ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Robert H. Crabtree, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Main Group Elements
David Atwood, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY, USA
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Robert A. Scott, University of Georgia,
Athens, GA, USA
Transition Metals and
Coordination Chemistry
Robert H. Crabtree, Yale University, New
Haven, CT, USA
Solid State and
Materials Chemistry
Bruce King, University of Georgia,
Athens, GA, USA
Organometallic Chemistry
Charles M. Lukehart, Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, TN, USA
Nanomaterials
Charles M. Lukehart, Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, TN, USA
Theoretical and Computational
Methods
R. Bruce King, University of Georgia,
Athens, GA, USA
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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Correspondence relating to manuscript preparation should be addressed to the EIC inbox.
Correspondence relating to technical content of articles should be addressed to the Editorsin-Chief.
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Wiley Assistant Editor
Kerry Powell
Anne Hunt
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Email: eic@wiley.com
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF EIC ................................................................................................. 2
2
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION ................................................................................................. 2
2.1
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS .................................................................................................. 2
2.1.1
Length of Article ............................................................................................................... 2
2.1.2
Preparation of Electronic Manuscript Files ..................................................................... 3
2.1.3
Preparation of Figures, Structures and Schemes ............................................................. 3
2.1.4
Initial Submission of Manuscript ...................................................................................... 4
2.1.5
Second Submission of Manuscript .................................................................................... 5
2.2
INITIAL AND FINAL DUE DATES ................................................................................................. 5
2.3
STRUCTURE OF ARTICLES .......................................................................................................... 5
2.4
CONTRIBUTOR’S DETAILS .......................................................................................................... 6
2.5
SUGGESTIONS FOR DEFINITION ENTRIES .................................................................................... 6
2.6
TITLE OF ARTICLE ..................................................................................................................... 6
2.7
NAME OF CONTRIBUTOR(S) ....................................................................................................... 6
2.8
AFFILIATION OF THE CONTRIBUTOR(S) ...................................................................................... 6
2.9
ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................................. 6
2.10 KEYWORDS ............................................................................................................................... 7
2.11 GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................................. 7
2.12 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 7
2.13 MAIN BODY OF ARTICLE ........................................................................................................... 7
2.13.1 List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ................................................................................. 7
2.14 RELATED ARTICLES ................................................................................................................... 7
2.15 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................................................................................ 7
2.16 REFERENCES.............................................................................................................................. 7
2.17 ILLUSTRATIONS ......................................................................................................................... 9
2.18 CHEMICAL STRUCTURES, SCHEMES AND EQUATIONS, AND MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS ......... 9
2.19 TABLES.................................................................................................................................... 11
2.20 CROSS REFERENCES TO OTHER ARTICLES ............................................................................... 11
2.21 SPELLING ................................................................................................................................. 12
2.22 NOMENCLATURE ..................................................................................................................... 13
2.23 SYMBOLS AND UNITS .............................................................................................................. 13
2.24 COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK AND PERMISSIONS .......................................................................... 13
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THE PRODUCTION PROCESS ................................................................................................ 14
3.1
3.2
3.3
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT .......................................................................................................... 14
COPY EDITING.......................................................................................................................... 14
PROOFREADING ....................................................................................................................... 14
COPYRIGHT PERMISSION REQUEST FORM
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PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF EIC
In 1994 John Wiley & Sons published the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry.
This work was well received by the community, and it has become a standard publication in all libraries
serving the inorganic, coordination chemistry, organometallic and bioinorganic communities.
In 2005 the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry was published in print. In
Spring 2006 followed the online version of the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry [EIC], published
on the major reference platform “Wiley InterScience”.
In order to keep EIC up-to-date the Editors will regularly commission new material. There will be three
ways to bring new material to EIC:
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New articles on focused topics, i.e. Physical Methods, Nano Materials, Green Chemistry,
Industrial Applications. These articles will be published online and in books in the “EIC
Methods & Application Handbook” series.
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New stand-alone articles will be published online and in future new print editions.
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Updates of existing articles, written by the original or by new authors.
All contributions will be by invitation only.
Bruce King acted as Editor-in-Chief for the First and Second Editions of EIC. With the publication of
the online version in Spring 2006, Robert H. Crabtree has become the Editor-in-Chief and will be
responsible for the general development and updating of EIC. He will have support from Bruce King,
Charles M. Lukehart, Robert A. Scott and David Atwood, all Section Editors for the Second Edition.
