Our mission:
Aging Biology is a journal run by scientists and for scientists. Our mission is to publish high quality research on the fundamental mechanisms of aging and longevity.

Our Sponsors:
Michael Antonov

ISSN: 2994-2578

Article Types Published by Aging Biology

Review articles: Maximum character count 50,000 characters (including spaces) including Summary (<250words), Figure Legends, excluding Title Page, Tables, Figures, and References.

Research articles: No more than 50,000 characters, excluding Title Page, Tables, Figures, and References. Up to 6 figures and two tables can be included.

Cover letter: A cover letter is optional

Submission implies that the content has not been published previously or is in consideration for publication elsewhere (except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or as a preprint such as on BioRxiv).

Formatting

All contributions should be in English language Manuscripts comprise 3 main sections, submitted as a single file or separately: 1. Main text; 2. Figures and Tables; 3. Supporting information.

1. Main text. Subdivided as follows:

Title Page

Title: A concise description of the major findings in one sentence.

Running Title: A short running title of less than 40 characters.

Full names of all authors.

Each author's institutional affiliation and email address.

A footnote indicating the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted.

Abstract and keywords

The abstract should convey, in 250 words or less, the minimum background to understand the significance of the question or problem being addressed, a concise statement of the question, problem or hypothesis being tested, a brief summary of the approach and results, and the major conclusions of the study. List 3-8 keywords.

Graphical abstract

A graphical abstract (50mm x 60mm) will be included on the online Contents page.

Manuscript Text

Can follow any reasonable format, according to character counts above. Font is preferably Arial or Helvetica 11, double spaced. Research Articles should be divided into Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Conclusions. Subheadings within the Results section are recommended.

Conflict of Interest statement

State any conflict of interest that reviewers and editors should be aware of, for example licensing agreements or commercial enterprises that link directly to the topic of the MS, patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If none, state “The authors declare that they have no actual or apparent conflict of interest between authorship of this study and any other activities”.

Acknowledgements

Any contributors that are not listed as full authors should be acknowledged for their contributions. All sources of funding, the agency and grant number (optional), should be listed in the Acknowledgments section.

References

References should be formatted according to “NIH numbered”, including all author names, title, journal, volume, issue, pages, and PMCID (if applicable). In the main text, references should numbered in the order in which they appear.

2. Figures and Tables

A variety of formats is permitted. Resolution should be sufficient to discern key features. Legends should be concise and appropriate statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be indicated.

3. Supporting Information

Should be cited in the article text and can include additional tables, data sets, figures, movie files, audio clips, 3D structures, and other related nonessential multimedia files. A legend should be provided. Supporting Information will be published directly as supplied and a proof will not be made available prior to publication.

Data, resources, reagents and model organisms availability statement

Data, resources, reagents and model organisms should be shared freely on publication, according to NIH policy (https://sharing.nih.gov). Violations of this policy may preclude subsequent publication in Aging Biology.

At publication, authors are required to deposit data supporting the results in the paper in an appropriate public repository and a link to the repository they have used and data accession number. Scripts and other artefacts used to analyze the data should also be publicly archived. Editors may grant exceptions in specific circumstances, for example concerning human patient data or for ethical or legal reasons.

Appropriate public repositories include:

Protein, DNA, RNA Sequences: Uniprot, Genbank/European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)/DDBJ, Protein DataBank, NCBI Trace and Short-Read Archive, ENA's Sequence Read Archive, GEO or ArrayExpress, as appropriate.

Sequences of RNAi, antisense, and morpholino probes should be included within the paper or deposited in a public database with an accession number.

Human Genomic Data Reporting Newly Described SNPs and CNVs Identified in Control Samples: dbSNP, the Database of Genomic Variants Archive (DGVa), or the Database of Genomic Structural Variation (dbVAR) Human Sequence Data: dbGaP or similar repository.

Microarray Data: GEO or ArrayExpress. Data should be MIAME compliant.

Structures of Small Molecules: Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and PubChem.

Originals of all other datatypes should be shared with journal editors upon request