The Journal
of the Brazilian Chemical Society embraces all aspects of chemistry
except education, philosophy and history. It is a medium for reporting selected
original and significant contributions to new chemical knowledge. The Journal
publishes Articles, Communications,
Short Reports, Reviews and Letters.
The reproduction of
figures, schemes and photos already published in other publications, even if
these materials have been published by the same authors, requires the copyright
permission given by the editor house allowing the publication of the article in
the JBCS.
Articles should be comprehensive and critical accounts of a work in a given
area. Although short articles are acceptable, the editors strongly discourage
fragmentation of a substantial body of work into a number of short
publications.
Communications should be restricted to reports of unusual urgency and significance or interest. They should be submitted with a statement from the authors as to why the paper meets these criteria. A paper will not be accepted
if, in the opinion of the Editors, the principal content has previously been
released or published in any other medium. The communication should not exceed
1500 words or occupy more than 3 pages of the Journal. To estimate the length of
a communication, an average sized figure is counted as 100 words and separate
formulae and lines of a table are counted as 8 words per line, including
headings and horizontal rulings. Title, authors' names and literature
references are not counted.
Short Reports are meant to be a concise terminal report of
studies of limited scope. Manuscripts submitted as articles or communications
may, in some cases, be accepted as short reports. The standard of quality
expected in short reports is the same as in articles.
Reviews are normally invited by the Editors. However, the Editors welcome
suggestions for reviews considered suitable for the Journal. Be aware that the
topics in the reviews must be numbered
with Arabic numerals.
In order to help the
Editors judge the suitability of a proposed review, authors should submit:
A synopsis including a brief outline of the Review
content;
At least ten sample references;
A summary of the lead author's academic
career;
A statement explaining the relevance of the
topic to be reviewed and a list of the latest reviews published on the subject,
if any;
An estimated date of submission. If the text
is already prepared, an authorization for submission will be given after the above
items have been considered by the Editors.
Acceptance of the
synopsis does not guarantee publication of the final manuscript.
If the synopsis is
accepted, the corresponding author will be invited to submit online the
complete text of the review, together with a short CV and a photograph of each author,
inserted in the end of manuscript.
It is quite common,
in reviews, the reproduction of figures, schemes and photos already published
in other works. Even if these materials have been published by the same authors,
copyright permissions need to be given by the editorial office.
Letters are a medium for the expression of scientific opinions and views
normally concerning material published in the Journal, but not for
revision/update of the authors' own work. When a Letter polemical in nature is accepted, a reply from the implicated
parties will be requested for publication alongside the original Letter. Contributions in this format
are intended to be published as soon as possible. No Abstract is required for
letters. They should not exceed one printed page in length.
The
submission of a paper implies that it has not been previously published, that it
is not under consideration for publication elsewhere or that it will not be
simultaneously published elsewhere in the same format without the written
permission of the Editors. Additionally, it implies that the submitting author
has the consent of all authors. By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree
that their paper's copyright is transferred to the Brazilian Chemical Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Química, SBQ) if
and when the paper is accepted for publication. Accepted papers and
illustrations become the property of the SBQ.
Organization
of Manuscripts
Authors
should present their materials with the utmost conciseness and clarity. The Introduction should clearly and briefly
identify, with relevant references, both the nature of the problem under
investigation and its background. Extensive reviews of the literature cannot be
accepted.
In
Articles and Short Reports, the Experimental
section may precede or follow the Results
and Discussion section, but should be separated from it. The addition of a final
section at the end of the paper, which briefly summarizes the main Conclusions of the work, is
recommended.
Descriptions of experiments should be
given in sufficient details to enable other researchers to repeat them. The
degree of purity of materials should be given, as well as all quantities used.
Descriptions of established procedures are unnecessary. Standard techniques and
methods used throughout the work should be stated at the beginning of the
section in a "Materials and/or Methods"
subsection. Apparatus should be described only if it is non-standard.
