Instructions for Authors

Submission of Manuscripts

• Manuscripts should be submitted in English by e-mail with a covering e-mail, to
  Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K. tel: +44 (0)117 928-9927, fax: +44 (0)117 925-1295, email: paul.may@bris.ac.uk
• 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/ijms/copyrtf.htm, and send it by surface mail to the editor.

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 1.5 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 International Journal of Molecular Sciences should be followed. You may download a sample paper and a template file from International Journal of Molecular Sciences homepage. The full titles and the cited papers can be given. The style of J. Am. Chem. Soc. 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.
• 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.

Samples Deposit and Exchange
Authors are encouraged to register or submit samples of the relevant compounds to MDPI in Switzerland for deposit and distribution at a reasonable price. Include in the last paragraph in the "References and Notes" the Sample Availability information. For details, visit: http://www.mdpi.org/. You may contact the managing editor:

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: lin@mdpi.org (http://www.mdpi.org/lin/)