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ALGAL RESEARCHBiomass, Biofuels and Bioproducts

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• Description• Audience• Impact Factor• Abstracting and Indexing• Editorial Board• Guide for Authors

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ISSN: 2211-9264

DESCRIPTION.

Algal Research is an international phycology journal covering all areas of emerging technologiesin algae biology, biomass production, cultivation, harvesting, extraction, bioproducts, andeconometrics. It publishes original research and reviews on algal biology (phylogeny, moleculartraits and metabolic regulation of microalgae for biofuels), algal cultivation (phototrophic systemsin open ponds, heterotrophic systems), algal products and economics, algal harvesting andextraction systems, new conversion technologies for algal biomass and technoeconomic modelingof algae biofuels systems.

Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discountson Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.

Review articles, book reviews and commentaries should only be submitted after consultation withthe Editors.

Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any furtherinformation or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

AUDIENCE.

A wide audience of scientists, engineers and others is addressed: students, instructors, researchers,practitioners, managers, governments and related stakeholders from the following disciplines:•Plant biology (algae, photosynthesis, lipids, membranes)• Biotechnology (Bioconversion, Biorefinery,Industrial biotechnology)• Aquatic sciences (Aquaculture, Algae)• Sustainable Agriculture,environmental sciences and Energy

IMPACT FACTOR.

2014: 5.014 © Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports 2015

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING.

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EDITORIAL BOARD.

Editor-in-Chief

J.A. Olivares, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Associate Editors:

E. Dunlop, Pan Pacific Technologies Pty Ltd, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaI. Ferrer, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, SpainP. Lammers, Arizona State University, Mesa, Arizona, USAJ.C. Quinn, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USAK.F. Reardon, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USAR.T. Sayre, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USAA. Unc, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, UK

Editorial Advisory Board

F.G. Acien Fernandez, Universidad de Almeria, Almeria, SpainW. Boeing, New Mexico State University, New Mexico, USAA.H. Buschmann, Universidad de Los Lagos, Puerto Montt, Provincia Llanquihue, ChileT. Chatsungnoen, Massey University, New ZealandS. Chen, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USAR. Davis, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USAH. De la Hoz Siegler, University of Calgary, Alberta, CanadaC.M. Downes, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USAD.C. Elliott, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USAI. Ferrer, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, SpainD.T. Fox, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USAC.B. FullerE.J. Geiger, University of Nevada at Reno, Reno, Nevada, USAU. Goodenough, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USAB.S. Haynes, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaW.J. Henley, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USAM. Hildebrand, University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, USAQ. Hu, Arizona State University, Mesa, Arizona, USAM.H. Huesemann, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sequim, Washington, USAM. Janssen, Wageningen Universiteit, Wageningen, NetherlandsD.M. Kramer, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USAW. Liu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USAA.J. Marchese, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USAG. Markou, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, GreeceB.L. Marrone, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USAS Mayfield, University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, USAS. Merchant, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USAN.R. Moheimani, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, AustraliaD. NewbyS.J.B. O'Leary, National Research Council of Canada (NRCC), Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaK.L. Ogden, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USAA. Otero, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, SpainG. Oyler, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USAR. Pate, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquergue, New Mexico, USAB. Patel, Imperial College London, London, England, UKU. Pick, Weizmann Institute of Science, Midreshet Ben Gurion, IsraelP.T. Pienkos, National Bioenergy Center (NBC), Golden, Colorado, USAJ. Polle, Brooklyn College (CUNY), Brooklyn, New York, USAC. PostenJ.W. Richardson, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USAC. Safi, Wageningen Universiteit, Wageningen, NetherlandsP.E. Savage, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USAW.D. Seider, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAY. Shachar-Hill, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USAP.M. Slegers, Wageningen University, NetherlandsJ. Sullivan Graham, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USAT. Tanaka, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, JapanC. Theegala, Louisiana State University, Baton- Rouge, Louisiana, USAS. Twary, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USAJ.L. Van Etten, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USAT. Wang, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USAD.P. Weeks, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA


