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11 John F. Author1, Li-Qin Wang2,$, María García-Navas*1,2

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27 Abstract
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29 The Abstract should be in the form of a single paragraph up to 200 words

30 summarizing the principal results obtained. Its content and form must respect that it is used
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37 Keywords: 4–6 terms characterizing the topic of the manuscript most eloquently.
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40 Main text sections:

41 Original Paper: This type of manuscript has standard sections: Introduction, Theoretical
42 (optional), Experimental, Results and discussion (can be also two separate parts),
43 Conclusions, Acknowledgements (optional), Symbols (optional), Supporting
44 information (optional), References.
45 Review: Only Conclusions, Acknowledgements (optional), Symbols (optional), Supporting
46 information (optional), and References are fixed section names.
47 Short Communication: The main text should not be divided into separate sections. It should
48 be formed by a continuous text followed by the References.
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50 Introduction
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58 The Introduction must contain an accurate and concise analysis of the existing
59 knowledge on the investigated scientific problem. A very broad overview of the scientific
60 topic and related background as well as the compilation of a long list of cited references
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62 citation style. The final paragraph should indicate the motivation and objectives of the
63 conducted work.
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66 Theoretical
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68 This optional section should be used only if more extensive theoretical derivations are
69 needed. Simpler theories and methods should be a part of either Introduction or Experimental,
70 respectively. All equations, including those describing chemical reactions, must be written in
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76 where P is the pressure, V volume, n amount of substance, R universal gas constant, and T
77 temperature.
78 The symbols of quantities should be explained immediately below the equation where
79 they were used for the first time even when they appear in the list of symbols.
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82 Experimental
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84 In order to have the uniform layout of all original articles, the Experimental section
85 must precede the Results and discussion. Data on the providers (name, city, country of origin)
86 of materials and equipment must be specified. A concise and accurate description of methods
87 enabling their reproduction by others is necessary. The information on the reproducibility,
88 accuracy, and uncertainty of the methods should be provided here if it applies to the whole
89 Results and discussion section. Otherwise, it should be included in individual figures and
90 tables. Illustrative figures, drawings or photographs of set-up and equipment should be
91 avoided in the main text. They can be included as a part of Electronic Supplementary
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93 Sections can be divided into subsections in a sensible way so that the text would not be
94 fragmented into many small paragraphs having a few lines. An example below illustrates two
95 levels of subsections.
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97 Materials
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99 Chemicals
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101 Compounds can be labeled with Arabic numerals. For example: Triphenylamine (1)
102 (5.0 g, 20.4 mmol) and dry dimethylformamide (15.0 mL) were added into the mixture.
103 (Note: This is a significant change because Roman numerals were used in the previous journal
104 format.) Reaction mechanisms can be labelled as numbered Schemes or Figures. Schemes do
105 not have captions (see Scheme 1 below). All drawings and plots should be pasted into the
106 document using the option “Paste Special” that simplifies their editing.
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113 Results and discussion

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115 Tables and figures must be embedded in a logical place of the manuscript text in order
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117 as separate files during submission of the final version. The submission of all figures and
118 tables as separate files, which is specified in the general instructions for authors, is only
119 optional. Fig. 1 and Table 1 show illustrative examples.
120 Figures should be inserted in a line not at a fixed page position to avoid problems in
121 the outlook of the online-system generated PDF-files. If figures or tables contain symbols
122 used for the first time within a manuscript, they must be specified in the legend or footnote.
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125 Table 1. Change of reactant concentrations during esterification reaction

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cAAa/(mol dm–3) 2.01 1.56 1.00 0.65 0.52 0.49
cP/(mol dm–3) 5.00 4.60 3.89 3.60 3.45 3.46
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136 Fig. 2. Variation of the dimensionless mixing time with the modified Reynolds number using
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140 Fig. 2 illustrates a preferred form of a semilogarithmic plot. Decimal form of numbers
141 should be avoided if it would result in the axis values containing too many zeroes. Scientific
142 notation must not be in the computer form, i.e. not 1E−5 but 10−5.
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145 Conclusions
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147 The Conclusions section contains a brief analysis of principal findings and
148 significance of the work. It can also contain a synthetic part specifying future research
149 directions. References to figures and tables presented in Results and discussion can be used.
150 The Conclusions must not be a re-worded abstract. Unlike an abstract, the Conclusions are
151 primarily determined to those who read the whole paper.
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154 Acknowledgements. This is an optional section.

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156 Symbols
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158 Note: Symbols is an optional section that lists all symbols, names, and units of variables used
159 in the manuscript in alphabetic order. Latin and Greek letter symbols as well as subscripts
160 and superscripts must be sorted separately as shown in the examples below.
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162 cp specific heat capacity J kg–1 K–1

163 Re Reynolds number (= dwρ/μ)
164 T temperature K
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169  heat transfer coefficient W m–2 K–1

170 p particle porosity
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179 Note: This optional part emphasizes that the submission contains files that will not be
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182 Electronic Supplementary Material associated with this article can be found in the
183 online version of this paper (DOI: xxxxxxxxxx).
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186 References
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188 Note: Only the long format of references from the two specified in the general instructions for
189 authors is acceptable. Article, book, thesis or patent titles must be given. Examples of book,
190 journal article and book chapter are given below. DOI numbers are required when they are
191 available. DOI numbers can be best found in the tables of contents on journal webpages.
192 Although DOI numbers appeared in printed or electronic versions of articles only after the
193 year 2000, most major publishers assigned DOI numbers backwards since the first journal
194 volume. They can be retrieved also from many abstract databases.
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196 Armarego WLF, Perrin DD (1996) Purification of laboratory chemicals, 4th edn. Butterworth-
197 Heinemann, Oxford
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198 Moretti E, Storaro L, Chessa G, Talon A, Callone E, Mueller KJ, Enrichi F, Lenarda M
199 (2012) Stepwise dansyl grafting on the kaolinite interlayer surface. J Colloid Interface Sci
200 375:112–117. doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2012.02.033
201 Poulsen PB, Buchholz K (2003) History of enzymology with emphasis on food production.
202 In: Whitacker JR, Voragen AG, Wong DWS (eds), Handbook of food enzymology. Marcel
203 Dekker, New York, pp 11–20
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