Acta Crystallographica Section B
Structural
Science
ISSN0108-7681
Notes for authors2012
1.Scientific scope
Section B of Acta Crystallographica publishes articles in which structure is the primary focus of the work reported.The central themes of Section B are the acquisition of structural knowledge from novel experimental obrvations or from existing data,the correla-tion of structural knowledge with physico-chemical and other prop-erties,and the application of this knowledge to scientific problems. Section B has broad chemical coverage,encompassing metals and alloys,inorganics and minerals,metal-organics and purely organic compounds.Biological,particularly macromolecular,structural science is covered by Sections D and F.A more complete definition of scientific scope is given in an Editorial[Acta Cryst.(1994),B50,1–3].
2.Categories of contributions
Contributions should conform to the general editorial style of the journal.Typical articles can be viewed by going to journals. iucr/b/sample_issue.html.
2.1.Rearch Papers
Full-length Rearch Papers should not normally exceed15journal pages(about15000words).
2.2.Short Communications
Short Communications are intended for the prentation of topics of limited scope,or for preliminary announcements of novel rearch findings.They are not intended for interim reports of work in progress,and must report results that are of scientific value in their own right.In Section B,it is unlikely that reports of individual structure determinations will be acceptable as Short Communications, since Sections C and E of Acta Crystallographica exist for this purpo.
Short Communications should not normally exceed two journal pages(about1500words).
2.3.Lead Articles
Lead Articles are authoritative,comprehensive and forward-looking reviews of major areas of rearch interest.They are always commissioned by the Section Editor,on the advice of the Editorial Board.Suggestions for suitable topics and of potential author(s)are welcomed by the Section Editor for discussion with the Board. The Section Editor will discuss the treatment of the topic,the length of the Article and the delivery date of the manuscript with invited author(s).Lead Articles will be refereed in the normal manner;they will be made open access on publication.
2.4.Feature Articles
A Feature Article is a focud survey covering recent advances in an area of current rearch.It should not aim to be comprehensive, but a brief introduction should provide historical perspective and a brief conclusion should indicate likely future directions.Inclusion of relevant new results is appropriate.
Feature Articles will generally be about ten journal pages(10000 words).Shorter articles on rapidly evolving areas are also actively encouraged.They will be commissioned by the Section Editor,either personally or following a formal proposal by prospective author(s). Feature Articles will be refereed in the normal way;they will be made open access on publication.
2.5.Letters to the Editor
The may deal with non-technical aspects of crystallography,its role,its propagation,the proper function of its Societies etc.,or may make a technical obrvation or scientific comment that would ufully be brought to a wider audience.Letters should be submitted to the Section Editor or to the Editor-in-chief of IUCr Journals. 2.6.Scientific Comment
Comments of general scientific interest to the readership are welcomed.The should not normally exceed two journal pages and should be submitted as in x3.
2.7.Meeting Reports
The are normally invited.Prospective authors interested in writing such items shouldfirst contact the Section Editor.
2.8.New Commercial Products
Announcements of new commercial products are published free of charge.The descriptions,up to300words or the equivalent if afigure is included,should give the manufacturer’s full address.
2.9.Obituaries
The will be commissioned by the Section Editor.
3.Submission and handling of manuscripts
3.1.Submission
Full details of the submission procedure can be found at journals.iucr/b/rvices/submitbdy.html.If the article reports a crystal structure,a CIF should be supplied(journals.iucr/b/ rvices/cifinfo.html).Full instructions for submitting an article and details of thefiles required are given at journals.iucr/b/ rvices/submitinstructions.html.Authors are encouraged to u the templates available from journals.iucr/b/rvices/help submit.html.Articles will be checked for plagiarism using the CrossCheck rvice.acres
In the ca of Addenda or Errata to published articles,the article should be submitted to the Co-editor of the original article.
3.2.Languages of publication
Acta Crystallographica Section B will publish articles in English, French,German and
Russian.