R.H. Wijffels, Wageningen Universiteit, Wageningen, NetherlandsJi- Won Yang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South KoreaB. Wu, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, USAQ. Wu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, ChinaJ. Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Qingdao, Shandong, ChinaJ.C. Yang, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, District of Columbia, USAW.G. Zhou, University of Minnesota


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Reference formattingThere are no strict requirements on reference formatting at submission. References can be in any styleor format as long as the style is consistent. Where applicable, author(s) name(s), journal title/booktitle, chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter and the paginationmust be present. Use of DOI is highly encouraged. The reference style used by the journal will beapplied to the accepted article by Elsevier at the proof stage. Note that missing data will be highlightedat proof stage for the author to correct. If you do wish to format the references yourself they shouldbe arranged according to the following examples:

Reference styleText: Indicate references by number(s) in square brackets in line with the text. The actual authorscan be referred to, but the reference number(s) must always be given.Example: "..... as demonstrated [3,6]. Barnaby and Jones [8] obtained a different result ...."List: Number the references (numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which they appearin the text.Examples:Reference to a journal publication:[1] J. van der Geer, J.A.J. Hanraads, R.A. Lupton, The art of writing a scientific article, J. Sci. Commun.163 (2000) 51-59.Reference to a book:[2] W. Strunk Jr., E.B. White, The Elements of Style, third ed., Macmillan, New York, 1979.Reference to a chapter in an edited book:[3] G.R. Mettam, L.B. Adams, How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: B.S. Jones, R.Z.Smith (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age, E-Publishing Inc., New York, 1999, pp. 281-304.References should be numbered in the order that they first appear in text and listed in numericalsequence on a separate sheet. References should be cited in full in the reference list, including thetitle and the first and last page numbers. In the reference list, periodicals [1], books [2], and multi-author books [3] should accord with the following examples:1. J.F. Briat, M. Dron, R. Mache, Is transcription of higher plant chloroplast ribosomal operonsregulated by premature termination? FEBS Lett. 163 (1083) 1-5.2. T. Bengochea, J.H. Dodds, Plant Protoplasts, Chapman & Hall, London, New York, 1986, pp. 1-90.3. H.J. Bohnert, E.J. Crouse, J.M. Schmitt, Organization and expression of plastid genomes, in: B.Parthier, D. Boulter, (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology, New Series, Vol. 14B, Springer Verlag,1982, pp. 475-530.Abbreviations for the titles of journals should follow the system used by the International SerialsCatalogue, 1978 edition and supplements.

Video dataElsevier accepts video material and animation sequences to support and enhance your scientificresearch. Authors who have video or animation files that they wish to submit with their article arestrongly encouraged to include links to these within the body of the article. This can be done in thesame way as a figure or table by referring to the video or animation content and noting in the body


text where it should be placed. All submitted files should be properly labeled so that they directlyrelate to the video file's content. In order to ensure that your video or animation material is directlyusable, please provide the files in one of our recommended file formats with a preferred maximumsize of 150 MB. Video and animation files supplied will be published online in the electronic versionof your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com.Please supply 'stills' with your files: you can choose any frame from the video or animation ormake a separate image. These will be used instead of standard icons and will personalize thelink to your video data. For more detailed instructions please visit our video instruction pages athttp://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. Note: since video and animation cannot be embeddedin the print version of the journal, please provide text for both the electronic and the print versionfor the portions of the article that refer to this content.

AudioSlidesThe journal encourages authors to create an AudioSlides presentation with their published article.AudioSlides are brief, webinar-style presentations that are shown next to the online article onScienceDirect. This gives authors the opportunity to summarize their research in their own words andto help readers understand what the paper is about. More information and examples are available athttp://www.elsevier.com/audioslides. Authors of this journal will automatically receive an invitatione-mail to create an AudioSlides presentation after acceptance of their paper.

Supplementary materialSupplementary material can support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary filesoffer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, high-resolution images,background datasets, sound clips and more. Please note that such items are published online exactlyas they are submitted; there is no typesetting involved (supplementary data supplied as an Excelfile or as a PowerPoint slide will appear as such online). Please submit the material together with thearticle and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. If you wish to make any changes tosupplementary data during any stage of the process, then please make sure to provide an updatedfile, and do not annotate any corrections on a previous version. Please also make sure to switchoff the 'Track Changes' option in any Microsoft Office files as these will appear in the publishedsupplementary file(s). For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork instruction pages athttp://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.

