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Online Manuscript Submission: An
online submission and tracking service via Internet
facilitates a speedy and cost-effective submission of manuscripts.
The full manuscript has to be submitted online via
Bentham's Content Management System (CMS) at
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Submission Instructions)
Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of
the manuscript, and should not be submitted by anyone on their
behalf. The principal/corresponding author will be required
to submit a Covering Letter along with the manuscript, on
behalf of all the co-authors (if any). The author(s) will
confirm that the manuscript (or any part of it) has not been
published previously or is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere. Furthermore, any illustration, structure or table
that has been published elsewhere must be reported, and copyright
permission for reproduction must be obtained.
For all online submissions, please provide soft copies of
all the materials (main text in MS Word or Tex/LaTeX), figures/illustrations
in TIFF, PDF or JPEG, and chemical structures drawn in ChemDraw
(CDX)/ISISDraw (TGF) as separate files, while a PDF version
of the entire manuscript must also be included, embedded with
all the figures/illustrations/tables/chemical structures
etc. It is advisable that the document files related
to a manuscript submission should always have the name of
the corresponding author as part of the file name, i.e.,
Cilli MS text.doc, Cilli MS Figure 1,etc.
It is imperative that before submission, authors should carefully
proofread the files for special characters, mathematical symbols,
Greek letters, equations, tables, references and images, to
ensure that they appear in proper format.
References, figures, tables, chemical structures etc.
should be referred to in the text at the appropriate place
where they have been first discussed. Figure legends/captions
should also be provided.
A successful electronic submission of a manuscript will be
followed by a system-generated acknowledgement to the principal/corresponding
author. Any queries therein should be addressed to Beenish@benthamscience.org.
MANUSCRIPTS PUBLISHED: The Journal publishes peer-reviewed
letters and research articles written in English.
MANUSCRIPT LENGTH:
Letters: Letters should be 3000-6000 words
excluding figures, structures, photographs, schemes, tables
etc.
Research Articles: Research articles should
be 4000-8000 words excluding figures, structures, photographs,
schemes, tables etc.
There is no restriction on the number of figures, tables or
additional files e.g. video clips, animation and datasets,
that can be included with each article online. Authors should
include all relevant supporting data with each article (Refer
to Supplementary Material section).
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION:
The manuscript should be written in English in a clear, direct
and active style. All pages must be numbered sequentially,
facilitating in the reviewing and editing of the manuscript.
For further convenience, our contracted service provider Eureka
Science can provide assistance to authors for the preparation
of manuscripts.
MANUSCRIPT SECTIONS FOR PAPERS:
Manuscripts may be divided into the following sections:
Covering letter
Title
Title page
Abstract
Keywords
Text organization
List of abbreviations (if any)
Conflict of interest (if any)
Acknowledgements (if any)
References
Appendices
Figures/illustrations (if any)
Chemical structures (if any)
Tables (if any)
Supportive/supplementary material (if any)
Covering Letter: It is mandatory that a signed
covering letter should also be submitted along with the manuscript
by the author to whom correspondence is to be addressed, delineating
the scope of the submitted article declaring the potential
competing interests, acknowledging contributions from authors
and funding agencies, and certifying that the paper is prepared
according to the 'Instructions for Authors'.
All inconsistencies in the text and in the reference section
and any typographical errors must be carefully checked and
corrected before the submission of the manuscript. The article
should not contain any such material or information that may
be unlawful, defamatory, fabricated, plagiarized, or which
would, if published, in any way whatsoever, violate the terms
and conditions as laid down in the copyright agreement. The
authors acknowledge that the publishers have the legal right
to take appropriate action against the authors for any such
violation of the terms and conditions as laid down in the
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COVERING LETTER
Title: The title of the
article should be precise and brief and must not be more than
120 characters. Authors should avoid the use of non-standard
abbreviations. The title must be written in title case except
for articles, conjunctions and prepositions.
Authors should also provide a short ‘running title’.
Title, running title, byline, correspondent footnote and keywords
should be written as presented in original manuscripts.
Title Page: Title page should
include paper title, author(s) full name and affiliation,
corresponding author(s) names complete affiliation/address,
along with phone, fax and email.
Abstract: The abstract should not exceed 250 words
for research papers and 150 words for letters summarizing
the essential features of the article.
Keywords: Provide 6 to 8 keywords in alphabetical
order.
