Guidelines to submitting to the PLOS iGEM Collection

Please fill in the following sections and then add your submission below. Instructions for each section are ingrey.

Title

The full title should be specific to the project, yet concise. Avoid abbreviations, if possible.

Authors

List all the people who contributed to the project.

Author contributions

We suggest using the CRediT taxonomy to describe each person’s role in the project:

Abstract

The Abstract should:

  • Describe the main objective(s) of the study
  • Explain how the study was done
  • Summarize the most important results and their significance
  • Not exceed 300 words

Abstracts should not include:

  • Citations
  • Abbreviations

Financial Disclosure

Enter the name of any funder(s) who supported your work. Your funding statement should include:

1)Name of the funder(s). Use the full name, not acronyms, of funding institutions, and use initials to identify authors who received the funding.

2)

a)If the funder(s) did not have a role in the study include this sentence in your financial disclosure statement "The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."

b)If the funder(s) had a role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript please describe their role.

Competing Interests

A competing interest is anything that interferes with, or could reasonably be perceived as interfering with, the full and objective presentation, peer review, editorial decision-making, or publication of research submitted to PLOS. Please see the full description of competing interests for more information:

If there are any competing interests in relation to your work, please provide details below. Your response should begin with this statement: I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests:

If no authors have any competing interests to declare, please enter this statement in the box: "The authors have declared that no competing interests exist."

Ethics Statement

You must provide an ethics statement if your study involved human participants, specimens or tissue samples, or vertebrate animals, embryos or tissues. All information entered here should also be included in the Methods section of your manuscript. Please write "N/A" if your study does not require an ethics statement.

If you have used human subjects please read these guidelines:

If you have used animal subjects please read these guidelines:

If there are any concerns about bioethics/dual use research, please describe them in this section along with biosafety measures employed to address those.

Data Availability

All data need to be fully available, without restriction. Please write either:

Yes – all data are fully available without restriction

Or

No – some restrictions will apply

We require that youdescribe where your data may be found, writing in full sentences.

GUIDELINES

Guidelines for figures and supporting information

Figures should be submitted as jpegs with the figure legend stated in this Word file. Tables should be included as Excel spreadsheets as a supplementary file attached to your submission.

Data and methods that are adequately described in the team’s iGEM wiki can be linked to directly in the paper. We also encourage the deposit of data to figshare or Dryad, and the description of protocols at protocols.io, as the team from Northwestern have done.

All figures and striking images should conform to the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY).

Striking Image

You may include an image to accompany your article online; this could be a picture of your team, an eye catching image from your study or an illustration you have created related to your iGEM project. Please attach the image as a jpeg when submitting your work.

Research Article Guidelines

Research Article submissionsshould follow the PLOS ONE guidelines:

A good example of a research articlewould be this PLOS ONE paper.

iGEM Report Guidelines

The structure for iGEM reports is more flexible. We suggest using the following structure or similar; however, you are welcome to use a structure that you feel best suits your work.

  • Introduction
  • Methods/Protocols
  • Data
  • Interpretation

Please add your full submission below