Methodology articles

Methodology articles should present a new experimental or computational method, test or procedure. The method described may either be completely new, or may offer a better version of an existing method. The article must describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method needs to have been well tested and ideally, but not necessarily, used in a way that proves its value.

Manuscript sections for Methodology articles

Manuscripts for Methodology articles submitted to BMC Developmental Biology should be structured identically to Research articles.

We consider the main result of a Methodology article to be the method itself. The description of the method and all details of the development and testing should be presented in the Results section. The Methods section at the end of the manuscript should be reserved for the technical details necessary to allow others to replicate the method, and can be omitted if this information is provided elsewhere in the manuscript.

For Methodology articles presenting novel computational methods, we suggest that the Results section includes the subheadings, "Algorithm", "Testing" and "Implementation".