Research Reports

 Submissions are welcomed via Editorial Manager. Click on the button to send us your manuscript. First, please see the guidelines.

The journal welcomes the submission of Research Reports as outlined below. For the guidelines relating to Short Reports and Hypotheses, go here. 

Open Access Journal

All content will be published Open Access (OA). Each research report will be freely available from the moment it is published, also in the pre-press module. The article processing charges (APC) is US$ 2100 / € 2100 per published paper. Invited articles are exempt from the APC.

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Preparation of Manuscripts

Organization and Style of Presentation

• Manuscripts must be written in US English. Authors whose native language is not English are recommended to seek the advice of a native English speaker or English language service before submitting their manuscripts. 
• Nomenclature for amyloids should follow the 2014 guidelines of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Society of Amyloidosis (Amyloid 21, 221–224, 2014), e.g., amyloid-β (Aβ) and amyloid-β protein precursor (AβPP). Also preferred is Aβ42 and sAβPPα.
• Manuscripts should be double spaced throughout with wide margins (2.5 cm or 1 in), including the "Abstract" and "References." Every page of the manuscript, including the title page, references, tables, etc., should include a page number centered at the bottom. Do not number headings or subheadings.
• There are no page or word limits for Research reports but manuscripts over 10,000 words ("Introduction" through "Discussion") should be approved by the Editor-in-Chief before submission.

Manuscripts should be organized in the following order with headings and subheadings typed on a separate line, without indentation.

Title Page

• Title (should be clear, descriptive, concise, and avoid the use of abbreviations)
• Full name(s) of author(s)
• Full affiliation(s). Delineate affiliations with lowercase letters.
• Present address of author(s), if different from affiliation
• Running title (45 characters or less, including spaces)
• Complete correspondence address, including telephone number and email address

Authorship
To be considered as an author of an article, the following criteria must be met:

• Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; and
• Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
• Final approval of the version to be published; and
• Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

When submitting the manuscript, the author listing and order should be final. If any addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list does need to be made after submission, this can be done only before acceptance and with the Editor’s approval. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (1) the reason for the change in author list and (2) written confirmation from all authors, including the affected author, that they agree with the addition, removal, or rearrangement. Only in exceptional circumstances will the Editor consider the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of authors after the manuscript has been accepted. While the Editor considers the request, publication of the manuscript will be suspended. If the manuscript has already been published in an issue, any requests approved by the Editor will result in an Erratum. Please contact the Editorial Office stemjournal@iospress.com for more information.

If any author is also a member of the StemJournal Editorial Board at the time of article submission, this should be declared in the Conflict of Interest Section (see instructions in the section for Conflict of Interest, below).

Abstract and Keywords

• The abstract should be clear, descriptive, self-explanatory, and no longer than 400 words
• If possible, please use a structured abstract format and include the sections: Background, Objective, Methods, Results, and Conclusion
• Do not include references in the abstract
• Include a list of 4–10 keywords. These keywords should be terms from the MeSH database.

Introduction
Provide enough information to put your work into context. Be concise. Clearly address the following points:

• What information is already available?
• What is the rationale or reason for your research?
• What problem(s) does it address?

Do not include a comprehensive literature review of your research. End the Introduction by clearly stating the aims of your study.

Materials and Methods
This section should be well structured and detailed enough for others to be able to reproduce your experiments. Use clear subheadings throughout. Start by describing the materials use, the supplier source, including any relevant catalog information, and supplier location. Use references appropriately to refer to published protocols or methodology. Do not repeat a detailed description of an already-published method or protocol. An example databank to host reagents and methods that we recommend is Divvly.

If applicable to the study, Ethics statements and/or patient permissions must be included in this section (see stemjnl.org/ethics-policies).

Results
This section should present the results and summarize the findings of your study. Do not provide any data in great detail. If you need to include additional detailed data, do so in supplementary files submitted with the paper. Consider providing a one-sentence summary at the beginning of each paragraph within this section, if you think that this would help the reader in understanding your findings.

Discussion
Begin this section with a brief summary of the main findings. Ensure that you answer all the questions posed in the "Introduction." Mention both the strengths and the limitations for your study, as well as applications and implications of your findings. Compare these to other published findings.

Acknowledgments
Include individuals or companies which have assisted with your study, including advisors, administrative support and suppliers who may have donated or given materials used in the study. If there are none, include the section and insert: “The authors report no acknowledgments.” 

Funding
Include all funding sources. If there are none, include the section and insert: “The authors report no funding.”

Conflict of Interest
If there is no conflict of interest to declare, include this section and insert": "The authors report no conflict of interest." If an author is on the Editorial Board of StemJournal at the time of submission, the following statement should be included in this section: “<AUTHOR> is an Editorial Board Member of StemJournal, but was not involved in the peer-review process nor had access to any information regarding its peer-review."

References
Authors are requested to use the Vancouver citation style. Place citations as numbers in square brackets in the text. All publications cited in the text should be presented in a list of references at the end of the manuscript. List the references in the order in which they appear in the text. Only articles published or accepted for publication should be listed in the reference list. Submitted articles can be listed as [author(s), unpublished data]. If an article has a DOI, this should be provided after the page number details. The number is added after the letters "doi". Manuscripts will not be considered if they do not conform to the Vancouver citation guidelines.

