Dalton Transactions

1.0 General policy

Dalton Transactions embraces all aspects of the chemistry of inorganic and organometallic compounds, including biological inorganic chemistry and solid-state inorganic chemistry (in particular work which explores the synthesis and analysis of materials); the application of physicochemical techniques to the study of their structures, properties and reactions, including kinetics and mechanisms; new or improved experimental techniques and syntheses.

The journal is a medium for reporting selected original and significant contributions to new chemical knowledge.

All contributions are judged on the criteria of (i) originality and quality of scientific content and (ii) appropriateness of the length to content of new science. Thus, papers reporting results which would be routinely predicted or result from application of standard procedures or techniques are unlikely to prove acceptable in the absence of other attributes which themselves make publication desirable.

Although short articles are acceptable, the RSC strongly discourages fragmentation of a substantial body of work into a number of short publications. Unnecessary fragmentation will be a valid reason for rejection of manuscripts.

Contributions which have appeared or have been accepted for publication with essentially the same content in another journal or which incorporate freely available printed work will not be published in the Journal. This restriction does not apply to results previously published in materially abbreviated form, as a paper presented at a symposium, as a preliminary communication, as a letter to the Editor of some other periodical or as a patent. However, the acceptance of a contribution for Chemical Communications or as a Dalton Communication does not guarantee that the corresponding full paper will be accepted for Dalton Transactions; although publication of a full account is strongly encouraged, its acceptability will depend on whether or not it contains significant new details, new interpretations or new results.

Further notes on RSC policy on the initial assessment of submissions, and details of criteria for publication, can be found on ReSourCe.

Contributions are accepted by the RSC on the understanding that the authors (a) have obtained any necessary authority for publication, and (b) will execute a formal licence granting the RSC exclusive licence under any copyright therein.

Authors are solely responsible for the factual accuracy of their contributions.

Since the RSC reserves the right to retain all typescripts sent to it, authors are advised to keep copies. When contributions have been submitted for publication the authors are not at liberty, save by permission of the RSC, to withdraw or delay them or to publish them elsewhere until after publication by the RSC.