Coloration Technology

Author Guidelines

Topics

The Editor-in-Chief welcomes submission of papers on coloration and topics covering the science and technology of coloured materials. Its scope embraces:

Colorants of all classes in relation to:
• Molecular structure and physical form and the effects of these on application and in-service properties
• Chemistry, synthesis and manufacture

Chemicals:
• Composition and mode of action of chemicals used at any stage in coloration, including pre- and post-coloration processes

Application practice:
• Processing operations on different types of laboratory and bulk-scale equipment
• Practical significance of any processing variants
• Developments in coloration processes

Application theory:
• Chemistry and physical chemistry of coloration processes
• Correlation with industrial practice

Analysis and testing:
• Identification and characterisation of colorants, substrates, finishes and chemicals in substance and on substrates
• Identification of faults
• Fastness testing
• Equipment and techniques

Theory and practice of ancillary processes:
• Processes involved in coloration or in the achievement of the final coloured product

Physico-chemical aspects of colour:
• Colour and constitution
• Colour theory
• Colorimetry and equipment
• Colour matching
• Colour vision
• Spectra
• Photochemistry of colorants, substrates and chemicals

Plant, management and services, provided that it is directly related to coloration, information on:
• Building, machinery, works engineering and organisation
• Automation, instrumentation and control
• Power and energy resources
• Water quality, supply and handling
• Effluent, pollution and environmental factors

Subjects within the scope of the journal include those making functional use of colour in addition to more conventional, aesthetic colorants. The following illustrate fields considered of relevance to the journal.

Colorants; Application:
As well as conventional dyes and pigments, functional colorants fall within journal scope. Applications encompassed therefore include those in which the colour properties of the dyes or pigments being employed may not be of direct relevance to their use. Examples of functional colorant utilisation include, but are not restricted to: chromic materials whose appearance changes in response to a stimulus, such as light, heat, electrical current, pressure, etc.; construction of devices for solar power generation, organic electronics and displays; components in information technologies like photonics and data storage; therapeutic use in treating cancer or infections; probes in biomedicine and forensic science; photocatalytic additives and photosensitisers; security marking for authentication or validation. Aesthetic uses of colorants that are within scope extends from coloration of textiles, coatings, plastics, paper, ceramics, architectural materials, food, cosmetics, hair and fur, through to less conventional applications, such as prosthetics and dental implants.

Chemicals; Theory and practice of ancillary processes:
These subject areas cover materials used in the processing of substrates prior to coloration, such as bleaching agents, or following coloration, like finishes. Papers submitted in this area must include some element relating to impact on substrate colour properties. Influence over substrate colour prior to coloration is considered relevant as determined, for example, by whiteness index, yellowness index or colorimetric co-ordinates.

Analysis and testing:
In addition to describing developments in the assessment of colorants and ancillary materials before, during, and after their application, activities within this field include the analysis of coloured objects and colorants of historical interest, in addition to the conservation of coloured materials.

Please read the instructions below carefully for details on the submission of manuscripts, the journal's requirements and standards, as well as information concerning the procedure after a manuscript has been accepted for publication in Coloration Technology. Authors are encouraged to visit Wiley Author Services for further information on the preparation and submission of articles and figures.

Sections

1. Submission and Peer Review Process
2. Article Types
3. After Acceptance

1. Submission and Peer Review Process

Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the Author Guidelines, manuscripts should be submitted online at https://submission.wiley.com/journal/cote.

For help with submissions, please contact: [email protected].

This journal does not charge submission fees.

Article Preparation Support

Wiley Editing Services offers expert help with English Language Editing, as well as translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration, figure formatting, and graphical abstract design – so you can submit your manuscript with confidence.

Also, check out our resources for Preparing Your Article for general guidance about writing and preparing your manuscript.

New submissions should be made via the Research Exchange submission portal https://submission.wiley.com/journal/cote. For technical help with the submission system, please review our FAQs or contact [email protected].

Free format submission

Coloration Technology now offers free format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process.

