Innovations in Corrosion and Materials Science
Formerly: Recent Patents on Corrosion Science
Editor-in-Chief:
Oleg L. Figovsky
R&D of International Nanotechnology Research Centre
Migdal HaEmek
Israel
Aims & Scope
Innovations in Corrosion and Materials Science publishes review and research articles, guest edited thematic issues ,and reviews on patents in corrosion and materials science. The journal aims to provide the most complete and reliable source of information on current developments in the field. The journal is essential reading for all researchers involved in corrosion and materials science.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
ONLINE MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION:
An online submission and tracking service via internet facilitates a speedy and cost-effective submission of manuscripts. The full manuscript should be submitted online via Bentham’s Content Management System (CMS) at (bsp-cms.eurekaselect.com) / View Submission Instructions)
Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript, and should not be submitted by anyone on their behalf. The principal/corresponding author will be required to submit a Covering Letter along with the manuscript, on behalf of all the co-authors (if any) to confirm that the manuscript (or any part of it) has not been published previously or is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Furthermore, any illustration, structure or table that has been published elsewhere must be reported, and copyright permission for reproduction must be obtained. The figures from patent documents are freely available on the databases and may not require any permission unless stated otherwise.
For all online submissions, please provide soft copies of all the materials (main text in MS Word or Tex/LaTeX), figures/illustrations in TIFF, PDF or JPEG, and chemical structures drawn in ChemDraw (CDX)/ISISDraw (TGF) as separate files, while a PDF version of the entire manuscript must also be included, embedded with all the figures/illustrations/tables/chemical structures etc. It is advisable that the document files related to a manuscript submission should always have the name of the corresponding author as part of the file name, i.e., “Cilli MS text.doc”, “Cilli MS Figure 1, etc.
It is imperative that before submission, the author(s) should carefully proofread the files for special characters, mathematical symbols, Greek letters, equations, tables, references and images to ensure that they appear in proper format.
References, figures, tables, chemical structures, etc. should be referred to in the text at the appropriate places where they have been first discussed. Figure legends/captions should also be provided.
A successful electronic submission of the manuscript will be confirmed by a system-generated email acknowledgement to the principal/corresponding author immediately. Any queries therein should be addressed to icms@benthamscience.org or qasit@benthamscience.org
Editorial Policies:
The editorial policies of Bentham Science Publishers on publication ethics, peer-review, plagiarism, copyrights/ licenses, errata/corrections and article retraction/ withdrawal can be viewed at Editorial Policy
MANUSCRIPTS PUBLISHED:
The journal publishes mini and full length review and research articles written in English. Single Topic/Thematic Issues edited by invited Guest Editors are also considered for publication as are single review articles on recent patents of significant importance to the field.
Single Topic Issues:
These special issues are peer-reviewed and may contain invited or uninvited review/mini-review articles. A Single Topic Issue Editor will offer a short perspective and co-ordinate the solicitation of manuscripts between 3-5 (for a mini-Thematic Issue) to 6-10 (for full-length Thematic Issue) from leading scientists. Authors interested in editing a single topic issue in an emerging topic of outstanding developments in corrosion and materials science may submit their proposal to the Editor-in-Chief aticms@benthamscience.org or qasit@benthamscience.org for consideration.
MANUSCRIPT LENGTH:
Mini-Reviews:
Mini-reviews should be 3000-6000 words excluding figures, structures, photographs, schemes, tables etc.
Full-Length Reviews:
Full-length reviews should be 8000-40000 words excluding figures, structures, photographs, schemes, tables etc.
Research Articles:
Research articles should be 4000-8000 words excluding figures, structures, photographs, schemes, tables etc.
There is no restriction on the number of figures, tables or additional files e.g. video clips, animation and datasets, that can be included with each article online. Authors should include all relevant supporting data with each article (Refer to Supplementary Material section).
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION:
The manuscript should be written in English in a clear, direct and active style. All pages must be numbered sequentially, facilitating in the reviewing and editing of the manuscript. For further convenience, our contracted service provider Eureka Science can provide assistance to authors for the preparation of manuscripts.
