Please note: we may automatically decline publication when a (co)author has already submitted 3 manuscripts in the past year.

Instructions for Authors

• Scope
• Preparation of the manuscript
  • Submission Formats
  • General information for Word and LaTeX formats
  • Composition recommendations
  • Language
  • Mandatory information
  • Optional information
  • References
  • Math formulae
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Conventions and abbreviations
• Open Data Policy
  • Source files
  • Underlying data
  • Supplementary materials
• Copyright
  • Policy of assignment of rights
  • Reuse policy
• Printing

Scope

Comptes Rendus Chimie covers the breadth of the chemical sciences, including interdisciplinary topics where chemistry plays a central role. The journal publishes contributions reporting original research, reviews and historic chronicles. Articles (full papers) and Notes (preliminary communications) should describe novel and important results of high general interest or of outstanding specialized interest.

Full Papers should report and discuss concisely new results and include an experimental section. The use of Electronic Supporting Information (ESI) is encouraged, this material will be evaluated by the referees.

Preliminary Communications should report urgent results from across the chemical sciences.

The submission of concise reviews in the form of Accounts is welcome. They should focus on the author(s) research within the context of the most important recent advances in chemistry, biochemistry, materials science, nanoscience, and related fields. Accounts should place the topic in the context of earlier work, evaluate the present state-of-art, open perspectives and be attractive to nonexperts in addition to specialists in the field.

Reviews should provide comprehensive, authoritative and critical reviews of important topics where chemistry plays a central role. They should be of interest not only to experts in the field, but also appeal to a broad chemistry readership.

Preparation of the manuscript

Manuscripts must be submitted to the submission platform simultaneously in two formats, with line numbering: Word or LaTeX and PDF.

If you have missed files in your initial submission:

• If the missing files are numerous and/or significantly change the content of the submission, please abandon the initial submission and make a new submission;
• Otherwise, please open a discussion in OJS with the editor, attaching the file(s) and asking the editor to add them.

General information for Word and LaTeX formats

Word Formats

Composition recommendations

Language

Articles may be written in English or French.

• If article in French: providing Title, Abstract and Keywords in French and English is mandatory
• If article in English:
  • Providing Title, Abstract and Keywords in English is mandatory
  • We would also be grateful if you could provide a French translation for Title, Abstract and Keywords. If not, the editorial team will use machine translation.

Mandatory information

Manuscripts should include, in the following order:

1) the title: it should be short, but explicit;

2) names of all authors: please include full first names, and include an asterisk after the name of the author to whom correspondence and proofs should be sent;

3) the complete professional addresses of all authors (including email address): to be entered during step 3 "Enter metadata" of the online submission procedure;

4) an abstract (max. 100 words): please avoid including references as much as possible, so that the abstract can be used independently (in databases for example). If the inclusion of references is essential, please quote only the author(s) and the year(s). Please also avoid non-standard or uncommon abbreviations, but if they are essential, define them at the first mention in the abstract;

5) keywords (5 to 7), used for indexing purposes: please use American spelling and avoid general and plural terms and multiple concepts ("and" or "of", for example, should be avoided);

6) the text of the article: it must be typed, double-spaced, and each page must be numbered. Organize 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 the section numbering) and have a brief title. Also use this numbering for internal references: do not just refer to the "text";

7) the reference number of any supplementary material submitted, as well as any appropriate acknowledgement of receipt (maximum 3 lines);

8) references, captions, tables and illustrations.

