Journal Guide

Cells (ISSN 2073-4409) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal which provides an advanced forum for studies related to cell biology, molecular biology and biophysics. It publishes reviews, research articles, communications and technical notes. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. Full experimental and/or methodical details must be provided. There are, in addition, unique features of this journal: manuscripts regarding research proposals and research ideas will be particularly welcomed electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculation and experimental procedure - if unable to be published in a normal way - can be deposited as supplementary material we also accept manuscripts communicating to a broader audience with regard to research projects financed with public funds

Cells Tissues Organs aims at bridging the gap between cell biology and developmental biology and the emerging fields of regenerative medicine (stem cell biology, tissue engineering, artificial organs, in vitro systems, and transplantation biology). Cells Tissues Organs offers a rapid and fair peer review and exquisite reproduction quality. Special topic issues, entire issues of the journal devoted to a single research topic within the range of interests of the journal, are published at irregular intervals.

Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters focuses on research at the interface of cellular and molecular biology, and also on the fields of biochemistry, biophysics and biotechnology. The range of coverage includes cellular compartments, the cell cycle and its regulation, cell differentiation, stem cells, cell traffic, signaling, motility, adhesion and division, the cellular membranes, the cytoskeleton, nuclear architecture, gene expression, and molecular biotechnology. Since its founding in 1996, at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters has served as an international journal: a vehicle for the publication of research and review articles on achievements in cell and molecular biology, and related disciplines. The journal offers research articles and short communications, as well as mini-reviews and review articles on recent advances of interest to its readership.

Cellular & Molecular Immunology is a bimonthly journal from the Chinese Society of Immunology and the University of Science and Technology of China. Covering both basic immunology research and clinical applications, Cellular & Molecular Immunology provides the latest information and advancements in our understanding of the immunological response of the host, both in vitro and in vivo.The journal publishes Research Articles, Reviews, Minireviews and Brief Reports in all areas of cellular and molecular immunology, including but not limited to: * clinical immunology * comparative immunology * immunobiology * immunogenetics * immunological techniques * immunopathology * immunopharmacology * infection immunology * neuroimmunology * transplantation immunology * tumor immunology * veterinary immunologyAs China's first English-language immunology journal, Cellular & Molecular Immunology is designed to serve both the Chinese and international communities as a vehicle to rapidly disseminate the latest studies in this field. The journal welcomes submissions that explore novel ideas or un- or contra-orthodox approaches, as long as they are underpinned by conventional scientific practice and present falsifiable hypotheses that are tested with empirical methods and evidence.Manuscripts must provide evidence that can be critically evaluated, and where applicable: * define disorders and clinical symptoms by standard clinical terms (e.g. allergy, asthma, lupus, etc.) * deem results 'significant' only using standard statistical methods in biological effects/outcomes studies * use consistent and defined amounts and mixtures of herbal formulas, or use purified monomer extracts.Terms that may be ambiguous to the broad audience of the journal should be clearly defined within the manuscript.

Cellular Immunology publishes original investigations concerned with the immunological activities of cells in experimental or clinical situations. The scope of the journal encompasses the broad area of in vitro and in vivo studies of cellular immune responses.• Research Areas include:• Antigen receptor sites• Autoimmunity• Delayed-type hypersensitivity or cellular immunity• Immunologic deficiency states and their reconstitution• Immunologic surveillance and tumor immunity• Immunomodulation• Immunotherapy• Lymphokines and cytokines• Nonantibody immunity• Parasite immunology• Resistance to intracellular microbial and viral infection• Thymus and lymphocyte immunobiology• Transplantation immunology• Tumor immunity Special issues:Suggestions for special issue topics and guest editors can be sent to Deirdre Dunne, d.dunne@elsevier.comBenefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services .Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

Aims & Scope:

Scope: Cellular Logistics covers the organization of the flow of molecules, information and energy to their destinations, inside and outside of cells.

During the past two decades, the extremely dynamic cell biology field has made tremendous progress in identifying molecular machinery components, elucidating mechanisms and revealing their regulation. This information forms the basis for the emerging new discipline of cellular logistics. Cellular logistics is key for multiple biological processes, such as cell polarity, signaling and development, and is highly relevant to human health.

Aims: Cellular Logistics provides a platform for presenting and discussing cutting-edge research on all aspects of cellular logistics by a multidisciplinary community of scientists.

