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Author Guidelines

So that we can minimize publication times, we ask authors to take special care with the formal details of the manuscripts (see document below). PDF files of current open access articles of Chem. Eng. Technol. should be consulted to get an impression of the final layout.

Manuscript Preparation

Chemical Engineering & Technology is a peer-reviewed journal that covers all aspects of chemical engineering, process engineering, biotechnology, and design of apparatus. The ethical guidelines for publication issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) are followed and applied by Chemical Engineering & Technology. Additionally, Chemical Engineering & Technology ensures compliance by using plagiarism detection software. Authors should declare any conflict of interest in their cover letter. Manuscripts which do not follow the “Instructions for Authors” will not be further processed.

We encourage our authors to visit our webpage “Tips for Writing Better Science Papers” published by Wiley-VCH. Furthermore, we refer to the PDF files of recent open access articles of Chem. Eng. Technol. to get an impression of the final layout.

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1 Types of Contributions

Chem. Eng. Technol. publishes Review and Research Articles, Communications, and Essays. Please note that the indicated limits refer to the whole manuscript (including the text, tables, figure legends, and references).

Review Articles give a general overview of a particular field providing the reader with an appreciation of the importance of the work. Rather than an assemblage of information with a complete literature survey, a critical selection of the material is desired. Review Articles should not exceed 45 000 characters (incl. blanks). Up to 15 main figures – comprising a total of max. 23 subfigures – may be included.

Research Articles report details of studies that have not been published previously, except in the form of a preliminary note. Research Articles have to be limited to 28 000 characters (incl. blanks). Up to 10 figures – comprising a total of max. 15 subfigures – may be included.

Communications are short reports on experimental or theoretical studies in all areas covered by Chemical Engineering & Technology . The results must be of general interest or at least contribute to the development of an important area of research. Communications should be limited to 18 000 characters (incl. blanks). Up to 6 figures – comprising a total of max. 9 subfigures – may be included.

Please note that each figure scales down the total number of permissible characters.

Further information exceeding the limits can be added as Supporting Information (Sect. 5), where no restrictions apply.

2 Language

Papers must be written in English. Use American spelling. Please use a simple, clear style, and avoid jargon. Manuscripts should be checked by a native English speaker prior to submission. Please inform us in the cover letter if your manuscript has been professionally edited before submission.

3 Organization of Manuscript/Format

The sequence of the parts of the main document has to be:

  • Authors
  • Title of the article
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • Addresses/Affiliations
  • Text of the contribution
  • Supporting Information
  • Acknowledgment
  • Conflict of interest statement
  • Funding
  • Appendix
  • Symbols used
  • References
  • Tables with Headings
  • Figure legends
  • Short text for the table of contents section

A template is available from our website, please use it to submit your paper as a regular MS Word file. Manuscripts written in a TeX format, even if they are submitted as a pdf file, have to be converted. Please do not try to arrange your text, figures, tables according to the final layout of a published article, e.g., two columns, scale-down of figures, etc.

3.1 Authors

Give the complete names of all authors with at least one forename spelled out for every author. Please also provide the academic title(s) of all authors. The author, to whom the correspondence shall be addressed, has to be indicated by an asterisk. If requested, Chem. Eng. Technol. marks authors who have contributed equally to the manuscript.

3.2 Title

The title of the paper should be given with as many meaningful terms as possible, but limited to about 12 words or 100 characters. Avoid abbreviations and terms like “Contributions to the Development of…”, “Study of…”, “Novel”, “New”, etc.

3.3 Abstract

Each article comprises an abstract (600–800 characters, including blanks). The abstract should be as informative as possible, but the presentation of experimental details should be avoided. Please do not present detailed/numbered values. The abstract should contain several keywords to aid finding the paper online. The abstract should contain neither hints to graphical elements or tables in the paper nor to references or equations, as the abstract will be found independently, e.g., in databases. Please do not copy sentences of the introductory part. The style guide mentioned in Sect. 3.6 has also to be followed in this section.

3.4 Keywords

Some meaningful keywords (max. 5) should be provided in alphabetical order. Avoid abbreviations. One keyword is limited to three words. Try to identify keywords a reader would be looking for.

3.5 Author Affiliations

Please provide the full postal address of each author, including the organization/department, street, postal code, city, and country. Indicate the different affiliations with a superscript number. Please provide the ORCID iDs if available. Please give the e-mail address of the corresponding author(s) only!

