Chinese Science Bulletin (CSB) is a multidisciplinary academic journal supervised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Natural Science Foundation of China. Its mission is to encourage communication of basic and innovative research results of high quality in the fields of natural sciences and high technologies, especially focusing on breakthroughs by the Chinese scientists. All papers should be intelligible for a broad scientific audience. CSB is published three times every month from 2010.
Contributions are invited from researchers all over the world.
CSB is indexed by Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, ASFA 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources, ASFA 2: Ocean Technology, Policy and Non-Living Resources, Biological Sciences, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, CAB Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences, Current Mathematical Publications, Digital Mathematics Registry, EMBio, Environmental Engineering Abstracts, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, Google Scholar, Inspec, Mathematical Reviews, MathSciNet, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts, Pollution Abstracts, Science Citation Index, SCOPUS, Water Resources Abstracts, Zentralblatt MATH, Zoological Record.
What we publish
Articles are accepted provided they have not been published previously or are concurrently submitted for publication elsewhere. The accepted papers are characterized by
(i) the new results or progress concerning basic theories or applied research of natural sciences;
(ii) great scientific value;
(iii) creativity of new thoughts, methods and discoveries;
(iv) great contribution to the development of relevant research fields;
(v) readability and enlightenment to a great scientific audience.
Contributions published in CSB include the following:
News & Views: Introduce and comment on the research highlights published in CSB and other journals and outstanding work awarded by the national prizes (approximately 1–2 pages).
Progress: Introduce and comment on the substantial advance and its importance in the fast-developing areas (approximately 3–4 pages).
Review: Summarize the representative progress in core scientific disciplines, comment on the research status, and make suggestions for future work. It should be closely related to or based on the author’s own research work (approximately 6–8 pages, with a 600-word abstract).
Frontiers: Comment on excitement and existing problems of hot fields or hot topics, and offer suggestions for future research. The contributions are usually solicited by editor’s invitation.
Articles: Originally report the innovative and valuable findings in natural sciences (approximately 4–7 pages, with a 300-word abstract).
Letters: Briefly report the novel and innovative findings in natural sciences (approximately 3 pages, with a 300-word abstract).
Forum: Comment on the important academic issues, administration policies and state scientific programmes, and give views about the theoretical problems such as the relation between scientific development and social evolution (approximately 3–4 pages, with a 200-word abstract).
Correspondence: Discuss and reply to the contributions published in CSB, or introduce and comment on a controversial issue of general interest (approximately 2–3 pages).
Trend: Report weighty scientific news, information, and academic affairs, as well as the significant international conferences held in China (approximately 1 page).
Book Reviews: Introduce and comment on recent quality monographs of natural sciences (approximately 1 page).
Manuscript format
Contributions are required of a concise, focused account of the findings and reliable essential data. They should be well organized and written clearly and simply, avoiding exhaustive tables and figures. Authors are advised to use internationally agreed nomenclature, express all measurements in SI units, and quote all the relevant references.
Title: Titles must be limited to no more than 20 words, and should be concise, indexable, and informative for a broad scientific audience. Authors should avoid using colons, questions, and nonstandard abbreviations in titles.
Author(s) and author affiliation: Authors should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content. Family names are written in upper case, and they appear before given names for Chinese authors. The affiliation should be the institution where the work was done. Complete addresses are required with post codes.
Abstract: An abstract is a summary of the content of the manuscript. It should briefly describe the research purpose, method, result and conclusion. The extremely professional terms, special signals and equations should be avoided, and citation of references is not allowed.
Keywords: A list of three to eight keywords should follow the abstract. The chosen keywords are required to reflect the theme of a manuscript.
Financial support: Financial support appears on the right bottom of the title page, with grant number(s) following. The full title of each fund is required.
Text: A paper should begin with a brief introduction of the significance of the author’s research. Nomenclature, signal and abbreviation should be defined at their initial appearance. All the figures and tables should be numbered in numerical order.
Introduction: Being the most important part of an article, the introduction introduces the relevant research background and the progress in 2 or 3 years, with references cited in numerical order, then presents the problem to be solved in this article, and finally briefly describes the method adopted in this work. Before the end, the aim of the research should be mentioned. Subtitle is forbidden in this part, and introduction of the article structure is considered unnecessary.
Materials and method: This part introduces the materials, method and experimental procedure of the author’s work, so as to allow others to repeat the work published based on the clear description.
Discussion and conclusions: Conclusions should be derived from the observation and experimental results, and comparison with other relevant results is considered helpful to further prove the results. Repeated data should be avoided, and conclusions and suggestions are required to be clearly expressed. New hypothese and recommendations may be proposed when warranted.
Figures and tables: Figures and tables should be numerically numbered, inserted in the text, and cited in order within the text. The figures should have resolution not lower than 600 dpi and clear lines of 5 px, with signals and letters in Arial at 7 pt. A space should always be maintained between the variable and the unit.
Equations: An equation is numerically numbered (Arabic numeral), and has the number put on its right side.
Acknowledgements: The author expresses his/her thanks to the people helping with this work, and acknowledges the valuable suggestions from the peer reviewers.
References: Reference is regarded as an important indicator of the paper quality. If the relevant references, especially the results published in 2 to 3 years are not cited in the paper, or most citations are from the author’s publications, the editor will consider this paper unattractive. References should be numerically numbered and cited in order within the text, with the numbers expressed in square brackets. The author should carefully check the author names, article title, journal title, year, volume and issue number of references, and create the listing according to the format of CSB.
Reference format
1. For an author’s name, full spelling of family name appears before abbreviation of given name, with a spacing in the middle.
