Journal Guide

IET Software publishes papers on all aspects of the software lifecycle, including design, development, implementation and maintenance. The focus of the journal is on the methods used to develop and maintain software, and their practical application. IET Software covers all aspects of software engineering and places particular emphasis on the following topics: • Software and systems requirements engineering • Formal methods, design methods, practice and experience • Software architecture, aspect and object orientation, reuse and re-engineering • Testing, verification and validation techniques • Software dependability and measurement • Human systems engineering and human–computer interaction • Knowledge engineering, expert and knowledge-based systems, intelligent agents • Information systems engineering • Application of software engineering in industry and commerce • Software engineering technology transfer • Management of software development • Theoretical aspects of software development • Education and training, including continuing professional development

IET Systems Biology publishes papers that take a systems and signal-oriented approach to the dynamic interactions within and between cells. It also includes papers that analyse genomic data in order to identify variables, and basic relationships between them, where the results provide a basis for mathematical modelling and simulation of cellular dynamics. IET Systems Biology covers topics including the following: • Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, cells, tissue and the physiome • Molecular and cellular interaction, gene, cell and protein function • Networks and pathways • Metabolism and cell signalling • Dynamics, regulation and control • Systems, signals, and information • Experimental data analysis • Mathematical modelling, simulation and theoretical analysis • Biological modelling, simulation, prediction and control • Methodologies, databases, tools and algorithms for modelling and simulation • Synthetic biology and bioengineering based on systems biology

IET Wireless Sensor Systems covers papers from the growing field of wireless sensor networks and distributed systems, which has been expanding rapidly in recent years and is evolving into a multi-billion dollar industry. It gives a platform to researchers and academics in the field and covers the research, engineering, technological developments, and innovative deployment of distributed sensor and actuator systems. Topics covered include: Theoretical developments of: • Innovative architectures for smart sensors, nano-sensors and actuators • Unstructured networking • Cooperative and clustering distributed sensors • Data fusion for distributed sensors • Distributed intelligence in distributed sensors • Energy harvesting for and lifetime of smart sensors and actuators • Cross-layer design and layer optimisation in distributed sensors • Security, trust and dependability of distributed sensors Innovative services and applications for: • Monitoring: health, traffic, weather and toxins • Surveillance: target tracking and localisation • Observation: global resources and geological activities (Earth, forest,mines, underwater) • Industrial applications of distributed sensors in green and agile manufacturing • Sensor and RFID applications of the Internet-of-Things (‘IoT’) • Smart metering • Machine-to-machine communications

IJU Case Reports is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that considers new observations of diseases, clinical findings or novel/unique treatment outcomes relevant to practitioners in urology.

As healthcare professionals, authors, and publishers ourselves, the IJU Case Reports editors believe in the value of case reports and know how hard they can be to write and publish.

IJU Case Reports accepts only cases of exceptional interest and novelty. All clinical cases should be reported in a way that provide evidence showing adequate steps have been taken to minimize harm, to avoid coercion or exploitation, to protect confidentiality, to minimize the risk of physical and psychological damage, and to respect autonomy.

Authors should kindly note that submission implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium.

IUBMB Life, edited by Angelo Azzi and William J. Whelan, is the flagship journal of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and is devoted to the rapid publication of the most novel and significant short articles, reviews and papers in the broadly defined fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, and molecular medicine.

Ibis publishes original papers, reviews and short communications reflecting the forefront of research activity in ornithological science, but with special emphasis on the conservation, ecology, ethology and systematics of birds. Ibis aims to publish as rapidly as is consistent with the requirements of peer-review and normal publishing constraints.

Immunity, Inflammation and Disease is a peer-reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary journal providing rapid publication of research across the broad field of immunology. Immunity, Inflammation and Disease gives rapid consideration to papers in all areas of clinical and basic research. The journal is indexed in Medline and welcomes original work that enhances the understanding of immunology in areas including:

• cellular and molecular immunology 
• clinical immunology 
• allergy 
• immunochemistry 
• immunogenetics 
• immune signalling
• immune development 
• imaging
• mathematical modelling 
• autoimmunity
• transplantation immunology
• cancer immunology

Original research articles, methods papers, editorials and commentaries are published. Original research papers must report well-conducted research with conclusions supported by the data presented in the paper. Immunity, Inflammation and Disease considers for publication both papers submitted directly to the journal and those referred from a select group of prestigious journals published by Wiley-Blackwell. List available here.

