期刊名称：BEILSTEIN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
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About the journal
About Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
What is Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry?
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal that will encompass all aspects of organic chemistry. Full research papers and preliminary communications (short reports) will be published in the journal.
The journal covers organic chemistry in its broadest sense, including: organic synthesis, organic reactions, natural products chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and chemical biology.
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry offers organic chemists a unique opportunity to publish their research rapidly in an Open Access medium that is freely available online to researchers worldwide. In doing so it not only offers authors uniquely wide visibility and high impact, but it also ensures that their work is part of the permanent, publicly available archive of science. Open Access does not compromise the high quality of the articles published. All manuscripts submitted to the journal are subject to rigorous peer review.
Content overview
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry considers the following types of articles:
- Full Research Papers: reports of data from original research.
- Preliminary Communications: brief reports of data from original research.
- Book reviews: short summaries of the strengths and weaknesses of a book. They should evaluate its overall usefulness to the intended audience.
- Commentaries: short, focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the scope of the journal. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue, such as recent research findings, and are often written by opinion leaders.
- Debate articles: present an argument that is not essentially based on practical research. Debate articles can report on all aspects of the subject including sociological and ethical aspects.
- Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the scope of the journal. These articles are usually written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board.
Peer review policies
In selecting a manuscript for publication the Editor-in-Chief will consider the breadth of interest in it, as well as its quality, originality and timeliness. If a manuscript is complete and ready for review the corresponding author will be informed and the manuscript sent to a minimum of two independent referees. Authors are invited to provide contact details (including e-mail address) of up to four referees for their manuscript. The Editor-in-Chief will consider referees suggested by authors, but is not bound to use them.
Edited by Jonathan Clayden, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry is supported by an international Editorial Board.
Publishing in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
All articles will be listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and will be covered by PubMed Central, Thomson Scientific (ISI) and CAS.
Articles in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.
The following citation:
Beilstein J Org Chem 2004, 2:1
refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.
As an online journal, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry does not have issue numbers either. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.
To keep up to date with the latest articles from Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, why not register to receive alerts? Registration also enables you to customise your subject areas of interest, store your searches, and submit your manuscripts.
Submission of manuscripts
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.
General journal policies
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry is published by the Beilstein-Institut in co-operation with BioMed Central. The content is open access; that means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognized free-access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the copyright and licence agreement. The Beilstein-Institut is committed to improving communication among chemists and will support the journal financially, including the publishing costs, to enable the journal to be open access without charge to the authors.
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also in repositories at the University of Potsdam in Germany, at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.
BioMed Central is working closely with the Institute for Scientific Information to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will be available.
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.
Instructions to Authors
General information
The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry publishes outstanding original research on all aspects of organic chemistry and related disciplines. Areas covered in the journal include: organic synthesis, organic reactions and mechanisms, natural products chemistry and chemical biology, organic materials and macro- and supramolecular organic chemistry.
Submission process
Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript, and should not be submitted by anyone on their behalf. The submitting author takes responsibility for the article during submission and peer review.
To facilitate rapid publication and to minimize administrative costs, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry accepts only online submission. The submission process is compatible with version 3.0 or later of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, and with most other modern web browsers. It can be used from PC, Mac, or Unix platforms.
Files can be submitted as a batch, or one by one. The submission process can be interrupted at any time - when users return to the site, they can carry on where they left off.
See below for examples of acceptable word processor and graphics file formats. Additional files of any type, such as movies, animations, or original data files, can also be submitted as part of the publication.
During submission you will be asked to provide a cover letter. Please use this to explain why your manuscript should be published in the journal, to elaborate on any issues relating to our editorial policies detailed in the instructions for authors, and to declare any potential competing interests.
Assistance with the process of manuscript preparation and submission is available from the customer support team (info@biomedcentral.com).
Publication and peer review processes
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry uses online peer review to speed up the publication process. The time taken to reach a final decision depends on whether reviewers request revisions, and how quickly authors are able to respond.
Once an article is accepted, it is published in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry immediately as a provisional PDF file. The paper will subsequently be published in both fully browseable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, BioMed Central and PubMed Central, and will also be included in PubMed.
The ultimate responsibility for any decision lies with the Editor-in-Chief, to whom any appeals against rejection should be addressed.
No article processing charge needs to be paid by the author
The publication costs for Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry are covered by the journal, so authors do not need to pay an article processing charge.
