SCOPE

Chemical Senses publishes original research on all aspects of chemosensory biology, including taste, smell, vomeronasal, and trigeminal chemoreception in both vertebrates and invertebrates. Approaches can range from molecular to behavioral to ecological, and papers integrating multiple approaches are encouraged. Papers on the development of new methodology for investigating the chemical senses are welcomed, but should include experimental evidence that validates the new technology. Papers on clinical and applied research are also welcomed, but should have a fundamental concept in the chemical senses as their primary focus.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Letters commenting on the scientific content of papers which have been published in Chemical Senses are considered for publication. The author(s) of the paper are normally asked to respond to the comments. Letters and responses may be edited before publication. Normal scientific terminology, and Chemical Senses citation procedures, should be followed.

BOOKS FOR REVIEW

Publishers submitting books for review should send them to one of the executive editors listed in the information for submission of manuscripts.

SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

The Editors welcome electronic submission of manuscripts through the journal's online submission system. To submit online, please visit Manuscript Central. During submission, you will be given the option of submitting to one of the five Executive Editors:

• Prof. H. Kaba, Department of Physiology, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Kochi 783-8505, Japan.
  
• E.B. Keverne, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, Madingley, Cambridge, CB23 8AA, UK.
• Dr. Tim McClintock, Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, 800 Rose St., Lexington, KY 40536-0298, USA.
• Prof. Dr. R. A. Steinbrecht, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Ornithologie, D-82319 Seewiesen, Germany.
  
• Dr. S. Travers, Section of Oral Biology, The Ohio State University, 305 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201, USA.

Submission of a paper implies that it reports unpublished work and that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. If previously published tables, illustrations or more than 200 words of text are to be included, then the copyright holder's written permission must be obtained. Copies of any such permission letters should be enclosed with the paper.

To contact the editorial office, please send an e-mail.

LANGUAGE EDITING

Particularly if English is not your first language, before submitting your manuscript you may wish to have it edited for language. This is not a mandatory step, but may help to ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers. Language editing does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted for publication. If you would like information about one such service please click here. There are other specialist language editing companies that offer similar services and you can also use any of these. Authors are liable for all costs associated with such services.

REVIEW OF MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts submitted are reviewed and those not meeting the journal's scientific standards or other requirements are rejected.

Manuscripts regarded by the Editors as of special interest may be reviewed and published on a fast track.

REVISED MANUSCRIPTS

Revised manuscripts should be submitted within three months of the author's receipt of the referees' reports. Revised manuscripts returned after three months will be considered as new submissions subject to re-review. Authors should notify the editorial office as soon as possible if revisions will require longer than three months.

AUTHORSHIP

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship. The order of authorship should be a joint decision of the co-authors. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. Authorship credit should be based on substantial contribution to conception and design, execution, or analysis and interpretation of data. All authors should be involved in drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, and must have read and approved the final version of the manuscript. Assurance that all authors of the paper have fulfilled these criteria for authorship should be given in the covering letter.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

At the point of submission, Chemical Senses' policy requires that each author reveal any financial interests or connections, direct or indirect, or other situations that might raise the question of bias in the work reported or the conclusions, implications, or opinions stated - including pertinent commercial or other sources of funding for the individual author(s) or for the associated department(s) or organization(s), personal relationships, or direct academic competition. When considering whether you should declare a conflicting interest or connection please consider the conflict of interest test: Is there any arrangement that would embarrass you or any of your co-authors if it was to emerge after publication and you had not declared it?

As an integral part of the online submission process, Corresponding authors are required to confirm whether they or their co-authors have any conflicts of interest to declare, and to provide details of these. If the Corresponding author is unable to confirm this information on behalf of all co-authors, the authors in question will then be required to submit a completed Conflict of Interest form to the Editorial Office. It is the Corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure that all authors adhere to this policy.

If the manuscript is published, Conflict of Interest information will be communicated in a statement in the published paper.

