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Former title: Acta Genetica Sinica

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. AIMS AND SCOPE
2. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
• Authorship
• Covership
• Language-Editing Services
3. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND ORGANIZATION
• Title Page
• Abstract and Keywords
• Text
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Tables
• Figures
• Supplemental Data
4. PEER REVIEW
5. PROOFS
6. COPYRIGHT
7. PUBLICATIONS FEES


Journal of Genetics and Genomics (JGG, formerly known as Acta Genetica Sinica) is one of China's leading journals in the life science. JGG is sponsored by the Genetics Society of China and the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and jointly published by Elsevier Ltd. and Science Press, Beijing, P. R. China. Currently, JGG are indexed by Abstracts Journal, VINTI (AJ), BIOSIS Previews (BA), Chemical Abstracts (CA), Excepta Media (EM), MEDLINE, Scopus, and Zoological Record (ZR). JGG publishes papers in English only and distributed internationally.

1. AIMS AND SCOPE

JGG publishes original research of special significance in all areas of genetics and genomics. JGG encompasses experimental and theoretical approaches in all organisms, including microbes, plants, animals and human. Research published in JGG should be of general interest for biologists. JGG also publishes invited review articles of wide interest.

2. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Before initiating the submission process, these instructions for Authors should be reviewed in full to ensure that the article is in compliance with JGG standards. Authors should submit manuscripts online at http://www.jgenetgenomics.org. The Elsevier Editorial System (EES) on Elsevier website will prompt authors through the process. Online submission will ensure rapid handling of your paper. A manuscript file in Microsoft Word (or some other word processing format) is required and will be automatically converted to a PDF.

Authorship Contribution to a manuscript must be substantive in order to justify authorship. An author is responsible for major aspects of the research that is presented. All other contributors should instead be acknowledged appropriately in the Acknowledgments section. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all authors have made substantive contributions to the research and have seen and approved the manuscript in final form prior to submission.

Cover Letter A cover letter must be submitted along with the manuscript, stating that the manuscript has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. If authors wish to request exclusion of any reviewers, specific reasons must be provided. We recommend that authors also explain briefly the importance of their work and how and why their major findings relate to the scope of the journal.

Language-Editing Services Prior to submission, authors who believe their manuscripts would benefit from professional editing are encouraged to use language-editing services, such as the ones described at the following web sites: http://www.prof-editing.com, http://www.internationalscienceediting.com, http://www.asiascienceediting.com, http://www.biosciencewriters.com, http://www.biomeditor.com, http://www.stallardediting.com and http://www.oleng.com.au.

3. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND ORGANIZATION

Manuscripts should follow Journal of Genetics and Genomics style, be written in concise and grammatically correct English. Papers that do not meet the standards below will be returned to the authors without further review. Consult a current issue of JGG for guidance on format, organization, and preparation of figures, legends, tables, and references.

Original manuscripts must be prepared using a standard word processing program (such as Microsoft Word) and should be prepared with 1.5 line spacing and in 12 point type using Times Roman font and Symbol font for Greek characters to avoid inadvertent character substitutions. Please do not use Chinese font.

Organize manuscripts in the following order: Title Page, Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Acknowledgements, References, Tables, and Figure legends. Note that when submitting your manuscript, the References must be placed at the end of your document file. Tables should be included as part of your manuscript file. Figures and regular Supplemental data should be included in separate files and not as part of the manuscript. These will be converted, along with the manuscript, into a single PDF on upload.

TITLE PAGE

Include the following information on this page:

Title. The full manuscript title should be succinct (about 120 characters), informative and descriptive. The title should include detail for indexing and should be comprehensible for a broad scientific audience. Authors should avoid using colons, questions, and nonstandard abbreviations in titles. The title must mention the subject organism (or general group in the case of comparative works). Latin names should be used for all organisms, while common names are allowed for the model systems (maize, rice, yeast).

Author affiliation. Include department, institution, and complete address for each author. If there are authors with different affiliations, use superscripts to match authors with institutions.

Corresponding author. The name, complete address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the corresponding author should be provided.

Manuscript information. The number of text pages (including references and figure legends), of figures, of tables ,and of words in the paper should be provided.

Abbreviations footnote. List nonstandard abbreviations used five or more times. Define these where first mentioned in the text and do not use them in the title.

ABSTRACT AND KEY WORDS

The abstract should stand on its own with no reference to the text. It should contain approximately 200 words and must summarize the questions being addressed, the approach taken, the major findings, and the significance of the results. It should be concise, complete, and clearly communicate the importance of the work for a broad audience. At least three key words (for the purposes of indexing) should be supplied following the abstract. Chinese authors should provide the title, affiliations, key words and an abstract (which should exceed five hundred words) in Chinese at the end of the paper.

TEXT

Authors should divide their manuscripts into the following sections: Introduction (not included as a heading), Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion.

Introduction. The Introduction should provide the necessary background information for the average reader; it should be both complete and concise. Previous publications that form a basis for the work presented must be cited. Citation of reviews is not a substitute for citing primary research articles. Citation of recent research articles is not a substitute for citing original discoveries. An aurthor's own work should not be cited preferentially over equally relevant work of other.

Materials and Methods. Methods must be described completely enough that other laboratories can replicate results and verify claims. Generally, standard procedures should be referenced, though significant variations should be described. Appropriate experimental design and statistical methods should be applied and described wherever necessary for proper interpretation of data and verification of claims. All novel materials and the procedures to prepare them should be described in sufficient detail to allow their reproduction (e.g., DNA constructs, genetic stocks, enzyme preparations, and analytical software).

Results. The Results and Discussion can be subdivided if subheadings give the manuscript more clarity.

Discussion. The Discussion should focus on the interpretation rather than a repetition of the Results section.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

List dedications, acknowledgments and funding support.

