The Open Catalysis Journal is an
Open Access online journal, which publishes Research articles,
Reviews and Letters in the field of catalysis, aiming at providing
the most complete and reliable source of information on current
developments in the field.
Manuscripts may be submitted directly to tocatj@benthamopen.org.
Each peer-reviewed article that is published in a Bentham
OPEN Journal is universally and freely accessible via
the Internet in an easily readable and printable PDF format.
Online Manuscript Submission: An online submission
and tracking service via Internet facilitates a speedy and
cost-effective submission of manuscripts.1
The full manuscript has to be submitted online via Bentham's
Content Management System (CMS) at http://www.bentham-editorial.org/
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Instructions
Alternatively, you may also submit your full manuscript by
e-mail to tocatj@benthamopen.org
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 your complete manuscript
in the form of a single zipped folder containing 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.
A successful electronic submission of a manuscript will be
followed by a system-generated acknowledgement to the principal/corresponding
author within 72 hours of the dispatch of
the manuscript. Any questions with regards to the preparation
of and submission of your manuscript to the journal should
be addressed to tocatj@benthamopen.org
and copied to managingeditor@benthamopen.org
NOTE: Any queries therein should be addressed
to oa@benthamscience.org and
copied to Jalil@benthamscience.org
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, the customer support team available
at Bentham Publishing Services (www.benthampublishingservices.com)
can provide assistance to authors for the preparation of manuscripts.
Manuscript Length:
Research Articles: The total number of words
for a published research article is from 4000 to 8000 words.
Review Articles: The total number of words
for a published comprehensive review article article is from
8000 to 40000 words, and for mini-review articles from 3000
to 6000 words.
Letter Articles: The total number of words for a
published letter/short communication article is from 3000
to 6000 words.
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.
Manuscripts Published:The
journal accepts letters/short communications, original research
articles, and mini- and full-length review articles written
in English. Supplements, proceedings of conferences and book
reviews may also be considered for publication.
Supplements/Single Topic Issues: The journal also considers Supplements/Single topic issues for publication. A Supplements/Single topic will be a collection of review articles (minimum of 6, maximum of 20 articles) based on a contemporary theme or topic of great importance to the field. Mini-supplements consisting of between 3 to 5 articles are also welcome. The Guest Editors' main editorial task is to invite the contributors to the Supplement and to manage the peer review of submitted manuscripts. A short summary or proposal for editing a supplement should be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief at e-mail to tocatj@benthamopen.org
with a copy to specialissue@benthamopen.org
Conference Proceedings: For proposals to publish conference proceedings in this journal, please contact us at email: proceedings@benthamscience.org
Open Access Book Reviews: This journal publishes
open access reviews on recently published books (both print
and electronic) relevant to the journal. Publishers and authors
of books are invited to contact our book reviews editor at
tocatj@benthamopen.org
with book review requests. All submitted books will be reviewed
by an independent expert in the field.
MANUSCRIPT SECTIONS FOR PAPERS: Manuscripts
for research articles and letters submitted to the journal
should be divided into the following sections; however, there
can be an extension in the number of sections in review articles
in accordance with the requirements of the topic.
Covering letter
Title page
Abstract
Text organization
List of abbreviations (if any)
Conflict of interest (if any)
Acknowledgements (if any)
References
Appendixes
Figures/illustrations (if any)
Chemical structures (if any)
Tables and captions (if any)
Supportive/supplementary material (if any)
COVERING LETTER: It is a mandatory requirement
that a signed covering letter 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 contains no 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 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 agreement. Download
the Covering letter
TITLE: The title 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’.
ABSTRACT: The abstract
should not exceed 250 words for review and research papers
and should be limited to only 150 words for letters, summarizing
the essential features of the article. The use of abbreviations
should be reduced to a minimum and the references should not
be cited in the abstract.
TEXT ORGANIZATION: The main text should
begin on a separate page and should be divided into separate
sections. For Research articles, the preparation of the main
text must be structured into separate sections as Introduction,
Materials and Methodology, Results, Discussion and Conclusion.
For Review and Letter articles, the manuscript 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 (if any) and
Reference sections. The review article should mention any
previous important reviews in the field and contain a comprehensive
discussion starting with the general background of the field.
It should then go on to discuss the salient features of recent
developments. The authors should avoid presenting material
which has already been published in a previous review. Crystallographic
studies may also be included. 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.
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/XML2.
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).
Depositing of Data:
Data of organic and metal-organic structures should
be sent by e-mail to the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
(CCDC). The preferred mode of deposition is a standard ASCII
file. Wherever possible the CIF format should be used but
other formats will be accepted as well. Data can also be deposited
as a hard-copy. A checklist of data items for deposition can
be obtained from the CCDC Home Page on the World Wide Web
(http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk)
or by e-mail (fileserv@ccdc.cam.ac.uk)
with the one-line message "send me checklist". Address
for e-mail deposition: deposit@ccdc.cam.ac.uk The hard-copy
deposition should be addressed to: CCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge
CB2 1EZ, UK The crystallographic data associated with inorganic
structures should be deposited with the Fachinformationszentrum
Karlsruhe. FIZ accepts the data deposited in electronic form
only (preferably in CIF format). Deposition guidelines and
example files can be obtained on the www.fiz-karlsruhe.de
other products deposition of crystal structure data Address
for e-mail deposition is: crysdata@fiz-karlsruhe.de
Both databases provide the author with a deposition number
which will be published in a footnote of the contribution
in the journal.''
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 should be clearly acknowledged,
as should any potential conflict of interest.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Please acknowledge anyone
(individual/company/institution) who has contributed to the
study by making substantial contributions to conception, design,
acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data,
or who was involved in drafting the manuscript or revising
it critically for important intellectual content. Please list
the source(s) of funding for the study, for each author, and
for the manuscript preparation in the acknowledgements section.
