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Structure and layout
For the main body of the text, there are no specific requirements. You can organize it in a way that best suits your research. However, the following structure will be suitable in many cases:
- Abstract (limited to 500 words)
- Key words (5 – 7 words)
- Introduction
- Background/Materials (sampling method)
- Test/analytical Methods
- Results (with subheadings)
- Discussion
- Conclusions
You should then follow the main text body with:
- Acknowledgements (optional)
- References
- Author contributions (names must be given as initials)
- Data availability statement (mandatory)
- Additional Information (including a Competing Interests Statement)
- Figure legends (these are limited to 350 words per figure)
- Tables (maximum size of one page)
- Plates
Please note, footnotes should not be used.
You may include a limited number of uncaptioned molecular structure graphics and numbered mathematical equations if necessary. Display items are limited to 15 (figures and/or tables). However, to enable typesetting of papers, we advise making the number of display items commensurate with your overall word length. So, for Articles of 2,000 words or less, we suggest including no more than 8 figures/tables. Please note that schemes should not be used and should be presented as figures instead.
Formatting
Both Scientific Nature and Naturalis Scientias publish original research in two formats: Article and Registered Report. For Registered Reports, see the section below. We usually do not impose strict limits on word count or page number. However, we strongly recommend that you write concisely and stick to the following guidelines:
- Articles should ideally be no more than 30 typeset pages.
- The main text should be no more than 1,000 words (not including Abstract, Key word, Methods, References, and figure legends)
- The title should be no more than 30 words, should describe the main message of the article using a single scientifically accurate sentence, and should not contain puns or idioms.
- The abstract should be no more than 500 words.
For a definitive list of which limits are mandatory please visit the www.naturalisscientias.com.
Abstract
Please do not include any references in your Abstract. Make sure it serves both as a general introduction to the topic and as a brief, non-technical summary of the main results and their implications. Abstract should be unstructured, i.e., should not contain sections or subheadings.
Manuscript
Your manuscript text file should start with a title page that shows author affiliations and contact information, identifying the corresponding author with an asterisk. The full name of the author’s institution with a detailed e-mail address should be provided for readers to contact. We recommend that each section includes an introduction of referenced text that expands on the background of the work. Some overlap with the Abstract is acceptable.
In your manuscript, you should:
- Manuscripts should be typed with double line spacing, with the lines numbered consecutively throughout by the automatic line numbering function.
- For your manuscript text please always submit it in the word format of Times New Roman.
- Use a normal and plain font for text, the typesetting editors will deal with it according to international standards.
- Except for prepositions and articles, the first word of the title has an initial capital.
- The full name of the author’s institution with a detailed e-mail address should be provided for readers to contact.
Title page
The review of our journals is a two-way blind review, and the reviewers and corresponding authors do not know each other. Please read our Editorial Procedure for this.
As a result, a separate Title Page should be submitted, containing title, author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author.
Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this Title Page.
Author names, affiliations and any other potentially identifying information should be removed from the manuscript text and any accompanying files (such as figures of supplementary material).
It is the author’s responsibility to anonymize the manuscript and any associated materials.
The names and contact information of any reviewers you consider suitable, and the names of any referees you would like excluded from reviewing, should also be included in the Title Page.
Finally, you should state whether you have had any prior discussions with any Scientific Nature and/or Naturalis Scientias Editorial Board Member(s) about the work described in your manuscript.
Revised manuscripts
For revised manuscripts, you should provide all textual content in a single file, prepared using Microsoft Word, Macintosh word, or LaTeX. Please note, we do not accept PDF files for the article text of revised manuscripts. Make sure you:
- Format the manuscript file as single-column text without justification.
- Number the pages using an Arabic numeral in the footer of each page.
- Use the Times New Roman fonts for your text only.
- Supply any figures and tables as individual files.
- Combine and supply any Supplementary Information as a separate file, preferably in PDF format.
- Include the title of the manuscript and author list in the Title Page only.
If you do not wish to incorporate the manuscript text body, figures, and tables into a single file, please provide all textual content in a separate single file, prepared using either Microsoft Word or LaTeX.
Classification
All articles are assigned a type, depending on the content of the article. This is useful to readers, informing them of the style of content to expect (original research, review, communication, etc.) and for indexing services when applying filters to search results. This section details the most common article types, although is not exhaustive. Editors have the final say on which type should be assigned to a published article. While the length of article types may vary, scientists are encouraged to publish their experimental, theoretical, descriptive studies and observations in as much detail as possible so the results can be reproduced. Manuscripts that are not comprehensive may be found not suitable for peer review.
Article
These are original research manuscripts. The work should report scientifically sound experiments and provide a substantial amount of new information. The article should include the most recent and relevant references in the field. The structure should include an Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions (optional) sections, with a suggested minimum word count of 4000 words. Please refer to the journal webpages for specific instructions and templates.