Text Organization: The main text should begin
on a separate page and should be divided into title page,
abstract and the main text. The text may be subdivided further
according to the areas to be discussed, which should be followed
by the Acknowledgement, List of Abbreviations, Conflict of
Interest (if any) and Reference sections. For Research Articles/Letters
the manuscript should begin with the title page and abstract
followed by the main text, which must be structured into separate
sections as Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results,
Discussion, and Conclusion, Acknowledgements, List of Abbreviations,
Conflict of Interest (if any) and References.
The authors are advised to present and discuss their observations
in brief. The manuscript style must be uniform throughout
the text and 10 pt Times New Roman fonts should be used. The
full term for an abbreviation should precede its first appearance
in the text unless it is a standard unit of measurement. The
reference numbers should be given in square brackets in the
text. Italics should be used for Binomial names of organisms
(Genus and Species), for emphasis and for unfamiliar words
or phrases. Non-assimilated words from Latin or other languages
should also be italicized e.g. in vivo, in vitro, per
se, et al. etc.
Greek Symbols and Special Characters: Greek
symbols and special characters often undergo formatting changes
and get corrupted or lost during preparation of manuscript
for publication. To ensure that all special characters used
are embedded in the text, these special characters should
be inserted as a symbol but should not be a result of any
format styling (Symbol font face) otherwise they
will be lost during conversion to PDF/XML.
Authors are encouraged to consult reporting guidelines. These
guidelines provide a set of recommendations comprising a list
of items relevant to their specific research design. Chemical
equations, chemical names, mathematical usage, unit of measurements,
chemical and physical quantity & units must conform
to SI and Chemical Abstracts or IUPAC.
All kinds of measurements should be reported only in International
System of Units (SI).
List of Abbreviations: If abbreviations are
used in the text either they should be defined in the text
where first used, or a list of abbreviations can be provided.
Conflict of Interest: Financial contributions to
the work being reported must be clearly acknowledged, as should
any potential conflict of interest under the heading ‘Conflict
of Interest’. Authors must list the source(s) of funding
for the study, for each author, and for the manuscript preparation.
Acknowledgements: All individuals listed as authors
must have contributed substantially to the design, performance,
analysis, or reporting of the work and are required to indicate
their specific contribution. Anyone (individual/company/institution)
who has substantially contributed to the study for important
intellectual content, or who was involved in the article’s
drafting the manuscript or revising must also be acknowledged.
Guest or honorary authorship based solely on position (e.g.
research supervisor, departmental head) is discouraged.
The specific requirements for authorship have been defined
by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
(ICMJE;http://www.icmje.org).
Examples of authors' contributions are: 'designed research/study',
'performed research/study', 'contributed important reagents',
'collected data', 'analyzed data', 'wrote paper' etc.
This information must be included in the submitted manuscript
as a separate paragraph under the heading ‘Acknowledgements’.
The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining permission
from all co-authors for the submission of any version of the
manuscript and for any changes in the authorship.
References: References must be listed in
the ACS Style only. All references should be numbered sequentially
[in square brackets] in the text and listed in the same numerical
order in the reference section. The reference numbers must
be finalized and the bibliography must be fully formatted
before submission.
See below few examples of references listed in the ACS Style:
Journal Reference:
[1] Zheng, X. Q.; Li, C.; Wang, J. An information-theoretic
approach to the prediction of protein structural class. J.
Comput. Chem., 2010, 31, 1201-1206.
[2] Zhang, W.; Brombosz, S.M.; Mendoza, J.L.; Moore, J.S.
A high-yield, one-step synthesis of o-phenylene ethynylene
cyclic trimer via precipitation-driven alkyne metathesis.
J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70,
10198-10201.
Book Reference:
[3] Crabtree, R.H. The Organometallic Chemistry of the
Transition Metals, 3rd ed.; Wiley & Sons: New York,
2001.
Book Chapter Reference:
[4] Wheeler, D.M.S.; Wheeler, M.M. In: Studies in Natural
Products Chemistry; Atta-ur-Rahman, Ed.; Elsevier Science
B. V: Amsterdam, 1994; Vol. 14,
pp. 3-46.
