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Author Guidelines

All material to be considered for publication in *Highlights in BioScience* should be submitted in electronic form via the Journal's online submission system. Full instructions for manuscript preparation and submission can be found in the sections below also, see manuscript guidelines. If you are unable to submit your manuscript via the online submission system, please contact the Editorial Office (editorial@highlightsin.org).

Types of Articles

1. Research Articles

Style and Format

File format

Manuscript files can be submitted in the following formats: DOCX, DOC. Microsoft Word documents should not be locked or protected.

Length: Manuscripts can be any length and there are no restrictions on the amount of supplementary data.

Font: Font type: “Times New Roman”, Font size: 12-pt

Layout and spacing: Manuscript text should be double-spaced. Include page numbers and line numbers in the manuscript file.

Language: Manuscripts must be submitted in English.

Abbreviations: Define abbreviations upon first appearance in the text. A list for all abbreviations must be included before references

Reference style: Highlights use the “Vancouver” style, as outlined in the ICMJE sample references. Where available, URLs for the references have provided.

Nomenclature: Use correct and established nomenclature wherever possible.

Supporting Information: Authors may use almost any description as the item name for a supporting information file as long as it contains an “S” and number. For example, “Supplementary Table1” and “Supplementary Figure1”.

Manuscript Organization

Manuscripts should be organized as follows. Instructions for each element appear below the list.

Title page: List title, authors, and affiliations as the first page of a manuscript

Abstract

Introduction

Materials and Methods

Results and Discussion (or separated)

Conclusions (optional)

Acknowledgments (optional)

References

Figures and their captions are inserted after references. Figure files are uploaded separately in the submission system.

Tables and their captions are inserted after figure pages.

supplementary data information captions (if applicable) after table pages. Supplementary data files are uploaded separately.

Parts of a Submission

Title: The title must be clearly intelligible to a non-specialist. The use of jargon and non-standard abbreviations in the title is not permitted.

Short Title: 100 characters

Abstract: The abstract should be a single paragraph, not exceeding 350 words. URLs and references to figures or schemes should NOT be included.

Funding: Details of all funding sources and grant numbers for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'.

Competing Interests: This information should not be in your manuscript file; you will provide it via our submission system.

Author list: Enter author names on the title page of the manuscript and in the online submission system. On the title page, write author names as following, First name (or initials, if used), Middle name (or initials, if used), Last name (surname, family name).

Corresponding author requirements: The corresponding author must provide an ORCID ID at the time of submission by entering it in the user profile in the submission system.

Cover letter: Upload a cover letter as a separate file in the online system.

Title page: The title, authors, and affiliations should all be included on a title page as the first page of the manuscript file.

Animal research: All research involving vertebrates or cephalopods must have approval from the authors' Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) or equivalent ethics committee(s), and must have been conducted according to applicable national and international guidelines. Approval must be received prior to beginning research.

Software submissions

Manuscripts whose primary purpose is the description of new software must provide full details of the algorithms designed. Describe any dependencies on commercial products or operating systems. Include details of the supplied test data and explain how to install and run the software. A brief description of enhancements made in the major releases of the software may also be given. The authors should provide a direct link to the deposited software from within the paper.

Database submissions

For descriptions of databases, provide details about how the data were curated, as well as plans for long-term database maintenance, growth, and stability. The authors should provide a direct link to the database hosting site from within the paper.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice

License and Copyright Agreement

• They are authorized by their co-authors to enter into these arrangements.
• The work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review or thesis); it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; its publication has been approved by all author(s) and responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – of the institutes where the work has been carried out.
• They secure the right to reproduce any material that has already been published or copyrighted elsewhere.
• They agree to the following license and copyright agreement:

• Copyright on any article is retained by the author(s). Regarding copyright transfers please see below.
• Authors grant International Library of Science a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
• Authors grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its original authors and citation details are identified.
• The article and any associated published material is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0):

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

• For any reuse or distribution, it must be made clear to others what the license terms of this work are.
• Any of these conditions can be waived if the copyright holders give permission.
• Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's moral rights.

• Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

• Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

• Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Privacy Statement

About Our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Highlights in BioScience collects and uses the personal information you provide to Highlights in BioScience online system. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.

1. Personal information we collect   
2. How we use your personal information
3. How long we retain your information
4. Protection your personal information
5. Updates to this Privacy Policy
6. Contact us regarding your personal information

1. Personal information we collect

We request personal information from you When you register on a Journal's online system to submit a manuscript to consider in Highlights in BioScience, we will ask for the following information so that we may consider, process, and possibly publish your manuscript, in conformance with accepted publishing standards: your name, title, telephone number, email address, institution, department, address, degree, fax number, position, ORCID iD, state or province, and areas of interest or expertise. Additionally, Highlights in BioScience online system ask you to register you as a potential reviewer on our database or not.

2. How we use your personal information

If you are an author, we use your personal information for the purpose of processing, reviewing, communicating about, facilitating editorial review and peer review and for publishing your article.

If you are an editor or reviewer, we use your personal information to contact you about your potential or actual role as an editor or reviewer, to request and facilitate your review and handling of manuscripts, and to update you on news and developments at Highlights in BioScience as it may affect your work with us.

If you submit a manuscript to us for possible publication, we will send the title and abstract of your manuscript, to one or more potential external/volunteer editors and reviewers to gauge their interest in reviewing your content. If they agree to review your content, the Journal's system will allow them to access your full manuscript and any revisions and relevant comments you have provided. If your manuscript is accepted for publication, we share information about you, your manuscript, or other research content as reasonably necessary with our editing team to publish it.

We will not sell or lease your personal information to any third party.

3. How long we retain your information

We keep your personal information for as long as is necessary to provide services to you, and for as long as your account and/or registration with Highlights in BioScience is active.

4. Protection your personal information

We use reasonable and appropriate physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect your information from unauthorized use, access, loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. We endeavor to protect the personal information we receive, gather, and store, by such means as password protection, firewalls, and other means.

5. Updates to this Privacy Policy

Highlights in BioScience may make changes to this privacy policy from time to time. Changes to this privacy policy will be made by updating this page. Please visit this privacy policy regularly to read the current version. If there are material changes to how we use your personal information, we will endeavor to provide you with reasonable notice of such changes, either by a prominent notice on Highlights in BioScience web site or to your email address of record.

6. Contact us regarding your personal information

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you may contact our editorial office at editorial@highlightsin.org.

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (USD)

This journal does not charge APCs or submission charges.

Article Publication: 0.00 (USD)

This journal does not charge APCs or submission charges.

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