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Research Reports from Life Sciences Freshman Research Scholars

 

Submission Requirements

Due Date: May 13, 2015

Submission: Give your research report submission form with your mentor’s signature to Coral Rewasiewicz in LSW 206.  You will turn your paper into our online journal.  (We are finalizing details.)

Standards

Abstract: 100-250 words

Keywords: Include 2 to 5 key terms.

Article: 1000-2500 words (2-5 Pages)

Sections: Introduction, Methods, Results (or Progress to Date*), Discussion, and Literature Cited

*: For projects that do not have results, have very limited results, or have results that mentors consider proprietary (editors of journals DO NOT consider data in publications of this type to be “prior publication” or “previously published”) a description of accomplishments and evidence for why this is the beginning of a contribution should substitute Progress to Date for Results.  Progress might include descriptions of your apparatus, field sites, tissues cultured, histological slides prepared, plasmids engineered, etc.

Authorship: The LSFRS student must be first author, and the mentor must be last author.  Other authors should be listed in whatever order the student and mentor see fit.  Include an address line with email addresses for the authors.

References: Springer Basic Style*.

*:www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/Key_Style_Points_BasicRef.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1330668-0

Font, etc.: Use 12-point Times New Roman with 1” margins.  Use the overall hierarchy of title (16-point bold), section (14-point bold), subsection (12-point underlined).

Tables: We will reformat your tables to match a common style, so just use the default style.  Include no titles for the table.  Include your caption over the table with complete sentences.

Figures: All figures should be in picture format for the final document.  Include no titles on the figures.  Include your caption below the table with complete sentences.

 

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 OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect 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. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

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