期刊名称：RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry is a journal whose aim is the rapid publication of original research results and ideas on all aspects of the science of gas-phase ions; it covers all the associated scientific disciplines. There is no formal limit on paper length ("rapid" is not synonymous with "brief"), but papers should be of a length that is commensurate with the importance and complexity of the results being reported. Contributions may be theoretical or practical in nature; they may deal with methods, techniques and applications, or with the interpretation of results; they may cover any area in science that depends directly on measurements made upon gaseous ions or that is associated with such measurements. It is intended that this journal will also be a forum for discussion and for the dissemination of technical information and news in this scientific field, as well as of information on past and forthcoming events of special interest to mass spectroscopists. The majority of the journal comprises:
- Original Research Articles concerned with gas-phase ions.
However, to achieve the aims set out above, there are several other sections:
- Letters to the Editor, for constructive comments and opinions on published work or on any matter of relevance to mass spectroscopists.
- Book Reviews. Normally invited by the Editors, who will be pleased to receive books for possible review in this section.
- Calendar of Events. Details of forthcoming events of interest to mass spectroscopists.
- Recent Events, describing mass spectrometry conferences and similar events.
- Obituaries of well-known mass spectroscopists, either submitted by colleagues or invited.
- Award Announcements.
- Product Announcements about new equipment, etc.
From time to time, at the invitation of the Editor-in-Chief, the journal will publish a group of papers from a single laboratory to celebrate the achievements of the laboratory and illustrate the contribution it has made to the development of mass spectrometry. Such a group of papers will be accompanied by an introductory history of the laboratory together with an account of its aims and achievements.
The journal will also consider publishing selected papers from national or international mass spectrometry conferences. The organizers of such conferences should contact an Editor in advance to learn the criteria that they need to satisfy. Normally, manuscripts would need to be submitted during the conference so as to ensure the most rapid publication possible. Manuscripts would go through the normal refereeing procedures and be published as a group, though publication would not be held back for delayed manuscripts.
Readership
Analytical Chemists ¡¤ Organic Chemists ¡¤ Pharmaceutical Chemists ¡¤ Spectroscopists ¡¤ Mass Spectrometrists
Keywords
gaseous, ion, ionization, gas-phase, instrumentation, stable isotope, isotope, mass spectrometry, secondary ion, time-of-flight, fragmentation, ., journal, online journal, Wiley InterScience
Abstracting and Indexing Information
- Analytical Abstracts (RSC)
- Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS)
- BIOSIS Previews
- Chemical Abstracts Service
- Chemistry Citation Index (ISI)
- Current Contents®/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences (ISI)
- Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences
- Index Medicus/MEDLINE
- INSPEC
- ISI Alerting Services
- Mass Spectrometry Bulletin (RSC)
- Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch®) (ISI)
- Science Citation Index® (ISI)
- VINITI (Russian Academy of Sciences)
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Instructions to Authors
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors should send their contributions to Dr R. K. Boyd, at the address shown on the inside front cover, or to one of the Editors. Papers will be sent to independent referees for assessment. Authors are invited to send in the names, addresses, and telephone and fax numbers of up to four (4) suggested reviewers, for consideration by the Editor. Papers that have been approved by the referees will, generally, be accepted within a day or two and can be expected to appear in print within 4-5 weeks and on the Wiley InterScience website (www.interscience.wiley.com) within 2-3 weeks. Contributions may be submitted in typescript or in machine-readable form.
Authors in Japan please note: Wiley-Japan can provide authors in Japan with a list of recomended services to check and improve the English in their papers BEFORE SUBMISSION. Please contact Masayo Kobayashi in the Wiley-Japan office by Fax (3-3556-9763) or e-mail (editorial@wiley.co.jp) for more information stating which Wiley journal you wish to submit to.
All contributions should be accompanied by an email address, with FAX and telephone numbers as back-up, to enable rapid resolution of queries and the emailing of proofs to authors.
SPONSORSHIP REFEREEING
This option is now discontinued.
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
Papers must be in English and should not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Either Oxford English Dictionary or American spelling is acceptable, provided usage is consistent within the manuscript.
Typed contributions (i.e. those submitted as paper copies only) should be double-line spaced, on one side only, of good quality A4 or US-Letter paper, and with at least 3 cm (1 inch) margins all round. All typed papers are to be submitted in triplicate and should include tables and copies of the figures. The original artwork for the figures should also be supplied and should be of good quality, suitable for reproduction.
Initial electronic submission can be either via email or on disk or CD (two should be included in case of inadvertent damage). The preferred format is Word or WordPerfect, for either MS-DOS or Macintosh. At this initial stage graphics can be in any convenient format, e.g. as PowerPoint files or as imported pictures in a Word document. Disks and CDs should be clearly labeled with the name of the submitting author and an indication of the software used to create the files.
