Title Page
Do not use all CAPITAL LETTERS for any entry in the title page; use both lower and upper cases. The title page must contain:
- Title in upper and lower case
- Authors and their affiliation. In the case of authors who originate from different institutions, please include a complete mailing address for each institution.
- The author to whom correspondence should be addressed must be indicated by an asterisk along with his/her phone, fax and email data. This will appear as a footnote to page 1 of the article.
References and Footnotes
References and footnotes are numbered sequentially and the numbers appear in parenthesis in the text. Note that except for page 1, there are no footnotes at the end of pages, and hence references and footnotes must be lumped together sequentially. Books and journals are treated equally, their names and volume numbers appear in regular italic. Some examples of the arrangement of references and footnotes (1, 2) are given below:
- R. H. Sarma, M. H. Sarma, R. Rein, M. Shibata, R. S. Setlik, R. L. Ornstein, A. Latif Kazim, A. Cairo and T. B. Tomasi, FEBS Letters 357, 317-323 (1995)
- The nomenclature employed in this article is that approved by IUPAC/IUB.
Equations
Mathematical equations should be clearly created and numbered in the text. The number should appear in square brackets, i.e., [ ], to distinguish them from reference numbers. They must be clearly visible in black in the hardcopy. Equations can be created using Words equation editor.
Nomenclature
The Journal follows IUPAC-IUB nomenclature.
No Page Charges
There are no page charges. Once a manuscript has been accepted by an Editor as scientifically sound, the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics will publish the article at its expense. However, there may be charges for certain special services. For example, a laboratory which has grant support must pay the cost of color illustrations. For laboratories without grant support, the Journal will pay for these services provided they are essential for the article. In the case of labortories with limited grant resources, we expect some miminal payment, approximately 20-25% of the color production charge. Please note that color production is very expensive; for example, for one page of color (8.5” x 11”) which can usually accommodate about 2-4 color plates, the actual cost is roughly $1,000-1,500.
Page Proofs
The authors will be furnished with PDF files. It is the author's responsibility that the proofs are corrected and returned immediately. If the proofs are not received on time Adenine will proof read and go ahead with the production. Author's reasonable number of corrections will be incorporated at no charge. All other alterations and corrections will be charged to the author. Authors of articles accepted for publication in the Journal must sign a standard copyright transfer form. Authors are completely responsible for obtaining the permission to reproduce materials such as figures, copyrighted text etc by a publisher/agency other than Adenine.
Responsibility of the Board
Board of Editors, Editorial Advisory Board and the Publisher Adenine Press will have discharged responsibility once an article is published. They are not responsible for any or part of statements and claims made by authors in their articles.
It is understood that the communicating author, collectively represents all authors of an article, and that he/she has obtained permission form all authors to communicate the article in their behalf. Adenine Press, the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics or its Board is not responsible, for any negligence or omissions by the communicating author. |
