Submission

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Presubmission Enquiries

Presubmission inquiries should be submitted via our submission system (https://lsa.msubmit.net) or by e-mail and should minimally include a list of all authors, a cover letter and an abstract.

How to Submit

YOU DO NOT NEED TO REFORMAT YOUR MANUSCRIPT AT FIRST SUBMISSION

We use an online manuscript submission and tracking system: https://lsa.msubmit.net/

In order to submit, you must have registered for an account. After this, please follow the instructions for submission via our secure server. Please be sure that your browser is set to accept cookies. Our tracking system requires cookies for proper operation.

For original submissions, you will need to upload a cover letter (optional), a Word file of the text of the manuscript (including figure legends), and a PDF file containing all the figures. Alternatively, individual figure files can be uploaded separately or the entire manuscript content as a single pdf. You can also submit all of these files within a single ZIP file. The system will expand it for you.

We will acknowledge receipt of a submitted manuscript by e-mail to the Corresponding author as soon as the quality check (appropriate manuscript format and image quality) has been completed. All further correspondence will also be by e-mail. Please ensure that your servers are set up to allow e-mails from Life Science Alliance, and contact us if you do not receive an acknowledgment e-mail within a few days of submission.

Manuscript Status

You can check the status of your manuscript at any time in the review process logging into your account.

Please feel free to contact the editorial office with status queries.

Submission of Revisions

When a manuscript is returned to authors for revision, the revised version should be submitted within three months of the authors’ receipt of the referee reports, unless another date is specified in the decision letter. Please contact the editor by the deadline in cases where extra time is required for revision. Additional time may be granted upon request at the Editors’ discretion, assuming the advance of the study stands (with regard to the current literature). As a matter of policy, we do not consider any competing manuscripts published during the specified revision period as negatively impacting on the conceptual advance presented by your study (Scooping Protection). However, we request that you contact the editor as soon as possible upon publication of any related work, to discuss how to proceed. Only a single round of revision is generally permitted and can be submitted via the account of the corresponding author. Please do not upload revisions as new submissions.

Revisions should be accompanied by a point-by-point response to the referees’ comments and editorial decision letter, in PDF or Word format. To facilitate the re-evaluation, we encourage authors to intercalate their response with the referee comments.

At this stage, you must also conform to our formatting guidelines, and the following items are mandatorily required when submitting a revision:

• The manuscript text in RTF or MS Word format, including figure legends for both main and supplementary figures
• Individual figure files
• Summary blurb (max 200 characters) that in conjunction with the title describes the context and significance of the findings.
• A point-by-point response letter to the referees