Welcome to Animal Physiology, a leading scientific journal dedicated to advancing the understanding of animal physiological processes. Authors are invited to submit their research contributions for consideration. To ensure a smooth submission process, please carefully adhere to the following instructions:
Editorial Criteria and Processes:
Animal Physiology maintains rigorous editorial standards to ensure the publication of high-quality and impactful research. The editorial process includes:
Formatting Guide:
Authors are encouraged to carefully follow the journal's formatting guide to ensure consistency and professionalism in manuscript presentation. The formatting guide covers:
Presubmission Enquiries, Initial Submission, and Final Submission:
Presubmission Enquiries:
Authors seeking clarification or guidance before formal submission are encouraged to send presubmission inquiries. These inquiries should include:
Initial Submission:
Upon submitting a manuscript, authors should ensure the following:
Final Submission:
Upon acceptance, authors are required to provide the final version of their manuscript:
Supplementary Information, Forms and Declarations, and Matters Arising:
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary information should be:
Forms and Declarations:
Authors are required to submit:
Matters Arising:
Authors wishing to address or comment on published articles can submit Matters Arising:
Other Types of Submissions:
In addition to standard research articles, Animal Physiology welcomes:
Publishing Options:
Registered Reports:
Animal Physiology supports the registered reports format:
Submission:
Articles
Articles are original reports whose conclusions represent a substantial advance in understanding of an important problem and have immediate, far-reaching implications. In print, biological and clinical papers do not normally exceed 8 pages on average. However, the final print length is at the editor’s discretion.
Articles start with a fully referenced summary paragraph, ideally of no more than 300 words, which is separate from the main text and avoids numbers, abbreviations, acronyms, or measurements unless essential. It is aimed at readers outside the discipline. This summary paragraph should be structured as follows: 2-3 sentences of basic-level introduction to the field; a brief account of the background and rationale of the work; a statement of the main conclusions (introduced by the phrase 'Here we show' or its equivalent); and finally, 2-3 sentences putting the main findings into general context so it is clear how the results described in the paper have moved the field forwards. Please refer to our annotated example to see how the summary paragraph should be constructed.
The typical length of a 6-page article with 4 modest display items (figures and tables) is 2500 words (summary paragraph plus body text). The typical length of an 8-page article with 5-6 modest display items is 4300 words. A ‘modest’ display item is one that, with its legend, occupies about a quarter of a page (equivalent to ~270 words). Suppose a composite figure (with several panels) needs to occupy at least half a page for all the elements to be visible. In that case, the text length may need to be reduced accordingly to accommodate such figures. Keep in mind that essential but technical details can be moved into the Methods or Supplementary Information.
As a guideline, articles typically have no more than 50 references. (There is no constraint on additional references associated with Methods or Supplementary Information.)
Sections are separated with subheadings to aid navigation. Subheadings may be up to 40 characters (including spaces).
Word counts refer to the text of the paper. Title, author list, acknowledgments, and references are not included in the total word count.
Matters Arising and Corrections
Matters Arising are exceptionally interesting or important comments and clarifications on original research papers or other peer-reviewed material published within the past 18 months in Animal Physiology. They are published online but not in print.
For further details of and instructions for how to submit such comments on peer-reviewed material published in Animal Physiology — or to notify editors of the potential need for a correction — please consult our Matters Arising please contact [mohammed.shalaan@sci.aru.edu.eg].
Readability
Animal Physiology is an international journal. Contributions should therefore be written clearly and simply so that they are accessible to readers in other disciplines and to readers for whom English is not their first language. Thus, technical jargon should be avoided as far as possible and clearly explained where its use is unavoidable. Abbreviations, particularly those that are not standard, should also be kept to a minimum. The background, rationale, and main conclusions of the study should be clearly explained. Titles and abstracts in particular should be written in language that will be readily intelligible to any scientist. Essential but specialized terms should be explained concisely but not didactically.
For gene, protein, and other specialized names authors can use their preferred terminology so long as it is in current use by the community, but they must give all known names for the entity at first use in the paper. Animal physiology prefers authors to use internationally agreed nomenclature. Papers containing new or revised formal taxonomic nomenclature for animals, whether living or extinct, are accepted conditional on the provision of LSIDs (Life Science Identifiers) using registration of such nomenclature with ZooBank, the proposed online registration system for the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).
