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Download templates for cover letters and find other useful resources for manuscript preparation and submission here.
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prepare documents
Initial manuscript submission
Initial manuscript submission
To submit your manuscript, please prepare the following documents and information.
Files you will be asked to upload
a cover letter (pdf format recommended; click here for a template of a cover letter)
your manuscript (Word or pdf format recommended for first submission)
supplementary files (if applicable; such as data, additional information on methods)
figure files (most file formats accepted; EPS file format required if submitting text in LaTeX)
table files
Information you will be asked to enter at the submission website
names and affiliation of all authors
the names of three suggested peer reviewers
Click on the link for a walk-through guide of the submission process with screen prints of the submission website.
Revised manuscript submission
Revised manuscript submission
Submitting a revised manuscript follows the same steps, but requires additional documents, such as a "Reply to Reviewer Comments", and two versions of your manuscript, one with tracked changes and the other a clean copy.
submit your manuscript
submit your manuscript
Submit your manuscript at the ICB's submission website.
Click here for a walk-through guide of the submission process with screen prints for each step along the process.
ICB submission website
ICB submission website
Submit your manuscript at the ICB's submission website.
Click here for a walk-through guide of the submission process with screen prints for each step along the process.
cover image
cover image
We strongly encourage symposium organizers, special-issue organizers and our authors to submit photographs relevant to the topic of the symposium or special issue. Please submit images to the managing editor (Suzanne Miller; email: icbjournal@sicb.org). A good time for symposium and special-issue organizers to ask authors for images is around the time of article submission and revision.
Our managing editor is a trained artist and will generate a cover based on your submissions or will work with you on designs. We encourage organizers to share with us their ideas for covers. Please look at covers of the past few years to generate ideas and to get a sense for ICB's cover style (visit the ICB website).
More tips are on our page about cover images.
Cover Image guidelines
Cover Image guidelines
Relevance
The design should be centered around a high-resolution image relevant to the content of the issue. Such relevance can take many forms and we encourage you to think beyond the literal.
Image elements
The cover should form a coherent composition. We prefer a single photo, but may allow multiple images if the design is clearly coherent. We may allow a combination of photos and graphic elements (such as lines, drawings, text labels) if those graphic elements support the photographic elements.
Image quality
Photographs should be uncompressed, high resolution (at least 4MB), and have good dynamic range in brightness. Drawn images must meet high professional standards.
Image enhancement and alternation
We allow photos that have been altered to enhance their clarity and visual appeal, including photos taken with filters or imaging techniques that require artificial colors, as long as those alterations are not misleading or falsifying the scientific or image content.
Visual appeal
The cover should be clear, visually engaging, and appropriate for a scholarly journal. It should have a level of complexity that maintains a single focus yet contains enough detail to invite a closer look.
Copyrights
Please ensure that you are the copyright holder of any images that you propose, or that you have obtained written permission from the copyright owner (written permission to be submitted with the images).
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