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MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
Contributors are requested to fully comply with the following recommendations. A more detailed
description of general manuscript preparation can be found in “The ACS Style Guide” (2 nd edition,
1997). The ACS style guide should be followed for anything not covered below.
It is expected that all relevant literature published to date will be covered.
Each Section Editor may make certain specific recommendations to his own Contributors regarding
coverage and format. These should be followed as closely as possible.
The articles in the Encyclopedia should deal concisely with a single topic in a self-contained manner
(but with cross references to related articles where appropriate), and should be written for readers who
are not specialists on that topic.
2.1
2.1.1
Submission of Manuscripts
Length of Article
The length of the submitted manuscript must not exceed the length requested by the Section Editor and
agreed with the Publisher in the Contributor’s contract. Manuscripts that are in excess of the agreed
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length will either be returned to the Contributor for shortening or be shortened by the Section Editor
and/or Publisher.
The following approximation may be taken as a guide:
Three manuscript pages of complete text = One printed page of complete text
Most printed pages will contain nontext material in the form of chemical structures, figures, tables, etc.
Contributors should estimate this when calculating the final extent of their article. Thus an article
commissioned at 20 printed pages might consist of 45 text manuscript pages (= 15 printed pages) and a
number of equations, formulas, figures, and tables which together will make 5 printed pages.
Contributors will only be paid up to the number of commissioned printed pages specified in their
contract.
2.1.2
Preparation of Electronic Manuscript Files
If you are preparing your material on a PC, Macintosh, or Unix-type machine, then please use a
standard text/word processing program, such as Word.
Please do not use layout programs, such as QuarkExpress, Frameker or PageMaker! If you are
using such a program, please cut and paste the text into a standard word processing program. Please
note however that you may use TeX or LaTeX to create your manuscript. If you do so, it is vital that
you submit the pdf of your article, along with class, source and font files, and any other associated
macros and files.
Detailed instructions regarding the submission, and numbering and captioning, of illustrations and
chemical structures, can be found in Sections 2.1.3 and 2.17 below.
The manuscript delivery will be in two stages: (i) the initial submission (see Section 2.1.4) and (ii) the
final submission (see Section 2.1.5).
2.1.3
Preparation of Figures, Structures and Schemes
All illustrations (i.e. all figures, all structures and all schemes) should be submitted in both electronic
and hard copy formats. By default we will attempt to use the electronic file and will treat the electronic
file as the definitive version of the figure.
Each figure should be supplied in two electronic formats:
(i)
The original source file
For example if you use Adobe Illustrator, we would expect to receive a native Illustrator
file which has the file extension ‘.ai’; if you use Corel Draw, we would expect to receive a
native Corel Draw file with the extension ‘.cdr’, and when you use ChemDraw to create
your structures and schemes we will expect to receive ChemDraw native files with the
extension ‘.cdx’.
(ii)
An eps or a tiff file generated from (or at the same time as) the original source file
For example if you have a line figure, created in Corel Draw, we would expect to receive an
.eps file as well as the Corel Draw file. If you have a halftone, created in Photoshop, we would
expect to receive a .tif file as well as the native Photoshop file.
Clearly it is important that the content of each version of the figure is exactly the same. You should not
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amend the source file without supplying a new .tif or .eps file. By default we will treat the ‘source’ file
as the up-to-date version of the figure. However, if you only supply the .tif or .eps file we will treat that
file as definitive and we will not query you for a source file.
If you only deliver hard copy, or if we are unable to use your electronic files, then we will either scan or
re-draw the hard copy. It is important therefore that your hard copy exactly matches the files you send.
If you are able to, please embed the .eps/.tif version of your figure (or scheme or structure) into the text
document at the end of the paragraph containing the first citation to the figure. This will help the Editor
to review your article. Whether you are able to embed the .eps/.tif file or not, please include a ‘figure
flag’ (i.e. a piece of text enclosed in angle brackets: <Figure x near here>) at the end of the paragraph
containing the first citation to the figure. Please follow the same principle for schemes and structures.
In order to ensure that the figure sizing is consistent across all EIC articles (whether originally created
for print or for online publication) we ask that you should submit correctly sized illustrations. This
means that illustrations should fit either a single column width (84 mm) or a double column width (170
mm). Text labels and legends should not be less than 8 pt and lines should not be narrower than 0.5 pt.