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3.3.Quality of writing
Articles should be clearly written and grammatically correct.If the Co-editor concludes that language problems would place an undue burden on the referees,the manuscript may be returned to the authors without review.Details of language-editing rvices can be found at journals.iucr/rvices/languagervices.html.
3.4.Handling of manuscripts
All contributions will be en by referees(normally two)before they can be accepted for publication.The editor to whom the manuscript is assigned is responsible for choosing referees and for accepting or rejecting the article.This responsibility includes deci-sions on thefinal form of the article and interpretation of the Notes when necessary.
If changes to a manuscript requested by the Section Editor,Co-editor or the editorial staff are not received within two months of transmittal to the author,the submission will be considered as withdrawn.Should the manuscript require further revision,this would normally be expected to be completed within one month of the revision having been requested.If a manuscript is not acceptable after two revisions it will not be considered further.Any subquent communication of the material will be treated as a new submission in the editorial process.An article that has been rejected must no
t be resubmitted to any IUCr journal unless the reasons given for the rejection have been fully addresd in the revid version.
For accepted articles,it is the responsibility of the Managing Editor to prepare the article for publication.This may involve correspon-dence with the authors and/or the responsible editor in order to resolve ambiguities or to obtain satisfactoryfigures or tables.The date of acceptance that will appear on the published article is the date on which the Managing Editor receives the last item required. Correspondence will be nt to the author who submitted the article unless the Managing Editor is informed of some other suitable arrangement.
On rare occasions an editor may consider that an article is better suited to a ction of Acta Crystallographica other than that specified by the author(s),to the Journal of Applied Crystallography or to the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation.Any change to the ction or journal of publication will only be made after full discussion with the contact author.
blou的音标3.5.Author’s warranty
The submission of an article is taken as an implicit guarantee that the work is original,that it is the author(s)own work,that all authors are aware of and concur with the submission,that all workers invol
ved in the study are listed as authors or given proper credit in the acknowledgements,that the manuscript has not already been published(in any language or medium),and that it is not being considered and will not be offered elwhere while under consid-eration for an IUCr journal.The inclusion of material in an informal a preprint rver or a newsletter,does not preclude publication in an IUCr journal.
The co-authors of an article should be all tho persons who have made significant scientific contributions to the work reported, including the ideas and their execution,and who share responsibility and accountability for the results.Other contributions should be indicated in the acknowledgements.Changes to the list of authors will normally require the agreement of the editor and all authors. Important considerations related to publication have been given in the ethical guidelines published in Acc.Chem.Res.(2002),35,74–76and Graf et al.[Int.J.Clin.Pract.(2007),61(Suppl.152),1–26]. Authors are expected to comply with the guidelines.
3.6.Copyright
Except as required otherwi by national laws,an author must sign and submit a copy of the Transfer of Copyright Agreement form for each manuscript before it can be accepted.Authors will be asked to
transfer copyright during the electronic submission procedure. Details of author rights can be found at journals.iucr/ rvices/authorrights.html.See x13.4for information on the licensing of open-access articles.
3.7.Author grievance procedure
An author who believes that an article has been unjustifiably treated by the Co-editor may appeal initially to the Section Editor for a new review and,finally,to the Editor-in-chief of IUCr Journals if the author is still aggrieved by the decision.The initial appeal must be made within3months of rejection of the article.The decision of the Editor-in-chief isfinal.Any resubmission to another Co-editor will be forwarded to the Section Editor.
3.8.Contact e-mail address
The contact author must provide an e-mail address for editorial communications and despatch of electronic proofs.
3.9.File format
The sourcefiles required for an article are:a singlefile in WORD, OpenOffice or L A T E X format of th
e text,tables andfigure captions of the article;a high-resolution graphicsfile(minimum600d.p.i.)in TIFF,PostScript or encapsulated PostScript format for eachfigure and scheme;andfiles of any supplementary material(e x12.2). The should be uploaded as described in the online submission instructions.
