Organization of the manuscript
Contributions should be double-spaced and
written in English (spellings as in the Oxford English Dictionary). Contributions
should be organized in the sequence: title, text, methods, references, Supplementary
Information line (if any), acknowledgements, tables, figure legends. When providing
word counts for the editors, authors need only state the number of words in the
text (and, separately, methods and total figure legends). Title, acknowledgements
and other matter does not need to be included in the word count.
Title : Titles do not exceed 90 characters (including spaces), and do not
normally include numbers, acronyms, abbreviations or punctuation. They should
include sufficient detail for indexing purposes but be general enough for readers
outside the field to appreciate what the paper is about.
Text : Full-length papers and minireviews should fill no more than 8 pages,
and short communications no more than 4 pages, of BioChip J. An uninterrupted
page of text contains about 300 words. A typical papers and reviews contain about
3,000 words of text and, additionally, five display items (figures and/or tables)
with brief legends. A typical short communications to BioChip J contains about
1,500 words of text and four small display items (figures and/or tables) with
brief legends. When submitting new or revised manuscripts, authors should state
in a cover letter to the editor their rough estimate of the length of their paper
in terms of number of pages of BioChip J. Longer papers are sometimes allowed
but only if explicitly suggested by the editor. Authors of contributions that
significantly exceed the limits stated here or specified by the editor will have
to shorten their papers before acceptance, inevitably delaying publication. BioChip
J prefers authors to be listed without details of relative status, but instead
to specify the contribution made by their coauthors in the acknowledgements. BioChip
J strongly encourages coauthors to specify their contributions in this way. If
authors regard it as essential to indicate that two or more coauthors are equal
in status, they may be identified by a symbol with the caption ¡®these authors
contributed equally to the work¡¯ immediately under the address list. Present addresses
appear immediately below the author list; all other essential author-related explanation
is in the acknowledgements. Authors should format articles or letters using BioChip
J¡¯s Microsoft Word template, and before finalizing their manuscript should use
the author¡¯s checklist for format (applies to revised manuscripts as well as original
submissions). The style tags in the template should be deleted before submission.
Methods : If brief (less than 200 words in total), they can be included
in the text at an appropriate place. Otherwise, they should be described at the
end of the text in a ¡®Methods¡¯ section, subdivided by short, bold headings referring
to methods used. Descriptions of methods already published should be avoided;
a reference number can be provided to save space, with the new addition or variation
briefly stated. This whole section should not exceed 800 words and should ideally
be shorter. If more space is required for Methods, the editor may suggest use
of online-only supplementary information for this purpose after submission and
after receiving referees¡¯ reports. Supplementary material is peer-reviewed.
References : References are each numbered, ordered sequentially as they appear
in the text, methods, tables, figure legends. When cited in the text, reference
numbers are superscript, not in brackets unless they are likely to be confused
with a superscript number. The maximum number of references, strictly enforced,
is 50 for full-papers and 30 for short communications. Only one publication can
be listed for each number. Only articles that have been published or submitted
to a named publication should be in the reference list; papers in preparation
should be mentioned in the text with a list of authors (or initials if any of
the authors are coauthors of the present contribution). Published conference abstracts,
numbered patents and preprints on recognized servers may be included in reference
lists, but text, grant details and acknowledgements may not.
All authors should be included in reference lists unless there are more than five,
in which case only the first author should be given, followed by ¡®et al.¡¯.
Please follow the style below in the published edition of BioChip J in preparing
reference lists.
Authors should be listed surname first, followed by a comma and initials of given
names.
Titles of all cited articles are required. Titles of articles cited in reference
lists should be in upright, not italic text; the first word of the title is capitalized,
the title written exactly as it appears in the work cited, ending with a full
stop. Book titles are italic with all main words capitalized. Journal titles are
italic and abbreviated according to common usage; authors can refer to BioChip
J, the Index Medicus or the American Institute of Physics style manual for details.
Volume numbers are bold. The publisher and city of publication are required for
books cited. (Refer to published papers in BioChip J for details.)
References to web-only journals should give authors, article title and journal
name as above, followed by url in full - or doi if known - and the year of publication
in parentheses.
References to websites should give authors if known, title of cited page, url
in full, and year of posting in parentheses.
Journal articles; Singh-Gasson, S.
et al. Maskless fabrication of light-directed
oligonucleotide microarrays using a digital micromirror array. Nature Biotechnology
17, 974-978 (1999).
Acknowledgements : Acknowledgements are brief and follow the reference list.
Authors are encouraged to include a statement to specify the contributions of
each coauthor. Acknowledgements contain grant or contribution numbers, but do
not contain thanks to anonymous referees and editors, or effusive comments.
Tables : Tables should each be presented on a separate page, portrait (not
landscape) orientation, and upright on the page, not sideways. Tables have a short,
one-line title in bold text. Upright roman (not bold or italic) type of the same
size as the rest of the text is used. The body of the table should not contain
horizontal or vertical rules; these will be added by BioChip J when necessary
after the paper has been accepted for publication. Tables should be as small as
possible. Bear in mind the size of a BioChip J page as a limiting factor when
compiling a table and ensure it will reduce appropriately.
Symbols and abbreviations are defined immediately below the table, followed by
essential descriptive material as briefly as possible, all in double-spaced text.
Figure legends: Figure legends should be listed one after the other, as
part of the text document, separate from the figure files. Please do not write
a legend below each figure. Each figure legend should begin with a brief title
for the whole figure and continue with a short description of each panel and the
symbols used. For contributions with methods sections, legends should not contain
any details of methods, or exceed 100 words (fewer than 500 words in total for
the whole paper). In contributions without methods sections, legends should be
fewer than 300 words (800 words or fewer in total for the whole paper).
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