1. General guidelines
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∙Manuscripts are accepted in English. British English spelling and punctuation are required. Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’. Long quotations of 40 words or more should be indented without quotation marks.
∙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 must be compiled in the following order: title page;
abstract; keywords; (1) introduction; (2) results and discussion;
(3) experimental; (4) conclusions; acknowledgements; references;
appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on
individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list). Any manuscripts that do not follow this suggested order will be rejected or required to undergo revision.
∙The Experimental section can be supplied as supplementary material (see below and  here for guidelines).
∙Advised length for Research Articles:  7–10 pages (excluding title page) of 1.5-spaced manuscript pages (to include figures and tables and the Experimental section) OR 5-7 pages (excluding title page) 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).
∙Advised length for Short Communications:  3–4 pages (excluding title page) 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).
∙Advised length for Letters to the Editor:  1–2 pages of 1.5-spaced manuscript pages (to include figures and tables, if required).
∙Original spectra, chromatographic profiles and any other additional, non-essential experimental data should be submitted as supplementary material, which will be hosted online.
∙Abstracts of 150 words are required for all manuscripts submitted.
∙Each manuscript should have 3 to 7 keywords .
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∙Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using
a decimal system for subsections.
∙All authors of a manuscript should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone numbers and email
addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the corresponding author. Please give the
affiliation where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after the manuscript is accepted.
Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal style) and the online article.
∙All persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication of the manuscript, and the order of names should be agreed by all authors.
∙Biographical notes on contributors are not required for this journal.
∙Please supply all details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as an Acknowledgement on the title page of the manuscript, in a separate paragraph, as follows:
o For single agency grants: "This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx]."
o For multiple agency grants:"This work was supported by the [Funding Agency 1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency
2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency 3] under
Grant [number xxxx]."
∙Authors must also incorporate a Disclosure Statement which will acknowledge any financial interest or benefit they have arising from the direct applications of their research.
∙For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory.
Sexist or racist terms must 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
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∙Description of the Journal’s article style.
∙Description o f the Journal’s reference style.
∙Guide to using mathematical scripts and equations.
∙LaTeX template.
∙Word templates are available for this journal. If you are not able to use the template via the links or if you have any other template queries, please contact ***********************.uk.
∙Any manuscripts that do not adhere to journal style, especially the reference style, will be rejected or required to undergo revision.
3. Figures
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∙Please 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 manuscript 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 manuscript (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 manuscript, and numbered
correspondingly.
∙The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic,
< Figure1, Figure2a.
4. Publication charges
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Submission fee
There is no submission fee for Natural Product Research .
Page charges
There are no page charges for Natural Product Research .
Colour charges
Colour figures will be reproduced in colour in the online edition of the journal free of charge. If it is necessary for the figures to be reproduced in colour in the print version, a charge will apply. Charges for colour pages in print are £250 per figure ($395 US Dollars; $385 Australian Dollars; 315 Euros). For more than 4 colour figures, figures 5 and above will be charged at £50 per figure ($80 US Dollars; $75 Australian Dollars;
63 Euros).
Depending on your location, these charges may be subject to Value Added Tax .
5. Reproduction of copyright material
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If you wish to include any material in your manuscript in which you do not hold copyright, you must obtain written permission from the copyright owner, prior to submission. Such material may be in the form of text, data, table, illustration, photograph, line drawing, audio clip, video clip, film still, and screenshot, and any supplemental material you propose to include. This applies to direct (verbatim or facsimile) reproduction as well as “derivative reproduction” (where you have created a new figure or table which derives substantially from a copyrighted source).
You must ensure appropriate acknowledgement is given to the permission granted to you for reuse by the copyright holder in each figure or table caption. You are solely responsible for any fees which the copyright holder may charge for reuse.
The reproduction of short extracts of text, excluding poetry and song lyrics, for the purposes of criticis
m may be possible without formal permission on the basis that the quotation is reproduced accurately and full attribution is given.
For further information and FAQs on the reproduction of copyright material, please consult our Guide .
6. Supplemental online material
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Authors are encouraged to submit supplementary material, in
particular tables and figures, which will not be typeset, and 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’ 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 also encouraged to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication.
Information about supplemental online material
Manuscript submission
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All submissions should be made online at the Natural Product Research Scholar One Manuscripts web
site. New users should first create an account. Once logged on to the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre. Online user guides and access to a helpdesk are available on this website.
For review articles, a proposal should be sent to the Editor prior to any submission.