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The Journal publishes full-length research papers, critical reviews and discussion
papers in the field of pure and applied electrochemistry. Contributions from members and non-members of the International Society of
Electrochemistry are equally welcome.
Contributions will only be considered for publication if they are likely to be of interest
to our readers and subscribers. Contents must be relevant to electrochemistry. Presentation and discussion should be at the level of
the international status of the Journal. The language can be a reason for rejection at first sight if below an acceptable level of clarity.
Detailed descriptions of apparatus etc. should only be given if such apparatus is new. Papers reporting experimental data without adequate
interpretation are not acceptable. Papers devoted to applications of well-established techniques to technical problems are as a rule
not accepted. Papers are expected to contain mechanistic analysis relevant to electrochemistry. The use of an electrochemical technique
does not necessarily turn an otherwise non-electrochemical subject into an electrochemical piece of work. Contributions will be accepted
for publication only on the recommendation of referees. ISE recommends that Preliminary Notes (which are no longer published by Electrochimica
Acta) should be sent to Electrochemistry Communications (Editor-in-Chief RG Compton, Oxford University, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ, England, www.elsevier.com/locate/elecom.
Types of papers
Research
Papers should be complete and authoritative accounts of work that has specialsignificance and general interest, presented clearly
and concisely.
Critical Reviews are commissioned by the Editor-in-Chief. Authors intending to offer criticalreviews are
advised first to contact the Editor-in-Chief.
Discussion Papers contain critical comments on papers already published in
the Journal.
Comments will be submitted to the Authors of the paper under discussion. Eventual replies will be published jointly
with the comments in a special section of the Journal labeled "Discussion Section" at the end of an ordinary issue.
Publication
will occur only on agreement of both parts.
Ethics in
publishing
For information on Ethics in publishing and Ethical guidelines for journal publication see
http://www.elsevier.com/publishingethics
and
http://www.elsevier.com/ethicalguidelines.
Conflict of interest
All authors
are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with
other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived
to influence, their work. See also
http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.
Submission
declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form
of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that
its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and
that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically in the same form, in English or in any other language,
without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
Changes to authorship
This policy concerns
the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before the accepted manuscript
is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Journal
Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed,
or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition,
removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed.
Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding author, who must
follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such requests and (2)
publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After the accepted manuscript
is published in an online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an online issue
will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.
Copyright
Upon
acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (for more information on this and copyright
see
http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.
An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement'
form or a link to the online version of this agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles
including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution
outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations (please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions).
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit
the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions.
Retained author rights
As an author you (or your employer or institution) retain certain rights; for details
you are referred to:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Role of the funding source
You
are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article and to briefly
describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing
of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement then this
should be stated. Please see
http://www.elsevier.com/funding.
Funding body agreements and
policies
Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors whose articles appear in journals
published by Elsevier, to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions of their grant awards. To
learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies.
Open access
This journal offers you the option of making your article freely available to all via the ScienceDirect
platform. To prevent any conflict of interest, you can only make this choice after receiving notification that your article has been
accepted for publication. The fee of $3,000 excludes taxes and other potential author fees such as color charges. In some cases, institutions
and funding bodies have entered into agreement with Elsevier to meet these fees on behalf of their authors. Details of these agreements
are available at
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies. Authors of accepted articles, who wish to take advantage of this
option, should complete and submit the order form (available at
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/openaccessform.pdf). Whatever
access option you choose, you retain many rights as an author, including the right to post a revised personal version of your article
on your own website. More information can be found here:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Language
and language services
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture
of these). Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission please visit
http://webshop.elsevier.com/languageservices or our customer support
site at
http://support.elsevier.com
for more information.
Submission
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online and
you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. The system automatically converts source files to a single
PDF file of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted
to PDF files at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence,
including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail removing the need for a paper trail.
Referees
The Editors reserve the right to decline to publish manuscripts which they consider inappropriate
for
Electrochimica Acta. When submitting their paper authors should supply the names and addresses (including e-mail addresses)
of 3 suitable referees. The editors usually ask up to 3 referees to review each paper.
Guided by referees' reports, the editors will
place each manuscript in one of four categories:
a) to be accepted for publication,
b) to be reconsidered, after the authors
have had an opportunity to make recommended revisions and reply in detail to referees' comments,
c) to be rejected, with an invitation
to the authors to submit an extensively revised manuscript (reject provisionally or in the present form). The revision will be treated
as a new manuscript, with the difference that it must be accompanied by a set of detailed replies to all issues raised by the referees
of the original manuscript,
d) to be rejected.
