Journal of Heredity Genome Release Article

overview

CCGP Genome Resources are brief reports of around 3000 words and up to four display items  that describe CCGP draft reference genome assemblies. They can be longer if you wish (no more than 4000 words is allowable by the journal), but our target is short, succinct, rapidly-published release papers. It is important for the CCGP project that as many of our new draft reference genomes as possible, and hopefully all of them, are announced in this format. To expedite publication:

  • CCGP will cover the cost of publication, including open access fees.

  • CCGP will contribute the majority of the technical details, including the methods, results, and data availability sections, including two tables and one figure. Please note that these components will come from multiple team members and, as the primary author(s), it is the PIs responsibility to revise the provided sections so that the text is cohesive.

  • The PI is responsible for the introduction, discussion, and other components specific to their species, including some of the results.

  • Since the publication of JOH issue #6 of 2022 that was devoted to the CCGP, we encourage all authors to please read, and as appropriate, consider citing several of our papers from that issue. Doing so helps promote the CCGP to the community of users of our work (and it helps the journal’s Impact Factor, which is a nice bonus). We list these papers below.

  • We have worked with the Editors of JOH to try to ensure that you are not required by reviewers to conduct and report on additional analyses beyond the basic assembly of your genome. You may do additional analyses, or reviewers may recommend them, but hopefully they will not be required. Please contact Erin Toffelmier (etoff@ucla.edu) or Brad Shaffer (brad.shaffer@ucla.edu) if you run into any issues with this during your ms review.

Submission Instructions

All Genome Resources papers should be submitted through the ScholarOne Manuscripts portal: https://academic.oup.com/jhered/pages/Msprep_Submission. To ensure that the CCGP is billed properly, there must be 1) at least one author who is a member of the American Genetic Association (AGA), and 2) authors must note that the manuscript is part of the CCGP in their cover letter. Having one author who is an AGA member saves us a lot of money, and is a requirement for all papers. If you don’t have an AGA member on your author list, please contact Brad Shaffer or Erin Toffelmier.

We strongly encourage authors to publish under open access licenses (i.e. select the CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND license type when signing their author license). Please note that CCGP will cover all OA fees. When authors choose an open access license, this allows the work to be freely available and grants wide re-use rights. Information about OA licenses for JOH (under Oxford Academic) may be found here, for reference. Again, we hope that all CCGP GR papers are published as Open Access papers in JOH. 


Template

With approval from JOH, we have tailored the JOH Genome Release guidelines for CCGP releases. Please use the following template in preparation of your article. Highlighted areas describe who is primarily responsible for each section, although all authors should read, contribute as they can, and approve the entire manuscript. Below we have summarized the important points for each section, but the standard JOH author guidelines can be found here.