Commercially available instruments should be referred to by their suppliers and
models.
All
new compounds should be fully
characterized, which includes spectroscopic data and elemental analyses.
High-resolution mass spectra may substitute for elemental analyses if
accompanied by unequivocal proof of sample purity (melting points, copies of
NMR spectra, etc.). For compounds prepared in enantiomerically pure or
enantiomerically enriched form, specific optical rotation must be given. In
cases where enantiomeric excess is determined by chromatographic and/or
spectroscopic techniques, copies of the appropriate chromatograms and/or
spectra should be included as Supplementary Information upon submission of the
manuscript. Data associated with specific compounds should be listed after the
name of the compound concerned, followed by the description of the preparation,
or else presented in tabular form in the Results
and Discussion section. All spectra must be included in the Supplementary Information (SI, see Section 8).
Many
theoretical and computational papers use a routine procedure based on a
well-documented method, be it semi-empirical or ab initio. It is then sufficient to name the particular variant,
referring to key papers, in which the method has been developed, to cite the
computer program used and to indicate briefly any modification made by the
author.
Complementary
data meant to support the analysis of Communications
should be included as electronicsupplementary information.
It
is the authors' responsibility to
obtain permission from other publishers for the reproduction of artwork from
other journals in the reviews or in any other type of publication. Such
specific Copyright Permissionsshould be sentto the JBCS Editorial Manager. Suitable acknowledgement of
reproduction must be given in the captions.
Lines:numbered with Arabic numerals to facilitate correction of the text
Tables: numbered with Arabic numerals, placed in the same page of the text, in the right
position.
Figures: numbered with Arabic numerals, placed in the same page of the text, in the right position. All captions should be typed below the figures and together with it, in the right position. For full papers containing material
previously published in preliminary form, a copy of the previous communication
is required and should be included at the end of the manuscript.
Supplementary
Information (SI): if new
compounds are identified or characterized, all relevant spectra should be included at the end
of manuscript as SI. See Section 8.
Details
First
Page:
-Title
-Authors'
names: Full given name,
followed by the middle name initial(s) and then by the full last name.An asterisk (*) should follow the name of the
corresponding author.
-Addresses: Authors are asked to provide full addresses
for correspondence.
The e-mail address of the corresponding author should be given as a
footnote. If the address where the work was carried out is different from the
present address of any of the authors, a footnote indicating the current
position can be included. Each address should have a correspondent letter.As for instance:
Jailson
B. de Andrade,*,a Marta V. Andradeband Heloisa L.C. Pinheiroc
-Graphical
Abstract (GA). See
Section 5.
Second
Page
-Title
-Abstracts
in Portuguese and in English:
maximum of 150 words for Articles and Reviews and 50 words for Short Reports
and Communications. The editors of the
Journal can help authors who are not fluent in Portuguese.
-Keywords: a minimum of two and maximum of five.
Broad-sense words such as "water" should be avoided.
Third
Page On
-The
text should start from the third page of the manuscript.
-Attention: All nomenclature should be consistent,
clear, unambiguous and in accordance with the nomenclature rules established by
the IUPAC, the International Union of Biochemistry, the Abstracts Service (see
Index Guide to Chemical Abstracts, 1987 and http://jbcs.sbq.org.br/jbcs/iupac.html), the Nomenclature Committee of the American Chemical Society or any
other appropriate bodies. Units and symbols should follow IUPAC
recommendations. Authors will not be denied any reasonable usage, but if non-SI
units are used for critical data or for quantities measured to a high degree of
accuracy, final numerical values should also be expressed in SI units.
Only
manuscripts written in English will be
considered. Standard English and American English spellings are allowed but
consistency should be maintained within the manuscript.
From now on, all authors are expected to send along with their manuscript a statement from a specialized company (or person), attesting that the text was submitted to formal English review. Otherwise, the Editor can, at any time, ask for such procedure to warrant the English precision, conciseness and understanding of the manuscript.
