Natural Product Research

Formerly Natural Product Letters

2010 Impact Factor: 0.906 (2011 Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports)

Published By: Taylor & Francis

Volume Number: 25

Frequency: 24 issues per year

Print ISSN: 1478-6419

Online ISSN: 1478-6427

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Instructions for Authors

This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.

The instructions below are specifically directed at authors that wish to submit a manuscript to Natural Product Research. For general information, please visit the Author Services section of our website.

Natural Product Research considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Natural Product Research, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere.

Contributions to Natural Product Research must review published original research and will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office.

Manuscript Preparation

1. General guidelines

Papers are accepted only in English. British English spelling and punctuation is required.
Review Articles can only be submitted to the journal following permission from the Editor. To receive this, an initial proposal must be sent to the Editor which contains a justification for the review, as well as an estimation of its number of pages, figures and tables. A decision will then be made by the Editor as to whether the Review Article can be submitted to the journal via ScholarOne.
Manuscripts should be compiled in order outlined as follows. Any manuscripts that do not follow this suggested ordering will be rejected or required to undergo revision.

Required layout for papers:

Title page
Abstract
Keywords
1. Introduction
2. Results and discussion
3. Experimental
4. Conclusions
(then the usual, un-numbered)
Acknowledgements
References
Table(s) and figure(s) (on individual pages) with caption(s) (as a list)

Experimental section can be supplied as supplementary material (see 6. below and here for guidelines)

Advised length for Research Articles: 9 pages of 1.5-spaced manuscript pages (to include figures and tables but excluding the Experimental section, which should be supplied as online-only supplementary material) OR 13 pages of 1.5-spaced manuscript pages (to include figures and tables and the Experimental section).
Advised length for Short Communications: 5 pages of 1.5-spaced manuscript pages (to include figures and tables but excluding the Experimental section, which should be supplied as online-only supplementary material) OR 7 pages of 1.5-spaced manuscript pages (to include figures and tables and the Experimental section).
Advised length for Letters to the Editor: 2–3 pages of 1.5-spaced manuscript pages (to include figures and tables, if required); no supplementary online material is expected for Letters.
Abstracts of no more than 150 words are required for all papers submitted.
Additional experimental data should be submitted as supplementary material which will be hosted online.
Each paper should have 3-7 keywords.
Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author and should include his/her full name, affiliation, postal address, telephone and fax number and email address on the cover page of the manuscript. All other authors should provide full names, affiliations and email addresses.
Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicised.
When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.

2. Style guidelines

Description of the Journal's article style, Quick guide
Description of the Journal's reference styles
LaTeX template (Please save the LaTeX template to your hard drive and open it for use by clicking on the icon in Windows Explorer)

Word templates are available for this journal. The templates have been configured using a Windows XP operating system, but do retain their functionality if used on Vista or Windows 7. Please open and read the instruction document first, as this explains how to save and then use the template. Having selected the template that is most suitable for your operating system, Click on the link to the template and Save to your User Template directory.

Word XP 2003: Instructions - Template
Word XP 2007: Instructions - Template

If you are not able to use the template via the links or if you have any other template queries, please contact authortemplate@tandf.co.uk

Any manuscripts that do not adhere to journal style, especially the reference style, will be rejected or required to undergo revision.

3. Figures

We welcome figures sent electronically, but care and attention to these guidelines are essential as importing graphics packages can often be problematic.

It is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the paper file.
Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. Figure 1, Figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. Figure 1(a), Figure 1(b)).
Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.
The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.

Please note that it is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please do not hesitate to contact our Production Department if you have any queries.

4. Colour

There are a limited number of colour pages within the annual page allowance. Authors should restrict their use of colour to situations where it is necessary on scientific, and not merely cosmetic, grounds. Authors of accepted papers who propose publishing figures in colour in the print version should consult Taylor & Francis at proof stage to agree on an appropriate number of colour pages. If the colour page budget is exceeded, authors will be given the option to provide a financial contribution to additional colour reproduction costs. Figures that appear in black-and-white in the print edition of the Journal will appear in colour in the online edition, assuming colour originals are supplied.

5. Reproduction of copyright material

As an author, you are required to secure permission if you want to reproduce any figure, table, or extract from the text of another source. This applies to direct reproduction as well as "derivative reproduction" (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).
For further information and FAQs, please see http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/permission.asp
Authors are themselves responsible for the payment of any permission fees required by the copyright owner. Copies of permission letters should be sent with the manuscript upon submission to the Editor(s).

6. Supplementary online material

Authors are encouraged to submit supplementary material, in particular tables and figures, which will not appear in the main article, but will be hosted online alongside the article. Similarly, authors have the option of submitting the experimental details for their Research Articles or Short Communications as supplementary online material.

For articles, figures (HPLC, NMR, etc.) of the particulars of trivial experimental procedures (synthesis of known compounds, standard isolation and purification of known compounds, etc.) and of histological tissues (when biological data are reported) are encouraged to be provided as supplementary material, rather than part of the paper itself.

Supplementary material should be provided in a single supplementary file. The first page should clearly indicate the title of the paper, the authors, and the abstract; the rest of the file should provide all supplementary material. Please note that when directing the reader to supplementary material in the article itself, supplementary material should be indicated by an ‘S' prefix e.g. Table S1, Figure S1, and so on, in order to differentiate it from the figures and tables that will actually be appearing in the article.

Detailed guidelines on preparing supplementary material are available here. Please note that supplementary material not adhering to these guidelines may cause the manuscript to be rejected/require revision (at the Editor's/Publishers' discretion).

Authors are welcome to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication.

Information about supplementary online material

Manuscript submission

All submissions should be made online at the Natural Product Research ScholarOne Manuscripts site. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site submissions should be made via the Author Centre.

For review articles a proposal should be sent to the editor prior to any submission.

Manuscripts may be submitted in any standard format, including Word, PostScript and PDF. These files will be automatically converted into a PDF file for the review process. This journal does not accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents. Please use Word's "Save As" option to save your document as an older (.doc) file type.

Copyright and authors' rights

It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/copyright.asp. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

Exceptions are made for certain Governments' employees whose policies require that copyright cannot be transferred to other parties. We ask that a signed statement to this effect is submitted when returning proofs for accepted papers.

Further details and FAQs on Taylor & Francis's policy on copyright and authors' rights

Reprints

Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website Taylor & Francis Online. Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk

Page charges

There are no page charges to individuals or institutions.

Open access

Taylor & Francis Open Select provides authors or their research sponsors and funders with the option of paying a publishing fee and thereby making an article permanently available for free online access – open access – immediately on publication to anyone, anywhere, at any time. This option is made available once an article has been accepted in peer review. Full details of our Open Access programme .