Symbol Legend

Symbol Name Definition

¶ Pilcrow (paragraph symbol)
& Ampersand
* Asterisk
#a Pound/number sign
1 #b Pound/number sign
† Dagger/Cross
^ Caret
2
1st set of equal contributors
2nd set of equal contributors
Corresponding author(s)
First Current address
Second Current address
Deceased
Consortium/Group Authorship

3
Article Title
• Italics, bold type, symbols, and other text
4 This is the article title formatting will all be reproduced in the
published article as submitted.
• Titles should be written in sentence case
5 (capitalize only the first word of the title, the first
word of the subtitle, and any proper nouns and
genus names).
6

Author Byline
7 John Doe1¶, Antonie Data1¶, Johannes van Stats1,#a, Marie Testperson2*, David
• Author names will be published exactly as they
appear in the accepted manuscript.
8 Ribosome Jr.3,4, Gregory H.T. McBio5,#b, Angela Reviewerson1,2&, Marina • Indicate affiliations by number only.
• Affiliation footnotes should appear in numerical
9 Measure1&, on behalf of The Bunny Genome Sequencing Consortium^ order at first mention.
• Please use the symbols provided in this
10 document for other designations.
• Numbers and symbols should be in
11 superscript.
• Do not include titles (Dr., PhD, Professor, etc.).
12

13 1
Department, Institution, City, State, Country Affiliations
• Affiliations will be published as they
14 2
Department of Dermatology, Division of Rabbit Health, Section of Veterinary appear in the accepted manuscript.
15 Medicine, St. Hare Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of America • Include each component in order of
16 small to large (Department, Division,
17 3
Department of Libraries and Archives, National Contemporary Bunny Museum, Section, Institution, City, State,
18 Lagomorph, Connecticut, United States of America Country).
19 • Do not include ZIP or Postal Codes,
20 4
Department of Restoration, National Contemporary Bunny Museum, Lagomorph, street addresses, or building/office
numbers.
21 Connecticut, United States of America
• Do not use abbreviations (e.g. Dept.).
22
• Do not list positions within an
23 5
Department of Archaeology, Bunny University, Lagomorph, Connecticut, United institution (e.g. Department Chair,
24 States of America Professor, etc.).
25 • List each affiliation individually and in
26 #a
Current Address: Department of Carrot Science, Bunny University, Lagomorph, full.
27 Connecticut, United States of America
28
29 #b
Current Address: Department of Canine Evasion, Bunny University, Lagomorph,
30 Connecticut, United States of America
31

32
Corresponding Authorship
33 * Corresponding author • Do not include physical addresses; only
email addresses are required.
34 E-mail: testperson@university.ed (MT) • List corresponding author’s initials in
parentheses after the email address.
35

36
Contributorship
37 ¶
These authors contributed equally to this work. • Use the symbols provided here to
indicate equal contributions.
• If you would like the equal contributions
38 &
These authors also contributed equally to this work. notes to read differently, please specify
in your manuscript (e.g., "AR and MM
39 are Joint Senior Authors").

40
Consortia or other Group Authors
41 ^Membership of the Bunny Genome Sequencing Consortium is provided in the • If there is a consortium or group author
on your manuscript, please provide a
42 Acknowledgments. note that describes where the full
membership list is available for the
readers.
• The membership list can be listed in
the Acknowledgments, in Supporting
Information, or on the internet.
• Consortia/Group authors can have
affiliations, but it is not required.

Modified April 2021