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  5. What is the peer-review process for Journal of Biology?

  6. If I have an article accepted, how is it cited?

  7. Which bibliographic databases index Journal of Biology?

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  10. Does Journal of Biology have an impact factor and are its citations tracked?


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Q6 If I have an article accepted, how is it cited?

A6 The citation uses the Index Medicus abbreviation of the journal name, and follows this format: Authors: Title. Journal Abbreviation year, volume number: article number. For example: Spellman PT, Rubin GM: Evidence for large domains of similarly expressed genes in the Drosophila genome. J. Biol 2002, 1:5. Each article also has a URL that can be used to find it online and is related to the citiation (thus, the URL for the article by Spellman and Rubin is http://jbiol.com/content/1/1/5/)

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