Graphical Abstract & One-sentence Summary
FEMS uses Graphical Abstracts to promote articles via email content, social media, newsletters and online search results. Below are examples you can use for preparing your own graphical abstract or one-sentence summary when you are submitting your article.
Graphical Abstract |
Image which is not necessarily linked to the original manuscript, but either summarizes the text, fits to the text and is very appealing or is one of the key images/ figures/ graphs of the article.
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One-sentence Summary |
Short non-technical summary stating the novelty of the article. The language used should be understood by a non-specialist.
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Examples of Graphical Abstracts and One-sentence Summaries |
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FEMS Journals and Open Access
All but one of the FEMS journals are fully open access (OA), with one journal, FEMS Microbiology Letters, offering free-to-publish and OA options. Open access is key to supporting the FEMS mission of disseminating high quality research as widely as possible: when high quality, peer reviewed sound science is open access, anyone, anywhere in the world with an internet connection, can read it.