Papers in this category should not be resubmitted, however revised.
Use of Word processing software
It is important that the file be
saved in the native format of the wordprocessor used. All contributions should be typed, double-spaced, 12-pt font. All pages must be
numbered in sequence. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use the wordprocessor's
options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. Do not embed graphically
designed equations or tables, but prepare these using the wordprocessor's facility. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid,
use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns.
The electronic text should be prepared in a way very similar to that of conventional manuscripts (see also the Guide to Publishing with
Elsevier:
http://www.elsevier.com/guidepublication. Do not import the figures into the text file but, instead, indicate
their approximate locations directly in the electronic text and on the manuscript. See also the section on Electronic illustrations.
LaTeX
If the LaTeX file is suitable, proofs will be produced without rekeying the text. The article should
preferably be written using Elsevier's document class 'elsarticle', or alternatively any of the other recognized classes and formats
supported in Elsevier's electronic submissions system, for further information see
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/latex-ees-supported.
The Elsevier 'elsarticle' LaTeX style file package (including detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation) can be obtained from the
Quickguide:
http://www.elsevier.com/latex. It consists of the file: elsarticle.cls, complete user documentation for the
class file, bibliographic style files in various styles, and template files for a quick start.
Manuscripts
typed in two columns reproducing the printed version of the Journal will be returned to the Authors. Such a format is very inconvenient
for reviewers since there is no space for notes in particular between the lines.
Do
not submit your manuscript as a PDF but
use Word or LaTex.
Article structure
Subdivision - numbered sections
Divide
your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the
abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to 'the text'.
Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.
Introduction
State
the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.
Experimental
Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should
be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.
Theory/ calculations (if
appropiate)
A Theory section should extend, not repeat, the background to the article already dealt with in the Introduction
and lay the foundation for further work. In contrast, a Calculation section represents a practical development from a theoretical basis.
Results and discussion
Results should be clear and concise. A combined Results and Discussion section is often
preferred but separate sections "Results" and "Discussion" may also be appropriate. The
latter should explore
the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.
Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section.
Acknowledgements
Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references
and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals who provided
help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proof reading the article, etc.).
Appendices
If
there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate
numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig.
A.1, etc.
Essential title page information
•
Title.
Concise and informative.
Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
•
Author names
and affiliations.
Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors'
affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter
immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including
the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
•
Corresponding author.
Clearly indicate
who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication.
Ensure that telephone and fax numbers
(with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address. Contact details must be
kept up to date by the corresponding author.
•
Present/permanent address.
If an author has moved since the
work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as
a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address.
Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.
•
Authors who are ISE members should
be identified on the title page with superscript 1 after the name and a footnote " 1 ISE member ".
Abstract
A
concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major
conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References
should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided,
but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.
Graphical abstract
A
Graphical abstract is optional and should summarize the contents of the article in a concise, pictorial form designed to capture the
attention of a wide readership online. Authors must provide images that clearly represent the work described in the article. Graphical
abstracts should be submitted as a separate file in the online submission system. Image size: Please provide an image with a minimum
of 531 × 1328 pixels (h × w) or proportionally more. The image should be readable at a size of 5 × 13 cm using a regular
screen resolution of 96 dpi. Preferred file types: TIFF, EPS, PDF or MS Office files. See
http://www.elsevier.com/graphicalabstracts
for examples.
Authors can make use of Elsevier's Illustration and Enhancement service to ensure the best presentation of their images
also in accordance with all technical requirements:
Illustration
Service.
Highlights
Highlights are a short collection of bullet points that
convey the core findings of the article. Highlights are optional and should be submitted in a separate file in the online submission
system. Please include 3 to 5 bullet points (max. 85 characters per bullet point including spaces). See
www.elsevier.com/researchhighlights
for examples.
Note: for Asian authors, interpreting a character as a word, max 85 characters per bullet point corresponds
with approx. 20 words max per bullet point.
Keywords
Immediately after the abstract, provide
a maximum of five (5) keywords, using American spelling and avoiding general terms (such as: "electrode") and plural terms
(such as: "and", "of") Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be
eligible.
Symbols and Units
Each paper should be consistent within itself as to abbreviations,
symbols and units. These should conform to IUPAC recommendations. Authors should use SI units wherever possible and when these are not
used should provide a conversion factor to SI units. Axes for graphs and headings for tables should be given in quantity calculus form,
eg time as
t/s, potential as
E/mV, current density as
j/A cm-2. Any electrochemical abbreviations
should be written in lower case without stops, for example
emf, ac.
