GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

Articles may be uploaded via ftp:

submitted to the Publications Department via e-mail (up to 2 Mb) to:

or sent by post to the Editors:

E-Submission of Articles: Please supply the following to the Editorial Office: (1) A PDF version of the manuscript as a single file, containing text and figures. This file will be used for online advice-acceptance where possible. A printed copy of the manuscript will not be required. 

(2) Data for deposition with our Database service, if applicable. (3) The most appropriate section heading of The Luventicus Academy Reports contents list for your paper.

(4) A completed copyright form, forwarded to the Editor by post. The form can be found at

(5) A completed adviser form, forwarded to the Editor by post. The form can be found at

E-submissions of manuscripts will be acknowledged by e-mail. Authors should contact the Editorial Office if they have not received an acknowledgement within 4 working days.

Postal Submission of Articles: Please supply the following to the Editorial Office: (1) Fax and e-mail details for correspondence. (2) Two copies of the manuscript with artwork presized for single or double column format. Artwork originals. (3) Disk version of the manuscript: A PDF version of the manuscript containing text and figures, or files for text (PDF, Word, Word Perfect or TeX/LaTeX) and artwork (EPS, BMP or TIF). PDF files may be suitable for online advice. (4) Data for deposition with our Database service, if applicable. (5) The most appropriate section heading of The Luventicus Academy Reports contents list for your paper.

(6) A completed copyright form.

(7) A completed adviser form, forwarded to the Editor by post. The form can be found at

Organisation of manuscripts: Various templates for manuscript preparation are available at:

The typescript should be organised as follows: (1) title and author information; (2) summary/abstract (50-250 words)—setting out the main objectives and results in a clear and interesting way; (3) main body of article, with appropriate section headings; (4) acknowledgements; (5) references; (6) tables and table captions; (7) figure captions and scheme captions; (8) figures and schemes.

Information for our Database: Authors are encouraged to deposit bulk information (such as primary kinetic data, spectra, programs, etc.) with our database service. In particular, publication in Reports of lengthy tables or raw data is discouraged and such material should be deposited. If submitted in the correct format, deposited data will be made freely available via the World Wide Web. The electronic data should be supplied in one of the formats below (other formats may also be acceptable): PDF, Word, Word Perfect, TeX/LaTeX, JPEG/GIF (max 640x480 pixels), MOL (or PDB).

Units: Though the use of SI units is recommended, authors can make use of the units they consider appropriate for specific ends. When using units of other systems or other units, authors must give their equivalences to SI units.

References: All references to the literature cited must be given in alphabetical order at the end of the paper, and each reference should contain some or all of the following elements: (1) author surnames with initial; (2) year of publication; (3) title of paper (roman) or book (italic); (4) journal name (italic), using standard abbreviation; (5) volume number (bold); and (6) first and last page numbers. Note that for a book, the edition, the chapter(s) and its/ their page range(s), the editor(s), the place of publication (if it is not obvious) and the name of the publisher should be given, for instance:

Alberty, R. A. & I. Oppenheim 1988 Fundamental equation for systems in chemical equilibrium. J. Chem. Phys. 89, 3689­3693.

Tester, J. W. & M. Modell 1997 Thermodynamics and Its Applications, 3rd edn, pp. 142­162. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Reid, E. E., M. L. Peterson & J. W. Way 1958 Unit Processes. In Organic Chemistry, 5th edn (ed. P. H. Groggins), Chap. XII. New York: McGraw­Hill.

Eves, H. 1983 Great Moments in Mathematics (After 1650). The Dolciani Mathematical Expositions, vol. 7. USA: The Mathematical Association of America.

Margolus, N. H. 2001 A bridge of bits. ftp://www.im.lcs.mit.edu/poc/margolus.

References in the text are listed according to the Harvard style (not by number), i.e. by giving the names of authors and the date of publication, for instance:

"At the same time, Alberty (1997) presented a method based on the use of Legendre transformations to treat systems containing a component with constant chemical potential."