Editorial policies
Any manuscript submitted to the journal must not already have been published in another journal or be under consideration by any other journal, although it may have been deposited on a preprint server. Manuscripts that are derived from papers presented at conferences can be submitted unless they have been published as part of the conference proceedings in a peer reviewed journal. Authors are required to ensure that no material submitted as part of a manuscript infringes existing copyrights, or the rights of a third party. Authors who publish in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry retain copyright to their work ( more information). Correspondence concerning articles published in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry is encouraged.
Submission of a manuscript to Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry implies that all authors have read and agreed to its content.
Characterization of compounds
For known compounds used in syntheses the methods of preparation and the literature data used to confirm the material's identity should be cited. For all new compounds sufficient evidence to establish the identity and the degree of purity of the compound must be provided. Experimental data should generally be included within the Additional Material rather than within the main text of the paper and should include relevant spectral and other data. Copies of spectra used in the characterisation of compounds may be reproduced as figures in the Additional Material. X-ray crystallographic data, atomic co-ordinates, nucleic acid sequences and protein sequences should be deposited in an appropriate database in time for any relevant accession numbers to be included in the published data. |
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Preparing main manuscript text
Nomenclature
Authors should adhere to IUPAC conventions on nomenclature of chemical compounds, which may be found at http://www.chem.qmw.ac.uk/iupac
File formats
The following word processor file formats are acceptable for the main manuscript document:
- Microsoft Word (version 2 and above)
- WordPerfect (version 5 and above)
- Rich text format (RTF)
- Portable document format (PDF)
- TeX/LaTeX (use BioMed Central's TeX template)
- DeVice Independent format (DVI)
- Publicon Document (NB)
Users of other word processing packages should save or convert their files to RTF before uploading. Many free tools are available which ease this process.
TeX/LaTeX users: We recommend using BioMed Central's TeX template and BibTeX stylefile. If you use this standard format, you can submit your manuscript in TeX format (after you submit your TEX file, you will be prompted to submit your BBL file). If you have used another template for your manuscript, or if you do not wish to use BibTeX, then please submit your manuscript as a DVI file. We do not recommend converting to RTF.
Note that figures must be submitted as separate image files, although they may also be included as part of the submitted DOC/PDF/TEX/DVI file.
Article types
When submitting your manuscript, you will be asked to assign one of the following types to your article:
Please read the descriptions of each of the article types, choose which is appropriate for your article and structure it accordingly. If in doubt, your manuscript should be classified as Full Research Paper , the structure for which is described below.
Manuscript sections for Full Research Paper articles
Manuscripts for Full Research Paper articles submitted to Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry should be divided into the following sections:
Title page
This should list: the title of the article, which should include an accurate, clear and concise description of the reported work, avoiding abbreviations; and the full names, institutional addresses, and e-mail addresses for all authors. The corresponding author should also be indicated. The title should be capitalized on the first word and proper nouns only.
Text abstract
The abstract of the manuscript should not exceed 350 words and must be structured into separate sections: Background, the context and purpose of the study; Results, the main findings; Conclusions, brief summary and potential implications. Please minimize the use of abbreviations and do not cite references in the abstract. Trial Registration, if your research article reports the results of a controlled health care intervention, please list your trial registry, along with the unique identifying number, e.g. Trial registration: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN73824458. Please note that there should be no space between the letters and numbers of your trial registration number.
Graphical Abstract
A graphical abstract must be supplied which, together with the article title, should provide the reader with a summary visual description of the type of chemistry covered in the article. The graphical abstract will be scaled to fill a nominal space of 12 by 4 cm, and should be prepared accordingly. Authors are encouraged to make judicious use of colour in graphical abstracts.
Introduction
The introduction section should be written from the standpoint of researchers without specialist knowledge in that area. It should clearly state the background to the research, as well as its purposes and objectives, and should include a brief statement of what is being reported in the article.
Results and Discussion
The presentation of experimental details in this section should be kept to a minimum. Information already obvious in tables, figures or schemes should not be reiterated and authors are encouraged to make full use of the Additional files that allow supplementary material to be presented in extensive form. Footnotes may not be used in any section of the paper.
Experimental
This section, together with the supplementary material provided in the Additional files, should describe the experimental methods used in the work in sufficient detail to allow repetition of the work by others. Authors are encouraged to include detailed experimental data such as experimental procedures and characterization data as Additional Material rather than as an extensive experimental section.