3.6 Main Part

Chem. Eng. Technol. uses American spelling, e.g., behavior, optimization, modeling, etc. Manuscripts should be divided into sections and subsections by headings and subheadings. Footnotes to the text are to be avoided. Furthermore, please avoid the use of the first person and phrases like “we believe“, “we feel“, “we conduct“, “we can see“, as well as personal opinions. Authors are only allowed to use the first person when it helps to compare results, e.g., “Jones reported..., but our results...”.

Please create subordinated clauses whenever appropriate instead of an excessive use of parentheses and dashes. Parentheses are allowed within the text when mentioning suppliers of chemicals and equipment and purity of chemicals, e.g., acetone (99+%, Sigma Aldrich).

Please denote the position of Tables and Figures after the first occurrence in the main text. In the text, sections, tables, figures, and equations are to be referred as abbreviated Sect. x, Tab. x, Fig. x, and Eq. (x), respectively.

3.6.1 Symbols, Units, Abbreviations

Please use italic symbols for variables and constants (e.g., p, V, n, R, T, Re), bold latin symbols for vectors and matrices, and roman type for mathematical expressions (e.g., log, ln, tan, exp). Please do not use the same variable for different definitions or various variables for the same definition.

Symbols used to represent variables, constants, quantities, properties, etc. must be defined in the text at their first occurrence. Please use exponents and not slashes within units, e.g., g L–1h–1. Only SI quantities and units are to be used (SI = Système International d‘Unités). If data with non-SI units have to be reported, they should be put in parentheses behind the corresponding data with SI units. In addition, a list of all symbols and abbreviations used must be compiled at the end of the text under the heading “Symbols used”, see Sect. 3.9.

Abbreviations are always written in regular type (not bold, not italics). Sub- and superscripts to variables are also written in regular type, even if they themselves are variables, e.g., Vi, Vmax.

IUPAC nomenclature should be used when naming compounds (www.iupac.org).

3.6.2 Mathematical and Reaction Equations

Mathematical equations as well as reaction equations should be written in the manuscript at the places in which they belong. They should always stand alone, i.e., occupy an extra line, and have to be numerated in ascending order with Arabic numerals in parentheses. Important: Chem. Eng. Technol. does not distinguish between mathematical equations and reaction equations. Please note that reaction schemes and structural diagrams of molecules are treated as figures and do not need to be numbered.

Always use the equation editor or Mathtype 6.0 for equations. Do not import special symbols and characters as graphics/formula in the running text. Please use either the Symbol font or the “insert special symbol” option provided in most word processing programs.

Do not import equations as images, all equations need to remain editable.

If applicable, please use the template for structure drawings in ChemDraw. The template can be downloaded here. In case another software is used, please use reasonable fonts, bond lengths/widths, and angles.

Please ensure the correct use of symbols within chemical reactions, e.g., →, ⇄, ↔, etc.

Chem. Eng. Technol. does not use multiplication signs for regular multiplication operations (e.g., 5y). Where multiplication signs are mathematically mandatory, please use “×”.

3.7 Supporting Information

If Supporting Information are present, please include the following statement: “Supporting Information for this article can be found under [Link provided by Wiley]. This section includes additional references to primary literature relevant for this research [XX–XY].”

For further information on preparing SI, please see Sect. 5.

3.8 Acknowledgment

Acknowledgments of financial support, advice, or other kinds of assistance should be made at the end of the paper under the heading “Acknowledgment”. Please do not use abbreviations!

3.9 Symbols used

All symbols and abbreviations used in the manuscript have to be listed in alphabetical order. Please divide this list in “Symbols”, “Greek letters”, “Sub- and Superscripts”, and “Abbreviations”.

Please compile symbol, unit in squared brackets, and meaning, e.g.,

RP [g L–1h–1] volumetric productivity

η [–] coefficient

3.10 References

The responsibility for the accuracy of references rests with the authors. Please ensure that references are formatted correctly, also in view of italics, bold letters, blanks, commas, digital object identifiers (DOI), etc.

References have to be numbered sequentially in the order in which they are cited in the text. The numbers have to be enclosed in square brackets on the baseline, e.g., “...as was shown by Brown [1], Johnson [2, 3], and [4–7]”.

