Online Manuscript Submission for Transition Metal Chemistry

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1 Online Manuscript Submission for Transition Metal Chemistry From July 2007 Transition Metal Chemistry will be accepting manuscripts online via Editorial Manager. Editorial Manager is a web based manuscript submission (and review) system for Transition Metal Chemistry that offers easy and straightforward log in and submission procedures. It also allows authors to track the progress of manuscript review in real time. Manuscripts can be submitted online at: Authors should go to home page and read the detailed step by step instructions. They should then navigate to the submit a manuscript link and follow the instructions. For manuscript submission enquires please contact: Ms. Rica M. Forto, Editorial Assistant, RicaMay.Forto@springer.com For enquires about the status of your manuscript please contact: Dr. Marcus Durrant, Editor-in-Chief of Transition Metal Chemistry. School of Applied Sciences Northumbria University Ellison Building Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST Fax (0191) Electronic Figures Electronic versions of your figures must be supplied. For vector graphics, EPS is the preferred format. For bitmapped graphics, TIFF is the preferred format. The following resolutions are optimal: line figures dpi; photographs 300 dpi; screen dumps leave as is. Colour figures can be submitted in the RGB colour system. Font related problems can be avoided by using standard fonts such as Times Roman, Courier and Helvetica. Colour Figures Springer offers two options for reproducing colour illustrations in your article. Please let us know what you prefer: 1) Free online colour. The colour figure will only appear in colour on and not in the printed version of the journal. 2) Online and printed colour. The colour figures will appear in colour on our website and in the printed version of the journal. The charges are EUR 950/USD 1150 per article. Language The journal s language is English. British English or American English spelling and terminology may be used, but either one should be followed consistently throughout the article. We appreciate any efforts that you make to ensure that the language is corrected before submission. This will greatly improve the legibility of your paper if English is not your first language. Manuscript Presentation Please double space all material, including notes and references. Quotations of more than 40 words should be set off clearly, either by indenting the left hand margin or by using a smaller typeface. Use double quotation marks for direct quotations and single quotation marks for quotations within quotations and for words or phrases used in a special sense. Number the pages consecutively with the first page containing: running head (shortened title) article type title author(s) affiliation(s)

2 full address for correspondence, including telephone and fax number and e mail address Abstract Please provide a short abstract of 100 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references. Key Words Please provide 5 to 10 key words or short phrases in alphabetical order. Abbreviations Abbreviations and their explanations should be collected in a list. Symbols & Units The SI system is strongly recommended. Papers presented in British Imperial or U.S. standard units will not be accepted. It is stressed that whatever system of (metric) units the paper is written in, the usage must be consistent. Common abbreviations for chemical groups should be used in formulae wherever possible (but not in the text). R = organic group Me = methyl Et = ethyl Pr (with n ori ) = propyl Bu (with n, i, s, or t ) = butyl Ph = phenyl Ac = acetyl Bz = benzoyl Cp = cyclopentadienyl M (not Me) = metal as in MBr 4 L = ligand. Nomenclature Use of symbols, units and names of compounds should comply with the rules of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). These rules may be found in: Manual of Symbols and Terminology for Physicochemical Quantities and Units. Butterworths, London, Nomenclature of Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd Edit., Butterworths, London, Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, Sections A, B and C, Butterworths, London, The following publications is a very useful guide: R. S. Cahn, Introduction to Chemical Nomenclature, 4th Edit., Butterworths, London, Safety All hazardous procedures must be indicated as such by including a warning of the likely dangers of a given experiment and advice on how to circumvent these dangers. Section Headings First, second, third, and fourth order headings should be clearly distinguishable but not numbered. Manuscripts should be divided into the following sections: (a) Introduction: setting out the reasons for the work, a description of the problem under investigation and a brief survey of existing literature of the subject. (b) Results and discussion (c) Experimental (Materials and methods) (d) References Appendices Supplementary material should be collected in an Appendix and placed before the Notes and Reference sections. Notes Please use endnotes rather than footnotes. Notes should be indicated by consecutive superscript numbers in the text. A source reference note should be indicated by means of an asterisk after the title. This note should be placed at the bottom of the first page.