Conference Proceedings:
[5] Jakeman, D.L.; Withers, S.G.E. In: Carbohydrate Bioengineering:
Interdisciplinary Approaches, Proceedings of the 4th
Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, June
10-13, 2001; Teeri, T.T.; Svensson, B.; Gilbert, H.J.; Feizi,
T., Eds.; Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, UK, 2002;
pp. 3-8.
URL (WebPage):
[6] National Library of Medicine. Specialized Information
Services: Toxicology and Environmental Health. http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/ToxMain.html
(Accessed May 23, 2004).
Patent:
[7] Hoch, J.A.; Huang, S. Screening methods for the identification
of novel antibiotics. U.S. Patent 6,043,045, March 28, 2000.
Thesis:
[8] Mackel, H. Capturing the Spectra of Silicon
Solar Cells. PhD Thesis, The Australian National University:
Canberra, December 2004.
E-citations:
[9] Citations for articles/material published exclusively
online or in open access (free-to-view), must contain the
exact Web addresses (URLs) at the end of the reference(s),
except those posted on an author’s Web site unless editorially
essential, e.g. ‘Reference: Available from: URL’.
Some important points to remember:
• All references must be complete and
accurate.
• All authors must be cited and there
should be no use of the phrase et al.
• Online citations should include the
date of access.
• Journal abbreviations should follow
the Index Medicus/MEDLINE.
• Take special care of the punctuation
convention as described in the above-mentioned examples.
• Superscript in the in-text citations
and reference section should be avoided.
• Abstracts, unpublished data and personal
communications (which can only be included if prior permission
has been obtained) should not be given in the reference section
but they may be mentioned in the text and details provided
as footnotes.
• The authors are encouraged to use
a recent version of EndNote (version 5 and above) or Reference
Manager (version 10) when formatting their reference list,
as this allows references to be automatically extracted.
Appendices: In case there is a need to present lengthy,
but essential methodological details, use appendices, which
can be a part of the article. An appendix must not exceed
three pages (Times New Roman, 12 point fonts, 900 max. words
per page).The information should be provided in a condensed
form, ruling out the need of full sentences. A single appendix
should be titled APPENDIX, while more than one can be titled
APPENDIX A, APPENDIX B, and so on.
Figures/Illustrations:
All authors must strictly follow the guidelines below for
preparing illustrations for publication in Drug
Metabolism Letters. If the figures are found
to be sub-standard, then the manuscripts will be rejected/
and the authors offered the option of figure improvement professionally
by Bentham Publishing Services.
The costs for such improvement will be charged to the authors.
The authors should provide the illustrations as separate files,
as well as embedded in the text file, numbered consecutively
in the order of their appearance. Each figure should include
a single illustration. Each figure should be closely cropped
to minimize the amount of white space surrounding the illustration.
If a figure consists of separate parts, it is important that
a single composite illustration file be submitted, containing
all parts of the figure.
Photographs should be provided with a scale bar if appropriate,
as well as high-resolution component files.
Scaling/Resolution:
For Line Art image type, which is generally an image based
on lines and text and does not contain tonal or shaded areas,
the preferred file format is TIFF or EPS, with colour mode
being Monochrome 1-bit or RGB, in a resolution of 900-1200
dpi.
For Halftone image type, which is generally a continuous tone
photograph and contains no text, the preferred file format
is TIFF, with colour mode being RGB or Grayscale, in a resolution
of 300 dpi.
For Combination image type, which is generally an image containing
halftone in addition to text or line art elements, the preferred
file format is TIFF, with colour mode being RGB or Grayscale,
in a resolution of 500-900 dpi.
Formats:
For illustrations, the following file formats are acceptable:
• Illustrator
• EPS (preferred format for diagrams)
• PDF (also especially suitable for
diagrams)
• PNG (preferred format for photos
or images)
• Microsoft Word (version 5 and above;
figures must be a single page)
• PowerPoint (figures must be a single
page)
• TIFF
• JPEG (conversion should be done using
the original file)
• BMP
• CDX (ChemDraw)
• TGF (ISISDraw)
Bentham Science does not process figures submitted in GIF
format.
If the large size of TIFF or EPS figures acts as an obstacle
to online submission, authors may find that conversion to
JPEG format before submission results in significantly reduced
file size and upload time, while retaining acceptable quality.
JPEG is a 'lossy' format, however in order to maintain acceptable
image quality, it is recommended that JPEG files are saved
at High or Maximum quality.
