INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Biophotonics has become the leading concept to cover several fields of research, such as bioimaging, biosensors, bioassays and medical devices for monitoring, diagnosis or therapy. The Journal of Biophotonics publishes
reviews, full articles and letters from the broad range of research in this advanced interdisciplinary field.
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General Information................................................ 1
Manuscript Types .................................................... 1
Manuscript Submission ........................................... 1
Initial Submission ........................................................... 2
Reviewing ....................................................................... 2
Revised Manuscripts ...................................................... 2
Supporting Information .................................................. 2
4. Format and Style ..................................................... 3
Artwork .......................................................................... 3
References ...................................................................... 3
5. Copyright and Permissions ...................................... 4
6. After Acceptance ..................................................... 4
Funder Arrangements .................................................... 5
U.S. Government ............................................................ 5
Self-Archiving definitions and policies ............................ 5
7. Cover Pictures ......................................................... 5
8. Proof Correction...................................................... 5
9. Early View ............................................................... 5
10. Video Summaries .................................................... 5
1. General Information
Journal of Biophotonics is published in an onlineonly format.
Print subscription and single issue sales are available
from Wiley’s Print-on-Demand Partner. To order
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Only papers not yet published and not submitted for
publication elsewhere will be accepted.
Language of publication is English.
2. Manuscript Types
Review Articles will usually be written at the invitation of the Editors. Unsolicited reviews will be highly
welcome but authors wishing to submit a review are
requested to consult the Editors prior to commencement. The size of a Review may differ, a length of
about 45,000 characters (with spaces) or 7,000 words
incl. references, excl. figures is recommended.
Journal of Biophotonics – Instructions to Authors
(April 2017)
Full Articles are the journal's most common type of
publication. A length of about 25,000 characters (with
spaces) or 4,000 words incl. references, excl. figures
is recommended.
 For Full and Review Articles a short CV and a
photo of each author should be submitted.
Letters must be complete, self-contained papers, and
not preliminary reports.
The typical size of a Letter should be 3–4 printed
pages. This corresponds to a maximum length of
about 14,000 characters (with spaces) or 2,300 words
plus 1–3 figures and a short reference list.
3. Manuscript Submission
Manuscripts which are clearly inappropriate for the
journal can be rejected without consulting referees.
Authors are asked to make their manuscripts suitable
for a heterogeneous readership. Please use a simple,
clear style, and avoid jargon. In some cases, it might
be helpful for manuscripts to be checked by a third
party, such as Wiley English Language Editing Services
for correct language usage before submission. Let
Wiley Editing Services provide you with expert help
to ensure your manuscript is ready for submission.
All papers must be submitted via the online manuscript submission system.
To navigate to the Journal of Biophotonics online
submission site go to www.biophotonics-journal.org
 Manuscript Submission  Online Submission of
Manuscripts.
For article templates, forms and other author resources, please visit the Author Guidelines.
All queries regarding manuscripts or the online submission process should be addressed to the journal's
Editorial Office:
Editorial Office JBP
Phone: +49-3641-948367
Fax: +49-3641-948302
E-mail: [email protected]
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Initial Submission
File types: Only electronic files conforming to the
journal's guidelines will be accepted. Preferred formats for the text and tables of your manuscript are
Word DOC, RTF, XLS, and LaTeX.
Non-LaTeX users: Word files in any compatible
format (DOC, RTF) are accepted. Text (including
tables and figures) should be uploaded as "*Complete
Manuscript" on the File Upload screen. Graphics
should be embedded in the manuscript.
Authors may use the JBP Word template to format
their manuscripts. The template can be downloaded
from the journal homepage www.biophotonicsjournal.org  For Contributors).
LaTeX users must submit a single PDF generated
from the source files. At this stage, further source
files are not required. LaTeX style files are available
from the journal homepage www.biophotonicsjournal.org  For Contributors.
Abstracts should be no longer than 200 words. Please
use impersonal or passive style instead of the active
“we” form.
Reviewing
All contributions will be evaluated according to the
standard procedures of peer review, usually by two
referees. To facilitate the refereeing process, please
provide the names and email addresses of at least
three referees capable of reviewing your manuscript.
Please make sure that the suggested referees are not
too closely related to your own publications.
Please note that not more than two revisions are allowed for reviewing. A third round of revision will
not be considered.
For final acceptance of manuscripts, an unanimous
assent by two referees is required.
Revised Manuscripts
Revised manuscripts must be uploaded within
2 weeks (for letters) or 4 weeks (for review and original papers) of authors being notified of conditional
acceptance pending satisfactory revision.
