期刊名称：PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTER
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
The Plant Molecular Biology Reporter is a quarterly publication of the
International Society for Plant Molecular Biology. The journal provides
ISPMB members a forum to publish items of general and scientific interest,
such as letters, reviews, protocols, reports, and announcements of
meetings. The electronic version of the Plant Molecular Biology Reporter
from issue 14(4) to the current is found at http:\\www.uga.edu\ispmb
or http:\\www.nrc.ca\cisti\journals\ispmb\reporter.html. Starting with
Volume 20, No. 1, March 2002, a password is required for access to the
electronic version of the Plant Molecular Biology Reporter.
Instructions to Authors
Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to reporter@u.arizona.edu.
Submit complete, word processor–formatted documents prepared with the
latest versions of either Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect. Transmit
manuscripts to the editor by e-mail as file attachments in base 64 encoding.
All electronic files submitted must include the author’s name and date
in the filenames. Do not send e-mail attachments in Mac binhex encoding.
Files may be up to 25 Mb in aggregate size, including the transmitting
e-mail message. As a general guide, it is unlikely that the aggregate size of
all files (text and illustrations) for a manuscript need be larger than 10 Mb.
Authors are advised to carefully evaluate whether an illustration file in any
chosen format needs to be larger than 2-3 Mb to have sufficient resolution
(300 dpi) for printing. If necessary, send larger files on Zip disks or consult
with the editor to plan an efficient file transmission procedure.
Only electronic files named as follows will be considered:
<author(s) identification> <table or figure number> <3-letter PC file type>
Address manuscripts sent by regular mail or express service to the following
address:
Don P. Bourque, Editor, Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 537 Biosciences West Bldg., 1041 E.
Lowell Street, Tucson AZ 85721-0088, USA; fax: 001 520 621 1697;
ph: 001 520 621 7529.
Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 21: 109–117, 2003
MANUSCRIPT PRESENTATION
The journal’s language is English. British English or American English
spelling and terminology may be used, but either one should be followed
consistently throughout the article. Electronic manuscript files should be
formatted to allow printing on US Letter bond paper (8.5 × 11 inches), one
side only, leaving one-inch margins on all sides. Please double-space all material,
including notes and references. The last page of the manuscript
should be the Figure Legends. Figures, if included in the manuscript file
should be placed at the end of the file and without any associated legend
text. Authors are advised to view a recent issue of the Plant Molecular Biology
Reporter to visualize the appropriate printed format.
Number manuscript pages consecutively, starting with the first page which
should contain the following:
• Running head (shortened title)
• Article type
• Title
• Author(s)
• Affiliation(s)
• Full address for correspondence, including name of corresponding
author, e-mail, fax, phone
Abstract
Please provide a short abstract of 100-250 words. The abstract should not
contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
Key Words
Please provide 5-10 key words or short phrases in alphabetical order.
Abbreviations
A list of nomenclature conventions for standard abbreviations is found at the
end of these instructions. Nonstandard abbreviations and their explanations
should be collected in a list.
Article Types
The characteristics and requirements of various types of articles and features
published in the Plant Molecular Biology Reporter are listed alphabetically.
Appointments and Awards. Notices of appointments to professorial rank or
to comparable positions in industry or research institutions. Notices of appointment
to directorships of institutes should include a brief biographical
sketch, a description of the institute, and a photograph of the individual.
Commentary. Observations or comments on important developments in the
field of plant molecular biology. Significant extensions or modifications of
existing procedures will be placed in this section, rather than as detailed
protocols.
Genetic Resources. Discussion of new concepts, resources, or new material
for the analysis of genetic systems. Descriptions of mutant and cultured cell
lines should include addresses where the described items may be obtained.
Grants and Fellowships. Awards of an international character with information
on the scope of the program, deadlines for applications, and the address
of the office for application forms.
Protocols. New procedures or the application of existing procedures for the
first time to plants. The extension of procedures to new classes of plants or
important modifications of existing procedures will be considered for publication
under Commentary. Protocols should provide sufficient detail to permit
duplication of the procedure without reference to other publications.
