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Opening soon: July 2012

JoVE is expanding its scope to include applied physics. We are now accepting technique based manuscripts for our inaugural issues. Open a window into your lab with a visual publication of your protocols.

We're looking for new physics content. Submit now to be considered for one of our inaugural issues.

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The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed, PubMed-indexed video journal. Our mission is to increase the productivity of scientific research.

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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 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, Scopus, 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 Instructions for Authors. Please download this and one of our templates: standard manuscript template or, for medical case studies, alternate medical template. When listing the references, please use the same format as we use for our journal. If you use the EndNote® reference management software, you can download the JoVE output style file here. Before you start writing, please read the Instructions for Authors and 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. For more information, see our author license 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 must contain both the written manuscript and completed video. These videos must fit within the JoVE format and style as well as meet the technical guidelines specified here. Author produced videos receive no editing assistance from the JoVE production staff. For author produced submissions, both the video and manuscript are editorially and peer reviewed at the same time, and therefore must be submitted together. NOTE: This publication option should only be selected if the authors have the technical and professional expertise to edit video and audio.

The workflow 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: $1200
Open access: $3000

5. Criteria for publication

As a protocols journal, JoVE accepts articles based on scientific validity and degree of usefulness to the scientific community or in other words, the ability to effectively provide information on how to perform a particular research procedure. Other criteria include coherence and clarity of presentation, compliance with research standards, technical quality, as well as general impact. These qualities are assessed by JoVE editors and referees, by way of peer review.

6. Review Process

6.1 JoVE Produced articles

JoVE has a strong editorial driven review process. We do this because we are a novel publication paradigm and have found it necessary to have strong editorial oversight. Only articles that fit within the aims and scope of JoVE and are deemed suitable for publication by our professional science editors will be sent out for peer-review.

Peer-review and JoVE internal review occur simultaneously. Authors are provided with suggestions from both peer-reviewers and a JoVE production editor. Peer-reviewers are instructed to focus on questions of rationale, limitations, and fair comparison to other existing techniques. The JoVE production editor may ask for changes that address clarity, particularly in the step-by-step portion of the submission.

6.2 Author produced articles

Author produced videos and accompanying text are assessed for adherence to our criteria for publication by our professional team of science editors. In these cases, the entire submission, including written and video components, is sent for peer-review.

6.3 Veterinary review

In the case of both JoVE and author produced videos that involve the use of laboratory animals, the completed article is reviewed by our specialist veterinary board to ensure compliance with animal welfare standards. Please note that authors are solely responsible for ensuring compliance with their local IACUC guidelines and obtaining permission to film, if required.

For further questions, please contact us at submissions@jove.com.

7. Statement of Conflict of Interest

JoVE recognizes a possibility of financial, professional and other conflicts confronting authors, reviewers, and editors. Therefore JoVE requires authors, members, referees, and editors to disclose any association that poses a potential conflict of interests in connection with their role in the publication process. Disclosing a potential conflict provides the reader with the information necessary to independently assess the work, but usually does not invalidate the author's submission and work done by reviewers.

A conflict of interest includes a financial association or relationship that could influence the objectivity or interpretation of a publication. Such conflicts include relationships with corporations, whose products or services are related to the subject matter of the article. These relationships include employment, substantive ownership of stock, and service on the directors' or advisory boards. Other areas of conflict of interest could include receiving consultation fees, patent filings, providing services in exchange for a fee or receiving funds for research and publication.

During submission of their manuscripts, authors are required to disclose any conflict of interest in the online declaration form. The corresponding author must ensure that all authors have been asked to disclose any and all conflicts of interest. When a conflict of interest is disclosed, either by an author or an editor, it is included in the published article.

Here are some examples of appropriate conflict of interest statements:

Example 1: The author John M. is an employee of the Great Research Tool Corporation that produces reagents and instruments used in this Article.

Example 2: The authors received funding that was provided by Great Research Tool Corporation, which produces reagents and instruments used in this Article.

Referees and editors should exclude themselves from handling a submission if a conflict of interest affects their ability to make an impartial scientific judgment. This includes conflicts such as financial interests, personal friendships and family relationships.

JoVE reserves the right to publish an erratum disclosing a conflict of interest related to a previously published paper. Authors, referees, or editors who have deliberately or recklessly failed to disclose conflicts of interest may be banned from publishing in JoVE for a period of time. This policy applies to all material published in JoVE.

8. Begin your submission

Please click here to begin your submission or send an email to editorial@jove.com if you have any questions.

9. 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:
Author. Title. Journal (Issue), Page, doi:DOI (Year).

For example:

Welstead, G. G., Brambrink, T., Jaenisch, R. Generating iPS Cells from MEFS through Forced Expression of Sox-2, Oct-4, c-Myc, and Klf4. J. Vis. Exp. (14), e734, DOI: 10.3791/734 (2008).

To download our EndNote Style File please use this link.

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