Math formulae
Present
simple formulae in the line of normal text where possible and use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line for small fractional terms,
e.g., X/Y. In principle, variables are to be presented in italics. Powers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp. Number consecutively
any equations that have to be displayed separately from the text (if referred to explicitly in the text).
Footnotes
Footnotes
should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article, using superscript Arabic numbers. Many wordprocessors build
footnotes into the text, and this feature may be used. Should this not be the case, indicate the position of footnotes in the text and
present the footnotes themselves separately at the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list.
Table
footnotes
Indicate each footnote in a table with a superscript lowercase letter.
Electronic camera
ready copy (e-CRC)
General points: Elsevier can only accept MS Word, LaTeX, or postscript/PDF documents as electronic
camera-ready copy (e-CRC). Electronic files can be stored on CD or may be transferred to Elsevier via FTP (details available from Customer
support:
http://epsupport.elsevier.com).
MS Word file: Please ensure
that you use normal fonts as much as possible in your documents, such as Times New Roman, Arial, Symbol, Helvetica, or Times (TrueType
or Type 1 fonts). Special fonts, such as those used in the Far East (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc.) may be cause problems during processing.
If you use a lot of special fonts, please convert the document to PDF with Adobe Acrobat (see below, and also Elsevier's Quickguide:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/howtosubmitpaper). Please place figures in a logical place within the
document (see also the section on
Preparation of electronic illustrations at
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions).
To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the "spellchecker" function of your wordprocessor.
LaTeX documents:
Please use a LaTeX setup that uses Type 1 fonts instead of the sometimes default bitmap fonts (Type 3, or pk fonts). For instance, using
the LaTeX Times package may be enough to enable this adjustment. For information on LaTex see
http://www.elsevier.com/latex.
Please provide all document-related and temporary files on submission, as well as the resulting postscript or PDF file.
Postscript/PDF
files: Please create postscript files, making sure all fonts are embedded. When creating PDF files with Adobe Acrobat, please use
version 4.05 or higher, and use the standard "Press Optimized" settings, as provided by Adobe.
Supplementary data: Supplementary
data are for the convenience of the referees only and will not be published either on line or in print.
Artwork
Electronic artwork
General points
• Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your
original artwork.
• Save text in illustrations as 'graphics' or enclose the font.
• Only use the following fonts in
your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Times, Symbol.
• Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
•
Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
• Provide captions to illustrations separately.
• Produce images
near to the desired size of the printed version.
• Submit each figure as a separate file.
A detailed guide on electronic
artwork is available on our website:
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions
You are urged to visit this
site; some excerpts from the detailed information are given here.
Formats
Regardless of the application used, when
your electronic artwork is finalised, please 'save as' or convert the images to one of the following formats (note the resolution requirements
for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
EPS: Vector drawings. Embed the font or save the text
as 'graphics'.
TIFF: Color or grayscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF: Bitmapped line drawings:
use a minimum of 1000 dpi.
TIFF: Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale): a minimum of 500 dpi is required.
If
your electronic artwork is created in a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) then please supply 'as is'.
Please
do not:
• Supply files that are optimised for screen use (e.g., GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
•
Supply files that are too low in resolution;
• Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Color artwork
Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format (TIFF, EPS or MS Office files)
and with the correct resolution. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable color figures then Elsevier will ensure,
at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color on the Web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether
or not these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed version.
For color reproduction in print, you will receive information
regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. Please indicate your preference for color: in print or
on the Web only. For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please see
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Please note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting color figures to 'gray scale' (for the printed version
should you not opt for color in print) please submit in addition usable black and white versions of all the color illustrations.
Figures
Figures must be numbered in sequence and the number must be placed close to the figures. Figures should
not be embedded in the text document. Figures should be placed at the end of the manuscript, with a maximum of two figures per page.
Figures not identified by a number are not acceptable.
Figure captions
Ensure that each
illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (
not
on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols
and abbreviations used.
Ensure that each illustration has a caption. A caption should comprise a brief
title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain
all symbols and abbreviations used. Figures not identified by a number and caption are not acceptable.
For review purposes appropriate
captions should be placed beneath each illustration, but not embedded within the illustration. If this is not possible, all figure captions
must be provided on a separate page immediately following the manuscript and authors must advise of this in the accompanying cover letter.
Text graphics
Text graphics may be embedded in the text at the appropriate position. If you are working with
LaTeX and have such features embedded in the text, these can be left. Further, high-resolution graphics files must be provided separately
whether or not the graphics are embedded. See further under Electronic artwork.
Tables
Number
tables consecutively with Arabic numbers in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the table body
and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data
presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.
References
Citation in text
Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list
(and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not
recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should
follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished
results' or 'Personal communication'. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication.