Even though no paper will be rejected because of poor language, non–native English speakers occasionally receive feedback from editors and reviewers regarding language and grammar usage in their manuscripts. You may wish to consider asking colleagues to read your manuscript. You can also get a fast, free grammar check of your manuscript that takes into account all aspects of readability in English.
Animal Physiology's editors provide detailed advice about the expected print length when asking for the final version of the manuscript. Animal physiology's editors often suggest revised titles and rewrite the summary paragraphs of Articles so the conclusions are clear to a broad readership.
After acceptance, Animal Physiology's subeditors (copyeditors) ensure that the text and figures are readable and clear to those outside the field, and edit papers into Animal Physiology's house style. They pay particular attention to summary paragraphs, overall clarity, figures, figure legends, and titles.
Proofs are sent before publication; authors are welcome to discuss proposed changes with Animal Physiology's subeditors, but Animal Physiology reserves the right to make the final decision about matters of style and the size of figures.
Format of Articles
Contributions should be double-spaced and written in English (spellings as in the Oxford English Dictionary).
Contributions should be organized in the sequence: title, authors, affiliations (plus present addresses), bold first paragraph, main text, main references, tables, figure legends, methods (including separate data and code availability statements), methods references, acknowledgments, author contributions, competing interest declaration, additional information (containing supplementary information line (if any) and corresponding author line), extended data figure/table legends. To facilitate the review process, for initial submissions, we encourage authors to present the manuscript text and figures together in a single file (Microsoft Word or PDF, up to 30 MB in size). The figures may be inserted within the text at the appropriate positions or grouped at the end, and each figure legend should be presented together with its figure. Also, please include line numbers within the text.
Titles
Titles do not exceed two lines in print. This equates to 75 characters (including spaces). Titles do not normally include numbers, acronyms, abbreviations, or punctuation. They should include sufficient detail for indexing purposes but be general enough for readers outside the field to appreciate what the paper is about.
Text
An uninterrupted page of text contains about 1250 words.
A typical 6-page Article contains about 2,500 words of text and, additionally, 4 modest display items (figures and/or tables) with brief legends, a reference list, and an online-only methods section if applicable. A composite figure (with several panels) usually needs to take about half a page, equivalent to about 600 words, for all the elements to be visible.
A typical 8-page Article contains about 4300 words of text and, additionally, 5-6 modest display items (figures and/or tables) with brief legends, a reference list, and an online-only methods section if applicable. A composite figure (with several panels) usually needs to take about half a page, equivalent to about 600 words, for all the elements to be visible.
The maximum page number for one research is 10 pages, any additional paper will subjected to financial payment.
Animal physiology requires authors to specify the contribution made by their co-authors in the end notes of the paper. If authors regard it as essential to indicate that two or more co-authors are equal in status, they may be identified by an asterisk symbol with the caption ‘These authors contributed equally to this work’ immediately under the address list. If more than three co-authors are equal in status, this should be indicated in the author contributions statement. Present addresses appear immediately below the author list (below the footnote rule at the bottom of the first page) and may be identified by a dagger symbol; all other essential author-related explanation is placed in the acknowledgments.
Our preferred format for text is Microsoft Word, with the style tags removed.
TeX/LaTeX: If you have prepared your paper using TeX/LaTeX, we will need to convert this to Word after acceptance, before your paper can be typeset. All textual material of the paper (including references, tables, figure captions, online methods, etc.) should be included as a single .tex file.
We prefer the use of a ‘standard’ font, preferably 12-point Times New Roman. For mathematical symbols, Greek letters, and other special characters, use normal text or Symbol font. Word Equation Editor/MathType should be used only for formulae that cannot be produced using normal text or Symbol font.
Phrase the following in a scientific way "Abstract
You are required to provide a concise and factual abstract that does not exceed 250 words. The abstract should briefly state the purpose of your research, principal results, and major conclusions. Some guidelines:
Abstracts must be able to stand alone as abstracts are often presented separately from the article.
