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Author Guidelines

To submit a paper to our journal:

1. Register as an Author; we encourage you to register also as a reader and a reviewer at the same time.
2. Follows the Instructions to authors below.
3. Read our Editorial Policies and our Competing Interest policies

To submit a revised version

1. Log in
2. Click on your role as Author
3. Click on QUEUED FOR REVIEW on the page displayed
4. Under the heading EDITOR DECISION, upload your revised paper as AUTHOR VERSION using Browse and Upload buttons
5. Use the NOTIFY EDITOR email to inform editors that the revised version has been submitted

Instructions to Authors

Manuscripts must be written in English. The first page must contain: (a) title, name and surname of the authors; (b) names of the institution(s) where the research was carried out; (c) a running title of no more than 50 letters; (d) acknowledgments; (e) the name and full postal address of the author to whom correspondence regarding the manuscript as well as requests for abstracts should be sent; (f) three to five key words. To accelerate communication, phone, fax number and e-mail address of the corresponding author should also be included. The second page should contain: (a) authors' contributions, i.e., information about the contributions of each person named as having participated in the study (http://www.icmje.org/#author); (b) disclosures about potential conflict of interest. Editorials and Commentaries have no particular format; anyway, they should have no more than 30 references. Original Articles should normally be divided into an abstract, introduction, design and methods, results, discussion and references. The abstract should contain about 250 words and must be structured as follows: background, design and methods, results, conclusions. A maximum of 20 authors is permitted, and additional authors should be listed in an ad hoc appendix. Review Articles: no particular format is required for these articles. However, they should have an informative, unstructured abstract of about 250 words. Reviews may also include meta-analyses, guidelines and consensus papers by scientific societies or working groups. These studies must be conducted following proper, widely accepted ad hoc procedures. Brief Reports must provide conclusive findings: preliminary observations or incomplete findings cannot be considered for publication. They should be signed by no more than 10 authors. Brief reports should have a short abstract of no more than 150 words, a text of about 2000 words, a maximum of 3 tables and/or figures (total), and up to 20 references. Book Reviews are also accepted for publication: authors who would like to have their books reviewed should send a copy of the book to David Liberles, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY  82071, USA

References should be prepared strictly according to the Vancouver style, which is present in EndNote); for details see the URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html. Where available, URLs for the references should be provided directly within the Word document. References must be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are first cited in the text, and they must be identified in the text by arabic numerals. References to personal communications and unpublished data should be incorporated in the text and not placed under the numbered References.

Peer-review policy

All manuscript submitted to our journals are critically assessed by external and/or inhouse experts in accordance with the principles of Peer Review (http://www.icmje.org/#peer), which is fundamental to the scientific publication process and the dissemination of sound science. Each paper is first assigned by the Editors to an appropriate Associate Editor who has knowledge of the field discussed in the manuscript. The first step of manuscript selection takes place entirely inhouse and has two major objectives: a) to establish the article's appropriateness for our journals' readership; b) to define the manuscript's priority ranking relative to other manuscripts under consideration, since the number of papers that the journal receives is much greater than that it can publish. If a manuscript does not receive a sufficiently high priority score to warrant publication, the editors will proceed to a quick rejection. The remaining articles are reviewed by at least two different external referees (second step or classical peer-review). Manuscripts should be prepared according to the Uniform Requirements established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) (http://www.icmje.org/#prepare). Authorship. All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship according to the ICMJE criteria (http://www.icmje.org/sponsor.htm) Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. Authorship credit should be based only on substantial contributions to (a) conception and design, or analysis and interpretation of data; and to (b) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and on (c) final approval of the version to be published. These three conditions must all be met. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship. Any part of an article critical to its main conclusions must be the responsibility of at least one author. Authors should provide a brief description of their individual contributions. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should be asked to indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or PDF document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
6. I understand that this journal charge a publication fee for publication and I confirm that I will pay the amount due whether my manuscript will be accepted for publication. I also understand that I will have the possibility to ask for waiving the Publication fee.

Copyright Notice

PAGEPress has chosen to apply the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) to all manuscripts to be published. 

An Open Access Publication is one that meets the following two conditions:

1. The author(s) and copyright holder(s) grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship, as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
2. A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in a suitable standard electronic format is deposited immediately upon initial publication in at least one online repository that is supported by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well-established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archiving.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: 1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. 2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal. 3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Privacy Statement

Privacy is an important concern for users of our site, and is something that PAGE Press takes very seriously. Below you will find our policy for protecting users' personal information. Registration on our website is optional and voluntary. Browsing and viewing articles on our website does not require any personal information to be submitted from users. Nor do these functions require the user's browser to be set to accept cookies. Some other aspects of our services published on our website do require the use of cookies, and the supply of information such as name, e-mail etc. This is necessary for security reasons and also for us to be able to assure standards of scientific integrity. Users may submit further personal information (e.g. details of research areas of interest) in order to take advantage of present and future personalization facilities on our website. In accordance with European Union guidelines, registrants may decline to provide the information requested. They should be advised, however, that PAGEPress may be unable to deliver its services unless at least the information necessary for security and identification purposes is provided. In order to offer the best possible service to users, PAGE Press tracks the patterns of usage of pages on the site. This enables us to identify the most popular articles and services. Where users have provided details of their research areas of interest, this information can be correlated, helping PAGEPress to provide a useful service for scientists, offering them the most relevant information based on their areas of interest. User information will only be shared with third parties with the explicit consent of the user. Publishing a scientific manuscript is inherently a public (as opposed to anonymous) process. The name and e-mail address of all authors of a PAGEPress manuscript will be available to users of PAGEPress. These details are made available in this way purely to facilitate scientific communication. Collecting these e-mail addresses for commercial use is not allowed, nor will PAGEPress itself send unsolicited e-mail to authors, unless it directly concerns the paper they have published on PAGEPress journals. PAGEPress reserves the right to disclose members' personal information if required to do so by law, or in the good faith and belief that such action is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, respond to claims, or protect the rights, property or safety of PAGEPress, employees or members.

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Publication: 500.00 (EUR)
Article Processing Fee for publication of a paper on this journal is 500,00 EUR (plus taxes, if any). This fee covers costs for: professional copyediting; immediate publication quickly upon acceptance; different format of publication (HTML, PDF); inclusion in many archives as PubMed Central, IndexCopernicus, DOAJ, among others; inclusion in PubMed (once our journals will be accepted). At submission, each corresponding author must confirm that he will pay our publication fee for publication. At the end of peer review all accepted papers are processed for publication: at this time PAGEPress also require payments; once payments are received and all versions of the paper are approved, the paper is published.
Discounts are available for those authors belonging to organizations supporting PAGEPress: contact us about that.
Please note that this fee does not include taxes; residents in the European union must add 20% as Value-Added Tax (VAT). Institutions and Organizations paying the fee on behalf of authors can avoid payment of VAT providing their VAT registration number.
Methods of Payment: authors can pay by: 1) credit card; 2) a check sent using surface mail; 3) wire transfer. Details about payments will be sent directly to authors.

IMPORTANT! Please note that until the 30th of June 2010, all papers coming from developing countries (see the list published by the<a href="http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2008/01/weodata/groups.htm#oem" target="_blank"> International Monetary Fund</a>; China is in any case excluded from this list) are entitled to publish Original Articles and Review Articles with a 50% discount.