Brief Report
Brief reports are short, observational studies that report preliminary results or a short complete study or protocol. Brief reports usually contain two figures and/or a table; however, the Materials and Methods sections should be detailed to ensure reproducibility of the presented work. The structure is similar to that of an article, and there is a suggested minimum word count of 2500 words.
Case Report
Common in medical journals, case reports present detailed information on the symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment (including all types of interventions), and outcomes of an individual patient. They usually describe new or uncommon conditions that serve to enhance medical care or highlight diagnostic approaches. The structure of case reports differs from articles and includes an Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Detailed Case Description, Discussion, and Conclusions, with a suggested minimum word count of 2500 words. Special care should be taken when submitting case reports to ensure that appropriate permission for publication has been obtained from patients featuring in the paper.
Communication
Communications are short articles that present groundbreaking preliminary results or significant findings that are part of a larger study over multiple years. They can also include cutting-edge methods or experiments, and the development of new technology or materials. The structure is similar to an article and there is a suggested minimum word count of 2000 words.
References
We don’t copy edit your references. Therefore, it’s essential you format them correctly, as they will be linked electronically to external databases where possible. At Scientific Nature and Naturalis Scientias, we use the standard Nature referencing style. So, when formatting your references, make sure they:
- Run sequentially (and are always numerical).
- Only have one publication linked to each number.
- Only include papers or datasets that have been published or accepted by a named publication, recognized preprint server or data repository (if you include any preprints of accepted papers in your reference list, make sure you submit them with the manuscript).
- Include published conference abstracts and numbered patents, if you wish.
- Don’t include grant details and acknowledgements.
Sorry, we cannot accept BibTeX (.bib) bibliography files for references. If you are making your submission by LaTeX, it must either contain all references within the manuscript .tex file itself, or (if you’re using the Overleaf template) include the .bbl file generated during the compilation process as a ‘LaTeX supplementary file’ (see the “Manuscripts” section for more details).
In your reference list, you should:
- Include all authors.
- List authors by last name first, followed by a comma and initials (followed by full stops) of given names.
- Use Times New Roman text for Article and dataset titles, with only the first word of the title having an initial capital and written exactly as it appears in the work cited, ending with a full stop.
- Use italics for the titles of journals and/or books, giving all words in the title an initial capital.
- Use italics for journal and data repository names, abbreviating them according to common usage (with full stops).
- Use bold for volume numbers and the subsequent comma.
- Give the full-page range (or article number), where appropriate.
Example
1. Luo, YN; Fu, DM & Zhou, SD. 1994. Genesis of the Dashuigou tellurium deposit in Sichuan Province of China. Bulletin of Sichuan Geology 14(2), 101~110 (in Chinese with English abstract).
2. Garwin, SL; Hendri, D and Lauricella, PF. 1995. The Geology of the Mesel sediment-hosted gold deposit, North Sulawesi, Indonesia; In: Proceedings of the PACRIM Congress 1995, Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, pp 221-226.
3. Yin, J; Liu, Y and Shi, H. 2021a. Chemical and physical characteristics of quartz from gold deposits in the North China platform: relationship to gold mineralization. Acta Geochimica, DOI: 10.1007/s11631-021-00487-x.
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Copyright
All articles published by Scientific Nature and its sister journal Naturalis Scientias are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. This means:
- everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published in Scientific Nature and Naturalis Scientias journals;
- everyone is free to re-use the published material if proper accreditation/citation of the original publication is given;
- open access publication is supported by the authors’ institutes or research funding agencies by payment of a comparatively low Article Processing Charge (APC) for accepted articles.
Invitation
On behalf of Professor Dr. Jet Yin, the Editor-in-Chief of both Scientific Nature and/or Naturalis Scientias, we invite professors, researchers and/or students from different disciplines in STEM to submit your research and review articles as well as short communications to our journals.
Submissions should go directly to make to our editorial team at submission@naturalisscientias.com. And all submissions should follow all the submission guidelines which can be found on our website.
Feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues who might be interested and benefit from publishing their papers in Scientific Nature and/or Naturalis Scientias.
Editorial procedure
This journal follows a double-blind reviewing procedure. This means that the author will remain anonymous to the reviewers throughout peer review. It is the responsibility of the author to anonymize the manuscript and any associated materials.
Author names, affiliations and any other potentially identifying information should be removed from the manuscript text and any accompanying files (such as figures of supplementary material).
A separate Title Page should be submitted, containing title, author names, affiliations, and the contact information of the corresponding author. Any acknowledgements, disclosures, or funding information should also be included on this page;
Authors should avoid citing their own work in a way that could reveal their identity.
This journal also publishes special/guest-edited issues. The peer review process for these articles is the same as the peer review process of the journal in general.
Additionally, if a guest editor authors an article in their issue/collection, they will not handle the peer review process.