Instructions for Authors
Sensors (ISSN
1424-8220) 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 and charge
waiver program. 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
- Manuscripts should be submitted in
English by e-mail with a
covering
e-mail,
to [email protected]
- 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.
- Authors
may prepare pdf file of their final version of accepted
papers
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starting
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to prepare pdf files from all kinds of formats can be found at http://www.mdpi.net/TOOLS/pdf.html.
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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 1.75 cm on
top, 1.75 cm at the bottom and 1.75 cm on both left and right sides of
the
paper.
- The
paper style of Sensors should
be followed. You may download a sample paper and a template
file.
The full titles and the cited papers can be given. 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.
Journal references must cite the title of the paper and 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.
References to books should cite the authors, 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 authors
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.
- 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 before a figure or a scheme.
Referees
Authors should suggest at
least five referees
with
the appropriate
technical expertise (one of the referees should be from the International Advisory Editorial Board
of
Sensors), 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.
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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. If judged
as required by the reviewers or the editors, MDPI will manage the
English language editing and corrections at a surcharge of 250 CHF
(Swiss Francs).
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Copyright
/ Open Access
Articles published in
Sensors will be open-access articles distributed under the terms and conditions
of the Creative Commons Attribution license. MDPI will insert following
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Article Processing Charges (APC)
Open
Access
article processing charges (APC) are of 1050
CHF per accepted paper. English correction and/or extensive editing charges of 250 CHF will be added in certain cases (1300 CHF per
paper for
those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or
English
corrections).
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Reprints
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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