About Biotechnology for Biofuels

What is Biotechnology for Biofuels?

Biotechnology for Biofuels is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal featuring high-quality studies describing technological and operational advances in the production of biofuels from biomass.

Biotechnology for Biofuels emphasizes understanding and advancing the application of biotechnology and synergistic operations to improve plants and biological conversion systems for the production of fuels from lignocellulosic biomass and any related economic, environmental and policy issues.

Biotechnology for Biofuels focuses on the following areas:

• Development of plants for biofuels production
• Plant deconstruction
• Pretreatment and fractionation
• Enzyme production and enzymatic conversion
• Fermentation and bioconversion
• Integrated systems
• Process design and economics
• Life cycle studies

Content overview

Biotechnology for Biofuels considers the following types of articles:

• Research: reports of data from original research. These articles will form the major content of the journal.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the scope of the journal.
• Commentaries: short, focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue, such as recent research findings, and are often written by opinion leaders invited by the Editorial Board.
• Methodology articles: present a new experimental method, test or procedure. The method described may either be completely new, or may offer a better version of an existing method. Methodology articles will only be accepted for publication if they represent a significant advance in the field.

Peer-review policies

Manuscripts will be reviewed by internationally recognized experts in the field, selected in part from our Editorial Board. Reviews will be rapid and the suitability of a manuscript for publication will be assessed solely on criteria of scientific excellence. Final decisions will be made by the Editors-in-Chief.

Edited by Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal, Michael Himmel, Chris Somerville and Charles Wyman, Biotechnology for Biofuels is supported by an expert Editorial Board.

Publishing in Biotechnology for Biofuels

All articles are listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and are covered by PubMed Central, Thomson Reuters (ISI), CAS, CABI and Scopus.

Articles in Biotechnology for Biofuels should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

Biotechnol Biofuels 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Biotechnology for Biofuels does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Biotechnology for Biofuels using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Biotechnology for Biofuels is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is open access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. Biotechnology for Biofuels however, has taken this further by making all its content open access.

Biotechnology for Biofuels's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

Biotechnology for Biofuels is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.