Text, tables and figures need to be uploaded as a
single Word DOC or RTF file. Upload this file as
"*Revised Manuscript".
Figures should preferably be submitted in full color,
but should also be easily readable on a black/white
printout. They need to be embedded in the manuscript
but also uploaded as separate files in a graphic format
such as TIFF, EPS or JPG with a resolution of 300
dpi or higher (see ‘Artwork’). For graphic files
choose the designation "Production Data" on the File
Upload screen in Editorial Manager.
Journal of Biophotonics – Instructions to Authors
(April 2017)
LaTeX users: Revisions must still be uploaded as a
single PDF generated from the revised source files.
Please use the File Designation "*Revised Manuscript" from the dropdown box. In addition please
upload your TeX source files including bbl and figure
files. For all source files the File Designation "Production Data" must be used. Previous versions of
uploaded documents must be deleted. If the manuscript is accepted for publication the uploaded files
will be used to typeset the article within a totally digital workflow.
Graphical Abstract: Please also submit an abstract
text for the Table of Contents. It should be a maximum of 70 words, and should be written in impersonal or passive style. The table of contents text should
be added on a separate page at the end of the manuscript or uploaded as “Production Data”.
Supporting Information
Authors may also submit supplementary material, for
example videos or animations. The author bears full
responsibility for the content of the supplementary
material. Color and animated multimedia applications
are welcome and published online at no cost to the
author or reader. In general, the contents of the Supporting Information should be mentioned shortly in
the article, e.g. as a footnote. Supplementary material
is published online open and is directly linked to the
main article on Wiley Online Library.
In case of extra text, figures or tables please make
sure to mention “Supporting Information, title of main
article, article number, authors and affiliation” at the
beginning of the supplementary material. Use page
numbers starting from S1 to the respective end number page (e.g. S5).
Supplementary material can be cited as part of the
original article e.g.
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Smith et al., J. Biophotonics 7, 501-509 (2014), see
online supporting information S1-S5.
You may include captions for supplementary figures,
tables or videos at the end of your manuscript.
If not otherwise indicated, supplementary material is
part of the peer-review process but is not copy-edited
or typeset.
Please use suitable compression technology to avoid
exceedingly large movie files (>10 MB) for the benefit of referees' and readers' bandwidth and storage
capacity. Also, please make sure that your movies are
saved in a common format (such as MPEG, AVI,
QuickTime, GIF) that can be played on at least two
different computer platforms (out of Windows/
MacOS/ Linux).
Please choose the File Designation "Supporting Information" on the File Upload screen.
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4. Format and Style
All illustrations must be supplied at the correct resolution:
Standard fonts like Times, Helvetica, or Courier are
preferred. Some fonts (e.g. Asian or Russian character
fonts) may cause problems and should be avoided.
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Black and white and color photos: 300 dpi
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Graphs, drawings, etc: 800 dpi preferred; 600 dpi
minimum
The name(s) of any sponsor(s) of the research contained in the paper, along with grant number(s)
should be included in the Acknowledgements section
at the end of the main text.
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Combinations of photos and drawings (black and
white and color): 500 dpi
The manuscript should contain the following elements:
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Full title (up to 150 characters)
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Full names and addresses of all authors
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Email, telephone and fax of the corresponding author
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Abstract (up to 200 words)
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Abstract figure (optional: short figure legend)
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Short title inclusive author names – up to 80 characters (A. Firstauthorname, B. Secondauthorname, and
C. Thirdauthorname: Short title; OR: A. Firstauthorname et al.: Short title)
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Keywords, following the Medical Subject Headings list
from ISI or MEDLINE/PubMed (at least four, up to
eight key words)
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Main text including figures and captions
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List of references (numbered in the order of appearance in the text)
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Separate high-resolution figures (TIFF, EPS or JPG)
with a resolution of at least 300 dpi
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Graphical Abstract: It should be a short descriptive
and popular text on the general aim and value of your
paper (up to 70 words, not a figure caption, not the
abstract text) and should be written in impersonal or
passive style. Please also suggest an image (full color,
size: ideally 5 x 5 cm). It can be one from your article
or may be specifically designed for the purpose.
Further guidelines on artwork can be found here:
Electronic_artwork_guidelines.pdf
Equations
Equations should be numbered sequentially. Except
for small in-line equations, they should appear on
separate lines.
Please provide equations in an editable format, like
Mathtype. Do not embed equations as graphics.
In the text, equations may be referred to by writing
"... in Eq. (1)". At the beginning of a sentence, use the
full form "Equation (1) shows ...".
