notes for authors
Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Notes for Authors Crystallography Proceedings of the workshop towards an ISSN 0907-4449 integrated software toolkit for integrative structural biology
1. Submission Authors should supply a synopsis of no Andrews, M. D., Wright, H. E. & Clarke, S. A. (2012). In preparation. Authors should submit their articles via more than two sentences for inclusion in the contents listing of the journal. Bru¨nger, A. T. (1992). X-PLOR. Version 3.1. A the web at http://journals.iucr.org/d/services/ System for X-ray Crystallography and NMR. specialissues.html. Articles should be Yale University, Connecticut, USA. submitted before the end of the meeting. 2.5. Units Crowther, R. A. (1972). The Molecular Replace- The International System of Units (SI) is ment Method, edited by M. G. Rossmann, pp. used except that the a˚ngstro¨m (symbol A˚ , 173–178. New York: Gordon and Breach. 2. Manuscript preparation International Union of Crystallography (2012). defined as 10 10 m) is generally preferred to 2.1. File formats (IUCr) Structure Reports Online, http:// the nanometre (nm) or picometre (pm) as journals.iucr.org/e/journalhomepage.html. The manuscript should be prepared using the appropriate unit of length. Recom- Winn, M. D., Ballard, C. C., Cowtan, K. D., Word, TEXorLATEX. Authors are encour- mended prefixes of decimal multiples should Dodson, E. J., Emsley, P., Evans, P. R., Keegan, aged to use the templates available from be used rather than ‘ 10n’. R. M., Krissinel, E. B., Leslie, A. G. W., McCoy, http://journals.iucr.org/d/services/authorservices. A., McNicholas, S. J., Murshudov, G. N., Pannu, N. S., Potterton, E. A., Powell, H. R., Read, R. html where full instructions are given. 2.6. Figures Figures should be prepared in PostScript, J., Vagin, A. & Wilson, K. S. (2011). Acta Cryst. encapsulated PostScript or TIFF formats. Figures should be prepared using one of D67, 235–242. The resolution of bitmap graphics should be the file formats listed in x2.1. Note that all authors and inclusive page a minimum of 600 d.p.i. numbers must be given. Details of the files needed for submission 2.7. Tables can be found at http://journals.iucr.org/d/ 3. Crystallography Journals Online Tables which are produced in Word services/submitinstructions.html. should be prepared using the Word table All IUCr journals are available on the web editor. via Crystallography Journals Online (http:// 2.2. General journals.iucr.org). Full details of author services can be found at http://journals. Contributions will be published as full- 2.8. Mathematics iucr.org/d/services/authorservices.html. CCP4 length papers and should not exceed six Displayed mathematical equations which Study Weekend articles will be published journal pages (~6000 words). The paper are produced in Word should be prepared online as soon as they are ready. should conform to the general editorial style using the Word equation editor. of Acta Crystallographica Section D. 3.1. Reprints 2.9. Multimedia After publication the correspondence 2.3. Title and authors Multimedia additions to a paper are author will be able to download the The title should be short and informative. welcomed and will be made available via electronic reprint of the published article, The contact author should provide an e-mail Biological Crystallography Online. Please free of charge. Authors will also be able to address and a fax number. The e-mail contact the Editorial Office for submission order printed reprints at the proof stage. address will be used for editorial commu- details. nications and despatch of electronic proofs 4. Contact information and reprints. 2.10. References Papers accepted for publication will be References to published work must be technically edited at the IUCr Editorial 2.4. Abstract and synopsis indicated by giving the authors’ names Office in Chester. Contact details for this All contributions must be preceded by an followed immediately by the year of publi- office are as follows: Abstract in English. The Abstract should be cation, e.g. Neder & Schulz (1998) or (Neder The Managing Editor no more than 200 words and it should make & Schulz, 1998). Where there are three or International Union of Crystallography no reference to tables, diagrams or formulae more authors the reference in the text 5 Abbey Square contained in the body of the paper. Litera- should be indicated in the form Smith et al. Chester CH1 2HU, UK ture references in the Abstract are discour- (1998) or (Smith et al., 1998) etc. All authors Telephone: 44 1244 342878 aged but if a reference is unavoidable it should be included in a full list at the end of FAX: 44 1244 314888 should be sufficiently full within the Abstract the paper. This list should be arranged E-mail: [email protected] for unambiguous identification, e.g. [Jones alphabetically and conform with the ftp: ftp.iucr.org (2001). Acta Cryst. D57, 1–10]. following style: WWW: http://journals.iucr.org