Optional information

You can include in your manuscript:

• Acknowledgements:
  • List here those who provided assistance during the research (e.g., language assistance, help with writing or proofreading the article, etc.).
  • Please do not include these acknowledgements on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise, but collect them in a separate section at the end of the article, before the references.
• Dedication: a one-sentence dedication of the article can be a separate paragraph after the "Acknowledgements" section.
• Funding sources:
  • Please list your funding sources on this template, which conforms to the requirements of major funders:
    Funding: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA [grant number zzzz]; and the United States Institutes of Peace [grant number aaa].
  • It is not necessary to include a detailed description of the program or type of grant or award. When funding is from a block grant or other resources provided to a university, college, or other research institution, please indicate the name of the institute or organization that provided the funding.
• Appendices:
  • If there is more than one appendix, please identify them by letter (A, B, etc.).
  • Formulas and equations in the appendices should be numbered separately: (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. The same applies to tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1, etc.
• Footnotes:
  • Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article.
  • Many word processors can embed footnotes in the text, and this feature can be used. If not, please indicate the position of the footnotes in the text and list the notes themselves separately at the end of the article.
  • Do not include footnotes in the reference list.

References

Please ensure that your bibliographic references:

• Are numbered in square brackets in the text as well as in the final bibliography, and listed sequentially as they appear in the text (autotexts, fields, bookmarks, captions, cross-references, etc.);
• Are identical in the calls to the text and in the final bibliography;
• Cite journal titles in the abbreviated form recognized by international rules² ;
• Do not include any bold or italic characters.

Examples of the layout to be used in the reference list:

• Article (all authors must be mentioned):
  [1] B. Cage, F.A. Cotton, N.S. Dalal, E.A. Hillard, B. Rakvin, C.M. Ramsey, EPR probing of bonding and spin localization of the doublet-quartet states in a spin-frustrated equilateral triangular lattice: Cu₃(O₂C₁₆H₂₃)₆·1.2 C₆H_12, C. R. Chimie 6 (2003) 39.
• Book:
  [2] P. Braunstein, L.A. Oro, P.R. Raithby (Eds.), Metal Clusters in Chemistry, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 1999, Vols. 1–3.
• Chapter in a book:
  [3] P.W. Jolly, G. Wilke, in: B. Cornils, W.A. Herrmann (Eds.), Applied Homogenous Catalysis with Organic Compounds 2, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 1996, p. 1024.
• Multiple references under the same number:
  [4] (a) N. Giuseppone, J.-M. Lehn, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126 (2004) 11448; (b) D.J. Tantillo, R. Hoffmann, Eur. J. Org. Chem. (2004) 273.

NB: Your bibliographic references will be reformatted by our editorial teams, so the examples above are not identical to the references you might find in our already published articles.

Math formulæ

Please:

• Submit mathematical equations as editable text, not images;
• Submit simple formulas, in-line, with normal text whenever possible;
• Use solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line for small fractional terms, e.g., X/Y;
• Place exponents and subscripts carefully - so write x₁ and not x1;
• Avoid ambiguous expressions such as 1/2x - so write either 1/(2x), or (1/2)x;
• Make sure that a given quantity is always designated by the same symbol in the same typeface - for example, a length L (written in italics) will not be called L elsewhere;
• Present variables in italics;
• Indicate the powers of e by exp.;
• Number consecutively all equations that are to be displayed separately from the text (if explicitly mentioned in the text).

Illustrations

General points

Please:

• Integrate your illustrations directly into your text and PDF files, in the best possible resolution (zoomed to 400%, your illustrations should not become blurred or pixelated);
• Label all your illustrations as figures and/or diagrams;
• Number your illustrations in Arabic numerals, in the order they appear in the article;
• Use consistent units and symbols between all illustrations and with the text;
• Use consistent lettering and dimensions for all original illustrations;
• Use Helvetica as the preferred font (if not available, use Arial, Courier, Times New Roman, Symbol or similar fonts) for text appearing in figures;
• Check that your illustrations will be adapted to a resizing on 75 mm width (single column), 160 mm for illustrations straddling two columns;
• Make sure that none of your illustrations exceed A4 size (210 x 297 mm);
• Ensure that photographs and halftones have good contrast;
• Make sure that the characters integrated in your illustrations remain legible even after reducing the size of the illustrations by 70%;
• Integrate the fonts used directly into your illustrations if the design software you use allows it;
• Provide a caption for each of your illustrations;
• Check that your illustrations are all cited in the body of the text.