PROOFS

Manuscripts should be in their final form when they are submitted so that proofs will require only correction of typographical errors. Authors are sent page proofs by the publisher. Please provide an e-mail address to enable page proofs to be sent as PDF files via e-mail. To avoid delays in publication, proofs should be checked immediately for typographic errors and returned to the production office by fax or e-mail within 48 hours. Essential changes of an extensive nature may be made only by insertion of a Note Added in Proof. Page charges are not levied. Authors are, however, charged for extensive changes made in proof and for special items such as colour plates.

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts should be in their final form when they are submitted so that proofs will require only correction of typographical errors.

Sections of the manuscript

Regular full-length papers should be divided into the following sequence of headed sections: Abstract (100-200 words), Introduction, Materials and methods (or Experimental), Results (or Observations), Discussion (or Conclusion), Acknowledgements, and References.

General format

Prepare your manuscript text using a Word processing package (save in .doc or .rtf format). Use double spacing (space between lines of type not less than 6 mm) throughout the manuscript and leave margins of 25 mm (1 inch) at the top, bottom and sides of each page. Number each page. Please avoid footnotes; use instead, and as sparingly as possible, parenthesis within brackets. Enter text in the style and order of the journal. Type references in the correct order and style of the journal. Type unjustified, without hyphenation, except for compound words. Type headings in the style of the journal. Use the TAB key once for paragraph indents. Where possible use Times for the text font and Symbol for the Greek and special characters.

Use the word processing formatting features to indicate Bold, Italic, Greek, Maths, ^Superscript and _Subscript characters. Clearly identify unusual symbols and Greek letters. Differentiate between the letter O and zero, and the letters I and l and the number 1. Mark the approximate position of each figure and table.

Check the final copy of your paper carefully, as any spelling mistakes and errors may be translated into the typeset version.

Corresponding author

The name and address of the author to whom all correspondence is to be addressed should be placed on the title page and identified as:

Correspondence to be sent to: John Smith, Department of Pathology, University of Somewhere, Anytown, USA

Please include the e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author.

Abstract

The first page of the manuscript should begin with the abstract, which should be a concise summary of the paper. Abbreviations and reference citations should be avoided.

Key words

Up to six key words should be given below the abstract. Key words facilitate retrieval of articles by search engines, web directories and indexes; therefore, terms that are too general should be avoided. The selected key words should not repeat words given in the title since this is covered by most search systems. The aim is to assist potential readers to find the article by clearly and specifically describing its subject matter, including aspects of methodology or the theoretical framework.

References

Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the references. Published articles and those in the press (state the journal which has accepted them) may be included. In the text a reference should be cited by author and date. Do not place text other than the author and date within the parenthesis. No more than two authors may be cited per reference; if there are more than two authors use et al. In the reference list all authors should be cited. At the end of the manuscript the citations should be typed in alphabetical order, with the authors' names, year, paper title, journal, volume number, inclusive page numbers, and name and address of publisher (for books only). The name of the journal should be abbreviated according to the World List of Scientific Periodicals. References should therefore be listed as follows:

• Cagan RH, Rhein LD. 1980. Biochemical basis of recognition of taste and olfactory stimuli. In: van der Starre H, editor. Olfaction and Taste VII. Oxford: IRL Press. p. 35-44.
  
• Marshall DA, Moulton DG. 1981. Olfactory sensitivity to alpha-ionone in humans and dogs. Chem Senses 6: 53-61.
  
• van der Starre H, editor. 1980. Olfaction and Taste VII. Oxford: IRL Press.
  

Personal communications (Smith J, personal communication) should be authorized in writing by those involved, and unpublished data should be cited as (unpublished data). Both should be used sparingly.

Tables

Tables should be typed on separate sheets and numbered consecutively with Roman numerals. They should be self-explanatory and include a brief descriptive title. They should be of such a size that they fit easily onto a journal page, the type area of which is 234 (height) x 185 mm (double column width) or 89 mm (single column width). Footnotes to tables indicated by lower case letters are acceptable, but they should not include extensive experimental details.

An arrow should be used to indicate approximately where a table should be inserted in the text.