Style
and Format
Main
Sections: First initial with
capital letter, bold, no final full stop:
Introduction
Experimental
Results and Discussion or Results
then Discussion
(alternatively,
Experimental may follow Results and Discussion)
Conclusions
Supplementary Information
Acknowledgment(s)
References
Main
Sections should not be numbered, except for Reviews.
Sub-Sections: italic, first initial with capital letter,
no final full stop. Examples:
Reagents and equipments
X-ray data
Formulae
(compounds): should be
numbered with bold Arabic numerals.
Structural
or displayed formulae must
be accurately drawn and inserted in the text. All captions should be typed
below the structural or displayed formulae, together with it, in the right
position.
The
authors should think about the illustration size for double column (172 mm) of
the journal. But, the font type size of text must be consistent with the
illustration, since, it can be reduced during preparation of the Galley Proof.
This is important
when choosing symbols for graphics, drawings, charts, photos etc.
BE CONSISTENT
– make your paper look nicer: use the same size and same font type in
graphics, schemes, etc.
Lines should be black and of an adequate and
even thickness. Solid, broke, dotted and dot-dash lines should be used in
graphics. Particular care should be taken to ensure that the lines in a
spectrum are of adequate thickness.
Lettering should not be smaller than 7 pt
(Times New Roman) and lines not thinner than 0.5 pt. Lettering and lines should
be of uniform density throughout the figures.
Labeled
atoms in ORTEP (or any
other) diagrams should have atom numbers in parenthesis, e.g. Fe(1), C(44).
Symbols
representing physical
quantities should be given in italics, e.g. J (Hz), δ(ppm), etc.
Units should be expressed in the appropriate form,
e.g. g cm-3 or mol L-1,
rather than g/cm3or mol/L. See Section
4.5
Graphs
Scales: graphs should have only the minimum necessary
scale divisions marked by numerals.
For graphs, use slashes in X and Y axes to separate axes names from
units. For example: time/min; Size range/mm;
Wavenumber/cm-1. Use parentheses only to group a set of
units, e.g.Concentration/(mol
L-1), 103 (T/K)-1, etc.
Pay close attention to the way decimal values are expressed in English.
Employ dots instead of commas.
Curves: should be labeled (a), (b), (c) etc. and
further information be given in the figure legend/caption.
Data
Points must be shown
sufficiently large to be distinguishable. Whenever possible, they should be
marked with the following symbols (use alternated full and open symbols):
●, ○, ■, □, ▲, Δ, ♦ , ♢
Graphs/Figures should be pasted from their original files
(Origin, ChemDraw, Corel etc.) and have an excellent quality. If you have to
digitalize (scan) the figures (photos, for instance), choose the following scan
options: black & white (B&W), no background and minimum of 300 dpi. If
you wish them to be published online in color, send both the colored and B&W
versions to the Editorial Office, matching the captions of the figures to
accommodate the alternatives.
For
computer-generated artwork, background or shadings should be avoided.
Figures, schemes and structures should be
drawn to fit single or double-column widths. They should look proportional in
case they are reduced.
Structures should be numbered with bold
Arabic numerals, e.g.1, 2.
All chemical structures included in a
manuscript should be drawn using the same letter type (Times New Roman or
Arial), size of cyclic groups, size and thickness of chemical bonds, AND, THE
MOST IMPORTANT, AUTHORS SHOULD USE THE SAME STANDARD THROUGHOUT THE WORK,
INCLUDING ALL FIGURES, SCHEMES,
ETC.
The following organic group abbreviations may
be used: Me, Et, nPr, nBu, sBu, tBu,
Ph, CO2R, CO2H, iPrOH.
One variable univalent substituent is
indicated by R. When more than one independent variable general substituent is present,
R1, R2, R3, etc. should be used.