MANUSCRIPT SECTIONS FOR PAPERS:
Manuscripts for review articles submitted to the journal may be divided into the following sections:
1. Covering Letter:
It is mandatory to submit a signed covering letter along with the manuscript, by the author to whom correspondence is to be addressed, delineating the scope of the submitted article declaring the potential competing interests, acknowledging contributions from authors and funding agencies, and certifying that the paper is prepared according to the ‘Instructions for Authors’. All inconsistencies in the text and in the reference section and any typographical errors must be carefully checked and corrected before the submission of the manuscript. The article should not contain any material or information that may be unlawful, defamatory, fabricated, plagiarized, or which would, if published, in any way whatsoever, violate the terms and conditions as laid down in the copyright agreement. The authors should acknowledge that the publishers have the legal right to take appropriate action against the authors for any such violation of the terms and conditions as laid down in the copy right agreement. Download the Covering letter
2. Title:
The title of the article should be precise and brief and must not be more than 120 characters. Authors should avoid the use of non-standard abbreviations.
The title must be written in title case except for articles, conjunctions and prepositions. Title, running title, byline, correspondent footnote and keywords should be written as presented in original manuscripts.
3. Short Running Title:
Authors must provide a short ‘running title’ of their manuscript.
4. Authors’ Names and Affiliations
The names of the authors should be provided according to the previous citations or as the authors would want them to be published along with the institutional affiliations, current address, telephone, cell & fax numbers and the email address. Email address must be provided with an asterisk in front of the name of the principal author. The corresponding author should also be designated and the full address, telephone, cell & fax numbers and the email address must be stated to receive correspondence and galley proofs.
5. Abstract:
The abstract summarizing the essential features of the review or research article should not exceed 250 words.
6. Graphical Abstract:
A graphic must be included with each manuscript for use in the Table of Contents (TOC). This must be submitted separately as an electronic file (preferred file types are EPS, PDF, TIFF, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and CDX etc.). A graphical abstract, not exceeding 30 words along with the illustration, helps to summarize the contents of the manuscript in a concise pictorial form. It is meant as an aid for the rapid viewing of the journals’ contents and to help capture the readers’ attention. The graphical abstract may feature a key structure, reaction, equation, etc. that the manuscript elucidates upon. It will be listed along with the manuscript title, authors’ names and affiliations in the contents page, typeset within an area of 5 cm by 17 cm, but it will not appear in the article PDF file or in print.
Graphical Abstracts should be submitted as a separate file (must clearly mention graphical abstract within the file) online via Bentham’s Content Management System by selecting the option “supplementary material”.
7. Keywords:
Authors must provide 6 to 8 keywords in alphabetical order.
8. Text Organization:
The main text should begin on a separate page and should be divided into title page, abstract and the main text. The text may be subdivided further according to the areas to be discussed, which should be followed by the Acknowledgements and Reference sections. The Review Article should mention any previous important, recent and old reviews in the field and contain a comprehensive discussion starting with the general background of the field. It should then go on to discuss the salient features of recent developments along with relevant patents. The authors should avoid presenting material which has already been published in a previous review. The authors are advised to present and discuss their observations in brief. The manuscript style must be uniform throughout the text and 10pt Times New Roman fonts should be used. The full term for an abbreviation should precede its first appearance in the text unless it is a standard unit of measurement. Italics should be used for Binomial names of organisms (Genus and Species), for emphasis and for unfamiliar words or phrases. Non-assimilated words from Latin or other languages should also be italicized e.g. per se, et al., in vitro, in vivo, in situ, etc.
For Research Articles, the manuscript should begin with the title page and abstract followed by the main text, which must be structured into separate sections asIntroduction, Material and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Current & Future Developments, Conflict of Interest, Acknowledgements and References. The patent registration number and patent authority of the author’s intellectual property must be cited in the article.
Patent Review Coverage:
Authors should review the most recent and important patents based on the topic covered. Coverage of novel inventions, methods, techniques and designs in all areas of corrosion and materials science should be emphasized, including the significance of the reported patents.
Current & Future Developments:
The review/research article should conclude with a short section called “Current & Future Developments”. The author(s) will give their opinion on the current and future important developments on the topic discussed in their article.
Symbols and Units:
Greek symbols and special characters often undergo formatting changes and get corrupted or lost during preparation of a manuscript for publication. To ensure that all special characters used are embedded in the text, these special characters should be inserted as a symbol but should not be a result of any format styling (Symbol font face) otherwise they will be lost during the conversion to PDF/XML.