You should reserve the use of color for instances where it can serve a clear didactic purpose. The
Editors will have the final decision about whether color illustrations are acceptable or have to be
replaced by black & white illustrations!
2.1.4
Initial Submission of Manuscript
Please e-mail your complete manuscript as an attachment directly to the Section Editor, on, or before
the “Due Date” which appears in your Contributor Agreement. If the Section Editor is unable to view or
print your file for the purposes of review, he will ask you to send him the manuscript in hard copy form.
Please also include all necessary copyright permissions in your electronic submission, and send them to
the Section Editor if they exist only as hard copy. As a back up against file corruption during transfer or
lost post etc, you must retain a copy of all the material you send. You will also need the backed up
material when you come to check the proofs of your article.
The Section Editor will review your article.
If the Section Editor feels that major changes are required, he will contact you to this effect and will
send you a list of suggested changes, with your hard copy permissions documentation. You should then
make all the changes requested by the Section Editor and re-submit your revised article to the Wiley
Project Co-ordinator (email: eic@wiley.com).
If the Section Editor has only minor amendments (typos, numbering of figures, tables etc), he may
choose to make these changes himself in your digital file, or on the hard copy manuscript. He will then
forward the revised article to the Publisher. The Section Editor will then email you to confirm
acceptance of your article for publication. If the Section Editor has amended the hard copy manuscript
he will send the marked-up copy and the unaltered digital file to the Publisher. In such cases, the
typesetter will not rekey your manuscript. They will use the unaltered digital file but will take in the
amendments marked by the Section Editor on the hard copy manuscript into your digital file.
If the Section Editor has no amendments to make, he will email you to confirm acceptance of your
article for publication and will forward your digital file, and hard copy manuscript to the Publisher.
Contributors must adhere to the “Due Date” specified in their contracts for submission of their
manuscripts to the Section Editor. Contributors who are unable to meet the “Due Date” should inform
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the Section Editor at the earliest opportunity.
2.1.5
Second Submission of Manuscript
PLEASE NOTE: This is only required in cases where the Section Editor indicates to you that you
need to make changes to the article.
Within 4 weeks of receipt of the Section Editor’s review comments, you should email the revised, final
version of your manuscript to the Wiley Project Co-Ordinator (eic@wiley.com) and send in any hard
copy permissions documentation. As a back up against file corruption during transfer or lost post etc,
you must retain a copy of all the material you send. You will also need the copy of your material when
you come to check proofs of your article.
Contributors who are unable to submit their final, revised manuscript to the Wiley Project Co-Ordinator
within 4 weeks of receiving the Section Editor’s comments should inform the Wiley Project CoOrdinator (eic@wiley.com) at the earliest opportunity.
The Wiley Project Co-Ordinator will then forward your file to the Section Editor for final approval.
When the Section Editor has indicated approval, the Wiley Project Co-Ordinator will email you to
confirm acceptance of your article for publication.
2.2
Initial and Final Due Dates
Contributors must adhere to the due date specified in their contracts for submission of their initial
manuscripts to the Editor. Contributors who are unable to meet the due date should inform the Section
Editor at the earliest opportunity. Contributors should also adhere to the ‘4-week date’ set by the
Section Editor immediately following review. Again, Contributors who are unable to meet the proposed
final due date should inform the Wiley Project Co-ordinator at the earliest opportunity.
2.3
Structure of Articles
All articles should be written to the following article template. Please note that the Abstract and
Keywords will be used in the electronic version of EIC, but they will not be used for print editions.
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Contributor’s Details
Suggestions for Definition Entries (optional and only to be supplied at draft submission stage)
Title of Article
Name of Contributor
Affiliation of Contributor
Abstract
Keywords
Glossary (optional)
Introduction
Main Body of Article
Acknowledgments (optional)
Related Articles
References
Display Material
2.4
Contributor’s Details
In addition to the manuscript pages, each copy of the manuscript should be accompanied by a sheet on
which the article title, and name, full postal address, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address
of the Contributor should be given. Any changes of address, temporary or permanent, should be notified
to the Editor as soon as they are known, giving dates when they become effective and, if appropriate,
cease to be effective.