Avoid references. If any are essential to include, ensure that you cite the author(s) and year(s).
Avoid non-standard or uncommon abbreviations. If any are essential to include, ensure they are defined within your abstract at first mention.
Structured abstract
In certain fields, a structured abstract, utilizing appropriate headings, should be used to provide the context or background for your research. Some guidelines:
State the purpose of your research.
Outline basic procedures followed such as the selection of study subjects or laboratory animals and observational and analytical methods.
Include your main findings, providing specific effect sizes and their statistical significance, if possible, and your principal conclusions.
Emphasize new and important aspects of your study or observations.
Keywords
You are required to provide 4 to 8 keywords for indexing purposes. Keywords should be written in English. Please try to avoid keywords consisting of multiple words (using “and” or “of”).
We recommend that you only use abbreviations in keywords if they are firmly established in the field.
Highlights
You are encouraged to provide article highlights at submission.
Highlights are a short collection of bullet points that should capture the novel results of your research as well as any new methods used during your study. Highlights will help increase the discoverability of your article via search engines. Some guidelines:
Submit highlights as a separate editable file in the online submission system with the word “highlights” included in the file name.
Highlights should consist of 3 to 5 bullet points, each a maximum of 85 characters, including spaces.
We encourage you to view example article highlights and read about the benefits of their inclusion.
Graphical abstract
You are encouraged to provide a graphical abstract at submission.
The graphical abstract should summarize the contents of your article in a concise, pictorial form that is designed to capture the attention of a wide readership. A graphical abstract will help draw more attention to your online article and support readers in digesting your research. Some guidelines:
Submit your graphical abstract as a separate file in the online submission system.
Ensure the image is a minimum of 531 x 1328 pixels (h x w) or proportionally more and is readable at a size of 5 x 13 cm using a regular screen resolution of 96 dpi.
Our preferred file types for graphical abstracts are TIFF, EPS, PDF, or MS Office files.
We encourage you to view example graphical abstracts and read about the benefits of including them.
Abstract
Provide a concise and factual abstract not exceeding 300 words. The abstract should succinctly state the purpose of your research, principal results, and major conclusions. Key guidelines include:
Abstracts must be self-contained, as they are often presented separately from the article.
Avoid references; if essential, cite the author(s) and year(s).
Avoid non-standard or uncommon abbreviations; if essential, define them upon first mention.
Structured Abstract
In specific fields, a structured abstract with appropriate headings should be used to provide context or background for your research. Key guidelines include:
State the purpose of your research.
Outline basic procedures such as the selection of study subjects or laboratory animals, and observational and analytical methods.
Include main findings with specific effect sizes and their statistical significance, if possible, and principal conclusions.
Emphasize new and important aspects of your study or observations.
Keywords
Provide 4 to 8 keywords for indexing purposes, written in English. Avoid keywords consisting of multiple words (using "and" or "of"). Use abbreviations only if they are well-established in the field.
Highlights
Submit article highlights at submission. Highlights should consist of 3 to 5 bullet points, each a maximum of 85 characters, including spaces. Submit highlights as a separate editable file in the online submission system with the word “highlights” included in the file name. Highlights should capture the novel results of your research and any new methods used. Refer to the example article highlights and the benefits of their inclusion.
Graphical Abstract
Submit a graphical abstract at submission. The graphical abstract should summarize the contents of your article in a concise, pictorial form designed to attract a wide readership. Submit the graphical abstract as a separate file in the online submission system. Ensure the image is a minimum of 531 x 1328 pixels (h x w) or proportionally more, and is readable at a size of 5 x 13 cm with a regular screen resolution of 96 dpi. Preferred file types are TIFF, EPS, PDF, or MS Office files. Refer to example graphical abstracts and the benefits of including them. Materials and Methods
The ‘Methods’ section is in the main text file. This Methods section will appear in the PDF and in the full-text (HTML) version of the paper online. The Methods section should be written as concisely as possible but should contain all elements necessary to allow interpretation and replication of the results. As a guideline, the Methods section does not typically exceed 3,000 words. Authors are encouraged to deposit a detailed description of protocols used in their study in a protocol-sharing platform of their choice. Animal Physiology Portfolio’s Protocol Exchange is a free and open service designed to help researchers share experimental know-how. Protocols deposited by the authors in Protocol Exchange will be linked to the online Methods section upon publication.
