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Instructions to Authors
1 General Information
The Journal Separation Science plus (SSCP) focuses on a variety of advanced
approaches to sample preparation prior to the separation, and a wide range of novel
applications utilizing pressure driven and electrodriven chromatographic separations, as
well as electrophoretic methods, and gas chromatography. These processes include
method development, validation, and applications for real-life samples.
2 General terms of publication
Manuscripts must be submitted to SSCP via Manuscript Central – a web-based
manuscript submission and peer-review system. This service guarantees fast and safe
submission of manuscripts and rapid assessment. Using this system is obligatory.
Submission of manuscripts consists of the following steps:
A) Preparation of the manuscript and illustrations in the appropriate format according to
the instructions given below (see Sections 4 through 8). The paper has to conform to
the scientific and style instructions of SSCP as given herein.
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B) For the first submission, an author’s account in the system has to be created at the
submission site,
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sscp/
by clicking on the “Create Account” button.
C) The present Author Guidelines, given on the SSCP website, have to be read
carefully. The system guides through the submission process. Online help is available
at all times during the process.
Authors are able to exit/re-enter at any stage before finally “submitting” the work. All
submissions are kept strictly confidential. For any questions concerning the online
submission program, please contact Editorial Support at: [email protected]
Language should be clear and easily understood. Authors may choose to seek the
assistance of a colleague who is a native or highly proficient English speaker when
preparing their manuscript for submission. For authors seeking professional assistance,
Wiley Editing Services (http://wileyeditingservices.com/en/) offers a variety of options,
from language polishing to figure preparation.
The author vouches that the work has not been published elsewhere, completely, in
part, or in any other form, and that the manuscript has not been submitted to another
journal. The submitting author (listed under “Correspondence”) accepts the
responsibility of having included all appropriate persons as co-authors. The submitting
author certifies that all co-authors have seen the manuscript and agreed with its
submission. All scientific contributions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the criteria
of originality, quality, and novelty.
Authors are requested to suggest potential referees (including e-mail addresses) as well
as individuals they wish to be excluded from the review process. On acceptance,
papers may be subject to editorial changes.
Responsibility for the factual accuracy of a paper rests entirely with the author(s).
A revised paper will retain its original date of receipt only if it is resubmitted within two
months after request for revision.
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Please note that if you are submitting material that has already been published
elsewhere, you must send permission in writing to the Editorial Office that this material
may be reprinted in SSCP. Authors are expected to carry any costs arising from
permissions arising from use of materials from other sources.
Our EarlyView online publication is updated weekly and enables papers to be available
online and citable before they are being published in an issue.
3 Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS)
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for
the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via
the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license
agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
For authors signing the copyright transfer agreement
If the Open Access option is not selected, the corresponding author will be
presented with the copyright transfer agreement (CTA) to sign. Details about the
CTA can be previewed here:
https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/licensing-open-
access/licensing/index.html
For authors choosing OnlineOpen
You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License. Standard re-use and licensing rights vary by journal.
Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used. This journal uses the CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License.
Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies: Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions.
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4 Types of contributions
Four types of manuscripts are considered for publication:
(i) Research Articles describing completed studies. Manuscripts must not have been
published previously, except in the form of a preliminary communication. Unsolicited
research papers should not exceed 8 print pages, this are approximately 5200 words
(including references and figure legends) and no more than 5 to 7 display elements
(figures and tables). Note that the length of an article depends greatly on the type and
number of figures and tables provided.
(ii) Communications describing results that are brief, timely, and/or of such importance
that rapid release is warranted. These manuscripts should bear the word
“Communication” above the title on the first page and should not exceed 3 print pages,
this are approximately 1800 words (including references and figure legends) and no
more than 3 display elements (figures and tables).
(iii) Review Articles critically covering a specific area of separation science
are welcome. In addition to direct submissions, authors may also be invited by the
Editors.
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These contributions should typically not exceed 9300 words (including references and
figure legends) and contain no more than 7 to 8 display elements (figures and tables).
All authors of review articles are invited to submit a portrait photograph of themselves
and a short biographical text (no more than 80 words) that will appear at the end of the
article.
