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Current Molecular Medicine
ISSN: 1566-5240 - Volume 8, 8 Issues, 2008
Instructions for Authors
Review articls should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief
without prior invitation at the following address:
Anirban Maitra, MBBS
Editor-in-Chief
Current Molecular Medicine
Associate Professor of Pathology and Oncology
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center
CRB-2, Suite 345
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1550 Orleans Street
Baltimore, MD 21231
USA
Tel: (410) 502 8191 (Direct) / (410) 955 3511
Fax: (410) 614 0671
E-mail: amaitra1@jhmi.edu
For full review articles, the manuscript, written in English,
should not exceed 70 pages in length (ca. 30 printed pages)
and for mini-reviews a maximum of 40 pages in length (ca.
15 printed pages).
Full Length Reviews provide the reader with a comprehensive
assessment of any area of experimental biology as applied
to molecular medicine that is not only of unusual significance
within a field of molecular medicine but also of interest
to investigators beyond the boundaries of an immediate area
of interest of the author(s). The authors of full length reviews
are encouraged to provide their own assessment and vision
for the future advances in a field of research.
Mini Reviews are welcome on late breaking discoveries
on which a substantial literature have not yet been amassed.
A mini-review provides a forum for sharply focused topics
of recent experimental investigations in molecular medicine
primarily to make these results accessible to both clinical
and basic researchers. Therefore, it should be a critical
but balanced assessment of the field and should not dwell
the author's own published experimental results. Proposals
for mini-reviews, not exceeding two type writer pages, should
be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief.
The manuscript should be typed in double-spacing throughout
on A-4 or US Letter (8.5x11 inches) paper. Dot matrix print
or any print that is difficult to read is unacceptable. Two
copies of the manuscript must accompany the original (along
with a computer disk) and should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief
at his address. All pages should be numbered. Abbreviations
should be defined the first time that they are used in the
manuscript and a list of abbreviations used should be provided.
Manuscript Organisation: The manuscript should be
divided as: Title page, abstract and the main text. The text
may be subdivided further according to the areas to be discussed.
This should be followed by the Acknowledgement (if any) and
Reference sections. The first page should contain the title,
the authors names (initials and surname only), with an asterisk
in front of the name of the principal author.
Conflict of Interest: Financial contributions
to the work being reported should be clearly acknowledged,
as should any potential conflict of interest.
Abstract: The abstract should not exceed 250 words
and it should condense the essential features of the review
article, with the focus on the major advances in the field.
Key Words: Authors must supply up to eight key words
along with their manuscript.
Text: The main text should begin on a separate page
and it may be subdivided into separate sections. The review
article should mention any previous important reviews in the
field and contain a comprehensive discussion starting with
the general background of the field. It should then go on
to discuss the salient features of recent developments. The
authors should avoid presenting material which has already
been published in a previous review. The reference numbers
should be given in square brackets in the text. Acknowledgements
should be kept to a minimum.
Tables: -
Data Tables should be submitted in Microsoft Excel or in Microsoft Word table
format.
- Each table should include
a title/caption explaining what the table shows. Detailed legends may then follow.
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Tables should be given on separate pages with indications on the left hand margin
to the text, as to the appropriate placement of the tables.
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Tables should not contain vertical rules.
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Columns and rows of data should be made visibly distinct by ensuring the borders
of each cell display as black lines.
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Tables should be numbered consecutively in order of their citation in the body
of the text, with Arabic numerals.
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If a reference is cited in both the table and text, insert a lettered footnote
in the table to refer to the numbered reference in the text.
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Tabular data provided as additional files can be submitted as an Excel spreadsheet.
Figures
/ Illustrations:
All authors must strictly follow the guidelines below for
preparing illustrations for publication in Current Molecular
Medicine.
Editorial
Requirements: The quality of the illustrations printed in the journal
largely depends on the quality of the figures/illustration provided by the author.
In preparing artwork or graphics for publication, keep in mind the following points.
- Submit the original artwork or a photographic
print of the original for publication.
- Do not submit photocopies. (Hardcopy submission
requirement).
- Illustrations should be provided as separate
files, not embedded in the text. (Hardcopy submission requirement).
- Remove all color from graphics except for
those illustrations (Greyscale), which are intended to be
printed in color.
- Good quality of hardcopy originals are a
requirement.
- Figures should be referred to as “Fig.
(1)”, “Fig. (2)” etc. in the
text with figure numbers in bold within round bracket.
- Revised manuscripts should contain a complete
set of artwork and photographs.
Technical
Details:
- Figures should be provided on high quality,
white, smooth opaque paper. (Hardcopy requirement).
Format
& Resolution:
- The following file formats can be accepted.
