X-Ray Powder Diffraction

1.0 General policy

The guidelines presented here apply to submission to any RSC journal. In addition, the RSC retains an in-house crystallographer who will be using validation software (assembled in conjunction with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and the International Union of Crystallography) to assess submissions in the Crystallographic Information File (CIF) format in order to establish if the opinion of an external crystallographic referee is required. Authors are therefore encouraged to submit their work in this format as it will facilitate the rapid processing of their manuscript. Details of specific RSC requirements can be found in the section dedicated to the CIF data format in the 'Acceptable Formats' section of the RSC web site.

Authors are also encouraged to take advantage of the free Electronic Supplementary Information (ESI) service to enhance their articles by providing 3D figures that can be viewed and manipulated on-screen using the browser plug-in Chime. Examples of these can be found in specially enhanced issues of Dalton Transactions (issues 19-24, 1999). 

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) has a freely available programme (enCIFer) which allows users to add RSC required information to CIF files via a user-friendly graphical interface.

If you have any further queries concerning the submission of crystallographic material to RSC journals, please contact the Editorial Office for the relevant journal.