(iv) Application Notes describing in detail methods for specific application. These
manuscripts should bear the word “Application Note” above the title on the first page
and should not exceed 3 print pages, this are approximately 1800 words (including
references and figure legends) and no more than 3 display elements (figures and
tables).
5 Online submission of manuscripts
5.1 Cover letter
You will be asked to include a cover letter in a separate file as part of your online
submission. Use this letter to provide a very brief overview of your manuscript (a few
sentences is enough) and state why your research should be published in SSCP.
5.2 Electronic manuscripts
Please follow the instructions in Section 6 “Organization of manuscripts” when preparing
the electronic version of the manuscript and ensure that data are given in the correct
order and style for the journal.
Main text (incl. front material) and figure legends (in this order) should be given in one
file as .doc or docxs. Please use activated consecutive line numbering across all pages.
Tables and figures should be uploaded separately each as a separate file. Data should
be typed unjustified without hyphenation except for compound words. Use carriage
returns only to end headings and paragraphs. Do not use the space bar to make
indents. Use the TAB key where indents are required. If working in MS Word, insert
special characters through Insert/Symbol.
Do not show location of figures and tables in the text.
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All submissions will be converted to PDF format during the upload process. The system
automatically generates one PDF file that contains all parts of the manuscript. Please
check this PDF carefully before you submit your manuscript.
Submissions not conforming to these rules will be un-submitted and returned to the
authors for correction and resubmission.
5.3 Revised manuscripts
In revised manuscripts, the areas containing the major required changes should be
marked using red font color. Do not use the “Track Changes” option of the MS Word.
When submitting the revised manuscript, the original manuscript has to be deleted from
the list.
Upon acceptance of the manuscript, the final uploaded version will be taken as the
basis for copy editing and the subsequent production process.
6 Organization of manuscripts
The entire manuscript must be typewritten with double line spacing (including
references, figure legends, etc.) using font size 12. American or British spelling should
be used consistently. Authors are requested to follow these instructions carefully.
Manuscripts deviating from the prescribed organization and style will be unsubmitted
and returned for correction.
6.1 Contents of first page of manuscript
The first page of the manuscript should contain only the following:
1) Concise title of the paper with no acronyms except for the abbreviations LC, HPLC,
GC, CE, CEC, and MS.
2) First and last name of the authors followed in the next line by their affiliation(s). If the
publication originates from several institutions, the affiliation of each author should be
clearly stated by using a number in superscript. Arabic numbers should be used after
the name and before the affiliation address.
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3) A running title not exceeding 50 characters.
4) Title, name and full postal address, e-mail address, and fax numbers of the author to
whom all correspondence (including galley proofs) has to be sent.
5) A list of the non-standard abbreviations used in the paper in alphabetical order (see
list of “Standard Abbreviations”, Section 8).
6) Keywords (max. 5, in alphabetical order), which will be used for compiling the subject
index. Keywords cannot be abbreviations, long strings of words, or general terms.
Select keywords carefully as they are used to find your paper when people are doing
literature searches. Consider what terms you would use when you do literature search
to find papers similar to yours. “Separation” will not be accepted as a keyword.
6.2 Abstract
The second page of the manuscript should contain only the abstract. Abstract must be
self-explanatory and understandable without reference to the text. It should not exceed
200 words. Abbreviations except LC, HPLC, GC, CE, CEC, and MS must not be
introduced and used in the Abstract.
6.3 Division into sections
Manuscripts should be divided into the following sections:
“Abstract”
“1 Introduction” containing a description of the problem under investigation and a
brief survey of the existing literature on the subject.
“2 Materials and Methods” for special materials and equipment, the
manufacturer’s name and, if possible, its location should be provided.
“3 Results”
“4 Discussion” (It is possible to merge the Results and Discussion sections.)
“5 Concluding remarks”
Acknowledgements
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Conflict of interest statement
References
Figure captions
Subdivisions of sections should be indicated by numbered subheadings. For details see
any current issue of SSCP.
6.4 References
References should be numbered sequentially in the order in which they are cited in the
text. The numbers should be set in brackets such as [2,4,15] or [2-7]. List of all
references in numerical order should appear at the end of the manuscript under the
heading “References”. References should be typed using the same font size 12 as the
text and with double spacing throughout. All authors of the cited paper must be shown.