Please use only royalty-free illustrations in your manuscript. If you use a copyrighted illustration, please obtain permission from the copyright holders to reuse it under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license (see below).

If you also provide illustrations as separate files, please send them in the best possible resolution and choose image formats (JPEG, PNG, EPS, ChemDraw, Adobe Illustrator... - note that EPS format is not suitable for images containing text). When enlarged to 400%, your illustrations should not become blurred or pixelated.

Tables

Please:

• Use only one grid for each individual table, not one grid for each row;
• Align columns using tabs (not spaces) if your table does not have a grid;
• Number your tables in Roman numerals, in the order they appear in the article;
• Avoid vertical lines within tables;
• Accompany each table with a caption.

Conventions and abbreviations

They should be defined in brackets after their first mention in the text. Internationally accepted units and nomenclature must be used (ISO 31 and ISO 1000). Standard units of measurement and chemical symbols for elements may be used without definition in the manuscript.
 

Open data policy

Source files

Authors wishing to publish in Comptes Rendus Chimie are requested to provide all the files necessary for the formatting of their article in the most interoperable formats possible, in order to facilitate the work of the editors.

In order to encourage the free circulation of scientific knowledge, authors are strongly encouraged to accept the publication by Comptes Rendus Chimie of these source files, together with the editorialized files. The dissemination of figures, in particular, especially when made available in an interoperable format and in high quality resolution, is a strong commitment to more open and robust science.

Underlying Data

Research data includes all "materials in digital form, other than scientific publications, that are collected or produced in the course of scientific research activities and used as evidence in the research process, or that are commonly accepted by the scientific community as necessary to validate research findings and results" (source: EU Directive 2019/1024).

Authors wishing to publish in the Comptes Rendus Chimie are encouraged to make all data related to the research work they describe in their manuscripts, and in particular the data directly underlying the submitted articles, freely available.

To do so, Comptes Rendus Chimie strongly recommends that authors deposit their data in warehouses, i.e. databases specifically dedicated to the permanent preservation, enrichment and valorization of the materials they host. Datasets deposited in repositories are scientific productions that can be cited (in particular when they have a permanent identifier such as DOI), in the same way as a traditional publication.

It is recommended that authors release their data without embargo or after the shortest possible delay, in a way that allows their reuse, with an explicit link between the data and the underlying publication (reciprocal mention of the DOI). The journal encourages the provision of data under open licenses that allow their free reuse. Authors must use the licenses recommended by the repository where the data were deposited.

Reviewers of submitted articles may at any time request from authors the data underlying the results described. Failure to provide this data will result in the rejection of the submission.

NB: Research data should be as open as possible, but as closed as necessary. The Academy of Sciences and the editorial team of Comptes Rendus Chimie cannot be held responsible for any failure to respect the rights associated with the exploitation or dissemination of the data underlying the articles published by the journal. Authors are invited to inquire about any intellectual or industrial property issues that may arise with their data.

Special requirements for crystallographic data

The above recommendations concern all the data underlying the articles submitted to Comptes Rendus Chimie. Among these, manuscripts reporting crystal structures determined by X-ray diffraction must include a list of the principal bond lengths and angles. ORTEP drawings (except stereochemical diagrams) are also required (but may be placed in the supporting information if other software is used to prepare the structure view that appears in the text).

Before submitting a manuscript to Comptes Rendus Chimie, the correspondence author must have obtained the Checkcif report for each structure (free online Checkcif service provided by the International Union of Crystallography).

They should then deposit the crystal structure(s) in .cif format with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) in Cambridge, UK, for structures containing at least one carbon atom, with the Fachinformationszentrum (FIZ) in Karlsruhe, Germany, for other structures. Do not submit .cif files with your manuscript, only the PDF of the Checkcif report.

