Guidelines for publishing in Cell Methods
Adama Sidibé1,*,# 
1-Editor-in-Chief of Cell Methods, Rviews Press, 13010, Marseille, France
*Correspondence: asidibe@rviews.org
#Cell Methods journal office: cellmethods@rviews.org
Abstract
Publishing in Cell Methods requires that the authors provide information that are related to the format of the type of article they want to publish. Guidelines are provided in this article to guide authors through the manuscript preparation for next submissions to Cell Methods following the editorial requirements.
Keywords
author guidelines, article types, quality standards, instructions, cell methods, resource, tools
Author guidelines
General instructions
Cell Methods proposes several formats of original primary articles, reviews, commentaries and others. We invite authors to submit manuscript regard to the types of articles accepted by Cell Methods. The submissions will be evaluated by the editorial team to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of Cell Methods. This evaluation will result in the first editorial decision. This crucial round decides whether the journal is interested to collaborate with the authors for further evaluation by external experts. Indeed, the submissions considered to be a good fit for Cell Methods will be further evaluated by the scientific advisors, and if required by the article type will be sent for peer reviewing before deciding the acceptance or sending back to the authors for revision. The essential information is highlighted below to allow the submission of manuscripts that meet all requirements of Cell Methods for evaluation and publication.
Before submitting a manuscript, authors are advised to check whether their manuscript suite the scope of Cell Methods. Authors are responsible of obtaining all permissions to publish any material included with the submission, such as photos, documents and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Otherwise, some contributions can be acknowledged in the dedicated Acknowledgement section. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethical committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study's country.
The editor may return the submission back to the author if it does not meet minimum standards of quality or if it does not fit the journal aims and scope. Before submitting, please ensure that the manuscript is structured and articulated properly in a logical manner. Cell Methods is for a broad readership (from students to professors in fundamental and clinical research). Thus, authors should make sure that the narrative is understandable by a broad readership in life science community.
The title and summary should be concise, structured, clear and straight to the facts. This will increase the chance for reviewers to review the manuscript. When you're satisfied that your submission meets this standard, please choose one of the following article types for your manuscript (Fig. 1), format it accordingly and follow the checklist below to prepare your submission.
Figure 1: Article types that are accepted by Cell Methods for publication.
Most of the types of articles concern previously unpublished method data including Article, Report, hot protocol, novel resource and analysis.
Article types
Article
An article is a peer-reviewed article that reports and discuss the detailed description of a method or tool as well as the primary experimental results supporting its scientific relevance and reproducibility that were not previously published elsewhere. However, the method could have been used to generate data presented in an article published in a journal of Rviews Press. The data should validate the method or tool, demonstrate its reproducibility, performance compared to the existing alternatives, the possible applications in broad fields of life science.
Method article can be long as there is no word count restriction. But the narrative should be clear, understandable and followable by common scientists of the field. It is focused of the step-by-step description of the experimental procedure. This procedure can be assimilated almost to a protocol.
This type of article is suited for complex but replicable new techniques and tool that development deeded high level of expertise.
The manuscript should not be under consideration elsewhere at the time of submission.
Reference to personal communication is not allowed in this article but new hypotheses or model proposition can be formulated based on existing or newly published data to support the narratives.
Copy-edition and narrative improvements may be suggested to the authors. Graphical edition of the displayed figures may also be proposed to the authors if necessary to improve the understanding of the articles.
Accepted articles are published as Open Access in Cell Methods, thus an article publishing charge are in-principle charged to the authors.
An article should contain the following information and sections:
- Title (90 characters max), maybe the main piece of conclusion of the study
- Author(s): the name of at least one author is required. Two first or last authors with equivalent contribution is acceptable.
- Author contact information: mailing addresses of the authors
- Corresponding author: at least one corresponding author and its email address. Two corresponding authors is acceptable.
- Summary (max. 150 words): concise, structured and clear with key information on the study, the main contribution of the authors, the main conclusions and their implications for life science and the future.
- Graphical abstract (optional): 1200 x 1200 px structured graphics summarizing the discovery or main conclusion of the study
- Significance highlight: 4-6 pullet points of the main results each of about 50-60 characters including space
- Keywords (min. 5): important for abstracting and indexing
- Article text (no word limit): Structured and clear. The text length should be reasonable for readability and clarity. The text should be composed of the following sections:
- Introduction: The introduction should not be too long but should have enough contextualization for the non-specialist reader to get the rational of the initial question. This section states the background information based on the literature state-of-the-art. It explains the problem, the hypothesis and the possible ways of contributing to improve our understanding of this issue. It presents all necessary information a reader may need to grasp the main question, the approaches of the authors, the rationale of these approaches and maybe announce the possible outcome of resolving the issues.
- Results: Present concisely and consistently the primary and previously unpublished results and data that the authors are reporting in the article. The structure and clarity of the demonstration and narrative are critical for a good understanding of the result. The context of the result acquisition may be of interest a well as the particularly important information needed to understand the rational of the experiments is crucial in each subheading of the result section. It is also advised to include the information on the replication and reproduction of the experiments. All information that are required for the understanding of the result should be provided or referred here and clear explanations given to the reader how to access them. It should also contain a clear conclusion that reflect whether or not the initial hypothesis was confirmed or not, or at least provide clear conclusions on the initial relevant question.
- Discussion: Discuss the data presented in regard to the current knowledge on the subject in the available literature. It also includes alternative models and explanations of the data presented although the authors may not defend them. It could contain conclusions and positioning of the understanding regarding what is known and unknown currently in given contexts.
- Limitation: no limit in word count but clear and preferably short. All limitations in the data interpretation and the demonstration should be stated or discussed here. If there are mitigations of those limitations, it may be interesting to highlight them as well in this section. This is more disclaimer-like section which should be complementary to the discussion. It should help the readers to grasp also the difficulties that the authors faced in critical steps of the study and that may compromise partially some of the claims. It may be also fair to state in this section unexpected events that impacted the execution of some experiments that resulted in the presented data.
- Methods (no limit of word): A clear step-by-step and detailed explanation of the methodology used to generate the experimental data including notices of reproduction experiments and statistics. It is advised to include all ethical information, authorization and permission needed for animal experimentation and studies including human samples. For new codes and applications developed during the study, it is advised to deposit them in a suitable platform and include a working link, identifier and references.
- List of resources: a list of all resources used in the study.
- Article figures (no number limit): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. A figure is composed of a multi/mono-panel graphic, a title and a legend. They should be numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Fig. 1A, B…, Fig. 2A, B…
- Article tables (no number limit): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. All tables should have a title, numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Table 1, Table 2…
- Declaration of interests: The authors should declare eventual conflicts of interest or state at least that “The author declares no financial conflict of interest.”
- Data availability: The authors should make a statement concerning the availability of all data used in the study that led to the presented conclusion. Standards datasets should be deposited in a relevant platform, and they include but are not limited to RNAseq, proteomics, crystal structure data.
Anyway, the data should be available on an internal or external platform for eventual requests.
If any part of the data is missing including those of reproduction studies, they should be declared in this section. The supplementary information can be included in PDF or XLSX formats. Supplementary videos are accepted and are published on the YouTube account of Cell Methods, Marseille, France and referenced in the article.