Description of Additional material
A wide range of technical formats is supported. These include formats that allow for the use of colour illustrations, rotatable molecular models, animations and videos. If additional files are provided each should be described in this section of the manuscript, providing the following information:
- file name
- file format (including name and URL link of appropriate viewer if format is unusual)
- title of this dataset
- description of this dataset.
Additional data files may be referenced generically within the body of the article. e.g. "See additional data file 1 for the original data used to perform this analysis".
Methods
This should include the design of the study, the setting, the type of participants or materials involved, a clear description of all interventions and comparisons, and the type of analysis used, including a power calculation if appropriate.
References
All references must be numbered consecutively, in the order in which they are cited in the text, followed by any in tables or legends. Reference citations should not appear in titles or headings. Each reference must have an individual reference number. A complete list should then be provided at the end of the article. The references should be presented in a style consistent with the ACS Style Guide and must not contain any form of note or comment. Footnotes may not be included, whether in the reference list or elsewhere. If automatic numbering systems are used, the reference numbers must be finalized and the bibliography must be fully formatted before submission.
Examples of the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry reference style are shown below. Please take care to follow the reference style precisely; references not in the correct style may be retyped, necessitating tedious proofreading.
Links
Web links and URLs should be included in the reference list. They should be provided in full, including both the title of the site and the URL, in the following format: Molecular Informatics: Confronting Complexity, Proceedings of the Beilstein-Institut Workshop, May 13th-16th, 2002, Bozen, Italy [http://www.beilstein-institut.de/bozen2002/proceedings]
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry reference style
Article within a journal
1. Jacobsen MF, Moses JE, Adlington RM, Baldwin JE: Org Lett 2005, 7:2473-2476.
Article within a journal supplement
2. Orengo CA, Bray JE, Hubbard T, LoConte L, Sillitoe I: Analysis and assessment of ab initio three-dimensional prediction, secondary structure, and contacts prediction. Proteins 1999, Suppl 3:149-170.
In press article
3. Betson MS, Clayden J, Helliwell M, Mitjans D: Org Biomol Chem, in press.
Published abstract
4. Clayden, J, Collington EW, Warren S: Kinetic resolution of d-hydroxy allylic phosphine oxides: a stereocontrolled route to allylically functionalised systems [abstract]. Phosphorus Sulfur Silicon 1993, 77:187.
Article within conference proceedings
5. Jones X: Zeolites and synthetic mechanisms. In Proceedings of the First National Conference on Porous Sieves: 27-30 June 1996; Baltimore. Edited by Smith Y. Stoneham: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1996:16-27.
Book chapter, or article within a book
6. Yus M: Arene-catalyzed lithiation. In The Chemistry of Organolithium Compounds. Edited by Rappoport Z, Marek I. Chichester: Wiley and Sons; 2004:647-748.
Whole issue of journal
7. O払rien P (Ed): Recent developments in chiral lithium amide chemistry. In Tetrahedron 2002, 58:4567-4733.
Whole conference proceedings
8. Smith Y (Ed): Proceedings of the First National Conference on Porous Sieves: 27-30 June 1996; Baltimore. Stoneham: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1996.
Complete book
9. Gutsche C D: Calixarenes. Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry; 1989.
Monograph or book in a series
10. Goldfuss B: Enantioselective addition of organolithiums to C=O groups. In Organolithiums in Enantioselective Synthesis. Edited by Hodgson DM. Berlin: Springer; 2003:21-36. [Topics in Organometallic Chemistry, vol 5.]
Book with institutional author
11. Advisory Committee on Genetic Modification: Annual Report. London; 1999.
PhD thesis
12. Westlund N. PhD thesis. University of Manchester 1998.
Link / URL
13. Molecular Informatics: Confronting Complexity, Proceedings of the Beilstein-Institut Workshop, May 13th-16th, 2002, Bozen, Italy [http://www.beilstein-institut.de/bozen2002/proceedings] |
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Preparing figures and schemes
Figures and schemes should be provided as separate files, although they may also be embedded in appropriate locations in the text file. Schemes must only be embedded in the text file. Each figure or scheme should comprise only a single file. There is no charge for the use of color.
Please read our figure preparation guidelines for detailed instructions on maximising the quality of your figures and schemes.
