Dear Authors,

Chemistry Journal of Moldova does not consider for evaluation the manuscripts that do not follow Journal requirements for style and format.

Therefore, we kindly ask you to follow Chemistry Journal of Moldova instructions carefully to ensure that the review and publication of your paper are as swift and efficient as possible. These notes may be downloaded here.

Short guidlines for Invited Papers.

Short guidlines for Review Papers.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION

MS Word template for the Graphical Abstract can be found here.

MS Word template for the Research Paper can be downloaded here. Use of this template is mandatory.

MS Word template for the Review Paper can be downloaded here. Use of this template is mandatory.

MS Word template for the Invited Paper can be downloaded here. Use of this template is mandatory.

MS Word template for the Short Communication can be downloaded here. Use of this template is mandatory.

The proposal form for Review Paper can be found here.

Submission of manuscripts

Please ensure that your submission contains the following items in separate Microsoft Word files:

1. Cover letter;

2. The manuscript with all schemes, figures, tables integrated in the text;

3. Graphical abstract.

These should be sent in an e-mail to:

Journal Editor, Academician Gheorghe DUCA

e-mail: chemjm.submission@gmail.com / chemjm@gmail.com

Cover letter

Please prepare a cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief containing the following information:

1. Justification of why the manuscript should be published in the “Chemistry Journal of Moldova. General, Industrial and Ecological Chemistry”;

2. Declaration that the manuscript has not been published previously, in English or in any other language;

3. Declaration that the manuscript is not under consideration for publication in any other scientific journals;

4. The research field of their manuscript as well as the nature of the contribution (Short Communication, Research Paper or Review Article);

5. Names, the scientific title, ORCID and SCOPUS Author IDs, complete affiliations (spelled out), country and contact details (including current and valid (preferably business) e-mail address ) of the author(s) must be included at the end of the cover letter.
6. Author contribution statement specifying the contribution of each author of the manuscript.

The cover letter should be signed by the corresponding author, indicating under his name the scientific title and degree, followed by his affiliation

Authors will be notified by email if their contribution is received and accepted.

Proofs will be dispatched via e-mail and should be returned to the publisher with corrections as quickly as possible, normally within 48 hours of receipt.

Editorial Policy

1. Readers can study, download and/or print OPEN access articles at no cost.
2. Articles are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the work is properly cited.
3. Chemistry Journal of Moldova follows the single blind peer-review procedure for submitted of all manuscripts. Single blind is the most common type of peer-reviewing in which the identity of the reviewers is not disclosed to the authors of the submitted manuscript. The anonymity of reviewers allows for objective assessment of the manuscript by reviewers and is also free from any influence by the authors on the reviewers comments.
Procedure for manuscript management described here.
4. Plagiarism Prevention: Chemistry Journal of Moldova use software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Software checks content against a database of periodicals, the Internet, and a comprehensive article database. It generates a similarity report, highlighting the percentage overlap between the uploaded article and the published material. Any instance of content overlap is further scrutinized for suspected plagiarism according to the publisher's Editorial Policy. Chemistry Journal of Moldova allows an overall similarity of 10% for a manuscript to be considered for publication.

Types of Plagiarism: We all know that scholarly manuscripts are written after thorough review of previously published articles. It is therefore not easy to draw a clear boundary between legitimate representation and plagiarism. However, the following important features can assist in identifying different kinds of plagiarized content. These are:

1. Reproduction of others words, sentences, ideas or findings as one’s own without proper acknowledgement.
2. Text recycling, also known as self-plagiarism. It is the author’s use of a previous publication in another paper without proper citation and acknowledgement of the original source.
3. Paraphrasing poor Copying complete paragraphs and modifying a few words without changing the structure of original sentences or changing the sentence structure but not the words.
4. Verbatim copying of text without putting quotation marks and not acknowledging the work of the original author.
5. Properly citing a work but poorly paraphrasing the original text is considered as unintentional plagiarism. Similarly, manuscripts with language somewhere between paraphrasing and quoting are not acceptable. Authors should either paraphrase properly or quote and in both cases, cite the original source.
6. Higher similarity in the abstract, introduction, materials and methods, and discussion and conclusion sections indicates that the manuscript may contain plagiarized text. Authors can easily explain these parts of the manuscript in many ways. However, technical terms and sometimes standard procedures cannot be rephrased; therefore, Editors must review these sections carefully before making a decision.

Plagiarism in Manuscripts: Submitted manuscripts which are found to contain plagiarized text are rejected.

5. Copyrights: Chemistry Journal of Moldova retains the copyright to the published works.
6. It is a condition of publication that manuscripts submitted to this journal have not been published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere.
7. The authors are allowed to incorporate the article into one or more collective works, and to reproduce the article as incorporated in collective works as long as the original work is properly cited.
8. Proofs: Proofs will be dispatched via e-mail and should be returned to the publisher with corrections as quickly as possible, normally within 48 hours of receipt.

9. Redundant (multiple) publication/ Re-publication: Abstracts and posters at conferences, results presented at meetings (for example, to inform investigators or participants about findings), and results databases (data without interpretation, discussion, context or conclusions in the form of tables and text to describe data/information where this is not easily presented in tabular form) are not considered to be prior publication.
10. Authors who want to publish translations of the articles that have been published elsewhere should ensure that they have appropriate permission(s), should indicate clearly that the material has been translated and re-published, and should indicate clearly the original source of the material.
The Editor-in-Chief may request copies of related publications if they are concerned about overlap and possible redundancy.
11. Disclaimer: Responsibility for the content published in Chemistry Journal of Moldova, including any opinions expressed therein, rests exclusively with the author(s) of such content.

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