Authors are responsible for correctness of all protocol details, with special
attention paid to specifications of solutions, volumes, amounts of chemicals
used, etc. There should be a list of solutions and special items of equipment
required, followed by a description of the procedure as a list of steps or in a
flow diagram. This description should be in a form suitable for clipping into
a notebook. Comments should be footnoted and listed in a set of numbered
notes rather than included in the statement of the procedure itself. The discussion
should identify the novel features of the procedure and compare it to
alternate methods, rather than report new research results.
Publish by Abstract. Category for manuscripts that document minor variations
of published procedures. Editorial decisions and suggestions to Publish
by Abstract will be made when considered appropriate. Authors are
also encouraged to submit manuscripts targeted for this primarily electronic
publication category. A title page with abstract will be published in
the printed version of the Plant Molecular Biology Reporter. All protocol
details and limited experimental data will be available at the Plant Molecular
Biology Reporter World Wide Web site.
Consul Reports. Reports by scientists who represent the ISPMB as consuls
throughout the world. Reports describe the status of plant molecular biology
research in the consul’s geographic region or home country.
Reports of Meetings. Please consult the editor or a member of the editorial
board in advance of submission.
Reviews. New concepts or methods that may be applied to plant systems or
new developments in research. Reviews may identify areas of plant sciences
that appear to be appropriate for molecular analyses. Please consult
the editor or a member of the editorial board in advance of submission.
Schedule of Events. Meeting and course announcements. Include dates and
location as well as mailing, e-mail, and Web addresses where information
may be obtained.
Site Specifics. Descriptions of current activities in specific institutions or
geographical regions.
Updates. Important developments in special fields of plant molecular biology.
Update contributions in all areas of plant molecular biology are welcome.
Well-Repeated Sequences. Accounts of discoveries of importance to the development
of plant molecular biology. Brief anecdotes describing the circumstances
and personalities involved in the discoveries are also welcome.
Figures and Tables
Submission of Electronic Figures. Supply high-resolution (>300 dpi) electronic
versions of figures in one of the following formats: EPS, TIF, JPG, or
PSD. Contact the editor regarding other acceptable formats. Crop all illustration
files to contain no excess white area outside figure contents. Authors
also need to size electronic figure files to be no larger than 118 mm wide
and 170 mm high for a full page illustration. Figures must be saved in separate
files without their legends and with file names that include the author’s
name and figure number. Figure legends should be included in a list at the
end of the article’s text. See first page of Instruction to authors for file naming
format.
Submission of Hard-Copy Figures. Only if no electronic versions of figures
can be provided, authors may submit high-quality camera-ready artwork that
can be reproduced without any part having to be redrawn or re-typeset. The
letter size of any text in the figures must be large enough to allow for reduction.
Photographs should be in black-and-white on glossy paper. If a figure
contains color, make absolutely clear whether it should be printed in black
and white or in color. Figures that are to be printed in black and white
should not be submitted in color. The charge to authors for printed color
illustrations is US $300.
Each figure and table should be numbered and mentioned in the text. The
approximate position of figures and tables should be indicated in the margin
of the manuscript. On the reverse side of each figure, the name of the (first)
author and the figure number should be written in pencil; the top of the figure
should be clearly indicated. Figures and tables should be placed at the
end of the manuscript following the Reference section. Each figure and table
should be accompanied by an explanatory legend. The figure legends
should be grouped and placed on a separate page. Figures are not returned
to the author unless specifically requested.
Submission of Tables. Tables should be prepared using the table formatting
function in Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect. Tables formatted using
tabs and spaces are not acceptable. Tables can be included at the end of the
text of the article or saved in a separate file. In tables, footnotes are preferable
to long explanatory material in either the heading or body of the table.
Such explanatory footnotes, identified by superscript letters, should be
placed immediately below the table.
Cover Figures. Authors are encouraged to submit figures that may be suitable
for use on the cover of the Reporter. Such figures must be related to
the manuscript they accompany but must be an extra, different color figure
than those to be published in the article itself. Candidate cover figures are
preferred as TIF files (or as clean hard copies on photographic paper) at a
resolution of 300-600 dpi; all graphic elements should be embedded and
self-contained within the file, rather than linked to an external file. The
electronic image should be saved with the CMYK color option, and be of a
size that requires no reduction or enlargement before reproduction (width
158 mm; depth 133 mm; inclusive of background). Colors should be bright
and clearly distinct from one another. The author will receive a complementary
copy of the issue on which the cover appears.