Web references
As a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed.
Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references
can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.
References in a special issue
Please ensure that the words 'this issue' are added to any references in the
list (and any citations in the text) to other articles in the same Special Issue.
Reference management
software
This journal has standard templates available in key reference management packages EndNote (
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp)
and Reference Manager (
http://refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp). Using plug-ins to wordprocessing packages, authors only
need to select the appropriate journal template when preparing their article and the list of references and citations to these will be
formatted according to the journal style which is described below.
Reference style
References
should be indicated in the text in square brackets and listed at the end of the paper as follows:
[1] R.A. Vargas, A. Garciá,
M.A. Vargas, Electrochim. Acta 43 (1988) 1271
[2] J. Newman, Electrochemical Systems, 2nd ed., Prentice–Hall, Englewood Cliffs,
NJ, 1991.
[3] A.R. Hillman, in: R.G. Linford (Ed.), Electrochemical Science and Technology of Polymers, vol., 1, Elsevier, Amsterdam,
1987, Ch. 5.
[4]B. Miller, Proc.6th Australian Electrochem. Conf., Geelong, Vic., 19-24 Feb., 1984; J. Electroanal. Chem., 168 (1984)
91.
Abbreviations of journal titles should follow those in World List of Scientific Periodicals(Fourth Edition).
Multiple references
under a same number do not fit in with the standard of the Journal and should be avoided.
Journal abbreviations
source
Journal names should be abbreviated according to
Index Medicus journal abbreviations:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/lji.html;
List of title word abbreviations:
http://www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php;
CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service):
http://www.cas.org/sent.html.
Elsevier accepts video material and animation sequences to
support and enhance your scientific research. Authors who have video or animation files that they wish to submit with their article are
strongly encouraged to include these within the body of the article. This can be done in the same way as a figure or table by referring
to the video or animation content and noting in the body text where it should be placed. All submitted files should be properly labeled
so that they directly relate to the video file's content. In order to ensure that your video or animation material is directly usable,
please provide the files in one of our recommended file formats with a maximum size of 10 MB. Video and animation files supplied will
be published online in the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect:
http://www.sciencedirect.com.
Please supply 'stills' with your files: you can choose any frame from the video or animation or make a separate image. These will be
used instead of standard icons and will personalize the link to your video data. For more detailed instructions please visit our video
instruction pages at
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. Note: since video and animation cannot be embedded in
the print version of the journal, please provide text for both the electronic and the print version for the portions of the article that
refer to this content. These should not be submitted as Supplementary data since they are integral part of the manuscript.
Submission checklist
The following list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to sending
it to the journal for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.
Ensure that the following
items are present:
One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
• Telephone and fax numbers
All necessary files have been uploaded, and contain:
•
Keywords
• All figure captions
• All tables (including title, description, footnotes)
Further considerations
•
Manuscript has been 'spell-checked' and 'grammar-checked'
• References are in the correct format for this journal
•
All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use
of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)
• Color figures are clearly marked as being intended for color
reproduction on the Web (free of charge) and in print, or to be reproduced in color on the Web (free of charge) and in black-and-white
in print
• If only color on the Web is required, black-and-white versions of the figures are also supplied for printing purposes
For any further information please visit our customer support site at
http://support.elsevier.com.
Use of the Digital
Object Identifier
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents. The DOI consists
of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication.
The assigned DOI never changes. Therefore, it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly 'Articles in press' because they
have not yet received their full bibliographic information. The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows (example taken from
a document in the journal
Physics Letters B):
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.09.059
When you use the DOI to create URL
hyperlinks to documents on the web, the DOIs are guaranteed never to change.
Proofs
One
set of page proofs (as PDF files) will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author (if we do not have an e-mail address then paper
proofs will be sent by post) or, a link will be provided in the e-mail so that authors can download the files themselves. Elsevier now
provides authors with PDF proofs which can be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe Reader version 7 (or higher) available
free from
http://get.adobe.com/reader. Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will accompany the proofs (also given online).
The exact system requirements are given at the Adobe site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/tech-specs.html.
If
you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and return them
to Elsevier in an e-mail. Please list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections
and any other comments (including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail,
or by post. Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures.
Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor.
We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately – please let us have all your corrections within
48 hours. It is important to ensure that all corrections are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying,
as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed
with the publication of your article if no response is received.
Offprints
The corresponding
author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail. For an extra charge, paper offprints can be ordered via
the offprint order form which is sent once the article is accepted for publication. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published
article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.
Electrochemical Calendar
Material for the Calendar should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, Conference organizers
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