For authors

1. Submitting Papers to the eXPRESS Polymer Letters
2. Formatting Guidelines
3. Copyright
4. Permission request

1. Submitting Papers to the eXPRESS Polymer Letters

Papers may be submitted only online via the Manuscript Central. Please register at the journal web site, www.expresspolymlett.com. After logging into the system as an author you can upload your manuscript.

Submission of a paper implies that it is original research work, which has not been published previously, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher of eXPRESS Polymer Letters.

If revision of the original manuscript is required, authors will have a maximum of four weeks (from receipt of the referees comments) to revise and re-submit. A revised manuscript received by the Editor later than two weeks after the author's receipt of the referees' comments will be treated as a new submission. Authors are allowed to revise the original manuscript only once. If further revisions are requested the manuscript will be treated as a new submission.

Papers which do not follow the instructions below may not be accepted for publication.

For initial submission the complete paper must be uploaded in PDF format. The order of the manuscripts should be as follows: title, author(s) and affiliation(s), telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address of the corresponding author, abstract, keywords, text, references, legends of figures and tables. Tables and figures can be inserted into the main text or added at the end of the manuscript. The sequences of pages, tables, figures should be numbered with Arabic numerals. If your submission is incomplete, it has to be completed within 3 months; otherwise it will be deleted from our database. Failing this deadline, the manuscript should be submitted as a new one.

For submission of the revised article the following must be uploaded:

a text file containing the revised text, references, acknowledgement, legends of figures and tables, prepared according to the specification described below. The preferred file format is Word (.doc) or rich text (.rtf).
a separate image file of each figure. Ensure that figures will be legible and comprehensible at final size and are of sufficiently high resolution (see instruction below). Permitted file formats are JPEG (.jpg) and TIFF (.tif).
a response to the reviewer's comments in Word or PDF (preferred) file.

Proofs in PDF format can be downloaded from Manuscript Central after the notification sent to the corresponding via e-mail. The proofs should be returned within 48 hours of receipt. It is therefore essential to provide full e-mail addresses of each author. Corrections should be restricted to minor corrections (like typesetting errors, etc.). Please scan the corrected pages of the proofs and then upload them through the manuscript central.

2. Formatting Guidelines

2.1. Manuscript

The manuscript should be written in English in a clear and concise manner and should follow the style of eXPRESS Polymer Letters. The manuscript must be typewritten, with 1.5 line spacing and 2.5 cm margins around, using Times New Roman and 12 pt font size. All pages must be numbered consecutively. The order of the manuscripts should be title, author(s) and affiliation(s), telephone and fax numbers as well as e-mail address of the corresponding author, abstract, keywords, text, references, legends of figures and tables.

Title should be concise, informative and representative of the contents of the manuscript.
Full affiliations and postal addresses must be given for all authors. An asterisk should designate the author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Please consider, that our journal policy allows only one corresponding author. Quantification of author contributions in percentages is not possible.
Abstract of minimum 10, maximum 15 typewritten lines identifying the new and significant results of the study must be provided. The abstract should comprise a brief review of the contents and the conclusions of the paper. No graphical abstracts are published.

Minimum three, maximum five keywords are required, among them minimum one must be selected from the given list. The others can be given freely.

Polymer composites
Polymer blends and alloys
Nanomaterials
Nanocomposites
Polymer synthesis, molecular engineering
Tailor-made polymers
Biopolymers, biocomposites
Biodegradable polymers
Biocompatible polymers
Smart polymers
Polymer gels
Polymer membranes
Thermosetting resins
Rheology

Reinforcements
Processing technologies
Rubber
Adhesion
Coatings
Material testing
Fracture and fatigue
Mechanical properties
Thermal properties
Damage mechanism
Recycling
Modeling and simulation
Industrial applications

The main text should include introduction, experimental section, results, discussion and conclusion. Figures or tables should not be embedded in the text. All footnotes (except for table footnotes) should be identified with superscript Arabic numbers. Headings and subheadings for different sections of the papers should be used and clearly identified. If each section needs to be numbered, a sequence such as 2., 2.1., 2.1.1., etc should be used. All tables and figures (subfigures) should be referred to in the text as 'Figure 1', 'Table 1'. Reaction schemes and chemical structures should be included among the Figures numbered consecutively.
A proper introduction is required in the papers. The purpose of the introduction is to summarize previous work and recent progress in the field briefly and not to repeat information found in previous publications. The introduction must be kept to a minimum length and only references that pertain to the information in the manuscript should be used.
The experimental section should provide sufficient detail of the materials, methods and equipment to allow repetition of the work elsewhere, but should not contain excessive detail of commonly used procedures. Precautions for handling dangerous material or for performing hazardous procedures should be explicitly stated.
All data should be given in SI units.
Equations should be produced using Word Equation Editor. Equations should be numbered in sequence and referred to in the text, e. g. 'Equation (1)'.
This journal does not accept supporting information. Please include all information considered to be important into the main text, taking into account the limitation of figures described in chapter “2.2. Illustrations” of “For Authors” section.