Detailed descriptions of methods already published should be avoided; a reference number can be provided to save space, with any new addition or variation stated.
The Methods section should be subdivided by short bold headings referring to methods used and we encourage the inclusion of specific subsections for statistics, reagents, and animal models. If further references are included in this section their numbering should continue from the end of the last reference number in the rest of the paper and they are listed after the Methods section.
Please provide separate Data Availability and Code Availability statements after the main text statements and before the Extended Data legends; detailed guidance can be found in our data availability and data citations policy. Certain data types must be deposited in an appropriate public structured data depository (details are available here), and the accession number(s) are provided in the manuscript. Full access is required at the time of publication. Should full access to data be required for peer review, authors must provide it.
The Methods section cannot contain figures or tables (essential display items should be included in the Extended Data or exceptionally in the Supplementary Information).
Introduction
The introduction should clearly state the objectives of your work in light of previous findings. We recommend that you provide an adequate background to your work but avoid writing a detailed literature overview or summary of your results.
Results
Results should be clear and concise. We advise you to read the sections in this guide on supplying tables, artwork, supplementary material, and sharing research data.
Discussion
The discussion section should explore the significance and implications of the findings and their limitations, about all other relevant studies and possibilities these suggest for future research. A discussion should not be a repetition of the results section and often a combined results and discussion section is appropriate.
Conclusion
The conclusion section should present the main conclusions of your study. You may have a stand-alone conclusions section or include your conclusions in a subsection of your discussion or results and discussion section.
Glossary
Please provide definitions of field-specific terms used in your article, in a separate list.
Abbreviations
Our guidelines for abbreviations are:
Abbreviations should not be used in the abstract unless they are firmly established in the field.
Minimize the usage of abbreviations.
Do not use uncommon abbreviations in figure panels, support all abbreviations used in figures and tables with footnotes or in the respective captions.
Provide an abbreviation table in the manuscript.
All abbreviations that are not standard in the field must be spelled out in their first occurrence, followed by the use of the abbreviated form only.
Before submission, we recommend that you review your use of abbreviations throughout your article to ensure that it is
Footnotes
We advise you to use footnotes sparingly. If you include footnotes in your article, ensure that they are numbered consecutively.
You may use system features that automatically build footnotes into text. Alternatively, you can indicate the position of footnotes within the text and present them in a separate section at the end of your article.
Ethics Declarations
Ethics and Consent Statement: All submissions that include human or animal participation must have an ethics and consent section in the manuscript. More information can be found in the section describing “Human and behavioral research” (above).
Please note, if these details are not included or are incomplete at submission, the manuscript may be rejected.
Acknowledgments
Include any individuals who helped you during your research such as help with language, writing or proofreading in the acknowledgments section.
For manuscripts submitted using a single anonymized peer review, acknowledgments should be placed in a separate section that appears directly before the reference list. Do not include acknowledgments on your title page, as a footnote to your title, or anywhere else in your article other than in the separate acknowledgments section.
For manuscripts submitted using double anonymized peer review, include acknowledgments only in the cover letter. Do not add it as a footnote to your title or as a section in the manuscript. Once the manuscript is ready to be accepted, you will be asked to include the relevant details in the manuscript.
Author contributions: CRediT
Corresponding authors are required to acknowledge co-author contributions using CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) roles:
Conceptualization
Data curation
Formal analysis
Funding acquisition
Investigation
Methodology
Project administration
Resources
Software
Supervision
Validation
Visualization
Writing – original draft
Writing – review and editing
Not all CRediT roles will apply to every manuscript and some authors may contribute through multiple roles.
We advise you to read more about CRediT and view an example of a CRediT author statement.
Funding sources
Authors must disclose any funding sources who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article. The role of sponsors, if any, should be declared in the study design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, writing of the report, and decision to submit the article for publication. If funding sources had no such involvement this should be stated in your submission.