In order for research to advance, negative results, which often make a valuable contribution to the field, should be published. However, articles containing negative or null results are frequently not considered for publication or rejected by journals. We welcome papers of this kind, where appropriate and valid power calculations are included that give confidence that a negative result can be relied upon.

Keywords: immunology, imaging, allergy, autoimmunity

While each volume of Immunological Reviews is devoted to a single topic of immunological research, collectively their aim is to provide a broad and continously updated survey of advances in basic immunology and their clinical applications.

Recognised as one of the leading journals in its fieldOne of the longest established immunology journalsImpact factor 3.674Wide trans-continental representation in authors. editors and reviewersRapid publication with thorough peer-reviewNo page charges for authors#r#r#r#r#r Immunologypublishes papers on fundamental aspects of immunology including:#r#r#r#r#rCellular immunologyInnate immunityMolecular immunologyAntigen presentationLymphocyte migrationImmunogeneticsImaging at the molecular. cellular or whole animal levelProtein crystallographyPlasmon resonanceIn silico modelingKnockout and knock-in studies#r#r#r#r#rOriginal articles describing mechanistic insights to the immune system are particularly welcome.The journal also publishes commissioned review articles on subjects of topical interest to immunologists. The editors are also prepared to consider unsolicited review suggestions in the form of submitted Abstracts.Immunologyis essential reading for workers in all areas of immunological research.#r#r#r#r#r #r#r#r#r#rAims and Scope#r#r#r#r#rRecognised as one of the leading journals in its fieldOne of the longest established immunology journalsImpact factor 3.398Wide trans-continental representation in authors. editors and reviewers#r#r#r#r#r Immunologypublishes papers on fundamental aspects of immunology including:#r#r#r#r#rCellular immunologyInnate immunityMolecular immunologyAntigen presentationLymphocyte migrationImmunogeneticsImaging at the molecular. cellular or whole animal levelProtein crystallographyPlasmon resonanceIn silico modelingKnockout and knock-in studies#r#r#r#r#rOriginal articles describing mechanistic insights to the immune system are particularly welcome.#r#r#r#r#rThe journal also publishes commissioned review articles on subjects of topical interest to immunologists. The editors are also prepared to consider unsolicited review suggestions in the form of submitted Abstracts.#r#r#r#r#rImmunologyis essential reading for workers in all areas of immunological research.#r#r#r#r#rFree Access in the Developing World#r#r#r#r#rFree online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through theHINARIinitiative with the World Health Organization (WHO). and theAGORAinitiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).#r#r#r#r#rOnlineOpen#r#r#r#r#rAuthors of articles in this journal can now choose to make their articles open access and available free for all readers through the payment of an author fee.Read more.#r#r#r#r#rReadership#r#r#r#r#rImmunologyprovides a sound advertising medium for related laboratory and pharmaceutical products. See Aims and Scope for more details. The readership includes research workers. university and college lecturers and clinical researchers (approx 80%); and laboratory technicians (20%).

mmunology & Cell Biology focuses on the general functioning of the immune system in its broadest sense, with a particular emphasis on its cell biology.Areas that are covered include but are not limited to: * Cellular immunology * Innate and adaptive immunity * Immune responses to pathogens * Tumour immunology * Immunopathology * Immunotherapy * Immunogenetics * Immunological studies in humans and model organisms (including mouse, rat, Drosophila etc)This leading journal has an established international reputation, built on more than 85 years of innovative publishing. The Journal publishes peer-reviewed Original Articles, Short Communications and Outstanding Observation Articles that describe new research results. Outstanding Observation Articles describe striking reproducible observations that have extremely important conceptual implications but do not necessarily include insights into the underlying molecular mechanism. This manuscript category allows publication of extraordinary findings soon after their discovery. Methodological papers or technical reports of high quality will also be considered for publication as Original Articles or Short Communications. Immunology & Cell Biology also publishes Reviews and News and Commentary articles, which provide succinct summaries of, respectively, an area or a specific research advance in immunology. Landmark articles are brief commentaries which highlight the historical significance of a particular piece of research relevant to the journal's scope. Editorial articles are brief comments written by the editor(s) of the journal or by guest editor(s) of Special Features (see below) based on the contents of the current issue or topical subjects that fall within the scope of the journal. Immunology & Cell Biology occasionally publishes Meeting Reports that briefly detail the discussions, presentations and events at a relevant recent meeting.

The quality of the environment within buildings is a topic of major importance for public health. Indoor Air provides a location for reporting original research results in the broad area defined by the indoor environment of non-industrial buildings. An international journal with multidisciplinary content, Indoor Air publishes papers reflecting the broad categories of interest in this field: