Research paper template
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TYPE OR PASTE THE TITLE OF YOUR ARTICLE HERE:
The title should accurately, clearly, and concisely
reflect the emphasis and content of the paper. The
title must be brief and grammatically correct.
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Author Name 11, Author Name 22, Author Name 33
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Address: 1 Institutional address 1; 2 Institutional address; 3 Institutional address 3
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*Corresponding author: email address
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ABSTRACT
Instructions – please delete before submission. All submissions must have an abstract. Type
or paste your abstract here. This should be no more than 250 words. The abstract should
briefly state the problem or purpose of the research, indicate the theoretical or experimental
plan used, summarize the principal findings, and point out the major conclusions.
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DATA SUMMARY
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Instructions – please delete before submission. Microbial Genomics is a mandatory open
data journal. All authors are required to provide access to supporting data prior to
submission. Each external data record should be cited in text (e.g. “Data resulting from
Method X can be found in xxxxx.txt [Data Citation 1]”), and should also be listed in the data
bibliography at the end of the document.
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Please describe here all supporting external data including the DOI(s) and/or Accession
Number(s), and the associated URL to access this (examples have been provided):
1. Strain data protocol has been deposited in Figshare; DOI: xx.xxxx/xxx (url –
http://straindata.figshare.com)
2. Genome xyz has been deposited in GenBank; accession number: xxxxxx.x (url http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucgss/xxxxxx.x)
I/We confirm all supporting data, code and protocols have been provided within the
article or through supplementary data files. ☐
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IMPACT STATEMENT
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Instructions – Please delete before submission. This lay summary of your article is mandatory
and should be no more than 200 words, and should cover the following: a) provide a
perspective of how this article adds to the literature in the field; b) breadth of interest/utility;
and c) significance of output (incremental or step), in terms of relevance and being thought
provoking. The Impact Statement will be published with your article if accepted.
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INTRODUCTION
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Instructions – Please delete before submission. This should state the objectives of the work,
but should not contain a detailed summary of the results. Authors should not assume that all
readers will know why an area is worth studying; they should briefly make this clear.
Previous relevant work should be sufficiently cited but this should not constitute a full
review.
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METHODS
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Instructions – Please delete before submission. Sufficient detail should be provided to allow
the work to be repeated.
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RESULTS
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Instructions – Please delete before submission. There should be sufficient subheadings to
make clear how the work was organized, what the key questions being addressed were, how
one experiment led to another, and perhaps what conclusions were reached. A reader should
gain a clear picture of the work from the subheadings.
Reproducibility of results should be indicated. It should be stated how many times an
experiment was repeated and whether means or representative results are shown.
Variability should be indicated statistically wherever possible; when error terms are given,
the measure of dispersion and the number of observations should be stated. Statistical
techniques used must be specified, and where necessary they should be described fully or a
reference given. If results are expressed as percentages, the absolute value corresponding to
100% should be stated.
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DISCUSSION
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Instructions – Please delete before submission. This should not recapitulate the results, and
should not be too long. Excessive discussion of few facts often gives an impression of poor
science. Subheadings should be used where appropriate, to highlight the points under
discussion. It may be helpful to list the main conclusions at the end. A combined Results and
Discussion section is encouraged where appropriate.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Instructions – please delete before submission. An Acknowledgements section is not
compulsory but may be included. If required, please state the names of funding bodies and
grant numbers in this section. Authors may also wish to acknowledge individuals who have
contributed materials, expertise or time to the study who are not named as authors.
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ABBREVIATIONS
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abbreviations.
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REFERENCES
Instructions – please delete before submission. The reference list should be presented in
Harvard style. Please review the Instructions for Authors for further information including
referencing websites, and downloading the journal style using EndNote or Reference
Manager.
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The Reference List should be formatted in Harvard Style. For examples or more information
please see the For Authors page.
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Authors who use EndNote or Reference Manager can download the style for MGen by
clicking on the links below:
EndNote
Reference Manager
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DATA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Instructions – please delete before submission. The data bibliography should be presented in
the following format: author, depository, DOI or Accession Number (YYYY). Please see the
instructions for Authors for further information. Examples have been provided below:
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1. Schmitz, R. J., Schultz, M. D. & Ecker, J. R. Gene Expression Omnibus GSE43857 (2013).
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2. Smith, J. & Brown, D. FigShare http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.NNNNN (2014).
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FIGURES AND TABLES
Instructions – please delete before submission. Research papers should have a maximum of 8
figures and tables. If you need to include more than this number, please include an
explanation in your cover letter. Please list all figures and tables in order of appearance.
Figures should not be used to present results that can be described by a brief statement in
the text. File Size: 300dpi resolution for image files and 600dpi for line figures; Labelling
criteria e.g. Figures must be referred to in the text as Fig. 1(a) not Fig. 1A or Figure 1(A) or as
(Fig. 1a) not (Figure 1A). Multipart figures should be labelled (a), (b), etc., not (A), (B), etc.
Figures should not be used to present results that can be described by a brief statement in
the text. The points outlined for tables regarding comprehensibility, relative values and
reproducibility also apply to figures and their legends. The inclusion of large amounts of
tabular data in figures is discouraged and authors may be asked to move such data to the
text or a separate table. Authors should be aware that after publication, tabulated data
within figures are not accessible via online text searching.
Tables should be broadly comprehensible without reference to the text, but it is not
necessary to repeat detailed descriptions of methods, etc. The symbols * † ‡ § || ¶ # should
be used for footnotes, rather than superscript letters or numbers. When results are
expressed as percentages, the absolute value(s) corresponding to 100% must be stated.
Statements of reproducibility should be included (see above). Tables should not be used to
present results that can be described by a brief statement in the text.
Our requirements for files intended for publication are different from those for files that will
be converted to PDF by the Editorial Manager system as part of an initial submission, as set
out in the Files for Publication section of these instructions.
Please see the Instruction for Authors page for further details.