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Current research author's guide This manuscript preparation guide is published to aid au thors in writing, and editors and reviewers in expediting the review and publication of research manuscripts in En vironmental Science & Technology, including full research articles and communications. For a detailed discussion with examples of the major aspects of manuscript prepara tion, please refer to The ACS Style Guide (1986). Title Use specific and informative titles. They should be as brief as possible, consistent with the need for defining the subject of the paper. If trade names are used, give generic names in parentheses. Key words in titles assist in effec tive literature retrieval. Authorship List the first name, middle initial, and last name of each author. Omit professional and official titles. Give the com plete mailing address where work was performed. If avail able please provide an e-mail address. When present address of an author is different, include the new information in a footnote. In each paper with more than one author, the name of the author to whom inquiries should be addressed carries an asterisk. The explanation appears on the contents page. Abstracts An abstract, which will appear at the beginning of each paper, must accompany each manuscript. Authors' ab stracts frequently are used directly for Chemical Abstracts. Use between 100 and 150 words to give purpose, methods or procedures, significant new results, and conclusions. Write for literature searchers as well as journal readers. Text
Consult a current issue for general style. Assume your readers to be professionals not necessarily expert in your particular field. Historical summaries are seldom war ranted. However, documentation and summary material should be sufficient to establish an adequate background. Divide the article into sections, each with an appropriate heading, but do not oversectionalize. The text should have only enough divisions to make organization effective and comprehensible without destroying the continuity of the text. Keep all information pertinent to a particular section within that section. Avoid repetition. Do not use footnotes; include the information in the text. Introduction. Discuss relationship of your work to pre viously published work, but do not repeat. If a recent arti cle has summarized work on the subject, cite the summa rizing article without repeating its individual citations. Experimental section. Apparatus: List devices only if of specialized nature. Reagents: List and describe preparation of special reagents only. Procedure: Omit details of proce dures that are common knowledge to those in the field. Brief highlights of published procedures may be included, but de tails must be left to literature cited. Describe pertinent and critical factors involved in reactions so that the method can be reproduced, but avoid excessive description. Results and discussion. Be complete but concise. Avoid nonpertinent comparisons or contrasts. Manuscript requirements Six complete legible copies of the manuscript are re quired. They should be typed double or triple spaced on
22 χ 28 cm paper, with text, tables, and illustrations of a size that can be mailed to reviewers under one cover. Du plicated copies will be accepted only if very clear. If pertinent references are unpublished, furnish copies of the work or sufficient information to enable reviewers to evaluate the manuscript. In general, graphs are preferable to tables if precise data are not required. When tables are submitted, however, they should be furnished with appropriate titles and should be numbered consecutively in Roman numeral style in order of reference in the text. Double space with wide margins, and prepare tables in a consistent form, each on a separate 22 χ 28 cm sheet. Figures should be carefully designed and prepared. Use high-quality white paper; avoid the use of thin, transpar ent or textured paper. All figures should be prepared by use of a high-quality graphics plotter or printer (typing does not reproduce well); lettering should be of a size that can be read after reduction. Label the axes outside the graph proper. Number all illustrations consecutively. Sup ply typed captions and legends on a separate page. Origi nal drawings (or sharp prints) of graphs and diagrams and glossy prints of photographs should be provided when the manuscript is submitted. Color reproduction of figures is possible provided the author pays all incremental charges. An estimate of these charges will be given upon request. A letter acknowledg ing the author's willingness to defray the cost of color re productions should accompany the revised manuscript. Electronic manuscript requirements Manuscripts prepared with either WordPerfect or Micro soft Word can be used for production, providing the fol lowing guidelines are adhered to. Documents prepared with other word processing packages will be handled on an experimental basis with the understanding that the use of these files in production cannot be guaranteed. The disk should accompany the revised version of the manuscript. The revised version on the disk MUST exactly match the revised version in hardcopy. When preparing a manuscript, use the document mode or its equivalent in the word processing program. Do not include any page-formatting instructions in the file. The text should be unjustified. Do not insert spaces before punctuation. To ensure expeditious processing of a manu script, the references should conform to the format printed in the journal. Ensure that all characters are correctly rep resented throughout the manuscript; for example, 1 (one) and 1 (ell), 0 (zero) and Ο (oh), χ (ex) and χ (times sign). Carefully check the final copy for consistent notation and correct spelling. Our conversion program will faithfully translate any errors to the typeset copy. Check the disk with a virus detection program. Disks containing viruses will not be processed. Label the disk with manuscript number and first author name. Provide the name and ver sion of the software used, the platform used, and file names on the diskette description form. All of the text and tabular material (if available) should be in one file, with the complete text first followed by the tabular material. Do not integrate ANY graphic material into this file. If graphics are available, they should be in a separate file. If tabular material is present, the column alignment should have been obtained with either tabs or spaces but not with a mixture of both.
