Contributions falling into the following categories will be considered for publication: Progress Reports, Original Research Reports, Reviews, Communications, and Editorial.
Please ensure that you select the appropriate article type from the list of options when making your submission. Authors contributing to special issues should ensure that they select the special issue article type from this list.
A Progress Report is a critically selected overview of latest progress in important research fields (especially in new emerging fields) of energy materials, providing insight, selectivity, criticism, unique opinion, even special vision, rather than a comprehensive article. The paper should have a short and unreferenced abstract. The main text is suggested to be at least 6,000 words in length (excluding abstract, references, tables, figure captions, and Supplementary Information), be divided into reasonable sections with succinct topical headings, and contain 5-10 display items (figures, tables). Illustrations are strongly encouraged. In addition, 4-8 keywords should be given.
A Review is a general overview of a particular field or topic, giving a summary of recent developments, as well as proposing specific viewpoints. The scope of a Review should be broad enough that it is not dominated by the work of a handful of research groups, and particularly not by the authors' own work. The article should have an unreferenced abstract. The main text is suggested to be at least 8,000 words in length (excluding abstract, references, tables, figure captions, and Supplementary Information), be divided into reasonable sections with succinct topical headings, and include 10-20 display items (figures, tables). Illustrations are strongly encouraged. In addition, 4-8 keywords should be given.
A Communication is a short report of outstanding findings in novel study in specific field(s) of energy materials. It also has general implications and appeals to specialists in the other fields. The major findings presented in a Communication or its significant part should not have appeared in any other publication in-print or online. The paper should have a short and unreferenced abstract which contains a brief account of the background and rationale of the work, and a statement of the major conclusions that can be drawn. The main text is suggested to be 2,000-3,000 words in length (excluding abstract, experimental section, references, tables, figure captions, and Supplementary Information) unless its high quality deserves particular consideration, contain 3-5 display items (figures, tables), and have no topical heading. In addition, 3-5 keywords should be given.