Use of “et al.” instead of showing all authors is not permitted. Titles of journals should
be abbreviated according to the practice of Chemical Abstracts. All references should
include the title of the paper being cited in sentence case (only first word capitalized).
The following examples can be used as a template.
Journals:
[1] Wang J., Bai L., Wei Z., Qin J., Ma Y., Liu H., Incorporation of ionic liquid into porous
polymer monoliths to enhance the separation of small molecules in reversed-phase
high-performance liquid chromatography. J. Sep. Sci. 2015, 38, 2101-2108.
[2] Lv T., Yan H., Cao J., Liang S., Hydrophilic molecularly imprinted resorcinol-
formaldehyde-melamine resin prepared in water with excellent molecular recognition in
aqueous matrices. Anal. Chem. 2015, 87, 11084-11091.
Accepted publications available on Internet:
[3] Kurganov, A. A., Kanateva A. Y., Yakubenko E. P., Application of kinetic plots in gas
and liquid chromatography for the optimization of separation conditions. J. Sep. Sci.
DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201500595
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Other serial publications such as “Advances in Protein Chemistry” should be cited in the
same manner as journals.
Books:
[4] Snyder L. R., Kirkland J. J., Dolan J. W., Introduction to Modern Liquid
Chromatography. Third Edition, Wiley, Weinheim 2010.
Chapter in a book:
[5] Möller, E., Greaves, M. F., in: Mäkelä, O., Cross, A., Kosunen, T. U. (Eds.), Cell
Interactions and Receptor Antibodies in Immune Responses. Academic Press, New
York 1971, pp. 101–125.
Internet pages (ULR):
[6] http://www.thermoscientific.com/en/products/chromatography.html (last time
accessed: November 30, 2016).
Patents:
[7] Kirkland, J., Completely porous microspheres for chromatographic uses. US patent
3,782,075, publ. date January 1, 1974.
6.5 Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements as well as information regarding funding sources should be
provided and will appear at the end of the text (before the “Conflict of Interest
Statement”).
6.6 Conflict of interest statement
All authors must declare financial/commercial conflicts of interest. Even if there are
none, this should be stated in a separate paragraph following the Acknowledgements
section. This is a mandatory requirement for all articles.
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6.7 Tables
Tables with suitable heading at the top and numbered with Arabic numerals should be
submitted each as a separate file and not included in the main document of the
contribution. Column headings should be kept as brief as possible and indicate units in
parentheses. Footnotes to tables should be indicated with a), b), c) etc. and typed on
the same page as the table. Explanations to the tables should appear at the bottom of
the tables, not in the table headings themselves.
6.8 Supporting information
Supporting information is encouraged. Extensive tables, NMR data, MS spectra, etc.
should be published online as supporting information. This material is not typeset so
authors should prepare this information in the final form. Also for this reason there will
be no galley proofs of this material.
Reference to the Supporting information should appear in the Main text of the
manuscript.
Supporting information will be made freely available on the web (similar to the table of
contents and the articles abstracts). Authors are permitted to place this material on their
websites when they are setting up a link to the full-text version of the article on Wiley
Online Library. Further, other files may be submitted as supporting information (e.g.
photographs, animations, video sequences). All supporting information will also undergo
the peer-review process. This information has to be submitted electronically along with
the main body of the article. It is for the Editor-in-Chief to decide which part of the
manuscript will be published as supporting information.
6.9 Figures, graphs and legends
Please follow the instructions in order to have high quality images in your article.
• Graphs and photographs should be submitted each as a separate file, in .tif, .eps
.jpg, .ppt, or .pdf format, and have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
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• Save figures containing a combination of photographic images and text (e.g.
annotated photographic images with text labels) as .eps. Any photographic
images embedded within these should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi
• If the figure consists of several parts, all these parts should be integrated and
submitted as a single file.
• The width of the figure should approximately correspond to the width of a single
column on the printed page (3.5”) or to the entire width of the text (two columns,
7.0”).
• There is no fee for publishing colored figures and use of color in graphs is
recommended.
