Experimental Parasitology
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Experimental Parasitology publishes research papers, research briefs, and capsule reviews on topics that are at the experimental forefront of parasitology.

Submission of Manuscripts

Research papers and briefs are not solicited, but should be submitted to the Editors. Minireviews are invited and topics should be submitted to the Editors for consideration. Manuscripts must be written in English.

Submission to this journal proceeds totally online. Use the following guidelines to prepare your article. Via the homepage of this journal ( http://www.elsevier.com/journals) you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. The system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the author's homepage, removing the need for a hard-copy paper trail.


Graphical abstract:
Authors should supply a thumbnail image for all types of manuscripts. Articles accepted for publication will be featured via a copy of the article abstract together with a thumbnail image to direct people to the manuscript. An image that serves to illustrate the theme of the paper is desired. It can be a figure from the paper or a related image that typifies the content of the paper. Authors must supply the thumbnail image separately as an electronic file. The maximum final dimensions of the thumbnail image will be 5 cm x 5 cm. Please consider readability after reduction, especially if using one of the figures from the article itself.


You will be asked to submit:
• Cover Letter: Document (Word, WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, LaTex) containing your cover letter to the Editors.
• Response to Reviews (Resubmissions Only): Document (Word, WordPerfect, RTF, PDF, LaTex) detailing your response to the reviewers' and editor's comments of a previously rejected manuscript that you are resubmitting.
• Manuscript: Single word processing (Word, WordPerfect, RTF) or LaTex file consisting of the title page, abstract, manuscript text, and any figure/table legends.
• Table: Tables should be separate from the manuscript text, and can be uploaded individually or consolidated into a single file. The file description you input below when uploading your table must include the table number or range (e.g., Table 1, Tables 2-4).
• Figure: Figures should be uploaded individually as TIF or EPS files. The file description you input when uploading your figure must include the figure number (e.g., Fig. 2A).

Please submit the names and addresses, including e-mail addresses, of three to five potential reviewers of their paper to facilitate and accelerate editorial handling. There are no submission fees or page charges.

Manuscripts are accepted for review with the understanding that no substantial portion of the study has been published or is 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. Manuscripts that do not meet the general criteria or standards for publication in Experimental Parasitology will be immediately returned to the authors, without detailed review.

Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to sign a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (for more information on this and copyright see http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An e-mail (or letter) will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations (please consult http://www.elsevier.com/permissions).
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: please consult http://www.elsevier.com/permissions.

Funding body agreements and policies

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Preparation of Manuscripts

Manuscripts should be written in clear, concise, and grammatical English and should be typed with double-spaced lines and wide margins.

All abbreviations used in the body of the manuscript should be defined when they are first used [e.g., deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)]; only the abbreviation should be used thereafter. Avoid lab jargon abbreviations; use only those that have general usage and genuinely save space.

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Pages should be numbered consecutively and organized as follows:

The title page (p. 1) should contain the article title, authors' names and complete affiliations, footnotes to the title, and the address for manuscript correspondence (including e-mail address and telephone and fax numbers). If possible, the specific designation of the parasite, followed by a colon, should precede the rest of the title. The common or scientific name of the host should appear at the end of the title (e.g., "Neoaplectana glaseri: infectivity of clones reared in species isolation of larvae of the insect weevil, Hylobius pales"). For Minireviews, the title, as described above, should be preceded by the heading Minireview.

The abstract (p. 2) must be a single paragraph that summarizes the main findings of the paper in less than 150 words.

Keywords. A list of keywords and phrases should follow the abstract. They should reflect the contents of the paper accurately and help to describe it to scientific nonexpert readers. The taxonomic designations of all organisms discussed in a manuscript must be included. Larger taxonomic categories should also be mentioned (e.g., in a paper on Watsonius watsoni, the term "trematode" should appear as a keyword.

Whenever enzymes are the subject of reporting, the Enzyme Commission (EC) number must be used for accurate identification and retrieval purposes in the Keywords.

Materials and methods should be sufficiently detailed to enable the experiments to be reproduced.

Results and Discussion may be combined and may be organized into subheadings.

Acknowledgments should be brief and should precede the references. Avoid footnotes. Disclaimers, funding support, and other circumstantial information should be included in the Acknowledgments section.

References should be cited in the text by the author's surname and date (e.g., Jones and Smith, 1987), not by number. Only articles that have been published or are in press should be included in the references. Unpublished results or personal communications should be cited as such in the text. Please note the following examples.

Becnel, J.J., 1997. Complementary techniques: preparations of entomopathogens and diseased specimens for more detailed study using microscopy. In: Lacey, L.A. (Ed.), Manual of Techniques in Insect Pathology. Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 337-353.

Eichler, S., Schaub, G.A., 2002. Development of symbionts in triatomine bugs and the effects of infections with trypanosomatids. Experimental Parasitology 100, 17-27.

Tanada, Y., 1992. Insect Pathology. Academic Press, San Diego.

Tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in order of appearance in the text. Type each table double-spaced on a separate page with a short descriptive title typed directly above and with essential footnotes below.

Figures. Number all figures consecutively with Arabic numerals. Type the legends double-spaced in a list at the end of the manuscript. Figures should be cropped to contain only information relevant to the manuscript. Areas of major interest should not be too close to the edges of the micrograph. Magnifications must be given in the legends or a magnification scale bar must be placed within the micrograph and its dimension should be indicated in the legend. Please refer to http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions for detailed instructions on preparing electronic artwork.

Color figures. Illustrations in color in print can be accepted only if the authors defray the cost. However, if together with your accepted article, you submit usable color figures, then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color on the Web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed version. For color reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. [Please note: Because of technical complications that can arise in converting color figures to "gray scale" (for the printed version should you not opt for color in print), please submit in addition usable black-and-white files corresponding to all the color illustrations.]

Black and white figures for exclusive use as cover illustrations may be submitted by authors who are also submitting a manuscript for consideration. These figures do not need to relate to the manuscript being submitted but should relate to the larger scope and focus of Experimental Parasitology.

Each figure and table must have a descriptive legend. When figures or tables refer to parasite or host, the name of the organism should be spelled out completely at least once in each legend.

DNA sequences and GenBank accession numbers. Authors wishing to enable other scientists to use the accession numbers cited in their papers via links to these sources should type this information in the following manner: For each and every accession number cited in an article, authors should type the accession number in bold, underlined text. Letters in the accession number should always be capitalized (see example below). This combination of letters and format will enable the typesetter to recognize the relevant texts as accession numbers and add the required link to GenBank's sequences.

Example: GenBank accession nos. AI631510 , AI631511 , AI632198 , and BF223228 ), a B-cell tumor from a chronic lymphatic leukemia (GenBank accession no. BE675048 ), and a T-cell lymphoma (GenBank accession no. AA361117 ).

Authors are encouraged to check accession numbers used very carefully. An error in a letter or number can result in a dead link.

In the final version of the printed article, the accession number text will not appear bold or underlined. In the final version of the electronic copy, the accession number text will be linked to the appropriate source in the NCBI databases, enabling readers to go directly to that source from the article.

Preparation of Supplementary Material

Elsevier now accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer additional possibilities for publishing supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips, and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com). To ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please provide the data in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. Please note, however, that supplementary material will not appear in the printed journal. For more detailed instructions, please visit http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions

Proofs

PDF proofs will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author. To avoid delay in publication, only necessary changes should be made, and corrections should be returned promptly.