Author(s) take the full responsibility for the accuracy of their references. The format of references must be uniform and consistent with the instructions below. All publications cited in the text should be referred to by a number in square brackets (e.g. [1]). Note that only one reference belongs to one number.
Before formatting of the references please consider the followings:

In the list of references please do not use automatic numbering,
First give the family name and then the abbreviated given name(s) of the author(s), with dot and space: (Smith A. D.),
Do not use 'and' or 'et al.', give the names of each author (Smith A. D., Small B., Big C.: ),
Please provide the complete title of publication (title of paper, book, book chapter, standard, patent) in lowercase, only the first letter capital (Title of the paper),
Please give the complete name of the journal, never use the abbreviated form of it and with capital letter of the initials (Express Polymer Letters)
Please insert the DOI number (if there is) in separated line as active link in the following format (example): https://doi.org/10.3144/expresspolymlett.2009.1. Note that the DOI number is generally displayed in the referred publication OR it can be found by searching at http://www.crossref.org/SimpleTextQuery/,
If you are uncertain of the correct format, please check the reference lists of any of our published papers.
Website addresses are not to be cited.

Full reference should be given in a list at the end of the paper in the following form:

Papers:
[1]	Smith A., Small B.: Complete title of the paper. Complete Name of the Journal, 1, 48-58 (2004). https://doi.org/10.3144/expresspolymlett.2009.1
Books:
[2]	Big B.: Title of the book. Publisher, City (2002).
Book chapters:
[3]	Tailor B.: Title of the chapter. in ‘Title of the book’ (ed(s).: Jones Z., Small U.) Publisher, City, Vol 1, 86-123 (2002).
Proceedings:
[4]	Smith D.: Title of the proceeding. in ‘Proceeding of Name of the Conference or Symposium. Place of the conference, Country’, Vol, 72-76 (2002).
Standards:
[5]	EN ISO 527: Plastics. Determination of tensile properties (1994).
Patents:
[6]	Jones G.: Title of the patent. Registration number, Country (2003).

Please feel free to use our EndNote template (LINK). Note that the embedded list of references is only appropriate and unified if your EndNote database format is properly set.
Please double-check the format of the final list of references right before submitting the manuscript with respect to the DOI links (https://doi.org/...), the format of acronyms (e.g.: DMTA, MWCNTs, ABS, PLA, etc.), names (Avrami-equation, Owen–Wendt method etc.) and others (CO2, copper (II) ion, since these are also converted to small letters automatically (only the first character of the title of references remains capitalized).

2.2. Illustrations

Not more than 20 figures (included subfigures) are allowed in research papers, while in case of a review article 30 figures can be used.
For best results, illustrations should be prepared and submitted in the actual size at which they should appear in the journal and fit a single column width (77 mm) or page width (159 mm) and a maximum height of 240 mm.
Authors must ensure that the labeling of the figures will be legible at final size. The minimum font size for lettering appearing in a figure should be 8 pt size (equivalent to 2 mm in height for capital letters) at final width; lines should not be thinner than 0.5 point and should be of uniform density. Ensure that curves on multiple plots are clear, in particular that any symbols used on graphs can be distinguished following reduction. Check that all labels are correct and free of spelling or numerical errors. Axis labels should be of the typical form: Stress [MPa]; Velocity (v) [m/s].
Chemical structures should be produced with the use of any commercially available drawing package. No hand-drawn chemical structures will be accepted. Structures must fit a one or two-column width on the journal page. Structures occupying one-column width are highly preferred. The actual size at which they should appear in the journal will provide the best publication quality.
Color artworks are available but please take into consideration that articles will be printed mainly in black and white. Graphs with colored lines and keys, contour maps, model outputs, etc. will not be reproduced adequately if converted direct to grayscale. For example, red and blue will be converted to similar grey levels and will not be distinguishable. Optimization for grayscale reproduction may improve the final result.
At the submission of revised version each figure must be supplied in digital form as a separate file. Permitted file formats are JPEG (.jpg) and TIFF (.tif). Figures embedded in Word documents are not suitable for reproduction. Images should be saved at a resolution of at least 600 dpi at final size (dpi=dots per inch; 600 dpi=240 dots per centimeter). Do not save at the default resolution (72 dpi). Crop any unwanted white space from around the figure before saving. Color figures must be provided in RGB format

3. Copyright

All authors must sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement before the article can be published. This transfer agreement enables the Publishers to protect the copyrighted material for the authors, but does not relinquish the author's proprietary rights. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any figure for which copyright exists from the copyright holder.

4. Permission request

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