Materials and Methods
Any “personal communications” relating to unpublished data should be
incorporated within the main text, in the following format: (Author
Initial(s) and Surname, personal communication, Month and Year). Authors
should have permission from anyone named in this way and should be aware
that a supporting letter will sometimes be requested.
Within the Materials and Methods and/or figure legends, we encourage
authors to provide complete information about their experiments,
analyses, or data collection to ensure that readers can easily
understand what was measured and analysed, and can accurately perform
the relevant protocols.
In cases where a new method within the submission would benefit from
step-by-step protocols in addition to the methods described in the
article, we would encourage authors to also consider submitting a
detailed protocol to Bio-protocol.
On first mention, please provide details of any manufacturers in the
following format: company name, city, country (or state, if based in the
United States).