Template and Style

Endnote Output Style: Authors are advised to use the Endnote ouptput style for submission.

Manuscript Template: Authors are recommended, but not required, to use the manuscript template for submission.

Publication frequency

Mass Spectrometry Letters will be published at least four times a year; 31th March, 30th June, 30th September, 31th December every year are the scheduled publishing dates. The publication frequency is subjected to future change, which should be advised by the Editorial board meeting’s decisions.

Publication charge

All the papers will be published for free without any payment of page charge or article processing charge and the access to the papers in Mass Spectrometry Letters is also free to the public in general through the homepage of the journal. The publication cost will be covered by the Korean Society for Mass Spectrometry. The printed journal issue will be provided to the Korean Society for Mass Spectrometry members who have completed the annual membership fee payment.

Copyright

All MS Letters content is Open Access, meaning it is accessible online to everyone, without fee and authors' permission. All MS Letters content is published and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License(Http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Under this license, authors reserve the copyright for their content; however, they permit anyone to unrestrictedly use, distribute, and reproduce the content in any medium as far as the original authors and source are cited. For any reuse, redistribution, or reproduction of a work, users must clarify the license terms under which the work was produced.

Referee Reviews

Submitted manuscripts are subjected to review by at least 2 referees selected by the editors. Mass Spectrometry Letters operates a single-blind peer review process. The authors can recommend preferred potential reviewers with the names and e-mail addresses. Note that the editor retains the sole right to decide whether or not the suggested reviewers are used.

Conflict of interest

All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work.

Submission declaration and verification

Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder. To verify originality, your article may be checked by the originality detection software.

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

For the policies on the research and publication ethics not stated in this instructions, International standards for editors and authors (http://publicationethics.org/international-standards-editors-and-authors) can be applied.

Language and language services

The manuscript should be prepared in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of both). English language proof-reading service is recommended before publication.

Submission

Submission to this journal proceeds totally online and you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files.

Manuscript Types

Mass Spectrometry Letters publishes several types of articles: letter, technical note, article, review, and tutorial.  

Review. A comprehensive overview on a topic in mass spectrometry. There is no restriction in length.

Article. A full-length article presenting important new research results. The length of the articles should not exceed ten printed pages.

Technical note. A short description of a novel apparatus of technique. The length of technical notes should not exceed three printed pages.

Letter. A short report on any subject in mass spectrometry, requiring urgency, timeliness, and scientific significance. The length of letters should not exceed four printed pages.

Tutorial. A tutorial is an educational exposition covering recent trends and basic knowledge in mass spectrometry. There is no restriction in length

All manuscripts for publication in Mass Spectrometry Letters, except review and tutorial, should include Title, Authors, Abstract, Introduction, Experimental section, Results and Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgments, and References.

Preparation of Manuscripts

Submission checklist

Please ensure the following items are present in the manuscript prior to sending it to the journal's review system.

*References in the correct format for this journal

*All tables (including title, description, footnotes)

*All figure captions

*Keywords

*The corresponding author’s telephone number

*The corresponding author’s postal address

*The corresponding author’s e-mail address

Authorship

All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following: (1) the conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, (3) final approval of the version to be published, and (4) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. All those designated as authors should meet all four criteria for authorship, and all who meet the four criteria should be identified as authors. Acquisition of funding, data collection, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship. Individuals who have contributed substantially to some (but not all) of the four categories, or in other areas, should be listed in Acknowledgments.

Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Changing authorship is possible during revision, if appropriate, according to the additional contributions needed for revision. However, once the decision of acceptance is made, adding authors or changing the first or the corresponding authors is not allowed. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only if approved by the Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (a) the reason for the change in author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed. The Editor may decline any inappropriate changes.

ORCID iD Now Required

ORCID iDs are now required for corresponding authors of published papers. You can enter ORCID iDs in the submission process. ORCID is an independent non-profit effort to provide an open registry of unique researcher identifiers and open services to link research activities and organizations to these identifiers. The ORCID iD is a unique, persistent digital identifier that distinguishes an individual investigator and can be used to connect researchers with their contributions to science over time and across changes of name, location, and institutional affiliation. These free identifiers are assigned and maintained by the non-profit organization ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier).