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Chemistry Teaching & Learning Databases

Use these indexes to locate journal articles. The databases overlap to varying degrees. Best practice is to search in a large database (SciFinder, PubMed, Engineering Village, Biological Abstracts, Agricola, etc.).

Citation Indexes

Style Guides

We cite sources to acknowledge the work of others, as well as to avoid academic dishonesty or plagiarism.  There are various formats for citing sources and your instructor will tell you which to follow.

Bioconjugate Author Guidelines

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Finding author guidelines in the journal 

Find the journal’s author guidelines for Bioconjugate Chemistry here: https://researcher-resources.acs.org/publish/author_guidelines?coden=bcches

Selected information from webpage below:

General information on the preparation of manuscripts may be found in the ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication.

See the list of Acceptable Software and appropriate File Designations to be sure your file types are compatible with the submission system. Information for manuscripts generated from TeX/LaTeX is also available.

References

All the references and footnotes must be placed together in a list at the end of the manuscript text. In the Web edition, many of them will have links to other Web resources, such as the corresponding abstracts in Chemical Abstracts and the full text on publisher Web sites. Because of this electronic linking, and to aid scientific research, it is crucial that authors verify the accuracy of all reference citations and footnotes.

Unnecessarily long lists of references should be avoided, and excessive self-citation is strongly discouraged. However, authors must reference all previous publications in which portions of the present work have appeared. Literature references and explanatory footnotes must be numbered with Arabic numerals in the order of their first citation in the text and the corresponding numbers placed at the appropriate locations in the text as superscripted numerals without parentheses or bracket. The title of the article must be included in the reference, as shown in the following examples:

For periodicals, follow the format shown: Fritzberg, A. R., Abrams, P. G., Beaumier, P. L., Kasina, S., Morgan, A. C., Reno, J. M., Sanderson, J. A., Srinivasan, A., Wilbur, D. S., and Vanderheyden, J. (1988) Specific and stable labeling of antibodies with technetium-99m with a diamide dithiolate chelating agent. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 85, 4025–4029.

Inclusive pagination is preferred. Titles of journals are abbreviated according to Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index. Serial publications such as Methods in Enzymology and C.R.C. Critical Reviews should be listed in the same form as journals. For journal articles accessed online prior to print publication, please provide the DOI number.

For books, follow the format shown: Aida, T., and Jiang, D.-L. (2000) Dendrimer porphyrins and metalloporphyrins: syntheses, structures and functions. The Porphyrin Handbook. Volume 3: Inorganic, Organometallic and Coordination (Kadish, K. M., Smith, K. M., and Guilard, R., Eds.) pp 369–384, Chapter 23, Academic Press, New York.

Submitted manuscripts should be designated as “in press” only if formally accepted for publication; otherwise “unpublished results” should be used.

Table of Contents GraphicAuthors should also submit a small structural diagram or other informative illustration for use in the Table of Contents (TOC) and abstract. This small graphic element, in conjunction with the title, should capture the reader’s attention and give a quick impression of the importance of the paper. For best presentation, this graphic should be no wider than 3.5 inches (9.0 cm) and no taller than 2 inches (5.1 cm), and it usually contains color.

 

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