notes for authors

Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Notes for Authors and Crystallization SSGCID special issue of Acta Cryst. F Communications ISSN 1744-3091

1. Submission aged but if a reference is unavoidable it should be indicated in the form Smith et al. Authors should read the online submission should be sufficiently full within the Abstract (1998) or (Smith et al., 1998) etc. All authors instructions at http://journals.iucr.org/f/services/ for unambiguous identification, e.g. [Jones should be included in a full list at the end of new_submitinstructions.html and submit (2001). Acta Cryst. D57, 1–10]. the paper. This list should be arranged their paper via the web at http://journals. Authors should supply a synopsis of no alphabetically and conform with the iucr.org/f/services/conferenceproceedings.html. more than two sentences for inclusion in the following style: Papers are expected to be submitted no later contents listing of the journal. Andrews, M. D., Wright, H. E. & Clarke, S. A. than 1 November 2010. (2007). In preparation. 2.5. Units Bru¨nger, A. T. (1992). X-PLOR. Version 3.1. A System for X-ray Crystallography and NMR. 2. Manuscript preparation The International System of Units (SI) is Yale University, Connecticut, USA. ˚ ˚ 2.1. File format used except that the angstro¨m (symbol A, Collaborative Computational Project, Number 4 defined as 1010 m) is generally preferred to The source files required for a paper are: a (1994). Acta Cryst. D50, 760–763. the nanometre (nm) or picometre (pm) as single file in Word, RTF or LAT X format of Crowther, R. A. (1972). The Molecular Replace- E the appropriate unit of length. Recom- the text, tables and figure captions of ment Method, edited by M. G. Rossmann, pp. mended prefixes of decimal multiples should 173–178. New York: Gordon and Breach. the article; a high-resolution graphics file be used rather than ‘ 10n’. International Union of Crystallography (2006). (minimum 600 d.p.i.) in TIFF, PostScript or (IUCr) Structure Reports Online, http:// encapsulated PostScript format for each journals.iucr.org/e/journalhomepage.html. 2.6. Figures figure and scheme; and files of any supple- Note that inclusive page numbers must mentary material. These should be uploaded Figures should be prepared using one of be given. as described in the online submission the file formats listed in x2.1. instructions. 3. Crystallography Journals Online Authors are encouraged to use the 2.7. Tables templates available from http://journals. All IUCr journals are available on the web iucr.org/f/services/authorservices.html or to Tables which are produced in Word via Crystallography Journals Online (http:// use publBio for preparing articles. This should be prepared using the Word table journals.iucr.org). Full details of author online tool is available at http://publbio. editor. Experimental tables can also be services can be found at http://journals. iucr.org. prepared using publBio. Authors are iucr.org/f/services/authorservices.html. All advised to follow the data requirements for articles will be published online as soon as 2.2. General structural communications which can be they are ready. found at http://journals.iucr.org/f/services/ Contributions will be published in the structuralcommunications/. 3.1. Reprints style of structural communications and After publication the correspondence should not normally exceed four journal 2.8. Mathematics pages (~4000 words). The paper should author will be able to download the conform to the general editorial style of Displayed mathematical equations which electronic reprint of the published article, Acta Crystallographica Section F. are produced in Word should be prepared free of charge. Authors will also be able to using the Word equation editor. order printed reprints at the proof stage. 2.3. Title and authors 2.9. Multimedia 4. Contact information The title should be short and informative. The contact author should provide an e-mail Multimedia additions to a paper are Papers accepted for publication will be address and a fax number. The e-mail welcomed and will be made available via technically edited at the IUCr Editorial address will be used for editorial commu- Structural Biology and Crystallization Office in Chester. Contact details for this nications and despatch of electronic proofs Communications Online. Please contact the office are as follows: Editorial Office for submission details. and reprints. The Managing Editor International Union of Crystallography 2.4. Abstract and synopsis 2.10. References 5 Abbey Square All contributions must be preceded by an References to published work must be Chester CH1 2HU, UK Abstract in English. The Abstract should be indicated by giving the authors’ names Telephone: 44 1244 342878 no more than 200 words and it should make followed immediately by the year of publi- FAX: 44 1244 314888 no reference to tables, diagrams or formulae cation, e.g. Neder & Schulz (1998) or (Neder E-mail: [email protected] contained in the body of the paper. Litera- & Schulz, 1998). Where there are three or ftp: ftp.iucr.org ture references in the Abstract are discour- more authors the reference in the text WWW: http://journals.iucr.org