References
Please do not format the references section with the
Numbering function of your word-processing program. We recommend the use of a tool such as
EndNote (www.endnote.com) or Reference Manager
(www.refman.com) for reference management and
formatting. All references must be cited in numerical
order in the text. The numbers of references should
appear in the text in brackets e.g. [1, 21] or [1-4].
The reference list should show the references in numerical order as they appear in the text. Please send
your references as a plain, unstructured list.
Artwork
From Journals
Journal titles should be abbreviated according to the
List of Journals abbreviations (see, e.g., Pubmed:
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pubmed/J_Entrez.txt).
Unpublished results and lectures should only be cited
for exceptional reasons.
 Please give the names of all authors.
Figures should preferably be submitted in full color,
but should also be easily readable on a black/white
printout. Color figures are reproduced in color at no
cost.
The preferred citation scheme is:
Initials. Surnames (of all authors), Journal Title (abbreviated), Vol. No., pages (year of publication in
brackets), e.g.:
Upload each figure as a separate file in either TIFF,
EPS or JPG format. Compound figures e.g. 1a, b, c
should be uploaded as one figure. Tints are not acceptable. Lettering must be of a reasonable size that
would still be clearly legible upon reduction, and
consistent within each figure and set of figures.
Where a key to symbols is required, please include
this in the artwork itself, not in the figure legend.
[1] M. A. Short, H. Lui, D. I. McLean, H. Zeng, and M. X.
Chen, Proc. SPIE 6093, 60930E/1-60930E/6 (2006).
For full articles and reviews, please provide short
CVs and photos of each author in a separate file
(they will be published as online supporting information).
Journal of Biophotonics – Instructions to Authors
(April 2017)
[2] C. A. Lieber and A. Mahadevan-Jansen, Opt. Express 15,
11874-11882 (2007).
[3] U. Neugebauer, P. Rösch, M. Schmitt, J. Popp, C. Julien,
A. Rasmussen, C. Budich, and V. Deckert, ChemPhysChem 7, 1428-1430 (2006).
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When citing conference proceedings, please add all
available data such as title, date, and place of the conference as well as publisher, place, and year of publication or, alternatively, the corresponding journal
information, e.g.:
[4] B. J. Ansell, in: Proceedings of the 4th International
Conference on Nitride Semiconductors, Denver, Colorado, USA, 16-20 July 2001, Part B.1.
[5] V. Piatnitsa, D. Kholodnyak, P. Kapitanova, I. Fischuk, T.
Tick, J. Jantti, H. Jantunen, and I. Vendik, in: Proceedings of the 37th European Microwave Conference,
Munich, Germany, October 2007, pp. 636-639.
From Books
For books, the following order is required (skip irrelevant information):
Authors of Article or Chapter, in: Book Authors or
Editor[s] (ed[s].), Book Title, edited by Editors, Book
Series Vol. No. (Publisher, Place, Year), p./pp. page
numbers, e.g.:
[6] J. Berthier and P. Silberzan, Microfluidics for Biotechnology (Artech House, Inc, Norwood, 2006), pp. 345.
[7] T. J. Franz, P. A. Lehman, and E. L. McGuire, in: J. L. Zatz
(ed.), Skin Permeation: Fundamentals and Application,
(Allured, Wheaton, 1993) pp. 93-111.
Miscellaneous
[8] A. Studentname, PhD thesis, University of Newcastle
(UK), 1991.
Further Requirements
Ethics
In cases where a study involves the use of live animals or human subjects, authors must include in the
appropriate section of the manuscript a statement that
all experiments were performed in compliance with
the relevant laws and institutional guidelines in accordance with the ethical standards of the Declaration
of Helsinki. The institutional committees that have
approved the experiments must be named. Authors
must also include a statement that informed consent
was obtained for any experimentation with human
subjects.
For more information see also:
http://www.wiley-vch.de/euchems-ethics
Conflict of Interest
The Publisher requests that authors provide a statement of any conflicts of interest. The statement of
declared interests will be published at the end of the
article. Conflict of interest for a given manuscript
exists when a participant in the peer review and publication process - author, reviewer, or editor - has ties
to activities that could inappropriately influence his or
her judgment, whether or not judgment is in fact affected.
Journal of Biophotonics – Instructions to Authors
(April 2017)
Financial relationships with industry (i.e. through
employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, expert testimony), either directly or through
immediate family, are usually considered to be the
most important conflicts of interest. However, conflicts can occur for other reasons, such as personal
relationships, academic competition, and intellectual
passion.
