Author Guidelines

• General  
• Data Protection
• Manuscript Submission
• Open Access
• Accepted Articles
• Copyright and Permissions
• English Editing
• Presentation of Papers
• Writing Abstracts
• References
• Illustrations and ChemDraw Rules
• Graphical Table of Contents
• Colour Policy
• Data Policy
• Supplementary Material
• Nomenclature
• Abbreviations and Terminology
• Experimental
• Presentation of Spectral Assignments and Evidence
• Illustration of Presentation of Spectra
• Article Formats Published in MRC
• Notes to NIH Grantees
• Further Information
• MRC Abbreviations

General

Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry (MRC) aims to publish high-quality papers which are concerned with the development and application of all magnetic resonance techniques.

Data Protection

By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication, including, when necessary, sharing with the publisher (Wiley) and partners for production and publication. The publication and the publisher recognize the importance of protecting the personal information collected from users in the operation of these services, and have practices in place to ensure that steps are taken to maintain the security, integrity, and privacy of the personal data collected and processed. You can learn more at https://authorservices-wiley-com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/statements/data-protection-policy.html.

Expects Data Sharing

MRC expects authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper.

Visit re3data.org or fairsharing.org to help identify registered and certified data repositories relevant to your subject area.

More information about the Data Sharing Policy can be found here.

Manuscript Submission

Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the author guidelines, new submissions should be made online via the Research Exchange submission portal: https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/MRC.

You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to submission.wiley.com and clicking the "My Submissions" button. For technical help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected].

Authors are reminded to recommend one of the Editors or Editors-in-chief to oversee the peer review of their paper when submitting manuscripts. Unless your paper is for a special issue do not select an member of the Associate or Editorial boards.

This journal offers free format submission so you will not need to reformat your manuscript. The journal does not have a template.

IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have created an account.

COVERING LETTER: Address your covering letter; "To the Editors"

File types. Preferred formats for the text and tables of your manuscript are .doc, .rtf, .ppt, .xls. LaTeX files may be submitted provided that an .eps or .pdf file is provided in addition to the source files. Figures may be provided in .tiff or .eps format.

INITIAL SUBMISSION
NON-LATEX USERS: Editable source files must be uploaded at this stage. Tables must be on separate pages after the reference list, and not be incorporated into the main text. Figures should be uploaded as separate figure files.

LATEX USERS: For reviewing purposes you should upload a single .pdf that you have generated from your source files. You must use the File Designation "Main Document" from the dropdown box.

REVISION SUBMISSION
NON-LATEX USERS: Editable source files must be uploaded at this stage. Tables must be on separate pages after the reference list, and not be incorporated into the main text. Figures should be uploaded as separate figure files.

LATEX USERS: When submitting your revision you must still upload a single .pdf that you have generated from your now revised source files. You must use the File Designation "Main Document" from the dropdown box. In addition you must upload your TeX source files. For all your source files you must use the File Designation "Supplemental Material not for review". Previous versions of uploaded documents must be deleted. If your manuscript is accepted for publication we will use the files you upload to typeset your article within a totally digital workflow.

APPEALING EDITORIAL DECISIONS

Editors do not expect frequent appeals and they rarely reverse their original decisions. If you receive a decision to reject your manuscript, you are strongly advised to submit to another journal. Appeals, where justified, should provide point-by-point responses to the editor/reviewers concerns and include any new evidence that should be considered. 

TRANSPARENT PEER REVIEW

This journal is participating in a pilot on Peer Review Transparency. By submitting to this journal, authors agree that the reviewer reports, their responses, and the editor’s decision letter will be linked from the published article to where they appear on Publons in the case that the article is accepted. Authors have the opportunity to opt out during submission, and reviewers may remain anonymous unless they would like to sign their report.

Open Access

Open Access is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With Open Access, the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley Online Library, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive. For the full list of terms and conditions, see http://wiley onlinelibrary.com/Open Access#Open Access_Terms.

For detailed information about MRS's Open Access policy, please visit: https://analyticalsciencejournals-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/hub/journal/1097458xa/homepage/fundedaccess.html.

Any authors wishing to publish their paper Open Access will be required to complete the payment form available from our website at: https:// authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/Open Access_order.asp

Prior to acceptance there is no requirement to inform an Editorial Office that you intend to publish your paper Open Access if you do not wish to. All Open Access articles are treated in the same way as any other article. They go through the journal's standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit.

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Accepted Articles

'Accepted Articles' have been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but have not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process. Accepted Articles are published online a few days after final acceptance, appear in PDF format only (without the accompanying full-text HTML) and are given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which allows them to be cited and tracked. The DOI remains unique to a given article in perpetuity. More information about DOIs can be found online at http://www.doi.org.bibliotheek.ehb.be/faq.html. Given that Accepted Articles are not considered to be final, please note that changes will be made to an article after Accepted Article online publication, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record.