Final electronic submission of revised articles can again be either via email or on disk or CD (two disks or CDs containing the final version should be supplied). The disks or CDs should be clearly labelled with the file name assigned by the responsible Editor (e.g. HFXzzz in the case of R. Boyd in Halifax, where zzz denotes the number assigned to the paper by the Editor), the date, the author's name, and the hardware and software package used. The preferred medium is a 3.5 inch disk or a CD, in MS-DOS or Macintosh, preferably as a Word or WordPerfect file, alternatively as an ASCII file. We are also able to accept line artwork/graphics on disk or CD, see details below. Again, each file should be carefully named, using the same code as for the text, but adding a reference for the figures and schemes, e.g. HFXzzzf1 or HFXzzzs1 (the f1 and s1 representing Fig. 1 and Scheme 1, respectively.
Final submission by email should follow the same procedures with respect to format and software application.
Please note the important point about email addresses and fax and telephone numbers under the Submission of Papers section.
Please also note that papers accepted for publication by an Editor will be assigned a final identification code RCMyyy by the Wiley production team, that will be different from the code assigned by the Editor who handled the paper.
FORMAT
Title and Authors. The title should describe the contents fully but concisely, though without the use of abbreviations. The names (forenames are preferred to initials) and affiliations of authors should be given, with full postal addresses. The author to whom correspondence is to be sent should be indicated. Authors should supply telephone and fax numbers, as well as email addresses, for use by the Editorial Office should any queries arise. A running title not exceeding 60 letters and spaces should be given.
Abstract. An abstract clearly describing the contents and results of the paper should precede the text of the paper. (Letters to the Editor do not require an Abstract).
Text. Experimental procedures and analytical conditions should be presented with sufficient detail and clarity to enable the results to be verified. Figures and tables are to be included where necessary but should be kept to the minimum.
References. Numbered references should be used to cite relevant published work. Unpublished or personal work should be included with the normal literature references in the numerical sequence. Journal references should be in the form: Abbreviated name of the journal year; volume number: first and last page numbers, e.g.: Bakhtiar R, Feher FJ. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 1999; 13: 687-694.
Illustrations. Line drawings should be supplied on a separate sheet at the same size as the intended printed version (so no enlargement or reduction is required), maximum width 84 mm (single column) and 177 mm (double column) and maximum depth of 220 mm. Lettering on the artwork should be set in 8pt type. Computer-generated artwork must be submitted as laser printed output at a resolution of 600 dots per inch on high quality paper. Dot matrix printer output is unacceptable. Tints are to be avoided; hatching should be used instead. Drawn artwork should be carefully lettered and drawn in black ink. Copies should be provided as well as the originals. Legends for the figures should be typed on a separate sheet. Black and white photographs should be supplied as sharp, glossy black and white prints (not photocopies or previously printed material). Laser output photographs are to be avoided. Both drawings and photographs should be clearly identified on the back with the figure number and the author's name.
Artwork on disk or CD in the final version intended for production is preferred on 3.5 inch PC or Mackintosh format disk, or on CD, preferably saved in EPS, PS, PDF, or TIFF format. If it is not possible to save figures and/or Schemes in one of the listed preferred formats, Microsoft Office, Adobe Illustrator or Adobe PhotoShop files can be accepted. Corel Draw figures are not acceptable. Please specify the format in which the files are saved, and the application used to create the artwork. Each graphic should be in a separate file and should conform to the specifications above. The same remarks apply to final versions of artwork sent by email.
A hard copy print-out of each figure, clearly identified, should be provided together with the disks or CDs, or the printout can be sent as a follow-up by courier or priority airmail if email is used. Figures are to be numbered with Arabic numerals in the order of their appearance in the text; parts of figures should be labelled (a), (b), etc.
Tables. Tables are to be numbered with Arabic numerals in the order of their citation in the text.
Nomenclature. Units and Symbols. Authors should conform to Chemical Abstracts nomenclature for chemical names and structures. Proper or proprietary names should be used with caution. Abbreviations are not acceptable in the title, and elsewhere are to be defined when first mentioned. Generally accepted units and symbols should be used (see below re Da, u, and Th). IUPAC and IUPAP recommended units are preferred.
COPYRIGHT
Upon acceptance of an article by the journal, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher. This will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information under copyright law. Authors' proprietary, patent and similar rights are not affected. Copies of the Copyright Transfer Agreement are available from the Publisher or may be printed from the Wiley-Interscience Web site.
PROOFS
Proofs of accepted papers will be sent to authors, email being used wherever possible. Authors are therefore requested to supply their email address with their papers, preferably with FAX numbers as a backup.
OFFPRINTS
Twenty-five offprints will be supplied free of charge. Additional copies may be ordered on a form supplied by the Publisher.
CONVENTIONS ADOPTED BY RCM
A single analytical technique, or a type of instrument, is abbreviated without hyphens. Thus, TOFMS, FTICRMS.
A hyphen is used when highlighting a particular component or feature of an instrument or technique. Thus, MALDI-TOFMS, ESI-MS/MS. When 2 or more different analytical techniques are coupled in tandem, this is represented by a solidus placed between the abbreviations for the techniques. Thus we write Py/GC/EI-MS, CZE/TOFMS.
An en rule (somewhat longer than a hyphen) is used to indicate the dual nature of a species; thus, ion¨Cradical represents a species that is both an ion and a radical. A solidus is used to indicate interaction between 2 or more separate species, e.g., we refer to an ion/molecule reaction or an ion/ion collision.
