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Prepare your manuscript for Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry.

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Article types

Review
Perspective
Original Article
Lectio
Editorial
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Letter

Readiness requirements

Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.

Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.
  • Use a unstructured abstract.
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  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 200 words.
  • Abstract: The abstract of an Article and Communication should briefly summarize the purpose of the research, the main results, and the major conclusions.
  • Review / Perspective: The abstract of a Review or Perspective should state its scope and focus.
  • Undefined abbreviations and reference citation numbers should not be used in the abstract.
  • Conclusion [optional]: Its content should not be a substantial duplicate of the abstract.
  • In summary, a Communication should contain only Abstract, Experimental Section, Acknowledgments, and References section headings.
  • Your abstract should focus on what your research is about, what methods have been used, and what you found out.
  • The instructions for authors for each journal will give specific guidelines on what’s required here, including whether it should be a structured abstract or graphical abstract, and any word limits.

Keywords

  • Keywords: Each paper must provide four to six keywords.
  • Do not include keywords.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s).
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  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • – For known compounds, references reporting the compounds should be cited, and the data employed to characterize structures should be identified and compared to that reported in literature.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
  • Place each table after its first clear citation.
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  • Group figures at the end of the manuscript.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for color, at the correct size).
  • Tables and figures Show clearly in your article text where the tables and figures should appear, for example, by writing [Table 1 near here].
  • Figures should be saved separately from the text.
  • At the initial submission, all tables, schemes and graphics should be inserted into the manuscript near their first mention in the text.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • It’s very important that you have been given permission to use any tables or figures you are reproducing from another source before you submit.
  • Table of Contents Graphic: A graphic must be included on a separate page at the end of each manuscript, which will appear in the table of contents (TOC) of the on-line Journal.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: EPS, PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
  • Check the instructions for authors to see how you should supply tables and figures, whether at the end of the text or in separate files, and follow any guidance given on the submission system.

Funding statement

  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Data availability statement

  • Include or confirm the data availability statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Ethics statement

  • Include or confirm the ethics statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Cover letter

  • Using Third-Party Material You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • Review: The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
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  • If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.

Author contributions

  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.
  • You may be required to provide CRediT roles (contributor details) for yourself and your co-authors.

Supplementary files

  • Include every cited supplementary file and use matching labels in the manuscript.

