The Journal of Microbiological Methods publishes scholarly and original articles, notes and review articles. These articles must include novel and/or state-of-the-art methods, or significant improvements to existing methods. Novel and innovative applications of current methods that are validated and useful will also be published. JMM strives for scholarship, innovation and excellence. This demands scientific rigour, the best available methods and technologies, correctly replicated experiments/tests, the inclusion of proper controls, calibrations, and the correct statistical analysis. The presentation of the data must support the interpretation of the method/approach. 
All aspects of microbiology are covered, except virology. These include agricultural microbiology, applied and environmental microbiology, bioassays, bioinformatics, biotechnology, biochemical microbiology, clinical microbiology, diagnostics, food monitoring and quality control microbiology, microbial genetics and genomics, geomicrobiology, microbiome methods regardless of habitat, high through-put sequencing methods and analysis, microbial pathogenesis and host responses, metabolomics, metagenomics, metaproteomics, microbial ecology and diversity, microbial physiology, microbial ultra-structure, microscopic and imaging methods, molecular microbiology, mycology, novel mathematical microbiology and modelling, parasitology, plant-microbe interactions, protein markers/profiles, proteomics, pyrosequencing, public health microbiology, radioisotopes applied to microbiology, robotics applied to microbiological methods,rumen microbiology, microbiological methods for space missions and extreme environments, sampling methods and samplers, soil and sediment microbiology, transcriptomics, veterinary microbiology, sero-diagnostics and typing/identification. 
The editors, editorial board members and scholarly reviewers are active scientists with an immense amount of collective experience that is used during the review and revision stages of articles. We encourage the submission of proposals for scholarly reviews and specials issues on emerging microbiological methods that are central to advancing microbiological knowledge. We look forward to receiving your proposals and articles. 

Full length Original Research Articles
Review Articles
Short Communications

Editor-in-Chief
J.T. Trevors
Guelph, Canada Email J.T. Trevors
Editors
manuscripts can be submitted to any of the 4 editors
M.J. Bailey
Natural Environment Research Council, Oxfordshire, UK Email M.J. Bailey
M. Calcutt
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA Email M. Calcutt
V. Gurtler
RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia Email V. Gurtler
J.T. Trevors
Guelph, Canada Email J.T. Trevors
Editorial Board
S.W. Bearden
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
A. Bej
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
W.H. Benjamin
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
B. Brehm-Stecher
Ames, Iowa, USA
E. Breitschwerdt
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
R.S. Burlage
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
H.J. Busscher
Groningen, Netherlands
V. Catalan
Alicante, Spain
F.R. Champlin
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
K.L. Cook
Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA
D. Daffonchio
Milano, Italy
N. Decaro
Valenzano (Bari), Italy
D. Dong
Shanghai, China
M. Elshahed
Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
A Ericsson
Columbia, Missouri, USA
A. Fernández Scavino
Canelones, Uruguay
R.H. Findlay
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
K. Fox
Colombia, South Carolina, USA
H. Geng
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
D. Grando
Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
N. Gray
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
J.B. Guckert
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
M.E. Hart
Jefferson, Arkansas, USA
J. Higgins
Beltsville, Maryland, USA
E.S. Kaneshiro
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
M. Karrasch, MD
Jena, Germany
G.A. Köhler
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
D.R. Korber
Saskatoon, Canada
M.P. Kozar
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
H-C. Lai
Taipei, Taiwan
L. Larsson
Lund, Sweden
P. Lau
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J.R. Lawrence
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
J.O. Lay
Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
K.P. Leung
Great Lakes, Illinois, USA
L. Lindler
Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
E. Lutter
Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
M. Minnick
Missoula, Montana, USA
S. Mitarai
N. Mykytczuk
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
D. Naumann
Berlin, Germany
T. Neu
MAGDEBURG, Germany
P.A. Noble
Seattle, Washington, USA
C.R. Osorio
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
O.A. Oyarzabal
South Burlington, Vermont, USA
R.J. Palmer, Jr.
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
M. A. Patrauchan
Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
C. Pavia
Old Westbury, New York, USA
M. Prieto
León, Spain
M. Rautenbach
Stellenbosch, South Africa
D. Ren
Rochester, New York, USA
M. Ridell
Göteborg, Sweden
J.R. Rose
Columbia, South Carolina, USA
R.F. Schell
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
L. Schena
Reggio Calabria, Italy
D. Schofield
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
R. Seviour
Melbourne (Bundoora), Victoria, Australia
H.M. Shapiro
A. Soares Rosado
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
G.C. Stewart
Columbia, Missouri, USA
L. Suh
Auburn, Alabama, USA
R. Tenreiro
Lisboa, Portugal
E. Trees
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
O. Tresse
Nantes Cedex3, France
M.W.J. van Passel
Wageningen, Netherlands
K. Waites
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
A. Whiteley
Oxford, UK
J. Whittum-Hudson
Detroit, Michigan, USA
J. Withey
Detroit, Michigan, USA
D. Wunschel
Richland, Washington, USA
Y. Yang
Beltsville, Maryland, USA