Editorial

I strongly believe in the central role multifaceted chemistry plays in bridging other sciences and the ways it affects all aspects of onr life. In a gnest editorial for the jonrnal Science in December 1995 I wrote ... 

Metric Editorial Guide (ANMC-78-1), latest ed., American National Metric Council, 5410 Grosvenor Lane, Bethesda, Md. 20814, 1981. 

Style and Usage. If the advantages of SI are to be realized, everyone must use the system in the same manner. Listed below are a number of editorial rules that must be followed ... 

Perry s chemical engineers handbook. — 7th ed. / prepared by a staff of specialists under the editorial direc tion of late editor Robert H. Perry editor, Don W. Green associate editor, James O Hara Maloney. 

In combination, these papers provide a comprehensive and detailed review of current knowledge and of the important issues for policy makers in the future. The volume will be of interest to a wide readership, including industrial and environmental scientists, managers and policymakers. We hope that our readers will find this as illuminating as we have during the editorial work. 

AntiEntropics Inc. of New Market, Maryland was the contractor for this project. Robert J. Walter and Sandra A. Baker were the principal authors of the text and would like to recognize James M. Godwin for editorial support and Paul Ponton for graphics assistance. 

EDITORIAL BOARD Henry Gilman, Editor-in-Chief Roger Adams J. B. Conant... 

He was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1948 and was appointed to the endowed Todd Professorship at Cornell in 1952, a position he held until his retirement in 1965 In addition to his service on the Editorial Boards of... 

We are also indebted to the reviewers of this guide at EQE John Earquharson for his technical review, Maureen Hafford for her editorial suggestions, Leslie Adair for proofreading the guide, and Angie Nicely and Paul Olsen for preparation of the manuscript for this guide. 

Editorial Board Roger Cheret, France Godfrey Eden, Great Britain Jing Fuqian, China Vitalii I. Goldanskii, Russia James N. Johnson, USA Malcolm F. Nicol, USA Akira B. Sawaoka, Japan... 

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The editors are gratefully indebted to all contributors who were ready to redirect time from their research, educational, and private activities in order to contribute to this book. They also wish to thank Mrs Silke Kittel for her tireless help in developing our editorial ideas. 

Procedures submitted should be written in the style employed in the latest volume of Organic Syntheses. Copies of the current style sheet may be obtained upon request from the Secretary of the Editorial Board. Two copies of procedures which are submitted should be sent to the Secretary. Additions, corrections, and improvements to the [ireparations previously published are welcomed and should be sent to the Secretary. 

Another journal. Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), was started by another commercial publisher at about the same time as JMS. This had only one editor, a metallurgist, from the start, and so in spite of its stated objectives, it remained almost wholly metallurgical for many years. When eventually it became broader under a new editor, it was split into several independent journals with distinct editorial boards, each of them relatively broad-spectrum - in particular, one devoted to functional materials, and another to biomimetics. The main MSE remained in being, and has remained largely metallurgical after 35 years. 

An interesting, broad-spectrum journal founded in 1997 by Roy is Materials Research Innovations., one of its objectives is to bypass normal methods of editorial scrutiny submitting authors who have published a sufficient number of papers in other, peer-reviewed, journals are assumed, in effect, to have reviewed themselves. 

By 1967, the flood of short papers had become so great that a separate journal, Scripta Metallurgica, was hived off. These Latin titles were intended to symbolise the international character of the journal. Chalmers edited the journal until 1974, when Michael Ashby took over the reins which he held until 1995 at that point a more collegiate editorial structure was instituted. In 1990, the adjective "metalliirgica was supplemented by "materialia, and in 1996 the journals simply became Acta materialia and Scripta materialia (some classicist seems to have advised the board of governors, at a late stage, that lower case letters are de rigueur in Latin )... 

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