Guide for Authors
Editorial
New procedures for articles reporting thermophysical properties
Fluid Phase Equilibria,
along with other journals in the field, established a collaboration with the Thermodynamics Research Center (TRC) of the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2009 for the purpose of ensuring the quality of published experimental data. In a joint statement
[1], the editors of the five journals involved set out the rational for the cooperation in terms of helping to ensure that authors and
reviewers were made aware of any previously-published literature values for the properties and systems in question. The process involved
NIST 'capturing¢ the new experimental data, comparing it against existing values in the NIST data archive and providing a report
that: (a) listed relevant literature sources; and (b) highlighted any obvious discrepancies in the new data.
In order to streamline
the process and to further enhance the quality of published articles, we are now introducing some changes to the way in which the NIST
cooperation is implemented. With effect from June 2011, the process will be split into two steps. First, upon submission of an article,
NIST will provide a literature report to the authors and reviewers containing relevant references from the NIST Data Archive
http://www.trc.nist.gov/ThermoML.html.
Second, NIST will provide a data evaluation at the end of the review process immediately prior to acceptance of the article. This data
evaluation will compare the reported experimental data with that existing in the NIST Data Archive and highlight any unexpectedly large
discrepancies such as those arising from typographical errors. In order to facilitate the necessary electronic data capture, the experimental
results and their uncertainties must be tabulated in the way described in the Guide for Authors. A key feature of the new requirements
is that tables be self contained and include the uncertainties of all reported quantities. In addition, we have incorporated new standards
relating to the description of chemical samples and we encourage authors to present details of their samples in an easily-readable tabular
form. To assist authors, a large number of example tables have been prepared by NIST and are available from
http://trc.nist.gov/FPE-Support.html.
The new procedures, which are mandatory, will speed the review process and relieve NIST of the task of capturing data from papers
that are ultimately not accepted for publication. The regulations relating to the description of chemical samples and the rigorous reporting
of experimental uncertainties will further enhance the already high quality of articles published in the Fluid Phase Equilibria.
P.T. Cummings, Editor
Th.W. de Loos, Editor
J.P. O'Connell, Editor
References
1. P.T. Cummings, Th.W. de Loos, J.P.
O'Connell, Fluid Phase Equilibria 276 (2009) 1165-1166.
Introduction
Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details
on the requirements for submitting your paper to Fluid Phase Equilibria. The guidelines described in this document should be adhered
to carefully, to ensure high-quality and rapid publication of your manuscript.
Aims
and Scope
Fluid Phase Equilibria publishes high quality papers dealing with experimental, theoretical and applied research
related to equilibrium and transport properties of fluid and solid phases.
The fluid phase properties of interest include:
PVT, enthalpies, heat capacities, Joule-Thomson coefficients, Gibbs and Helmholtz energies, chemical potentials, activity and fugacity
coefficients, critical properties, chemical equilibria, multiphase equilibria and interfacial properties, thermal conductivity, viscosity
and rheological properties, and diffusion coefficients.
A wide range of pure and mixed fluids may be considered:
non-polar
and polar small organic and inorganic molecules, ions, metals, polymers, surfactants, ionic liquids, gas hydrates, complex and biological
molecules (e.g. proteins. Fluids should be well-characterized with respect to composition, or be specified with sufficient information
for the experimental results to be reproduced (e.g., crude oils from a specific oil field, or mixtures that are obtained through a well-established
published protocol). Papers only dealing with experimental data on viscosities and/or densities and/or speed of sound and/or refractive
index and/or surface tension of liquids or liquid mixtures at atmospheric pressure and temperatures close to room temperature will be
refused unless they are accompanied with new theory.
T
heoretical techniques may comprise:
chemical thermodynamics, applied
statistical mechanics, molecular physics, molecular simulation, quantum chemistry, applied mathematics.
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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 and verification
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 in the same form, in English or
in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify originality, your article
may be checked by the originality detection software iThenticate. See also
http://www.elsevier.com/editors/plagdetect.
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
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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.
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and translations (please consult
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Retained author rights
As an author you (or your employer or institution) retain certain rights; for details
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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
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Open access
This journal offers you the option of making your article freely available to all via the ScienceDirect
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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:
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Language and language services
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but not a mixture of these). Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission
please visit
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or our customer support site at
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for more information.