Database linkingElsevier encourages authors to connect articles with external databases, giving readers access torelevant databases that help to build a better understanding of the described research. Please referto relevant database identifiers using the following format in your article: Database: xxxx (e.g., TAIR:AT1G01020; CCDC: 734053; PDB: 1XFN). See http://www.elsevier.com/databaselinking for moreinformation and a full list of supported databases.

Interactive Phylogenetic TreesYou can enrich your online articles by providing phylogenetic tree data files (optional) in Newickor NeXML format, which will be visualized using the interactive tree viewer embedded within theonline article. Using the viewer it will be possible to zoom into certain tree areas, change the treelayout, search within the tree, and collapse/expand tree nodes and branches. Submitted tree fileswill also be available for downloading from your online article on ScienceDirect. Each tree must becontained in an individual data file before being uploaded separately to the online submission system,via the 'phylogenetic tree data' submission category. Newick files must have the extension .newor .nwk (note that a semicolon is needed to end the tree). Please do not enclose comments inNewick files and also delete any artificial line breaks within the tree data because these will stop thetree from showing. For NeXML, the file extension should be .xml. Please do not enclose commentsin the file. Tree data submitted with other file extensions will not be processed. Please make surethat you validate your Newick/NeXML files prior to submission. For more information please seehttp://www.elsevier.com/phylogenetictrees.

Interactive plotsThis journal enables you to show an Interactive Plot with your article by simply submitting a data file.For instructions please go to http://www.elsevier.com/interactiveplots.

Submission checklistThe following list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to sending it to the journalfor review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.Ensure that the following items are present:


One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:• E-mail address• Full postal addressAll necessary files have been uploaded, and contain:• Keywords• All figure captions• All tables (including title, description, footnotes)Further considerations• Manuscript has been 'spell-checked' and 'grammar-checked'• All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including theInternet)Printed version of figures (if applicable) in color or black-and-white• Indicate clearly whether or not color or black-and-white in print is required.For any further information please visit our customer support site at http://support.elsevier.com.

AFTER ACCEPTANCEUse of the Digital Object IdentifierThe Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents. The DOIconsists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisherupon the initial electronic publication. The assigned DOI never changes. Therefore, it is an idealmedium for citing a document, particularly 'Articles in press' because they have not yet received theirfull bibliographic information. Example of a correctly given DOI (in URL format; here an article in thejournal Physics Letters B):http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2010.09.059When you use a DOI to create links to documents on the web, the DOIs are guaranteed never tochange.

Online proof correctionCorresponding authors will receive an e-mail with a link to our online proofing system, allowingannotation and correction of proofs online. The environment is similar to MS Word: in addition toediting text, you can also comment on figures/tables and answer questions from the Copy Editor.Web-based proofing provides a faster and less error-prone process by allowing you to directly typeyour corrections, eliminating the potential introduction of errors.If preferred, you can still choose to annotate and upload your edits on the PDF version. All instructionsfor proofing will be given in the e-mail we send to authors, including alternative methods to the onlineversion and PDF.We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Please use thisproof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables andfigures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at thisstage with permission from the Editor. It is important to ensure that all corrections are sent backto us in one communication. Please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequentcorrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility.

OffprintsThe corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a personalized link providing 50days free access to the final published version of the article on ScienceDirect. This link canalso be used for sharing via email and social networks. For an extra charge, paper offprintscan be ordered via the offprint order form which is sent once the article is accepted forpublication. Both corresponding and co-authors may order offprints at any time via Elsevier'sWebShop (http://webshop.elsevier.com/myarticleservices/offprints). Authors requiring printed copiesof multiple articles may use Elsevier WebShop's 'Create Your Own Book' service to collate multiplearticles within a single cover (http://webshop.elsevier.com/myarticleservices/booklets).

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