Guidelines for authors

Publishers often provide human-readable guidelines for authors (also known as style guides) for document preparation, which sometimes can extend to entire books. Humans are also quite prone to noncompliance or imperfect compliance because they are often busy or perhaps simply readily bored. Guidelines for data preparation, if they exist, are often to be found in optional categories, such as supporting information. If an author deposits data in such a form, how does the publisher know that it is correct A key aspect of XML is that documents (and of course datuments) can be validated. For publishing purposes, validation implies a contract between the author and the publisher, which is machine-enforceable. A schema formalizes the syntax, vocabulary, document structure, and some of the semantics. It comprises a set of machine-based rules to which a datument must conform. If it does not, it is the author s responsibility to edit it until it does. If it conforms, it is assumed that the author has complied with the publisher s requirements. 

Drummond MF, Jefferson TO. Guidelines for authors and peer reviewers of economic submissions to the BMJ. The BMJ Economic Evaluation Working Party. BMJ 1996 313 275-83. 

Currently there is an ongoing discussion within the scientific community on how the quality and relevance of nanotoxicology research papers can be improved [78]. Guidelines for authors and reviewers on minimal harmonized characterization requirements and a common nomenclature system will be implemented by several scientific journals in the future. However, until this has taken place, it is crucial to perform and provide an extensive chemical and physical characterization of the studied NMs, of their behaviour directly in the in vitro testing conditions, and of possible factors that can influence the assay results. 

There are certain requirements for purity of new compounds in most journals. This is especially so for samples which are shown to have biological activity. See instructions to authors for ACS journals especially in J. Med. Chem (see Guidelines for Authors under Purity Criteria for Target Compounds (i) ) which specify that elemental analysis (with an accuracy of 0.4%), homogeneity by HPLC, and spectral data (e.g. NMR, HRMS) as well as biological activity data should be stated in the paper or in supporting information. 

Marking proofs, guidelines for authors, 395 Mass numbers, 255, 257 Mass spectrometry... 

In this manuscript, the abbreviations and acronyms most commonly used in organic and organometallic chemistry have been used following the recommendations of Guidelines for authors of J. Org. Chem. 2007, 70, 13A-27A. 

The prime global authority is the International Maritime Organisation. The IMO sets the standards and guidelines for the removal of offshore installations. The guidelines specify that installations in less than 75 meters of water with substructures weighing less than 4,000 tons be completely removed from the site. Those in deeper water must be removed to a depth of 55 meters below the surface so that there is no hazard to navigation. In some countries the depth to which structures have to be removed has already been extended to 100m. 

Having established the content of SOPs from the HTA and PHEA, ergonomics guidelines for information presentation can be used to ensure that workers can quickly refer to the instructions and that the possibility of misinterpretation is minimized. An example of such guidelines is United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (1991). In this section, the focus will be on the inputs from the HTA and PHEA to the design of SOPs. 

In 1975 the World Health Organization produced a guideline for the establishment, maintenance and distribution of chemical reference substances (WHO 1975). This document was intended to foster collaboration and harmonization of approval for the provision of reference substances by national authorities and organizations responsible for reference substances collections. This guideline was revised in 1982 (WHO 1982) and a further revision was completed more recently (WHO 1999) to take into account progress in pharmaceutical analysis. The latest guidehne defines both primary chemical reference substance and secondary chemical reference substance as follows ... 

Method validation guidelines for use in trace analysis have been proposed by various authors, but there is little consistency in the recommended approaches. The general validation guidelines proposed by standards organizations such as ISO (International Organization for Standardization), DIN (Deutsches Institut fUr Normung German Institute for Standardization) and others are often not well defined and consequently... 

Environmental Protection Authority. Review of the Guidelines for Risk Assessment in Western Austraha. 1990. 

The regulatory authorities in the United States have issued interim guidelines for the interchangeability of blister packaging materials. The initial suggested criterion for consideration is ... 

The work reported here is the last experimental study of the Keele Polymer Group which came to an end in 1985. The senior author believes that he has achieved one of his principal chemical objectives, to determine some credible kp values and to discover the optimum conditions. He hopes that others will adopt the use of highly polar solvents and will explore a wide temperature range. For low temperatures, the eutectic mixtures of PhN02 with one of the nitronaphthalenes or dinitrobenzenes will be needed. Another useful, highly polar, solvent is S02. The nitroalkanes should be avoided. The initiator of choice should be an aroyl salt of a stable anion, and it is clear that the ideal such salt has not yet been found, but useful guidelines for finding improved initiators (in terms of speed of reaction, shelf-life and solubility) are available [21]. 

The original German TAA - GS - 05 Guideline may be duplicated for non-commercial purposes. The authority having jurisdiction, which initiated the preparation of this guideline, and author(s) assume no liabilities with respect to the multiplication or reproduction of this guideline. 

Like all of the elements of process safety management, the incident investigation element continues to evolve. The AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety assists this evolution hy providing interested parties with information to help them in safely operating process facilities. To this purpose, CCPS and the contributing authors offer this second edition of the Guidelines for Investigating Chemical Process Incidents. 

Australian Pesticides Veterinary Medicines Authority (2004) Guidelines for the validation of analytical methods for active constituent, agricultural and veterinary chemical products, available fromwww.apvma.gov.au... 

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