ORGANIC LETTERS 1999 Vol. 1, No. 3 13A
Guidelines for Authors (For a comprehensive treatment of author guidelines, please view the Organic Letters home page at http://pubs.acs.org/OrgLet, see Issue 1, Number 1, or contact the Editor’s office at the address noted below.) Organic Letters, a biweekly publication of the American Chemical Society, invites original reports of fundamental research in all branches of the theory and practice of organic, physical organic, organometallic, medicinal, and bioorganic chemistry. In the selection of manuscripts for publication, the Editors place emphasis on the quality and originality of the work. The purpose of Organic Letters is the rapid disclosure of the key elements of a study. Only enough background discussion should be given to place the new disclosure in context, and only those aspects of the work that justify the urgent publication format should be included; full details should be reserved for an Article, which should appear in due course. It is understood that submitted manuscripts are based upon original results and have not been published previously. The length of a letter can be 2, 3, or 4 journal pages, and back-to-back Letters are accepted. Use of color, when warranted, will be offered at no cost to authors. Since Organic Letters does not contain a printed Experimental Section, those data or procedures essential to the discussion and/ or reproduction of the work should appear in the narrative, the footnotes, or in Supporting Information. Although Supporting Information is not required, it is both encouraged and welcomed. By publishing in Organic Letters, authors are expected to make any newly described procedures or methods available in a timely fashion to members of the scientific community, upon request. Compound Characterization. Authors should include a general statement, usually as a footnote, describing the characterization of new compounds. Submission of Manuscripts. Organic Letters offers authors the flexibility of submitting manuscripts via a secure Web site accessible from http://pubs.acs.org/OrgLet or using conventional, hardcopy submission followed by submission on diskette. An optional electronic manuscript template reflecting the format of the journal pages is available in several word processing versions at the Organic Letters Web edition home page via http://pubs.acs.org/OrgLet. The template can be used for both Web and hardcopy submissions; use of the template will expedite publication. The Submission Site supports the following platforms and word processing packages: Macintosh Word 98 Word 6.x Word 5.0 & 5.1
For detailed instructions on both electronic and hardcopy submission, please access the sites listed above. While authors are encouraged to use Web submission and the template, it is not a requirement. If authors use the template, they should not attempt to prepare their manuscript in final camera-ready form. All Letters will be typeset from the author’s original electronic files. Therefore, the template need only be used to facilitate formatting, layout, and submission. It is strongly recommended that authors list appropriate reviewers for their research in their accompanying cover letter. A copyright form is available online at the Submission Site for printing and completing and should be faxed or mailed to the Editor-in-Chief’s office at the same time the manuscript is submitted. (Note: A hardcopy version of the copyright form is required regardless of mode of submission.) Peer Review. Letters will be handled expeditiously and will take full advantage of Web technology in review of manuscripts and approval of page proofs. To further facilitate rapid evaluation, authors are encouraged to submit a Supporting Information package containing experimental procedures to assist the reviewers and Editors in deciding whether the work merits rapid publication. The Editors generally seek the advice of experts about manuscripts; however, manuscripts considered by the Editors to be inappropriate for Organic Letters may be rejected without review. The Editors, who accept full responsibility for decisions about manuscripts, may not always follow the recommendations of referees. The names of referees will not be given to authors without the consent of the referee. Page Proofs. Authors have the option of receiving page proofs via a secure Web site. Publication Date. Documents accepted for publication in ACS journals will be posted as Articles ASAP in the Web edition of the journal as soon as they are ready for publication, that is when galley proofs are corrected and all author concerns are resolved. This can occur anywhere from 2 to 5 weeks in advance of the cover date of the printed issue. Authors should take this into account when planning their intellectual and patent activities related to a document. (Please note: Once a manuscript appears on the Web, it is published. Any changes after that point must be considered additions and corrections.)
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Amos B. Smith, III
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