They have to be collected in numerical order at the end of the manuscript under the heading “References”. The footnote and endnote options provided by many text programs should not be used or have to be deactivated before submission. Additionally, in case professional reference software like EndNote, Refworks, etc. is used, please delete all field-functions before submission.

Titles of journals are to be abbreviated according to the Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI). References such as “unpublished work” or “personal communication” should be avoided – they do not add information for the reader. As soon as a cited article has the status “accepted”, the DOI number has to be listed. We encourage our authors to check DOIs by using CrossRef.

In citing the literature, the formats below need to be followed:

Journal Article

[1] K. Liebeton, J. Eck, Eng. Life Sci. 2004, 4 (6), 557–562. DOI: 10.1002/elsc.200402156

Please do not use (0) as issue number.

Book

[2] R. McWeeny, Coulson’s Valence, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford 1979.

For towns in the USA specify the state (except for very well-known ones such as New York); use the two-letter postal abbreviation. If the town is not well-known, add the country, e.g., Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Only one location should be given.

Book Published in a Series

[3] L. B. Schein, Electrophotography and Development Physics, 2nd ed., Springer Series in Electrophysics, Vol. 14, Springer, Berlin 1992.

Note that the series editors are not listed.

Multi-authored (Edited) Book

a) Whole (or one or more volumes)

[4] Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalysis (Eds: G. Ertl, H. Knözinger, J. Weitkamp), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 1997.

b) Chapter

[5] T. Kodas, in The Chemistry of Metal CVD (Eds: T. Kodas, M. Hampden-Smith), VCH, Weinheim 1994.

The chapter number at the end (e.g., Ch. 5) is optional. A page number is sometimes given instead of a chapter number (e.g., 312). The first and last pages may also be given (e.g., 312–345). Please do not use p./pp. for the page numbers.

Proceedings Volume

a) Whole

[6] Proc. of the 4th Int. Conf. on Rheology (Eds: E. H. Lee, A. L. Copley), Interscience, New York 1965.

Note that in the proceedings title only words such as Conference (Conf.), International (Int.), or Symposium (Symp.) are abbreviated. The subject of the meeting itself is not abbreviated. The year is the year of publication, which is not necessarily the year in which the conference was held.

b) Paper

[7] A. Katschalsky, A. Oplatka, in Proc. of the 4th Int. Conf. on Rheology (Eds: E. H. Lee, A. L. Copley), Interscience, New York 1965.

The page number is optional.

Presentation at a Conference (Proceedings not Published)

[8] A. Katschalsky, Title of the Presentation, 4th Int. Conf. on Rheology, San Diego, CA, September 1964.

Thesis

[9] T. Bieringer, Title of Thesis, Ph.D. Thesis, Universität Bayreuth 1996.

Note that the degree (Diploma, M.Sc., Ph.D., etc.) should be specified. The location needs only to be given if it is not obvious from the name of the university.

Patent

[10] R. Koksbang, US Patent 5 487 959, 1996.

If a patent is consigned to a company, the company name may be included in brackets after the names of the authors. It is optional. Rather than a country, the patent may be a world patent or a European (EU) patent.

Standards/Guidelines

[11] DIN ISO 45001, Arbeitschutzgesetze, Beuth-Verlag, Berlin 2017.

Work Accepted for Publication

[12] C. Wang, Y. Zhang, Adv. Mater., in press. DOI: 10.1002/adma.200400418

Websites

[no.] website (Accessed on Month DD, YYYY)

[13] www.wiley.com (Accessed on September 01, 2016)

Preprints

[no.] A. B. Author1, C. D. Author 2, Title of the article, Preprint, Year, preprint server and number.

[14] T. Schmitt, T. Arlt, I. Manke, A. Latz, B. Horstmann, Zinc Electrode Shape-Change in Secondary Air Batteries: A 2D Modeling Approach, Preprint, 2019, arXiv:1903.00382.

3.11 Table of Contents: Graphical Abstracts

A short text for the Table of Contents (350–400 characters) must be included as the last page of the main document of every manuscript formulated to encourage readers to read the article. It should be a continuous text, not a listing of the manuscript sections. Repetition or a paraphrase of the title and presentation of experimental details should be avoided. Please also indicate a figure from your manuscript or provide a copyright-free image for this section. The side ratio should be roughly 4:3 and detailed text should be avoided. This figure will be used for further advertising. If the image is submitted for the TOC only, please do not refer to this figure within the article.