• Subpanels should be labeled (e.g. "A", "B", "C" etc.) on the top left hand corner.
• Make sure that the lettering of all figures is large enough to be legible after
reduction to the journal size. Font size and line thickness of symbols and labels
should be sufficient, proportional, and consistent between figures.
• Graphs should not contain unnecessary grid lines nor boxes around them.
• Do not present captions with the figures.
• Each figure has to be accompanied by a legend/caption that is self-explanatory.
The legends should not appear under the figures, but be included in the main text
document, after the references.
• Figures should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals in the order of
their appearance.
• In electropherograms presented horizontally, the anode should be on the left
while in vertical presentations the anode should be at the bottom. Two-
dimensional presentations, e.g. with isoelectric focusing and sodium dodecyl
sulfate electrophoresis in two dimensions, should be presented consistently with
the standard coordinate system.
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• To make sure the resolution is sufficient, perform a visual check of the quality of
the generated image. You should be able to zoom in to about 300% without the
image becoming noticeably blurred or pixelated. If the image does appear
pixelated at this zoom, then try going back to the original image and checking
that it complies with the recommended format and settings
6.10 Image manipulation
Manipulation of images is strongly discouraged and all figures must accurately reflect
the original data. Information should not be enhanced, eliminated, added, obscured, or
moved. In cases where manipulation is unavoidable, this should be clearly detailed in
the Figure legend. All instruments, software, and processes used to obtain the images
must be detailed in the manuscript either in the Figure legends or the Materials and
Methods. Acceptable image manipulation includes uniformly adjusting the contrast of an
entire image, and any control images, ensuring that all original data, including the
background, remains visible and that no new features are introduced. Cropping of gels,
or re-positioning of lanes/fields, is permitted providing that all alterations are clearly
indicated by the use of dividing lines in the image itself, vital data are not removed and
an explanation of the alterations is included in the Figure legend. Unacceptable
manipulation includes, but is not limited to, the enhancement of one feature/band over
others, removal of background noise/bands etc. Authors must be able to produce all
data in their raw format upon editorial request.
6.11 Structural formulae and equations
Structural formulae should be submitted as figures. Mathematical and chemical
equations are to be written in the manuscript at the place where they fit and should be
marked by Arabic numerals in parentheses in the right margin in the order of their
appearance. Please use an equation editor to insert complex equations (the typesetter
cannot use equations inserted as pictures).
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6.12 Units and symbols
The use of SI (metric) units is mandatory. Generally accepted nomenclature and
symbols as recommended by ASTM or IUPAC are preferred. In the interest of clarity,
symbols should be defined in the text. If numerous symbols are involved, they should be
listed and defined at the end of the text. The period should be used as a decimal point.
6.14 Abbreviations
Abbreviations are hindrances to a reader working in a field other than that of the author.
Therefore, their use should be restricted to a minimum. Abbreviations should be
introduced only when repeatedly used. Abbreviations used only in a table or a figure
may be defined in the legend. Non-standard abbreviations should be defined in the list
of abbreviations at the first page of the manuscript, and again when first used in the
body of the paper. Section 8 at the end of these instructions provides a link to a list of
standard abbreviations that can be used without definition within the text of papers
published in SSCP.
6.15 Ethics
If the manuscript describes experiments using animals, the permission of the national or
local authorities (giving the permission or the accreditation number of the laboratory and
of the investigator) should be stated. If no such rules or permissions are stipulated in the
particular country, this must also be mentioned in the paper. In the case of human
studies, it should be stated that local ethical committee approval has been received and
that the informed consent of all participating subjects was obtained.
7 Proofs and reprints
Authors will receive one set of proofs before publication. Corrections should be limited
to actual errors and submitted promptly by using the online proofing system. Authors will
be charged for extensive alterations. Reprints or a high-resolution PDF file can be
ordered at prices shown on the reprint order form, which will be sent with the proofs.
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8 Standard abbreviations
Standard abbreviations and acronyms that may be used without definition in the articles
published in SSCP can be found in the section “Author Guidelines” at
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2573-1815
We will be happy to answer any questions at any time during the submission and processing of your manuscript. Please contact the Editorial Office at [email protected]