Editorial

Self Service: the Publication Policy of Natural Science at www.natsci.net

Shu-Kun Lin

Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), Saengergasse 25, CH-4054 Basel, Switzerland. Tel. +41 79 322 3379, Fax +41 61 302 8918, E-mail: [email protected], http://www.mdpi.org/lin/

Received: 2 August 2000 / Accepted: 10 August 2000 / Published:

As an author, you can do it yourself during the whole publication process on the internet. "Do-it-yourself". Is it possible? Let us do it.

The high quality of a scientific journal is ensured by a regerous peer-reviewing system. Natural Science (www.natsci.net) maintains rigorous standards of peer-review procedure similar to the PNAS (www.pnas.org) model of peer-review and editorial procedure [1]. Authors can choose editors and recommend referees.

Finally accpeted papers can be prepared by the authors following our standard layout form. We will have extremely simple layout style: only one column; one font size (12pt); one kind of most popular font (Time) and there will be no footnote.

English correction will be the responsibility of the authors. If the authors cannot find someone who speaks native English to correct English, a list of scientists are given who can provide English editing and correction services at reasonable price (normally 10$ per page). Authors should contact with them directly.

Preferably the literature citation of the reference list will should  follow NatSci.Net style. However, the style of any other journals can be followed. In one paper, only one kind of style must be consistently followed. There should be no mixed styles.

The final version of the manuscript will be published in both html and pdf forms in Natural Science. Once the papers are accepted, they will be immediately uploaded and released.

After the publication, authors can maintain a discussion forum for that published paper as a BBS at our Repreints.Net system. Published papers can be distributed freely by authors as reprints (by e-mail it is e-reprints).

Acknowledgements: I am grateful to many colleagues in  the United States, in Europe, particularly in Switzerland, in China and Russia for their collaboration and assistance.

References and Notes

1. Lin, S. -K. An Online Journal of the High Quality of Nature and Science. Nat. Sci. 2001, 1, 1-2 (www.natsci.net/html/1010001.htm).
2. The style of the journal Molecules (http://www.natsci.net/molecules) and the journal Entropy (http://www.natsci.net/entropy) can be consulted also.

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