Instructions for Authors

Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220) aims to maintain a rapid editorial procedure and a rigorous peer-review system. This open access journal is funded by publication charges paid by authors and charge waiver program. This allows us to provide unlimited free access to the online edition for readers. Authors can distribute an unlimited number of e-reprints via e-mail free of charge. Accepted papers will be published immediately. Authors are kindly asked to prepare and submit manuscripts according the following instructions.

[Submission] [Manuscript Preparation] [Review / Referees] [English Corrections] [Copyright / Open Access] [Article Processing Charges] [Reprints] [Supplementary Material]

Please use a template file to prepare your paper.

Submission of Manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted in English by e-mail with a covering e-mail, to [email protected]
MS Word (all versions) files are preferred. Manuscripts prepared with other software and computers may export the full text (with figures, schemes and tables inserted into the text) to a MS Word format (either for Macintosh or for Windows). Authors who intend to send their final, accepted papers by surface mail may contact the editor beforehand.
Authors may prepare pdf file of their final version of accepted papers by inserting correct "Receive / Accepted / Published" dates and starting page number from the webmaster. A collection of free tools for authors to prepare pdf files from all kinds of formats can be found at http://www.mdpi.net/TOOLS/pdf.html.
Copyright of published papers. We will typically insert the following note at the end of the paper:

© 200... by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Check in your cover letter whether you supplied at least 5 referees.
English corrections must be done by authors prior to submission.

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Manuscript Preparation

Manuscripts should be prepared with a word processor. The printing area is 17.5 cm x 24.7 cm. For A4 paper, the margins should be 1.75 cm on top, 1.75 cm at the bottom and 1.75 cm on both left and right sides of the paper.
The paper style of Sensors should be followed. You may download a sample paper and a template file. The full titles and the cited papers can be given. However, reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [4] or [1-3], and all the references should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript.

J. Chem. Doc.

1967

Journal titles should be abbreviated according to standard ISO rules. Lists of journal title abbreviations is available at http://images.isiknowledge.com/help/WOS/A_abrvjt.html. or http://www.cas.org/sent.html.

Textbook of Organic Chemistry

Heterocyclic Compounds

Authors' full address, homepage address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail address can be included in the title page and these will be published.
A list of three to five keywords must be given, and placed after the Abstract.
Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Conference slides, video sequences, software, etc., can be included and published as supplementary material.
Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles for all tables supplied. All table columns should have an explanatory heading.
Please supply legends for all figures, schemes and tables. The legends should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table and before a figure or a scheme.

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Referees

Authors should suggest at least five referees with the appropriate technical expertise (one of the referees should be from the International Advisory Editorial Board of Sensors), although the Editor will not necessarily approach them. Their addresses, homepage addresses, phone and fax numbers and e-mail addresses should be provided as fully as possible.

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English corrections

This journal is published in English, so it is essential that for proper refereeing and quick publication all manuscripts be submitted in grammatically correct English. For this purpose we ask that non-native English speakers ensure their manuscripts are checked before submitting them for consideration. We suggest that for this purpose your manuscript be revised by an English speaking colleague before submission. If judged as required by the reviewers or the editors, MDPI will manage the English language editing and corrections at a surcharge of 250 CHF (Swiss Francs).

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Sensors will be open-access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license. MDPI will insert following note at the end of the published text:

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Article Processing Charges (APC)

Open Access article processing charges (APC) are of 1050 CHF per accepted paper. English correction and/or extensive editing charges of 250 CHF will be added in certain cases (1300 CHF per paper for those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections).

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Reprints

Reprints can be ordered. Please visit http://www.mdpi.org/reprints/ for more information or to request an offer.

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Supplementary Material Deposit

We wish to encourage the submission of supplementary data in electronic formats, so that important chemical, structural or scientific information is retained in full. Spectral data (NMR, IR, Raman, ESR, etc) can be submitted in JCAMP (.jdx) format.

3D coordinate structures (in pdb, mol, xyz or other common formats), if available, should also be submitted.

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