Section Headings
First-, second-, third-, and fourth-order headings should be clearly distinguishable
but not numbered.
Appendices
Supplementary material should be collected in an Appendix and placed before
the Notes and Reference sections.
Notes
Please use endnotes rather than footnotes. Notes should be indicated by
consecutive superscript numbers in the text and listed at the end of the article
before References. A source reference note should be indicated by
means of an asterisk after the title. This note should be placed at the bottom
of the first page.
Quotations
Quotations of more than 40 words should be set off clearly, either by indenting
the left-hand margin or by using a smaller typeface. Use double
quotation marks for direct quotations and single quotation marks for quotations
within quotations and for words or phrases used in a special sense.
Cross-Referencing
Please make optimal use of the cross-referencing features of your software
package. Do not cross-reference page numbers. Cross-references should
refer to, for example, section numbers, equation numbers, and figure and
table numbers.
In the text, a reference identified by means of an author’s name should be
followed by the date of the reference in parentheses and page number(s)
where appropriate. When there are more than two authors, only the first author’s
name should be mentioned, followed by ‘et al.’. In the event that an
author cited has had two or more works published during the same year, the
reference, both in the text and in the reference list, should be identified by a
lowercase letter like ‘a’ and ‘b’ after the date to distinguish the works.
Examples:
Winograd (1986, p. 204)
(Winograd, 1986a, b)
(Winograd, 1986; Flores et al., 1988)
(Bullen and Bennett, 1990)
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc., should be placed in a separate
section before References.
References
References to books, journal articles, articles in collections and conference
or workshop proceedings, and technical reports should be listed at the end
of the article in alphabetical order. Articles in preparation or articles submitted
for publication, unpublished observations, personal communications,
etc., should not be included in the reference list but should only be mentioned
in the article text (e.g., T. Moore, personal communication). Authors
should check all references carefully to ensure that each entry in the Reference
section is cited in the text. Personal communications, unpublished results,
and manuscripts submitted or in preparation should be cited in the text
only and NOT be included in the References section. Accession numbers
may be cited either within the text or in the form of a reference.
References to books should include (in the following order) the author’s
name, year of publication, title, page numbers, publisher, and place of publication.
Norman AG (1978) Soybean Physiology, Agronomy, and Utilization,
pp 1-10. Academic Press, New York.
Articles in an edited collection: References should include (in the following
order) the author’s name, year of publication, article title, editor’s name,
title of collection, first and last page numbers, publisher, and place of publication.
Abmayr SM and Workman JL (1993) Preparation of nuclear and cytoplasmic
extracts from mammalian cells. In: Ausubel FM, Brent R,
Kingston RE, Moore DD, Seidman JG, Smith JA, and Struhl K (eds),
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology, supplement 11, pp 12.1.1-
12.1.9, J. Wiley and Sons, New York.
Articles in conference proceedings: References should include (in the following
order) the author’s name, year of publication, article title, editor’s
name (if any), title of proceedings, place and date of conference, publisher
and/or organization from which the proceedings can be obtained, place of
publication, and first and last page numbers.
Tingey SV, Rafalski JA, and Williams JGK (1992) Genetic analysis
with RAPD markers. In: Hoisington D and McNab A (eds), Proc
Symp Appl RAPD Tech Plant Breeding, 1992 Nov 1, Minneapolis, MN,
USA. Crop Sci Soc Am, Madison, WI, USA, pp 3-8.
Articles in periodicals: References should include (in the following order)
the author’s name, year of publication, article title, full or abbreviated title
of periodical, volume number (issue number where appropriate), and first
and last page numbers.
Cai Q, Guy CL, and Moore GA (1994) Extension of the linkage map in
citrus using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) marker and
RFLP mapping of cold-acclimation-responsive loci. Theor Appl Genet
89: 606-614.
Technical reports or doctoral dissertations: References should include (in
the following order) the author’s name, year of publication, title of report
or dissertation, institution, and location of institution.
Dias MAD (1995) Analysis of water deficit stress responsive cDNA
clones and the characterization of the genomic clone of gene ‘lp5’ of
Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.). Ph.D. Dissertation. Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX.
Electronic publications freely available on the Internet: References should
be in the format of the journal being referenced (with year, volume and
page numbers) or be provided as in the example below.