A variable metal may be indicated by M and
variable ligands by L1, L2, L3 or L1, L2, L3,
etc.
Photographs should be highly contrasted,
positive and not mounted.
When necessary, the scale should be drawn on
the photograph itself and not below.
Color prints are rarely reproduced
satisfactorily in black and white. Original B&W photographs are preferred
to report experimental results, such as electron micrographs or to illustrate special
equipment adaptations.
From 2010 onwards,
the publication of colored illustrations will be totally free of charge in the ONLINE
version of the Journal.
Printed
Version
Black & White (B&W) illustrations are
free of charge.
If
the authors want to have colored illustrations on the printed version, they will
be asked to pay for their cost: the current fee is 250 USD for all figures.
Format your table
to give straightforward information to the reader. Do not use shades or bold
lettering. Indicate any extra information as a footnote with letters, e.g. a, b, c, etc. For examples, see any "PDF" files
in:http://jbcs.sbq.org.br/online/fpapers/.
Data
For negative
numbers, ions and equations in text and tables use – (negative symbol)
instead of - (hyphen). Examples: Cl–,–0.40, a = x – by.
The JBCS Table of Contents is being improved both in the printed and online version. From now on we expect authors to be more careful with their GA proposition.
The figure should summarize the content of the paper in a concise, pictorial form, designed to capture the attention of a wide readership. It can be a key structure, a reaction, an equation, a concept, a graphic or a theorem. Short movies are also welcome (as supplementary information (SI)). It is not acceptable photos of commercial equipment in GA or in the text of the manuscripts.
So, be smart to advertise your paper: send a simple and appealing Graphical Abstract.
The image should have 300 dpi resolution (TIFF / JPG or an imagine that allow as to edit) with a 8 cm wide and 4 cm long size. It should use colors as much as possible and have an artistic and imaginative idea.
Along with the GA figure, related to the central idea of your paper, send also an explanatory text, 4 lines at the most.
Reference numbers in
the text should be typed consecutively
as superscripts after punctuation, without parentheses or brackets. Examples:
sodium
salicylate,1-3
Nishide
et al.,4
by
reduction of chromic acid.4-8,12
The cited literature should be listed on a separate page
(double-spaced) in the same order it appears in the text.
Journal
Titles
Journal title
abbreviations are those defined in the Chemical Abstracts Service Source
Index (see http://www.cas.org/sent.html).
If an authoritative abbreviation for a Journal cannot be located or if the
abbreviation is not obvious, the full Journal title should be cited.
Style Rules for Year, Volume and Page
#. Author, A. C.; Author B.; Author C. F.; Abbreviation of the Journal Year, Volume, Page.
1.Author, A. C.;
Author, B.; Author, C. F.; J. Braz. Chem.
Soc.2010, 21, 77.
-Author initials should be separated from each
other, e.g. Author, A. C.;
-Use semi-colons to separate different author's
names. No "and" is necessary in any case.
-JournalAbbreviations
should come inItalics: J. Braz. Chem. Soc.
-Years – Bold Letter: 2010
-Volume – Italic style: 21
-Page – Only the initial page, followed
by dot: 77.
Examples:
2.Varma, R. S.; Singh, A. P.; J.
Indian Chem. Soc.1990, 67, 518.
In case the journal is not easily accessible, it is best
to quote its Chemical Abstracts number, as follows:
3.Provstyanoi, M. V.; Logachev, E. V.; Kochergin, P. M.; Beilis,
Y. I.; Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zadev.; Khim.
Khim. Tekhnol.1976, 19, 708. (CA 85:78051s).
Pay attention to
the connection words in the names, as for instance: da Silva, M. A. or Silva,
M. da, as follows:
4.Pinto, A. C.; de Andrade, J. B.; Quim. Nova 1999, 22,
448.
Composite References
They should be used whenever possible, rather than a series
of individual references, without letters (a), (b), (c), etc. Use only a
semi-colon to separate them. The style for composite references is as follows:
5.Varela, H.; Torresi, R. M.; J.