- Declaration concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) use: all manuscript should contain a declaration of any use of generative AI tools for making the text, figures or table or any other part of the proposed article.
An example of declaration is “The author declares that no generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools were used to make this manuscript including the text and the figure.”
- Acknowledgements (optional): This can be used to highlight all types of acknowledgements including technical assistance, funding agencies, copy-editing, graphical assistance, gifted resource provider etc…
- References (no limit): The citations should be in numbered superscript format in the text and follow the Rviews Press formatting style for bibliography (download for Endnote or Zotero), which follows the Vancouver uniform style requirements for publishing medical journals. A generic Vancouver style is also suitable for most reference types.
- Copyright and licensing: Authors should agree with the copyright statement of Cell Methods and Rviews Press. We encourage complete open access policies for published articles. All articles published by a Rviews Press journal include a reference to the authors and Rvews Press copyrights. All articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY). Accepted manuscripts should include a sentence like “The author(s) agree with Rviews Press licensing proposal” or “The author(s) declare that this article is published under the CC BY license”
- Reviewer and editor recognition (Reserved to editorial office): Authors should agree eventually to publish the names of the editors and reviewers of their articles to recognize their effort and contribution during the evaluation and improvement process. The expertise provided by the peer-reviewers and academic editors during the editorial process is crucial and recognized by Rviews Press by offering the opportunity to include their names under this dedicated section of the published article. They can also include their review activity on the ORCID database, ResearchGate, LinkedIn and other.
Report
A report is a peer-reviewed article that have all the characteristic of an article but in a more concise, short and condensed form. However, the quality and ethical standards remain similar to a regular original method or tool article. A report is evaluated with the same rigor and transparence as an article. Reports discuss the primary experimental results that were not previously published elsewhere. The method or tool should be of broad interest in life science. It may describe a groundbreaking method or tool that showed reproducible results although all aspects have not been studied yet. This could be also about broadly interesting, reproduced method at earlier phases of development but promising for the community. This type of article is suited for an article in its condensed form with few necessary data of reproduction. The scientific as well as technical relevance and quality are key. There is a limit of word. The manuscript should not be under consideration elsewhere at the time of submission.
Reference to personal communication is not allowed in reports but new hypotheses or model proposition can be formulated based on existing or newly published data to support the narratives.
Copy-edition and narrative improvements may be suggested to the authors. Graphical edition of the displayed figures may also be proposed to the authors if necessary to improve the understanding of the reports.
Accepted reports are published as Open Access in Cell Methods, thus an article publishing charge are in-principle charged to the authors.
An analysis should contain the following information and sections:
- Title (90 characters max), maybe the main piece of conclusion of the study
- Author(s): the name of at least one author is required. Two first or last authors with equivalent contribution is acceptable.
- Author contact information: mailing addresses of the authors
- Corresponding author: at least one corresponding author and its email address. Two corresponding authors is acceptable.
- Summary (max. 150 words): concise, structured and clear with key information on the study, the main contribution of the authors, the main conclusions and their implications for life science and the future.
- Graphical abstract (optional): 1200 x 1200 px structured graphics summarizing the discovery or main conclusion of the study
- Significance highlight: 4-6 pullet points of the main results each of about 50-60 characters including space
- Keywords (min. 5): important for abstracting and indexing
- Article text (max. 1800-2000 words): Structured and clear. The text length should be reasonable for readability and clarity. The text should be composed of the following sections:
- Introduction: The introduction should not be too long but should have enough contextualization for the non-specialist reader to get the rational of the initial question. This section states the background information based on the literature state-of-the-art. It explains the problem, the hypothesis and the possible ways of contributing to improve our understanding of this issue. It presents all necessary information a reader may need to grasp the main question, the approaches of the authors, the rationale of these approaches and maybe announce the possible outcome of resolving the issues.
- Results: Present concisely and consistently the primary and previously unpublished results and data that the authors are reporting in the article. The structure and clarity of the demonstration and narrative are critical for a good understanding of the result. The context of the result acquisition may be of interest a well as the particularly important information needed to understand the rational of the experiments is crucial in each subheading of the result section. It is also advised to include the information on the replication and reproduction of the experiments. All information that are required for the understanding of the result should be provided or referred here and clear explanations given to the reader how to access them. It should also contain a clear conclusion that reflect whether or not the initial hypothesis was confirmed or not, or at least provide clear conclusions on the initial relevant question.
- Discussion: Discuss the data presented in regard to the current knowledge on the subject in the available literature. It also includes alternative models and explanations of the data presented although the authors may not defend them. It could contain conclusions and positioning of the understanding regarding what is known and unknown currently in given contexts.
- Limitation: clear and preferably short. All limitations in the data interpretation and the demonstration should be stated or discussed here. If there are mitigations of those limitations, it may be interesting to highlight them as well in this section. This is more disclaimer-like section which should be complementary to the discussion. It should help the readers to grasp also the difficulties that the authors faced in critical steps of the study and that may compromise partially some of the claims. It may be also fair to state in this section unexpected events that impacted the execution of some experiments that resulted in the presented data.
- Methods (not included in word count limit): A clear explanation of the methodology used to generate the experimental data including notices of reproduction experiments and statistics. It is advised to include all ethical information, authorization and permission needed for animal experimentation and studies including human samples. For new codes and applications developed during the study, it is advised to deposit them in a suitable platform and include a working link, identifier and references.
- List of resources: a list of all resources used in the study.
- Article figures (max 6): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. A figure is composed of a multi/mono-panel graphic, a title and a legend. They should be numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Fig. 1A, B…, Fig. 2A, B…
- Article tables (max 6): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. All tables should have a title, numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Table 1, Table 2…
- Declaration of interests: The authors should declare eventual conflicts of interest or state at least that “The author declares no financial conflict of interest.”
- Data availability: The authors should make a statement concerning the availability of all data used in the study that led to the presented conclusion. Standards datasets should be deposited in a relevant platform, and they include but are not limited to RNAseq, proteomics, crystal structure data.
Anyway, the data should be available on an internal or external platform for eventual requests.
If any part of the data is missing including those of reproduction studies, they should be declared in this section. The supplementary information can be included in PDF or XLSX formats. Supplementary videos are accepted and are published on the YouTube account of Cell Methods, Marseille, France and referenced in the article.
- Declaration concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) use: all manuscript should contain a declaration of any use of generative AI tools for making the text, figures or table or any other part of the proposed article.
An example of declaration is “The author declares that no generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools were used to make this manuscript including the text and the figure.”
- Acknowledgements (optional): This can be used to highlight all types of acknowledgements including technical assistance, funding agencies, copy-editing, graphical assistance, gifted resource provider etc.
- References (no limit): The citations should be in numbered superscript format in the text and follow the Rviews Press formatting style for bibliography (download for Endnote or Zotero), which follows the Vancouver uniform style requirements for publishing medical journals. A generic Vancouver style is also suitable for most reference types.
