An International Review Journal

Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy publishes review papers describing research related to theory and application of NMR spectroscopy. This technique is being applied with increasing success in chemistry, physics, biochemistry, materials science, and also in many areas of biology and medicine. This journal publishes review articles covering applications in all these and related subjects, as well as in-depth treatments of the fundamental theory and instrumental developments of NMR spectroscopy. The issuing of each volume in separate parts ensures the rapid appearance of the reviews, and thus gives readers the most up-to-date coverage of the subject.

Submission of Manuscripts

Authors wishing to publish review articles in the Journal should send 2 hard copies of their manuscripts to one of the two Executive Editors:

Professor J.W. Emsley, Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK, Fax: 44 2380 596805, Email: J.W.Emsley@soton.ac.uk

Dr J. Feeney, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK, Fax: 44 208 906 4477, Email: jfeeney@nimr.mrc.ac.uk

Completed manuscripts will be considered for publication, but intending authors may also submit summaries of proposed articles.

Preparation of Manuscript

Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout on one side of A4 or 8.5 x 11-inch white paper. Pages should be numbered consecutively.

General Points
1. Manuscripts must be written in a clear and concise style of English.
2. Manuscripts should be typewritten and double-spaced. Leave a margin of at least 3cm on each side of the paper.
3. The author should retain one copy of the manuscript both on paper and diskette. 4. Only one set of original illustrations need be supplied.
5. Paginate the entire manuscript consecutively on the top right-hand corner of the pages.
6. Excessive use of italics for emphasis should be avoided.
7. The use of nomenclature and symbols adopted by IUPAC is recommended (Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, 1988).
8. Abbreviations for units should follow the SI system. For abbreviations of names of techniques and methods, always use capitals and no full stops, e.g. NMR, GLC, IR, DFT.
9. Manuscripts should be organized in the following order:
• Title • Name of author and affiliation (Give fax, telephone numbers and e-mail address)• Up to five keywords for indexing • Table of contents• Introduction• General text • Conclusions • Acknowledgements • Appendices• References• Tables• Captions for the illustrations• Illustrations (figures and other artwork) • A covering information sheet giving the journal name, title of the article, numbers of pages, figures and tables, together with the name and address of the corresponding author (including telephone, fax and E-mail numbers) should be included.
10. Elsevier reserves the privilege of returning to the author for revision accepted manuscripts and illustrations that are not in the proper form given in this guide.

Headings
Section titles must be in bold typeface, sub-section headings in italics. Text references should appear as:
Fig. 1
Table 2
Eq. (26)
Section, Appendix start with capitals.
Sections, sub-sections, and sub-sub-sections labelled in Arabic numerals, for example:
5. Using RDCs for the study of molecular dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids
5.1. Domain dynamics in biomolecules
5.2. RDCs for the study of local backbone dynamics in proteins
5.2.1. Local alignment tensor analysis and generalised order parameters
5.2.2. Model-free approaches to the characterisation of the dynamics of inter-nuclear bond vectors

Tables
1. Authors should take notice of the limitations set by the size and layout of the journal. The width of a table should not exceed the printed area of the page. If this seems impossible, try reversing columns and rows.
2. Fold-outs will not normally be accepted. If many data are to be presented, an attempt should be made to divide these over two or more tables.
3. Tables to be treated as artwork, from which prints need to be made, should not be folded.
4. Tables should be numbered using Arabic numerals according to their sequence in the text. The text should include mention of all tables.
5. Each table should be typewritten on a separate page and placed after the references. Tables should never be included in the text.
6. Each table should have a brief and self-explanatory title (above the table, not on a separate page).
7. Column headings should be concise. Units should be added between parentheses or after a solidus and on a separate line.
8. Vertical lines should not be used to separate columns. Leave some extra space between the columns instead.
9. Any explanations essential to the understanding of the table should be given in footnotes under the table.