Electrochem. Soc.2000, 147, 665; Lemos, T. L. G.; Andrade, C.
H. S.; Guimarães, A. M.; Wolter-Filho, W.; Braz-Filho, R.; J. Braz. Chem. Soc.1996,
7, 123; Ângelo, A. C. D.; de Souza,
A.; Morgon, N. H.; Sambrano, J. R.; Quim.
Nova2001, 24, 473.
Patents
They should be identified in the following form. Whenever
possible, Chemical Abstracts numbers should be quoted in parentheses:
7.Kadin, S. B.; US pat. 4,730,0041988. (CA 110:P23729y)
8.Eberlin, M. N.;
Mendes, M. A.; Sparrapan, R.; Kotiaho, T. Br
PI 9.604.468-3, 1999
Books
Cotton, F. A.; Wilkinson,
G.; Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 5th
ed.; Wiley: New York, 1988. Chapter in a
book: only the main title should be given, with the chapter author's name.
9.Regitz, M. In Multiple
Bonds and Low Coordination in Phosphorus Chemistry; Regitz, M.; Scherer,
O.J., eds.; Georg Thieme Verlag: Stuttgart, 1990, ch. 2.
Software
10.Sheldrick, G. M.; SHELXL-93; Program for Crystal Structure
Refinement; University of Göttingen, Germany, 1993.
Dissertation/Thesis - Do not use as bibliographic reference. Include only the articles that were produced from that research work.
Web Pages
11.http://www.sbq.org.br/jbcs,
accessed in June 2001.
Unpublished material Reference
For material accepted for publication:
12.Magalhães, U. H.; J. Braz. Chem. Soc., in press.
In
this case, the DOI number should be provided by the authors.
This material will be available
online in the JBCS Page as PDF file. It should contain relevant and
complementary data to those presented in the manuscript. Their format can be:
tables, graphs, spectra, films and so on...
Any
synthesized or identified compound must be accompanied by the spectra used for
such identification. This is especially important for Natural Products, Organic
and Inorganic Chemistry manuscripts in which the characterization/identification
techniques are part of the work.
Prior to the submission of the typescript including
crystallographic data, the author(s) should deposit, in the relevant Data
Center, the data corresponding to each structure to be reported.
Data
for organometallic, organic and coordination (Werner-type) compounds should be sent to the Cambridge
Crystallographic Data Center (CCDC) by e-mail, in CIF format. More information
and a checklist of data items to be included in the deposit can be obtained
from the CCDC Home Page:http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/.
Data for inorganic compounds should be
sent to Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe (FIZ) by e-mail:crysdata@FIZ-Karlsruhe.de.
Deposition
Codes
The Data Centers will provide deposition codes for each
data set, which should be quoted in the typescript under a Supplementary
Information heading after the Acknowledgements.
Standard text for CCDC:
Crystallographic data (excluding structure factors) for the
structures in this paper have been deposited in the Cambridge Crystallographic
Data Centre as supplementary publication number CCDC XXXXXX. Copies of the data
can be obtained, free of charge, via www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/conts/retrieving.html
or from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, CCDC, 12 Union Road,
Cambridge CB2 1EZ, UK; fax: +44 1223 336033. E-mail: deposit@ccdc.cam.ac.uk.
Preparation
of Crystallographic Material
When the
paper is submitted, the following guidelines should be observed:
The
Abstract should not contain crystal data, but a concise statement of the main
features of the structural results.
The
following crystallographic data should be given in a paragraph of a Table, in a
concise format:
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
8.1
8.1.1Color,
habit and size of the crystal(s) used, behavior of the compound under the data
collection conditions.
8.1.2The
chemical formula should correspond to the complete chemical unit encompassing
the crystallographic symmetry, the formula weight, F(000), the absorption
coefficient andthe measured and
calculated densities.