- Copyright and licensing: Authors should agree with the copyright statement of Cell Methods and Rviews Press. We encourage complete open access policies for published articles. All articles published by a Rviews Press journal include a reference to the authors and Rvews Press copyrights. All articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY). Accepted manuscripts should include a sentence like “The author(s) agree with Rviews Press licensing proposal” or “The author(s) declare that this article is published under the CC BY license”
- Reviewer and editor recognition (Reserved to editorial office): Authors should agree eventually to publish the names of the editors and reviewers of their articles to recognize their effort and contribution during the evaluation and improvement process. The expertise provided by the peer-reviewers and academic editors during the editorial process is crucial and recognized by Rviews Press by offering the opportunity to include their names under this dedicated section of the published article. They can also include their review activity on the ORCID database, ResearchGate, LinkedIn and other.
Novel resource
A Novel resource is a peer-reviewed article that have all the characteristic of an article but is focused on the collection and development of a new tool or new datasets that may have broad interest to life science community. The quality and ethical standards remain similar to a regular original method or tool article. A Novel resource is evaluated with the same rigor and transparence as an article. Novel resource article discuss the primary experimental results collected to make a resource of data or tools that were not previously published elsewhere. The collection could be finished or ongoing but having already shown features of broad interest. The scientific as well as technical relevance and quality of the collection methodology are rigorously evaluated. There is a limit of word. The manuscript should not be under consideration elsewhere at the time of submission.
Reference to personal communication is not allowed in reports but new hypotheses or model proposition can be formulated based on existing or newly published data to support the narratives.
Copy-edition and narrative improvements may be suggested to the authors. Graphical edition of the displayed figures may also be proposed to the authors if necessary to improve the understanding of the article.
Accepted Novel resource articles are published as Open Access in Cell Methods, thus an article publishing charge are in-principle charged to the authors.
A novel resource article should contain the following information and sections:
- Title (90 characters max), maybe the main piece of conclusion of the study
- Author(s): the name of at least one author is required. Two first or last authors with equivalent contribution is acceptable.
- Author contact information: mailing addresses of the authors
- Corresponding author: at least one corresponding author and its email address. Two corresponding authors is acceptable.
- Summary (max. 150 words): concise, structured and clear with key information on the study, the main contribution of the authors, the main conclusions and their implications for life science and the future.
- Graphical abstract (optional): 1200 x 1200 px structured graphics summarizing the discovery or main conclusion of the study
- Significance highlight: 4-6 pullet points of the main results each of about 50-60 characters including space
- Keywords (min. 5): important for abstracting and indexing
- Article text (max. 6000 words): Structured and clear. The text length should be reasonable for readability and clarity. The text should be composed of the following sections:
- Introduction: The introduction should not be too long but should have enough contextualization for the non-specialist reader to get the rational of the initial question. This section states the background information based on the literature state-of-the-art. It explains the problem, the hypothesis and the possible ways of contributing to improve our understanding of this issue. It presents all necessary information a reader may need to grasp the main question, the approaches of the authors, the rationale of these approaches and maybe announce the possible outcome of resolving the issues.
- Results: Present concisely and consistently the primary and previously unpublished results and data that the authors are reporting in the article. The structure and clarity of the demonstration and narrative are critical for a good understanding of the result. The context of the result acquisition may be of interest a well as the particularly important information needed to understand the rational of the experiments is crucial in each subheading of the result section. It is also advised to include the information on the replication and reproduction of the experiments. All information that are required for the understanding of the result should be provided or referred here and clear explanations given to the reader how to access them. It should also contain a clear conclusion that reflect whether or not the initial hypothesis was confirmed or not, or at least provide clear conclusions on the initial relevant question.
- Discussion: Discuss the data presented in regard to the current knowledge on the subject in the available literature. It also includes alternative models and explanations of the data presented although the authors may not defend them. It could contain conclusions and positioning of the understanding regarding what is known and unknown currently in given contexts.
- Limitation: clear and preferably short. All limitations in the data interpretation and the demonstration should be stated or discussed here. If there are mitigations of those limitations, it may be interesting to highlight them as well in this section. This is more disclaimer-like section which should be complementary to the discussion. It should help the readers to grasp also the difficulties that the authors faced in critical steps of the study and that may compromise partially some of the claims. It may be also fair to state in this section unexpected events that impacted the execution of some experiments that resulted in the presented data.
- Methods (not included in word count limit): A clear explanation of the methodology used to generate the experimental data including notices of reproduction experiments and statistics. It is advised to include all ethical information, authorization and permission needed for animal experimentation and studies including human samples. For new codes and applications developed during the study, it is advised to deposit them in a suitable platform and include a working link, identifier and references.
- List of resources: a list of all resources used in the study.
- Article figures (max 6): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. A figure is composed of a multi/mono-panel graphic, a title and a legend. They should be numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Fig. 1A, B…, Fig. 2A, B…
- Article tables (max 6): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. All tables should have a title, numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Table 1, Table 2…
- Declaration of interests: The authors should declare eventual conflicts of interest or state at least that “The author declares no financial conflict of interest.”
- Data availability: The authors should make a statement concerning the availability of all data used in the study that led to the presented conclusion. Standards datasets should be deposited in a relevant platform, and they include but are not limited to RNAseq, proteomics, crystal structure data.
Anyway, the data should be available on an internal or external platform for eventual requests.
If any part of the data is missing including those of reproduction studies, they should be declared in this section. The supplementary information can be included in PDF or XLSX formats. Supplementary videos are accepted and are published on the YouTube account of Cell Methods, Marseille, France and referenced in the article.
- Declaration concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) use: all manuscript should contain a declaration of any use of generative AI tools for making the text, figures or table or any other part of the proposed article.
An example of declaration is “The author declares that no generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools were used to make this manuscript including the text and the figure.”
- Acknowledgements (optional): This can be used to highlight all types of acknowledgements including technical assistance, funding agencies, copy-editing, graphical assistance, gifted resource provider etc…
- References (no limit): The citations should be in numbered superscript format in the text and follow the Rviews Press formatting style for bibliography (download for Endnote or Zotero), which follows the Vancouver uniform style requirements for publishing medical journals. A generic Vancouver style is also suitable for most reference types.
- Copyright and licensing: Authors should agree with the copyright statement of Cell Methods and Rviews Press. We encourage complete open access policies for published articles. All articles published by a Rviews Press journal include a reference to the authors and Rvews Press copyrights. All articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY). Accepted manuscripts should include a sentence like “The author(s) agree with Rviews Press licensing proposal” or “The author(s) declare that this article is published under the CC BY license”
- Reviewer and editor recognition (Reserved to editorial office): Authors should agree eventually to publish the names of the editors and reviewers of their articles to recognize their effort and contribution during the evaluation and improvement process. The expertise provided by the peer-reviewers and academic editors during the editorial process is crucial and recognized by Rviews Press by offering the opportunity to include their names under this dedicated section of the published article. They can also include their review activity on the ORCID database, ResearchGate, LinkedIn and other.
Analysis
An Analysis is a peer-reviewed article that reports the detailed methodology of comparing two or several new or established methods and analyze the performance and other relevant parameters that could be of broad interest to the life science community. The quality and ethical standards remain similar to a regular original method or tool article. Analysis article is evaluated with the same rigor and transparence as an article. The analysis could also concern tools, instruments, datasets or any relevant matter of materials and methods.