4 Figures/Diagrams/Tables

4.1 Tables

Tables have to be numbered with Arabic numerals in the sequence in which they occur. The table caption above the table (beginning with “Table 1.”) must explain in detail the contents of the table. As the table itself, it must be written so that it can be read and understood without reference to the text.

Every table must be referred to in the text, e.g., “(Tab. 3)”.

Every column and every line of a table must be labeled unambiguously and indicate units wherever data are reported. Units do not have their own column, but are positioned directly behind the variable/parameter, separated by a blank (e.g., pressure p [bar]).

Footnotes in tables are denoted a), b), c), etc.

Tables must not be submitted as images, they need to remain editable. Use the table function provided by MS Word instead.

Please note that extensive and very detailed tables should not be included in the article but be published as Supporting Information (cf. Sect. 5)

4.2 Figures and Diagrams

As mentioned in Sect. 1, the number of figures is limited by the type of contribution. The number of subfigures is the total limit for the whole manuscript. One main figure may consist of max. four subfigures. One main figure must not draw on more than 1/2 of the final printed page. Please use the Supporting Information (Sect. 5) to present figures and diagrams of long term experiments.

Analytical spectra (NMR, IR, GC, GC-MS, UV-vis, Fluorescence, ESR, etc.) have to be submitted as Supporting Information (Sect. 5) and only the relevant areas of the spectra should be inserted in the main text.

Please ensure the visibility and differentiation of details. The quality of the figures must be such that they can be reproduced directly after reduction. Numbers, letters, and symbols inscribed must be large enough to be still 2 mm high after the figure has been reduced to the printing format. Thus, make sure that the size of the writing is big enough. Ideally, please use font size 10 for an image with 85 mm width. Sans-serif fonts should be preferred, e.g. Arial or Helvetica.

Colored figures are welcome! Please make use of different signs (e.g., ♦ and ∎) to ensure differentiation even in black and white printing. Alternatively, different lines can be used, e.g., ––– or –·–·.

Please use a symbol (in italics) to indicate the variable. Please use negative exponents in units, e.g., mol L–1.

Every figure must be referred to in the text, e.g., ... (Fig. 1). All figures are to be numbered with Arabic numerals in the sequence in which they appear. Subfigures have to be numbered with “(a)”, “(b)” etc., e.g., (Fig. 1 b). Subfigures must not be referred to as, e.g., “Fig. 2, bottom right”.

Figures should be included in the text after their first occurrence, but also be sent separately as TIF, JPG, or EPS files with highest resolution possible (at least 300 dpi), EMF files are not accepted. Please compile a list of all figure legends at the end of the manuscript.

Figure legends (beginning with “Figure 1.”) have to be self-explanatory and – as the figure itself – must be comprehensible without reference to the text. In case of subfigures, annotations like (a), (b), (c), etc. have to be used instead of bottom, left, right, etc. In case a complete setup is shown, the list of components has to be listed in the figure legend, not in the figure itself.

Particular care should be taken to ensure that figures reporting data are unambiguously labeled with regards to units and, in their legends, provide adequate information about the condition under which the data were obtained.

The responsibility for providing permissions to reprint Figures and Tables and any associated costs rests entirely with the author.

5 Supporting Information

Experimental procedures, spectroscopic data, graphics, large tables, etc. that are essential for understanding the main points of the publication but could be considered supplementary or cannot be included in the actual publication for space reasons or because of technical limitations, e.g., animated multimedia applications and movies, should be provided online as Supporting Information. This material is available free of charge to authors and readers, and appears simultaneously with the publication of the article on Wiley Online Library. If SI are available, please insert a statement (see Sect. 3.7).

5.1 Organization/Format

The Supporting Information should start with the title, authors and correspondence address followed by a Table of Contents. The relationships between the sections of the main article and the Supporting Information should be apparent.

The scientific quality of the Supporting Information and the preparation of the text and graphics should be of the same standard as that in the actual publication. To submit multimedia files, please contact the editorial office.

The Supporting Information has to be submitted as a MS Word file including all figures. A template can be found here.

5.2 Reference in Main Manuscript

In the relevant sections of the main manuscript, reference should be made to the Supporting Information.

Additionally, a separate heading “Supporting Information” should be inserted in the main manuscript above the acknowledgment (see template).

