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CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Guide for Authors

Papers in all areas of chemical physics are welcomed, but referees will be asked to judge whether experimental papers have been brought into sufficient relation with theory, and whether theoretical papers bear on experimental verification or exhibit progress in experimental developments to this Submission.

All contributions should be written in clear English. Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission please visit External link http://www.elsevier.com/locate/languagepolishing or contact authorsupport@elsevier.com for more information. Please note Elsevier neither endorses nor takes responsibility for any products, goods or services offered by outside vendors through our services or in any advertising. For more information please refer to our Terms & Conditions External link http://www.elsevier.com/termsconditions.

Manuscripts are received with the understanding that their content is unpublished material and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. Further, it is understood that each co-author has made substantial contributions to the work described and that each accepts joint responsibility for its publication.

Submission for all types of manuscripts to Chemical Physics proceeds totally online via our Elsevier Editorial System (EES) Website at: External link http://ees.elsevier.com/chemphys/

When submitting via the EES website, you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files and data, among others a submission letter and the names and addresses (including e-mail) of at least three possible referees. The last stage of submitting your manuscript is selecting one of our Editors (Wolfgang Domcke, Robin M. Hochstrasser, H. Peter Trommsdorff) you wish to handle your manuscript. Various formats are allowed for the initial submission, including PDF files. The final revision must be as a Word or other suitable word processor document. When a Word or equivalent document is uploaded as the initial submission, the system automatically generates an electronic (PDF) proof, which is then used for reviewing. All correspondence, including the editor's request for revision and final decision, will be by e-mail.

For technical questions related to your submission contact: authorsupport@elsevier.comRefereeing

All contributions submitted will be refereed at the discretion of the editors. The editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts and to edit contributions when necessary. Submitted manuscripts will be evaluated for completeness, English language quality and bibliographic content and may be returned to the authors immediately for deficiencies in any of these areas.

Page charge and reprints

There is no page charge. The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail or, alternatively, 25 free paper offprints. 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. Additional printed reprints can be ordered at prices shown on the reprint order form which will be sent to the author on receipt of the accepted manuscript by the publisher.

Copyright transfer

Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to sign a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (for more information on this and copyright see External link http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An e-mail (or letter) 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 External link 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 External link http://www.elsevier.com/permissions.

Correspondence

All correspondence with the editors or publishers should contain full reference to the paper concerned, i.e. the names of the authors, the full title, as well as the date of submission and, if known and applicable, the manuscript number assigned during the reviewing process.

Authors can keep track on the progress of their accepted article, and set up e-mail alerts informing them of changes to their manuscript's status, by using the "Track your Accepted Article" tool at: External link http://www.elsevier.com/trackarticle

Contact details for questions arising after the acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided when an article is accepted for publication.

Preparation of manuscripts

For LaTeX articles, the general Elsevier style file should be used (obtainable from External link http://authors.elsevier.com/latex ).

Before submitting the manuscript, please check the following points:

(1) Title: The title should be brief and yet convey to the informed reader the nature of the contents of the paper.

(2) Address: The name(s) of the author(s) and the name and address of the institute where the research work was done should be indicated on the manuscript. . Clearly indicate who is willing to 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.

(3) Abstract: The abstract of 100-150 words should contain all the substance of the methods and the results achieved as well as keywords of the paper. An abstract is often presented separate from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. References and non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should therefore be avoided.

(4) Units: The use of SI units is strongly recommended.

(5) Formulae: Displayed formulae should be numbered. Symbols requiring different type, like vectors, tensors, etc., should be identified properly. Special attention should be paid to characters that can easily be misread, such as i (lower case), I (cap), l (el), 1 (one), ' (prime), o (lower case), O (cap.), 0 (zero), degree, u, v, (vee), Greek nu, V (cap), x, multiplication sign, X, z, Z, p, P, Greek rho, etc.

(6) Figures and Illustrations:

Submit figures and illustrations in electronic format: To create digital artwork, please consult the Elsevier Electronic Artwork web site: External link http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions which contains appropriate instructions. Please note that Elsevier does allow the submission of MS Office files (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), provided they meet certain conditions (see information given on above mentioned website). It is preferred to save files in EPS or TIFF format. Label figures as referenced in text and include a list of figure legends.

The figures should be supplied separate from the main text. Each figure should have a number and a caption; the captions themselves should be collected on a separate sheet. Text graphics such as chemical structures should also be supplied on separate pages.

Colour illustrations: Colour illustrations will always be processed without charges for appearance on the electronic version of the journal. In addition, they can be reproduced in print as well, but this will be at the author's expense, the cost being determined by the number of pages.

(7) Supplementary Material: Chemical Physics invites authors of articles submitted for publication to provide supplementary material in electronic form. Supplementary material that does not appear in the print version of an article can be found online on ScienceDirect (External link http://www.sciencedirect.com).
Supplementary material (even though not printed) is an integral part of a journal article and therefore will be sent to the reviewers along with the manuscript. Because this material will be mounted exactly as submitted by the author, we recommend that the material be presented in an electronic format that is readily accessible to the community. To ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please provide the data in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork instruction pages at the Author Gateway at External link http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. Please note, however, that supplementary material will not appear in the printed journal.

(8) Tables: Prepare tables in double-spaced format (if possible), each with an Arabic numeral and title above the table and explanatory notes and legends below. Indicate notes with lower-case Arabic letters. Include identification of all abbreviations not defined in the text. Design tables to be self-explanatory, and do not duplicate data in text or illustrations.

(9) References: In the text, reference to other parts of the paper should be made by section (or equation) number, not by page number. References to other papers should be consecutively numbered in the text and should be listed numerically on a separate sheet at the end of the paper. 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. The references should be as complete as possible and be presented as follows:

For a book: A. Messiah, Quantum mechanics, Vol. 1, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1970.
For a paper in a journal: C.J. Winscom, A.H. Maki, Chem.Phys. Lett. 12 (1971) 264.
For a paper in a contributed volume: A. Carrington, in: P. Averbuch (Ed.) Magnetic Resonance and Radiofrequency Spectroscopy, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1968, p. 23.
For an unpublished paper: G.J. Lycett, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Birmingham, UK, 1970.
Commercial products, including computer programs, are to be mentioned in the text of the manuscript and not normally referenced. If required the reference should list the first author et al. only

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.2003.10.071 When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, they are guaranteed never to change.

(9) Footnotes: Footnotes should be placed in the text where required. These should be kept to a minimum, however. Extensive use of mathematical symbols and formulae should be avoided.

Author Proofs

One set of page proofs in PDF format 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). Elsevier now sends PDF proofs which can be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe Reader version 7 available free from External link http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will accompany the proofs.
If you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and return 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. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your 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.

Funding body agreements and policies

Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors who publish in Elsevier journals 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 External link http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies

Authors' rights

As an author you (or your employer or institution) retain certain rights; for details you are referred to: External link http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.

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