Journal format
iscience format
From the FAQs: https://www.cell.com/iscience/faqs
A publication fee of $3,000 (USD) is required to publish in iScience. (Oh my)
iScience does not require a particular format for articles at submissions.
Figures
Figure guidelines: https://www.cell.com/iscience/figureguidelines
- 8.5" x 11" page
- Avenir font: https://fontspace.io/avenir-font/
- For initial submission, we prefer TIFF or PDF figure formats. As small as under 2 MB.
- Text should be about 7 pt at the desired print size.
- Graphical abstract: https://www.cell.com/pb/assets/raw/shared/figureguidelines/GA_guide.pdf
- If you want to reprint or adapt images from published Cell Press or Elsevier articles, you do not need to ask our permission. Our policy only requires that you cite the original publication in the figure legend.
For newly submitted articles or revisions still under review, please keep figure files as small as possible (1–2 MB) so that editors and reviewers can more easily work with the files.
MDPI journal template
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cells/instructions#submission
Free Format Submission
Cells now accepts free format submission:
We do not have strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the required sections:
- Author Information
- Abstract, Keywords
- Introduction
- Materials & Methods
- Results
- Conclusions
- Figures and Tables with Captions,
- Funding Information
- Author Contributions
- Conflict of Interest and other Ethics Statements.
Check the Journal Instructions for Authors for more details.
Your references may be in any style, provided that you use the consistent formatting throughout. It is essential to include author(s) name(s), journal or book title, article or chapter title (where required), year of publication, volume and issue (where appropriate) and pagination. DOI numbers (Digital Object Identifier) are not mandatory but highly encouraged. The bibliography software package EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, Reference Manager are recommended.
When your manuscript reaches the revision stage, you will be requested to format the manuscript according to the journal guidelines.