2.5
Suggestions for Definition Entries
Apart from main articles, EIC contains many one-paragraph entries on topics not extensive enough to
warrant an entire article. Typical entries might be, e.g. “Antiaromatic Compound”, “Antibonding”,
“Antiferromagnetism”, “Antigen”, “Antioxidant”, “Antiport”, “Antistructure”, “Antitumor Activity”,
“Apoprotein”, etc. The Editors have written or will write these entries, but Contributors are requested to
make suggestions for such entries at the initial manuscript submission state in order that they may be
prepared in good time. Suggestions for definition entries should not be included at final submission.
2.6
Title of Article
This should be the title agreed with the Editor and specified in the Contributor’s contract with the
Publisher. Any changes of this title must be approved by the Editor, before you submit the final version
of the manuscript.
2.7
Name of Contributor(s)
This should include the full first name, middle initial(s) and family name of the Contributor(s). If the
first named Contributor is not to be the correspondence author, please indicate which Contributor is to
be the correspondence author.
In the case that new contributors of update articles make use of material from previous Editions of EIC,
then they should put their name first, followed by “Based in part on the article <article name> by
<contributor name(s)> which appeared in the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, <edition number>
Edition.”
2.8
Affiliation of the Contributor(s)
The name of the university, government office or industrial company should be given here, together
with the city, state (or equivalent), and country. Departments, faculties, etc., are not required (but these
details should be given on the sheet requested in Section 2.4).
2.9
Abstract
Please supply a ‘stand alone’ abstract of up to 400 words. The abstract should be a summary of the
complete article on a generally understandable level. The abstract should not directly cite material,
which appears elsewhere in the article, e.g. you must not cite references, tables, figures etc. in the
abstract. This is because the abstract will be made freely available online while access to the rest of the
article will be licence-restricted.
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2.10
Keywords
Please provide 6–12 keywords for your article. These will be used for online searches.
2.11
Glossary
The glossary is a list of terms and their definitions. The definition should briefly describe a given term
for readers who are not familiar with the subject. The glossary should only include terms which actually
appear in the article. More general terms can be covered as suggestions for definition entries (see
Section 2.5 above).
2.12
Introduction
Each article should begin with an introduction, which should allow the reader to gain a brief
understanding of the topic and its place and importance in inorganic chemistry. The introduction should
be written with the non-specialist in mind. The introduction is the first heading with the main body of
the article (see Section 2.13 below). The introduction is not the same as the abstract!
2.13
Main Body of Article
Articles should be divided into numbered sections (the first one is always ‘Introduction’), numbered
subsections and, where necessary, numbered sub-subsections, each with a heading:
5 Section Headings
5.1 Subsection Headings
5.1.1 Sub-subsection Headings
Use upper and lower case letters for all headings and use the normal typeface [no bold and no italic].
2.13.1
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
A standard list of abbreviations and acronyms is given as an appendix to these guidelines. You do not
have to define these abbreviations and acronyms in your article. However, if you would like to use
additional abbreviations or acronyms, please define them in a separate section.
2.14
Related Articles
This is a list of other articles in EIC, which you feel the reader will find of further interest. Instructions
about how to create this list are given in Section 2.20 below.
2.15
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgements are placed at the end of the text preceding the references and should be brief.
2.16
References
All works cited in the text, table and figure captions should be included in the reference list. The list of
references should appear at the end of the article. The references should appear beneath a numbered
first level heading, e.g.
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‘8. References’
Reference citations in the text should take the form of superscript numbers, which should be placed
outside any punctuation, and not enclosed in parentheses, e.g.
‘…or explicit tunneling paths.1,4,9
The majority of the references will be to review articles or books that treat topics in great detail and to
which the reader can turn for more information. In general, original research papers should only be
cited if they are of particular significance, e.g. if they are regarded as classics on the topic. However,
specific facts and more recent results should be covered by citing papers in research journals.
The references cited should be primary sources of information readily accessible for all interested in the
subject. It is unlikely that there will be any references to patents, conference proceedings, company
reports, obscure journals, etc.
Too many references will overwhelm the Encyclopedia; therefore not more than about two references
per manuscript page will be required.
All references will appear together at the end of the article. They should follow the style indicated
below:
sample Journal references:
1. R. R. Mulliken, Phys. Rev., 1932, 41, 49–71.
2. S. Reiling, M. Schlenkrich, and J. Brickmann, J. Comp. Chem., 1996, 17, 450–468.
3. T. R. Cundari and M. S. Gordon, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1991, 113, 5231–5243.
sample book references:
4. F. A. Cotton and R. A. Walton, Multiple Bonds between Metal Atoms, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
New York, 1982.