Crane N (1997) Title of article. URL. Journal name, volume and page
numbers.
Other categories of Electronic publications: For correct formatting authors
should consult the MLA Style web site. <http://www.mla.org/ www_ mla_ org/
style/style_main.asp?level=2&mode=page&page=1&link=sty72800121438
§ion=sty51800124510>
Gene Nomenclature
Designations for sequenced plant genes should follow the recommendations
of the Commission on Plant Gene Nomenclature as published in
Mendel, the Commission’s online database.1 The Commission also offers
guidelines for naming new genes and families of genes.2 Designations for
genetic loci should follow the conventions adopted for the species cited.
The authority for the gene names should be cited.
1Mendel database:
http://genome.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/WebAce/webace?db=mendel and
http://genome-www.Stanford.edu/Mendel/
2A guide to naming sequenced plant genes:
http://mbclserver.rutgers.edu/CPGN/Guide.html
PROOFS
PDF file proofs will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author. Authors
must follow instructions for correcting proofs that will be provided by the
NRC Research Press. Corrections should be returned to the NRC Research
Press within 48 hours of receipt by e-mail.
OFFPRINTS
Twenty-five offprints of each article will be provided free of charge. Additional
offprints can be ordered by means of an offprint order form supplied
with the proofs.
PAGE CHARGES AND COLOR FIGURES
No page charges are levied on authors or their institutions. Color figures are
published at the author’s expense only. The current charge for color illustrations
is US $300 per page. There is no charge for color illustrations presented
in Publish by Abstract papers.
COPYRIGHT
Authors will be asked, upon acceptance of an article, to transfer copyright
of the article to the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology. This
will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information under copyright
laws.
PERMISSIONS
It is the responsibility of the author to obtain written permission for a quotation
from unpublished material, or for all quotations in excess of 250 words
in one extract or 500 words in total from any work still in copyright, and for
the reprinting of figures, tables, or poems from unpublished or copyrighted
material.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional information can be obtained through the following:
Plant Molecular Biology Reporter
Don P. Bourque, Editor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
University of Arizona
537 Biosciences West Building
Tucson, AZ 85721-0088, USA
Phone: 001-520-621-7529
Fax: 001-520-621-1697
E-mail: reporter@u.arizona.edu
Author’s Checklist for Manuscript
( ) All electronic files named in required format
( ) Running head
( ) Article type (Protocols, Genetic Resources, etc.)
( ) Title
( ) Author(s) (corresponding author; names numbered with superscript, if
different affiliations)
( ) Author’s affiliation
( ) Abstract (concise, no undefined abbreviations)
( ) Key words (alphabetical order, separated by commas)
( ) Abbreviations (define all abbreviations used 3 times or more and that
are not listed in Nomenclature Conventions in the Instructions to
Authors; list them in alphabetical order, separated by commas)
( ) List at bottom of first page: *Author for correspondence: e-mail; fax; ph
( ) Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion (or Results
and Discussion)
( ) Subtitles
( ) Manuscript double-spaced throughout
( ) Protocol instructions are complete
( ) Supplies, chemicals, and equipment are listed (except standard laboratory
items)
( ) Manufacturer is provided for specialized and hard-to-find items
( ) Centrifugation data given in g-force, not rpm
( ) Solution concentrations are correct; abbreviations and symbols are
formatted according to list in the Instructions for Authors, those not
listed are defined in Abbreviations; specialized names and terms are
formatted correctly (e.g., EcoR I; poly(A)+ mRNA; Taq; rad; Solanum
tuberosum)
( ) All figures, tables, and references are cited in text
( ) All text citations are listed in References
( ) Spell check and grammar check
( ) American or British English
( ) Acknowledgments
( ) References are in alphabetical order and formatted according to the
Instructions to Authors
( ) Tables prepared with table formatting function in Microsoft Word or
Corel WordPerfect, not using tabs and spaces
( ) Figure legend in plain text on a separate page from the figures
( ) Figures formatted according to Instructions to Authors and lacking
legends
( ) Pages numbered
Editorial Board
Don P. Bourque, Editor, Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, Department of
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, 537 Biosciences West Bldg., 1041 E.
Lowell Street, Tucson AZ 85721-0088, USA; fax: 001 520 621 1697;
ph: 001 520 621 7529.
Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 21: 109–117, 2003
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