Here is what authors need to complete their manuscript submissions:

Submission Fee

A submission fee of $50 is required prior to review of all full manuscripts. The submission fee does not apply to Initial Queries (IQ). If an IQ is accepted, authors will be queued to pay the submission fee in the process of uploading their full manuscript for review.

Suggested reviewers

Authors are required to provide the names of five potential referees who can provide expert and impartial assessment of the work. To ensure timely review, authors should provide addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of suggested referees.

Manuscript

Research Communication articles must be no longer than 8,000 words including abstract and references. Authors should be aware that articles that are more than 8 pages in length (when published) will incur higher publication charges, and Editors may require authors to shorten their papers when this is possible. Manuscripts should be written in concise, logical, and grammatically correct English. The Editors reserve the right to require correction of manuscripts not written in clear and concise English expository prose. To prevent publication delays, some authors may want to consider having their manuscripts edited by native English speakers prior to submission. Standard nomenclature should be used; define terms at first mention. Pages should be numbered. Every effort should be made to be brief, short of skipping essential data or methods.

Use a common word processing program such as MS Word or WordPerfect to prepare the file. Use Times or Symbol fonts. Left-justify the text and turn off automatic end-of-line hypenation. Use carriage returns only to end headings and paragraphs, not to break lines. Do not insert spaces before punctuation. Use consistent notations and spellings.

The title page should contain:

• the title of article, which should be concise, informative, accessible to the Journal's multidisciplinary readership, and generally free of acronyms and abbreviations;
• author(s) and their laboratory(ies) and/or institution(s) of origin with city(ies), state(s)/province(s), and country(ies);
• complete street and email address, and telephone and fax numbers for the corresponding author; and short title (maximum of 50 characters and spaces) for the running foot.

The second page should contain an abstract of no more than 200 words. State the purpose(s) of the study or investigation, basic procedures [selection of study subjects or laboratory animals; observational and analytic method(s)], main findings, and the principal conclusions.

On this same page, authors must provide 3 to 5 key words or short phrases for indexing purposes; do not repeat words that appear in the title. Key words that appear in the title will be removed during manuscript production without notice to the authors.

The text should be divided into sections with the headings: Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion. Long sections may need subheadings to clarify their content, especially the Results and Discussion sections. The Introduction briefly summarizes the background of the research to be reported and should elaborate any theoretical background to the design of the experiments; it should not summarize the data.

The Materials and Methods section is an important part of a full paper. It should contain the experimental protocols and describe the origin of any unusual or special materials, tissue, cell lines, or organisms. It is appropriate in this section to provide data to support the identity or purity of reagents, the reliability of methods, the sensitivity of an instrument, or the essential features of a genotype. Companies mentioned in this section should include the name of the company, the company's city, state/province, and country (example: FASEB, Bethesda, MD, USA). Authors should put most of the experimental detail into the Materials and Methods section, leaving the Results section for exposition of the experimental design and results.

The Results section should present, in logical order, the experiments that support the conclusions stated later in the Discussion. Particular care should be taken in the Results section to state results exactly; this is not the place for interpretations, extended lines of inference, arguments, or speculations. The Discussion section, in contrast, is intended to allow the authors to propose their interpretation of their results and to suggest what they might mean in a larger context.

Journal articles:

6. Fornerod, M., Ohno, M., Yoshida, M., and Mattaj, I.W. (1997) CRM1 is an export receptor for leucine-rich nuclear export signals. Cell 90, 1051-1060

Book references:

1. Jaken, S., and Jones, W. A. (1992) PKC interactions with intracellular components. In Protein Kinase C, Current Concepts and Future Perspectives (Lester, D. S., and Epand, R. M., eds) pp. 237-273, Ellis Horwood, Ltd., W. Sussex, England

2. Faggiolo, G. O., and Ricotta, J. J. (1995) The role of cryopreserved vein allografts in infrainguinal reconstruction. In Advances in Vascular Surgery (Whittemore, A. D., ed) Vol. 3, Mosby Year Book, St. Louis

Acknowledgements. As an appendix to the text, one or more statements should specify: (a) contributions that need acknowledging but do not justify authorship, such as general support by a departmental chair; (b) acknowledgments of technical help; (c) acknowledgments of financial and material support, which should specify the nature of the support; and (d) relationships that may pose a conflict of interest.

Persons who have contributed intellectually to the paper but whose contributions do not justify authorship may be named and their function or contribution described. Such persons must have given their permission to be named. Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission from persons acknowledged by name, because readers may infer their endorsement of the data and conclusions.

Technical help should be acknowledged in a paragraph separate from those acknowledging other contributions.

Images. For all submissions, figures and figure panels must be clearly labeled and sized to fit 8.5"x11" paper. Submissions containing figures that are not properly labeled and sized will be returned to authors for correction prior to review. For tables, the system accepts most common word processing formats (such as Microsoft Word and WordPerfect).

First Submissions--For the initial review of a manuscript, please create low-resolution versions of original figures for upload to the submission site. File resolutions of 72 dpi will create the most readable figures for reviewers. If your paper is accepted for publication after its first review, you may be contacted to provide high-resolution TIFF, EPS, PDF, or PPT figure files to the compositor. Click here for more information.

Resubmissions--When resubmitting manuscripts, create each figure at publication quality and as a separate file saved as a TIFF, EPS, PPT, or PDF.

Revisions--If a paper is accepted pending minor revisions, authors should upload publication quality figures with their revision; these files are what will be used to publish the article in print and online should the manuscript receive final acceptance by the Editors. When revising manuscripts, create each figure as a separate file saved as a TIFF, EPS, PPT, or PDF.

Supplemental files. Files such as videos or lengthy appendices that do not appear in the print version of the article can be uploaded as supplemental files online. Below is the partial list of file types that we can post. If your file type is not represented here, please contact mhayden{at}faseb.org to see if your file type is supported.

File Types

Description, Suffix
Plain Text, txt
HTML Page, html
JPEG Image, jpg
GIF Image, gif
QuickTime Video, mov
MPEG Movie, mpg
Microsoft AVI Video, avi
Adobe PDF, pdf
Microsoft Excel Spread, xls
ZIP Compressed File, zip
RealMedia File, rm
Tiff Image, tif
PowerPoint, ppt
Encapsulated Postscript, eps