3.10.Revisions
After initial submission,any revid or newfiles should be uploaded via the web interface only in respon to a specific request from a Co-editor;thefiles should be uploaded at the web address provided by the Co-editor.
4.Abstract and synopsis
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All contributions must be accompanied by an English language Abstract and a one or two ntence Synopsis of the mainfindings of the article for inclusion in the Table of Contents.The Abstract should state as specifically and as quantitatively as possible the principal results obtained.
The Abstract should be suitable for reproduction by abstracting rvices without change in wording.It should not repeat information given in the title.Abstracts should not exceed200words for Abstracts of
Rearch Papers,Lead Articles and Feature Articles,and100words for shorter contributions.Similarly,the title of the article should be kept to a minimum length.The abstract should make no reference to tables,diagrams,atom numbers or formulae contained in the article. It should not contain footnotes.Numerical information given in the Abstract should not be repeated in the text.Crystal data should not be repeated in the Abstract.It should not include the u of‘we’or‘I’. Literature references in an Abstract are discouraged.If a reference is unavoidable,it should be sufficiently full within the Abstract for unambiguous identifi[Filippini(1990).Acta Cryst.B46, 643–645].2013浙江高考数学文科
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5.Diagrams and photographs(‘figures’)
A t of guidelines for preparingfigures is available from journals.iucr/b/rvices/help/artwork/guide.html.Figures should be prepared using one of thefile formats listed in x3.9.
The choice of tables andfigures should be optimized to produce the shortest article consistent with clarity.Duplicate prentation of the same information in both tables andfigures is to be avoided,as is
redundancy with the text.Supplementary tables andfigures may be deposited(e x13).
In articles which u powder-profilefitting or refinement(Riet-veld)methods,figures that prent the experimental and calculated diffraction profiles of the material studied should also contain the difference profile.As primary diffraction data cannot be satisfactorily extracted from suchfigures,the basic digital diffraction data should be deposited(e x12.3).
5.1.Quality
Electronicfiles in the formats listed in x3.9are esntial for high-quality reproduction.The resolution of bitmap graphics should be a minimum of600d.p.i.
5.2.Size
Diagrams should be as small as possible consistent with legibility. They will normally be sized so that the greatest width including lettering is less than the width of a column in the journal(8.8cm).
5.3.Lettering and symbols
Fine-scale details and lettering must be large enough to be clearly legible(ideally1.5–3mm in height)after the whole diagram has been reduced to one column width.
Lettering should be kept to a minimum;grids and shadings should be avoided where they are not required to improve clarity. Descriptive matter should be placed in the caption.
5.4.Numbering and captions
Diagrams should be numbered in a single ries in the order in which they are referred to in the text.A list offigure captions should be included in the manuscript.
5.5.Stereofigures
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一建分数线Atom labelling when included should be on both left and right views in stereo perspective.Both views should be incorporated into a singlefigure.
5.6.Colour figures
Colourfigures are accepted at no cost to the author provided that the editor agrees that they improve the understanding of the article. Figures printed in greyscale may appear in colour in Crystallography Journals Online.
Authors preparing colourfigures should consider how thefigure would look in greyscale and to reader
s who are colour-blind.It is very important that poor pale colours with a white back-ground)be avoided.Backgrounds should normally be white.
5.7.Chemical line diagrams and schemes
In articles reporting new organic or metal-organic structures,it is mandatory that a chemical line diagram be included for each compound.The diagram should be complete,showing all species prent in the structure,including counter-ions and solvent molecules in their correct proportions.Structures should be numbered(I),(II), (III)etc.
Chemical line diagrams and reaction schemes should not have a caption.
5.8.Enhanced figures
An online tool for authors to prepare standard and corresponding three-dimensional interactive structural diagrams is available from submission.iucr/jtkt.
6.Tables
For single-crystal,powder,and modulated and composite structures, a standard experimental table(s
ee x11)must be included.This table should be prepared using the table tools within the Word template (available from journals.iucr/rvices/docxtemplate/)or the table tool at publcif.iucr/rvices/tools.The tools can also be ud to create geometry tables.
