About Epigenetics & Chromatin

What is Epigenetics & Chromatin?

Epigenetics & Chromatin is a peer-reviewed open access online journal, which publishes articles that provide novel insights into epigenetic inheritance and chromatin-based interactions.

Epigenetics & Chromatin aims to understand how gene and chromosomal elements are regulated and their activities maintained during cell division, differentiation and environmental alteration. Epigenetic research is concerned with heritable changes that do not change DNA sequence, but rather involve stable modifications of chromatin, DNA or protein conformation. Epigenetics is a broad area of research that is important for understanding the basic processes of cellular life, and as such has implications for a wide range of disciplines. The field encompasses studies that use model systems to discover and investigate epigenetic mechanisms, as well as studies aimed at combating diseases that involve epigenetic processes.

Epigenetics & Chromatin fulfills the need for a journal that reflects the breadth of epigenetic research. Topics include, but are not limited to, gene silencing and imprinting, cellular reprogramming, nucleosome modification assembly and remodeling, DNA methylation, chromatin structure and dynamics, chromosomal maintenance elements, dosage compensation, interchromosomal interactions and prion inheritance. Approaches that apply cutting-edge technologies to problems in the field are especially welcome.

Content overview

Epigenetics & Chromatin 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.
• 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 policy

Manuscripts are reviewed by internationally recognized experts in the field of epigenetics, selected in part from our Editorial Board. Reviews are 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 Frank Grosveld and Steven Henikoff, Epigenetics & Chromatin is supported by an expert Editorial Board.

Publishing in Epigenetics & Chromatin

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

Articles in Epigenetics & Chromatin 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:

Epigenetics & Chromatin 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Epigenetics & Chromatin 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 Epigenetics & Chromatin using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Epigenetics & Chromatin is published by BioMed Central, part of Springer Science+Business Media. BioMed Central is 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. Epigenetics & Chromatin however, has taken this further by making all its content open access.

Epigenetics & Chromatin'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.

Epigenetics & Chromatin 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.