5. A.-M. Sapse, D. C. Jain, and K. Raghavachari, Lithium Chemistry - A Theoretical and Experimental
Overview, in Lithium Chemistry, eds A.-M. Sapse and P. v. R. Schleyer, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
New York, 1995, pp. 45-65.
sample Database, FTP and WWW reference:
6. Journal of Computational Chemistry Homepage. Information on the journal and general information
concerning computational chemistry; http://www.wiley.com/jcc/
The Publisher has noted that both references to literature, and electronic addresses, frequently contain
errors such as missing or misspelled authors, wrong initials, incorrect year, volume number, or pages,
even the wrong journal. Contributors should ensure that all references are correct by checking the
original publication (not a secondary source). Do not forget to give the first and last page for all
references to articles in journals and chapters in books. The online version of EIC will take advantage
of the CrossRef initiative, which allows direct linking (via PubMed and ChemPort) to the cited articles
of participating publishers. It is therefore extremely important that contributors double-check all
references prior to submission.
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Please note that each bibliographic entry in the reference list should contain only one reference. The
following is not acceptable:
2. (a) H. Heitler and F. London, Z. Phys., 1927, 44, 455–472.
(b) L. Pauling, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1932, 54, 3570–3582.
These references should be presented separately as:
2. H. Heitler and F. London, Z. Phys., 1927, 44, 455–472.
3. L. Pauling, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1932, 54, 3570–3582.
This marks a departure from the original Encyclopedia and is required for accurate linking. Similarly
the reference list must not contain miscellaneous notes or comments; it is purely a list of all the
bibliographic references cited in the text.
2.17
Illustrations
Authors may submit color figures which will be reproduced in color in the online version, but it is at the
Editors’ and Publishers’ discretion if the illustrations will be reproduced in color in the print version of
the Encyclopedia.
2.18
Chemical Structures, Schemes and Equations, and Mathematical Equations
All formulae and equations should be drawn using ChemDraw with the following preferences:
Fixed length
Line width
Margin width
Chain angle
14.4
0.5
2.0
120
Bold width
Tolerance
Hash spacing
Bond spacing
2.0
5.0
1.8
14%
Authors using different drawing programs are requested to use settings consistent with those above.
The following typesizes should be used for ChemDraw structures:
Times 9 point
for all normal lettering on and under formulae
Times 8 point
for all reagents and conditions above and below reaction arrows
Times 7 point
for all secondary information on structures such as position numbers, bond lengths, or
bond angles
Plus and, particularly, minus signs are not always clear using ChemDraw. The following should
therefore be used:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
For a reaction of the type A + B
C, the plus should be in 10 point.
If any of the reactants or products are ions, the superior plus or minus signs should be in 9 pt.
Above and below reaction arrows, 9 pt should also be used for conditions (e.g. –78 oC) or
chemical loss (e.g. –H2O, but the superior plus or minus ions above or below reaction arrows
should be 8 pt.
All minus signs, whether in 8pt, 9pt, or 10pt, should be typed as en rules so that the length is
the same as the horizontal line of the equivalent plus.
No parentheses should be used with any plus or minus signs, nor should they be circled.
Radicals should be indicated by a bold point centered on the appropriate letter; lone pairs should be
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similarly shown by two bold points. Metal oxidation states should be shown by superior Roman
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numerals (e.g. Pd , Co ).
Wherever possible, structural formulae should be arranged in groups rather than singly. Equations are
defined as single reactions whereas schemes are a sequence of reactions or a group of reactions.
Formulae that are mentioned in the text [oxide (12), complex (19), etc.] should be numbered
consecutively using Arabic numerals in boldface type enclosed in parentheses, centered under the
formula. Formulae that are part of equations need not be numbered if they are not mentioned in the text.
Reaction equations should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals enclosed in parentheses,
written to the right of the equation. Each equation should be mentioned in the text. All equations, even
simple linear ones, should be supplied with the others at the end of the manuscript as well as appearing
on the text pages. Mathematical equations can be mixed with reaction equations for numbering, but
should be supplied on separate sheets.
Reaction schemes should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals with the word ‘Scheme’
and the number placed centrally under the chemical structures of the scheme. Each scheme should be
mentioned in the text.
