Scope
Bioscience Reports provides a home for sound scientific research in all areas of cell biology and molecular life sciences.
Since 2012, Bioscience Reports has been fully open access and publishes all papers under the liberal CC BY licence, giving the life science community quality research to share and discuss. Content before 2012 is subscription-only and is accessible via archive purchase.
Articles are assessed on soundness, providing a home for valid findings and data.
We welcome papers that span disciplines, including papers that focus on the following:
The physical properties and structure of basic molecules that make up living organisms
Pathways, chains of reactions and interactions between molecules in living processes
Genetic processes
Biological networks
The components, processes, and interactions of cells
Developmental and evolutionary processes in cells
Organisms
Physiological systems and clinical/medical science
Technology
Omics studies and papers analysing existing publicly available datasets:
For these study types, experimental validation prior to peer-review may be requested by the Editorial Board in order to strengthen and/or confirm the conclusions of the study.
Submissions checklist
Cover letter
Cover letters are optional in Bioscience Reports but are encouraged. If included with your submission, the cover letter should highlight the findings of your study, the advance it brings and its relevance to the field. The cover letter should not include reviewer suggestions, these can be added during the submission process.
Title
The title should succinctly reflect the content of the paper and must not exceed 20 words in length.
Abstract
Abstracts must not exceed 250 words. Please ensure that there are no references included in the abstract. The Journal does not consider graphical abstracts.
Keywords
During the submission process you will be asked to provide a subject area and keywords that best represent your submission. Please select these carefully, as they will help to improve the discoverability of your paper should your paper be accepted for publication.
Author list
The Journal follows ICMJE’s recommendations on authorship, as detailed in our Editorial Policy. Please ensure that the authorship is correct, and that author names are listed exactly as you would like them to appear on the published paper.
The Journal mandates that at least one author must have an institutional email address. If none of the authors are able to provide an institutional email address, the corresponding author’s institution must provide a letter (on letterheaded paper) that includes the following:
The full title of the paper
The full author list
The date of submission
Confirmation that the institution is aware of the work being submitted to the Journal
Confirmation of where the work was performed
Confirmation of when the work was completed
Confirmation of the corresponding author’s employment at their affiliated institution
Contact details of the corresponding author
Contact details, signature and job title of the person who wrote the letter (This letter must be completed and signed by a research officer or department head, not an author of the paper)
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