Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission is
i) in response to an invitation by the Guest Editor(s) for one of the special topic issues listed under ’Section’;
ii) for one of the CHIMIA columns. Please choose the probable issue listed in ’Section’, tick the corresponding 'Category', and indicate in the Comments to the Editor for which column the submission is intended;
iii) Non-invited submissions will be considered as Notes. Notes should be of high impact for the Swiss chemical community and particular consideration will be given to authors that have a close association with the Swiss chemical community. The section ‘Articles’ must be selected and a Letter to the Editor must be included to explain why the submission should be considered for publication in CHIMIA.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in Microsoft Word (doc or docx) format. This will be used for processing. In addition a pdf version of the manuscript including the tables and graphics in the position they should appear in the final version,
should be submitted, which will be used as a definitive version in the event of errors in processing. For LaTeX, see next point in checklist.
LaTeX files are acceptable, but not as a native file. Please generate a pdf and this will be used for the processing. Each chemical formula, figure or scheme must be saved in its native format or pdf in a separate file.
Each formula, figure or scheme is saved in its native format or pdf in a separate file.
The tables are set up with the table function of the word processing software or with the tabulator key.
Times font is used for text and Symbol for Greek letters. Footnote management systems and end-of-line hyphenation are avoided.
Please indicate in the 'Information for the Editor' the name of your Guest Editor, if appropriate, or the column for which your submission is intended, so that it can be properly assigned.

Author Guidelines

CHIMIA, a scientific journal for chemistry in the broadest sense, covers the interests of a wide and diverse readership. Contributions from all fields of chemistry and related areas are considered for publication in the form of Review Articles and Notes. A characteristic feature of CHIMIA are the special topic issues, in which the contents of one issue is devoted to an area of chemistry of great current significance.

CHIMIA is a platinum Open Access journal operating under the licence CC_BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). There are no Article Processing fees for authors of peer-reviewed scientific articles. The authors retain the copyright of their work and allow it to be shared and reused, provided that it is correctly cited.

Special issues are usually organized by a guest editor who is in charge of inviting the contributors and collecting the manuscripts. The final decision to accept or reject a contribution is taken by the Editor in Chief of CHIMIA.

Before writing a manuscript for CHIMIA, be sure to read the ‘Instructions to Authors’. Please also consult a recent issue of the journal to see the actual format of the publication and the layout of a particular article type.

Instructions to Authors

References can be formatted using one of the CHIMIA citation styles forEndnote, Mendeley, Zotero or Papers. For installation of the style file, please follow the help manual of your reference management software.

Output Style for Endnote

Citation Style Language (CSL) file for Mendeley, Zotero, Papers

Vol 77 No 4 (2023) Laureates: Junior Prizes Fall Meeting 2022

Guest Editors: Eva Hevia, Hans Peter Lüthi

Vol 77 No 5 (2023) Flow Chemistry

Guest Editor: Claudio Battilocchio

Vol 77 No 6 (2023) Biocatalysis

Guest Editor: Rebecca Buller

Vol 77 No 7/8 (2023) SCS Laureates and Awards & Fall Meeting 2023

Guest Editor: Christian Bochet, Catherine E. Housecroft

Vol 77 No 9 (2023) The Swiss TPH: AT the Centre of Trans-global Health

Guest Editor: Jürg Utzinger

Vol 77 No 10 (2023) Division of Chemical Education

Guest Editor: Jan Cvengros

Vol 77 No 11 (2023) Soil Chemistry

Guest Editor: Claudio Screpanti

Vol 77 No 12 (2023) Green and Sustainable Chemistry - Waste Valorization

Guest Editors: Paul Dyson, Felix Bobbink, Fabrice Gallou

Vol 77 No 1/2 (2023) Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Research

Guest Editor: Torsten Luksch

Vol 77 No 3 (2023) NCCR Catalysis

Guest Editors: Lauren Gamp, Marie Francine Lagadec, Javier Pérez-Ramírez

Copyright Notice

In signing this agreement, the corresponding author certifies that she or he is authorised by all authors of the manuscript detailed above to enter into these arrangements. All authors of the manuscript agree with the publication of the manuscript and all authors are entitled to enter into such arrangements.
The submitted manuscript is original, written by the authors, and has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, report or working paper). The manuscript is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
The authors warrant and represent that the rights they grant in this agreement are not now subject to prior assignment, transfer or other encumbrance. This also applies to the text and photo originals attained from other sources (for which the authors have secured the right to reproduce any material that has already been published or copyrighted elsewhere).
The manuscript contains nothing that is unlawful, libelous, or which would, if published, constitute a breach of contract or of confidence or of commitment given to secrecy.
In the event that the parties to this agreement, either individually or collectively, are held responsible for damages and/or the costs of a legal process undertaken by a third party as a result of the authors’ actions under points 1, 2, 3, and 4, the authors agree to release the Swiss Chemical Society (Publisher) from the claims of the third party and to compensate the Publisher for any resulting legal costs.
The authors agree to the following license and copyright agreement:
1. Authors retain copyright in their work.
2. Authors grant the CHIMIA the right of first publication online in the internet (on the internet platform Ingenta Connect, www.ingentaconnect.com), www.chimia.ch and in print.
3. The electronic contributions in the internet are distributed under the ‘Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International’ License CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This license allows others to copy and redistribute the work in any medium or format, to remix, transform and build upon the material with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in CHIMIA. These conditions are irrevocable. The full text of the license may be read under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.
4. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of their work, as long as the conditions of the CC BY 4.0 License are fulfilled and initial publication in CHIMIA is acknowledged.
5. Authors grant the Publisher commercial rights to produce hardcopy volumes of the journal for sale to libraries and individuals, as well as to integrate the manuscript, its title, and its abstract in databases, abstracting and indexing services, and other similar information services.
6. This agreement is subject to possible legal disclosure obligations.
7. This agreement is governed by Swiss law. Court of jurisdiction is Bern.

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