Authors are encouraged to consult reporting guidelines. These guidelines provide a set of recommendations comprising a list of items relevant to their specific research design.
Only ISO symbols, written in italic, should be used for the various parameters. All kinds of measurements should be reported only in International System of Units (SI). SI units should always be written in Roman and separated from the numerical value by a space (whatever the language).
The µ in µg or µm should be in Roman. The symbol for litre is L and that for minute is min. For temperature, please use only one of °C, °F or K in the entire manuscript. As the Angström (1Å = 10-10 m) is not an SI unit, it should be replaced by the nanometre (1nm = 10-9 m) or by the picometer (1pm = 10-12 m): 1Å = 0.1nm = 100 pm. Multiple units should be written with negative superscripts (for example, 25mgµL-1 µs-1). The list of notations should appear just before the first paragraph of full text.
A list of symbols and units should be provided if used extensively throughout the text.
9. List of Abbreviations (If Any):
If abbreviations are used in the text either they should be defined in the text where first used, or a list of abbreviations can be provided.
10. Acknowlegements:
All individuals listed as authors must have contributed substantially to the design, performance, analysis, or reporting of the work and are required to indicate their specific contribution. Anyone (individual/company/institution) who has substantially contributed to the study for important intellectual content, or who was involved in the article’s drafting the manuscript or revising must also be acknowledged.
Guest or honorary authorship based solely on position (e.g. research supervisor, departmental head) is discouraged.
11. Conflict of Interest:
Financial contributions to the work being reported must be clearly acknowledged, as should any potential conflict of interest under the heading ‘Conflict of Interest’. Authors must list the source(s) of funding for the study, for each author, and for the manuscript preparation. No patents should be cited by authors that are in various stages of legal litigation.
12. References:
References must be listed in IEEE style only. All references should be numbered sequentially [in square brackets]in the text and listed in the same numerical order in the reference section. The reference numbers must be finalized and the bibliography must be fully formatted before submission. The author will be responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the references.
See below few examples of references listed in the correct IEEE style:
Journal:
- [1] G. Liu, K. Y. Lee and H. F. Jordan, «TDM and TWDM de Bruijn networks and shufflenets for optical communications», IEEE Trans. Comp., Vol. 46, pp. 695-701, June 1997.
Book:
- [2] S. M. Hemmingsen, Soft Science. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan Press, 1997.
- [3] A. Rezi and M. Allam, «Techniques in Array Processing by Means of Transformations,» In Control and Dynamic Systems, Multidimensional Systems, C. T. Leondes, Ed. San Diego: Academic Press, Vol. 69, 1995, pp. 133-180.
Edited Book:
- [4] D. Sarunyagate, Ed., Lasers. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Conference Proceedings:
- [5] N. Osifchin and G. Vau, «Power considerations for the modernization of telecommunications in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union (CCE/FSU) countries», In Second International Telecommunication Energy Special Conference Special Conference, Budapest, Hungary,1997, pp. 9-16.
Patent:
- [6] K. Kimura and A. Lipeles, «Fuzzy Controller Component,» U. S. Patent 14,860,040, December 14, 1996.
Thesis:
- [7] H. Zhang, «Delay-insensitive networks«, M.S. thesis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, 1997.
Electronic Publication:
E-Books
- [8] L. Bass, P. Clements and R. Kazman. Software Architecture in Practice, 2nd ed. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 2003. [E book] Available From: Safari e-book. [Accessed: Sept. 18, 2004].
E-Journals:
- [9] P. H. C. Eilers and J. J. Goeman, «Enhancing scatterplots with smoothed densities», Bioinformatics, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 623-628, March 2004. [Online] Available From: (www.oxfordjournals.org). [Accessed: Sept. 18, 2004].
E-citations:
- [10] Citations for articles/material published exclusively online or in open access (free-to-view) , must contain the exact Web addresses (URLs) at the end of the reference(s), except those posted on an author’s Web site unless editorially essential.
13. Tables (If Any):
- Data tables should be submitted in Microsoft Word table format.
- Each table should include a title/caption being explanatory in its self with respect to the details discussed in the table. Detailed legends may then follow.
- Table number in bold font i.e. Table 1, should follow a title. The title should be in small case with the first letter in caps. A full stop should be placed at the end of the title.
- Tables should be embedded in the text exactly according to their appropriate placement in the submitted manuscript.