2. If there are more than 3 authors, the first 3 names are followed by et al.
3. The article title should be identified by an initial capital letter with the remainder of the title in lowercase.
4. For correct abbreviations of journal titles, refer to ISO, e.g., Chinese Sci Bull for Chinese Science Bulletin, Sci China-Life Sci for Science China-Life Sciences.
5. For books and proceedings, the initial letter is capitalized for all the notional words and for function words with more than 4 letters.
6. Do not forget to list the editor names of the proceedings, the publisher, the publishing address, and the beginning and terminating pages.
7. Unpublished materials or the papers to appear but without volume and issue numbers cannot be cited as references, except for the one with DOI.
8. Websites or homepages cannot be cited as references.
Reference examples are given as follows:
● Journal
Hu C H, Hu W P, Zhang F B, et al. Sediment resuspension in Lake Taihu, China. Chinese Sci Bull, 2006, 51: 731–737
Payne D K, Sullivan M D, Massie M J. Women’s psychological reactions to breast cancer. Semin Oncol, 1996, 23(Suppl 2): 89–97
● Monograph
Norman I J, Redfern S J, eds. Mental Health Care for Elderly People. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1996
● Proceedings
Polito V S. Calmodulin and calmodulin inhibitors: Effect on pollen germination and tube growth. In: Mulvshy D L, Ottaviaro E, eds. Pollen: Biology and Implication for Plant Breeding. New York: Elsevier, 1983. 53–60
Cecil T E, Chern S S. Dupin submanifolds in Lie sphere geometry. In: Jiang B J, Peng C -K, Hou Z X, et al., eds. Differential Geometry and Topology. Lect Notes in Math, Vol 1369. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1989. 1–44
● Conference proceedings
Minor H E. Spillways for high velocities. In: Zurich V E, Minor H E, Hager W H, eds. Proceedings of International Workshop on Hydraulics of Stepped Spillways, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2000. 3–10
● Dissertation
Tang H J. Ecological studies on phytoplankton of the shallow, eutrophic Lake Donghu. Dissertation for Doctoral Degree. Wuhan: Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2002
● Technical report
Phillips N A. The Nested Grid Model. NOAA Technical Report NWS22. 1979
● Patent
Zhang W P. Experiment Apparatus of Diffraction Imaging. China Patent, 02290557.X, 2003-12-03
● User manual
Wang D L, Zhu J, Li Z K, et al. User Manual for QTKMapper Version 1.6, 1999
● Software
Hemodynamics III: The ups and downs of hemodynamics. Version 2.2. Orlando (FL): Computerized Educational Systems. 1993
● CD
Anderson S C, Poulsen K B. Anderson’s Electronic Atlas of Hematology. Philadelphia: Lippincott Wilkins, 2002
● Electronic version of a journal
Christine M. Plant physiology: plant biology in the Genome Era[OL]. Science, 1998, 281: 331-332[1998-09-23].
http://www.sciencemag.org/ anatmorp.htm
How to submit
To submit a manuscript, please visit the website of Science China Press at csb.scichina.com, click the button “submission”, and use the Academic Journal Management System. For a new user, please register an “Author Account”, and then submit a manuscript following the guidance.
You can choose to submit a manuscript in Chinese, in English, or in both Chinese and English. Choose “Chinese Science Bulletin” when submitting.
Please introduce the research background, innovation and scientific value of your work in a cover letter when submitting. The authors may recommend 3—8 qualified reviewers and/or request the exclusion of specific reviewers. An informative cover letter is considered helpful for editors and reviewers to make evaluation of your paper.
The detailed contact information of the first author and corresponding author is required.
File format: single columned, A4 size, 10 pt, single spaced, word or pdf file, with figures and tables inserted in the text.
Concurrent submission is forbidden. In this case, we will inform the author’s institution and the relevant journal.
Reviewing policy
The submitted manuscript is first reviewed by our science editor and executive editor. The criteria for the initial reviewing are whether the paper is interesting for an abroad scientific audience, and whether the result is innovative and valuable. The result of initial reviewing will be returned to the author in 7 days, but without concrete opinions.
Then, the paper passing the initial reviewing will be forwarded to 2 or 3 associate editors from the editorial board for the final decision. The whole process usually takes 30 to 60 days. No matter whether accepted or rejected, we will inform the author of the evaluation results. If the author does not receive any comments from the editorial office, please contact us. For the accepted paper, we will carry out the reviewing of its English expression.
After acceptance
For the paper with a great breakthrough result, quick publication will be arranged. After typesetting, page proof is usually sent electronically as email attachments to the corresponding author for checking. The proof plus any minor corrections must be returned to the managing editor within 36 hours. Failure to do this will result in delays in publication.
Authorship
Authorship should be limited to those who have contributed substantially to the work, and every author has responsibility for the data and argument mentioned in the paper. The corresponding author must have obtained permission from all authors for the submission of each version of the paper and for any change in authorship.
Copyright
A completed form assigning copyright to Science China Press must be returned to the CSB Office when the paper is accepted for publication. The copyright covers the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the article (in various languages), including reprints, translations, photographic reproductions, microform, electronic form (offline, online) or other reproductions of similar nature. The Copyright Transfer Statement is available at www.scichina.com
After publication
Authors will be presented one sample copy and 30 reprints. If more reprints and sample copies are required, please contact the managing editor and pay the extra fee. The full text in Chinese and in English opens free to the readers in China at csb.scichina.com, and the full text in English is available to overseas readers at www.springerlink.com
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ISSN print edition: 1001-6538
ISSN electronic edition: 1861-9541
Volume 55 (36 issues) will appear in 2010
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