8.1.3The unit
cell parameters with esd's and the X-ray wavelength used.
8.1.4The
crystal system, space group and number of chemical units per cell.
8.1.5Type of
diffractometer used and method of data collection, total number of data
collected, number of unique reflections, R(int) value, number of observed
reflections with cut-off parameter, use or not of absorption correction, transmission
factors.
8.1.6The
final results: R, wR, S and the number of parameters refined; treatment of
hydrogen atoms; final peak and hole in the last difference map. Only refinements on F2 will be accepted.
Discussion
of the Structure
It must include a labeled diagram of the structure, a list
of relevant geometric parameters – interatomic bond distances and angles,
torsion angles, hydrogen bond parameters, etc. Data of less important parts of
the structure, such as ligand sub-groups (phenyl rings, etc.) should be
omitted.
Whenever a compound is
synthesized or identified (new or already known), it is imperative to send all spectral data (data and spectra) as
Supplementary Information (SI) along with your submission, at the end of your PDF file.
A
brief mention to the existence of complementary data should be included in the
Supplementary Information topic before the Conclusions section. Example:
Supplementary Information
Supplementary information (Figure S1-S4, Table S1) is
available free of charge at http://jbcs.org.br, as a PDF file.
How
to send this type of information:
Join
all spectra in one SI file. Do not forget to add captions to each one of them,
identifying each individual spectrum (e.g.,
Figure S1. 1H NMR Spectrum of...; Figure S2. IR Spectrum of...; Figure
S3. 13C{1H} Spectrum of...). If the spectra will be
digitalized (scanned), choose options: Black&White, without background and
300 dpi at least. Add this file to the end of your manuscript, which
should then comprehend one single PDF file, containing GA, text with tables and figures, and SI.
The online submission requires a single PDF file containing GA, text numbered with lines and pages, tables and figures insert in the right position, schemes and eventually Supplementary Information (spectra of the identified compounds or another additional data. For example, see section 8):
3.Choose
the link: New Submission (left side menu)
A general overview of the process and the main
requests are presented (if you are not ready yet for the complete submission,
you can stop here).
4.If
you are ready, roll the web page and click Next Step.
5.Check
list the most important points that should be present in your manuscript.
6.Fill
in the presented form, choose the Manuscript Type, Manuscript Title, add Keywords,
paste or write a brief cover letter in which you must suggest a few possible referees' names, not related to your
group and not all from the same country. Using the plus sign, add the
necessary boxes to fill all co-authors' names. Inform all authors' names as used in references and finally roll
the web page and click Go to next step.
7.Here
you are invited to browse and upload the PDF file that you will submit. After
that, click Go to next step.
8.A
final page will be showed and you will receive an e-mail confirming a temporary
submission, with a code associated to it, as for example: tmp_1022 (the number is not important here).
9.After
we check your temporary submission and the PDF integrity (till 48 hours), you
will receive the definitive reference number of the submission, e.g. 77/10 (not exactly this number).
Manuscripts (Articles, Reviews and Short Reports) returned
to an author for revision must be returned within one month; otherwise, it will be considered withdrawn after two months.
Communications must be returned within two
weeks. Revised manuscripts returned to the Editor should be submitted as
PDF file online also. In case of more than very minor revisions, the author's Response Letter that accompanies the
revised manuscript should indicate in
detail the changes that have been made (the changes must also be marked in another color in the revised text)
and the referees' questions should have been answered properly.
Instructions
to send Revised Version (V2, V3, etc) and Response Letter
Using the registered Login and Password, log into
the online submission system.
Follow the Instructions below to send your Revised Version
and Response Letter (see also text in your e-mail):
You are kindly asked to make the appropriate amendments in
order to meet Editor and ALL Referees comments.
