| Current
Organic Synthesis
ISSN: 1570-1794 - Volume 5, 4 Issues, 2008
Instructions for
Authors
Manuscripts should be submitted openly to one of the following
Editors without prior invitation at the following addresses:
Submissions
from North and South America:
Prof. Robert J. Linhardt
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Cogswell Bldg, 110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180-3590
USA
Tel: +1-518-276-3404
Fax : +1-518-276-3405
Email: linhar@rpi.edu
Prof. Peng George Wang,
Departments of Biochemistry
The Ohio State University
876 Biological Sciences Build.
484 West 12th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210 USA
http://wang.biosci.ohio-state.edu
Email: wang.892@osu.edu
Telephone: (614)-292-9884
Cell Phone:(614)-499-3519
Fax: (614)-688-3106
Submissions from Europe:
Professor David W. Knight
Cardiff University, P.O. Box 912
Cardiff CF10 3TB, Wales
UK
Tel: +44-29 2087 4210
Fax: +44-29 2087 4210/4030
E-mail: knightdw@cf.ac.uk
Dr. Michel Miesch
Directeur de Recherche CNRS
Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Synthétique - UMR 7123
Université Louis Pasteur - Faculté de Chimie
1, rue Blaise Pascal BP296/R8
67008 Strasbourg Cedex
Tel.: +33(0)390241752
Fax: +33(0)390241754
email: miesch@chimie.u-strasbg.fr
www-chimie.u-strasbg.fr/~lcos/
Prof. Christopher J. Moody
The University of Nottingham
School of Chemistry
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
UK
c.j.moody@nottingham.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)115 846 8500
Fax: +44 (0)115 951 3564
Prof. Pierre Vogel
Institute of Molecular and Biological Chemistry (ICMB)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
BCH, CH-1015 – Lausanne-Dorigny
Switzerland
Tel: +41 21 693 9371/9350
Fax: +41 21 693 9375
E-mail: pierre.vogel@epfl.ch
Submissions from Japan:
Prof. Yoshinori Yamamoto
Department of Chemistry
Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
Sendai, 980-8578
Japan
Tel: +81-22-217-6581
Fax: +81-22-217-6784
E-mail: yoshi@yamamoto1.chem.tohoku.ac.jp
Submissions from Asia:
Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman, FRS
H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry
University of Karachi, Karachi-75270
Pakistan
Tel: +92-21-482-4924, +92-21-482-4925;
Fax:+92-21-461-2073;+92-21-481-9018;+92-21-481-9019; +92-21-924-3191
E-mail: mhej@cyber.net.pk
Manuscript Length: The manuscript written in English
should be approximately 50 pages in length and typed with
double spacing throughout.
Manuscript Organization: The manuscript should be
divided as: Title page, abstract and the main text. The text
may be subdivided further according to the areas to be discussed.
This should be followed by the Acknowledgement (if any) and
Reference sections. The first page should contain the title,
the authors’ names (initials and surname only), with
an asterisk to mark the name of the principal author.
Conflict of Interest: Financial contributions
to the work being reported should be clearly acknowledged,
as should any potential conflict of interest.
Abstract: The abstract should not exceed 50 words
and should condense the essential features of the review article.
Key Words: Authors must supply up to six key words
along with their manuscript.
Text: The main text should begin on a separate page
and it may be subdivided into separate sections. The reference
numbers should be given in square brackets in the text. Acknowledgements
should be kept to a minimum.
Tables:
- Data Tables should
be submitted in Microsoft Excel or in Microsoft Word table
format.
- Each table should include
a title/caption explaining what the table shows. Detailed
legends may then follow.
- Tables should be given
on separate pages with indications on the left hand margin
to the text, as to the appropriate placement of the tables.
- Tables should not contain
vertical rules.
- Columns and rows of
data should be made visibly distinct by ensuring the borders
of each cell display as black lines.
- Tables should be numbered
consecutively in order of their citation in the body of
the text, with Arabic numerals.
- If a reference is cited
in both the table and text, insert a lettered footnote in
the table to refer to the numbered reference in the text.
- Tabular data provided
as additional files can be submitted as an Excel spreadsheet.
