Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission

Submission on-line:

Registration and username (login) are required to access the area reserved for authors, in which the online submission process starts and the current status of. Submission can be checked.

A template is available below to guide authors in the preparation of the manuscript:

Full Paper Template - Word Document

Submission Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review.

1. The submission has not previously published, nor is it in consideration for publication in another journal (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. The manuscript has been formatted from the template available in this site. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details.
3. Ensure that the following items are present: One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details (E-mail address, Full postal address).
4. All necessary files have been uploaded: (Manuscript, Include keywords, All figures (include relevant captions), All tables (including titles, description, footnotes), Ensure all figure and table citations in the text match the files provided.
5. Further considerations:

• Manuscript has been 'spell checked' and 'grammar checked'
• All references mentioned in the Reference List are cited in the text, and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Internet)
• A competing interests statement is provided, even if the authors have no competing interests to declare
• Journal policies detailed in this guide have been reviewed
• Referee suggestions and contact details provided, based on journal requirements 

Author Guidelines

Instructions to authors:

Contributions to QUARKS should preferably be submitted online, following the five steps (see below) shown during the online submission procedure (area reserved for authors), and must include indexing information or any additional file required (such as research and instrument data). If online submission is not feasible, the materials can be sent by e-mail to the editors.

All manuscripts should be written in English. Submitted manuscript, after preliminary review by one of the Editors, will be reviewed by at least two referees. 
The corresponding author should send a cover letter with the submission stating title, type of paper (full paper, short communication or review), total word count (including references, tables and figure legends), warrants that the manuscript has not been published previously and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, suggestion up to five names of possible reviewers to the manuscript. Submission of a manuscript implies that its publication has been approved by all co-authors.

Permissions

Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.

Manuscripts should fall under one the following categories:

FULL PAPERS

Full papers report the results of original investigations and should be structured in the usual order of presentation, comprising Introduction, Results and Discussion, Experimental section (which may either precede or follow Results and Discussion), Conclusions, Acknowledgments, and References, according to the specificities of each manuscript.

REVIEWS

This category encompasses reflective articles and analyses of the literature output, outlining the progress and state-of-the-art in particular areas of Chemistry, from the specialist’s perspective.

 PAPERS ON EDUCATION

The focus of papers on Education is the teaching with dissemination of innovative experiences at all levels of schooling, from elementary to higher education (undergraduate and graduate programs). Short communications of accounts of academic or professional experience, also fall into this category.

 SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Shorter texts (of up to four pages) on scientific investigations under way, reporting preliminary results achieved to date. Their purpose is to speed up communication regarding ongoing lines of investigation that have led to recent breakthroughs.

 TECHNICAL NOTES

Technical notes are reports on methods, techniques, equipment, or accessories developed at the authors’ laboratory.

 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

These should encourage constructive discussion between readers and authors and may concern any scientific topic relevant to the purposes of the journal, including critical discussion of recently published papers; in this case, Letters submitted by readers will be forwarded to the authors in question inviting responses to the readers’ appraisal or critique. Letters to the Editor will be published at the sole discretion of the Editorial Team and only after a response from the authors has been obtained.

 The QUARKS journal also will publish a number of special issues in addition to the regular ones.

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTIS

Papers must be clearly written in English. If English is not your first language, then it may be of benefit to seek help from a native English speaker to review your manuscript before submitting, or to have your manuscript professionally edited before submissions.

Figures and Tables

All figures and tables should be cited in the text and labeled in numerical order with Arabic numerals. Authors must indicate where tables and figures must be placed in the text. Citations of figures and tables in the text should appear in an abbreviated, capitalized form (e.g., Fig. 1; Tab. 1). Figures should be submitted as individual files. Figure legends should appear only at the end of the article, not in the files containing the figures. Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format (TIFF or JPEG), and with the correct resolution (minimum of 300 dpi).

Tables should be inserted at the end of main text with title. Use Insert Table function on MS Word to create tables. Tables must contain only horizontal borders at the beginning and end of the table and to separate headings from data. Do not use vertical lines. Do not use fills, shading or colors in the tables. If necessary, place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase numbers.

Papers accepted for publication become the copyright of QUARKS

References in the text should be numbered sequentially as they appear in the text and placed between [square brackets]. The list of references, also numbers between [square brackets], must be included at the end of the manuscript.

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa)

Acknowledgmentsof people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list.

Copyright

Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript and, should not be submitted by anyone on their behalf. The principal/corresponding author will be required to submit a Covering Letter along with the manuscript, on behalf of all the co-authors (if any). The author(s) will confirm that the manuscript (or any part of it) has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis) or is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The submitting author is responsible for ensuring that the article's publication has been approved by all the other coauthors. Furthermore, any illustration, structure or table that has been published elsewhere must be reported, and copyright permission for reproduction must be obtained. The lead author is responsible for the content of the work as a whole and, ensuring that reasonable care and effort has been taken to determine that all the data are complete, accurate, and reasonably interpreted.

Please read the Quarks Code of Ethics prior submitting your manuscript.

Authors transfer copyright to the publisher as part of a journal publishing agreement, but have the right to:

• Share their article for Personel Use, Internal Institutional and Scholarly Sharing  purposes, with a DOI link to the version of record on ScienceDirect 
• Retain patent, trademark and other intellectual property rights (including research data).
• Proper attribution and credit for the published work.
•  Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

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