Instructions
for Authors
All
papers submitted for consideration and publication in
MolBank
(ISSN 1422-8599) will be reviewed, and if accepted, will be edited
(format unified). Accepted papers will be published within one
week.
MolBank is funded
by publication charges paid by
authors or their institutions,
or
through
the deposit of one rare sample per
paper with the MDPI samples collection.
Submission
of Manuscripts
- Manuscripts should be submitted in English by
e-mail with a covering letter and the MDL MOL files to [email protected].
- Copyright
of published papers. We will typically insert the following note at the
end of the paper: "© 200... by MDPI (http://www.mdpi.org).
Reproduction
is permitted for noncommercial purposes." For alternate arrangements
concerning copyright, please contact
the Publisher.
- Check in your cover
letter whether you supplied at least 3
potential referees. Check if the English
corrections are done before submission.
Manuscript Preparation
- Correct MDL MOL files must be prepared by the
Authors prior to the submission of their manuscript. Authors may use
the following software products to prepare MOL files:
- ChemDraw
- SketchEl
(open source / free to use. Go to "Downloads", and download the .jar
file package of the most recent version)
- ISIS/Draw
- The paper style of MolBank
should be followed. You may download any published paper in Molbank
website. The style of J. Am. Chem. Soc. is
adopted. However, the full titles of the cited papers must be given,
the 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.
- Authors' full address,
homepage address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail address must be
included in the title page and these will be published.
- Authors
are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color.
- At
most one table can be accepted and should be inserted into the main
text, and numbers and titles for the table supplied. All table columns
should have an explanatory heading.
- One figure or
one scheme or one structure can be included.
- Check
in your cover letter whether you supplied at least 3
potential referees. Check if the English
corrections are done before submission.
Characterisation of New
Compounds
All new
compounds must be convincingly charaterised by appropriate data. This
includes a description (e.g. "yellow oil", "colourless crystals",
etc.), physicochemical properties (e.g., melting point), elemental
analyses and/or high-resolution MS, and as many kinds of spectral data
as possible (
1H-NMR,
13C-NMR,
IR, MS, ...). In addition to the usual listings of spectral data,
submission of the original spectra in JCAMP-DX format is encouraged
(see below:
Supplementary
Material Deposit).
Referees
Authors should suggest at
least three potential
referees with the appropriate technical expertise, although the Editors
will not necessarily approach them. Their name, addresses, homepage
addresses, phone and fax numbers and e-mail addresses should be
provided as fully as possible.
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.
Copyright
Arrangements
If no
alternate arrangement
concerning copyright has been made with the Publisher:
When you submit a paper and the paper is received, your paper will be
asigned an unique manuscript ID and you will be asked to transfer
copyright. The
copyright
transfer form should be downloaded, signed, and returned to
the indicated Fax number or postal address. This is a prerequisite for
publication of your paper in this journal. The manuscript ID should be
provided for copyright transfer form.
Reprints
Supplementary
Material Deposit
- Spectral data can be submitted and deposited in
JCAMP (.jdx) format. These are superb for displaying NMR, IR, Raman,
ESR, or any other type of spectra data in a way that doesn't lose any
of the information.
- 2D/3D coordinates of
structures (in MDL MOL format) must be
submitted.
Sample
Deposit and Exchange
Authors are encouraged to
register or submit samples of
the key compounds and appropriate intermediates (e.g. main reactant and the target product) from each paper to
MDPI in Switzerland for
deposit and distribution at
a reasonable price to help defray the publication costs. Contributions
of starting materials, intermediates or other non-commercially
available samples are also acceptable.
Sample Availability
information should be included after the "References and Notes" section
of the manuscript, and before the copyright notice. For details, visit:
http://www.mdpi.org/. Samples
should be sent to
Molecular Diversity
Preservation International (MDPI)
Samples Deposit Service
Matthaeusstrasse
11
CH-4057 Basel
Switzerland
Publication Charges
The acceptance of a paper
for publication is based solely on its scientific merit, as
judged by peer review, and is completely independent of the authors'
willingness to contribute samples or publication charges to cover the
publication costs.
Those authors who have supported our
project of
deposit of one rare sample per paper
through MDPI will be considered to have paid the publication charges
"in kind". If samples are not contributed, authors will be asked to
defray the publication costs of their papers by payment of page
charges. As
we
encourage publication of long papers (with detailed
description of the experiment, full data of the product
characterization, etc.)
the
paper charge for publishing in this journal is CHF 150 per Molbank paper,
regardless of its length.
Molbank
(ISSN 1422-8599)
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