Authors are not required to be members of The Protein Society.

Each manuscript must be accompanied by a submission letter, copies of any related papers by the authors that are either submitted or in press, and the area of expertise, full names, E-mail addresses, telephone and FAX numbers, of at least six qualified reviewers. Authors may disqualify up to two potential reviewers.

Online manuscript submission. In general, manuscripts should be submitted by the author to our online manuscript submission system available at http://submit.proteinscience.org. Files that are compatible with our system include: Word, WordPerfect, and PDF (Portable Document File). [NOTE: PDF files cannot be used for publication. Accepted manuscripts must be submitted in a MS Word-compatible format.]

Image and table file formats. Image file formats accepted for review are GIF, TIFF, EPS, and JPEG. Tables are reproduced from the word processing file. Please note: The system does not accept Excel files at this time. Please paste tables from Excel into a Word document format. Supplemental files may be submitted in any format. Supplemental files are not converted into a PDF with the text, figures and tables and will be downloaded as needed.

Manuscripts must be written in clear and concise English with double line spacing throughout (including title page, references, tables, and figure captions) and at least 1" (25 mm) margins on all sides. All pages must be numbered. Standard "typewriter" fonts (e.g., Courier or Letter Gothic) that have uniform character spacing, not proportional spacing, are strongly preferred. Please do not use any foreign language fonts (i.e, Chinese, Japanese) in the manuscript as they will not display properly. Do not use word hyphenation or text justification options. Do not prepare the manuscript in a desktop-published form emulating printed journal style.

Please note: Files that CANNOT be used include any Bitmap (.bmp), PICT (.pict), photoshop (.psd), PowerPoint (.ppt), and CorelDRAW (.cdr). All files of figures made with these programs should be converted to GIF, TIFF (preferred), EPS, or JPEG. Files created with any other word processing programs should be converted to RTF or Word format. For additional information on submitting figures, see the http://ifora_digartdetails Electronic Art Submission section.

We hope you will find this submission system helpful, and we look forward to receiving feedback so that we may continue to improve the system for manuscript submission and review. We are working to increase the types of files we can accept. If online submission is not possible, manuscripts may be submitted as hard copies, as long as the full contents of the manuscript are also sent on electronic media (diskette or CD) (see the following instructions).

Hard Copy Submission. Manuscripts should be submitted to:

: Brian Matthews, Editor
Protein Science
Institute of Molecular Biology
1229 University of Oregon
1370 Franklin Boulevard
Eugene, OR 97403-1229, USA
Telephone: (541) 346-2572
Facsimile: (541) 346-5870
proteinscience{at}proteinsociety.org

Submit the original manuscript plus one photocopy with THREE (3) sets of original, high-quality artwork, and an electronic version (diskette or CD) containing the full manuscript, including figures and tables (we cannot use TeX-type files). Where color figures are employed, high-quality color copies must be provided. Each manuscript must be accompanied by a submission letter; three copies of any related paper by the authors that is either submitted or in press (it is very helpful if these are also provided on electronic media as well); and the area of expertise, full names, E-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, of at least six qualified reviewers. Authors may disqualify up to two potential reviewers.

Review - Every effort will be made to decide whether the paper is appropriate for review within two weeks. Papers considered confirmatory or lacking sufficient originality will be returned without review. Most papers considered appropriate will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers, one of whom may be a member of the Editorial Advisory Board. The Editor and/or the Associate Editors will make final selection of reviewers. If the reviewers disagree, or if in the judgment of the Editors the manuscript has not received adequate consideration, the manuscript and the reviewers’ opinions may be submitted to a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for arbitration. Editorial decisions that result from this process are usually final. The inability to identify referees willing to review a manuscript may be considered grounds for rejection.

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