Instructions to Authors
Hylonome Publications provides for its journals peer-reviewed interdisciplinary forums for the publication of articles which fall within their aims and scope.
It is a condition of publication that manuscripts submitted to Hylonome Publications should be original, unpublished, and not simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. Furthermore, it is required that the submission for publication has been approved by all of the authors and by the institution where the work was carried out. Only manuscripts written in English will be accepted.
Article types
Please consult the according 'instructions to authors' for the journal in which you are interested in submitting your manuscript, for a detailed list of accepted article types.
Review process
All journals published by Hylonome Publication are peer reviewed. Each abstract is examined by the Editor-in-Chief, who decides whether the manuscript will be assigned to an Associate Editor or returned because it is either not within the journal's scope or represents an insufficient advance in scientific knowledge. Following the assignment to an appropriate Associate Editor, the manuscript is managed thereafter by that Associate Editor. If the manuscript is found acceptable, the Associate Editor selects a number of reviewers and the manuscript enters the automatically controlled review process.
Upon the completion of review, a copy of each reviewer's report is sent to the Associate Editor, who will then make an overall recommendation, to the Editor-in-Chief. The latter will then contact the authors on behalf of the journal. Possible decisions are:
Accept This means no changes are necessary and the manuscript will enter the production phase as is. |
Minor Revision Minor text changes which only require a final check from the Associate Editor before entering the accept decision. |
Major Revision Requires major re-work, sometimes including additional experiments and a full re-review of the work after submission of changes |
Reject Cannot be resubmitted to Hylonome Publications for this journal |
Resubmissions
When resubmitting a revised manuscript, authors MUST respond to ALL the comments made by the reviewer(s) with a point by point rebuttal in a separate document. Authors should also list and comment on any other changes made to the original manuscript. In order to expedite the processing of the revised manuscript, please be as specific as possible in your response to the reviewer(s). You will be unable to make your revisions on the originally submitted version of the manuscript. Instead, revise your manuscript within the document by either using the track changes mode in MS Word, or by highlighting changes in bold and red. The onus is on the author(s) to make the changes as obvious as possible and easy for the reviewers to re-review the manuscript and assess the changes.
Submission Fees
No submission fees are charged for articles submitted to Hylonome Publications journals
Publication Fees
Hylonome Publication charges a fee for accepted manuscripts for each journal. Please refer to each journal's instructions to authors for the exact publication fee. Manuscripts will be published only after the full publication fee has been received. The corresponding author will receive an invoice shortly after the successful completion of fee payment.
Proofs
Details in the text, including references and figures are checked before a final page-proof version is produced in pdf format. This pdf proof is then sent, by e-mail, to the corresponding author for final checking. Only correction of minor errors and typographical mistakes are allowed at this stage. Any corrections must be returned within 48 hours. If no response is received after 7 working days the article will be published as it stands. Please remember that authors are responsible for any errors appearing in their manuscript.
Editorial Policies and Practices
Authorship
Hylonome Publications has adopted for all its journals the requirements for authorship and acknowledgment of contributors recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) in the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.
The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria:
| Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND |
| Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; AND |
| Final approval of the version to be published; AND |
| Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. |
Manuscripts must adhere to the following requirements:
| All individuals who meet all four criteria must be listed as authors. |
| The respective roles of each author must be summarized in the Acknowledgments section of the manuscript. |
| One or more of the authors must accept responsibility for the integrity of the data analysis and that author/those authors must be identified as such in the Acknowledgments section of the manuscript. |
| All persons who have made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript (such as data collection, analysis, writing, or editing assistance), but who do not fulfill the 4 requirements for authorship, must be named, with their specific contributions, in the Acknowledgments section of the manuscript. |
| The authors must obtain the permission of all those who are identified in the Acknowledgments section of the manuscript. |
| One author will serve as the primary correspondent (corresponding author) for the manuscript; the corresponding author is responsible for transmitting the editors’ comments to his or her co-authors. |
Conflict of interest
Hylonome Publications follows ICMJE guidelines for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. Every article submitted to Hylonome Publications should include a “Disclosures” section. All authors are required to fill out the electronic ICMJE disclosure form. Disclosure forms must be submitted together with the manuscript when it is initially submitted.
Dublicate publication
The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the manuscript has not been previously reported or published and that the manuscript has not been, and will not be, submitted to another journal while under review. By submitting your manuscript to Hylonome Publications it is percieved that this it is an original and unpublished work and is not under consideration elsewhere. Plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the author’s own work, in whole or in part without proper citation constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Manuscripts submitted to the journal may be checked for originality using anti-plagiarism software. If plagiarism is detected by the editorial board member, reviewer, editor etc., in any stage of article process (before or after acceptance, during editing or at a page proof stage) authors will be contacted for clarifications.
Human Subjects
Research carried out with human subjects must comply with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki — Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects. A statement to this effect must appear in the Methods section of the manuscript, including the name of the body that gave approval. When reporting clinical trials, the information required by the CONSORT checklist, as well as a flow diagram in CONSORT format must be provided.
Use of Animals in Research
Approval for research in animals by the appropriate institutional animal care and oversight committee must be indicated in the Methods, along with full husbandry and experimental details (e.g. strain, sex, replicate number) as indicated by the Animal Research Reporting of In Vivo Experiments (ARRIVE) checklist.