Instructions for Authors

Submission of Manuscripts

• Manuscripts should be submitted in English by e-mail with a covering e-mail, to
Dr. Francis F. Muguet, Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées, ENSTA (Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees), 32 Boulevard Victor, F-75739 Paris Cedex, France. Tel. (33) 1.45.52.60.19, Fax : (33) 1.45.52.52.82, e-mail: [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.
• Submission of a paper implies that the copyright is transferred to MDPI. However, for legal reasons, authors must fill out the Copyright Transfer Form, which can be downloaded from http://www.mdpi.org/natscilett/copyrtf.htm, and send it by surface mail to the editor.

• 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 1.5 cm on top, 3.5 cm at the bottom and 1.75 cm on both left and right sides of the paper. For US letter-sized paper, the margins should be 1.5 cm on top, 1.74 cm at the bottom and 2.05 cm on both left and right sides.
• The paper style of Natural Science should be followed. You may download a sample paper and a template file from Natural Science homepage. The full titles and the cited papers can be given. The style of Molecules is also acceptable. 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.

Journal references must cite the title of the paper and its starting and ending pages, thus
8. Bowman, C. M.; Landee, F. A.; Reslock, M. A. Chemically Oriented Storage and Retrieval System. 1. Storage and Verification of Structural Information. J. Chem. Doc. 1967, 7, 43-47.
References to books should cite the authors(s), title, publisher, publication date, and page.
9. Smith, A. B. Textbook of Organic Chemistry; D. C. Jones: New York, 1961; pp 123-126.
In referring to a book written by various contributors, cite authors(s) first, as in
10. Winstein, S.; Henderson, R. B. In Heterocyclic Compounds; Elderfield, R. C., Ed.; Wiley: New York, 1950; Vol. 1, Chapter 1, p 60.
• 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 after a figure or a scheme.

Reprints
Reprints may be ordered. Contact the managing editor for more details.

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.

Dr. 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/)