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Nomenclature The nomenclature should conform with current Ameri can usage. Insofar as possible, authors should use system atic names similar to those used by Chemical Abstracts Service or IUPAC. Chemical Abstracts nomenclature rules are contained in Appendix IV of the current Chemical Ab stracts Index Guide. A list of ring systems, including names and numbering systems, is found in the Ring Sys tems Handbook, American Chemical Society, Columbus, OH, 1988. Use consistent units of measure (preferably SI). If nomenclature is specialized, include a "Nomencla ture" section at the end of the paper, giving definitions and dimensions for all terms. Write out names of Greek letters and special symbols in margin of manuscript at point of first use. If subscripts and superscripts are necessary, place them accurately. Avoid trivial names. Trade names should be defined at point of first use (registered trade names should begin with a capital letter). Identify typed letters and numbers that could be misinterpreted, for example, one and the letter " 1 , " zero and the letter " O . " Formulas and equations Chemical formulas should correspond to the style of ACS publications. Chemical equations should be balanced and numbered consecutively along with mathematical equations. The mathematical portions of the paper should be as brief as possible, particularly where standard deriva tions and techniques are commonly available in standard works. Safety Authors are requested to call special attention—both in their manuscripts and in their correspondence with the editors—to safety considerations such as explosive ten dencies, precautionary handling procedures, and toxicity. Acknowledgment Include essential credits in an "Acknowledgment" sec tion at the end of the text, but hold to an absolute mini mum. Meeting presentation data or other information re garding the work reported (for example, financial support) is included here. References Literature references should be numbered and listed in order of reference in text. The accuracy of the references is the responsibility of the authors. They should be listed by
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author, patentee, or equivalent. In the text, just the number should be used, or the name should be followed by the number. "Anonymous" is not acceptable for authorship. If the author is unknown, list the reference by company, agency, or journal source. Do not list references as "in press" unless they have been formally accepted for publi cation. Give complete information, using abbreviations for titles of periodicals as in the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index, 1907-89. For periodical references to be considered complete, they must contain authors' surnames with initials, journal source, year of issue, volume number, and the first and last page numbers of the article. Consult The ACS Style Guide for reference style. Supplementary material Extensive tables, graphs, spectra, calculations, or other material auxiliary to the printed article will be included in the microfilm edition of the journal. Identify supplemen tary material as to content, manuscript title, and authors. Three copies of the supplementary material, one in a form suitable for photoreproduction, should accompany the manuscript for consideration by the editor and reviewers. The material should be typed on white paper with black typewriter ribbon or printed on a high quality (300 dpi) la ser printer. If individual characters for any of the material, computer or otherwise, are broken or disconnected, the material is definitely unacceptable. Figures and illustrative material should preferably be original high-contrast drawings or good prints of originals. Optimum size is 22 χ 28 cm. Minimum acceptable charac ter size is 1.5 mm. The caption for each figure should ap pear on the same piece of copy with the figure. Be sure to refer to supplementary material in text where appropriate. Supplementary material may be obtained in photocopy or microfiche form at nominal cost. Material of more than 20 pages is available in microfiche only. Photocopy or mi crofiche must be stated clearly in the order. Prepayment is required. See instructions at the end of individual papers. The supplementary material is abstracted and indexed by Chemical Abstracts Service. Subscribers to microfilm editions receive, free, the sup plementary material in microfiche form from individual papers in any particular issue. For information, contact Microforms Program at the ACS in Washington, DC, or call (202) 872-4554. Research Communications. Please refer to Editorial Pol icy for guidelines on research communications.