References must be listed in Vancouver style:
[1] Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al. Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Res. 2002;935(1–2):40–46.
[2] Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.
[3] Berkow R, Fletcher AJ, editors. The Merck manual of diagnosis and therapy. 16th ed. Rahway (NJ): Merck Research Laboratories; 1992.
[4] Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGrawHill; 2002. p. 93–113.
[5] Canadian Cancer Society [homepage on the Internet]. Toronto: The Society; 2006 [updated 2006 May 12; cited 2006 Oct 17]. Available from: www.cancer.ca/.
[6] Tian D, Araki H, Stahl E, Bergelson J, Kreitman M. Signature of balancing selection in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. In press 2002.
[7] Fletcher D, Wagstaff CRD. Organisational psychology in elite sport: its emergence, application and future. Psychol Sport Exerc. 2009;10(4):427–434. doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2009.03.009.

Datasets and Data Articles

• All datasets and data articles referenced in your manuscript should be cited in the main reference list of your article (not in a separate box or in the article text)

Tables

• Number according to their sequence in the text. The text should include references to all tables.
• Provide each table on a separate page of the manuscript after the references
• Include a brief and self-explanatory title with any explanations essential to the understanding of the table given in footnotes at the bottom of the table.
• Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Leave some extra space between the columns instead.
• Citations in the tables should be numbered and included in the "References"

Figure Legends/Figures

• Number the figures according to their sequence in the text. The text should include references to all figures.
• Each figure should be provided on a separate page, not included in the text
• Figures should preferably be formatted in TIF or EPS format. JPG is also acceptable.
• Composite figures must be preassembled
• Figures should be designed with the format of StemJournal in mind. They should be of such a size as to allow a reduction of 50%.
• Line art should have a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi and be saved as an EPS or TIFF:
  • Do not use faint lines and/or lettering and check that all lines and lettering within the figures are legible at the final size
  • All lines should be at least 0.1 mm (0.3 pt) wide
  • Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files
• Grayscale figures (including photos) should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi, or 600 dpi for combination art (lettering and images) and be saved as a TIF
• Figures should be cropped to include the figure only (no blank space)
• Do not save line art as JPG; this format may lose information in the publishing process
• Do not use figures taken from the Internet; the resolution will be too low for printing
• For figures to be printed in color, please send a CMYK encoded EPS or TIF
• On figures where a scale is needed, use bar scales rather than numerical ones, i.e., do not use scales of the type 1:10,000. This avoids problems if the figure needs to be reduced.
• Each figure should have a self-explanatory caption, which should be typed separately from the figure in the manuscript
• Photographs are only acceptable if they have good contrast and intensity
• Color figures will be published online at no charge
• Costs for color figures in the print version of the journal are as follows: 1 figure – 650 euro; 2 figures – 900 euro; 3 figures – 1050 euro; 4 figures – 1200 euro; 5 figures – 1350 euro. Cost for each additional color figure will be 150 euro. Unless the color printing charge is paid, color figures will be automatically adjusted to grayscale in print. You may opt to send in both grayscale figures for print, and color figures for the online PDF (please adjust the figure legend appropriately).

Supplementary Material
Supplementary material is peer-reviewed material directly relevant to the conclusion of a paper that cannot be included in the printed version for reasons of space or medium (for example, movie clips or sound files). The supplement will be available for download from the publisher's content library site at the time of publication and will be made available in the format in which it was provided. Instructions:

• Supplementary tables and figures must have a separate numbering system from that used for tables and figures that appear in the print version of the paper (the first figure displayed should be labeled "Supplementary Figure 1", the first table "Supplementary Table 1", and so on)
• References should also be cited in supplements started with [1] and listed separately
• Supplementary files are limited to 10 MB, except videos which can be up to 25 MB

Supplementary material should be included at the end of the main manuscript at the time of submission. In the case of sound/movie files, these can be sent separately to the Editorial Office (stemjournal@iospress.com) at the time of submission.

Revisions
Revisions should be returned within two months of receiving a decision. Authors needing more time should email the Editor-in-Chief for an extension. When submitting a revised manuscript, please indicate your revisions in the text (either in revision mode or by highlighting) and provide a point-by-point response to the reviews at the beginning of your manuscript. Also include your previous manuscript number in your cover letter. If you choose not to resubmit to StemJournal after receiving a decision, please inform the Editorial Office (stemjournal@iospress.com) that you wish to withdrawn your manuscript from further consideration.

Kudos
Authors of published articles (non-prepress, final articles) will be contacted by Kudos. Kudos is a service that helps researchers maximize the impact and visibility of their research. It allows authors to enrich their articles with lay metadata, add links to related materials and promote their articles through the Kudos system to a wider public. Authors will receive no more than three emails: one invitation and a maximum of two reminders to register for the service and link the published article to their profile. Using and registering for Kudos remains entirely optional. For more information, please have a look at the IOS Press website here.

Promotion of your Article
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