You will submit 2 (two) files in the Journal web page, at
your Author's Home Page, in the section Here to Send the New Version (GO
into Manuscript's TITLE LINK). Then send:
1.A
Response Letter, itemizing each
comment that has been addressed, as well as any changes made, from ALL Referees
and Editor (if so). Copy the comments and answer just after them.
2.A
Complete PDF file of the Revised Version
of your manuscript (MAIN CHANGES MUST BE MARKED WITH A DIFFERENT COLOR IN THE
REVISED VERSION OF THE PDF FILE. IT IS IMPORTANT AND WELCOMED).
Instructions
for RE-Submission (in case of Rejection)
The authors should use the link New Submission. In
this case, the Response Letter
can be placed as the Cover Letter or inserted in the initial pages of your
Manuscript. The changes made must be pointed out in the letter and the text
itself should be marked with a different
color. Do not forget to indicate the reference
number of the previous version in the Cover Letter. You are asked to submit
one single file of the manuscript, as a PDF file. A tool is available to
generate the PDF file from a *.doc or *.rtf file.
YOUR MANUSCRIPT (evaluated as a PDF
file) WAS ACCEPTED, BUT WE STILL NEED YOUR REVISED FINAL OPEN FILES TO PRODUCE
THE PROOF.
FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:
Which
Files to Send
Prepare
INDIVIDUAL files with:
Text
and Tables
Use Word
for Windows and save as *.doc.
For other operating
systems (Macintosh and Unix), save the file in *.rtf (Rich Text Format).
REMEMBER:
1.In the text,
the references are AFTER the punctuation.
2.Use
symbols and equations from the Word Editor.
3.Authors
should indicate, by text or marginal notations in the manuscript, where the
tables are to be inserted.
Graphics,
Figures, Schemes
Send them
in the original used program.
It is important that the files are editable
to allow any minor mistake correction.
1.Structures
*.cdx (ChemDraw, ISIS-Draw)
2.Graphics
*.opj/*.org (Origin); *.xls (Excel)
3.Others
*.cdr (CorelDraw)
4.Authors
should indicate, by text or marginal notations in the manuscript, where the Graphics,
Figures and Schemes are to be inserted
Photos
and Similar Images
Only if necessary.
Scan them with a minimum of 300 dpi resolution as Black&White drawing. Save
them as *.tiff.
Otherwise,
save as *.eps; *.wmf
For
Macintosh, only *.tiff is acceptable.
Authors should indicate, by text or marginal
notations in the manuscript, where the Photos and Similar Imagesare to be inserted.
How
to Name the Files
Label the ORIGINAL files with the manuscript
number and the corresponding description:
1.559-09_full.doc
(or*.rtf) containing text, tables, equations, etc. pasting figures and schemes
at the end;
2.figure1.opj
(or *.xls; *cdr; etc);
3.scheme2.cdx
(or *.cwg; etc);
4.etc.
Any problems with your file, the JBCS
staff will contact you by e-mail.
How
to Send your Files
1.Access
your Author's JBCS Home Page with your Login and Password.
2.In the
section Here to Send Final Version Files, click into manuscripts Title
Link.
3.There
you will find the link Send Final Version Files to upload the files, one
by one. Alternatively you can zip all files in one, but be absolutely sure to
have all necessary files into the zipped one.
4.After
uploading all files, check the links online. The system works as a Virtual Disk
and does not close, allowing you to upload extra files if requested or if you
noted any missing one.
The JBCS
Journal Publishing Staff will contact you in the near future regarding your
manuscript page proofs (Galley Proof – GP).
The proofs are
provided for the correction of printing errors only, i.e.,the proof
correction should not be used for language or content improvement. If considered
excessive, the change costs will be charged to the author(s).
Corrected galley proofs should be returned as
soon as possible (within 72 h or in 3 business days).
Your paper will be
published on the web only after you approve of your page proofs.
If
errors of consequence are detected in the published paper, a correction should
be sent to JBCS by the publication author in the Additions and Corrections
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