The Accepted Articles service has been designed to ensure the earliest possible circulation of research papers after acceptance. Accepted articles will be indexed by PubMed; therefore the submitting author must carefully check the names and affiliations of all authors provided in the cover page of the manuscript, as it will not be possible to alter these once a paper is made available online in Accepted Article format. Subsequently the final copyedited and proofed articles will appear either as Early View articles in a matter of weeks or in an issue on Wiley Online Library; the link to the article in PubMed will automatically be updated.

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Copyright and Permissions

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. The terms and conditions of the CTA can be previewed in the samples associated with the Copyright FAQs below:

CTA Terms and Conditions http://authorservices.wiley.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp

For authors choosing Open Access

If the Open Access option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):

Creative Commons Attribution License OAA

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial -NoDerivs License OAA

To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services http://authorservices.wiley.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp and visit http://www.wileyopenaccess.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html.

If you select the Open Access option and your research is funded by The Wellcome Trust and members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license supporting you in complying with Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK requirements. For more information on this policy and the Journal’s compliant self-archiving policy please visit: http://www.wiley.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/go/funderstatement.

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Article Preparation Support

Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence.

Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript

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Presentation of papers

Manuscript style. Use a standard font of the 12-point type: Times, Helvetica, or Courier is preferred. It is not necessary to double-line space your manuscript.

• During the submission process you must enter 1) the full title 2) the short title of up to 70 characters 3) names and affiliations of all authors and 4) the full address, including email, telephone and fax of the author who is to check the proofs.
• Include the name(s) of any sponsor(s) of the research contained in the paper, along with grant number(s).
• Enter an abstract of no more than 250 words for all articles. Please see the guidance below on acceptable abstract writing for MRC.
• Keywords. Authors should include up to ten keywords that describe the paper for indexing purposes. The first keyword should classify the work in general (NMR, ESR, NQR). The next keywords (up to three) should give the nuclei used in the study (e.g. ¹H, ¹³C, ¹⁵N). Up to six additional keywords should characterise the work more closely, including (where relevant) the class of compounds investigated
• Tables and Figures maybe embedded in the manuscript providing the original individual files are uploaded to the submission system.
• Figures should be uploaded as separate figure files.
• Acknowledgments are placed at the end of the text preceding the references and should be brief.

For clarity, all types of submission should be divided into sections, e.g. Introduction, Results, Discussion, Experimental. However, the title of the sections and their ordering is left to the author’s discretion as to which affords the greatest clarity.

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Writing Abstracts

An abstract is a concise summary of the whole paper, not just the conclusions. The abstract should be no more than 250 words and convey the following:
1. An introduction to the work. This should be accessible by scientists in any field and express the necessity of the experiments executed
2. Some scientific detail regarding the background to the problem
3. A summary of the main result
4. The implications of the result
5. A broader perspective of the results, once again understandable across scientific disciplines

It is crucial that the abstract convey the importance of the work and be understandable without reference to the rest of the manuscript to a multidisciplinary audience. Abstracts should not contain any citation to other published works.

References

References to the literature or to footnotes are typed in square brackets as superscripts after punctuation. These are numbered consecutively and listed (with the numbers in square brackets but not as superscripts) at the end of the main body of text. They should not contain comprehensive experimental details (which should be included in the Supporting Information instead) or long explanatory text. Please feel free to use our template for your Endnote reference management.

In the list of references, the names of all authors should be given in upper- and lowercase, starting with the initials of first names followed by the surname (giving the first author only followed by "et al." is acceptable when there are more than ten authors; in this case, the complete reference has to be given in the Supporting Information). The penultimate and last names should be separated by a comma (not by "and"). Please double-check your references, for example by using CrossRef, to ensure correct (online) links.

Journal citations: Only a comma is required between the name of the last author and the title of the journal. Journal titles should be italicized and abbreviated in accordance with the "Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index" (CASSI; no commas appear in the journal names). The journal title should be followed (no comma) by the year of publication (in boldface), comma, volume number (in italics), comma, first page, period (or a semicolon within a composite reference). When citing publications from Angewandte Chemie, please quote both the German and the International editions of this journal, starting with the International edition. Examples:

[1] a) H. J. Ache, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1989, 28, 1; Angew. Chem. 1989, 101, 1; b) H. Frey, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1998, 37, 2193; Angew. Chem. 1998, 110, 2313.

[2] A. Kraft, Chem. Commun. 1996, 77, and references therein; Sci. Am. 1984, 250(4), 7; B. Krebs, H. U. Hürter, Acta Crystallogr. Sect. A 1981, 37, 163; G. Eulenberger, Z. Naturforsch. B 1981, 36, 521; D. Bruss, Appl. Phys. B, DOI 10.1007/s003409900185.

Book citations: Books without editor: E. Wingender, Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes, VCH, Weinheim, 1993, p. 215. Books with editor: T. D. Tullius in Comprehensive Supramolecular Chemistry, Vol. 5 (Eds.: J. L. Atwood, J. E. D. Davies, D. D. MacNicol, F. Vögtle, K. S. Suslick), Pergamon, Oxford, 1996, pp. 317–343.