Illustrations

All illustrations (line drawings and photographs) must be referred to in the text (as Figure 1 etc.) and should be abbreviated to 'Fig. 1.' only in the figure legend. For online submission, you will be required to submit images electronically in one of the following formats: .jpg, .gif, .tif, or .eps.

Each figure should be on a separate sheet. Write the title of the paper, the name of the first author and the figure number in pencil on the back of each figure. On the back also indicate clearly the top margin of each figure. In the manuscript indicate with an arrow the most appropriate position for the figure.

Photographs: These should be submitted in the desired final printed size so that reduction can be avoided. The type area of a printed page is 234 (height) x 185 mm (width) and photographs, including their legends, should not exceed this area. A single column is 89 mm wide; a double column is 185 mm wide. Ideally photographs should fit either single or double column. Photographs should be of sufficiently high quality with respect to detail, contrast and fineness of grain to withstand the inevitable loss of contrast and detail inherent in the printing process. Please indicate the magnification by a rule on the photograph.

Colour plates: There is a special charge for the inclusion of colour plates. The cost is $600 per figure. AChemS, ECRO, and JASTS members are eligible for a 50% discount on these colour charges. Colour versions of figures can also be published online-only (at no charge) as supplementary data.
If the box in Manuscript Central for colour fees has been ticked, all figures submitted in colour will be typeset in colour. As noted in the e-mail that you receive with your proofs, you are responsible for ensuring that all figures correctly appear in black and white or in color. Manuscripts accepted after April 1, 2008 will be eligible for the Flexible Color Option.

Line drawings: Please provide these as clear, sharp iamges, suitable for reproduction when submitted. No additional artwork, redrawing or typesetting will be done. Faint and grey shading or stippling will be lost upon reproduction and should be avoided. Where various shadings are used within one figure please ensure that it is easy to differentiate between them, using standard shadings (see the hard copy of the journal for examples). There should be sufficient white space between lines and dots to ensure the areas will not fill in and look grey. If stippling is used, this should be made up of clear black dots with visible white space between them. Ensure that the size of the lettering is in proportion with the overall dimensions of the drawing.

Electronic submission of figures: Figures must be saved at a resolution of at least 300 pixels per inch at the final printed size for colour figures and photographs, and 600 pixels per inch for black and white line drawings. Digital colour art should be submitted in CMYK rather than RGB format, as the printing process requires colours to be separated into CMYK and this conversion can alter the intensity and brightness of colours. Therefore authors should be satisfied with the colours in CMYK (both on screen and when printed) before submission. Please also keep in mind that colours can appear differently on different screens and printers. Failure to follow these guides could result in complications and delays. For useful information on preparing your figures for publication, see http://dx.sheridan.com.

Figure legends: These should be included at the end of the manuscript text. Define all symbols and abbreviations used in the figure. Common abbreviations and others in the preceding text need not be redefined in the legend.

COVER FIGURES

From 2008, Chemical Senses is pleased to receive suggestions for cover images for the journal. Authors should indicate (ideally upon submission) whether they feel that an image associated with their manuscript would be suitable as a cover image.

PERMISSIONS FOR ILLUSTRATIONS AND FIGURES

Permission to reproduce copyright material, for print and online publication in perpetuity, must be cleared and if necessary paid for by the author; this includes applications and payments to DACS, ARS, and similar licensing agencies where appropriate. Evidence in writing that such permissions have been secured from the rights-holder must be made available to the editors. It is also the author's responsibility to include acknowledgements as stipulated by the particular institutions. Oxford Journals can offer information and documentation to assist authors in securing print and online permissions: please see the Guidelines for Authors section. Information on permissions contacts for a number of main galleries and museums can also be provided. Should you require copies of this, please contact the editorial office of the journal in question or the Oxford Journals Rights department.

FUNDING

Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'Acknowledgements' section.

The following rules should be followed:

• The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …’
• The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘National Institutes of Health’, not ‘NIH’ (full RIN-approved list of UK funding agencies) Grant numbers should be given in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number xxxx]’
• Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]’
• Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)
• Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'.