The Dalton (Da) is used for the molecular weight (natural isotope-averaged molecular mass, or often the integral mass number) of a molecule. The Da is not a unit of mass-to-charge ratio.
The Thomson may be used for the ratio of mass number or accurate relative molecular mass (in u, see below) to the number of charges carried by an ion, symbolized by m/z. This ratio is dimensionless, and can in principle be a positive or negative number though usually the context makes clear whether the ion is positively or negatively charged and no sign need be given. The use of the abbreviation Da/e is not acceptable.
The unit u is used for the relative molecular mass of an ion or molecule, relative to the standard 12C=12u. The term ¡°accurate mass¡± refers to mass spectrometric determinations of relative molecular mass (in u) to within a sufficient number of significant digits that uncertainties are in the parts-per-million (ppm) range or less, and thus imply higher levels of both accuracy and precision.
The mass of a neutral fragment lost in a fragmentation reaction can be given in terms such as: 'with the loss of 18 mass units (or Da)' or 'with loss of mass 28'.
Capital letters are used for Litre(L), Torr, Barr.
Figures, Schemes and Tables should be referred to using a capital letter. Thus, Figure 1, Table 2 (not, e.g. fig.1).
Parts of a Figure should be indicated by (a), (b), etc both on the Figure itself and in the caption.
Protonated or deprotonated molecules are often seen in mass spectra. They are not protonated or deprotonated ions and should not be referred to as such. Symbols such as [M+H]+, [M-H]-, [M+Na]+, are appropriate.
Newly invented terms for the data produced by a technique should be firmly based on the name of the technique itself. Thus electrophoresis produces an electrophorogram, not an electropherogram.
Short addresses are required for suppliers or manufacturers of special equipment. Thus, for example, Agilent, (Palo Alto, CA, USA).
References should be listed in the following style: Bakhtiar R, Feher FJ. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 1999; 13: 687-694.
Ionic and other species should be enclosed in square brackets and the charge given as a superscript. Thus, [M]2+, [M-H]-, [C3 H6O].. The presence of an odd electron may be indicated when necessary as in M+. .
Editorial Board
| EDITOR-IN-CHIEF |
Dr Robert K. Boyd
National Research Council, Institute for National Measurement Standards, Building M-12, Room B12, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6, Canada
e-mail: Robert.Boyd@nrc.ca |
EDITORS |
Professor Alan G. Marshall
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory,
Florida State University,
1800 East Paul Dirac Drive,
Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
e-mail: marshall@magnet.fsu.edu |
Professor John J. Monaghan
University of Edinburgh, UK
Editorial office:
10 Kingsley Drive,
Cheadle Hulme,
SK8 5LZ, UK
e-mail: RCMEurope@aol.com |
Professor Shuying Liu
Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry,
109 Stalin Street, Changchun 130022,
P. R. China |
Dr Bogdan Kralj
Centre for Mass Spectrometry (CMS)
Jo ef Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana
Jamova 39, Ljubljana, Slovenia
e-mail: bogdan.kralj@ijs.si |
Professor Kermit K. Murray
Department of Chemistry
232 Choppin Hall
Louisians State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803¨C1804, USA
e-mail: kermit.murray@chem.lsu.edu |
FOUNDING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Professor John H. Beynon
Swansea, UK |
EDITORIAL BOARD |
T. Ast
Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
J. H. Beynon
Swansea, UK |
G. Bouchoux
Palaiseau, France |
J.H. Bowie
Adelaide, Australia |
J.T. Brenna
Ithaca, NY, USA |
A.G. Brenton
Swansea, UK |
M. Claeys
Antwerp, Belgium |
R.G. Cooks
West Lafayette, IN, USA |
C.E. Costello
Cambridge, MA, USA |
R.J. Cotter
Baltimore, MD, USA |
S. Daolio
Padua, Italy |
A. De Leenheer
Ghent, Belgium |
S.J. Gaskell
Manchester, UK |
E. Gelpi
Barcelona, Spain |
J. Grotemeyer
Cottbus, Germany |
M. Hamdan
Verona, Italy |
F. Hillenkamp
Munster, Germany |
K.R. Jennings
Warwick, UK |
M. Linscheid
Berlin, Germany |
S.A. McLuckey
Oak Ridge, TN, USA |
R.E. March
Peterborough, ON, Canada |
D. Mathur
Bombay, India |
N.M.M. Nibbering
Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
T. Preston
East Kilbride, UK |
F.S. Pullen
Kent, UK |
U.P. Schlunegger
Berne, Switzerland |
E.R. Schmid
Vienna, Austria |
L. Sidorov
Moscow, Russia |
K.G. Standing
Winnipeg, Canada |
V.L. Talroze
Moscow, Russia |
J.F.J. Todd
Canterbury, UK |
P. Traldi
Padua, Italy |
K. Vekey
Budapest, Hungary |
D. A. Volmer
Halifax, Canada |
Ex Officio Member
R.M. Caprioli
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Mass Spectrometry |
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