Instructions for Authors
TYPES OF PAPERS
The journal publishes original and focus articles, reviews and opinion papers.
Information for Review Authors
Plant Cell Reports publishes timely reviews on major developments in all areas of plant cell biology. Prospective authors may provide a short outline (one or two pages) of the proposed review.
The general instructions for authors should be used for all technical aspects of manuscript preparation. The "Materials and methods" and "Results" sections are not needed, but please give an introduction before proceeding to the details and use informative headings for the different parts of your review. Reviews should not be longer than seven printed pages, including references, tables, and figures (approx. 21 manuscript pages, or 5,000 words).
Review Authors will not be charged for printing essential color figures.
Information on Focus contributions
Focus articles are short commentaries, experimental advances, methods, or opinion papers of no more than 1000 words and 5 references, max. one figure or table. Focus articles are intended for fast-track publication; an abstract is not needed.
Biographical summary
Authors of Reviews, Focus Papers and Guest Editorials are invited to supply a brief biographical summary (between 50 and 100 words) and a black and white glossy photograph, passport-sized. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Manuscript Submission
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
Online Submission
Authors should submit their manuscripts online. Electronic submission substantially reduces the editorial processing and reviewing times and shortens overall publication times. Please follow the hyperlink “Submit online” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTION STATEMENT
Authors must provide a short description of the contributions made by each listed author (please use initials). This will be published in a separate section in front of the Acknowledgments.
•Example: AM and DB conceived and designed research. AM and BB conducted experiments.
GR contributed new reagents or analytical tools. AM and GR analyzed data. AM wrote the
manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.
Note by the editors:
Please be aware that changes to the list of authors are not possible after final acceptance of the
manuscript.
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has advice on what constitutes proper
authorship:
•ICMJE advice
LANGUAGE
Manuscripts that are accepted for publication will be checked by our copyeditors for spelling and formal style. This may not be sufficient if English is not your native language and substantial editing would be required. In that case, you may want to ask a native speaker to help you or arrange for your manuscript to be checked by a professional language editor prior to submission. A clear and co
ncise language will help editors and reviewers concentrate on the scientific content of your paper and thus smooth the peer review process.
The following editing service provides language editing for scientific articles in medicine, biomedical and life sciences, chemistry, physics, engineering, business/economics, and humanities
•Edanz Editing Global
Please contact the editing service directly to make arrangements for editing and payment.
Use of an editing service is neither a requirement nor a guarantee of acceptance for publication.
TITLE PAGE
Title Page
The title page should include:
•The name(s) of the author(s)
•  A concise and informative title
•The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
•The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author
Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined
abbreviations or unspecified references.
Keywords
Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.
KEY MESSAGE
•Please summarize the main achievement of your manuscript beyond the meaning of the manuscript title. This "Key Message" may not contain more than 30 words, and is essential for
original research papers only. It is not needed for Reviews and Opinion Papers.
TEXT
Text Formatting
Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.
•Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.
•Use italics for emphasis.
•Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
•Do not use field functions.
•Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
•Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
•Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
•Save your file in docx format (Word 2007 or higher) or doc format (older Word versions).
Manuscripts with mathematical content can also be submitted in LaTeX.
•LaTeX macro package (zip, 182 kB)
Headings
Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
Footnotes
Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the
reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
SCIENTIFIC STYLEinclude和contain
Genus and species names should be in italics.
REFERENCES
Citation
Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:
•Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Thompson 1990).
•This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman (1996).
•This effect has been widely studied (Abbott 1991; Barakat et al. 1995; Kelso and Smith 1998;
Medvec et al. 1999).
Reference list
The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.
Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work.
•Journal article
Gamelin FX, Baquet G, Berthoin S, Thevenet D, Nourry C, Nottin S, Bosquet L (2009) Effect
of high intensity intermittent training on heart rate variability in prepubescent children. Eur J
Appl Physiol 105:731-738. doi: 10.1007/s00421-008-0955-8
Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author
lists will also be accepted:
Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med
965:325–329
•Article by DOI
Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol
Med. doi:10.1007/s001090000086
•Book
South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London •Book chapter
Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern
genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257
•Online document
Cartwright J (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb.
/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007
•Dissertation
Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal’s name according to the ISSN List of Title Word Abbreviations, see
• LTWA
If you are unsure, please use the full journal title.
For authors using EndNote, Springer provides an output style that supports the formatting of in-text citations and reference list.
•EndNote style (zip, 2 kB)
TABLES
•All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
•Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
•For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
•Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
•Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
ARTWORK AND ILLUSTRATIONS GUIDELINES
Electronic Figure Submission
•Supply all figures electronically.
•Indicate what graphics program was used to create the artwork.
•For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS; for halftones, please use TIFF format.
MSOffice files are also acceptable.
•Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
•Name your figure files with "Fig" and the figure number, e.g., Fig1.eps.
Line Art
•Definition: Black and white graphic with no shading.
•Do not use faint lines and/or lettering and check that all lines and lettering within the figures are legible at final size.
•All lines should be at least 0.1 mm (0.3 pt) wide.
•Scanned line drawings and line drawings in bitmap format should have a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi.
•Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
Halftone Art
•Definition: Photographs, drawings, or paintings with fine shading, etc.
•If any magnification is used in the photographs, indicate this by using scale bars within the figures themselves.
•Halftones should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
Combination Art
•Definition: a combination of halftone and line art, e.g., halftones containing line drawing, extensive lettering, color diagrams, etc.
•Combination artwork should have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi.
Color Art
•Color art is free of charge for online publication.

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