Guidelines for authors

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Submission of manuscripts
An electronic version in the form of one or several Microsoft Word files should be submitted as attachment to an e-mail.

Text formatting
Text should be typed with font Times New Roman 10 pt. The pages should be numbered and the text arranged in paragraphs. Use decimal points (not commas). Symbols for physical properties should be written in italics. Follow IUPAC recommendations for the nomenclature of chemical compounds and IUCr recommendations for the presentation of crystallographic data. Number tables and figures in accordance with their sequence in the text, using Arabic numbers.

References
Number the references in the order they appear in the text. Journal names should be abbreviated according to CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service). In the text the reference number should be inserted into square brackets.

Figures
Submit figures also in separate files (jpg, png, tif, wmf, eps), using logical names. Provide images in a size near the desired size of the printed version. Printable width for one column is 7.75 cm, for two columns 16.5 cm, maximum page length is 24 cm. Color figures are welcome (but will be printed black and white in the hardcopy). Select a figure to be included in the on-line abstract.

Supporting information
Supplementary information such as cif files may be provided with the manuscript and will be stored on the website of the journal.

Ethics
Only original works, which have not been published or accepted for publication elsewhere, in English or in any other language, will be accepted. All coauthors must have agreed on the publication.

Language
English or Ukrainian.

Organization of the manuscript
A typical manuscript will contain the following parts:
    Title page, including the following items
        Title
        Name of the authors and their affiliations with complete postal addresses
        Telephone number and e-mail address of the corresponding author
    Abstract (up to 300 words)
    Keywords (3-5)
    Main text, generally subdivided into
        Introduction
        Experimental
        Results
        Discussion
    Acknowledgements
    References
    Tables
    Figures and figure captions
    Figure and figure caption for on-line abstract

Price
Publication is free of charge. World wide free access to the on-line version of the journal.

Short check list
Please ensure the following items are present:
    corresponding author, with telephone number and e-mail address
    3-5 keywords
    page numbers
    figure captions
    all separate artwork files
Are all references, figures and tables correctly mentioned in the text?
Is the format of the reference list correct?
Has the paper been spell-checked?
Do the crystallographic data in the paper correspond to the accompanying cif file?

Authors (including co-authors) are restricted to publishing no more than one article per single issue of the journal.