| General standards |
All articles submitted for publication in IDSCI journals should meet the following basic requirements and be submitted via our submission system. 1.1 Cover letter Briefly describe how your paper relates to your work and how it is groundbreaking and fills a research gap in the field. Nominate 2-3 potential handling editors from the Editorial Board (in a related field) Nominate 4-6 potential reviewers or opposing reviewers URL of corresponding or senior author's homepage Author's statement confirming that the article was published as open access in the IDSCI-affiliated journal and is currently published only in that journal. 1.2 Full text, including Figures and Tables |
Manuscript organization |
2.1 File format An easy-to-use manuscript submission system, without manuscript formatting requirements. 2.2 Abstract and keywords The abstract should: • Describe the the context and purpose of the study • Explain how the study was performed, including any model organisms used, without methodological detail • Summarize the main findings and their significance • Be less than 300 words Please minimize the use of abbreviations (if possible) and do not cite references in the abstract. 5 to 10 keywords should be provided after the abstract in a separate paragraph. 2.3 License term and copyright All articles published by IDSCI are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which means that they are free for anyone to copy, share, or use with proper attribution to the author(s) and original source(s), while retaining copyright ownership of the content. |
| Ethics approval of research |
Methods sections of papers on research using human subject must include ethics statements that specify: • The name of the approving institutional review board or equivalent committee(s). If approval was not obtained, the authors must provide a detailed statement explaining why it was not needed • Whether informed consent was written or oral. If informed consent was oral, it must be stated in the manuscript: • Why written consent could not be obtained • That the Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved use of oral consent • How oral consent was documented For studies involving humans categorized by race/ethnicity, age, disease/disabilities, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, or other socially constructed groupings, authors should: • Explicitly describe their methods of categorizing human populations • Define categories in as much detail as the study protocol allows • Justify their choices of definitions and categories, including, for example, whether any rules of human categorization were required by their funding agency Methods sections of manuscripts reporting results of animal research must include required ethics statements that specify: • The full name of the relevant ethics committee that approved the work, and the associated permit number(s) (where ethical approval is not required, the manuscript should include a clear statement of this and the reason why) |
| Clinical trial registration |
Clinical trials must be pre-registered in a public trial registry. A list of acceptable registries can be found at http://www.who.int/clinical-trials-registry-platform and http://www.icmje.org. Authors can cite a reference to the registration in the Materials and methods section. |
| Cell line research |
| Methods sections for submissions reporting on research with cell lines should state the origin of any cell lines. For established cell lines, the provenance should be stated and references must also be given to either a published paper or to a commercial source. If previously unpublished de novo cell lines were used, including those gifted from another laboratory, details of institutional review board or ethics committee approval must be given, and confirmation of written informed consent must be provided if the line is of human origin. |