Editorial Policies and Practices Instructions to Authors Manuscript submission form

::: Instructions to Authors:::

All submitted manuscript should contain original research that has not been published previously and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Manuscript submission

Manuscripts can be submitted online or by mail.
Online submission: For instructions, visit:
http://www.e-emm.org
Submission by mail: Submit three print copies of each manuscript including one original set with high quality graphics along with a Manuscript submission form (available at http: //www.e-emm.org/ or on page x). A letter must be included indicating the address, telephone and fax numbers, and E-mail address of the corresponding author. Send manuscripts and correspondence to:

Experimental and Molecular Medicine
KSBMB, #812 Korean Science and Technology Center
635-4 Yeoksam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-703, Korea

Submission of digital files: Following acceptance of a manuscript, authors should upload a digital file containing the final version of the manuscript via the online submission system. Microsoft Word is preferred, although other formats are generally acceptable. It is also encouraged to submit digital files of figures prepared in appropriate formats (see Tables and Figures). If authors do not provide electronic files of their figures, they will be charged separately (about US$4.4 for a simple line graph) and publication of the manuscript will be delayed. If the memory size of digital files exceeds the capacity of the online submission system, authors should submit them to EMM office via E-mail (ksbmb3@ksbmb.or.kr), or provide a CD or a USB by regular mail.
Manuscript and other materials will not be returned unless specifically requested.

Organization of the manuscript

Manuscripts must be typed or printed on 21¡¿29.7 cm (A4 size) high-quality paper in double spacing throughout with at least 3 cm wide margins on all sides. The text must be typed in a font size of at least ten points. The manuscript is to be arranged in the following order: (a) title, author(s), and complete address(es) of institution(s); (b) abbreviations; (c) running title; (d) abstract and keywords; (e) introduction; (f) results; (g) discussion; (h) methods; (i) acknowledgements; (j) references; (k) figure legends; (l) tables; and (m) figures. Number all pages with the title page as page 1. To make papers more readable and informative, the EMM requests that authors mark the followings for typesetting in italic.

(a) Biological name of organisms: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, E. coli
(b) Restriction enzymes and some of enzymes: EcoRI, Taq polymerase
(c) Name of genes:src, c-H-ras, myc
(d) Latin: in vivo, in vitro, in situ
(e) Some of chemical structure: trans-retinol, cis-acting, N- carbamoylaspartate
(f) Centrifugation force: 100,000 g

Title: The title of the manuscript should be as short and informative as possible. It should not contain nonstandard abbreviations, subtitles, or colons, nor exceed two printed lines (about 18 words). The EMM reserves the right to reword titles, with the final approval of the authors. The title page should also give the names of all authors and their complete mailing addresses. The title page should also include the name, the telephone and fax numbers, and the E-mail address of the author to whom all correspondence about the manuscript, including proofs, will be sent.

Abbreviations: Standard abbreviations may be used without definition. Any nonstandard abbreviations should be spelled out on first use, followed by the abbreviated form in parentheses. Thereafter, abbreviated form may be used throughout the manuscript. Undefined abbreviations cannot be used. Provide a list of all nonstandard abbreviations in alphabetical order on a page following the title page.

Running title: The running title to be printed at the top of each page of a published paper cannot exceed 6 words.

Abstract: The abstract should succinctly and clearly describe the major findings reported in the manuscript. It must not exceed 250 words nor contain nonstandard or undefined abbreviations or specialized terms. It should be understandable in itself, since it is frequently used as an abstract in indexes.

Keywords: Six keywords should be appended to the abstract in alphabetical order. The keywords should be standard MeSH- Medline terms (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh). The list submitted may be amended to ensure that entries are MeSH-Medline terms.

Introduction: The introduction should present the purpose of the studies reported and their relationship to earlier work in the field. It should not be an extensive review of the literature nor, in general, exceed two typed pages.

Results: The results of experiments should be presented in figures and tables, although some results that do not require documentation can be given solely in the text. Extensive discussion should not be given in the Results section.

Discussion: The Discussion should be concise (usually less than four typed pages) and focused on the interpretation of the results rather than a repetition of the Results section.
Notes added in proof can be added to a manuscript only with the consent of the Editor.
Errors in a published paper should be corrected in the EMM in ¡°Additions and Corrections.¡±

Methods: The Methods should be as brief as possible but sufficiently complete to permit a qualified reader to repeat the experiments reported. Only truly new procedures should be described in detail; previously published procedures should be cited in references. Modifications of previously published procedures need to be given in detail only when this is necessary to repeat the work.

Supplemental data: Supplemental data are provided to support and enhance scientific information. EMM encourages authors to include such things as the detailed methodology, sequence alignment, background datasets and microarray hybridization experiments. Authors should submit the supplemental material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. Supplemental data will be reviewed as a part of the article. After acceptance, supplemental files will be published online alongside the electronic version of article in EMM web site. No editing will be done to the supplemental data at the editorial office and all changes are the responsibility of the author.

References: The references must be cited by Harvard system (author and date) not the numbering system. References should be quoted in the text with the author's name and date in parentheses, and listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order. Journal names are abbreviated according to PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=journals). Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy of the references. ¡°Personal communication¡± or ¡°unpublished data¡± should be written in the text in parenthesis but not listed in references. References for journals and books should be in the following styles:

Journal articles
Lee JW, Cheong JH, Lee YC, Na SY, Lee SK. Dissecting the molecular mechanism of nuclear receptor action: tran-scription coactivators and corepressors. Exp Mol Med 2000;32:53-60

In press
Sun H, Wolfe JH. Recent progress in lysosomal-mannosi-dase and its deficiency. Exp Mol Med 2001; In press

Complete books
Halliwell B, Gutteridge JMC. Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine, 3rd Ed, 1999, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK

Articles in books
Baird A, Bohlen P. Fibroblast growth factors. In Peptide Growth Factors and Their Receptors (Sporn MB, Roberts AB, eds), 1990, 369-418, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY


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