For further information, please contact

• Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 12 Union Road, Cambridge CB2 1EZ, UK (deposit@ccdc.cam.ac.uk);
• Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe, D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany (crystdata@fiz-karlsruhe.de).

Please also include an adapted version of the following paragraph at the end of each relevant article:

"CCDC-*** contains the additional crystallographic data for this article. These data can be obtained free of charge from the [insert name and contact information of the depository institution and CSD accession number(s) here]."

Data Repositories

To select a trusted repository appropriate for your data type or disciplinary area, consult the re3data directory. Check that the chosen repository meets quality criteria.

In addition to the CCDC and FIZ mentioned above, you can find examples of trusted data warehouses in chemistry on the DATACC project website.

We should also mention Zenodo, a multidisciplinary data warehouse, supported by CERN and the European Commission. The data deposit is not moderated.

Supplementary material

Authors who wish to publish in the Comptes Rendus Chimie may attach to the full text of their submission additional files or material, independent of the body of the article but essential to its understanding. As this material [text, tables, diagrams, figures but not crystallographic data (CIF), see above] is subject to the peer review process, it must be included and clearly marked as "Supporting Information for Electronic Publication" when the article is submitted. To ensure that your material is directly usable, please make sure that each file does not exceed 50 MB.

However, for reasons of technical constraints, valuation, preservation and reuse, authors are strongly advised to deposit this additional material in dedicated repositories, rather than publishing it as an appendix to the articles.

Copyright

Policy of assignment of rights

By publishing in Comptes Rendus Chimie, authors grant the journal the right of first publication and distribution of the final published version (version of records or version of reference). This right is materialized by the signature of a contract of transfer of rights.

All articles in Comptes Rendus Chimie (including content published prior to 2020) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits the journal to use and reproduce the articles and to create derivative works in any medium and format, including for commercial purposes.

Authors retain full intellectual property rights, and are free to enter into additional, separate contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive dissemination of the journal's version of their article (e.g., deposit in an open archive or publication in a book), subject to acknowledging the original publication of the article in Comptes Rendus Chimie.

Reuse of articles in their submitted and accepted versions

Submitted version (author's manuscript or preprint): any author who wishes to publish in Comptes Rendus Chimie is authorized to pre-publish his manuscript on a pre-publication server such as Open Research Europe, in an open archive such as HAL, or on any other website such as a laboratory website. The manuscript must be clearly identified as not yet peer-reviewed or accepted for publication, and not containing any modifications requested later.

If the author's manuscript is subsequently accepted for publication and then published by Comptes Rendus Chimie, the authors must indicate these changes in editorial status, provide a link to the journal and include in the manuscript record the DOI assigned to the final published version.

Accepted version (accepted author manuscript or postprint): any author whose manuscript has been accepted for publication in Comptes Rendus Chimie may publish the final version of his or her unedited text on a pre-publication server such as Open Research Europe, in an open archive such as HAL, or on any other website such as a laboratory website. The manuscript must be clearly identified as having been peer-reviewed, corrected following their requests and accepted in principle by the journal, with a link to the journal's website.

After publication by the Comptes Rendus Chimie, the article description should be modified to include the final DOI assigned to the final published version.

Published version (PDF editor or version of records): the CC BY 4.0 license under which the articles of Comptes Rendus Chimie are distributed authorizes its authors to deposit the published version of their work in an open archive such as HAL, or on any other website such as a laboratory website, provided that the DOI of the published article is included in the article's descriptive notice.

NB : for a deposit in HAL, you can select the option " Authorized editor files on an open archive ".

Choose a platform of self-archiving

To choose the preprint server, open archive or portal best suited to disseminate your author manuscripts, feel free to consult the Open Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR), a service of JISC.

In addition, if you want your manuscript to be referenced by Europe PubMed Central, we recommend that you choose one of the preprint servers indexed by the database, including arXiv, bioRxiv, Open Research Europe or Preprints.org.

If you have any questions about the dissemination of your work, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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