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Surface Coatings International Part B publishes Papers, Reviews and Communications that add significantly to the science and technology of paints, inks and related coatings and their raw materials. Included are reports of advances, innovations or important new information pertaining to analysis, properties, processing, raw materials, products and applications of coatings. Breakthroughs in coatings technology and products and applications are particularly appropriate.
Communications provide a means of publishing brief reports of significant new findings, new features of equipment, instrument or techniques. Because of their brevity, the publication of Communications can be expedited. A less formal style is used for Communications.
Papers and Reviews whose principal contents have been published in English language Journals of Record, or are being considered for publication by another Journal of Record, are not accepted. Approved manuscripts become the property of the Oil & Colour Chemists' Association and may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the Managing Editor. Authors should complete and submit the Transfer of Copyright form with their submitted paper. Please contact the Managing Editor (Email chris@occa.org.uk) if you have any problems in completing the form.
Send manuscripts to the Managing Editor, Surface Coatings International, 1st Floor, 3 Eden Court, Eden Way, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire LU7 4FY, UK. Manuscripts must be in English, typed double spaced.
Submit three complete copies and original artwork to the Managing Editor, requesting consideration of the manuscript as a Paper Review or Communication. It is appropriate, but not necessary, to suggest names of possible reviewers.
More specific information follows.
The title should be brief, descriptive, concise and contain important words for indexing. Limited to 100 characters and spaces.
Authors' names and the affiliation(s) should be listed. Authors may give their full first name(s) or initial. Authors' names in Cyrillic, Japanese, etc should be transliterated. An asterisk should follow the name of the author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Current addresses of authors, if different from those listed in the byline, and other pertinent information, may be given in a numbered footnote to the respective author's name. In publications originating from several institutions, the names of all authors shall be cited first, with superscript arabic numbers used to refer the reader to the name of the institution to which each author is affiliated.
Provide the name and complete mailing address, telephone and fax numbers and email address, if available, of the person who will approve the proofs.
The use of footnotes to the text is discouraged. If used, all footnotes must be brief. All footnotes, except for the author's address, must be numbered consecutively by superscript arabic numerals. Footnotes to the title page may include current addresses of authors, if different from the address where the study was undertaken.
Maximum length 100 words with no literature references. The abstracts should briefly state the objective and approach, and give a succinct summary of results and major conclusions. Emphasis should be on what was found, not what was done. The abstract should be written in either English, French or German, according to the linguistic preference of the author.
Authors are asked to list, in alphabetical order, five keywords or phrases that describe the subject matter of their paper. Authors should select one keyword or phrase that best describes the subject matter and so indicate by underlining it. Since keywords and phrases will be used for indexing, special attention should be given to their selection.
The introduction should be brief and informative with a few key references. It should not be a lengthy review of all background literature. It should be limited to identifying the gap in scientific knowledge or the problem (practical or theoretical) addressed by the research. This should seldom require more than 500 words. Ideally, not more than 8 to 10 references should be cited.
Sufficient detail or literature reference to methods used should be included to permit others to repeat or extend the experiment. Provide a company name and location for sources of all chemicals, instruments and equipment, except in cases of very common items for which company name alone may be listed.
Also provide an overview of the experimental approach used, especially in the case of complex or unusual design. Provide information on the experimental procedures, including sample preparation, the type of test(s) used and efforts to balance or randomise samples and/or tests, with enough detail to enable others to repeat the experiment(s). Describe how the data was evaluated; in most cases data should be evaluated by statistical analysis and a proper procedure reference.
These should be in a section that relates what was found and how it addresses the gap or problem identified in the introduction. Lengthy speculation should be omitted. This section should be organised to supplement, but not repeat, data in tables and figures and to present, in narrative form, equations, formulae and data for which tables or figures are unnecessary.
These should be presented as a group in simplest form.
These should appear in numerical order within the text, in parenthesis in numerical sequence and listed under References by number in the order cited. Use ibid for repeating references to the same journal. The first author should be listed last name first, followed by initials; subsequent authors are listed by initials followed by last name. The subsequent order should be: Full title of the paper, name of the journal, volume number in bold, issue number in parenthesis, page number(s), month of publication, year of publication.
