Instructions for Authors

Submission of Manuscripts

• Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to [email protected] (add "Manuscript Submission for IJMS" as the subject) or online at http://submit.mdpi.org. A section or special issue must be designed for every submission. 
• 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.
  

• 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 International Journal of Molecular Sciences should be followed. You may download a template file from International Journal of Molecular Sciences homepage to prepare your paper. The full titles and the cited papers must be given. The style of Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences is also acceptable. 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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• 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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