(Preference in order of appearance): PDF, TIFF, JPEG, GIF.
- Illustrations
must fit a single or double column format on the journal page, according to the
following guideline below:
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HEIGHT | WIDTH |
SINGLE COLUMN |
24 cm (max) |
8.5 cm (max) | DOUBLE
COLUMN | 24
cm (max) | 18
cm (max) |
- Whenever possible, submit
graphics that do not have to be reduced to fit the standard figure size.
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Use the best resolution available (hardcopy submission requirement). For online
submission the maximum resolution is 300 dpi.
- Avoid textures
and shadings giving a three-dimensional effect to the illustration.
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Symbols and lettering in the illustration should be of similar size.
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Smaller lettering is used.
- Font: Times New Roman or Helvetica is preferable.
Font size: 10pt (maximum).
- Line drawings should
have clear and sharp lines and should be of uniform density. Moreover, lines should
be continuous without any breaks.
- Do not use lines thinner
than 1 point.
Color Figures / Illustrations:
Photographs: Submit
high-contrast prints that are of single- or double-column width so that they will
not have to be reduced when printed. Negatives are not acceptable. However, in
case of hardcopy submission, color illustrations and plates can be published from
35 mm color slides.
Structures: The chemical structures must be prepared
in ChemDraw (any version) and should be provided as separate
file and submitted both on disk and printed formats. The structures
should fit into a width of 8 cm (for structures to be inserted
within single column widths) or a width of 18 cm (for structures
or schemes to be inserted in double column widths).
References: All references
must be numbered in the text in square brackets, e.g. [4],
or [7,10-15], in order of citation in the text. Titles of
journals are abbreviated according to Chemical Abstract Service
Source Index.
Examples: Journal
Reference:
[1] Sambrook, J., Fritsch, T. and Maniatis, T. (1989) Molecular
Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
[2] Schalling, M., Hudson, T.J., Beutow, K.H. and Housman,
D.E. (1993) Nature Genet., 7, 135-139.
[3] Umenishi, F. and Verkman, A.S. (1998) Genomics,
47, 341-349.
Abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications
(which can only be included if the permission has been obtained) should not be
given in the reference section but they may be mentioned in the text with details
provided as footnotes. All authors of referenced papers must be cited and there
must be no use of the short hand version of et al. when citing the authors.
Manuscript Submission: Two copies of the manuscript
must accompany the original along with the soft copy of the
manuscript on a computer floppy disk(s) in MS Word file format
(or created in any other well-known word processing software)
should be submitted. To achieve rapid publication authors
are encouraged to e-mail or fax their submission to the appropriate
editorial office (see above) at the same time that they mail
the manuscript. For even faster publication, authors are encouraged
to submit their entire manuscript via Bentham’s online
submission service (see below). Authors must provide their
full address, telephone and fax numbers with e-Mail address
with all submissions.
For expedient and speedy reviewing
of author's manuscripts, authors are strongly advised to include the PDF file
of their manuscript on a floppy or zip disk, into the mailing material. At the
same time the package is mailed, please also send by e-mail a copy of the PDF
file of the manuscript to the editorial office. Online Manuscript Submission:
(preferable) To facilitate speedy and cost-effective submission of abstracts
and manuscripts, an online submission and tracking service via Internet is being
offered. Once the Editor-in-Chief of the journal has accepted your abstract, we
would prefer that you submit your full manuscript online via our online submission
service available at www.bentham-mps.org
For online submission, please provide your complete manuscript
in the form of a single zipped folder containing all
the material (main text, figures/ illustrations, scanned photographs,
tables, chemical structures drawn in ChemDraw) as separate
files and a PDF version of the entire manuscript with
all the figures/ illustrations / tables / chemical structures
etc., embedded in the text exactly in the manner as they
should appear in printing. Authors are required to proofread
the PDF version of their manuscript before submission. The
article will be published exactly as received and the
Publishers will not be responsible for any error occurring
in the manuscript in this regard.
For online submission of manuscripts, these should be submitted
via our online manuscript submission service available at
www.bentham-mps.org
or by FTP submission at www.bentham-ftp.org
You may, however, still submit your abstracts and manuscripts
through conventional surface mail.
A successful electronic submission of a manuscript will be
followed by a system-generated acknowledgement to the principal/corresponding
author within 72 hours of the dispatch of the manuscript.
Any queries therein should be addressed to mahmood@bentham.org
and copied to Jalil@bentham.org
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the proofs dispatched to the authors normally within 4 weeks
of their acceptance.
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and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere.
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the legal right to take appropriate action against the authors,
if plagiarism is discovered. By submitting a manuscript the
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