Figures / Illustrations:
All authors must strictly follow the guidelines below for
preparing illustrations for publication in Current Organic
Synthesis.
Editorial Requirements:
The quality of the illustrations printed in the journal largely
depends on the quality of the figures/illustration provided
by the author. In preparing artwork or graphics for publication,
keep in mind the following points.
- Submit the original artwork or a photographic
print of the original for publication.
- Do not submit photocopies. (Hardcopy submission
requirement).
- Illustrations should be provided as separate
files, not embedded in the text. (Hardcopy submission requirement).
- Remove all color from graphics except for
those illustrations (Greyscale), which are intended to be
printed in color.
- Good quality of hardcopy originals are a
requirement.
- Figures should be referred to as “Fig.
(1)”, “Fig. (2)” etc. in the
text with figure numbers in bold within round bracket.
- Revised manuscripts should contain a complete
set of artwork and photographs.
Technical Details:
- Figures should be provided on high quality,
white, smooth opaque paper. (Hardcopy requirement).
Format & Resolution:
- The following file formats can be accepted.
(Preference in order of appearance): PDF, TIFF, JPEG, GIF.
- Illustrations must fit a single or double
column format on the journal page, according to the following
guideline below:
|
HEIGHT |
WIDTH |
SINGLE
COLUMN |
24
cm (max) |
8.5
cm (max) |
DOUBLE
COLUMN |
24
cm (max) |
18
cm (max) |
- Whenever possible, submit graphics that do
not have to be reduced to fit the standard figure size.
- Use the best resolution available (hardcopy
submission requirement). For online submission the maximum
resolution is 300 dpi.
- Avoid textures and shadings giving a three-dimensional
effect to the illustration.
- Symbols and lettering in the illustration
should be of similar size.
- Smaller lettering is used.
- Font: Times New Roman or Helvetica is preferable.
Font size: 10pt (maximum).
- Line drawings should have clear and sharp
lines and should be of uniform density. Moreover, lines
should be continuous without any breaks.
- Do not use lines thinner than 1 point.
Color Figures / Illustrations:
Photographs:
Submit high-contrast prints that are of single- or double-column
width so that they will not have to be reduced when printed.
Negatives are not acceptable. However, in case of hardcopy
submission, color illustrations and plates can be published
from 35 mm color slides.
Chemical Structures: Chemical structures MUST be prepared
according to the guidelines below.
Structures should be prepared using a suitable drawing program
e.g. ChemDraw and provided as separate file, submitted both
on disk and in printed formats.
Numbers in bold should identify all chemical structure. If
a name is also used to describe the compound, the associated
number if required, should be in bold and parenthesis, e.g.
“compound (1)”.
Structure Drawing Preferences:
[as according to the ACS style sheet]
Drawing Settings:
Chain angle 120º
Bond spacing 18% of width
Fixed length 14.4 pt
(0.500cm, 0.2in)
Bold width
2.0 pt (0.071cm, 0.0278in)
Line width
0.6 pt (0.021cm, 0.0084in)
Margin width 1.6 pt
(0.096cm)
Harsh spacing 2.5 pt (0.088cm, 0.0347in)
Text settings:
Font Times
New Roman / Helvetica
Size 10pt
Under the preference choose:
Units
points
Tolerances 3
pixels
Under page setup use:
Paper US
letter
Scale
100%
References: For the format
of references, see the ACS Style Guide, pp 106-114.
Examples:
Journal Reference:
Barton, D.H.R.; Brewster, A.G.; Ley, S.V.; Rosenfield, M.N.
J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun., 1977,
147, 2356.
Book Reference:
Rahman, A.-U.; Shah, Z. Stereoselective Synthesis in Organic
Chemistry, Springer-Verlag: New York, 1993.
Book Chapter Reference:
Wheeler, D.M.S.; Wheeler, M.M. In Studies in Natural Products
Chemistry; Atta-ur-Rahman, Ed.; Elsevier Science B. V:
Amsterdam, 1994; Vol. 14, pp. 3-46.
Abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications (which
can be only included if permission has been obtained) should
not be given in the references section but they may be mentioned
in the text and details provided as footnotes. All authors
of referenced papers must be cited and there must be no use
of the short hand version of et al. when citing authors. Abbreviations
should be defined the first time that they are used in the
manuscript and a list of abbreviations should be provided.
