Pharmaceutics
(ISSN 1999-4923) 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 or their insititutes.
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
of Manuscripts
- Submission:
Manuscripts
should be submitted by e-mail to Pharmaceutics@mdpi.org (add
"Manuscript
Submission for Pharmaceutics" as the subject).
- File Format:
Microsoft
Word files (all versions, *.doc), OpenOffice, StarOffice
or Latex
files will be accepted. If a manuscript is prepared in Latex, the
source code and a pdf version must be submitted.
- Coverletter: Check
in
your cover letter whether you supplied at least 4
referees. Check if the English
corrections are done before submission.
- Copyright: We
will
typically insert the
following
note
at the end of the published paper: "©
200... by MDPI (http://www.mdpi.org).
Reproduction
is permitted for noncommercial purposes." Authors will be
asked
to transfer copyright at
the time of
submission. For alternate arrangements
concerning
copyright please contact the Editorial
Office or
the Publisher.
Manuscript
Preparation
- Paper Format:
A4 paper
format, the
printing area
is 17.5 cm x 24.7 cm. 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.
- Formatting /
Style: The
paper style of Pharmaceutics
should
be followed. You may download a template
file from the Pharmaceutics
homepage to prepare your paper. The full titles and the cited papers
must be given. 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.
- Reference
Formatting:
- Journal
references
must cite the title of the paper and its starting
and ending pages:
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 author(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 author(s)
first:
10. Winstein, S.; Henderson, R. B. In Heterocyclic Compounds;
Elderfield, R. C., Ed.; Wiley: New York, 1950; Vol. 1, Chapter 1, p 60.
- Reference
Preparation:
References should preferably be prepared with EndNote®,
ReferenceManager™ or
a similar bibliography software package. If references are prepared
manually they must be checked for integrity and correctness (you may
use ISI Web of
Knowledge, PubMed/MEDLINE
or Google Scholar).
The
Editorial Office will charge additional CHF 10 per citation
for
which extensive corrections must be made.
- Authors List
and Affiliation
Format: Authors'
full first and last names must be given. Abbreviated middle name can be
added. For papers written by various contributors a corresponding
author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for
affiliations: complete address information including city, zip
code,
state/province, country, and email address should be added.
- Abstract and
Keywords: The
abstract should be one paragraph and count less than 100 words. A list
of three to ten keywords must be given, and placed
after the
Abstract.
- Figures,
Schemes and Tables: Authors
are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color.
Full
color
graphics will be published free of charge. Figure and schemes must be
numbered (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, etc.) and a
explanatory title must
be added. 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.
- Electronic
Supplementary
Information (ESI): Conference slides, video
sequences,
software, etc., can be included with the submission
and
published as supplementary
material. Please read the information about Supplementary
Material Deposit beneath.
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Review / Referees
Authors should suggest at
least
4 potential referees with the appropriate
technical
expertise, 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.
At least two of the suggested referees must be from a different country
than the author's one. At least two of the suggested referees must be
from a western
country (USA, Canada, Japan, Australia or western European country).
You may
choose appropriate ones from the
Pharmaceutics Editorial
Board.
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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. Additional
fees of CHF 250 will be paid by authors if extensive
English
corrections must be done by the editors.
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Copyright
Transfer
When you submit a paper
and the paper
is received, your paper will be asigned a 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.
Manuscript ID should be provided for copyright transfer form.
For alternate arrangements
concerning
copyright please contact the
Editorial
Office or
the Publisher.
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Reprints
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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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Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923)
Last change: 28 April 2008
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