Before you submit, you will need:

• Your manuscript: this can be a single file including text, figures, and tables, or separate files—whichever you prefer. All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including abstract, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Figures and tables should have legends. References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript. If the manuscript, figures or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers. If your manuscript is difficult to read, the editorial office may send it back to you for revision.
• The title page of the manuscript, including statements relating to our ethics and integrity policies (see information on these policies below in Section 1):
• data availability statement
• funding statement
• conflict of interest disclosure
• ethics approval statement
• patient consent statement
• permission to reproduce material from other sources
• clinical trial registration
• Your co-author details, including affiliation and email address.
• An ORCID ID, freely available at https://orcid.org.

If you are invited to revise your manuscript after peer review, the journal will also request the revised manuscript to be formatted according to journal requirements as described below.


Open Access

Subscription journal that offers an open access option. You’ll have the option to choose to make your article open access after acceptance, which will be subject to an APC. For more information on this journal’s APCs, please see the Open Access page.

Preprint policy:

Please find the Wiley preprint policy here.

This journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers.

Wiley's Preprints Policy statement for subscription/hybrid open access journals

Coloration Technology will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. You may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. You are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.

Data Sharing and Data Availability

This journal encourages data sharing. Review Wiley’s Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and select the data availability statement that is right for your submission.

Data Citation

Please review Wiley’s Data Citation policy.

Funding

You should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. You are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature.

Authorship

All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. Review editorial standards and scroll down for a description of authorship criteria.

ORCID

This journal requires ORCID. Please refer to Wiley’s resources on ORCID.

Reproduction of Copyright Material

If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is your responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners. For more information visit Wiley’s Copyright Terms & Conditions FAQ.

The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining written permission to reproduce the material "in print and other media" from the publisher of the original source, and for supplying Wiley with that permission upon submission.

Title Page 

The title page should contain: 

1. A brief informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (Wiley's best practice SEO tips);
2. A short running title of less than 40 characters;
3. The full names of the authors;
4. The author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
5. Acknowledgments.

Main Text File

The main text file should be in Word or PDF format and include:

• A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations
• The full names of the authors with institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;
• Acknowledgments;
• Abstract structured (intro/methods/results/conclusion) or unstructured
• Up to five keywords;
• Main body: formatted as introduction, materials & methods, results, discussion, conclusion
• References;
• Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);
• Figures: Figure legends must be added beneath each individual image during upload AND as a complete list in the text.

Reference Style

This journal uses AMA 10^th edition. Review your reference style guidelines prior to submission.

Figures and Supporting Information

Figures, supporting information, and appendices should be supplied as separate files. You should review the basic figure requirements for manuscripts for peer review, as well as the more detailed post-acceptance figure requirements. View Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.

Molecular Structures: Representations of chemical compounds depicted in Schemes, Figures and Tables should be drawn in a consistent manner. Functional groups, heteroatoms and labels must be in a san-serif font, most preferably Arial. The size of font must be in proportion to bond length. As a guide, 12pt font is suitable for use with bonds of 0.7cm length and 0.7pt thickness with spaces for unsaturated bonds being 18% of bond length. In chains containing a backbone of sp2- and/or sp3-hydridised atoms of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen or sulphur atoms, bond angles of 120o should be set. Indexes used for labelling of groups must be superscript rather than subscript, e.g. R1-CH2-R2 rather than R1-CH2-R2. Common abbreviations for functional groups are permitted, e.g. ‑Me instead of ‑CH3, although their use must be consistent. For labelling of compounds, bold numerals (e.g. 1) are preferred. Aromatic systems must be represented by alternating single and double bonds rather than with an internal circle. In the case of azo compounds derived from hydroxyarenes, care must be taken to show the compound as the correct tautomer, which may be the hydrazone form. For example, in the case of CI Acid Orange 7, which exists predominantly in hydrazone form, structure 1 should be used rather than the hydroxyazo form 2. It is not necessary to show hydrogen bonds explicitly unless the authors wish to draw special attention to them.