Authors submitting in Word should u the Word table editor to prepare any additional tables.
6.1.U of tables
Extensive numerical information is generally most economically prented in tables.Text and diagrams should not be redundant with the tables.
Atomic coordinates and displacement parameters must be included in the CIF and are not normally repeated in the article. Derived values of only routine interest should be included in the CIF only.Structure factors are normally deposited electronically;no table of structure factors should be included in the article unless the circumstances are exceptional.
6.2.Design,numbering and size
Tables should be numbered in a single ries of arabic numerals in the order in which they are referred to in the text.They should be provided with a caption.
Tables should be carefully designed to occupy a minimum of space consistent with clarity.
7.Mathematics and letter symbols
Authors submitting in Word should u the Word equation editor to prepare displayed mathematical equations.
The u of the stop(period)to denote multiplication should be avoided except in scalar products.Generally no sign is required but, when one is,a multiplication sign(Â)should be ud.
Scalar variables and non-standard functions should appear in italic type.
Vectors should be in bold type and tensors should be in bold-italic type.
Greek letters should not be spelled out.
Care should be taken not to cau confusion by using the same letter symbol in two different meanings.
Gothic,script or other unusual lettering should be avoided. Another typeface may be substituted if that ud by the author is not readily available.
All displayed equations,including tho in published Appendices, should be numbered in a single ries.
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8.Multimedia
Multimedia ime-lap quences,three-dimensional structures)is welcomed.For details of how to prepare enhanced three-dimensionalfigures,e x5.8.
9.Nomenclature
9.1.Crystallographic nomenclature
Authors should follow the general recommendations produced by the IUCr Commision on Crystallographic Nomenclature(e reports at www.iucr/iucr/commissions/cnom.html).
Atoms of the same chemical species within an asymmetric unit should be distinguished by an appended arabic numeral.Chemical and crystallographic numbering should be in agreement wherever possible.When it is necessary to distinguish crystallographically equivalent atoms in differe
nt asymmetric units the distinction should be made by lower-ca roman numeral i,ii,iii etc.)to the original atom labels.
Space groups should be designated by the Hermann–Mauguin symbols.Standard cell ttings,as listed in Volume A of International Tables for Crystallography,should be ud unless objective reasons to the contrary are stated.When a non-standard tting is ud,the list of equivalent positions should be given.Hermann–Mauguin symbols should also be ud for designating point groups and molecular symmetry.It is helpful if the origin ud is stated explicitly where there is a choice.
The choice of axes should normally follow the recommendations of the Commission on Crystallographic Data[Kennard et al.(1967). Acta Cryst.22,445–449].
成人学位英语考试A symbol such as123or hkl without brackets is understood to be a reflection,(123)or(hkl)a plane or t of planes,[123]or[uvw]a direction,{hkl}a form and h uvw i all crystallographically equivalent directions of the type[uvw].Other bracket notations should be explicitly defined.
9.2.Nomenclature of chemical compounds etc.
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Names of chemical compounds and minerals are not always unambiguous.Authors should therefore quote the chemical formulae, including chemical structural diagrams for organic and metal-organic compounds,of the substances dealt with in their articles. Chemical formulae and nomenclature should conform to the rules of nomenclature established by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry(IUPAC),the International Union of Biochem-istry and Molecular Biology(IUBMB),the International Miner-alogical Association(IMA)and other appropriate bodies.As far as possible the crystallographic nomenclature should correspond to the systematic name.
Any accepted trivial or non-systematic name may be retained,but the corresponding systematic(IUPAC)name should also be given. For crystal structures containing chiral molecules,authors should make it clear whether the crystal structure is a racemate or enan-tiopure,and if enantiopure whether or not the assignment of the absolute configuration is supported by experimental evidence.The absolute configuration should be indicated using the CIF data item _chemical_absolute_configuration.The title,compound name, chemical diagrams,atomic coordinates and space group must corre-spond to the enantio-composition and the lected configuration.