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] Gallant, M.; Dufresne, C.; Gareau, Y.; Guay, D.; Leblanc,
Y.; Prasit, P.; Rochette, C.; Sawyer, N.; Slipertz, D.M.;
Tremblay, N.; Metters, K.M.; Labelle, M. New glass of potent
rigands for the human peripheral cannabinoid receptor. Bioorg.
Med. Chem. Lett., 1996, 6,
2263-68.
[2] Bard, M.; Woods, R.A.; Bartón, D.H.; Corrie, J.E.;
Widdowson, D.A. Sterol mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae:
chromatographic analyses. Lipids, 1977,
12(8), 645-54.
Book Reference:
[2] Crabtree, R.H. The Organometallic Chemistry of the
Transition Metals, 3rd ed.; Wiley & Sons: New York,
2001.
Book Chapter Reference:
[3] 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:
[4] Jakeman, D.L.; Withers, S.G. E. In Carbohydrate
Bioengineering: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Proceedings
of the 4th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting, Stockholm,
Sweden,10-13 June, 2001; Teeri, T.T.; Svensson,
B.; Gilbert, H.J.; Feizi, T., Eds.; Royal Society of Chemistry:
Cambridge, UK, 2002; pp. 3-8.
URL(Web Page):
[5] National Library of Medicine. Specialized Information
Services: Toxicology and Environmental Health. http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/ToxMain.html
(accessed May 23, 2004).
Patent:
[6] Roy, Reynald. Insect Repellent. U.S. Patent 6,441,034,
August 27, 2002. (Patent Application Style) Roy, Reynald.
U.S. Patent 6,441,034, 2002.
Thesis:
[7] Kirby, C.W. Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2000.
E-citations:
[8] 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.
*Avoid using superscript in the in-text citations and reference
section.
*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.
APPENDIXES: In case there is a need to present
lengthy, but essential methodological details, use appendixes,
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: 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.
No charges will be levied on the use of color figures except
in the reprints. 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 or RGB or Grayscale, with a minimum 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
or 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 OPEN 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 Graphic Converter
on the Macintosh, Paint Shop 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 Power Point, 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.
Chemical Structures: Chemical structures MUST be prepared according to the guidelines below.
Structures should be prepared in ChemDraw and provided as separate file, submitted both on disk and in printed formats.
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 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.
Published/reproduced material should not be included unless
you have obtained written permission from the copyright holder,
which must be forwarded to the Editorial Office in case of
acceptance of your article for publication.
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.
PERMISSION FOR REPRODUCTION: Published/reproduced
material should not be included unless you have obtained written
permission from the copyright holder, which should be forwarded
to the Editorial Office in case of acceptance of your article
for publication.
For obtaining permission for reproducing any material published
in an article by Bentham Science Publishers, please fill in
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AUTHORS AND INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATIONS: The
author will be required to provide their full names, the institutional
affiliations and the location, with an asterisk in front of
the name of the principal/corresponding author. The corresponding
author(s) should be designated and their complete address,
business telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address must
be stated to receive correspondence and galley proofs.
REVIEWING AND PROMPTNESS OF PUBLICATION:
All papers submitted for publication are immediately subjected
to editorial scrutiny, usually in consultation with members
of the journal Editorial Advisory Board and outside independent
reviewers. Every effort will be made to peer review submitted
papers quickly. Papers accepted for publication are typeset
and proofs are dispatched to authors for any corrections prior
to final publication.
All peer-reviewing will be conducted via the Internet to facilitate
rapid reviewing of the submitted manuscripts. Every possible
effort will be made to assess the manuscripts quickly with
the decision being conveyed to the authors in due course.
LANGUAGE AND EDITING: Manuscripts submitted
containing many English typographical errors will not be published.
Manuscripts which are accepted for publication on condition
that the written English submitted is corrected, will be sent
a quote by Eureka
Science, a professional language editing company. Authors
from non-English language countries who have poor English
language written skills, are advised to contact the language
editing company prior to submitting their manuscript to the
journal. Please contact Eureka
Science for a language editing quote at e-mail: info@eureka-science.com
stating the total number of words of the article to be edited.
PROOF CORRECTIONS: Authors are required to
proofread the PDF versions of their manuscripts before submission.
To avoid delays in publication, proofs should be checked immediately
for typographical errors and returned within 48 hours. Major
changes are not acceptable at the proof stage. If unable to
send corrections within 48 hours due to some reason, the author(s)
must at least send an acknowledgement on receiving the galley
proofs or the article will be published exactly as received
and the publishers will not be responsible for any error occurring
in the manuscript in this regard.
The corresponding author will be solely responsible for ensuring
that the revised version of the manuscript incorporating all
the submitted corrections receives the approval of all the
authors of the manuscript.
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a manuscript to the respective journals implies that all authors
have read and agreed to the content of the Covering Letter
or the Terms and Conditions. It is a condition of publication
that manuscripts submitted to this journal have not been published
and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere.
Plagiarism is strictly forbidden, and by submitting the article
for publication the authors agree that the publishers have
the legal right to take appropriate action against the authors,
if plagiarism or fabricated information is discovered. Once
submitted to the journal, the author will not withdraw their
manuscript at any stage prior to publication.
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which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution
and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is
properly cited.
PUBLICATION FEES: The publication fee details
for each article published in the journal are given below:
Letters: The publication fee for each published
Letter article submitted is US $600.
Research Articles: The publication fee for
each published Research article is US $800.
Mini-Review Articles: The publication fee
for each published Mini-Review article is US $600.
Review Articles: The publication fee for
each published Review article is US $900.
Book Reviews: The open access fee for a published
book review is US $450.
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