The scientific as well as technical relevance and quality are key. There is a no limit of word count. The manuscript should not be under consideration elsewhere at the time of submission.
Reference to personal communication is not allowed in reports but new hypotheses or model proposition can be formulated based on existing or newly published data to support the narratives.
Copy-edition and narrative improvements may be suggested to the authors. Graphical edition of the displayed figures may also be proposed to the authors if necessary to improve the understanding of the Analysis article.
Accepted Analysis are published as Open Access in Cell Methods, thus an article publishing charge are in-principle charged to the authors.
An Analysis article should contain the following information and sections:
- Title (90 characters max), maybe the main piece of conclusion of the study
- Author(s): the name of at least one author is required. Two first or last authors with equivalent contribution is acceptable.
- Author contact information: mailing addresses of the authors
- Corresponding author: at least one corresponding author and its email address. Two corresponding authors is acceptable.
- Summary (max. 150 words): concise, structured and clear with key information on the study, the main contribution of the authors, the main conclusions and their implications for life science and the future.
- Graphical abstract (optional): 1200 x 1200 px structured graphics summarizing the discovery or main conclusion of the study
- Significance highlight: 4-6 pullet points of the main results each of about 50-60 characters including space
- Keywords (min. 5): important for abstracting and indexing
- Article text (no limit of words): Structured and clear. The text length should be reasonable for readability and clarity. The text should be composed of the following sections:
- Introduction: The introduction should not be too long but should have enough contextualization for the non-specialist reader to get the rational of the initial question. This section states the background information based on the literature state-of-the-art. It explains the problem, the hypothesis and the possible ways of contributing to improve our understanding of this issue. It presents all necessary information a reader may need to grasp the main question, the approaches of the authors, the rationale of these approaches and maybe announce the possible outcome of resolving the issues.
- Results: Present concisely and consistently the primary and previously unpublished results and data that the authors are reporting in the article. The structure and clarity of the demonstration and narrative are critical for a good understanding of the result. The context of the result acquisition may be of interest a well as the particularly important information needed to understand the rational of the experiments is crucial in each subheading of the result section. It is also advised to include the information on the replication and reproduction of the experiments. All information that are required for the understanding of the result should be provided or referred here and clear explanations given to the reader how to access them. It should also contain a clear conclusion that reflect whether or not the initial hypothesis was confirmed or not, or at least provide clear conclusions on the initial relevant question.
- Discussion: Discuss the data presented in regard to the current knowledge on the subject in the available literature. It also includes alternative models and explanations of the data presented although the authors may not defend them. It could contain conclusions and positioning of the understanding regarding what is known and unknown currently in given contexts.
- Limitation: clear and preferably short. All limitations in the data interpretation and the demonstration should be stated or discussed here. If there are mitigations of those limitations, it may be interesting to highlight them as well in this section. This is more disclaimer-like section which should be complementary to the discussion. It should help the readers to grasp also the difficulties that the authors faced in critical steps of the study and that may compromise partially some of the claims. It may be also fair to state in this section unexpected events that impacted the execution of some experiments that resulted in the presented data.
- Methods (not included in word count limit): A clear explanation of the methodology used to generate the experimental data including notices of reproduction experiments and statistics. It is advised to include all ethical information, authorization and permission needed for animal experimentation and studies including human samples. For new codes and applications developed during the study, it is advised to deposit them in a suitable platform and include a working link, identifier and references.
- List of resources: a list of all resources used in the study.
- Article figures (max 9): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. A figure is composed of a multi/mono-panel graphic, a title and a legend. They should be numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Fig. 1A, B…, Fig. 2A, B…
- Article tables (max 9): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. All tables should have a title, numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Table 1, Table 2…
- Declaration of interests: The authors should declare eventual conflicts of interest or state at least that “The author declares no financial conflict of interest.”
- Data availability: The authors should make a statement concerning the availability of all data used in the study that led to the presented conclusion. Standards datasets should be deposited in a relevant platform, and they include but are not limited to RNAseq, proteomics, crystal structure data.
Anyway, the data should be available on an internal or external platform for eventual requests.
If any part of the data are missing including those of reproduction studies, they should be declared in this section. The supplementary information can be included in PDF or XLSX formats. Supplementary videos are accepted and are published on the YouTube account of Cell Methods, Marseille, France and referenced in the article.
- Declaration concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) use: all manuscript should contain a declaration of any use of generative AI tools for making the text, figures or table or any other part of the proposed article.
An example of declaration is “The author declares that no generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools were used to make this manuscript including the text and the figure.”
- Acknowledgements (optional): This can be used to highlight all types of acknowledgements including technical assistance, funding agencies, copy-editing, graphical assistance, gifted resource provider etc…
- References (no limit): The citations should be in numbered superscript format in the text and follow the Rviews Press formatting style for bibliography (download for Endnote or Zotero), which follows the Vancouver uniform style requirements for publishing medical journals. A generic Vancouver style is also suitable for most reference types.
- Copyright and licensing: Authors should agree with the copyright statement of Cell Methods and Rviews Press. We encourage complete open access policies for published articles. All articles published by a Rviews Press journal include a reference to the authors and Rvews Press copyrights. All articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY). Accepted manuscripts should include a sentence like “The author(s) agree with Rviews Press licensing proposal” or “The author(s) declare that this article is published under the CC BY license”
- Reviewer and editor recognition (Reserved to editorial office): Authors should agree eventually to publish the names of the editors and reviewers of their articles to recognize their effort and contribution during the evaluation and improvement process. The expertise provided by the peer-reviewers and academic editors during the editorial process is crucial and recognized by Rviews Press by offering the opportunity to include their names under this dedicated section of the published article. They can also include their review activity on the ORCID database, ResearchGate, LinkedIn and other.
Hot protocol
A hot protocol is a peer-reviewed article that have all the characteristic of an article but demonstrate a perceived urgency feature suggesting a broad interest in rapid implementation of the method or tool or resource for the research and clinician community. The hot protocols are short, more concise and condensed form of article. However, the quality and ethical standards remain similar to a regular original method or tool article. A hot protocol report is evaluated with the same rigor and transparence as an article. The hot protocol discusses the primary experimental results that were not previously published elsewhere. The method or tool should be of broad and urgent interest in life science. It may describe a groundbreaking method or tool that showed reproducible results although all aspects have not been studied yet. The scientific as well as technical relevance and quality are key. There is a limit of word. The manuscript should not be under consideration elsewhere at the time of submission.
Reference to personal communication is not allowed in reports but new hypotheses or model proposition can be formulated based on existing or newly published data to support the narratives.
Copy-edition and narrative improvements may be suggested to the authors. Graphical edition of the displayed figures may also be proposed to the authors if necessary to improve the understanding of the hot protocol reports.
Accepted hot protocol articles are published as Open Access in Cell Methods, thus an article publishing charge are in-principle charged to the authors.