It is also most helpful to indicate the crystallographic and non-crystallographic symmetry of each molecule in the asymmetric unit.9.3.Units
The International System of Units(SI)is ud except that the a˚ngstro¨m(symbol A˚,defined as10À10m)is generally preferred to the nanometre(nm)or picometre(pm)as the appropriate unit of length. Recommended prefixes of decimal multiples should be ud rather than‘Â10n’.
10.References
References to published work must be indicated by giving the authors’names followed immediately by the year of Neder&Schulz(1998)or(Neder&Schulz,1998).Where there are three or more authors the reference in the text should be indicated in the form Smith et al.(1998)or(Smith et al.,1998)etc.
In the reference list,entries for journals[abbreviated in the style of Chemical Abstracts(the abbreviations Acta Cryst.,J.Appl.Cryst.and J.Synchrotron Rad.are exceptions)],books,multi-author books, computer programs and personal communications should be arranged alphabetically and conform with the following style: Allen,F.H.(2002).Acta Cryst.B58,380–388.
Andrews,M.,Wright,H.&Clarke,S.A.(2012).In preparation. Carter,C.W.Jr(1990).Methods:a Companion to Methods in Enzy-mology,Vol.1,pp.12–24.New York:Academic Press. Collaborative Computational Project,Number4(1994).Acta Cryst.D50, 760–763.
Crowther,R.A.(1972).The Molecular Replacement Method,edited by M.G.Rossmann,pp.173–178.New York:Gordon and Breach. Gavezzotti,A.(2010).Acta Cryst.B66,doi:10.1107/S0108768110008074. Hervieu,M.&Raveau,B.(1983a).Chem.Scr.22,117–122. Hervieu,M.&Raveau,B.(1983b).Chem.Scr.22,123–128. International Union of Crystallography(2009).(IUCr)Structure Reports Online,journals.iucr/e/journalhomepage.html.
Jancarik,J.&Kim,S.-H.(1991).J.Appl.Chem.24,409–411.
Kir,P.D.,Lodowski,D.T.&Palczewski,K.(2007).Acta Cryst.F63, doi:10.1107/S1744309107020295.
Ng,S.W.(2004).Private communication(refcode IXEQIL).CCDC, Cambridge,England.
Sheldrick,G.M.(2008).Acta Cryst.A64,112–122.
Smith,D.(2010).Acta Cryst.B66.In the press.
Strong,R.K.(1990).PhD thesis,Harvard University,USA.
Vogel, A.(1978).Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry,4th ed. London:Longman.
Wang,B.-C.(1985).Methods Enzymol.115,90–112.
Yariv,J.(1983).Personal communication.
Note that all authors and inclusive page numbers must be given. Identification of individual structures in the article by the u of databa reference(identification)codes should be accompanied by a full citation of the original literature in the reference list.However,in tables containing more than15such reference codes,citation in the reference list is not required.If possible,citations in supplementary material should also appear in the main body of the article.
11.Crystal structure determinations
Articles that report the results of crystal structure determinations must report the associated experimental data as required in the Notes for Authors for Section C of Acta Crystallogaphica.The data should be supplied as a single electronicfile in CIF with all structures in a single CIF).Authors are asked to check their CIF with checkCIF before submission by using the checkCIF rvice at journals.iucr/rvices/cif/checking/checkbasic.html.
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Authors will be asked to upload their CIF during the submission process.
All numerical data in the CIF will be automatically checked using checkCIF,and duplication checks will be carried out against the relevant databa.A review document,including the reports and a preprint of the Experimental details table,will be forwarded to the Co-editor,together with the CIF.
