Acta E cif写作指南及主编的文章.doc

The purpose of this section is to promote consistency in the treatment ofsubmitted structure reports, and to draw attention to the points that mostoften need to be checked and amended.??It is hoped that this will make thetask of Co-editors easier, and will also encourage authors to avoid common errors and problems.??5.1. General text(1) Length of lines in CIF: unimportant except must be 80 characters;be careful not to generate longer lines when editing!(2) Avoid hyphenation of words across line breaks.(3) Spaces are needed after punctuation (period, comma, semi-colon andcolon).(4) No spaces before punctuation, after ([ and before )], and before \.(5) Paragraphs in text separated by blank lines.(6) Common errors:/ instead of \A instead of \^o^ instead of \ for degrees symbolGreek letters spelt out instead of coded, e.g. sigma for \s, eta for \hChemical formulae in text blocks without subscripts(7) Spelling may be either British or American but must be consistentthroughout the paper.(8) No comment lines beginning with # inside semi-colon delimited textblocks; they are treated as normal text!5.2. Title, authors and abstract(1) Title should usually be compound name and/or some informative brief textreferring to the nature of the compound; long systematic names areundesirable.Additional text such as Redetermination of; a neutron study; at high pressure;a strained polycyclic molecule; The first example of, is welcomed, but Crystal structure of and similar phrases are unnecessary.??Avoid titles consisting only of a chemical formula.??First letter of title should be capital (except for prefixes like ortho-, trans- or dl-); no capital letters for start of other words.(2) Compound name (not necessarily strict full IUPAC) and chemical formulashould be in Abstract if not in Title.(3) Any crystallographic symmetry of molecules should be stated in Abstract.(4) No crystal data (cell parameters, space group, etc.) in Abstract unlessgood reason.(5)