The Open Surface Science Journal is
an Open Access online journal, which publishes original research articles, reviews, letters and guest edited single topic issues in the field of surface science, aiming at providing the most complete and reliable source of information on current developments in the field.
Manuscripts may be submitted directly to tosursj@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.
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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
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Alternatively, you may also submit your full manuscript by
e-mail to tosursj@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 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.
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 tosursj@benthamopen.org
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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 original research articles, letters and review articles written in English. Supplements, proceedings of conferences and open access 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 tosursj@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
tosursj@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
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)
Symbols and Units
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
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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’.
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 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.
KEYWORDS: Please provide 6-8 keywords in alphabetical
order.
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, Conclusion
and References. 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. 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 font 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. Non-assimilated words
from Latin or other languages should also be italicized e.g.,
per se, et al. etc.
Symbols and Units: Greek symbols and special characters
play a prominent role in the manuscript. These symbols often
undergo formatting changes and get corrupted or lost during
preparation of a 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. All kinds
of measurements should be reported only in International System
of Units (SI).
Mathematical Material:
Units:
The following guidelines for using units should be observed.
(1) The number (numeral) should be separated from the unit
followed by a full space, e.g., 1.8 MeV.
(2) The units should have a single form for both singular
and plural, i.e., 1.0 cm and 2.7 cm.
(3) The symbols for units should be printed in lower-case
roman type without periods. Units derived from proper names,
however, should be abbreviated with initial capital letters,
i.e., coulomb (C), Weber (Wb).
(4) The abbreviated form of a unit must be used after a number
given in numerals: 1 cm (not 1 centimeter) but the unit should
be written out in cases like “a few centimeters.”
(5) Decimal multiples of units should be indicated by the
use of prefixes. The combination of prefix and unit symbol
is treated as a single symbol. For instance, such a combination
can be raised to a power, i.e., cm2.
Compound units should be written ad 1 g cm2
or g cm2 s-2,
with a thin space between unit parts. Avoid ambiguous compound
units, e.g., 6 J/cm3/s.
Write instead, for example, 6 J cm-3
s-1.
Mathematical Symbols:
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where they are introduced.
Characters:
Character fonts:
The italic font should be used for mathematical symbols
(this is the default font in *TeX/LaTeX’s math mode).
In addition to variables and constants, the italic font should
be used for particle symbols, symbols of quantum states, and
group theoretic designations.
Diacritical signs:
A diacritical sign is a marking placed directly above
or below symbols, e.g., the arrow in 
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Subscripts and superscripts:
All available characters can be used as subscripts
or superscripts. Position of a subscript or superscript is
dictated by standard notation.
Examples:
Abbreviations in math:
Some abbreviations, such as those for mathematical
functions and those used in superscripts or subscripts require
special handling and are discussed below.
Abbreviations designating mathematical functions:
• Roman multiletter abbreviations must be closed
up to the argument following and separated from any preceding
symbol by a thin space, that is,
• To treat a function of a function
enclose it in bold round parentheses, i.e.,
g(f(x))
• e and exp (for exponent) notation
The e form is appropriate when the argument is short and simple,
i.e., eik·r, whereas exp should be used
if the argument is more complicated.
Equation breaking (multilinear equations):
Mathematical expressions often need to be displayed
on two or more lines (“broken”)
The best place for a break is just before an operator or sign
of relation. These signs should begin the next line of the
equation.
Equation numbering:
A principal equation and subordinate equations may be numbered
(1), (1a), (1b), etc.
Bracketing and Grouping sequence:
For the purpose of grouping, the sequence of bracketing preferred
is {[()]}, working outwards in sets ( ), [ ], and {}.
{ [ ( { [ ( ) ] } ) ] }
Limits and indices:
In text, however, space limitations require that
single limit sums or integrals use subscripts and superscripts,
for example
Fractions:
Fractions can be “built up” with a fraction
bar, 
, “slashed” with a solidus, (a + b)/c, or written
with a negative exponent, (a + b)c-1.
In text all fractions must be either slashed or written with
a negative exponent.
Multiplication signs:
The primary use of the multiplication sign is to indicate
a vector product of three-vectors (e.g., k
x A). Do not use it to express a simple product.
The center dot (•) should not be used to mean a simple
product. Use the dot to represent inner products of vectors
(k • r).
Mathematical terms:
The use of the following standard symbols is recommended.
The use of the following standard symbols is recommended.
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.
This journal complies with the International Committee of
Medical Journal Editors' Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts
Submitted to Biomedical Journals www.icmje.org
and the FDA's Good Reprint Practices for the Distribution
of Medical Journal Articles and Medical or Scientific Reference
Publications on Unapproved New Uses of Approved Drugs and
Approved or Cleared Medical Devices http://www.fda.gov/oc/op/goodreprint.html
REFERENCES: References must be listed in the numerical
system (Vancouver). 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 correct
Vancouver style:
Typical Paper References:
[1] Hedberg A, Ehrenberg A. Resolution enhancement of ESR
spectra from irradiated single crystals of glycine. J Chem
Phys 1968; 48: 4822-8.
[2] Kaczynski R, Grabowska-Olszewska B. Soil mechanics of
the potentially expansive clays in Poland. Appl Clay Sci 1997;
11: 337-55.
Typical Chapter Reference:
[3] Piecuch P, Wloch M, Varandas AJC. Renormalized coupled
cluster methods: Theoretical foundations and application to
potential function of water. In: Lahmar S, Maruani J, Wilson
S, Delgado-Barrio G, Eds. Progress in theoretical chemistry
and physics, Springer, Berlin, 2007; vol. 16: pp. 65-133.
Book Reference:
[4] Abramowitz M, Stegun I. Handbook of mathematical functions.
Dover: New York; 1965.
Edited Book:
[5] Ibach H, Mills DL, editors. Electron energy loss spectroscopy
and surface vibrations. Academic Press: New York; 1982.
Conference Proceedings:
[6] Leigh C, Androula N, Vitali P. Physica Status Solidi (A):
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference Porous Semiconductors
- Science and Technology; May 2003; Wiley-VCH Verlag, Berlin,
GmbH, Germany; 2003.
Journal Article on the Internet:
[7] Zhang X, Zhang ZL, Glotzer SC. Simulation study of cyclic
tethered nanocube self-assemblies: effect of tethered nanocube
architectures. Nanotechnology [115706]. March 21, 2007, 18(11):
Available from: http://stacks.iop.org/Nano/18/115706
Patents:
[8] Kim D-W, Oh J-H. Methods for manufacturing capacitors
for semiconductor devices. U.S. 20070069271A1, March 29, 2007.
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:
*References must be complete and accurate.
*Online citations should include the date of access.
*Journal titles should conform to the present ACM Guide to
Computing Literature/Chemical Abstracts etc. abbreviations.
*If the number of authors exceeds six then et al
. will be used after three names (the term “et al.”
should be in italics).
*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.
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.
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in the text file, numbered consecutively in the order of their
appearance. Each figure should include a single illustration.
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in the reprints. Each figure should be closely cropped to
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If a figure consists of separate parts, it is important that
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all parts of the | figure.
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as well as high-resolution component files.
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• TIFF
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