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The Managing Editor, JAAS
Royal Society of Chemistry
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Science Park, Milton Road
Cambridge CB4 0WF

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Full research papers, which must represent a significant development in the particular field of analysis and are judged on the criteria of (i) originality and quality of scientific content, (ii) contribution to our existing knowledge, and (iii) appropriateness of length to content of new science. Although short articles are considered, the RSC strongly discourages fragmentation of a substantial body of work into a number of short publications. Unnecessary fragmentation will be a valid reason for rejection of manuscripts.

Microsoft Word article templates are available and instructions on their use can be downloaded. Please note that use of the templates is optional. Authors who decide not to use the template, should prepare their typescript in double spacing, single column format, with tables and figures appearing at the end of the text. Copies of any related, relevant, unpublished material and raw data should be made available on request. Authors may also recommend potential reviewers for their paper.

Electronic manuscript submission

Electronic manuscript submission is preferred. Articles may be submitted to the appropriate Editor using the RSC file-upload service. Authors should send a PDF version of the manuscript as a single file (containing text, tables and figures). This file will be used for online refereeing where possible. (A Microsoft Word file may alternatively be supplied but is unlikely to be suitable for online refereeing). Manuscripts sent by file upload will be acknowledged by Email. Authors should contact the Editorial Office if they have not received an acknowledgement within 5 working days. When submitting electronically, authors will not be required to send a printed copy of the manuscript separately.

Presentation of papers
Manuscripts should be in accordance with the style and usage shown in recent copies of JAAS. Conciseness of expression is expected: adopting a logical order of presentation, with suitable paragraph or section headings, increases clarity.

Order of presentation

(a) Title. This should be brief but informative with an adequate indication of the original features of the work. The title should usually include the analyte being determined or identified, the matrix and the analytical method used. Acronyms and subtitles should be avoided.

(b) Authorship. To facilitate abstracting and indexing by Chemical Abstracts Service, and other abstracting organisations, at least one forename should be included with each author's family name. The corresponding author should be indicated with an asterisk and an Email address supplied.

(c) Summary/abstract. A summary of about 100 (communications) to 200 words (full papers and technical notes), describing the purpose of the work and drawing attention to the novel aspects, should be provided for all papers. It should be essentially independent of the main text and include relevant quantitative information such as detection limits, precision and accuracy data.

(d) Aim of investigation/introduction. A concise introductory statement of the object of the investigation with any essential historical background, supported by appropriate citation of relevant references (particular attention should be paid to recently published literature). The section should conclude with an unambiguous statement of the novel features of the work.

(e) Description of the experimental procedures. Working details must be given concisely. Analytical procedures should be given in the form of instructions and should be succinct; well known operations should not be described in detail. Suppliers of equipment and materials should be mentioned. The choice of any optimisation procedure (in accordance with an accepted protocol) must be justified and any figure of merit clearly stated. This section should also include information on how a new method was validated, including a description of the statistical procedures used. Descriptions of methods should be supported by experimental results showing accuracy, precision and selectivity.

(f) Results and discussion. Results are best presented in tabular or diagrammatic form (but not both for the same results), followed by an appropriate statistical evaluation, which should be in accordance with accepted practice. Any discussion should comment on the scope of the method and its validity, followed by a statement of any conclusions drawn from the work. Appropriate negative results should also be reported. A separate conclusions section is not encouraged but, if included, it should not simply duplicate statements in the discussion.

(g) Acknowledgements. Contributors other than co-authors, companies or sponsors may be acknowledged in a separate paragraph at the end of the paper. Titles may be given but not degrees.

(h) References. References should be numbered serially in the text by means of superscript figures, e.g., Foote and Delves,1 Burns et al.2 or . . . in a recent paper3 . . ., and collected in numerical order under the heading 'References' on a separate page at the end of the paper. Journal titles should be abbreviated according to the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI) and all the authors' names and initials should be given. Articles "in the press" should be listed only if formally accepted for publication. Otherwise "submitted to" or "unpublished work" should be used. Where possible, page ranges should be stated. Examples of reference formats follow:

1 M. Resano , M. Verstraete , F. Vanhaecke and L. Moens, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2001, 16, 1018 - 1027
2 Steven J. Ray and Gary M. Hieftje, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2001, 16, 1206 - 1216 and references cited therein.
3 R. Appelqvist, PhD Thesis, University of Lund, Sweden, 1987.

