Special Issue of Biodegradation (Springer)

Editor-in-Chief: Ronald R.L. Crawford

Guest Editor: Ramesh C. Kuhad
Impact Factor: 2.055 (2008)

Biodegradation will publish a special issue on the topics of: Biotransformation; Mineralization; Detoxification; Recycling; Amelioration or treatment of chemicals or waste materials by naturally-occurring microbial strains; Microbial associations; Recombinant organisms. Coverage spans a range of topics, including Biochemistry of biodegradative pathways; Genetics of biodegradative organisms and development of recombinant biodegrading organisms; Molecular biology-based studies of biodegradative microbial communities; Enhancement of naturally-occurring biodegradative properties and activities, novel applications of biodegradation and biotransformation technology, to soil, water, sewage, heavy metals and radionuclides, organohalogens, high-COD wastes, straight-, branched-chain and aromatic hydrocarbons.

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Submission protocol

• Authors are requested to prepare an abstract of one half page of the paper that they are interested in publishing. The abstract must include title, authors’ names and affiliations, name and e-mail of contact author.  

• Submit the abstract by email to biomicro2009@formatex.org before 12 February 2010 putting in the email subject line: Abstract submitted to Biodegradation special issue.

• The editors for the special issue will review all abstracts and decide who authors will be invited to submit a full paper to be considered for publication in Biodegradation Journal. This decision will be communicated by late February.

• Those authors who were invited to submit papers will have to prepare them carefully meeting the Instructions for authors provided by the journal at http://www.springer.com/life+sci/microbiology/journal/10532 (on the right hand side of the journal page)

• All manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the Editorial Management System (EMS), which can be accessed at http://www.editorialmanager.com/biod/, before 20 April.

  In the online submission procedure, when asked to “choose the article type of your manuscript from the pull-down menu”, authors must choose: “SI: BioMicroWorld2009” in the pull-down menu. 

  When asked to “Enter Comments” the authors must type the following comments in the box: This manuscript is intended for the special issue “BioMicroWorld2009” guest edited by Ramesh C. Kuhad.

  Other comments related to the manuscript may be added after the aforementioned paragraph.

  It is crucial that this procedure is followed by each corresponding author, otherwise the papers will not be recognized as being part of the special issue and will be published as regular papers.

  Please, also have a look at the guide on how to submit a new manuscript for the Biodegradation special issue at: Submitting New Manuscripts

• Once submitted, every paper will be reviewed and the corresponding authors will be notified about the review results of their papers in due course (the whole review process, including peer review by referees and minor/major revision by authors, will finish by June)

General remarks for papers submitted to Biodegradation

• Manuscripts should be submitted in Word (Save your file in doc format. Do not submit docx files).

• Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.

• Submit all your artwork – photographs, line drawings, etc. – in an electronic format. Your art will then be produced to the highest standards with the greatest accuracy to detail. The published work will directly reflect the quality of the artwork provided.

Special Issue of Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (Springer)

Official Journal of the Society for Industrial Microbiology
Editor-in-Chief: Allen I. Laskin

Guest Editor: James Gomes
Impact factor: 1.919 (2008)

The Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology (JIM&B) will publish a special issue containing original research papers in the fields of biotechnology, fermentation and cell culture, biocatalysis, environmental microbiology, natural products discovery and biosynthesis, marine natural products, metabolic engineering, genomics, bioinformatics, or other areas of applied microbiology.

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Submission protocol

• Prepare your paper carefully meeting the Instructions for Authors provided by the journal, except those referring to the standard submission procedure of the journal.

• Download the cover form. Fill in it.

• Submit the both above mentioned documents (together with all necessary figures files) by email to biomicro2009@formatex.org before 25 March.

Large files that cannot be sent by e-mail must be uploaded on our server (please contact the Conference Secretariat for details)

• Once submitted, the paper will be reviewed and the corresponding authors will be notified about the review results of their papers in due course (the whole review process, including peer review by referees and minor/major revision by authors, will finish by early July)
  
  
  

General remarks for papers submitted to Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

• Original papers should normally not exceed 16 printed pages (one printed page corresponds to about 850 words of text or 3 illustrations with their legends). The preferred format for manuscripts is Word.

• Manuscripts should be typed double spaced, including figure legends, any footnotes to tables or figures, and references. All manuscripts must conform to the current edition of the CBE Style Manual for Biological Editors and are subject to copy-editing.

• Illustrations: the preferred figure formats are EPS for graphics exported from a drawing program and TIFF for halftone illustrations. Legible, lower-quality formats (JPG, JPEG) may be used in order to meet file size restrictions on initial submission, but the original, higher-quality files may be requested during the review process. Each figure should be in a separate file, and the file name should include the figure number. Figure legends should be appended to the text after the reference list and not placed in the figure files.

Special Issue of American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Science Publications)

Editor-In-Chief: M. S. Ahmad

American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences will publish a special issue on the topics of: Agriculture, Soil and Forest Microbiology; Marine Biology; Chemistry; Agronomy; Soil Studies; Crop Sciences; Molecular Biology; Bioengineering; Biotechnology; Toxicology

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Submission protocol

• Prepare your paper carefully meeting the Instructions for Authors provided by the journal, except those referring to the standard submission procedure of the journal.

• Download the cover form. Fill in it.

• Submit the both above mentioned documents by email to biomicro2009@formatex.org before 25 March.

Large files that cannot be sent by e-mail must be uploaded on our server (please contact the Conference Secretariat for details)

• Once submitted, the paper will be reviewed and the corresponding authors will be notified about the review results of their papers in due course (the whole review process, including peer review by referees and minor/major revision by authors, will finish by early July)

General remarks for papers submitted to American Journal of Agriculture and Biological Sciences

• Manuscripts should be written in clear, concise and grammatically correct English (with 10 font size and Times New Roman font style) The entire manuscript, including references, should be typed single spaced, with margins of 1 inch each side. The preferred format for manuscripts is Word.

• Before submission of your manuscript, please check that:
  • All references cited in the text are included in the reference section.
  • All figures and tables are cited in the text.
  • Figures are at least 300 d.p.i.
  • The pages are numbered.

Special Issue of Journal of Biotechnology (Elsevier)

Chief Editor: A. Pühler
Guest Editor: Bo Mattiasson
Impact Factor: 2.748

Journal of Biotechnology will publish a special issue with full papers of conference participants who have already been expressly invited by the journal. These papers based on conference invited lectures/oral presentations will cover novel and innovative aspects of biotechnology. Corresponding authors will be informed about instructions for authors, deadlines... by the journal editors.

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