- Columns and rows of data should be made visibly distinct by ensuring that the borders of each cell are displayed as black lines.
- Tables should be numbered in Arabic numerals sequentially in order of their citation in the body of the text.
- If a reference is cited in both the table and text, please insert a lettered footnote in the table to refer to the numbered reference in the text.
- Tabular data provided as additional files can be submitted as an Excel spreadsheet.
14. Figures/Illustrations:
All authors must strictly follow the guidelines below for preparing illustrations for publication in Innovations in Corrosion and Materials Science. If the figures are found to be sub-standard, then the manuscripts will be rejected/ and the authors offered the option of figure improvement professionally by Eureka Science. The costs for such improvement will be charged to the authors.
The authors should provide the illustrations as separate files, as well as embedded in the text file, numbered consecutively in the order of their appearance. Each figure should include a single illustration. Each figure should be closely cropped to minimize the amount of white space surrounding the illustration. If a figure consists of separate parts, it is important that a single composite illustration file be submitted, containing all parts of the figure.
If a figure consists of separate parts, it is important that a single composite illustration file be submitted, containing all parts of the figure.
Photographs should be provided with a scale bar if appropriate, as well as high-resolution component files.
Scaling/Resolution:
For Line Art image type, which is generally an image based on lines and text and does not contain tonal or shaded areas, the preferred file format is TIFF or EPS, with color mode being Monochrome 1-bit or RGB, in a resolution of 900-1200 dpi.
For Halftone image type, which is generally a continuous tone photograph and contains no text, the preferred file format is TIFF, with color mode being RGB or Grayscale, in a resolution of 300 dpi.
For Combination image type, which is generally an image containing halftone in addition to text or line art elements, the preferred file format is TIFF, with color mode being RGB or Grayscale, in a resolution of 500-900 dpi.
Formats:
For illustrations, the following file formats are acceptable:
- Illustrator
- EPS (preferred format for diagrams)
- PDF (also especially suitable for diagrams)
- PNG (preferred format for photos or images)
- Microsoft Word (version 5 and above; figures must be a single page)
- PowerPoint (figures must be a single page)
- TIFF
- JPEG (conversion should be done using the original file)
- BMP
- CDX (ChemDraw)
- TGF (ISISDraw)
Bentham Science does not process figures submitted in GIF format.
If the large size of TIFF or EPS figures acts as an obstacle to online submission, authors may find that conversion to JPEG format before submission results in significantly reduced file size and upload time, while retaining acceptable quality. JPEG is a ‘lossy’ format. However, in order to maintain acceptable image quality, it is recommended that JPEG files are saved at high or maximum quality.
Files should not be compressed with tools such as Zipit or Stuffit prior to submission as these tools will in any case produce negligible file-size savings for JPEGs and TIFFs, which are already compressed.
Please do not:
- Supply embedded graphics in your word processor (spreadsheet, presentation) document.
- Supply files that are optimized for screen use (like GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low.
- Supply files that are too low in resolution.
- Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Image Conversion Tools:
There are many software packages, many of them freeware or shareware, capable of converting to and from different graphics formats, including PNG.
Good general tools for image conversion include GraphicConverter on the Macintosh, PaintShop Pro, for Windows, and ImageMagick, which is available on Macintosh, Windows and UNIX platforms.
Note that bitmap images (e.g. screenshots) should not be converted to EPS, since this will result in a much larger file size than the equivalent JPEG, TIFF, PNG or BMP, with no increase in quality. EPS should only be used for images produced by vector-drawing applications such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw. Most vector-drawing applications can be saved in, or exported as, EPS format. In case the images have been originally prepared in an Office application, such as Word or PowerPoint, then the original Office files should be directly uploaded to the site, instead of being converted to JPEG or another format that may be of low quality.
Color Figures/Illustrations:
- The cost for each individual page of color figures/plates/illustrations is US$ 950.
- Color figures should be supplied in CMYK not RGB colors.
Chemical Structures (if any):
Chemical structures must be prepared in ChemDraw (CDX) and provided as separate file
Structure Drawing Preferences:
[As according to the ACS style sheet]
| Drawing Settings: |
| Chain angle |
120° |
| Bond spacing |
18% of width |
| Fixed length |
14.4 pt (0.500cm, 0.2in) |
| Bold width |
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