For more information see also www.icmje.org/index.html
5. Copyright and Permissions
To enable the publisher to disseminate the author's
work to the fullest extent, the author must sign a
Copyright Transfer Agreement which is part of the
submission process.
If the manuscript contains extracts, including illustrations, from other copyright works (including material
from online or intranet sources), it is the author's responsibility to obtain written permission from the
owners of the publishing rights to reproduce such
extracts. The Permission request form can be
downloaded
from
the
journal
homepage
www.jbp-journal.org  For Contributors).
Permissions should be uploaded as "Production Data"
or sent by email to the Publisher:
Journal of Biophotonics
WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
Rotherstrasse 21
10245 Berlin, Germany
Fax: ++49-(0)30-47 03 13 99
E-mail: [email protected]
6. After Acceptance
When your paper is accepted, the author identified as
the formal corresponding author will receive an email
prompting them to log in to Author Services.
In Author Services, authors can:
 Order and pay for open access publications
 Download the final manuscript PDF
 Invite colleagues to view their published article
 View citation metrics for their article
Online Open
Authors may choose to publish OnlineOpen under the
terms of a Creative Commons License.
General information regarding licensing and copyright is available here. To review the Creative Commons License options offered under OnlineOpen,
please click here. (Note that certain funders mandate
that a particular type of CC license has to be used; to
check this please click here.)
Open Access fees: If you choose to publish using
OnlineOpen you will be charged a fee. A list of
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Publication Charges for Wiley journals is available
here or check the Author Compliance Tool.
To opt for OnlineOpen please login to Author Services, pick your article from your account and let the
system guide you through the process.
For this individual service the Publisher would have
to ask you to cover part of the publication costs. For
more information please contact the Publisher at
[email protected].
Further information on cover artwork can be found in
our FAQs document:
Funder Arrangements
JBP_Guide_for_Cover_Submission.pdf
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA will comply
to the agreements with certain funding agencies,
such as the US National Institutes of Health (NIH),
as
detailed
in
the
following
website:
Funder Agreements.
8. Proof Correction
Wiley Open Access Accounts enable institutions and
funders to pay centrally for open access articles published by their authorized authors. Upon publication,
the full open access publication fee for the journal in
question, minus any account discount, will be deducted from the account. If you are funded by an institution/funder and want to opt for the OnlineOpen option
and make your article open access, email:
[email protected].
Further information on Online Open can be found
here: Open Access.
U.S. Government
In the case of an article prepared under U.S. Government contract or grant, the U.S. Government may
reproduce, without charge, all or portions of the article and may authorize others to do so, for official U.S.
Government purposes only, if the U.S. Government
contract or grant so requires. This is covered in full in
both our Copyright Transfer Agreement (for standard
articles) and Open Access Agreement (for Online
Open articles).
Self-Archiving definitions and policies
Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement
allows for self-archiving of different versions of the
article under specific conditions. Please click here for
more detailed information about self-archiving definitions and policies.
7. Cover Pictures
Journal of Biophotonics provides the possibility to
have your article featured on the journal's cover page
with an illustrative and eye-catching figure which
graphically represents the essence of your paper.
If your picture is chosen, it will be featured in the
Table of Contents first place. You will receive a highresolution PDF file of the cover page for your personal use.
Journal of Biophotonics – Instructions to Authors
(April 2017)
Prior to publication, authors will receive page proofs,
to be downloaded from the online system. Authors
should keep in mind that reading proofs is their responsibility. Corrections should therefore be clear and
unambiguous. Corrections listed in an electronic file
should be sorted by line numbers.
The main aim of proofreading is to correct errors that
may have occurred during the production process, and
not to modify the content of the paper. The reproduction of artwork, the layout of the pages and breaks in
equations introduced by the production staff should
be checked carefully. Corrections that may lead to a
change in the page layout should be avoided.
Note that sending back a corrected manuscript file is
of no use. Proof corrections should be returned to the
publisher within 3 working days.
9. Early View
Articles will be published online in the Early View
section ahead of an issue publication. Early View
articles are complete and final. They have been fully
reviewed, revised and edited for publication, and the
authors’ final corrections have been incorporated.
Because they are in final form, no changes can be
made subsequent to Early View publication. Early
View articles can be cited and tracked by DOI.
10. Video Summaries
A video summary can be a quick way to make the
message of your research accessible to a much larger
audience. Wiley and its partner Research Square offer
a service of professionally produced video summaries, available to authors of articles accepted in this
journal. You can learn more about it at
https://www.researchsquare.com/wiley .
If you have any questions, please direct them to
[email protected].
Author Guidelines and further author resources
can be found here:
www.biophotonics-journal.org  For Contributors
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