A hot protocol should contain the following information and sections:
- Title (90 characters max), maybe the main piece of conclusion of the study
- Author(s): the name of at least one author is required. Two first or last authors with equivalent contribution is acceptable.
- Author contact information: mailing addresses of the authors
- Corresponding author: at least one corresponding author and its email address. Two corresponding authors is acceptable.
- Summary (max. 150 words): concise, structured and clear with key information on the study, the main contribution of the authors, the main conclusions and their implications for life science and the future.
- Graphical abstract (optional): 1200 x 1200 px structured graphics summarizing the discovery or main conclusion of the study
- Significance highlight: 4-6 pullet points of the main results each of about 50-60 characters including space
- Keywords (min. 5): important for abstracting and indexing
- Article text (max. 1800-2000 words): Structured and clear. The text length should be reasonable for readability and clarity. The text should be composed of the following sections:
- Introduction: The introduction should not be too long but should have enough contextualization for the non-specialist reader to get the rational of the initial question. This section states the background information based on the literature state-of-the-art. It explains the problem, the hypothesis and the possible ways of contributing to improve our understanding of this issue. It presents all necessary information a reader may need to grasp the main question, the approaches of the authors, the rationale of these approaches and maybe announce the possible outcome of resolving the issues.
- Results: Present concisely and consistently the primary and previously unpublished results and data that the authors are reporting in the article. The structure and clarity of the demonstration and narrative are critical for a good understanding of the result. The context of the result acquisition may be of interest a well as the particularly important information needed to understand the rational of the experiments is crucial in each subheading of the result section. It is also advised to include the information on the replication and reproduction of the experiments. All information that are required for the understanding of the result should be provided or referred here and clear explanations given to the reader how to access them. It should also contain a clear conclusion that reflect whether or not the initial hypothesis was confirmed or not, or at least provide clear conclusions on the initial relevant question.
- Discussion: Discuss the data presented in regard to the current knowledge on the subject in the available literature. It also includes alternative models and explanations of the data presented although the authors may not defend them. It could contain conclusions and positioning of the understanding regarding what is known and unknown currently in given contexts.
- Limitation: clear and preferably short. All limitations in the data interpretation and the demonstration should be stated or discussed here. If there are mitigations of those limitations, it may be interesting to highlight them as well in this section. This is more disclaimer-like section which should be complementary to the discussion. It should help the readers to grasp also the difficulties that the authors faced in critical steps of the study and that may compromise partially some of the claims. It may be also fair to state in this section unexpected events that impacted the execution of some experiments that resulted in the presented data.
- Methods (not included in word count limit): A clear explanation of the methodology used to generate the experimental data including notices of reproduction experiments and statistics. It is advised to include all ethical information, authorization and permission needed for animal experimentation and studies including human samples. For new codes and applications developed during the study, it is advised to deposit them in a suitable platform and include a working link, identifier and references.
- List of resources: a list of all resources used in the study.
- Article figures (max 6): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. A figure is composed of a multi/mono-panel graphic, a title and a legend. They should be numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Fig. 1A, B…, Fig. 2A, B…
- Article tables (max 6): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. All tables should have a title, numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Table 1, Table 2…
- Declaration of interests: The authors should declare eventual conflicts of interest or state at least that “The author declares no financial conflict of interest.”
- Data availability: The authors should make a statement concerning the availability of all data used in the study that led to the presented conclusion. Standards datasets should be deposited in a relevant platform, and they include but are not limited to RNAseq, proteomics, crystal structure data.
Anyway, the data should be available on an internal or external platform for eventual requests.
If any part of the data is missing including those of reproduction studies, they should be declared in this section. The supplementary information can be included in PDF or XLSX formats. Supplementary videos are accepted and are published on the YouTube account of Cell Methods, Marseille, France and referenced in the article.
- Declaration concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) use: all manuscript should contain a declaration of any use of generative AI tools for making the text, figures or table or any other part of the proposed article.
An example of declaration is “The author declares that no generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools were used to make this manuscript including the text and the figure.”
- Acknowledgements (optional): This can be used to highlight all types of acknowledgements including technical assistance, funding agencies, copy-editing, graphical assistance, gifted resource provider etc…
- References (no limit): The citations should be in numbered superscript format in the text and follow the Rviews Press formatting style for bibliography (download for Endnote or Zotero), which follows the Vancouver uniform style requirements for publishing medical journals. A generic Vancouver style is also suitable for most reference types.
- Copyright and licensing: Authors should agree with the copyright statement of Cell Methods and Rviews Press. We encourage complete open access policies for published articles. All articles published by a Rviews Press journal include a reference to the authors and Rvews Press copyrights. All articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY). Accepted manuscripts should include a sentence like “The author(s) agree with Rviews Press licensing proposal” or “The author(s) declare that this article is published under the CC BY license”
- Reviewer and editor recognition (Reserved to editorial office): Authors should agree eventually to publish the names of the editors and reviewers of their articles to recognize their effort and contribution during the evaluation and improvement process. The expertise provided by the peer-reviewers and academic editors during the editorial process is crucial and recognized by Rviews Press by offering the opportunity to include their names under this dedicated section of the published article. They can also include their review activity on the ORCID database, ResearchGate, LinkedIn and other.
Review
A review is a peer-reviewed article that report an updated analysis of a technology and derived-methods based on published data in a field of life science. It intends to make the state-of-the-art in a field by proposing a thought-provoking timely article. This type of article contains mainly non-primary content that allows the community to grasp the essence of the technology in a field in life science as well as forward-look the evolution and draw perspectives for the coming years.
Reference to personal communication is not allowed in this article but new hypotheses or model proposition can be formulated based on existing or newly published data to support the narratives.
Copy-edition and narrative improvements may be suggested to the authors. Graphical edition of the unique displayed figure may be proposed to the authors if necessary to improve the understanding of the articles.
Accepted Review are published as Open Access in Cell Methods, thus may generate an article publishing charge if the authors are not invited to make the proposal.
A Review article should contain the following information and sections:
- Title (90 characters max),
- Author(s): the name of at least one author is required,
- Author contact information: mailing addresses of the authors
- Corresponding author: at least one corresponding author and its email address
- Summary (max. 150 words): concise, structured and clear with key information
- Graphical abstract (optional): 1200 x 1200 px structured graphics
- Keywords (min. 5): important for abstracting and indexing
- Article text (no word limit): Structured and clear. The text length should be reasonable for readability and clarity
- Article figures (no number limit): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. A figure is composed of a multi/mono-panel graphic, a title and a legend. They should be numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Fig. 1A, B…, Fig. 2A, B…
- Article tables (no number limit): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. All tables should have a title, numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Table 1, Table 2…
- Declaration of interests: The authors should declare eventual conflicts of interest or state at least that “The author declares no financial conflict of interest.”
- Declaration concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) use: all manuscript should contain a declaration of any use of generative AI tools for making the text, figures or table or any other part of the proposed article.
An example of declaration is “The author declares that no generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools were used to make this manuscript including the text and the figure.”
