Manuscripts must be written
in English and submitted by e-mail in pdf or ps formats (if less than
8MB) directly to the editorial office,
CLASjournals@asu.edu, with a copy to
kuang@asu.edu. The authors are encouraged to name one or two
appropriate associate editors from the editorial board to review their
manuscripts. All communications will be conducted by e-mails
The
following files are helpful for you to prepare your manuscript for MBE.
1): MBE template file
MBE.cls;
2): A sample LATEX tex file
tex;
3): The pdf file generated by the above two files (and figure files, not
provided)
pdf
To facilitate key words searching and
indexing, all manuscripts shall contain
AMS subject classification information and key words. In
order to read the changes suggested by our copy editors, you may need to use
the latest
Adobe Reader. Additional information
on TEX preparation can be found at:
http://aimsciences.org/journals/Tex_prep.htm.
Author(s)
of accepted manuscript MUST prepare their manuscripts using MBE template, comforming to the margin requirements and
provide high resolution figures (if any) to ensure speedy quality production.
Authors must sign and return
the copyright agreements form
in the following
preference order: scanned file, or surface mail,
or fax it to 417- 886-0559.
General
topics appropriate for MBE include, but are not limited to, the following: all
areas of mathematical biology and medicine, computational neuroscience,
biomedical signal processing and data analysis, models based on nonlinear
dynamics and stochastic processes to understand problems in biosciences
and bioengineering, modeling and design of biologically inspired engineering
systems, etc. In particular, to be considered by this journal, a paper (except
survey papers) should be in one (or a combination) of these three categories:
(a)
Papers developing and (mathematically) analyzing scientific models that have
concrete applications in biosciences and bioengineering;
(b) Papers devoted to mathematical theory and
methods with a clear bioscience and bioengineering motivation whose results lead
to an improved understanding of the underlying scientific problem or an improved solution to
the bioengeneering problem; and
(c) Papers using numerical simulations or
experiments, to reveal or explain new and important biosciences and bioengineering phenomena,
where mathematical analysis plays a major role in the analysis and process.
Submission of a manuscript to MBE implies that the main work contained in the manuscript has not been published previously (except in the
form of an academic thesis) and it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Papers submitted to this journal must contain a comprehensive introductory section and
an in-depth discussion section. The scientific importance and motivations of
the paper and its conclusions should be made clear at the outset. Furthermore,
the paper must be presented in a way that its main results, and methods,
together with their applicability, can be comprehended by people from a wide
range of scientific fields. Manuscripts applying standard techniques to
slightly new problems or providing mathematical analysis in the absence of
significant scientific motivation will not be considered. Papers oriented
toward experimentation or numerical simulation must have a novel and sound
theoretical explanation.
Survey
articles must be timely and of broad interest. It shall have an insightful
historical account of the surveyed topic and articulate the topic's scientific
importance.
The following are contact
addresses for authors.