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Bulletin of The Chemical Society of Ethiopia

Instructions to authors…./ Instructions aux auteurs….

1. The Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia is a biannual publication of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia. The Bulletin invites contributions in any field of basic and applied chemistry.

2. Types of contributions. The Bulletin publishes:

2.1. Full papers reporting the results of original research. The materials should not have been published elsewhere, nor should they be sent elsewhere for publication simultaneously.

2.2. Short communications containing the results of a limited investigation. These should be properly documented by references to the literature and by description of experimental procedures.

2.3. Reviews presenting thorough documentation on subjects of active and current interest in chemical sciences. Reviews are usually by invitation. However authors may submit outlines and upon notification of interest by the Editorial Board turn in complete manuscripts.

2.4. Feature Articles in Chemical Education, Chemistry and Society, etc.

3. The Manuscript.

3.1. All manuscripts must be written in English

3.2. Organization of Manuscript. It is preferred to have the manuscript organized under the following headings: (a) TITLE, Author(s), Address(es) and ABSTRACT. Abstracts should not exceed 200 words. (b) INTRODUCTION: stating the purpose of the investigation and relating the manuscript to similar research in the literature. This is to be followed by (c) EXPERIMENTAL and (d) RESULTS AND DISCUSSION or vice-versa. (e) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT(S) and (f) REFERENCES: reference numbers in the text should appear sequentially in square brackets [ ] and not as super- or sub-scripts. Each reference should be given a separate reference number. Please note the following examples: JOURNAL: Glerup, J.; Goodson, P.A.; Hodgson, D.J.; Michelsen, K.; Rychlewska, U.; Weihe, H. Bull. Chem. Soc. Ethiop. 2000, 14, 129. BOOK: Silverstein, R.M.; Bassler, G.C.; Morrill, T.C. Spectroscopic Identification of Organic Compounds, 4th ed., Wiley: New York; 1995; p 178. NOTE: Do not use et al. to indicate more than one or two authors. Notations like ibid, loc. cit. etc. should be avoided.

3.3. Formulas, Figures and Tables should be drawn or