PLOS Currents: Influenza considers all aspects of research into influenza. Topics include (but are not limited to) influenza virology, genetics, immunity, structural biology, genomics, epidemiology, modeling, evolution, policy and control.

General Guidelines

• Submission of a manuscript to PLOS Currents: Influenza implies that all listed authors contributed substantially to the work, and that the work is an original contribution.
• In cases when it is not immediately clear whether a contributor should be an author or simply acknowledged, please follow the policies used by the PLOS Journals.
• If a manuscript constitutes primary publication of results from a study involving human subjects, authors must affirm that it was done in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
• In general, for studies involving human or animal research, authors should follow the policies established for the PLoS Journals (see for example the relevant policies in PLOS Medicine).
• Authors may use any common citation style (e.g., AMA style, APA style, the Chicago Manual of Style, etc.) in the Reference section, as long as it is used consistently and authorship of cited works is adequately attributed, with all information necessary to locate cited material included.

 

Instructions for Creating a PLOS Currents Author Account

All authors and co-authors will need a PLOS Currents account in order compose and submit a manuscript to PLOS Currents. A new account can be created by clicking the ‘Register’ link on the PLOS Currents: Influenza log-in page, which can be found via the ‘log in’ link in the upper right-hand corner of the PLOS Currents homepage.

Submitting a username and email address will generate an email message asking you to confirm your account. Completing the confirmation process will generate a second message, which will provide you with the temporary password you will need to log in. This password can be updated as needed on your Profile page.

Once logged in, please update your profile with your full name, and affiliation information. This information will be used in the PLOS Currents articles published under your name, so please ensure that your name and affiliation information appears exactly as it should in the author list of a published article, and in PubMed.

You can access your profile via the Profile section on your ‘Dashboard’ page – your name should be submitted in the ‘Your Profile’ page, while your affiliation should be submitted on the ‘Annotum Profile’ page.

 

Instructions for Writing and Submitting articles to PLOS Currents

Once you have created an Annotum account and logged in, you will be able to create a new article via the WordPress Dashboard, which is accessible from the top of any PLOS Currents page. Before creating a new submission, please make sure of the following:

A) Please ensure that you are logged in to the correct PLOS Currents section – the name of the section will appear in the Dashboard bar at the top of the page. Unfortunately, we are not able to transfer articles between PLOS Currents sections at the moment.

B) Please ensure that you are creating a new Article, rather than a new ‘Post.’ Posts cannot be published in PLOS Currents, and will need to be re-submitted as articles.

From the Annotum Dashboard page, select the ‘Articles’ button on the left-hand sidebar, followed by the ‘Add New’ button.

Enter the paper’s Title, Abstract, Funding Statement, and Acknowledgments into the appropriate text fields on the submission page, using the editing toolbar to format the text, add images, tables, equations, and lists as needed.

Note: If you are copying a fully formatted document into Annotum, the previous document’s formatting may not display correctly in Annotum. In this case the you can use the ‘Paste as Plain Text’ tool to copy the article into Annotum.

Creating Article Text

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