Instructions for Authors

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601) aims to maintain a rapid editorial procedure and a rigorous peer-review system. Papers submitted within the year 2008 will be published in Open Access form free of charge. However, in future this open access journal will be funded by publication charges paid by authors. Open Access 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. We start to publish papers quickly since September 2008.

Submission of Manuscripts

Manuscripts should be written in English, and submitted as an e-mail attachment, with a cover letter, to the Editorial Office, E-mail: [email protected], and the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Paul B. Tchounwou (e-mail: [email protected]).
MS Word (all versions) files are preferred. LaTex format is also fine. 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). You may download a template file in Word format.
Check in your cover letter whether you supplied at least 5 referees. Check if the English corrections are done before submission.

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 U.S. 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 Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601) homepage. The full titles and the cited papers can be given. The style of Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 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 at the end of the manuscript.

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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 should be placed after the abstract.
Tables should be numbered and cited in numerical order in the text. Each should be printed on a separate page, provided with a heading, and referred to in the text as Table 1, Table 2, etc. The title of each table should be typed above the table. Legends giving sufficient explanation to make the data understandable without reference to the text must be typed below the table on the same page.
Figures must be cited in the text in numerical order using Arabic numerals. Figures should be numbered according to the sequence of their appearance in the text, where they are referred to as Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc. Figure legends should be typed on a separate sheet, and should include a brief title and a concise explanation of each figure. 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.
The Results and Discussion sections should emphasize the major findings of the research, and their significance. Concise interpretation of scientific data, and comparisons with the current literature should be included.
Consecutive numbering of all pages is required, with the title page as page 1. The following format of presentation should be followed: title; authors’names; authors’affiliations and addresses; abstract; key words; introduction; materials and methods; results; discussion; acknowledgments; references; tables; figure legends; and figures.

Referees

Authors should suggest at least five 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.

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 / Open Access

Articles published in Molecules will be open-access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license. MDPI will insert following note at the end of the published text:

© 200... by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

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.

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