Instructions for Authors

Submission of Manuscripts

• Manuscripts (regular papers, reviews and communications) should be submitted by e-mail to
  
  Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
  Publisher, MDPI Center, Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
  Tel. +41 79 322 3379; Fax +41 61 302 8918
  E-mail: [email protected]
  
• Check in your cover letter whether you supplied at least 5 referees. Check if the English corrections are done before submission.

• Manuscripts should be prepared in English using a word processor. A template file may be downloaded. Although our final output is in .pdf format, authors are asked to not send manuscripts in this format as editing them is much more complicated.

Special Notes regarding MS Word files:

• Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult.
• Most formatting codes will be removed or replaced on processing your article so there is no need  to use excessive layout styling. In addition, options such as automatic word breaking, double columns, footnotes, automatic numbering (especially for  references) or add-ins like EndNote should not be used. However, bold face, italic, subscripts, superscripts, etc. may be used for emphasis as needed. Authors from countries where right-to-left writing is used should ensure their manuscripts have Western style (left-to-right) formatting.

• The standard style of Marine Drugs should be followed. Prospective authors should consult any current issue of Marine Drugs for examples of this style. A template file may be downloaded.
• Authors' full mailing addresses, homepage addresses, phone and fax numbers, e-mail addresses and homepages can be included in the title page and these will be published in the manuscripts and the Table of Contents. The corresponding author should be clearly identified. It is the corresponding author's responsibility to ensure that all co-authors are aware of and approve of the contents of a submitted manuscript.
• A brief (200 word maximum) Abstract should be provided. The use in the Abstract of numbers  to identify compounds should be avoided, unless these compounds are also identified by name.
• A list of three to five keywords must be given, and placed after the Abstract. Keywords may be single words or very short sentences.
• Although variations in accord with a manuscript's contents are permissible, in general all papers should have the following sections: Introduction, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments (if applicable), Experimental and References (or References and Notes, if applicable).
• 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 also be included and will be published as supplementary material.
• Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles supplied for all tables. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. To facilitate layout of large tables, smaller fonts may be used, but in no case should these be less than 10 pt. in size. Authors should use the Table option of MS Word to create tables, rather than tabs, as tab delimited columns are often difficult to format in .pdf for final output.
• Figures and schemes should also be placed in numerical order in the appropriate place within the main text. Numbers, titles and legends should be provided for all schemes and figures. These should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before the figure or scheme. Chemical structures and reaction schemes should be drawn using an appropriate software package designed for this purpose. As a guideline, these should be drawn to a scale such that all the details and text are clearly legible when placed in the manuscript (i.e. text should be no smaller that 8-9 pt.). To facilitate editing we recommend the use of any of the software packages widely available for this purpose: MDL^® Isis/Draw, ACD/ChemSketch^®, CS ChemDraw^®, ChemWindow^®, etc. Free  versions of some of these products are available for personal or academic use from the respective publishers. If another less common structure drawing software is used, authors should ensure the figures are saved in a file format compatible with of one of these products.
• X-ray crystallographic data. To avoid publication of extensive compilations of crystallographic data and facilitate refereeing of manuscripts, Marine Drugs has entered a data deposition scheme with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/). Authors planning to include such results in their papers should contact the CCDC to deposit the crystallographic data and obtain the corresponding CCDC deposition number(s) before submitting their manuscripts to Marine Drugs (for instructions on doing this, see: http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/conts/depositing.html). The deposition number(s) (usually provided by the CCDC within 3 working days) should be included in the manuscript, along with the following text:  "CCDC ...... contains the supplementary crystallographic data for this paper. These data can be obtained free of charge via www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/conts/retrieving.html (or from the CCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge CB2 1EZ, UK; fax: +44 1223 336033; e-mail: [email protected])". This text may be included in the General subsection of the Experimental or as a suitably referenced endnote.
• Experimental data. Marine Drugs is first and foremost a repository of synthetic procedures and data. The Experimental section should have an initial subsection labeled General, containing information on materials, methods, analytical instrumentation used, etc. To allow for correct abstracting of the manuscripts all compounds should be mentioned by correct chemical name, followed by any numerals used to refer to them in the paper. The use of the IUPAC nomenclature conventions is preferred, although alternate naming systems (for example CAS rules) may be used provided that a single consistent naming system is used throughout a manuscript. For authors perhaps unfamiliar with chemical nomenclature in English we recommend the use of compound naming software such as AutoNom. Full experimental details must be provided, or, in the case of many compounds prepared by a similar method, a representative typical procedure should be given. The general style used in the Journal of Organic Chemistry is preferred. Complete characterization data must be given for all new compounds. For papers mentioning large numbers of compounds a tabular format is acceptable. For known compounds appropriate literature references must be given.
• References. For bibliographic citations the reference numbers should be placed in square brackets, i.e., [ ], 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. We encourage authors to use bilbiographic softwares such as EndNote or Reference Manager to prepare their references. The reference style used in Marine Drugs is the same like American Chemical Society journals.

           Journal references should cite the title of the paper and, preferably, 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.

Journal titles should be abbreviated according to standard rules. A useful list of journal title abbreviations is available on the Molecules website at  http://www.mdpi.org/molecules/journallist.htm. Other relevant listings are widely available on the Internet, for example: http://www.cas.org/sent.html (CASSI abbreviations) or  http://www.webofscience.com/help/A_abrvjt.html (ISI style abbreviations).

References to books should cite the author(s), title, publisher, publication date, and page(s).

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, 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.
• Copyright of published papers. We will typically insert the following note at the end of the paper:    © 200... by MDPI (http://www.mdpi.org). Reproduction is permitted for noncommercial purposes. For alternate arrangements concerning copyright please contact the Editor-in-Chief.

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Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel.: (+41) 79 322 3379, Fax: (+41) 61 302 8918
E-mail: [email protected] (http://www.mdpi.org/lin/)