Notes on submitting articles

Items should be submitted electronically using the contact email at the end of this article. We prefer your submission to be as a Microsoft Word file, but if this is not possible, then as plain text only. Use double spacing and leave wide margins.

Attach a covering letter explaining what you would like done with your contribution, eg if you would like it to appear as a letter or a Column item.

We cannot consider manuscripts that have also been submitted to other magazines or journals for copyright reasons. If you seek particularly wide dissemination for a piece of work and want Education in Chemistry to cover it too, then please contact the editor to discuss.

Use SI units and IUPAC recommended nomenclature. See the IUPAC website for their 'colour books' on terminology (link at the end of this article).

Photos need to be of print quality (300 dpi) (please save them as separate files, and not as part of the text file). Our Design team will source suitable high resolution photos if you are unable to provide them and suggestions are very welcome.

Chemical structures should be provided as separate files, ideally in ChemDraw or ISISDraw format, otherwise they will be redrawn, together with any other illustrations.

Ensure the text has minimal formatting - ie no end of line carriage returns, no box keylines, single typeface etc.

References

These should be in the following styles

Journals

1. J. Smith, R. Bloggs and P. Jones, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1993, 14, 92 (DOI: 10.1021/ja1074322).

(ie author(s), journal title, year, volume, page (DOI: [doi])) as in CASSI. If in doubt as to the approved abbreviations, please give full title of journal.

Books

1. J. Bloggs, The art of writing scientific papers, p 49. London: RSC, 1991.
2. J. Bloggs in Article writing - a critique of the art, R. Smith (ed), chap 5, p 9. London: RSC, 1981.

Patents or patent applications

Company/name, coverage, patent number, year., eg:

1. E. F. Tai, World patent app. 9008789, 1990.
2. Merck, US patent, 4845261, 1989. 
3. Rhône-Poulenc, Eur. Patent 468727, 1992.

Anything else

Please give as many details as possible.