1. Did you know?
JoVE will film and produce your video. If you are within our videographer network, JoVE films the video in your lab and handles all pre- and post-production based on the written submission. Please check to see if you are within our videographer network. If in doubt, or you are outside of the network, but are interested in having JoVE film in your lab, please email submissions@jove.com.
It doesn't have to be a novel technique. We publish both novel techniques, novel applications of existing techniques and gold standard protocols. Our primary publication criterion is whether the protocol will be useful for other scientists.
We're a peer-reviewed journal. We're also indexed in PubMed/MEDLINE, ChemAbstracts and SciFinder.
2. Structure of JoVE Articles
JoVE publishes peer-reviewed video-articles documenting techniques and protocols in biological, medical, chemical, and physical research. Videos are generally between 10-15 minutes long and provide a detailed step-by-step description of the protocol to enable another scientist to easily reproduce the technique. Each article is accompanied by a written component, which contains introductory remarks, the protocol, representative results, discussion, and references.
3. Written component
We accept written submissions that follow our standard manucript template or alternate medical template. Before you start writing, please read the next section on the video component and decide whether you wish to have JoVE produce the video for you, or if you want to do it yourself.
JoVE offers an optional copyediting service. PhD level editors will correct spelling, grammar, style, and phrasing of sentences to ensure that the manuscript meets the high publishing standards of JoVE. For more information please click here.
4. Video component
4.1 JoVE produced videos
In most cases, the video component is produced in house by our professional team of science and video editors. Here is a list of locations within our coverage area:
- Australia - Melbourne, Sydney
- Canada - Calgary, Toronto, Ottowa, Montreal, Quebec, Vancouver, Edmonton
- France - Paris, Marseilles
- Germany - Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich, Jena, Heidelberg, Freiburg, Marburg, Rostock, Mainz, Frankfurt, Hannover, Leipzig, Dresden
- Israel - Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Beer Sheva
- Netherlands - Amsterdam, Ultrecht, Rotterdam, Haag, Leiden
- Sweden - Stockholm, Uppsala, Karlstad
- USA - Most major cities and academic centers including: Atlanta; Boston; Charlottesville; Charleston, SC; Chicago; Columbus; Dallas/Fort Worth; Denver; Des Moines; Detroit; Gainesville; Huntsville, AL; Houston; Ithaca, NY; Knoxville, TN; Los Angeles; Memphis, TN; Millboro, VA; Minneapolis; New York; New Orleans; Phoenix; Pittsburgh; St. Louis; Salt Lake City; San Francisco; San Antonio; Seattle; Tampa
- UK - All major cities and academic centers in England and Scotland including: London, Oxford, Cambridge, Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Edinburgh
In general, we can film within a 3 hour drive of a city listed here. If in doubt, please email submissions@jove.com for confirmation.
After the article is accepted for publication, we will write the script, come out to the lab to shoot the video and handle all post-production. Important details regarding our production workflow can be found here.
4.1.1 Costs
To partially cover the cost of scripting, videography, voiceover, editing, and publication expenses, you will be charged a production fee. Authors may choose to publish in standard access, which means that the viewer needs to have a JoVE subscription to see the full article (list of subscribed institutions), or open access, which means that anybody can read the protocol and watch the video. Open access videos are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Generic Licence Agreement.
Standard access: $2400
or
Open access: $4200
4.1.2 Cancellation Fee
Pre-production costs money and resources. So please, don't submit a manuscript that you do not wish to publish. Submissions may be canceled with no penalty, up until the point at which a script has been generated. A fee of $1,200 will be charged if filming is canceled by the author after a script is written, in order to offset the cost of pre-production.
4.2 Author produced videos
Authors, particularly those outside of our videographer network, may opt to produce their own video. Author produced submissions contain both the written component and completed video. Unfortunately, JoVE cannot assist in video production for author produced videos. The guidelines for author produced videos can be found here.
4.2.1 Costs
Although there are no video production costs for author submitted videos, you will be charged a handling fee to offset IT and publication expenses.
Standard access: $850
Open access: $2650
5. Citing your article
Please cite your article and encourage others to do the same whenever you use the techniques documented in it.
Our citation format is:
Authors, Title. J Vis Exp issue: epage URL doi and year.
For example:
van Berkum, N. L., Lieberman-Aiden, E., Williams, L., Imakaev, M., Gnirke, A., Mirny, L. A., Dekker, J., Lander, E. S. Hi-C: A Method to Study the Three-dimensional Architecture of Genomes. J Vis Exp 39: e1869 http://www.jove.com/video/1869 doi: 10.3791/1869 (2010).
6. Begin your submission
Please click here to begin your submission or send an email to editorial@jove.com if you have any questions.