List funding sources in this standard way to facilitate compliance to the funder's requirements:
Funding: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Research [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Scientific Research Academy Foundation, grant [grant number zzzz]; and the Egyptian Institute of …….. [grant number aaaa].
It is not necessary to include detailed descriptions of the program or type of grants and awards. When funding is from a block grant or other resources available to a university, college, or other research institution, submit the name of the institute or organization that provided the funding.
If no funding has been provided for the research, it is recommended to include the following sentence:
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors."
References
References are each numbered and ordered sequentially as they appear in the text, tables, boxes, figure legends, Methods, Extended Data tables and Extended Data figure legends.
When cited in the text, reference numbers are superscript, not in brackets unless they are likely to be confused with a superscript number.
Do not use linked fields (produced by EndNote and similar programs). Please use the one-click button provided by EndNote to remove EndNote codes before saving your file.
As a guideline, Articles allow up to 120 references in the main text if needed and within the average page budget. Only one publication can be listed for each number. Additional references for Methods or Supplementary Information are not included in this count.
Only articles that have been published or accepted by a named publication, or that have been uploaded to a recognized preprint server (for example, arXiv, bioRxiv), should be in the reference list; papers in preparation should be mentioned in the text with a list of authors (or initials if any of the authors are co-authors of the present contribution).
Published conference abstracts, numbered patents, preprints on recognized servers, papers in press, and research datasets that have been assigned a digital object identifier may be included in reference lists, but text, grant details and acknowledgments may not. (An exception is the highlighted references which we ask authors of Reviews, Perspectives, and Insights articles to provide.)
All authors should be included in reference lists unless there are more than five, in which case only the first author should be given, followed by ‘et al.’.
Please follow the style below in the published edition of Animal Physiology in preparing reference lists.
Authors should be listed by surname first and initials of given names followed by a comma.
Titles of all cited articles are required. Titles of articles cited in reference lists should be in upright, not italic text, with the title written exactly as it appears in the work cited, ending with a full stop. Book titles are not italicized. Journal titles are not italic and abbreviated according to common usage. Volume numbers are normal. The publisher and city of publication are required for books cited. (Refer to published papers in Animal physiology for details.)
Research datasets may be cited in the reference list if they have been assigned digital object identifiers (DOIs) and include authors, title, publisher (repository name), and identifier (DOI expressed as a URL). Example:
Print reference:
Stannard W, Rutman A, Wallis C, O'Callaghan C. Central microtubular agenesis causing primary ciliary dyskinesia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2004;169:634-7.
Online references:
Edelstein M, Pitchforth E, Asres G, Silverman M, Kulkarni N. Awareness of health effects of cooking smoke among women in the Gondar region of Ethiopia: A pilot survey. BMC Int Health Hum Rights [Internet]. 2008 Jul 18 [cited 6th June 2014];8:10. Available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-698X/8/10.
Recognized preprints may be cited in the reference list. Example: Babichev SA, Ries J, Lvovsky AI. Quantum scissors: teleportation of single-mode optical states using a nonlocal single photon. Preprint at http://arXiv.org/quant-ph/0208066 (2002).
References to web-only journals should give authors, article title, and journal name as above, followed by URL in full - or DOI if known - and the year of publication in parentheses.
References to websites should give authors if known, the title of the cited page, URL in full, and year of posting in parentheses.
End notes
End notes are brief and follow the Methods (or Methods References, if any).
Acknowledgments should be brief, and should not include thanks to anonymous referees and editors, inessential words, or effusive comments. A person can be thanked for assistance, not “excellent” assistance, or comments, not “insightful” comments, for example. Acknowledgments can contain grant and contribution numbers.
Author Contributions: Authors are required to include a statement to specify the contributions of each co-author. The statement can be up to several sentences long, describing the tasks of individual authors referred to by their initials. See the authorship policy page for further explanation and examples.
Competing interests statement.
Additional Information: Authors should include a set of statements at the end of the paper, in the following order:
Papers containing Supplementary Information contain the statement:
“Supplementary Information is available for this paper.”
