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Technical
requirements for Initial Query preparation
Authors interested in submitting an article to The
FASEB Journal must start with an Initial Query (IQ). At this early stage of submission, the editors will not accept or consider any figures or illustrations. Any request made to staff to forward these types of materials to editors outside of the peer-review submission system will be declined. After the
initial review, you will receive an e-mail indicating whether you
should submit the entire manuscript for formal review. The system will
not allow you to submit a manuscript without an accepted IQ.
There are four types of articles that The
FASEB Journal publishes: Research
Communications, Reviews,
Hypotheses, and Life Sciences Forum. In the online
submission system, you'll need to designate which kind of article you
are submitting.
Research Communications
The FASEB Journal seeks to publish Research
Communications that integrate one or more disciplines--preferably those
that apply molecular biological methods, along with functional studies,
to the study of biological questions that bear on developmental
biology, pathophysiology, or molecular medicine.
To complete the IQ, you will need:
1. A cover
letter desescribe the findings in your proposed paper.
2. An abstract of no
more than 200 words stating the PURPOSE(S)
of the study or investigation; the basic PROCEDURES,
including the kingdom, phylum, and species, etc selected; the tissues,
cells, organelles, cell-free systems, or molecules studied; and the
observational and analytic methods used. Then give quantitative
statements as to the main FINDINGS,
i.e. if you are describing the effects of an agent (drug, hormone,
xenobiotic, etc. on a selected target you must include the EC50 or IC50
as well as the kinetics of the effect. Then provide the rationale for
the CONTROLS
you have chosen. Finish with a one-sentence summary of the principal CONCLUSIONS.
Do not
omit the controls, as cautioned in The FASEB Journal's August 2008 editorial, "Writing Science: The Abstract is Poetry, the
Paper is Prose."
Finally,
in the abstract, please describe each abbreviation before its first
appearance, either in the title or the abstract (e.g. complement
component C5a, myeloid cell line HL-60, transcription factor NFkappa B,
eicosanoid LTB4).
3. A title and a
complete list of authors and their affiliations
4. A list of key
words that does not repeat terms already in the title
5. Answers to the
following questions: What was the original aim of
the study?
What are the most significant, novel findings?
How do these findings relate to the state of the field?
Why are these findings appropriate for The FASEB Journal?
Reviews
The FASEB Journal seeks to publish Review
articles that collect, collate, and compare observations on a topic of
broad interest to the readership of the Journal. The ideal Review
should be accurate scientifically; describe the most relevant and
recent contributions; be fair in its appraisal of the significance of
the studies cited; and be generous in the choice of citations, giving
equal notice to contributions from both collaborators and competitors,
and consider the work published throughout the international community.
To complete the IQ, you will need:
- A cover letter describing the focus of your proposed
paper
- An abstract of no more than 200 words that arouses
the readers' interest, be written for a general readership, and be free
from jargon
- A title and a complete list of authors and their
affiliations
- A list of key words
- Answers to the following questions:
- What was the original aim of the study?
- What are the most significant, novel findings?
- How do these findings relate to the state of the
field?
- Why are these findings appropriate for The
FASEB Journal?
- Please list the major contributions by your
laboratory(ies) in this field of research. Please use full
bibliographic citations.
Hypotheses
The FASEB Journal seeks to publish Hypotheses
that are accessible and interesting to the readership of the Journal
and provide an interpretative overview of the most significant new
findings of the subject under consideration. The ideal Hypothesis
should be accurate scientifically, describe a hypothesis which is both
novel and relevant in the context of the most recent scholarship, and
be experimentally verifiable.
To complete the IQ, you will need:
- A cover letter describing the focus of your proposed
paper
- An abstract of no more than 200 words that should
state biological questions being addressed and include a brief summary
of the proposed hypothesis
- A title and a complete list of authors and their
affiliations
- A list of key words
Life Science Forum
Space in The FASEB Journal has been reserved for
the publication of original commentaries that deal with a broad range
of issues that impact on the life sciences. These might include but are
not limited to discussions of governmental policies related to research
funding and regulation, the impact of scientific research on higher
education, economic or social implications of scientific advances, and
the mechanisms now in place for the allocation of research support and
peer-reviewed publication of research findings.
To complete the IQ, you will need:
- A cover letter describing the focus of your proposed
paper
- An abstract of no more than 200 words
- A title and a complete list of authors and their
affiliations
- A list of key words
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