Files should not be compressed with tools such as Zipit or
Stuffit prior to submission as these tools will in any case
produce negligible file-size savings for JPEGs and TIFFs,
which are already compressed.
Please do not:
1. Supply embedded graphics in your word processor (spreadsheet,
presentation) document;
2. Supply files that are optimized for screen use (like GIF,
BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
3. Supply files that are too low in resolution;
4. Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the
content.
Image Conversion Tools:
There are many software packages, many of them freeware or
shareware, capable of converting to and from different graphics
formats, including PNG.
Good general tools for image conversion include GraphicConverter
on the Macintosh, PaintShop Pro, for Windows, and ImageMagick,
which is available on Macintosh, Windows and UNIX platforms.
Note that bitmap images (e.g. screenshots) should not be converted
to EPS, since this will result in a much larger file size
than the equivalent JPEG, TIFF, PNG or BMP, with no increase
in quality. EPS should only be used for images produced by
vector-drawing applications such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw.
Most vector-drawing applications can be saved in, or exported
as, EPS format. In case the images have been originally prepared
in an Office application, such as Word or PowerPoint, then
the original Office files should be directly uploaded to the
site, instead of being converted to JPEG or another format
that may be of low quality.
Color Figures/Illustrations:
• The cost for the first published page of color figures
is US$ 965; the second additional page will
be for US$ 705 and each subsequent page for
US$ 480.
•Color figures should be supplied in CMYK not RGB colors.
Chemical Structures:
Chemical structures must be prepared in ChemDraw (CDX file)
and provided as separate file.
Structure Drawing Preferences:
[As according to the ACS style sheet]
Drawing Settings:
Chain angle 120°
Bond spacing 18% of width
Fixed length 14.4
pt (0.500cm, 0.2in)
Bold width
2.0 pt (0.071cm, 0.0278in)
Line width 0.6
pt (0.021cm, 0.0084in)
Margin width 1.6 pt
(0.096cm)
Hash spacing 2.5 pt (0.088cm, 0.0347in)
Text Settings:
Font
Times New Roman
Size
8 pt
Under the Preference Choose:
Units
points
Tolerances 3
pixels
Under Page Setup Use:
Paper
US letter
Scale
100%
Tables:
• Data Tables should be submitted in
Microsoft Word table format.
• Each table should include a title/caption
being explanatory in itself with respect to the details discussed
in the table. Detailed legends may then follow.
• Table number in bold font i.e.
Table 1, should follow a title. The title
should be in small case with the first letter in caps. A full
stop should be placed at the end of the title.
• Tables should be embedded in the
text exactly according to their appropriate placement in the
submitted manuscript.
• Columns and rows of data should be
made visibly distinct by ensuring that the borders of each
cell are displayed as black lines.
• Tables should be numbered in Arabic
numerals sequentially in order of their citation in the body
of the text.
• If a reference is cited in both the
table and text, please insert a lettered footnote in the table
to refer to the numbered reference in the text.
• Tabular data provided as additional
files can be submitted as an Ms Excel spreadsheet.
Supportive/Supplementary Material: We do
encourage to append supportive material, for example a PowerPoint
file containing a talk about the study, a PowerPoint file
containing additional screenshots, a Word, RTF, or PDF document
showing the original instrument(s) used, a video, or the original
data (SAS/SPSS files, Excel files, Access Db files etc.)
provided it is inevitable or endorsed by the journal's Editor.
Supportive/Supplementary material intended for publication
must be numbered and referred to in the manuscript but should
not be a part of the submitted paper. In-text citations as
well as a section with the heading "Supportive/Supplementary
Material" before the "References" section should
be provided. Here, list all Supportive/Supplementary Material
and include a brief caption line for each file describing
its contents.
Any additional files will be linked into the final published
article in the form supplied by the author, but will not be
displayed within the paper. They will be made available in
exactly the same form as originally provided only on our Web
site. Please also make sure that each additional file is a
single table, figure or movie (please do not upload linked
worksheets or PDF files larger than one sheet). Supportive/
Supplementary material must be provided in a single zipped
file not larger than 4 MB.
Authors must clearly indicate if these files are not for publication
but meant for the reviewers'/editors' perusal only.
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for any error occurring in the published manuscript in this
regard.
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that the revised version of the manuscript incorporating all
the submitted corrections receives the approval of all the
co-authors of the manuscript.
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