A sentence reading "Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to XX.” Animal physiology expects this identified author to respond to readers’ inquiries and requests for materials, and to coordinate the handling of any other matters arising from the published contribution, including corrections complaints. The author named as corresponding author is not necessarily the senior author, and publication of this author’s name does not imply seniority. Authors may include more than one e-mail address if essential, in which event Animal Physiology will communicate with the first-listed address for any post-publication matters, and expect that author to coordinate with the other co-authors.
Peer review information includes the names of reviewers who agree to be cited and is completed by Animal physiology staff during proofing.
Tables:
Tables should each be presented on a separate page, in portrait (not landscape) orientation, and upright on the page, not sideways.
Tables have a short, one-line title in bold text. The tables should be as small as possible. Bear in mind the size of an Animal physiology page as a limiting factor when compiling a table.
Symbols and abbreviations are defined immediately below the table, followed by essential descriptive material as briefly as possible, all in double-spaced text.
Standard table formats are available for submissions of cryo-EM, NMR, and X-ray crystallography data. Authors providing these data must use these standard tables and include them as Extended Data.
Figure legends
For initial submissions, we encourage authors to present the manuscript text and figures together in a single Word doc or PDF file, and for each figure legend to be presented together with its figure. However, when preparing the final paper to be accepted, we require figure legends to be listed one after the other, as part of the text document, separate from the figure files, and after the main reference list.
Each figure legend should begin with a brief title for the whole figure and continue with a short description of each panel and the symbols used. If the paper contains a Methods section, legends should not contain any details of methods. Legends should be fewer than 300 words each.
All error bars and statistics must be defined in the figure legend, as discussed above.
Figures
Animal physiology requires figures in electronic format.
Figures should be as small and simple as is compatible with clarity. The goal is for figures to be comprehensible to readers in other or related disciplines, and to assist their understanding of the paper. Unnecessary figures and parts (panels) of figures should be avoided: data presented in small tables or histograms, for instance, can generally be stated briefly in the text instead. Avoid unnecessary complexity, coloring, and excessive detail.
Figures should not contain more than one panel unless the parts are logically connected; each panel of a multipart figure should be sized so that the whole figure can be reduced by the same amount and reproduced on the printed page at the smallest size at which essential details are visible. For guidance, Animal Physiology’s standard figure sizes are 90 mm (single column) and 180 mm (double column) and the full depth of the page is 170 mm.
Amino-acid sequences should be printed in Courier (or other monospaced) font using the one-letter code in lines of 50 or 100 characters.
Some brief guidance for figure preparation:
Lettering in figures (labeling of axes and so on) should be in lower-case type, with the first letter capitalized and no full stop.
Units should have a single space between the number and the unit, and follow SI nomenclature or the nomenclature common to a particular field. Thousands should be separated by commas (1,000). Unusual units or abbreviations are defined in the legend.
Scale bars should be used rather than magnification factors.
Layering type directly over shaded or textured areas and using reversed type (white lettering on a colored background) should be avoided where possible.
Where possible, text, including keys to symbols, should be provided in the legend rather than on the figure itself.
Figure quality
At initial submission, figures should be at good enough quality to be assessed by referees, preferably incorporated into the manuscript text in a single Word doc or PDF, although figures can be supplied separately as JPEGs if authors are unable to include them with the text. Authors are advised to follow the initial and revised submission guidelines concerning sizing, resolution, and labeling.
Please note that print-publication quality figures are large and it is not helpful to upload them at the submission stage. Authors will be asked for high-quality figures when they are asked to submit the final version of their article for publication. At that stage, please prepare figures according to these guidelines.
Third-party rights
Animal physiology discourages the use or adaptation of previously published display items (for example, figures, tables, images, videos or text boxes). However, we recognize that to illustrate some concepts the use of published data is required and the reuse of previously published display items may be necessary. Please note that in these instances we might not be able to obtain the necessary rights for some images to be reused (as is, or adapted versions) in our articles. In such cases, we will contact you to discuss the sourcing of alternative material.
Figure costs
In order to help cover some of the additional cost of four-colour reproduction, Animal Physiology Portfolio charges our authors a fee for the printing of their color figures. Please contact our offices for exact pricing and details. Inability to pay this charge will not prevent the publication of color figures judged essential by the editors, but this must be agreed with the editor prior to acceptance.
