Author Guidelines
Cell Signaling is an open access peer reviewed journal. The journal follows single blind peer review process and provides fast track peer review with an average review time of 14 days. Articles will be published online within 7 days after acceptance. To make the research available for the scientific community as quickly as possible the journal has adopted continuous publication model. With this adaptation, when an article is accepted and prepared for publication, it will be immediately published online rather than waiting for the completion of other articles in the issue. This model provides faster access to the final version of the article to the readers. Please be noted that the publication frequency for continuous publication model is annual.
The journal follows single blind peer review process and upon authors’ request, we facilitate double blind peer review process. We are providing fast track peer review with an average review time of 14 days. Articles will be published online within 7 days after acceptance.
Submission Guidelines
Authors may submit the manuscript either online at http://probiologists.com/OnlineSubmission or as an email attachment to signaling@pro-biologists.net
Types of Articles
Cell Signaling publishes original research, review articles, clinical case studies, letters to the editor, perspectives, opinion articles, commentaries, book reviews and visual articles. We provide opportunity for authors to submit their research-based findings and high quality theoretical insights.
Generally, there is no restriction on number of words for original research and reviews submitted to our journal. We instruct the authors to submit their manuscript either in word (.doc, .docx, .rtf) or PDF format. We recommend authors to read the policies page before submitting the manuscript.
Public Access Policy
Following NIH Public Access Policy, we submit articles funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other Federal agencies to PubMed Central (PMC) immediately after publication in the journal.
We are also supporting the European authors by submitting the articles funded by Europe PMC Funders to PMC immediately after the publication.
Article Processing Charges
ProBiologists LLC is an open access publisher, devoted to promote open access with the help of academicians and researchers from various countries. The publisher has adopted Gold open access model for publication of articles. Authors are required to pay basic article processing fee to cover expenses related to the online hosting, article production and editing charges, cost required to maintain our highly professional team involved in technical and editorial activities, post production, author-proofing, quality assurance and indexing. Authors are suggested to check the publication fees before the submission of manuscript. Researchers from developing and under developed nations may contact the publisher for partial or complete waiver on APC before the article submission.
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Article processing charges (APC) |
APC for Special issue articles |
All Article types |
1500 GBP |
1050 GBP |
Article Formatting and Preparation Guidelines
Cell Signaling pursue a prescribed format for all the articles. The journal follows a uniform and consistent format for article publication. We accept manuscripts for publication that are not under consideration anywhere else for publication. All the manuscripts submitted initially ought to pursue the journal’s proposed format which will be re-examined and organized in our post-acceptance process. Authors from non-English speaking countries are advised to have their manuscripts reviewed by a native English speaker.
Cell Signaling recommend authors to checklist the following items while submitting the manuscript:
- Cover letter
- Title
- List of authors along with their affiliations and contact information
- Abstract no longer than 300 words
- Keywords
- Abbreviations
- Main body (IMRaD format for original research articles)
- References
- Acknowledgement
- Author Contributions Statement
- Figure and Table Legends Figures (according to the digital images integrity and standards in eps, tiff, jpg formats) and Tables (in Word)]
- Supplementary Information can be provided as a separate file (either in Docx or PDF)
A main title (not more than 25 words) and a running title with full names and affiliations of all the authors must be included in the title page of the manuscript. Complete contact information of the corresponding author such as telephone number, fax number and email address must be provided. Authors’ affiliations should be designated using the numericals and an * symbol must be used to designate corresponding author. For equally contributed authors, # symbol must be used.
Abstract
Abstract should be informative and written precisely. It should not exceed 300 words and it should clearly indicate the objectives and conclusions. Do not include any citations in the abstract.
Keywords
Maximum of 10 keywords can be included in the paper.
Introduction
In this section, authors must provide clear background information about the subject and describe the objectives of the study. It should highlight the importance of the research in question and clearly indicate the lack of sufficient knowledge in current literature.
Materials & Methods
The reagents and apparatus used to carry out the experiments must be included in this section. The experimental methods adopted to conduct the study must be clearly described.
Results
In this section, authors should report the main findings of the study. Secondary findings such as secondary outcomes, subgroup analyses, etc. can be reported here.
Discussion
In this section, the authors should address their research objective with sufficient evidence from the experimental results. Clear competing explanations must be provided for results with multiple interpretations.
Conclusion
In this section, significance of the current study can be stated. The main outcomes of the study should be summarized and limitations of the study can be stated along with future perspectives.
Conflicts of Interest
Authors should declare if any conflict of interest exists among the authors or their institutions. If there are no Conflicts of Interest then that must be stated.
Funding
Statement In this section, authors should mention the grant details that they received for conducting the study. Authors are instructed to provide the names of the agency that supported their work and the grant numbers.
Acknowledgments
In this section, authors can include names of the individuals who are not listed as co-authors but have helped the authors in preparing the manuscript. Prior permissions must be obtained to mention the names of these individuals.
References
Authors are instructed to follow sequential numbering in the order of their appearance for the references in the main text. Uncited references must be excluded from the manuscript. In the main text, references should be represented with numbers in square brackets e.g., [9]. Vancouver style is recommended for reference formatting.
Figures
Authors are instructed to submit the figures either in TIFF or GIF or JPEG. All the figures must be cited in a sequential order in the main text of the article. Separate figures legends must be provided for each figure after the bibliography section. Prior permissions must be obtained by the authors from the relevant parties in case of reproducing a figure published elsewhere.
Tables
Authors are instructed to submit the tables in a separate word file. All the tables must be cited in a sequential order in the main text of the article. Separate table legends must be provided for each table.
Supplementary Materials
Supplementary materials such as video clips, audio files or datasets can be submitted along with the manuscripts either in a single file or as a .ZIP file (if multiple files are there).
Proofs
After the acceptance of the article, galley proofs will be sent to corresponding author. Authors must send the corrected proofs within two to three days of receipt. Too many changes are not allowed in the manuscript after the acceptance; therefore, only necessary changes will be made in the article.