- Acknowledgements (optional): This can be used to highlight all types of acknowledgements including technical assistance, funding agencies, copy-editing, graphical assistance, gifted resource provider etc…
- References (no limit): The citations should be in numbered superscript format in the text and follow the Rviews Press formatting style for bibliography (download for Endnote or Zotero), which follows the Vancouver uniform style requirements for publishing medical journals. A generic Vancouver style is also suitable for most reference types.
- Copyright and licensing: Authors should agree with the copyright statement of Cell Methods and Rviews Press. We encourage complete open access policies for published articles. All articles published by a Rviews Press journal include a reference to the authors and Rvews Press copyright. All articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY). Accepted manuscripts should include a sentence like “The author(s) agree with Rviews Press licensing proposal” or “The author(s) declare that this article is published under the CC BY license”
- Reviewer and editor recognition (Reserved to editorial office): Authors should agree eventually to publish the names of the editors and reviewers of their articles The expertise provided by the peer-reviewers and academic editors during the editorial process is recognized by Rviews Press by offering the opportunity to include their names on a dedicated page of the published article. They can also include their review activity on the ORCID database.
Perspective article
The Perspective article is an opinionated peer-reviewed article of Cell Methods that defends a point of view of the authors on a method concept and technology in cell biology as well as life science that encourage discussion about the future direction with other peer experts in the field. The Perspective article may also stimulate the development of new applications of the established methods and tools in biology and clinic. Perspective articles share most features of a Review article with an emphasis on future technological development and applications that may occur from the available discussed matter. The Perspective article is proposed by internal and external experts on the advancement of research in a field of life science and can be based on all available source of knowledge including published articles or data in biology. The article or data discussed or supporting the Perspective article should be reasonably accessible to researcher if not Open Access.
Perspective articles are either solicited or from direct proposals through spontaneous submissions by authors. Both means are equally considered by the journal. These articles are rigorously evaluated by the editors, the editorial advisors and if they suite the editorial quality requirement, they are sent out for peer-review by external experts. Perspective articles are checked by the editors for scientific relevance, structure and clarity. Copy-edition and narrative improvements may be suggested to the authors. Graphical edition of the displayed figures and tables may be proposed to the authors if necessary to improve the understanding of the articles.
Perspective articles contain mainly non-primary contents although minor amount of non-published data of the author can be included but this should constitute a maximum of 1 figure. In this case, an extra section should be included to describe all necessary methodology and reagents used to obtain the presented results.
Reference to personal communication is not allowed in this article although someone else can be credited for an idea or concept that is documented in the article. Moreover, new hypotheses or model proposition can be formulated based on existing or newly published data to support the statements.
To further advance the editorial coverage of a given field in cell biology and following the journal development policies and strategy, Perspective articles may be invited for a subject suggested by the editor with partial or total discount on the article published charges. Perspective articles are published in Cell Methods as Open Access papers.
A Perspective article may contain the following information and non-exhaustive sections:
- Title (90 characters max),
- Author(s): the name of at least one author is required,
- Author contact information: mailing addresses of the authors
- Corresponding author: at least one corresponding author and its email address
- Summary (max. 150 words): concise, structured and clear with key information
- Graphical abstract (optional): 1200 x 1200 px structured graphics
- Keywords (min. 5): important for abstracting and indexing
- Article text (no word limit): Structured and clear. The text length should be reasonable for readability and clarity
- Article figures (no number limit): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. A figure is composed of a multi/mono-panel graphic, a title and a legend. They should be numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Fig. 1A, B…, Fig. 2A, B…
- Article tables (no number limit): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. All tables should have a title, numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Table 1, Table 2…
- Declaration of interests: The authors should declare eventual conflicts of interest or state that “The author declares no financial conflict of interest.”
- Declaration concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) use: all manuscript should contain a declaration of any use of generative AI tools for making the text, figures or table or any other part of the proposed article.
An example of declaration is “The author declares that no generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools were used to make this manuscript including the text and the figure.”
- Acknowledgements (optional): This can be used to highlight all types of acknowledgements including technical assistance, funding agencies, copy-editing, graphical assistance, gifted resource provider etc…
- References (no limit): The citations should be in numbered superscript format in the text and follow the Rviews Press formatting style for bibliography (download for Endnote or Zotero), which follows the Vancouver uniform style requirements for publishing medical journals. A generic Vancouver style is also suitable for most referencing software.
- Copyright and licensing: Authors should agree with the copyright statement of Cell Reviews and Rviews Press. We encourage complete open access policies for published articles. All articles published by a Rviews Press journal include a reference to the authors and Rvews Press copyright. All articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY). Accepted manuscripts should include a sentence like “The author(s) agree with Rviews Press licensing proposal” or “The author(s) declare that this article is published under the CC BY license”
- Reviewer and editor recognition (Reserved to editorial office): Authors should agree eventually to publish the names of the editors and reviewers of their articles The expertise provided by the peer-reviewers and academic editors during the editorial process is recognized by Rviews Press by offering the opportunity to include their names on a dedicated page of the published article. They can also include their review activity on the ORCID database.
News and Views
The News and Views article reports the views of an internal or external experts on a newly published original article or data of a method, tool, resource or technology to highlight how it may improve the current technical issues allowing better understanding of concepts or mechanisms in life science. All original articles or data published recently in relevant journals, preprint servers or data repositories can be subject of a News and Views article in Cell Methods. Recently means less than a year counting to the News and Views article proposal. The article or data should be publicly accessible as Open Access.
News and Views articles are generally solicited, but authors are encouraged to make proposals. These articles are rigorously evaluated by the editors and the editorial advisors but are not externally reviewed by reviewers. News and Views articles are checked by the editors for scientific relevance, structure and clarity. Copy-edition and narrative improvements may be suggested to the authors. Graphical edition of the displayed items may be proposed to the authors if necessary to improve the understanding of the articles.
The News and Views type of article contains mainly non-primary contents that emphasize the novelty and interest of newly published materials within a given context, allowing the community to grasp its importance in a research field of life science. Reference to personal communication is not allowed in this article although someone else can be credited for an idea or concept. Moreover, new hypotheses or model proposition can be formulated based on existing or newly published data to support the statements.
In case, the News and Views article is invited to emphasize the novelty of an original article scheduled for publication in a journal of Rviews Press, the two articles might be timely published Open Access at the same time. News and Views articles are free of publishing charge.
A News and Views article may contain the following information and non-exhaustive sections:
- Title (90 characters max),
- Author(s): the name of at least one author is required,
- Author contact information: mailing addresses of the authors,
- Corresponding author: at least one corresponding author and its email address,
- Summary (max. 50 words): concise and straight to the point that it is a News and Views article on an original article that should be cited in the summary,
- Graphical abstract (optional): 1200 x 1200 px graphic that illustrate the author views,
- Keywords (min. 5): important for abstracting and indexing,
- Article text (no word limit but preferably short): Structured and clear. The text length should be reasonable for readability and clarity. Subtitling and sectioning are encouraged for the clarity,
- Article figures (1-2 figures): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. It could be maximum 2 figures if needed for the understanding of the text narrative. Figure should have a title and short explanation of the graphic in the legend. They should be numbered in ascending order and referenced in text as Fig. 1A, B…, Fig. 2A, B…,
- Article tables (1-2 tables): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. The resting number of tables depend on that of already included figures. A total of two tables or figures is allowed. All tables should have a title, numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Table 1, Table 2…,
- Declaration of interests: The authors should declare eventual conflicts of interest or state at least that “The author declares no financial conflict of interest.”,
- Declaration concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) use: all manuscript should contain a declaration of any use of generative AI tools for making the text, figures or table or any other part of the proposed article.