Production-quality figures
When a manuscript is accepted in principle for publication, the editor will ask for high-resolution figures. Do not submit publication-quality figures until asked to do so by an editor. At that stage, please prepare figures according to these guidelines.
Extended Data
Extended Data figures and tables are online-only (appearing in the online PDF and full-text HTML version of the paper), peer-reviewed display items that provide essential background to the Article but are not included in the printed version of the paper due to space constraints or being of interest only to a few specialists. A maximum of twenty Extended Data display items (figures and tables) is typically permitted. See Composition of an Animal Physiology research paper.
Extended Data tables should be formatted along similar lines to tables appearing in print but the main body (excluding the title and legend, which should be included at the end of the Word file) should be submitted separately as an image rather than as an editable format in Word, as Extended Data tables are not edited by Animal physiology’s sub-editing department. Small tables may also be included as sub-panels within Extended Data figures. See Extended Data Formatting Guide.
Extended Data figures should be prepared along slightly different guidelines compared to figures appearing in print, and may be multi-paneled as long as they fit to size rules (see Extended Data Formatting Guide). Extended Data figures are not edited or styled by Animal Physiology’s art department; for this reason, authors are requested to follow the Animal Physiology style as closely as possible when preparing these figures. The legends for Extended Data figures should be prepared as for print figures and should be listed one after the other at the end of the Word file.
If space allows, Animal physiology encourages authors to include a simple schematic, as a panel in an Extended Data figure, that summarizes the main finding of the paper, where appropriate (for example, to assist understanding of complex detail in cell, structural, and molecular biology disciplines).
If a manuscript has Extended Data figures or tables, authors are asked to refer to discrete items at an appropriate place in the main text (for example, Extended Data Fig. 1 and Extended Data Table 1).
If further references are included in the Extended Data tables and Extended Data figure legends, the numbering should continue from the end of the last reference number in the main paper (or from the last reference number in the additional Methods section if present) and the list should be added to the end of the list accompanying the additional Methods section, if present, or added below the Extended Data legends if no additional Methods section is present.
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary Information (SI) is online-only, peer-reviewed material that is essential background to the Article (for example, large data sets, methods, calculations), but which is too large or impractical, or of interest only to a few specialists, to justify inclusion in the printed version of the paper. See the Supplementary Information page for further details.
Supplementary Information should not contain figures (any figures additional to those appearing in print should be formatted as Extended Data figures). Tables may be included in Supplementary Information, but only if they are unsuitable for formatting as Extended Data tables (for example, tables containing large data sets or raw data that are best suited to Excel files).
If a manuscript has accompanying SI, either at submission or in response to an editor’s letter that requests it, authors are asked to refer to discrete items of the SI (for example, videos, and tables) at an appropriate point in the main manuscript.
Chemical structures and characterization of chemical materials
For guidelines describing Animal physiology’s standards for experimental methods and the characterization of new compounds, please see the information sheet on the characterization of chemical materials.
We aim to produce chemical structures in a consistent format throughout our articles. Please use the Animal Physiology Portfolio Chemical Structures Guide and ChemDraw template to ensure that you prepare your figures in a format requiring minimal changes by our art and production teams. Submit final files at 100% as .cdx files.
Registered Reports
Registered Reports are empirical articles testing confirmatory hypotheses in which the methods and proposed analyses are pre-registered and peer-reviewed before research is conducted. For further details about Registered Reports and instructions for how to submit such articles to Animal Physiology please consult our Registered Reports page.
Submission
All contributions should be submitted online unless otherwise
instructed by the editors. Please be sure to read the information on what to include in your cover letter as well as several important content-related issues when putting a submission together.
Before submitting, all contributors must agree to all of Animal Physiology's publication policies.
For manuscript submissions, please use our online submission system available at [https://apj.journals.ekb.eg/].
Publication Fees:
The fee is USD 1100 for papers up to 10 pages. Each additional page costs USD 100. An additional fee of USD 400 is required for peer review, making the total USD 1500 per paper.