Miscellaneous citations: C. R. A. Botta (Bayer AG), DE-B 2235093, 1973 (in cases where the patent is not available online at the respective patent office the corresponding reference to Chemical Abstracts should be added). A. Student, PhD thesis, University of Newcastle (UK), 1991. G. Maas, Methoden Org. Chem. (Houben-Weyl) 4th ed. 1952–, Vol. E 21/1, 1983, pp. 379–397. "Synthesis in Biochemistry": R. Robinson, J. Chem. Soc. 1936, 1079. S. Novick, "Biography of Rotational Spectra for Weakly Bound Complexes", can be found under http://www.wesleyan.edu/chem/faculty/novick/vdw.html, 2005. G. M. Sheldrick, SHELXS-96, Program for the Solution of Crystal Structures, University of Göttingen, Göttingen (Germany), 1996.

Citing EarlyView Articles

To include the DOI in a citation to an article, simply append it to the reference as in the following example:

R. K. Harris, A. Nordon, K. D. M. Harris, Rapid. Commun. Mass Spec. 2007, DOI: 10.1002/rcm.21464.

To link to an article from the author’s homepage, take the DOI (digital object identifier) and append it to "http://dx.doi.org.bibliotheek.ehb.be/" as per following example:

DOI 10.1002/mrc.2522, becomes http://dx.doi.org.bibliotheek.ehb.be/10.1002/mrc.2522.

Download the Endnote template here

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Illustrations and ChemDraw Rules

Upload each figure as a separate file in either .tiff or .eps format, with the figure number and the top of the figure indicated. Compound figures e.g. 1a, b, c should be uploaded as one figure. Tints are not acceptable. Lettering must be of a reasonable size that would still be clearly legible upon reduction, and consistent within each figure and set of figures. Where a key to symbols is required, please include this in the artwork itself, not in the figure legend. All illustrations must be supplied at the correct resolution:

• Black and white and photos - 300 dpi
• Graphs, drawings, etc - 800 dpi preferred; 600 dpi minimum
• Combinations of photos and drawings (black and white and colour) - 500 dpi

Tables should be part of the the main document and should be placed after the references. If the table is created in excel the file should be uploaded separately.

Chemical structures should be prepared in ChemDraw either 80mm (one column) or 175mm (two column) widths. However, the one-column format should be used whenever possible as this allows greater flexibility in the layout of the manuscript. Use this ChemDraw Download or use the following settings:

Authors using different structural drawing programs should choose settings consistent with those above. Compound numbers should be bold, but not atom labels or captions.

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Graphical Table of Contents

MRC’s table of contents will be presented in graphical form with a brief abstract.

The table of contents entry must include the article title, the authors' names (with the corresponding author indicated by an asterisk), no more than 80 words or three sentences of text summarising the key findings presented in the paper and a figure that best represents the scope of the paper (see the section on abstract writing for more guidance).

Table of contents entries should be submitted to Manuscript Central in one of the generic file formats and uploaded as ‘Supplementary material for review’ during the initial manuscript submission process.

The figure should fit into a box no more than 105 mm wide by 60 mm high, and be fully legible at this size.

Examples for arranging the text and figures as well as paper title and authors' names are shown below.

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Colour policy

There are no charges for colour reproduction in MRC. Authors should be aware that for a significant number of people the colours red and green are difficult to differentiate and so these colours should not be used to create contrast.

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Data Policy

From January 2019 Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry requests raw and NMR data for all submitted manuscripts that involve structural elucidation and/or assignments. By "raw data", we refer to the raw NMR data files of the spectra including the relevant fid(s), as well as acquisition and processing parameters. By "NMR data," we refer to the results of the spectral analysis: the usual list of already assigned proton and carbon chemical shifts, couplings and a list of correlations from 2D spectra, typically COSY, HSQC, and HMBC. Raw data may be uploaded as supplementary material for review, sent direct to the editor or deposited in an open repository of the author's choice.

MRC expects that data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository. Whenever possible the scripts and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper should also be publicly archived. Exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the editor for sensitive information such as human subject data or the location of endangered species. Authors will be able to complete a data accessibility statement to be published with their paper. Further guidance is available here. 

More information about our Data Sharing Policy can be found here.

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Citing Data

In recognition of the significance of data as an output of research effort, Wiley has endorsed the FORCE11 Data Citation Principles. Data must be cited in the same way as article, book, and web citations and authors are required to include data citations as part of their reference list.

Data citation is appropriate for data held within institutional, subject focused, or more general data repositories. It is not intended to take the place of community standards such as in-line citation of GenBank accession codes. When citing or making claims based on data, authors should refer to the data at the relevant place in the manuscript text and in addition provide a formal citation in the reference list. We recommend the format proposed by the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles:

[dataset] Authors; Year; Dataset title; Data repository or archive; Version (if any); Persistent identifier (e.g. DOI)

Add [dataset] immediately before the reference so we can properly identify it as a data reference. The [dataset] identifier will not appear in your published article.

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