Title page and author information

  • The corresponding author’s name should be marked with an asterisk (*).
  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
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  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • Carbon NMR chemical shifts should be rounded off to the nearest 0.1 ppm.
  • The reported data should include the molecular formulas on which the theoretical (calcd) values are based. (5) IR and MS.
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  • For the optimal online display, your image should be supplied in landscape format with a 2:1 aspect ratio (2 length x 1 height).
  • Margins Margins should be at least 2.5cm (1 inch).
  • Proton multiplicity information obtained from carbon DEPT, 2D spectra, and other experiments should be included with the chemical shifts. (4) Elemental Analysis and/or Accurate Mass Measurement.
  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
  • Title: The title should be accurate, clear, and concise in reflecting the subject and emphasis of reported work.
  • Authors’ names and institution or company names and addresses: The names of the authors should follow the order: given name, middle initial (if any), and surname.
  • The names and mailing addresses of the institution(s) where the work was performed should be listed in another paragraph.
  • This is the main body of the manuscript, but the presentation of experimental details should be kept to a minimum.
  • Product yields should be reported as both weights and percentages.
  • When flash column chromatography is used for product purification, both the support material and solvent used should be identified.
  • Only those IR absorptions diagnostic for major functional groups, and only those MS peaks used for structure assignment, should be included.
  • Sufficient details about the theory, program, basis set, and input parameters should be identified to allow other researchers to repeat the computations.
  • The TOC graphic should not exactly duplicate a graphic appearing within the text of the manuscript.
  • The entire manuscript file must be formatted as single-column, double-spaced text with the page numbers appearing at the bottom.
  • Graphics: All graphics must be prepared in digital format and in high quality and resolution.
  • All the graphics of the same type should have a common graphic style to show uniform appearance.
  • The drawing of individual structures should follow IUPAC recommendations for graphical representation of chemical structures, including stereochemical configurations.
  • The scheme number and optional title are positioned above the scheme and should be typed at the proper location in the manuscript text, not in the scheme.
  • Each scheme must be referred to by its number at least once in the manuscript text.
  • All structures should be numbered with boldface Arabic numerals in the order in which the compounds are first mentioned in the text.
  • Before you submit your article, make sure you’ve checked the instructions for authors for your chosen journal, so you are aware of everything required.
  • Most journals create image descriptions during the production process, but a minority may require authors to provide image descriptions.
  • Review: Running heads and received dates These aren’t required when submitting a manuscript for review.
  • The identity of all new compounds described in the manuscript should be adequately characterized with the data provided in the following order and format. (1) Melting Point for solid product. (2) Specific Optical Rotation for natural product and enantiomerically pure compound should be reported in the form of [a]D20 -25 (c, solvent). (3) NMR.
  • Proton and carbon NMR chemical shifts, and coupling constants and splitting patterns for proton NMR, should be listed; the solvent and instrument frequency should be identified.
  • For new compounds, except biomacromolecules and polymers, either combustion elemental analysis or high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) data should be reported to support the molecular formula assignment.
  • – Evidence for compound purity should include one or more of the following: (1) a 1D proton NMR spectrum or proton-decoupled carbon NMR spectrum; (2) combustion elemental analytical values for carbon and hydrogen; (3) quantitative gas chromatography or HPLC analytical data; (4) for a known compound, a narrow melting point range in close agreement with a cited literature value, and so on.
  • This graphic should capture the reader’s attention and, in conjunction with the manuscript’s title, should give the reader a quick visual impression of the type of work described in the paper.
  • Please do not submit your paper as a PDF.
  • Chemical Structures: Structures should be produced with a drawing program such as ChemDraw with proper ratios of the element symbols, bond length and thickness, ring size, and so on.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Special characters If you are preparing your manuscript in Microsoft Word and your article contains special characters, accents, or diacritics, we recommend you follow these steps: European accents (Greek, Hebrew, or Cyrillic letters, or phonetic symbols): choose Times New Roman font from the dropdown menu in the “Insert symbol” window and insert the character you require.
  • Special characters If you are preparing your manuscript in Microsoft Word and your article contains special characters, accents, or diacritics, we recommend you follow these steps: Asian languages (such as Sanskrit, Korean, Chinese, or Japanese): choose Arial Unicode font from the dropdown menu in the “Insert symbol” window and insert the character you require.
  • Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
  • If you are at the early stage of your research, you may also need to read how to start writing a journal manuscript.
  • The Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry (JCC) publishes original and fundamental research in all areas of glycoscience, including but not limited to structural, synthetic, biological, biochemical, and biophysical studies of oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, and glycoconjugates.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.

Preprints and prior publication

  • If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Preparing Your Paper Structure Your paper should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion; acknowledgments; declaration of interest statement; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).
  • Once a manuscript is accepted for publication by JCC, authors are asked to upload the main text, tables, schemes, and graphics as separate files.

Language and text style

  • Please use Australian spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
  • Please use double quotation marks, except where “a quotation is ‘within’ a quotation”.
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  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
  • Abbreviations should be avoided in the title.
  • Abbreviations: Authors are encouraged to use abbreviations and acronyms, though their use should be consistent throughout the manuscript.
  • Nonstandard abbreviations and acronyms must be defined the first time they are used.
  • Abbreviations for reagents, solvents, and reaction conditions should be placed in the scheme.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Fourth-level headings should be in bold italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Fifth-level headings should be in italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Letter: Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Second-level headings should be in bold italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • Letter: Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Third-level headings should be in italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.

Manuscript structure

  • It should be placed at the beginning of this section.
  • Only data and graphics vital to the discussion and conclusions should be included in the manuscript.
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  • Review / Perspective: Introduction: An Introduction section heading is used in an Article, Review, or Perspective, but not in a Communication, which should clearly state the purpose and objectives of the research and have a brief, rather than extensive, survey of relevant background and prior work reported in literature.
  • Articles and Communications reporting the results of experimental work must have the experimental section, which should provide sufficient details to permit repetition of the work by other researchers.
  • – Each paragraph describing a synthesis experiment should begin with the product’s systematic name and the structure number assigned to the compound in the preceding sections.
  • Letter: Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: First-level headings (e.g. Introduction, Conclusion) should be in bold, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • Nomenclature: Authors should provide a correct systematic name, following International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) conventions, for each compound when its preparation is reported in the experimental section.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Declarations: Artificial intelligence
Format: Times New Roman, double spacing

Source transparency

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