Cellular Logistics topics include:
• Compartments and pathways: compartment biogenesis, maturation and propagation
• Mechanisms: building molecular machines, translocation across and transport between membranes, vesicle formation and coats, compartment and vesicle motility, tethering and fusion
• Regulation: post-translational modifications, GTPases and step integration
• Logistics of biological processes: e.g., cell polarity, cell cycle, biological clocks, signaling and development
• Human disease, host–pathogen interactions and pathogen exploitation

Paper Formats: Cellular Logistics offers a variety of paper formats including:
• Original Research articles
• Short Reports
• Reviews
• Commentaries
• Extra Views
• Methods and Tool Box manuscripts

Submissions: at http://cellularlog.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex
All submissions are assessed by the Editor-in-Chief and, if found suitable for Cellular Logistics, are peer-reviewed by experts.

Peer Review: Cellular Logistics has an outstanding Editorial Board. Manuscripts will be reviewed without bias, with the aim of adding new and empirical information to this growing field.

Open Access policy: Immediate Open Access can be purchased for a reasonable fee. All articles become Free Access one year after publication.

Cellular Microbiology aims to publish significant contributions on the intersection of microbial and host-cell biology that strongly advance understanding of unique biological processes and mechanisms. The scope includes the host cell responses and interactions elicited by prokaryotic, viral, fungal and parasitological microorganisms that illuminate exploitation of host cell structures, function and signalling pathways, and may include modulation or alteration of immune responses. Mechanistic insight obtained through robust biochemical, genetic, cellular, and bioimaging technologies are expected to support observational data. In addition to mammalian and plant systems, papers addressing other hosts such as invertebrate systems are encouraged. Because viruses are inherently dependent upon the host cell, virology-based submissions to Cellular Microbiology should advance knowledge of the interaction of viruses and host cells.

Cellular Oncology publishes scientific contributions from various biomedical and clinical disciplines involved in basic and translational cancer research on the cell and tissue level, technical and bioinformatics developments in this area, and clinical applications. This includes a variety of fields like genome technology, micro-arrays and other high-throughput techniques, genomic instability, SNP, DNA methylation, signaling pathways, DNA organization, (sub)microscopic imaging, proteomics, bioinformatics, functional effects of genomics, drug design and development, molecular diagnostics and targeted cancer therapies, genotype-phenotype interactions. A major goal is to translate the latest developments in these fields from the research laboratory into routine patient management. To this end Cellular Oncology will form a platform of scientific information exchange between molecular biologists and geneticists, technical developers, pathologists, (medical) oncologist and other clinicians involved in the managemen

Cellular Oncology publishes scientific contributions from various biomedical and clinical disciplines involved in basic and translational cancer research on the cell and tissue level, technical and bioinformatics developments in this area, and clinical applications. This includes a variety of fields like genome technology, micro-arrays and other high-throughput techniques, genomic instability, SNP, DNA methylation, signaling pathways, DNA organization, (sub)microscopic imaging, proteomics, bioinformatics, functional effects of genomics, drug design and development, molecular diagnostics and targeted cancer therapies, genotype-phenotype interactions. A major goal is to translate the latest developments in these fields from the research laboratory into routine patient management. To this end Cellular Oncology will form a platform of scientific information exchange between molecular biologists and geneticists, technical developers, pathologists, (medical) oncologist and other clinicians involved in the managemen

Cellular Reprogramming is the premier journal dedicated to this rapidly evolving field. Advances in reprogramming cellular mechanisms are transforming biomedical research and offer new insights on the etiology, development, and potential treatment of various diseases. The Journal emphasizes novel approaches for understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the phenomenon of reprogramming. The Journal publishes articles focusing on: * Somatic cell nuclear transfer and reprogramming in early embryos * Embryonic stem cells * Nuclear transfer stem cells (stem cells derived from nuclear transfer embryos) * Generation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells and/or potential for cell-based therapies * Epigenetics * Adult stem cells and pluripotency * And much more….

Cellular Signalling publishes full-length, original papers, written in a concise style, that describe key, novel findings on all aspects of mechanisms, actions and structural components of cellular signalling systems. The emphasis is on:• Effector systems, such as protein kinases, lipid signalling pathways, cyclic nucleotide signalling processes, NO signalling and ion channels;• The production, regulation, degradation and action of second messengers; the structure, regulation, degradation and action of receptors;• Guanine nucleotide regulatory proteins;• Bio-informatic studies related to cell signalling mechanisms;• Compartmentalisation/compartmentation of signalling systems;• Anchor/scaffold signalling proteins;• The effect of cellular signalling events on the functioning, growth and differentiation of cells in normal and pathological states and also cellular oncogenes.Within the scope of the journal, manuscripts dealing with biochemistry, protein structure, cell biology, molecular biology, pharmacology, neurobiology, molecular endocrinology and molecular oncology are welcomed.The journal does not publish short reports.Cellular Signalling will also publish Topical Reviews of some five thousand to eight thousand words. In general, reviews will be solicited by the Editorial Board. However, intending contributors of unsolicited review articles can send a brief summary of their proposed Topical Review to the Editorial Office for comment on its possible acceptability prior to submission.