An example of declaration is “The author declares that no generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools were used to make this manuscript including the text and the figure.”
- Acknowledgements (optional): This can be used to highlight all types of acknowledgements including technical assistance, funding agencies, copy-editing, graphical assistance, gifted resource provider etc…
- References (max 15): The citations should be in numbered superscript format in the text and follow the Rviews Press formatting style for bibliography (download for Endnote or Zotero), which follows the Vancouver uniform style requirements for publishing medical journals. A generic Vancouver style is also suitable for most reference types.
- Copyright and licensing: Authors should agree with the copyright statement of Cell Methods and Rviews Press. We encourage complete open access policies for published articles. All articles published by a Rviews Press journal include a reference to the authors and Rvews Press copyright. All articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY). Accepted manuscripts should include a sentence like “The author(s) agree with Rviews Press licensing proposal” or “The author(s) declare that this article is published under the CC BY license”,
- Reviewer and editor recognition (Reserved to editorial office): Authors should agree eventually to publish the names of the editors of their News and Views article. The expertise provided by the academic editors during the editorial process is recognized by Rviews Press by offering the opportunity to include their names in a dedicated section of the published article. They can also include their review activity on the ORCID database.
Commentary
Commentary articles report a though-provoking views of an internal or external experts on the technical, scientific, ethical, legal, commercial, political features of existing or completely new concept or model in a field of life science in general and cell biology in particular. The proposal should be realistic, and the discussion balanced with the different conceptual possibilities. It is encouraged to support a major part of the commentary by published articles or data, preprint manuscripts or all materials that can be accessed in print or online. Commentary articles are indicated for setting a forum to discuss original and pioneering concepts, technical, molecular and therapeutic tools, as well as methodological advancements. It is highly recommended for hot and timely developing topics.
Commentary articles are considered from both solicitation and direct submission by authors. These articles are rigorously evaluated by the editors, the editorial advisors and external peer-reviewers. Commentary articles are checked by the editors for scientific relevance, structure and clarity. Copy-edition and narrative improvements may be suggested to the authors. Graphical edition of the displayed figures and tables may be proposed to the authors if necessary to improve the understanding of the articles.
The Commentary articles contain mainly non-primary contents that support the novelty and interest of the authors original and documented ideas or opinions. The supporting reference materials (articles or data) as well as the experimental procedures used for their acquisition should be reasonably accessible.
Reference to personal communication is not allowed in this article although someone else can be credited for a conceptually similar idea. In such case, the particularity of proposed concept should be emphasized in the text and supported by existing published materials.
The authors may be invited to propose Commentary articles on novel and original concept idea of outstanding interest for the community to set in a field of life science. In this case, they may benefit partial or complete discount on the article publishing charge for Open Access publication in Cell Methods. Unsolicited proposal may be fully charged to the authors.
Commentary articles may contain the following information and non-exhaustive sections:
- Title (90 characters max),
- Author(s): the name of at least one author is required,
- Author contact information: mailing addresses of the authors
- Corresponding author: at least one corresponding author and its email address
- Summary (max. 150 words): concise, structured and clear with key information
- Graphical abstract (optional): 1200 x 1200 px structured graphics
- Keywords (min. 5): important for abstracting and indexing
- Article text (no word limit): Structured and clear. The text length should be reasonable for readability and clarity
- Article figures (no number limit): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. A figure is composed of a multi/mono-panel graphic, a title and a legend. They should be numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Fig. 1A, B…, Fig. 2A, B…
- Article tables (no number limit): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. All tables should have a title, numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Table 1, Table 2…
- Declaration of interests: The authors should declare eventual conflicts of interest or state that “The author declares no financial conflict of interest.”
- Declaration concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) use: all manuscript should contain a declaration of any use of generative AI tools for making the text, figures or table or any other part of the proposed article.
An example of declaration is “The author declares that no generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools were used to make this manuscript including the text and the figure.”
- Acknowledgements (optional): This can be used to highlight all types of acknowledgements including technical assistance, funding agencies, copy-editing, graphical assistance, gifted resource provider etc…
- References (no limit): The citations should be in numbered superscript format in the text and follow the Rviews Press formatting style for bibliography (download for Endnote or Zotero), which follows the Vancouver uniform style requirements for publishing medical journals. A generic Vancouver style is also suitable for most referencing software.
- Copyright and licensing: Authors should agree with the copyright statement of Cell Methods and Rviews Press. We encourage complete open access policies for published articles. All articles published by a Rviews Press journal include a reference to the authors and Rvews Press copyright. All articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY). Accepted manuscripts should include a sentence like “The author(s) agree with Rviews Press licensing proposal” or “The author(s) declare that this article is published under the CC BY license”.
- Reviewer and editor recognition (Reserved to editorial office): Authors should agree eventually to publish the names of the editors and reviewers of their articles The expertise provided by the peer-reviewers and academic editors during the editorial process is recognized by Rviews Press by offering the opportunity to include their names on a dedicated page of the published article. They can also include their review activity on the ORCID database.
Correspondence
Correspondence or letter to the editor articles report conversation addressed to the editor drawing attention of the journal readers to an issue of general interest related to recently published methods, tools, resources, initiatives, measures or technological breakthrough with conceptual changes or new methodological trends in a field of cell biology or in life science. Authors are advised to factually support their claims with references
Correspondence articles are not solicitated but can be directly submitted by authors to Cell Methods. These articles are not peer-reviewed but are evaluated by the editors and advisors for scientific relevance, and moderated if necessary. Correspondence articles are also checked by the editors for clarity. If not understandable, the author may be asked for reformulation or copy-edition and narrative improvements may be suggested to the authors. No graphical edition of the displayed figures and tables are proposed to the authors.
Reference to personal communication is not allowed in this article although someone else can be credited if a similar claim was made in another referenceable place. In such case, the particularity of claim should be highlighted in the correspondence.
Correspondence articles are published Open Access in Cell Methods free of charge. They should be short and may contain the following information, sections or items:
- Title (90 characters max),
- Author(s): the name of at least one author is required,
- Author contact information: mailing addresses of the authors
- Corresponding author: at least one corresponding author and its email address
- Keywords (min. 5): important for abstracting and indexing
- Article text (max 600 words): Structured and clear. The text length should be reasonable for readability and clarity
- Article figures (1 figure if necessary): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. The figure should have a title and a legend.
- Article tables (1 table if necessary): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. The table should have a title. No table if a figure is included.
- Declaration of interests: The authors should declare eventual conflicts of interest or state that “The author declares no financial conflict of interest.”
- Declaration concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) use: all manuscript should contain a declaration of any use of generative AI tools for making the text, figures or table or any other part of the proposed article.
An example of declaration is “The author declares that no generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools were used to make this manuscript including the text and the figure.”