3 Cross Referencing In the text, a reference should be identified by means of the reference number in square brackets. Acknowledgements Acknowledgements of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the References. Layout for References Journal article Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) N Engl J Med 965:325 Book South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London Book chapter Brown B, Aaron M (2001) In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York Article by DOI Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med. doi: /s Online document Doe J (1999) Title of subordinate document. In: The dictionary of substances and their effects. Royal Society of Chemistry. Available via DIALOG. of subordinate document. Cited 15 Jan 1999 Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal's name according to the ISSN List of Title Word Abbreviations, see Proofs Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author by e mail. Your response, with or without corrections, should be sent within 72 hours. Offprints 25 offprints of each article will be provided free of charge. Additional offprints (both hard copies and PDF files) can be ordered by means of an offprint order form supplied with the proofs. Page Charges and Colour Figures No page charges are levied on authors or their institutions. Colour figures are published at the author's expense only. Copyright Authors will be asked, upon acceptance of an article, to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher. This will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information under copyright laws. Permissions It is the responsibility of the author to obtain written permission for a quotation from unpublished material, or for all quotations in excess of 250 words in one extract or 500 words in total from any work still in copyright, and for the reprinting of figures, tables or poems from unpublished or copyrighted material. Springer Open Choice In addition to the normal publication process (whereby an article is submitted to the journal and access to that article is granted to customers who have purchased a subscription), Springer now provides an alternative publishing option: Springer Open Choice. A Springer Open Choice article receives all the benefits of a regular subscription based article, but in addition is made available publicly through Springers online platform SpringerLink. To publish via Springer Open Choice, upon acceptance please click on the link below to complete the relevant order form and provide the required payment information. Payment must be received in full before publication or articles will publish as regular subscription model articles. We regret that Springer Open Choice cannot be ordered for published articles.

4 Additional Information Additional information can be obtained from: Dr. Sonia Ojo, Publishing Editor, Transition Metal Chemistry Springer, UK Deposition of Crystallographic Data Transition Metal Chemistry will accept for publication papers containing or comprising the results of crystal structure determinations which will be of interest to transition metal chemists. Papers reporting only crystallographic results must relate to work of novelty or special significance to the chemistry, which must be emphasised. The following procedures should be followed: Prior to the submission of the manuscript, the author(s) should deposit with the relevant Data Centre the data corresponding to each structure to be reported in the intending publication. Data for metal organic structures, i.e. those which contain organic carbon in any of the species present in the structure, (including metal carbonyls) should be sent to the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) by e mail (address: deposit@ccdc.cam.ac.uk) preferably in CIF format. A checklist of data items to be included in the deposition can be obtained from the CCDC Home Page on the Worldwide Web ( or by e mail (to fileserv@ccdc.cam.ac.uk) with the one line message send me checklist. Data for inorganic compounds should be sent to Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe (FIZ) by e mail (address: crysdata@fiz Karlsruhe.de), by FTP (please contact FIZ if you choose this option) or on disk. No hard copy submissions will be accepted. The Data Centres will provide, within a day or two of submission, deposition codes for each data set, which should be quoted in suitable form in the manuscript submitted to the Journal. The deposited data will be accessed by the Journal and checked as part of the refereeing process. When the paper is submitted to the Journal, the following guidelines should be adhered to: The title should contain reference to the presence in the paper of X ray crystallographic results. The abstract should not contain crystal data, but should include a concise statement of the main features of the structural results. The experimental results must be presented in a concise format. In general, authors should not include a detailed text description of data collection, crystal structure solution and refinement, especially if these followed standard procedures and no difficulties were met. Reference to a previous paper containing a more detailed experimental description can be given if relevant. However, if any parts of the structure analysis were unusual, and affected the presentation and/or accuracy of the results, then these should be discussed. The following crystallographic data should be given, all contained in a paragraph (if one structure reported) or Table (two or more structures). i) Colour, habit and size of crystals used, and behaviour of compound under ambient conditions if not mentioned elsewhere in the paper. ii) Chemical Formula. This should correspond to the complete chemical unit encompassing crystallographic symmetry (eg a centro symmetric dimer should be included in full form). The use of fractional coeffcients (eg 0.5H2 O) should be used only if the unit has partial occupancy of its site. Formulae should be presented in a way that molecules, ionic fragments, solvate molecules etc. are separately identified. iii) Unit cell parameters with esd s, and X ray wavelength used. iv) Crystal system, space group and number of complete chemical units (see ii) per cell. v) Type of diffractometer used and method of data collection; total number of data collected, excluding any intensity controls, number unique, Rint value, number observed (with cut off parameter) and completeness of data to suitable 2h or sin h/k limit; use or otherwise of absorption correction. vi) Final results. Give values of R, Rw (and their definitions) and number of parameters. Indicate form of refinement (F or F2) and treatment of hydrogens. Note that easily derived parameters (Fwt, F(000), l, Dx) should not be given unless required in discussion of other data (eg number of solvent molecules, etc). Discussion of the Structure

5 This must include a clear, labelled diagram of the structure (molecule, complexion or unit cell contents if the structure is polymeric) and a list of relevant geometry parameters interatomic distances, interbond angles, torsion angles etc. Data for geometrically less important parts of the structure, such as ligand sub groups (phenyl rings, alkyl groups etc) should not be given. Packing diagrams of crystal structures of molecular compounds should not be given unless there are chemically important intermolecular interactions. Supplementary Material It is not necessary to submit copies of the Supplementary Material with the manuscript if the above procedures have been followed. However, authors are recommended to submit with the manuscript, as supplementary sheets, not for publication, any further information which they feel may aid the refereeing process, particularly if any of the usual quality of structure indicators point to problems in the analysis.

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