One submission to all journals

Template for Electronic Submission to ACS Journals

Ca2+-free calmodulin was obtained by exhaustively dialyzing 2 mg protein (c = 4 mg/mL) against 1000 volumes of 2 mM EGTA, 50 mM Tris HCl and 150 mM NaCl (pH = 7.4) at 4 °C in a 0.5 mL Pierce Slide-A-LyzerTM Dialysis Cassette (3.5 K MWCO) for 2 days. As the carboxylic groups of EGTA exhibit strong IR bands in the region 1570-1630 cm-1 that overlap with the amide I' band of proteins (1600-1700 cm...

Preparing manuscripts for submission to medical journals: the paper trail.

CONTEXT Preparing a manuscript for publication in a medical journal is hard work. OBJECTIVE To make it easier to prepare a readable manuscript. APPROACH Start early--A substantial portion of the manuscript can be written before the project is completed. Even though you will revise it later, starting early will help document the methods and guide the analysis. Focus on high-visibility compon...

Time-lag from submission to printing in Indian biomedical journals.

The timeliness of publication in five Indian, clinical, biomedical journals (Indian Pediatrics, The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, Neurology India, The Indian Journal of Medical Research and Journal of Postgraduate Medicine) from January 2007 to December 2008 was compared. The time from manuscript submission to publication for the journals studied (median: 358.3 days; range: 202.9-421.3 days) wa...

simultaneous submission of a manuscript to more than one journal

Manuscript Submission Invitations from ‘Predatory Journals’: What Should Authors Do?

Press freedom and worldwide internet access have opened ample opportunity for a staggering number of poor open access journals and junk publishers to emerge. Dubious publishers are abusing and camouflaging the golden open access model. In 2012, Jeffery Beall shed light on the predatory journals (as he preferred to call them) and the threat to open access scientific publication. Publishing in pr...