Submission
The only method of submission to this
journal is through the online Elsevier Editorial System (EES). Submission to this journal proceeds totally online. Use the following
guidelines to prepare your article. Via the online submission site of this journal (
http://ees.elsevier.com/fluid) you will
be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. The system automatically converts source files to a single
Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files
are converted to PDF 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 and via the author's
homepage, removing the need for a hard-copy paper trail.
Special
instructions for manuscripts reporting experimental results
Editors
When submitting, please select one of the Editors below.
Prof. Peter T. Cummings
John R. Hall Professor
Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
VU Station B 351604
Nashville, Tennessee 37235-1604, USA
Dr. ir. Theo W. de Loos
Associate Professor Physical Chemistry and Molecular Thermodynamics
Process and Energy Department
Delft University of Technology
Leeghwaterstraat 44
2628 CA Delft
The Netherlands
Prof. John P. O'Connell
H.D. Forsyth Professor
Department of Chemical
Engineering
University of Virginia
102 Engineer's Way
P.O. Box 400741
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4741,USA
Referees
Please submit, as part of the covering letter with the manuscript, the names, full affiliation
(department, institution, city and country) and email addresses of five potential Referees. Appropriate Referees should be knowledgeable
about the subject but have no close connection with any of the authors. In addition, Referees must be from institutions other than those
of any of the Authors, and must include at least two referees from outside the lead author's geographical region. You may also name reviewers
that you do not want to review your manuscript and state your reasons for doing so. Should authors be requested by the editor to revise
the text, the revised version must be submitted within
two months. After this period, the article will be regarded as a new submission,
except by prior permission of the Editor.
Use of wordprocessing software
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used. The text should be in single-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. 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. 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).
Note that source files of figures, tables and text graphics will be required whether or not you embed your figures in the text. See also
the section on Electronic artwork.
To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the 'spell-check' and 'grammar-check'
functions of your wordprocessor.
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',
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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.
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.
Materials and Methods
Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. In the case of
experimental papers the numerical purity (mass fraction or mole fraction) of the investigated substances should be indicated, as well
as the method of purity determination, if known. Any subsequent purification of the sample, such as distillation, crystallization, drying,
etc., should be described.
Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.
Theory/calculation
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
Results should be clear and concise.
Discussion
This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined
Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.
Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which
may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.
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.
Nomenclature
Authors
must provide a Nomenclature, to be published between the text of the paper and the list of references. The Nomenclature should be a
list of all mathematical symbols in one column and their definitions with units, preferably including the equation number of first use,
in an adjacent column. The symbols should follow the notation of the IUPAC, “Quantities, Units, and Symbols in Physical Chemistry,
2nd Ed.”,
http://old.iupac.org/publications/books/gbook/green_book_2ed.pdf. In addition, all unusual abbreviations
and acronyms used in the paper should be included in the Nomenclature. Authors should also consider defining symbols and acronyms when
first used within the paper.
Essential title page information
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Title.
Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
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Author names and affiliations.
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Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case
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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
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Present/permanent address.
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Abstract
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Highlights
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Keywords
Immediately after the abstract,
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"and", "of"). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will
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Acknowledgements
Collate acknowledgements
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Nomenclature and units
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Authors should explicitly
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Math formulae
Present simple formulae
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Footnotes
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Arabic numbers. Many wordprocessors build footnotes into the text, and this feature may be used. Should this not be the case, indicate
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Table footnotes
Indicate each footnote in a table with a superscript lowercase letter.
Artwork
Electronic artwork
General points
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• Save text in illustrations as 'graphics'
or enclose the font.
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• Number
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• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
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Formats
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Embed the font or save the text as 'graphics'.
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Figure captions
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Tables
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References
Citation in text
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Web references
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References in a special issue
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Reference
management software
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Reference style
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Example: '..... as demonstrated [3,6]. Barnaby and Jones [8] obtained a different
result ....'
List: Number the references (numbers in square brackets) in the list in the order in which they appear in the
text.
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Reference to a journal publication:
[1] J. van der Geer, J.A.J. Hanraads, R.A. Lupton, J. Sci. Commun.
163 (2010) 51–59.
Reference to a book:
[2] W. Strunk Jr., E.B. White, The Elements of Style, fourth ed., Longman, New York,
2000.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
[3] G.R. Mettam, L.B. Adams, in: B.S. Jones, R.Z. Smith (Eds.), Introduction
to the Electronic Age, E-Publishing, Inc. New York, 2009, pp. 281–304.
Journal
Abbreviations Source
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http://www.cas.org
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Supplementary data
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Submission checklist
The following list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to
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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
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Keywords
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Use of the Digital Object Identifier
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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):
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