Each published article will normally include a standard Experi-mental details table.Authors should u the table tools within the WORD template(available from journals.iucr/rvices/ docxtemplate/),the table converter at publcif.iucr/rvices/ tools or the program publCIF(available from publcif.iucr) to generate this table from the CIF.The tools can be ud to prepare the tables from CIFs for most kinds of studies(including determi-nations of modulated and composite structures from single-crystal and powder data).The table and all other tabular data except the coordinates should be submitted as part of the manuscript.If the number of structures reported is very large,if a single structure is reported as a function of temperature or composition,or if structures already in the literature have been redetermined,the author may request or the editor may require that an abbreviated table be prepared using the tools above.Atomic coordinates will be published in CIF format only(e x12.2).Coordinates will only be included as a numbered table in very exceptional cas.countryroad
For articles reporting molecular structures a labelled displacement ellipsoid molecular diagram is nor
mally required for publication;for non-molecular structures,a packing or polyhedron diagram may be more appropriate.If the number of structures reported is large it may be preferable to put some or all of the diagrams in the supplementary material.Atomic displacement parameters for all structures reported will be available in the CIF during review and after publication.Any unusual features of the parameters should be either illustrated in a figure or mentioned in the article text.
Authors submitting incommensurate modulated structures should e the checklist given by Chapuis et al.[Acta Cryst.(1997),A53,95–100].
12.Supplementary publication procedure(deposition)
佳音英语12.1.Purpo and scope
Parts of some articles are of interest to only a small number of readers,and the cost of printing the parts is not warranted. Arrangements have therefore been made for such material to be made available from the IUCr electronic archive via Crystallography Journals Online or to be deposited with the appropriate structural databas.
12.2.IUCr electronic archive
All material for deposition in the IUCr electronic archive should be supplied in one of the formats described at journals.iucr/ rvices/filetypes.html.
Examples of non-structural information that may be deposited include:
details of the experimental procedure and of the stages of structure refinement;
details of mathematical derivations given only in outline in the main text and in mathematical Appendices;
lengthy discussion of points that are not of general interest or that do not lead to definite conclusions but that do have significant value;
a spreadsheet giving information about the specific structures identified as part of a databa study;
additional diagrams;
and multimedia content.
Structural information(for small-molecule structures)should be supplied in CIF format;structure factors should be supplied as.fcf files.
Authors are encouraged to submit chemical connectivity(MOL, CML,CHM,SMI)files of reported structures with their articles. Thefiles will be made available as part of the supplementary materials for each article and will be ud to provide InChI(Inter-national Chemical Identifier)keys for the article,making the struc-tures easier tofind in the chemical literature.
12.3.Powder diffraction data
Authors of powder diffraction articles should consult the notes provided at journals.iucr/rvices/cif/powder.html.For articles that prent the results of powder diffraction profilefitting or refinement(Rietveld)methods,the primary diffraction he numerical intensity of each measured point on the profile as a function of scattering angle,must be deposited.
13.Author information and rvices
An author rvices page is available at journals.iucr/b/ rvices/authorrvices.html.
13.1.Author tools
A number of tools are available to help with the preparation of articles.Word,OpenOffice and L A T E X templates can be downloaded from the author rvices page.Table tools with the WORD template,
the table converter at publcif.iucr/rvices/tools or the program publCIF may be ud to prepare tables of experimental details and geometric parameters suitable for inclusion in an article.
A toolkit for preparing enhancedfigures is available at submission.iucr/jtkt.
For structural articles,CIFs can be checked using the checkCIF/ PLATON rvice at checkcif.iucr and edited using publCIF,available from publcif.iucr.
13.2.Electronic status information
Authors may obtain information about the current status of their articles at journals.iucr/rvices/status.html.
13.3.Proofs
Proofs will be provided electronically in portable document format (pdf).The contact author will be notified by e-mail when the proofs are ready for downloading.
13.4.Open access
At the proof stage,authors will be given the opportunity to make their articles‘open access’on Crystallography Journals Online. Authors of open-access articles will not be asked to transfer copyright to the IUCr,but will instead be asked to agree to an open-access licence.This licence is identical to the Creative Commons Attribution Licence.
13.5.Reprints
After publication,the contact author will be able to download the electronic reprint of the published article,free of charge.Authors will also be able to order printed reprints at the proof stage.
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