REFERENCES

Cite references in the text by name and date of publication and not by number. Authors are expected to proofread every citation in their reference list against the PDF or photocopy of the cited work so that the reference list is accurate with respect to spellings, symbols, italics, subscripts/superscripts, and accents. Only published or in-press papers and books may be cited in the reference list. Citations for web sites (other than for primary literature) should be handled parenthetically in the text and not included in the reference list. Authors should test all URLs and links.

It is expected that all cited publications have been read and determined to be appropriate by the authors, not merely identified by database searches. Reference to specific results should be to original research articles, not to more recent articles or reviews.

A reference manager software, such as Endnote and Reference Manager, is suggested to be used by author. Then spelling errors and fault information can be avoided. JGG's reference format is same with the famous journal 'THE PLANT CELL', which is listed in the reference software format list.

Examples:

Journal articles
Smale, S.T. (2001). Core promoters: Active contributors to combinatorial gene regulation. Genes Dev. 15: 2503-2508.
Clough, S.J., and Bent, A.F. (1998). Floral dip: A simplified method for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 16: 735-743.
Moore, I., Galweiler, L., Grosskopf, D., Schell, J., and Klars, P. (1998). A transcription activation system for regulated gene expression in transgenic plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 376-381.

Books
Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E.F., and Maniatis, T. (1989). Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual. (Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press).

Chapter in a book
Lohaus, G., and Fischer, K. (2002). Intracellular and intercellular transport of nitrogen and carbon. In Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, Vol. 12, C. Foyer and G. Noctor, eds (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers), pp. 239-263.

TABLES

Tables should be submitted embedded within the text file just before the references. Prepare tables using Word's table feature. Number tables consecutively as they are first mentioned in the text. Provide a concise title for each table, and label each column with an unambiguous heading. If footnotes are needed for clarity, designate them with lowercase letters in the order in which they are referenced in the table. Table titles and footnotes should be placed as regular text outside the table body. Each table may include a short general description before the footnotes.

FIGURES

Number figures consecutively according to the order in which they are called out in the text. Figures should be unambiguous and as conceptual as possible and should provide enough information so that the reader can understand them without significant input from the text. Use the same typefaces for all figures. For those figures that contain more than one panel, designate the panels with capital letters (no parentheses and no periods following letters) in the upper left-hand corner of each panel.

Figure legends. Each Figure should be provided by a short title. Figure legends should be concise and should not repeat information presented in the text. Figure panels that are designated with capital letters should have specific subtitles in the legend and should be described separately and completely. Do not describe methods in figure legends unless they are necessary to interpret the results conveyed by the figure. Define in the legend all symbols and abbreviations that are used in the figures.

Figure resolution and size. Resolution of most figures should be 600 dpi at the actual size the figure is to print. For all-black line art, 1000 dpi is needed. The width of one column of print page is about 3.25 inches (85 mm) and a two-column width is about 7 inches (175mm). Please format figures to fit one column or two-column with necessary resolution for clarity. Place panels as close together as possible and eliminate or reduce black or white backgrounds as much as possible. Include the figure number at the top or bottom of the page.

Figure format. Figures may be created using PDF, Photoshop, Powerpoint, Illustrator or other Windows Office software. If you use Photoshop or similar software, send .tif files at full size and delete any blank space around the edges of each figure. If you use Illustrator or similar software, send .eps files. Fonts should be embedded when saving the file. If you use PowerPoint, send the original .ppt files. PDF files are acceptable if they are of high quality and should have fonts embedded.

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

Data that are integral to the manuscript but impractical to include in the printed journal (for instance, large-scale data sets and videos) may be presented in JGG Online. Data and information that are peripheral to the conclusions may be provided as supplemental data if the coeditor agrees that these data would be valuable to specialist readers and are not necessary for other readers to understand the experimental support for important claims and conclusions.

4. PEER REVIEW

All manuscripts will be evaluated firstly by editorial office for conformity to requirements of the scopes and the Instructions for Authors of this journal. The manuscripts that fail to meet the criteria outlined below will be returned before peer-review. The editor responsible for the subject of the manuscript will invite 2-3 reviewers reasonably believed to be an appropriate scientific expert if need. The Editor-in-Chief will make the final decision based on the editor's definitive recommendation for acceptance, revision, or declination. Decisions will be made as rapidly as possible, and the journal strives to return reviewers' comments to authors within 8 weeks whenever possible. If revision is requested, the editorial board will evaluate revised manuscripts and determine whether outside review is required. The board normally will consider only one revised manuscript, and this manuscript must be submitted within 1 month unless an extension is granted. Papers are usually published in chronological order of acceptance.

5. PROOFS

The editorial office will deliver electronic page proofs to the corresponding author via e-mail. Page proofs are considered to be the final version of the manuscript. Authors will receive proofs approximately 3 to 4 weeks after final acceptance of the manuscript.

6. COPYRIGHT

The copyright of any paper accepted for publication in Journal of Genetics and Genomics is reserved by the Chinese Genetics Society, and the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. All authors are required to complete a copyright transfer form. In signing the transfer of copyright, it is assumed that authors have obtained permission to use any copyrighted or previously published material. All authors must read and agree to the conditions outlined in the Copyright Assignment Form, and must sign the Form or agree that the corresponding author can sign on their behalf. Articles cannot be published until a signed Copyright Assignment Form has been received.

7. PUBLICATION FEES

It is free to submit a manuscript to JGG, while a charge of RMB 200 for each print page, RMB 800 for each color figure will be assessed on accepted manuscripts from Chinese authors. Additional payment of RMB 200 per article for language-editing will be assessed. Requests for waiver of charges should be submitted to jgg@genetics.ac.cn, if authors have a financial problem to support the publication.