About Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

What is Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials?

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal focusing on information concerning clinical microbiology, infectious diseases and antimicrobials. The management of infectious disease is dependent on correct diagnosis and appropriate antimicrobial treatment, and with this in mind, the journal aims to improve the communication between basic and clinical science in the field of clinical microbiology and antimicrobial treatment.

Manuscripts submitted to Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials can report on: any aspect of diagnosis of infectious diseases; case management and antimicrobial treatment; and antibiotic development and antimicrobial resistance. The journal aims for a submission to publication time of less than 45 days.

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials has a broad scope, incorporating microbiology and antimicrobials in almost all branches of medicine. Furthermore, the journal has no restrictions on space or access; this ensures that the journal can reach the widest possible audience.

Content overview

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials considers the following types of articles:

• Research - original reports of basic or clinical research concerning all aspects of infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, antimicrobial treatment and antimicrobial resistance. Research may be basic or clinical.
• Case reports - reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction. Reports may suggest the need for a change in practice or thinking in terms of diagnosis or prognosis, but not in terms of preventative or therapeutic intervention, which require stronger evidence.
• Reviews - comprehensive, authoritative, summaries of recent insights in specific research areas within the scope of Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials. They can be submitted either upon specific invitation or editorial acceptance of an author's proposal. To submit a proposal, authors should send a tentative title and abstract to the Editorial Office and justify their expertise in the target area, and also both the scientific relevance and the lack of recent reviews on the topic.

Further details on our approach to these are given in the instructions for authors.

Edited by Hakan Leblebicioglu, Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials is supported by an expert Editorial Board.

Publishing in Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

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

Articles in Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 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:

Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 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 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 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. Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials however, has taken this further by making all its content open access.

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials'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.

BioMed Central is working closely with Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials will be available.

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 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.