If references are cited within the Supporting Information, they should be included at the end of the reference section of the primary manuscript. The heading “Supporting Information” should bear the citations for the additional references (see templates).

6 Galley Proofs

Galley proofs and a reprint order form will be sent electronically to the correspondence author mentioned in the article. Please correct your proof using the electronic annotation tools as instructed in the "Using E-annotation Tools" guidelines that can be found attached to the e-mail delivering the proofs. The corrections have to be submitted within three days after receiving the galley proof. Please also inform the editorial office if no corrections are needed.

7 Change of Authorship

In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, Chemical Engineering & Technology will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must agree to any proposed change. To request a change to the author list, please complete the Request for Changes to a Journal Article Author List Form and contact either the journal’s editorial or production office, depending on the status of the article. Authorship changes will not be considered without a fully completed Author Change form. (Correcting the authorship is different from changing an author’s name; the relevant policy for that can be found in Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines under “Author name changes after publication.”)

8 Author Copies

Copies of the articles and special issues can be ordered with a discount. Reprints and pdf files are only available upon order. Conditions can be seen from the order form which is sent together with the galley proofs.

9 Open Access

If authors wish to make their publications freely available at the moment they are published (open access), Chemical Engineering & Technology offers Open Access publication. You can find further information on our homepage.

10 Copyright Transfer Agreement

If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an e-mail inviting to login to Author Services, where, via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS), they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper. Authors may choose to publish under the terms of the journal's standard copyright agreement, or open access under the terms of a Creative Commons License. If the open access option is not selected, the corresponding author will be presented with the CTA to sign. The terms and conditions of the CTA can be previewed in the samples associated with the Copyright FAQs. There you also find some more specific license agreements. Please note: Manuscript proofs can only be finalized once the CTA form has been submitted.

11 Cover Suggestions

Authors have the opportunity to submit suggestions for the cover of Chem. Eng. Technol.. For a template and the current pricing, please refer to our website.

Please ensure that you obtain all copyright permission necessary for the reproduction of graphical elements used in your picture. Please be aware when using graphics from the internet that copyright permission and payment may be necessary.

When having bought a cover, the authors have the option to submit a cover story to be published alongside the online cover. It should be not more than 1000 characters long and may (but does not need to) correspond to the abstract of your contribution.

12 Article Promotion Support

Wiley Editing Services offers professional video, design, and writing services to create shareable video abstracts, infographics, conference posters, lay summaries, and research news stories for your research – so you can help your research get the attention it deserves.

Checklist

To avoid any delays in processing the submitted manuscript, please ensure that each point is fulfilled.

Manuscript

  • Manuscript has been organized according to the author guidelines.
  • Language and grammar have been checked.
  • Manuscript does not exceed the maximum length.
  • Number of figures (including subfigures) does not exceed the maximum value.
  • Figures have been prepared according to the author guidelines (size, resolution, format, font size).
  • References have been formatted according to the style of Chem. Eng. Technol.
  • Relevant literature has been covered and cited.
  • SI units are used throughout.
  • All analytical spectra are collected in one MS Word file as Supporting Information.
  • Supporting Information are mentioned in the primary manuscript. Statement is added at the end.

Submission Process

  • An ORCID number has been entered for the corresponding author.
  • All authors have been entered into the system.
  • Potential reviewers come from three different nations and none from your institution.
  • Cover letter including relevant information has been prepared.
  • Licensing Policy has been read and understood.
  • It has been noticed that all manuscripts which do not follow the author guidelines will be transferred to the draft status unsubmitted.

Status of Manuscript

Please be aware that from the time a manuscript is submitted until the time a decision is reached, the status of the manuscript will be “in process”. This includes manuscripts currently under review.

Refer and Transfer Program 

Wiley believes that no valuable research should go unshared. This journal participates in Wiley’s Refer & Transfer program. If your manuscript is not accepted, you may receive a recommendation to transfer your manuscript to another suitable Wiley journal, either through a referral from the journal’s editor or through our Transfer Desk Assistant. 

Publication Ethics

This journal endorses the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines and will pursue cases of suspected research and publication misconduct (e.g. falsification, fabrication, plagiarism, inappropriate image manipulation, redundant publication). In such cases, the journal will follow the processes set out in the COPE flowcharts (https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).