Instructions for Authors

Submission of Manuscripts

• Manuscripts should be submitted in English by e-mail with a covering e-mail, to
Dr. Francis Muguet
ENSTA, Paris, France. muguet@mdpi.org.
• OpenOffice or StarOffice files ( .sxw) are preferred, but Microsoft Word (all versions) files (.doc) will be accepted. LaTex format is also fine. 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 are most welcome to help our journal by preparing pdf file of their final version of accepted papers by inserting correct "Receive / Accepted / Published" dates and starting page number from the webmaster. A collection of free tools for authors to prepare pdf files from all kinds of formats can be found at http://www.mdpi.net/TOOLS/pdf.html.
• 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.
• Check in your cover letter whether you supplied at least 3 referees. Check if the English corrections are done before submission.

• 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 1.5 cm on top, 3.5 cm at the bottom and 1.75 cm on both left and right sides of the paper. For US letter-sized paper, the margins should be 1.5 cm on top, 1.74 cm at the bottom and 2.05 cm on both left and right sides.
• The paper style of International Journal of Molecular Sciences should be followed. You may download a sample paper and a template file from International Journal of Molecular Sciences homepage. The full titles and the cited papers can be given. The style of Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences is also acceptable. 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 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, 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 after a figure or a scheme.

• 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.