Talk:Bioblast editorial team

Editorial strategies

Why a wiki editorial board?

We intend to provide the Bioblast wiki as an open forum and 'information synthase' in the field of mitochondrial physiology. It took a few months until this wiki was discovered by the SPAM distributors, and free access to generate a personal user account had to be discontinued. Apart from attacks by the unfriendly abuse of the open wiki, we need to develop a transparent strategy for securing our aim at a scientifically based information website. Thus we invite colleagues from all-over-the world to contact us for creating a personal account, and to join us as members of the editorial board. --Gnaiger Erich 17:19, 24 December 2011 (CET)

Please, send a message to Barbara for receiving your personal active user account, and to Erich to join as a Scientific Editor of the Bioblast Editorial Board.

Format of references

Article name (name of reference): Author_Year_Journal

Author: The most constant part of the author name is the family name. For the same author, initials may vary occasionally between one or more initials. Hence reduction to the family name.
Year: The year may change from the original year of Epub to the final year of publication. Then the article has to be moved to a new name.
Journal: There were three formats for the Journal in the article name on Bioblast:

Until 2011-Oct: A short 'slang' acronym, such as JEB, to keep the article name short. No standardization is possible, since not all journals have commonly used 'slang' acronyms, and the acronym is different from the standardized abbreviation used in the full reference.
Until 2011-Nov-21: Standardized abbreviation, with punctuation, as used in the full reference until Nov 2011, such as J. Exp. Biol. The final dot in the article name, however, is truncated when the weblink is copied, such that the copied weblink becomes dysfunctional.
After 2011-Nov-21: If the final dot cannot be permitted, then it is logical to omitt any punctuation for the journal abbreviation. The new journal abbreviation in Bioblast follows now exactly the format of the journal abbreviation used in Pubmed. Consequently, the punctuation in the journal abbreviation is also omitted in the full reference.