The Journal of Stem cells and Regenerative Medicine (JSRM) is an official organ of German Stem Cell Society. JSRM is a free online journal. We publish the research articles focusing on stem cells and regenerative medicine as well as related fields in stem cell biology periodically

Topics covered: Development of Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cell - Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Developmental Biology, Cancer Biology, Cancer Stem Cells, Immunology, Cell Culture, Tissue Engineering, Stem cell research in Animal Experiments, Clinical Trials and Clinical Applications. Basic & Applied Cell Therapeutics and Nanotechnology used in the above specialties.

Types of Articles: (01) Editorial*, (02) Review Article, (03) Original Article, (04) Brief Communication/ Case reports, (05) Opinion, News, Views* (06) Letters to the editor, (07) Proceedings of a meeting* (Eg. abstracts) (*01: by invitation, 05: by both submission and by editorial board, 07: Requests for publication of proceedings of any meeting will be accepted subject to approval by the editorial team)

Online submission is the only accepted mode of manuscript submission with JSRM. The manuscript submission procedure is optimized for the Internet explorer browser- versions 6 and later other systems may be included. All articles should be submitted only by the corresponding author. Before submission the corresponding author should register online as an author. Author will receive the login name and password to further processing of the manuscript.

If you are a new user (Intending to submit an article for the first time), please go through the contents of the information given in the box (Blue tinted) below and continue further. Or else skip the information in the box and scroll down further.

Manuscripts that are not in conformation to JSRM author guidelines may not be processed. To upload the article, click on the “Click here to upload the article” link, fill up the required details and upload photographs, first page file and article file.

The submissions are acceptable in two kinds of files ONLY:

(i) The “First page file” is created to help in the peer review process and should be given a file name as “last name of corresponding author followed by space, then initials then space then date of submission with the date in two numerical, month in three alphabets and year in two numerical followed by “fp” for title page” For ex. Robert J Smith submitting an article on 08th Jan 2008 will give a title to the title page document as “robert sj 08jan08fp” and the first page file should contain: (i) Title (ii) Authors, (iii) Affiliation of authors, (iv) Persons other than authors** who are acknowledged for contribution, (v) ***Sponsors/grants with whose financial help, the study was accomplished, (vi) Corresponding authors full name, full postal address with Zip code, Country name, Telephone, Fax numbers with International access code, E mail ID, and an alternate Email ID.

The names* of ALL the authors to be given in the same order as it should appear in the paper. If two or more authors had contributed equally, please make a mention. **Acknowledgements for the contributions and mentioning names of the contributors, institutional affiliations of those acknowledged. ***Name(s) of funding agencies, with their address.

*Please note that the Last names ONLY be given with initials following. For ex: Robert J. SMITH be written as “Smith RJ”

(ii) The “Article file” should be given a file name as “last name of corresponding author followed by space, then initials then space then date of submission with the date in two numerical, month in three alphabets and year in two numerical followed by “ar”. For ex. Robert J Smith submitting an article on 08th Jan 2008 will give a title to the article file as “robert sj 08jan08ar” and the file will include:

Content limitation* for each type of article submitted: Total no. of authors, be limited to twelve.

(02) Review Article: Abstract 250 words, Manuscript 3000 words, Tables and figures Maximum 6, Keywords upto 5, References no maximum limitation.

(03) Original Article: Abstract 300 words, Manuscript 4000 words, Tables and figures Maximum 10, Keywords upto 5, References upto 50.

(04) Brief Communication/Case report: No Abstract, Manuscript 1000 words, Tables and figures Maximum 3, Keywords upto 3, References upto 10.

(06) Letters to the editor: Maximum 600 words, References upto 10. On successful article submission, an automatically generated confirmation mail is sent to the email id of the corresponding author. The status of the article in the review process may be checked by the corresponding author by logging on and viewing the status. JSRM considers it to be the responsibility of the corresponding author to see that all the above information are correct and best to his knowledge.

*The editorial team reserves the right to amend limitations on the above as well as relax the limitations based on the relevance of such relaxation. Such requests may be addressed in the additional remarks space while submitting (Preview page)

Informed consent and ethics:
When reporting the experiments on human subjects, indicate whether the procedures were followed under guidance of institutional ethical committee (IEC).

References:

References should be typed doubled spaced. References are to be numbered in the order of citation within the article. Citations in the main text should appear as superscript Arabic numerals. All the authors must be listed. Individual references should be formatted as like in the following style.

Journal articles:
Klein S, Svendsen CN. Stem cells in the injured spinal cord: reducing the pain and increasing the gain. Nature Neurosci. 2005; 8: 259-260.

Books:
Doubell TP, Mannion RJ, Woolf CJ. In Textbook of Pain. Churchill Livingstone, London, 4th ed. 1999, pp165-182.

Articles in books:
Elias M, Elias P: Motivation and activity. In Birren JE, Schaie KE (eds), Handbook of the Psychology of Aging.
New York, Van Nostrand, 1976, pp 357-359.

To qualify for authorship, all authors need to have sufficiently contributed in the research with regards to the research idea, design of study collection of data, data analysis or interpretation of results. Authors who have contributed in manuscript preparation or giving critical comments/revising with respect to scientific content are also eligible to be included as authors. All authors should have also read the manuscript being published and take public responsibility for the contents. The corresponding author needs to take responsibility for the whole article’s integrity, till the time of publication. In the rare case when editors request data that was used in preparation of the manuscript, the authors should provide them to be examined by the editors themselves or anyone they appoint.
Just before final submission, the authors will have to accept (i) the terms and conditions, then duly fill (ii) another format for ethics committee approval about animal and human studies and finally (iii) download copy right transfer form and financial interest disclosure form.

The downloaded forms should be manually filled, signed and a scanned copy in PDF format should be sent to the webmaster by email. The PDF file should be named as "article number hyphen crd"; For example a PDF file towards an article submitted with number 000072345n should be given a file name as "000072345n-crd" Both the forms must be sent as a single PDF file.

The PDF file should reach the webmaster within 8 consecutive days from the date of submission of the article, failing which you article may have to be resubmitted.

*JSRM takes all measures to protect the personal details and privacy of the registered users, but may not be held responsible for any breach from third parties which might be beyond our control.

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