Article Types

Full Papers	Papers containing original scientific work will be selected for inclusion in an issue of Coloration Technology in order of date of acceptance. Authors should note that the fragmentation of a substantial body of work into a number of short publications is strongly discouraged; if a paper is submitted as part of a series, any previous ‘parts’ should be indicated in a footnote or cited in the reference list.
Short Communications	There is a fast track procedure for short papers submitted via the accelerated publication procedure (APP). If authors wish their paper to be considered for APP, they must provide a statement clarifying this and submit their manuscript according to specific guidelines.
Reviews	The submission of authoritative review articles is welcomed. These are often published by invitation of the Reviews Editor or Publications Committee. However, uncommissioned review articles will also be considered. Enquiries regarding potential review articles should be directed to the Reviews Editor.

Peer Review

This journal operates under a single-blind peer review model. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.

In-house submissions, i.e. papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board members of the title, will be sent to Editors unaffiliated with the author or institution and monitored carefully to ensure there is no peer review bias.

Wiley's policy on the confidentiality of the review process is available here.

Refer and Transfer Program 
Wiley believes that no valuable research should go unshared. This journal participates in Wiley’s Refer & Transfer program. If your manuscript is not accepted, you may receive a recommendation to transfer your manuscript to another suitable Wiley journal, either through a referral from the journal’s editor or through our Transfer Desk Assistant. 

Guidelines on Publishing and Research Ethics in Journal Articles

The journal requires that you include in the manuscript details IRB approvals, ethical treatment of human and animal research participants, and gathering of informed consent, as appropriate. You will be expected to declare all conflicts of interest, or none, on submission. Please review Wiley's policies surrounding human studies, animal studies, clinical trial registration, biosecurity, and research reporting guidelines.

This journal follows the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles cases of research and publication misconduct accordingly (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices). 

This journal uses iThenticate's CrossCheck software to detect instances over overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley's Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors and Wiley's Publication Ethics Guidelines. 

Author Contributions

For all articles, the journal mandates the CRediT (Contribution Roles Taxonomy)—more information is available on our Author Services site.

After Acceptance

Wiley Author Services

When an accepted article is received by Wiley’s production team, the corresponding author will receive an email asking them to login or register with Wiley Author Services. You will be asked to sign a publication license at this point as well as pay for any applicable APCs.

Copyright & Licensing

WALS + standard CTA/ELA and/or Open Access for hybrid titles

You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License.

Standard re-use and licensing rights vary by journal. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used. This journal uses the CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License.

Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies: Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions.

Accepted Articles

Proofs

Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or referenes match text citations and that figure lengends correspond with text cituations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email. 

Article Promotion Support

Wiley Editing Services offers professional video, design, and writing services to create shareable video abstracts, infographics, conference posters, lay summaries, and research news stories for your research – so you can help your research get the attention it deserves.

Appendix

This section contains standard additional optional content. You may include or remove content as appropriate or eliminate the whole section altogether.

Open Research Badges

This journal is part of Wiley’s Open Research Badges program.

Graphical TOC/Abstract

The journal’s table of contents/abstract will be presented in graphical form with a brief abstract.

The table of contents entry must include the article title, the authors' names (with the corresponding author indicated by an asterisk), no more than 80 words or 3 sentences of text summarizing the key findings presented in the paper and a figure that best represents the scope of the paper.

Table of contents entries should be submitted to ScholarOne as ‘Supplementary material for review’ during the initial manuscript submission process.

The image supplied should fit within the dimensions of 50mm x 60mm and be fully legible at this size.

Publication Charges

Color figures. Color figures may be published online free of charge; however, the journal charges for publishing figures in color in print. Upon submission of color figures at Early View publication, you will be invited to complete a color charge agreement in RightsLink for Author Services. You will have the option of paying immediately with a credit or debit card, or you can request an invoice. If you choose not to purchase color printing, the figures will be converted to black and white for the print issue of the journal.