Essay Instructions: A literature survey or review discusses a sharply focused scientific topic of interest, usually highlighting emerging themes from papers in the recent literature.In addition
to the body of the text, your survey should include an abstract (no more than 250 words), The 250 words do not count toward the total word count of the manuscript.The abstract should be separated from the introduction below. No less than 10 and no more than 50 references, and may include figures (no more than three). Your draft should be presented in the order listed below
a. Title
b. Abstract
c. Introduction
d. Discussion
e. Conclusions
f. Acknowledgements
g. References
h. Figure legends
i. Figures
It should
be formatted for a standard 8.5x11-inch paper (1 inch margins), with 1.5 line spacing throughout the whole document, and arranged in single column. The manuscript should be formatted using 11-point font Times-New Roman. the text of the document should be either Left-aligned or Justified. Pages should be numbered (centered in the footer.) If used in the text, gene symbols should be italicized whereas protein products should not be italicized. Nonstandard abbreviations should be defined when first used in the text. The abbreviations of some important biochemical compounds, e.g. ATP, NADH, DNA, and amino acids in proteins, need not be defined.Titles should occupy no more than two lines of type. The title should convey the conceptual significance of the paper to a broad readership. Abbreviations should be avoided. Discussion and Conclusion should be divided with subheadings. Subheadings should be simple and bolded. References within the text should be cited by number and numbered consecutively in order of appearance. Your conclusion section can be considered as part of the discussion and should be divided and sub-headed using the same criteria. The following style (from JBC) should be used to cite references.
? Citation in text by number (1, 2, 3, etc.) and not by author, title, and/or date
? Titles should be included in references
? Numbered consecutively in the order of appearance
? References for journals and books should be in the following styles (examples): 1. MacDonald, G.M., Steenhuis, J.J., and Barry, B.A. (1995) A difference Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic study of chlorophyll oxidation in hydroxylamine-treated photosystem II. J. Biol. Chem. 270, 8420?8428
2. Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E.F., and Maniatis, T. (1989) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, 2nd Ed., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
3. References appearing as e-pubs should be in the following style: Aphasizheva, I., Aphasizheva, R., and Simpson, L. (April 1, 2004) RNA editing terminal uridylyl transferase 1: identification of functional domains by mutational analysis. J. Biol. Chem. 10.1074/jbc.M
4. Farrell, C. (1992) The Role of SecB during Protein Export in Escherichia coli. Ph.D. thesis, The Johns Hopkins University
a figure legend should look like the following:
Figure X. Figure Title.
Explanation of the Figure.
. A figure should be no wider than 6 inches and no taller than 7
inches.