Chose a journal which publishes original articles about aspects of your research. The journal should have a broad readership and be regarded highly by the research community.

Submissions are judged mainly on the originality of their data, interpretations, and ideas, and on the degree to which these can be generalized beyond the particular experiments reported on. In microbial ecology, laboratory studies, modeling, and methodological studies must demonstrate relevance to natural environments, evolutionary studies must be based on accepted concepts. Manuscripts are edited for brevity and clarity. All submissions to a journal must be formatted according to the specifications outlined in the journal's "instructions for manuscripts" or "instructions to authors".

Editors place high priority on the susceptibility of results to independent verification.

If a paper contains results obtained using a strain of microbe isolated from nature and not available yet from a public collection, the author is expected to honor in a reasonable time all requests for samples of the culture or to deposit specimens in a public culture collection.

Authors reporting on results that includes new nucleotide or amino acid sequences must submit the sequence information to a publicly accessible archive (e.g., GenBank or EMBL) and provide the accession number(s) in the part of the manuscript that describes the research methods. Manuscripts that use existing sequences from GenBank/EMBL must cite accession numbers and original literature references to them (if they exist).