Reagents and conditions should preferably be indicated over and under reaction arrows rather than as
footnotes to an equation.
To indicate stereochemistry, bold and dashed wedges should be used. Partial or delocalized bonds
should be designated by broken lines.
The following structures show examples of the above points:
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+
FeH
ROCH2Fe(CO)L(Cp)
ArN2+
-N2
+ PH3C PF6
[FeH]+ +
Ar
(4)
CFe(CO)L(Cp)
PF6- (7)
RO
H
(5)
Me
AlCl3
Me
Me
Fe(CO)3
(9)
(17)
CO
CO
OC Fe Fe
OC
Ph3P
O
115O
F
171 pm
158 pm
Br
O
(CH2)n
(24)
(21)
103O
Pt
Ph3P
O
N C
N C
N C
O O
O O
O O
FeIII
(27)
2.19
(31) Ferrioxamines
Tables
Tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals and grouped at the end of the
manuscript/text file. Each table should have a descriptive heading and individual column headings. Any
units for columns should be in parentheses after the column heading. Footnotes to tables should be
avoided, but if essential should be designated by superscript italic lower-case letters. All tables must be
cited in the text.
2.20
Cross References to Other Articles
Cross-references to other articles in EIC significantly enhance the value of a given article and are one
the key features of the online edition of EIC. Cross-references can be placed both in the body of an
article (‘inline cross references’), or at the end of the article (‘Related Articles’). ‘Inline cross
references’ refer the reader to other articles which give more detailed information on the topic under
discussion at that point; ‘Related Articles’ is a simple list of other articles which you feel the reader
would find of interest.
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In-line cross references
This is a cross reference in the text of an article to the full title of another article. Typically this
takes the form:
...(see Rection Mechanisms)...
It is also possible to include ‘fragment’ cross references. This is where the standard text of an
article includes a word (rather than the full article title), the context of which calls for a cross
reference. For example, the text might read:
‘The photochemistry of organotransition metal complexes…’
It would be possible to make a link from the word ‘photochemistry’ to the definition entry
Photochemistry or to one of the articles Photochemistry of Transition Metal Complexes or
Photochemistry of Transition Metal Complexes: Theory.
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Related articles
The list of related articles should be presented immediately before the references. For example the
readers of an article Wavefunctions and Chemical Bonding: Interpretation may also be interested
in articles such as Electronic Wavefunctions Analysis or Natural Bond Orbital Methods.
Contributors will be responsible for including both types of cross reference in their articles. To assist
Contributors in identifying target articles (i.e. articles which are being cross referred to), the Publisher
has made available a ‘control list’ for the encyclopedia. The control list is a list of each article in EIC
and contains the article title and its unique identifying code (unique id). Authors are asked to cross
refer to other articles not by giving the article title but by giving the unique id. In the body of an article
we would therefore expect to see:
....running text...(see IA001-)...running text...
rather than
....running text...(see Actinides: Inorganic & Coordination Chemistry)...running text...
where ‘IA001’ is the unique id for the article ‘Actinides: Inorganic & Coordination Chemistry’. With
regard to lists of related articles we would expect to see the following in the manuscript:
Related Articles
IA003IA004rather than:
Related Articles
Alkali Metals: Inorganic Chemistry
Alkali Metals: Organometallic Chemistry
2.21
Spelling
American spelling and usage must be used throughout. The ACS Style Guide (2nd edition, 1997) is the
default style guide for EIC.
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2.22
Nomenclature
The nomenclature used should follow the recommendations in the ACS Style Guide. See also the
Handbook for Authors of Papers in American Chemical Society Publications and the appropriate
Handbooks from IUPAC.
2.23
Symbols and Units
Greek letters and all less-common symbols should be clearly identified for the typesetter the first time
that they appear. SI units should be used throughout. If, in exceptional cases, non-SI units need to be
stated, the SI equivalent should be given in parentheses. Units should be of the form kJ mol-1 and not
kJ/mol. A capital C should always be used for centigrade temperatures: 25 oC. There is always a space
between the number and the unit: 24 h.
2.24
Copyright, Trademark and Permissions
If you quote lengthy passages verbatim from a book or journal (i.e. over 400 words) you must obtain
the written permission of the copyright holder. Permission must also be secured for any table or
illustration, which you wish to reproduce exactly from a previously published work even if the
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