1. General guidelines
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∙ Manuscripts are accepted in English. British English spelling and punctuation are required. Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’. Long quotations of 40 words or more should be indented without quotation marks.
∙ Review Articles can only be submitted to the journal following permission from the Editor. To receive this, an initial proposal must be sent to the Editor ( armandodoriano.bianco@uniroma1.it ) which contains a justification for the review, as well as an estimation of its number of pages, figures and tables. A decision will then be made by the Editor as to whether the Review Article can be submitted to the journal via ScholarOne.
∙ Manuscripts must be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; (1) introduction; (2) results and discussion; (3) experimental; (4) conclusions; acknowledgements; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on indi
vidual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list). Any manuscripts that do not follow this suggested order will be rejected or required to undergo revision.
∙ editor decision started natureThe Experimental section can be supplied as supplementary material (see below and  here for guidelines).
∙ Advised length for Research Articles:  7–10 pages (excluding title page) of 1.5-spaced manuscript pages (to include figures and tables and the Experimental section) OR 5-7 pages (excluding title page) of 1.5-spaced manuscript pages (to include figures and tables but excluding the Experimental section, which should be supplied as online-only supplementary material).
∙ Advised length for Short Communications:  3–4 pages (excluding title page) of 1.5-spaced manuscript pages (to include figures and tables but excluding the Experimental section, which should be supplied as online-only supplementary material).
∙ Advised length for Letters to the Editor:  1–2 pages of 1.5-spaced manuscript pages (to include figures and tables, if required).
∙ Original spectra, chromatographic profiles and any other additional, non-essential experimental data should be submitted as supplementary material, which will be hosted online.
∙ Abstracts of 150 words are required for all manuscripts submitted.
∙ Each manuscript should have 3 to 7 keywords .
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∙ Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
∙ All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer r
eview process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal style) and the online article.
∙ All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.
∙ Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
∙ Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as an Acknowledgement on the title page of the manuscript, in a separate paragraph, as follows:
o For single agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx]."
o For multiple agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency 1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency 2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency 3] under Grant [number xxxx]."
∙ Authors must also incorporate a Disclosure Statement which will acknowledge any financial interest or benefit they have arising from the direct applications of their research.
∙ For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms must not be used.
∙ Authors must adhere to SI units . Units are not italicised.
∙ When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.
2. Style guidelines
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∙ Description of the Journal’s article style.
∙ Description of the Journal’s reference style.
∙ Guide to using mathematical scripts and equations.
∙ LaTeX template.
∙ Word templates are available for this journal. If you are not able to use the template via the links or if you have any other template queries, please contact uk.

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