- References (max 15): The citations should be in numbered superscript format in the text and follow the Rviews Press formatting style for bibliography (download for Endnote or Zotero), which follows the Vancouver uniform style requirements for publishing medical journals. A generic Vancouver style is also suitable.
- Copyright and licensing: Authors should agree with the copyright statement of Cell Methods and Rviews Press. We encourage complete open access policies for published articles. All articles published by a Rviews Press journal include a reference to the authors and Rvews Press copyright. All articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY).
Accepted manuscripts should include a sentence like “The author(s) agree with Rviews Press licensing proposal” or “The author(s) declare that this article is published under the CC BY license”.
Editorial communication article
The Editorial communication articles are reserved to the editors and editorial advisors aiming at communicating a news or editorial matter for the public including but not limited to readers, reviewers, editors, librarians, press agencies, research institutions and policy makers. This type of article can be solicited internally or following interactions with other journals of Rviews Press or partnership with external entities. The form and content of the Editorial communication articles are reserved to the editorial office.
Editorial communication articles may contain the following information:
- Title (90 characters max),
- Author(s): the name of at least one author is required, generally the Editor-In-Chief,
- Author contact information: mailing addresses of the authors, generally the journal name and the contact information of Rviews Press,
- Summary (max. 50 words): concise, structured and clear with key information,
- Keywords (min. 5): important for abstracting and indexing,
- Article text (no word limit): Structured and clear. At the discretion of the editor,
- Article figures (no number limit): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. A figure is composed of a multi/mono-panel graphic, a title and a legend. They should be numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Fig. 1A, B…, Fig. 2A, B…
- Article tables (no number limit): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. All tables should have a title, numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Table 1, Table 2…
- Declaration of interests: The authors should declare eventual conflicts of interest or state that “The author is member of the editorial office of the journal.” His precise role can be also stated.
- Declaration concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) use: all manuscript should contain a declaration of any use of generative AI tools for making the text, figures or table or any other part of the proposed article.
An example of declaration is “The author declares that no generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools were used to make this manuscript including the text and the figure.”
- Acknowledgements (optional): This can be used to highlight all external acknowledgements it they exist including technical assistance, copy-editing, graphical assistance, gifted resource provider etc…
- References (0-15): The citations should be in numbered superscript format in the text and follow the Rviews Press formatting style for bibliography (download for Endnote or Zotero), which follows the Vancouver uniform style requirements for publishing medical journals. A generic Vancouver style is also suitable for most referencing software.
- Copyright and licensing: This phrase should be included in this section: “The author(s) declare that this article is published under the CC BY license”.
Editorial Instructions
The Editorial instruction articles are generally reserved to the Editor-In-Chief aiming at publishing or updating the journal policies, aims, scopes, requirements and the minimal instructions to authors, reviewers and editors regarding their respective role in the editorial process of an article submitted for publication in Cell Methods. The present article is a tangible example of the Editorial instruction article. Such articles are of the responsibility of the Editor-In-Chief and can be co-authored by another editor if necessary. The Editorial instruction articles provide the updated information needed to fulfil the journal editorial, ethical and scientific quality standards. The form and contents of the Editorial instruction articles are defined by the Editor-In-Chief for the purpose of the instructions.
Editorial instruction articles may contain the following information:
- Title (90 characters max),
- Author(s): the name of at least one author is required, generally the Editor-In-Chief
- Author contact information: mailing addresses of the authors, generally the journal name and the contact information of Rviews Press,
- Summary (max. 50 words): concise, structured and clear with key information,
- Keywords (min. 3): important for abstracting and indexing,
- Article text (no word limit): Structured and clear.
- Article figures (no number limit): To support the explanation if necessary. The figure should have at least a title. They should be numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Fig. 1A, B…, Fig. 2A, B…
- Article tables (no number limit): To support the narrative and the clarity of the text. All tables should have a title, numbered in ascending order and referenced in the text as Table 1, Table 2…
- Declaration of interests: The authors should declare eventual conflicts of interest or state that “The author is member of the editor office of the journal.” His precise role can be also stated.
- Declaration concerning generative artificial intelligence (AI) use: all manuscript should contain a declaration of any use of generative AI tools for making the text, figures or table or any other part of the proposed article.
An example of declaration is “The author declares that no generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools were used to make this manuscript including the text and the figure.”
- Acknowledgements (optional): This can be used to highlight all external acknowledgements it they exist including technical assistance, copy-editing, graphical assistance, gifted resource provider etc…
- References (0-15): The citations should be in numbered superscript format in the text and follow the Rviews Press formatting style for bibliography (download for Endnote or Zotero), which follows the Vancouver uniform style requirements for publishing medical journals. A generic Vancouver style is also suitable for most referencing software.
- Copyright and licensing: This phrase should be included in this section: “The author(s) declare that this article is published under the CC BY license”.
General information
All articles published in Cell Methods are the copyright of the authors and distributed in Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY).
The submitted manuscripts are assessed by the editors for fitting in the editorial scope line, scientific quality standards and timeliness for publication.
All submitted manuscripts are also assessed by the editors for ethics regarding the right of publishing, copyrights, plagiarism, animal experimentation authorization, patient consents if necessary, competing interests, use of generative AI tools and derivatives as well as the formal acceptance of the authors to include the names of editors and reviewers for their respective roles in the published final version of the article.
It is important to note that the personal communication is not allowed as reference in any journal of Rviews Press including Cell Methods.
Above are presented the essential requirements for the published article types. The editors can include complementary sections to improve the quality, accessibility and ethics of the article in accordance with the authors.
When the authors are satisfied and feel the manuscript meets the standards of Cell Methods, they are invited to rapidly check the submission and submit for an efficient, rigorous and rapid publication.
Submission checklist
Before submission to Cell Methods, the authors should check that:
- The manuscript was written following the intended article type requirements outlined in this guideline,
- The manuscript was not previously published nor under consideration by another journal at the time of submission,
- All supporting documents, all primary materials (articles and data) are available, or the missing part is clearly stated in the data availability section allowing fair and global evaluation of the manuscript by the editors and the reviewer. It is advised to deposit the standardized data on an adequate platform that is accessible to all. If needed, the author can place an embargo to avoid release before the article publication. Don’t hesitate to contact the editorial office for any question about the data availability cellmethods@rviews.org or support@rviews.org.
- All references are accurate, complete and follow the Cell Reviews (Zotero and endnote versions of style is linked above) or Vancouver styles, available in most referencing applications and softwares.
- The figure and table numbers follow the limitations stated in the instructions for authors and have been labelled with titles and numbered in ascending order of appearance.
- All necessary legal information and permissions have been included in the manuscript, the photographs in figures, artworks and necessary materials provided with the submitted documents.
Declaration of interests
Adama Sidibé is the Editor-In-Chief of Cell Reviews, Cell Biology and Cell Methods, three sister journals of Rviews Press, Marseille, France.
Adama Sidibé is the founder of Rviews Press.
This document instructs on the formatting, the scientific and ethical quality standards for publication in Cell Methods (Marseille, France).
Declaration concerning generative AI use
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