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Matter. The journal publishes research articles concerning any aspect of low temperature biology and medicine: studies of freezing,
freeze-drying, hibernation, cold tolerance and adaptation, cryoprotective compounds and their mechanisms of action; medical applications
of reduced temperature, including cryosurgery, hypothermia, perfusion of organs; and all pertinent techniques.
Submission of
Manuscripts. Manuscripts will be considered by the Editor-in-Chief
Professor David E. Pegg
CRYOBIOLOGY Editorial Office
Department of Biology
PO Box 373
University of York
York YO10 5YW, UK
Telephone: (+44) 1904 328716
Fax: (+44) 1904
328609
E-mail: biol29@york.ac.uk
This address should be used only for enquiries and submission of completed submission
forms.. All papers and letters intended for publication should be submitted electronically via the Author gateway at http://ees.elsevier.com/cryo/.
Only original papers will be considered. Manuscripts are accepted for review with the understanding that the same work has not been
published, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and that its submission for publication has been approved by
all of the authors and by the institution where the work was carried out. Any approvals and clearances required by an author's institution
must be obtained before a manuscript is submitted. All papers must include a statement of the source of funding for the study that is
described, and any affiliation that might be perceived to constitute a conflict of interest must be disclosed. This information will
be printed as a footnote to the title. A completed submission form should accompany each manuscript and can be sent via fax to the address
above or as a scanned pdf via the Author gateway.
Copyright. Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to transfer
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dissemination of information. A letter will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript. A form facilitating
transfer of copyright will be provided after acceptance.
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1865 853333, e-mail: permissions@elsevier.com. Requests may also be completed online via the Elsevier home page (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions).
Format of Manuscripts. Manuscripts should be submitted via the author gateway at http://ees.elsevier.com/cryo/
and all formatting instructions must be followed. The text must be double spaced and line-numbered.
Abbreviations and Units.
Use the latest edition of the American Chemical Society Style Guide. The preferred chemical abbreviation for dimethyl sulfoxide
is Me2SO rather than DMSO. All abbreviations must be defined when first mentioned in the text. In general, SI units are preferred but
temperature should be expressed on the Celsius scale. Where relevant, Kelvin units may be used, but the equivalent in degrees Celsius
must be added in parentheses.
Regular Papers. Regular papers will describe experimental findings, techniques, or theory.
They will consist of an abstract that summarizes the objective of the study, the methods used, and the conclusions reached. Abstracts
should not exceed 250 words and should be adequate for direct presentation to abstracting services. After the abstract a list of up to
10 keywords that will be useful for indexing or searching must be included. The Introduction will contain a statement of the purpose
of the work, the problem that stimulated it, and a brief summary of relevant published investigations. The Materials and Methods section
must be presented in sufficient detail to enable other investigators to repeat the work. The Results should be concise and should avoid
redundant tables and figures illustrating the same data. The Discussion should interpret results, with minimal recapitulation of findings.
Brief Communications. Brief communications are concise reports of original findings, techniques, or theory and include an abstract
no longer than 150 words and a list of up to 10 keywords. They are not divided into sections. As a guideline it is suggested that there
should be no more than 3 tables and/or figures and a maximum of 10 references. The total length, including references, should not exceed
2500 words.
Reviews. Authors considering submitting a review article should first discuss their proposal with the Editor
or an Associate Editor. As with regular papers and brief communications, reviews will be subject to peer review.
Letters to
the Editor. Letters to the editor should concern matters of general interest to the readership of the journal or papers recently
published in the journal. Authors of papers that are the subject of comment will be given an opportunity to reply. Letters may not exceed
1 printed page in length and if publication deadlines are pressing, proofs might not be provided. The Editor's decision will be final.
Figures and Illustrations. These should be kept to the minimum necessary for adequate presentation of the material. Figures
must be of adequate definition as detailed at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authors.authors/file_formats. Text in figures
(axes labels, etc.) should be sized to appear in type that will be between 8 and 10 point upon reduction. Clear 6-point type may be appropriate
for insets and 12-point type is presentable for part labels. Each figure must be accompanied by a legend, and a list of all legends should
be entered on a separate page. Full details of electronic preparation of artwork can be obtained from http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Color in print. Color figures published on the Web for free will be published as black and white versions in the printed journal
unless the author pays for the cost of color reproduction. You will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt
of your accepted article. Further information concerning color illustrations and costs is also available from Author Support (authorsupport@elsevier.ie).
Please note that if you do not opt for color in print, you should submit relevant figure files in both color (for the Web) and black
and white (for print).
Color on the Web. Any figure can appear free of charge in color in the Web version of your article
(e.g., on ScienceDirect), regardless of whether or not this is reproduced in color in the printed version.
References. References
to literature should be arranged in alphabetical sequence and numbered in that order. In the text all references should be indicated
by Arabic numbers, on line, in brackets. The reference list must be styled in accordance with the following examples:
[1]
G.M. Fahy, The role of nucleation in cryopreservation, in: R.E. Lee, G.J. Warren, L.V. Gusta (Eds.), Biological Ice Nucleation and Its
Applications, APS Press, St. Paul, MN, 1995, pp. 315-336.
[2] J. Levitt, Responses of Plants to Environmental Stresses,
2nd ed. Academic Press, New York, 1980.
[3] K.E. Zachariassen, E. Kristiansen, Ice nucleation and antinucleation in nature,
Cryobiology 41 (2000) 257-279.
Abbreviations of journal names should conform to the style of the latest Chemical Abstracts Service
Source Index.
Proofs. PDF proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. To avoid delay in publication, only necessary
changes should be made, and corrections should be returned promptly.
Elsevier will do everything possible to publish your article
as quickly and accurately as possible. Authors should ensure that corrections are returned in one communication and are complete, as
subsequent corrections will not be possible. Any amendments will be incorporated and the final article will then be published as an Article
in Press on ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com)
Articles in Press take full advantage of the enhanced ScienceDirect
functionality, including the ability to be cited. This is possible due to the innovative use of the DOI article identifier, which enables
the citation of a paper before volume, issue and page numbers are allocated. The Article in Press will be removed once the paper has
been assigned to an issue and the issue has been compiled.
Page Charges. All authors will receive an invoice. The rate will
be $17.50 per printed page when the corresponding author is a member of the Society for Cryobiology, and $35.00 for nonmembers. It is
recognized that some authors may be unable to pay this charge, and editorial consideration of a paper is unrelated to the ability of
the author to pay. All inquiries concerning page charges should be addressed to CRYOBIOLOGY Editorial Office, Department of Biology,
University of York, York YO10 5YW, UK; telephone: (+44) 1904 328648; fax: (+44) 1904 328609.
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request (referred to as the NIH "Public Access Policy"; see http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/index.htm) by posting
the author's peer-reviewed manuscript directly to PubMed Central on request from the author, 12 months after formal publication. Upon
notification of acceptance, we will ask you to confirm via e-mail (by e-mailing us at NIHauthorrequest@elsevier.com) that
your work has received NIH funding and that you intend to respond to the NIH policy request, along with your NIH award number to facilitate
processing. Upon such confirmation, Elsevier will submit to PubMed Central on your behalf a version of your manuscript with corrections
following peer review, for posting 12 months after formal publication. This will ensure that you will have responded fully to the NIH
request policy. There will be no need for you to post your manuscript directly with PubMed Central, and any such posting is prohibited.
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