The field of cellular and molecular bioengineering seeks to understand, so that we may ultimately control, the mechanical, chemical, and electrical processes of the cell.  A key challenge in improving human health is to understand how cellular behavior arises from molecular-level interactions.  CBME, an official journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society, publishes original research and review papers in the following seven general areas:

Molecular: DNA-protein/RNA-protein interactions, protein folding and function, protein-protein and receptor-ligand interactions, lipids, polysaccharides, molecular motors, and the biophysics of macromolecules that function as therapeutics or engineered matrices, for example.

Cellular: Studies of how cells sense physicochemical events surrounding and within cells, and how cells transduce these events into biological responses.  Specific cell processes of interest include cell growth, differentiation, migration, signal transduction, protein secretion and

Papers, submitted to this journal, having neither been submitted, accepted nor published previously or simultaneously in other journals or books, may be accepted.It should be noted that all papers have to be transmitted, either to the Editor-in-Chief, to the Associate Editors or to the Co-Editors, who can all, without exception, handle the totality of the procedures, leading to the evaluation of the papers. After revision and acceptance of the paper, it is transmitted to the Editor-in-Chief who decides finally about its definitive acceptability. No any claim can be made by the author(s) concerning an eventual rejection of the paper. They can neither oblige any of the Editors and the Editor-in-Chief to disclose the name(s) and the number of the Referees, nor to give a detailed account about the content of the comments of the Referees.

In an effort to distribute its content to the widest audience possible, CMGH is an open access, all-digital journal. We will maximize our digital platform by including graphical abstracts, animated illustrations, large data sets, and video microscopy, endoscopy, and whole animal imaging approaches. Initially, CMGH will be a bi-monthly publication, moving to a monthly publication in its second year. CMGH will debut its first issue in January 2015. Our editors will rapidly and fairly review submissions with the assistance of an expert editorial board and external reviews. Following rigorous peer review, accepted manuscripts will be published online within days of the final decision.

CMGH is led by Jerrold R. Turner, MD, PhD, AGAF (The University of Chicago) and Associate Editors James R. Goldenring, MD, PhD, AGAF (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine) and Rebecca G. Wells, MD (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine). For more information about their experience and areas of research, read their biosketches on the http://cmghjournal.org/content/board-of-editors-biosBoard of Editors page.

Drs. Turner, Goldenring, and Wells will also draw from the vast experience of their advisory committee, which is composed of AGA president and past editor-in-chief of Gastroenterology Anil K. Rustgi, MD, AGAF, AGA past-president Mark Donowitz, MD, AGAF, AGA vice president and past editor-in-chief of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Michael Camilleri, MD, AGAF, current editor-in-chief of Gastroenterology, Bishr Omary, PhD, MD, AASLD past president James Boyer, MD, and accomplished investigator and Outstanding AGA Women in Science inductee Susan Henning, PhD, AGAF.

CMGH is open for submissions on June 1, 2014. Submit your manuscript at www.editorialmanager.com/cmghwww.editorialmanager.com/cmgh.

Based in Basel, Switzerland, the multidisciplinary journal Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (CMLS) publishes research articles, reviews, multi-author reviews and visions & reflections articles covering the latest aspects of biological and biomedical research. The journal will consider contributions focusing on biochemistry and molecular biology, cell biology, molecular and cellular aspects of biomedicine, neuroscience, pharmacology and immunology. In addition, CMLS welcomes comments on any article published in CMLS. Publication Schedule
One volume comprising 24 issues per year Peer Review
Of all contributions by an international board of experts Short Publication Time
Decision on acceptance/rejection within 1 month (for research articles) Online First publication; publication of the print version no more than 2 months after acceptance (for research articles) Illustrations
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Based in Basel, Switzerland, the multidisciplinary journal Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (CMLS) publishes research articles, reviews, multi-author reviews and visions & reflections articles covering the latest aspects of biological and biomedical research. The journal will consider contributions focusing on biochemistry and molecular biology, cell biology, molecular and cellular aspects of biomedicine, neuroscience, pharmacology and immunology. In addition, CMLS welcomes comments on any article published in CMLS. Publication Schedule
One volume comprising 24 issues per year Peer Review
Of all contributions by an international board of experts Short Publication Time
Decision on acceptance/rejection within 1 month (for research articles) Online First publication; publication of the print version no more than 2 months after acceptance (for research articles) Illustrations
Black & white, color illustrations at no cost Page Charges
None

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30 complimentary reprints