Books or conference proceedings should be listed by the first author (last name followed by initials), subsequent authors (initials followed by last name), title of book, publisher, location of publisher, year of publication. For patents, the reference listings should be first author (last name followed by initials), subsequent authors (initials followed by last name), patent number, year.
Following are examples of a correct format for listing references:
1. Murakami T, R H Fernando and J E Glass, 'The Influence of Hydrophobically-Modified, Alkali-Swellable Emulsions on the Rheology of Pigmented Coatings', JOCCA, 76, (1), 8-14, January 1993.
2. Roffey C G, 'Photopolymerisation of Surface Coatings', John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1982.
3. Linton H, US Patent 3.470.007, 1993
All tables etc must be referred to in the main text because their position on the published pages cannot be guaranteed.
Do not include tables in the text, but place on separate sheet(s), numbered (arabic) and titled.
Tables should be understandable without reference to the text. Photographs and slides are acceptable. Do not embed them in the text, but place each on a separate sheet. Any artwork must be of a good quality.
Electronic files should be organised as follows
A text file containing text, references and figure captions; a table file containing tables (if applicable); a separate file for each figure. For text, files in "Word" format are preferred. In addition, use the "Save As" option in your wordprocessor programme to save a separate copy of each file in RTF, ASCII (PC) or Text Only (Macintosh) format on to your disk. Figures should be saved in Photoshop, Illustrator or Freehand, or exported to one of the following formats at a high resolution:
TIFF, JPEG, PCX (for PC), PICT (for Mac), bitmapped, Chemdraw, or GIF formats. Proprietary formats such as Microsoft's PowerPoint or Word, particularly those containing photographs generally do not provide high quality output and should not be submitted.
As the publication is printed in black only, colour should not be used. However, colour reproduction of photographs will be used if the author considers that colour is essential. Please contact the Managing Editor for advise.
Set in-text equations on one line, eg a = b ÷ (c – d). However, equations intended to be displayed on a line by themselves should be set display style,
Do not confuse mathematical symbols with abbreviations.
Many familiar notations appear without periods, eg mL,g,sh. If abbreviating terms, please spell them out when they first appear. Abbreviations may be introduced in the Abstract for terms used more than once. However, this does not replace the need to define them again the first time they are used. SI system is required (other units optional in parenthesis); use decimal, not fractions, and percentage symbol (%) only after numbers; degrees Celsius or degrees Fahrenheit or degrees Kelvin. Typewritten or handwritten characters that are subject to misinterpretation (eg Greek letters) must be spelled out in the margin the first time they appear. Commercial products should be expressed by common name or scientific name (if one exists) followed by trade name in parenthesis only if essential; promotional statements concerning commercial products are unacceptable.
Where material in tabular form is used for general reference purposes, this may appear at the end of the article in an appendix. The appendices must be referred to in the text.
Page proofs will be submitted to the author before publication. Corrected proofs, must be returned as soon as possible after receipt. The Managing Editor reserves the right to publish papers without authors' corrections if proofs are not returned by the due date.
The principal author will receive, free of charge, 5 copies of the issue of Surface Coatings International Part B, containing his paper. Offprints may be purchased in quantities of 50 or more; quotations will be sent on request.
The Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board is always willing to assist or advise potential authors. He can be contacted by telephone +41 61 636 4568 or fax +41 61 636 7996 or email simon.lawrence@cibasc.com or write to Dr S G Lawrence at Ciba Specialty Chemical Inc. Colors, WKL - 424.2.08, CH-4002, Basle, Switzerland. Alternatively, authors may contact the Honorary Editor, Dr P S Thukral at 175 The Avenue, Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex TW16 5EH, United Kingdom, telephone: +44 (0)1932 780208 or fax +44 (0)1932 770095 or the Managing Editor by telephone: +44 (0)20 8908 1086 or fax: +44 (0)20 8908 1219 or email sci@occa.org.uk or write to Mr C Pacey-Day, Surface Coatings International, 1st Floor, 3 Eden Court, Eden Way, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire LU7 4FY, UK.