Illustrations
1. All illustrations should be supplied both as hard copies and in electronic format (TIFF, etc. see Artwork Instructions on Web site), and in a finished form suitable for publication.
2. All axes should be labelled.
3. Illustrations should be numbered using Arabic numerals according to their sequence in the text and they should all be cited. Parts of illustrations designated by (a), (b), etc. should include these labels as part of the artwork.
4. Illustrations should be designed with the format of the pages of this journal in mind. Fold-outs will not normally be accepted. Illustrations should be of such a size as to allow a reduction of up to 50%.
5. Lettering on drawings should be professional quality or generated by high-resolution computer graphics and must be large enough to withstand appropriate reduction for publication.
6. Each illustration should have a caption. The collected captions should appear as a separate page.
7. Illustrations in more than two parts should be clearly labelled (a), (b), etc., in reproducible lettering when they are referred to separately.
8. Photographs must have good contrast and intensity. Sharp, glossy black and white or, when essential for clarification, colour prints are required. Photocopies of printed photographs are unacceptable.
9. Formulae and schemes that cannot be typeset should be submitted as illustrations suitable for direct reproduction.
10. A figure should be referred to in the text using the abbreviation Fig., even when it is the first word of a sentence.
11. All figure captions of figures showing NMR spectra must indicate the operating field strength (in Tesla) or Larmor frequency (in MHz).
12. Reproduction of colour figures will generally be charged to the author. Authors are asked to contact the relevant Editor to discuss whether colour reproduction charges will be incurred.
13. For further information see our http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions page.

References
1. All references made to publications in the text should be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the information in the text is exactly the same as that given in the reference list. References to the literature should be made according to the numerical system described below.
2. In the text refer to the subject or to the author's name (without initials), followed by the reference number in square brackets.
3. If reference is made in the text to publications written by more than two authors, the name of the first author should be used, followed by "et al.''. Note that in the reference list the names and initials of the authors and co-authors must be given in full.
4. References should be arranged in the order in which they are cited in the text.
5. Use the following system for arranging the references:

For journals:
[1] W.D. Arnold, E. Oldfield, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 122 (2000) 12835. For monographs:

[2] M.H. Levitt, Spin Dynamics: Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. , Wiley, New York (2001).

For edited books:
[3] U. Scheler, Solid polymers. In: M.J. Duer, Editor, Solid-state NMR Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications (first ed.), Blackwell Science, Oxford (2002), pp. 483-511.

For volumes of major reference works: [4] E.D. Becker, Hydrogen bonding In: D.M. Grant and R.K. Harris (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 4, Wiley, New York (1996), pp. 2409-2415.

For conference proceedings, symposia etc.:
[5] A. Müller in J. Baran, A.J. Barnes, M.M. Ilczyszyn, H. Ratajczak (Eds.), Proc. 2nd National Conference on Molecular Spectroscopy, Wroclaw, Poland, 27--30 September 1993, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994, p.13.

6. Abbreviations of journal titles should conform to those adopted by the Chemical Abstracts Service (Bibliographic Guide for Editors and Authors, ACS, Washington, DC, 1974).
7. Reference to a personal communication should include the year, e.g. A.N. Other, personal communication, 1989.

Formulae
1. Formulae should be generated by a word processor, if possible. Leave ample space around the formulae.
2. For simple fractions please use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal.
3. Please use ≈ for 'approximately equal'.
4. Equations should be sequentially numbered on the right hand side of the equation and in parentheses. In appendices use A1, etc.
5. The use of fractional powers instead of root signs is recommended. Exponential functions are more conveniently denoted by exp ().

Footnotes
Footnotes should only be used if absolutely essential; they should be indicated by superscript numbers and kept as short as possible.

Proofs

The staff of Elsevier performs copy editing of manuscripts. The author is asked to check the page proofs for typographical errors and answer queries from the copy editor. Changes to the original manuscript are not allowed at this stage.

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Offprints
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.