For books, the edition (if not the first), the publisher and the place and date of publication should be given, followed by the page number.

1 D. Beauchemin, D. C. Gregoire, D. Gunther, V. Karanassios, J.-M. Mermet and T.J. Wood.,Discrete Sample Introduction Techniques for Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry, Volume XXXIV in Wilson & Wilson's Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry Series. series ed. D. Barcelo, Elsevier, 2000, ch. 5, pp 450-460.
2 British Pharmacopoeia, HM Stationery Office, London, 1988, vol.1, p. 140.
3 Environmental Analytical Chemistry, eds. F. W. Fifield and P. J. Haines, Blackwell Science, 2000, 2nd edn.

Internet Sources. Internet sources should include the author (if any), the title of the site, the URL (address), and the date accessed

Authors must, in their own interest, check the lists of references against the original papers; second-hand references are a frequent source of error. References to conference abstracts which have not been published in the open literature are not acceptable. The number of references must be kept to a minimum.

3.2 Figures and tables

Table column headings should be brief. Tables consisting of only two columns can often be arranged horizontally. Tables must be supplied with titles and be so set out as to be understandable without reference to the text.

Either tables or graphs may be used but not both for the same set of results, unless important additional information is given by so doing. The information given by a straight-line calibration graph can usually be conveyed adequately as an equation or statement in the text.

Column headings and graph axis labels should be in accord with SI conventions. Thus, the expression of numerical values of a physical quantity should be dimensionless, i.e., the quotient of the symbol for the physical quantity and the symbol for the unit used, e.g., c/mol dm-3, or some mathematical function of a number, e.g., ln(c/mol dm-3). Further examples are /cm-1, /cm, mass of substance/g and flow rate/ ml min-1. For units which are already dimensionless, i.e., ratios such as % or ppm, the type of ratio is indicated in parentheses, e.g., c (%) or c (ppm). The diagonal line (solidus) will not be used to represent 'per'. Units such as grams per millilitre should be expressed in the form g ml-1. It should be noted that the 'combined' unit, g ml-1, must not have any 'intrusive' numbers. To express concentration in grams per 100 millilitres, the word 'per' will still be required: concentration/g per 100 ml. It may be preferable for an author to express concentrations in grams per litre (g l-1) rather than grams per 100 ml.

Best quality original diagrams should be supplied. Figure captions should be supplied separately to the figures. Figures which have been computer generated should be saved in formats TIFF or EPS at a minimum of 600 dpi and submitted in a separate file to the text.

In the majority of cases, author's figures will be reduced in size so that they are less than 20 picas (83 mm) in width and will fit into a single column in the journal. Authors must consider if originals (in particular text on figures and axes labels) will remain legible if reduced to conform to this column width. Where possible, illustrations should be provided in the size they are to appear when published. Authors are discouraged from supplying full page, outsized diagrams and graphs. The intention is to avoid any loss of detail that can occur when oversized originals are reduced in size before printing. It is recognized that this may be impossible where illustrations are produced manually (hand drawn). In this event artwork should be submitted at twice the size of the final printed version. All lettering appearing on figures should be in a clear font (sans-serif is preferable) and should be 6-8 point type (on reduction where necessary). Lines should be of sufficient thickness and symbols of sufficient size to reproduce well even when the illustrations are reduced in size. The optimum line thickness when printed is 1 pt. Symbols should be approximately 1 mm in diameter when printed. The use of shading and tints should be avoided as these are unlikely to reproduce successfully.

Figures and tables should be kept to a minimum; a maximum of 5 figures and/or 5 tables is recommended. Authors should consider using the free ESI service for depositing extensive sets of tabulated data.