Formats
The following file formats can be accepted:
- 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
- BMP
- CDX (ChemDraw)
- TGF (ISIS/Draw)
Figure and scheme legends
The legends should be included in the main manuscript text file rather than being a part of the figure or scheme file. For each figure, the following information should be providedat the end of the manuscript text, following the references: Figure number (in sequence, using Arabic numerals - i.e. Figure 1, 2, 3 etc); short title of figure (maximum 15 words); detailed legend, up to 300 words. For each reaction scheme, immediately after the scheme appears in the text, please include a legend comprising: scheme number (in sequence, using Arabic numerals - i.e. Scheme 1, 2, 3 etc); short title of scheme (maximum 15 words); detailed legend, up to 300 words (for example, a list of reagents).
Please note that it is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain permission from the copyright holder to reproduce figures or tables that have previously been published elsewhere. |
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Preparing tables
Each table should be numbered in sequence using Arabic numerals (i.e. Table 1, 2, 3 etc.). Tables should also have a title that summarizes the whole table, maximum 15 words. Detailed legends may then follow, but should be concise.
Smaller tables considered to be integral to the manuscript can be pasted into the end of the document text file, in portrait format. These will be typeset and displayed in the final published form of the article. Such tables should be formatted using the 'Table object' in a word processing program to ensure that columns of data are kept aligned when the file is sent electronically for review; this will not always be the case if columns are generated by simply using tabs to separate text. Columns and rows of data should be made visibly distinct by ensuring the borders of each cell display as black lines. Commas should not be used to indicate numerical values. Colour and shading should not be used.
Larger datasets can be uploaded separately as additional files. Additional files will not be displayed in the final, published form of the article, but a link will be provided to the files as supplied by the author.
Tabular data provided as additional files can be uploaded as an Excel spreadsheet (.xls) or comma separated values (.csv). As with all files, please use the standard file extensions. |
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Preparing additional files
Although Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry does not restrict the length and quantity of data in a paper, there may still be occasions where an author wishes to provide data sets, tables, movie files, or other information as additional information. These files can be uploaded using the 'Additional Material files' button in the manuscript submission process.
The maximum file size for additional files is 10 MB each, and files will be virus-scanned on submission.
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.
If additional material is provided, please list the following information in a separate section of the manuscript text, immediately following the tables (if any):
- File name
- File format (including name and a URL of an appropriate viewer if format is unusual)
- Title of data
- Description of data
Additional datafiles should be referenced explicitly by file name within the body of the article, e.g. 'See additional file 1: Movie1 for the original data used to perform this analysis'.
Formats and uploading
Ideally, file formats for additional files should not be platform-specific, and should be viewable using free or widely available tools. The following are examples of suitable formats.
- Additional documentation
- Animations
- Movies
- MOV (QuickTime)
- MPG (MPEG)
- Tabular data
- XLS (Excel spreadsheet)
- CSV (Comma separated values)
As with figure files, files should be given the standard file extensions. This is especially important for Macintosh users, since the Mac OS does not enforce the use of standard extensions. 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). |
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Style and language
General
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry can only accept manuscripts written in English. Spelling should be US English or British English, but not a mixture .
The publisher recommends that authors adhere to the ACS Style Guide on matters of nomenclature, physical quantity symbols and units, abbreviations, references, use of italics and punctuation.
There is no explicit limit on the length of articles submitted, but authors are encouraged to be concise. There is also no restriction on the number of figures, tables or additional files that can be included with each article online. Figures , schemes and tables should be sequentially referenced. Authors should include all relevant supporting data with each article.
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry will not edit submitted manuscripts for style or language; reviewers may advise rejection of a manuscript if it is compromised by grammatical errors. Authors are advised to write clearly and simply, and to have their article checked by colleagues before submission. In-house copyediting will be minimal. Non-native speakers of English may choose to make use of a copyediting service.
Help and advice on scientific writing
The abstract is one of the most important parts of a manuscript. For guidance, please visit our page on "Writing titles and abstracts for scientific articles".
Typography
- Please use double line spacing.
- Type the text unjustified, without hyphenating words at line breaks.
- Use hard returns only to end headings and paragraphs, not to rearrange lines.
- Capitalise only the first word, and proper nouns, in the title.
- All pages should be numbered.
- Use the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry reference format.
- Footnotes to text should not be used.
- Greek and other special characters may be included. If you are unable to reproduce a particular special character, please type out the name of the symbol in full. Please ensure that all special characters used are embedded in the text, otherwise they will be lost during conversion to PDF.
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