An example is given here: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S., BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789].’

CONVENTIONS

In general, the journal follows the conventions of the CSE Style Manual (Council of Science Editors, Reston, VA, 2006, 7th ed.). Follow Chemical Abstracts and its indexes for chemical names. For guidance in the use of biochemical terminology follow the recommendations issued by the IUPAC-IUB Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature, as given in Biochemical Nomenclature and Related Documents, published by the Biochemical Society, UK. For enzymes use the recommended name assigned by the IUPAC-IUB Commission on the Biochemical Nomenclature, 1978, as given in Enzyme Nomenclature, published by Academic Press, New York, 1980. Where possible, use the recommended SI (Systéme International) units.

Genotypes should be italicized; phenotypes should not be italicized.

ABBREVIATIONS

Try to restrict the use of abbreviations to SI symbols and those recommended by the IUPAC-IUB. Abbreviations should be defined in brackets after their first mention in the text. Standard units of measurements and chemical symbols of elements may be used without definition in the body of the paper.

CHEMICAL FORMULAE AND MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS

Wherever possible, write mathematical equations and chemical formulae on a single line. Submit complicated chemical structures as artwork.

HUMAN AND ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS

The editors draw the authors' attention to the Declaration of Helsinki for Medical Research involving Human Subjects http://www.wma.net/e/policy/pdf/17c.pdf. In addition, when reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate whether the institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals were followed.

ETHICS GUIDELINES

In order to guarantee a consistent policy of review and publication, Chemical Senses endorses the Ethics Guidelines offered by the Society for Neuroscience. These guidelines describe the responsibilities and expected conduct not only of authors of scientific articles, but also of the editors and reviewers. We encourage our readers to take a few minutes to download and look over these guidelines at http://www.sfn.org/guidelines/.

A hard copy can be obtained by contacting any of the Executive Editors.

OFFPRINTS

The publishers supply a free url. Offprint order forms are sent out with the proofs, and must be returned to Oxford University Press if offprints are required. Late orders submitted after the journal is printed are subject to increased prices.

LICENCE TO PUBLISH

It is a condition of publication in the Journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to Oxford University Press. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. In granting an exclusive licence, authors may use their own material in publications provided that the Journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance.

Chemical Senses authors have the option, at an additional charge, to make their paper freely available online immediately upon publication, under the Oxford Open initiative. After your manuscript is accepted, as part of the mandatory license form required of all corresponding authors, you will be asked to indicate whether or not you wish to pay to have your paper made freely available immediately. If you do not select the Open Access option, your paper will be published with standard subscription-based access and you will not be charged.

For those selecting the Open Access option, the charges for Chemical Senses vary depending on the institution at which the corresponding author is based:

Optional Oxford Open charges:
For a corresponding author based at an institution with an online subscription to Chemical Senses:

• Regular charge - £900 / $1800 / €1350
  
• List B developing country charge** - £450 / $900 / €675
  
• List A developing country charge** - £0 / $0 / €0
  

For a corresponding author based at an institution that does not subscribe to the online journal:

• Regular charge - £1500 / $3000 / €2250
  
• List B developing country charge** - £750 / $1500 / €1125
• List A developing country charge** - £0 /$0 / €0
  

*Visit http://www.oxfordjournals.org/jnls/devel/ for list of qualifying countries.

Orders from UK will be subject to a 17.5% VAT charge. For orders from the rest of the EU, we will assume that the service is provided for business purposes, please provide a VAT number for yourself or your institution and ensure you account for your own local VAT correctly.

The above Open Access charges are in addition to any page charges and colour charges that might apply.

If you choose the Open Access option you will also be asked to complete an Open Access charge form online. You will be automatically directed to the appropriate version of the form depending on whether you are based at an institution with an online subscription to Chemical Senses. Therefore please make sure that you are using an institutional computer when accessing the form. To check whether you are based at a subscribing institution please use the Subscriber Test link for Chemical Senses.

Please see these guidelines for reuse of Oxford Open content.

AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVING/PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY FROM MAY 2005

For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.