Manuscript Submission: Manuscripts may be submitted
online or by conventional, hardcopy submission.Two copies
of the manuscript must accompany the original along with the
soft copy of the manuscript on a computer floppy disk(s) in
MS Word file format (or created in any other well-known word
processing software) should be submitted. To achieve rapid
publication authors are encouraged to e-mail or fax their
submission to the appropriate editorial office (see above)
at the same time that they mail the manuscript. For even faster
publication, authors are encouraged to submit their entire
manuscript via Bentham’s online submission service (see
below). Authors must provide their full address, telephone
and fax numbers with e-mail address with all submissions.
For expedient and speedy reviewing of author's manuscripts,
authors are strongly advised to include the PDF file of their
manuscript on a floppy or zip disk, into the mailing material.
At the same time the package is mailed, please also send by
e-mail a copy of the PDF file of the manuscript to the editorial
office.
Online Manuscript Submission: (preferable)
To facilitate speedy and cost-effective submission of abstracts
and manuscripts, an online submission and tracking service
via Internet is being offered. Once the Editor-in-Chief of
the journal has accepted your abstract, we would prefer that
you submit your full manuscript online via our online submission
service available at www.bentham-mps.org
or by FTP submission at www.bentham-ftp.org
For online submission, please provide your complete manuscript
in the form of a single zipped folder
containing all the material (main text, figures/ illustrations,
scanned photographs, tables, chemical structures drawn in
ChemDraw) as separate files and
a PDF version of the entire manuscript
with all the figures/ illustrations / tables / chemical structures
etc., embedded in the text exactly in the manner
as they should appear in printing.
Authors are required to proofread the PDF version of their
manuscript before submission. The article will be published
exactly as received and the Publishers
will not be responsible for any error occurring in the manuscript
in this regard.
You may, however, still submit your abstracts and manuscripts
through conventional surface mail.
A successful electronic submission of a manuscript will be
followed by a system-generated acknowledgement to the principal/corresponding
author within 72 hours of the dispatch of the manuscript.
Any queries therein should be addressed to mahmood@bentham.org
and copied to Jalil@bentham.org
Page Charges: No page charges will be levied to authors.
Language Editing: Manuscripts submitted containing
many English typographical errors will not be published. Authors
from non-English language countries are advised to use the
services of our professional language editing department prior
to submitting their manuscript to the Journal. Please contact
Bentham Publishing Services www.benthampublishingservices.com
for a language editing quote at e-mail: info@benthampublishingservices.com
stating the total number of words of the article to be edited.
Proofs: Authors are sent page proofs. To
avoid delays in publication, proofs should be checked immediately
for typographical errors and returned within 48 hours. Authors
will be charged for excessive changes made at the page proof
stage.
Reprints: Each first named author will receive
by e-mail a free copy of their article as a PDF file. The
PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article
which is exclusively for the author's own use and may not
be copied or distributed. Reprints may be ordered from the
Publisher prior to publication of the article. First named
authors may also order a personal print and online subscription
of the journal at 50% off the normal subscription rate by
contacting the subscription department at e-mail: subscriptions@bentham.org
Bentham Open Access: Accepted articles can
be published online for an immediate free open access for
all to view. Open access publishing provides the maximum dissemination
of the article to the largest audience. Authors must pay for
this service. For more information please contact us at e-mail:
openaccess@bentham.org
Reviewing and Promptness of Publication:
All papers submitted for publication will be immediately subjected
to editorial scrutiny, usually in consultation with members
of the Editorial Advisory Board. Every effort will be made
to assess the papers quickly. The papers will be typeset and
the proofs dispatched to the authors normally within 4 weeks
of their acceptance.
Copyright: It is a condition of publication
that manuscripts submitted to this journal have not been published
and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere.
Plagiarism is strictly forbidden, and by submitting the article
for publication the authors agree that the publishers have
the legal right to take appropriate action against the authors,
if plagiarism is discovered. By submitting a manuscript the
authors agree that the copyright of their article is transferred
to the publishers if and when the article is accepted for
publication.
|
