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American or British English, provided that the preferred spelling is used consistently throughout.
Many readers of the journal
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long adjectival phrases and laboratory jargon. The following types of papers are published:
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Authors should consult a recent issue of the journal to make
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The entire text, including figures and table legends and the
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Equations
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reference to the body of the paper.
A Regular paper should have a Summary of 100-200 words.
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and to avoid bibliographic references and non-standard abbreviations. Regular papers
After the Summary, Regular
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This is a short section in which the authors should state the reasons for performing the work, with brief reference to relevant previous
work.
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reproduce the experiments. Authors should always refer to other work on the same subject, indicating whether or not their experimental
results are in agreement with previous work. Conclusions drawn from experiments described in the tables or figures can often appear most
conveniently in the Results section. The overall conclusions based on the work reported should be given in the Discussion. In shorter
papers the Results and Discussion sections may be combined. Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments should be presented
at the end of the main text in a separate section. References and citations
The numerical system of references should
be used. References in the text should be cited by numbers in square brackets in the order of their citation.
References are
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should be numbered consecutively. References to journals should contain initials and names of all authors, article title, abbreviation
of the name of the journal according to the List of Serial Title World Abbreviations (International Series Data System, 20, rue Bachaumont,
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should also include the title (of series and volumes), initials and names of the editor(s), the publisher and place of publication.
Examples
[1]M. Wikstrom, J.E. Morgan, M.I. Verkhovsky, Proton and electrical charge translocation by cytochrome-c oxidase,
Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1318 (1997) 299-306. [2]E.C. Slater, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: The Story of a Biochemical Journal, Elsevier
Publishers, Amsterdam, 1986.
[3]D.E. Vance, Glycerolipid biosynthesis in eukaryotes, in: D.E. Vance, J.E. Vance (Eds.), New Comprehensive
Biochemistry, vol. 31, Biochemistry of Lipids, Lipoproteins and Membranes, Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, 1996, pp. 153-181.
Reference
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the journal concerned) should accompany the submitted typescript. Papers that are "in press" should be included as a number in the text.
Other papers submitted before or simultaneously with the paper in question should be included as a number in the text and in the References
section, stating the name of the journal. Copies of papers that are submitted elsewhere should be provided for inspection by the Editors.
Omission of this information will delay publication and may lead to redating of a submitted manuscript. Papers presented at scientific
meetings that are not available in published form should not be cited as references in the References section.
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data)". When unpublished results are cited, the data should be provided for the Editors' information when essential for proper evaluation,
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Authors should not make unauthorized use of personal communications. Personal communications are not to be included in the References
section. Tables
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in the text. Authors are requested to consult recent issues of BBA for the proper table layout.
Each table, including its legend,
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should consist of an opening sentence constituting a brief title (without extra capitalization), followed by a brief description of the
figure.
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the illustrations should be 300 dpi or higher. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable colour figures then Elsevier
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Please
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additional page excluding sales tax.
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