Figures and labels: All figures will be reproduced as supplied wherever possible, i.e. with no re-lettering. Prepare graphics at publication quality resolution using applications capable of generating a high-resolution EPS file format. Figures should be scaled for the final published size, and saved to fit the single column format (max. width 135 mm). Hand-drawn illustrations are not acceptable unless prepared to the professional standard of a graphic designer. Carefully review a printout of each figure before submitting.

Labels should be added to the original drawings before submission using lower-case lettering wherever possible. Labels should be brief, e.g. (a), (b), etc., and explained in the legend. Please use the Times or Symbol, and the final published size of any lettering should be around 9 point. Mathematical symbols must follow the style of the text. Descriptions should be placed whenever possible in the legends and not on the figures themselves, although keys to symbols are often better placed within the body of the figure.

In addition to quality printouts, figures should be supplied on disk. Our preferred format is Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) although PostScript (PS) figures may also be used. These provide quality results and file sizes are small compared to other bitmap forms. Recommended applications include Illustrator, Corel or PhotoShop. A note of warning: Some other applications create unclean PostScript and include functions that are not PostScript compatible. Such graphic files cannot be used. Each figure must be clearly identified with the author's name and its number. For multi-part figures please supply each part as a separate file.

We can also use figures created in PowerPoint and Excel formats. Please avoid submitting figures prepared using other similar packages.

Ensure all fonts are embedded in graphics. Failure to do this can result in unsatisfactory font substitution. In addition corresponding fonts sometimes differ subtly from machine to machine and this could result in imaging differences.

Basic figure types

(a) Simple line figures (e.g. plots)

These are line drawings that do not contain halftones, but may contain simple shading or hatching to distinguish different areas. Line weights should be at least 0.5 point thick and any shading a minimum of 20%. Please ensure any text is legible over these areas. Export or save as 8-bit EPS files using a PostScript printer driver (Adobe EPS driver is highly recommended).

(b) Combination line & halftone (or greyscale) figures

These are electronic figures that contain a halftone element (photograph or scan) and a line element (labels or overlay). It is vital that these figures are supplied to the correct high resolution otherwise we will not be able to use them. For print quality, combination figures must have an output resolution of 800 dpi (dots per inch) at final size, otherwise the image will be blurred when printed. It is important to check early on that each figure has a high enough resolution. If images have to be enlarged the image will degrade even further. These combination figures should be supplied as 8-bit EPS files. Ensure that any white space around images is kept to the minimum.

The optimum scanning (or input) resolution is 254 p.p.i. (pixels per inch) for mono and 304 p.p.i. for colour.

If there is colour in either line or combination line & halftone figures, please save files in 32-bit. Use CMYK colour, not RGB. CMYK subfiles should not be separated out. Please supply a single, composite four-colour image.

(c) Simple halftones (e.g. photographs)

Where possible supply the original high-quality prints or transparencies, not scans. This gives the best result.

Photographs should be supplied with the author's name and figure number on the back, and the top edge indicated if the orientation is unclear. The area covered must be limited to the subject in question, or to a minimum representative area in photomicrographs, etc. This enables the photograph to be reproduced at the largest possible scale. Each micrograph must include a scale bar, applied to the original, with an indication of the exact length. Please indicate on any overlay any areas or subjects within a halftone requiring critical reproduction. Authors' suggestions for reduction factors are welcomed, subject to the constraints of the production process.

Supplying uncompressed files is preferred. However, if you use compression software please let us know the type of compression used (e.g. LZW, WinZip, etc.).

Figures can be supplied on floppies, zips or CDs, but not optical disks. Please name each figure file separately using the convention fig1.eps, etc.

Reports welcomes the submission of papers containing colour illustrations. However, as most of our publications are black & white, colour reproduction will only be made if advisers decide that colour is essential.

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