✓ Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to confirm that their submission complies with all of the following requirements. Manuscripts that do not comply with these guidelines may be returned to the authors before peer review.

1. General Author Guidelines

1. All contributors who wish to submit manuscripts to Catalyx : Journal of Process Chemistry and Technology must comply with these Author Guidelines and the journal's official manuscript template.
2. The journal aims to advance and disseminate scholarly knowledge in process chemistry, chemical engineering, industrial chemistry, catalysis, reaction engineering, separation processes, process optimization, materials, sustainable chemical technology, chemical-process development, and related applied chemical fields. The journal welcomes original research articles, conceptual analyses, technical studies, and literature reviews that fall within its aims and scope.
3. Submitted manuscripts undergo a blind peer-review process. Before review, the Editorial Team conducts an initial screening to assess conformity with the journal's scope, manuscript format, scientific quality, methodological soundness, technical validity, safety reporting, originality, and ethical requirements.
4. Manuscripts that do not comply with the required format may be returned to the authors for correction before being forwarded to reviewers.
5. Reviewers evaluate the appropriateness of the topic, experimental design, analytical validity, reaction or process methodology, reproducibility, scientific significance, originality, contribution to chemical or process technology, quality of interpretation, safety reporting, and adequacy and recency of references.
6. Editorial decisions may include acceptance, minor revision, major revision, resubmission, or rejection. The final publication decision remains under the authority of the Editor.
7. The journal uses plagiarism-detection software such as Turnitin or iThenticate. Manuscripts exceeding the similarity threshold established by the Editorial Board will not be processed further.
8. Authors must confirm that the manuscript is original, has not been previously published, and is not simultaneously submitted to another journal.
9. Authors take full responsibility for compliance with publication ethics, including authorship, research integrity, experimental-data accuracy, chemical identification, analytical validation, appropriate citation, laboratory and process safety, conflict-of-interest disclosure, and research ethics.
10. Manuscripts must be submitted through the journal's official online submission system, accompanied by the required author declaration or other supporting documents where requested by the Editorial Board.

2. Manuscript Format

Authors are strongly advised to prepare their manuscripts directly using the official Catalyx : Journal of Process Chemistry and Technology template to minimize formatting discrepancies during editorial screening and production.

3.1 Title

The title must accurately reflect the central content and contribution of the article. It should be concise, specific, informative, and academically meaningful within process chemistry and chemical technology.

• Maximum recommended length: 16–20 words.
• Do not include the year of research unless scientifically necessary.
• Avoid uncommon abbreviations.
• Place the main chemical process, material, catalyst, reaction, or technology before secondary explanations.
• The title should reflect the principal chemical system, process variable, catalyst, material, analytical method, operating condition, or contribution where relevant.

3.2 Author Names and Affiliations

• Write the author's full name without academic or professional titles.
• Provide the author's institutional affiliation.
• Affiliations should identify the institution clearly and consistently.
• Provide the institution's location/address as required by the template.
• Provide a valid email address for each author where required.
• The corresponding author must be clearly identified.
• The corresponding author's email and telephone number must be provided separately where required.
• Authors are strongly encouraged to provide their ORCID iD.

3.3 Abstract

The abstract must form one continuous and coherent paragraph. It should communicate the essence of the article without requiring readers to consult the main text.

The abstract should logically incorporate the following elements:

3.4 Keywords

Provide three to five keywords immediately below the abstract. Keywords should represent the principal concepts of the article and assist readers and indexing systems in discovering the manuscript.

• Use specific and academically meaningful terms.
• Prefer terms commonly recognized in process chemistry, catalysis, reaction engineering, separation, materials, chemical engineering, or industrial chemistry.
• Avoid unnecessarily broad words such as “chemistry” or “technology” when a more specific term is available.
• Use lower case except for chemical names, abbreviations, materials, methods, or terms that conventionally require capitalization.

3.5 Introduction

The Introduction should normally be approximately one to two pages. It must be written as a coherent academic narrative without unnecessary subheadings, numbering, or bullet points in the manuscript.

The Introduction should establish:

1. the chemical, catalytic, process-engineering, materials, separation, or industrial-technology problem and its scientific or practical significance;
2. the specific problem and research question(s) or technical objective(s);
3. the scientific and process complexity of the problem;
4. relevant previous studies and the current state of the art;
5. the literature, process-performance, materials, methodological, or technology gap;
6. the novelty or distinctive contribution of the study; and
7. clear research objectives.

3.6 Method

The Method section must provide sufficient information to allow readers to understand, assess, and where appropriate reproduce or replicate the experimental, analytical, or computational procedures.

The methodological approach must be clearly identified, such as laboratory experiment, process experiment, catalyst synthesis and evaluation, material synthesis and characterization, reaction-kinetics study, separation-process investigation, process optimization, simulation, computational chemistry, process modeling, scale-up study, literature review, systematic review, or another appropriate design.

Authors must provide sufficient detail on chemical identity, reagent purity, experimental conditions, analytical instrumentation, calibration, replication, uncertainty, and data-processing procedures to support reproducibility. Hazardous chemicals, pressurized systems, high-temperature processes, reactive materials, toxic substances, or other significant hazards must be reported with appropriate safety precautions. Waste disposal and environmental considerations should be described where relevant.

3.7 Results

The Results section presents the principal experimental, analytical, computational, or process-performance findings in a clear, systematic, and objective manner.

• Present findings according to the research questions, process objectives, experimental variables, hypotheses, or analytical themes.
• Use processed and summarized data rather than raw instrument or software output.
• Clearly report relevant values such as conversion, yield, selectivity, efficiency, rate constants, adsorption capacity, separation factor, purity, energy requirement, or other domain-appropriate metrics.
• For catalyst or material studies, clearly report characterization results and their relationship to performance.
• For optimization studies, report the optimized conditions and sufficient statistical or modeling evidence supporting the selected optimum.
• For process simulations, report assumptions, boundary conditions, validation, and principal model outputs.
• Tables, spectra, chromatograms, micrographs, process diagrams, kinetic plots, response surfaces, or other figures may be used when they improve clarity.
• Avoid duplicating identical information in text, tables, and figures.
• Important findings should be explained in the text rather than merely displayed.

3.8 Discussion

The Discussion must move beyond description by explaining the chemical, mechanistic, process, materials, and technological significance of the findings.

3.9 Conclusion

The Conclusion should present the essence of the study in paragraph form without numbering. It must directly correspond with the research objectives and findings.

The Conclusion should:

• restate the research or technical objective concisely;
• summarize the principal experimental, analytical, or process findings;
• answer the research question(s) or indicate achievement of the process objective;
• state the chemical, process, industrial, environmental, sustainability, and/or theoretical implications;
• identify the academic contribution;
• acknowledge relevant limitations; and
• provide appropriate directions for future research, optimization, scale-up, or technology development.

3.10 Acknowledgments

Authors may acknowledge individuals, laboratories, institutions, industrial partners, technical personnel, instrument operators, analytical facilities, material suppliers, or other parties that supported the research or publication process but do not meet the criteria for authorship.

3.11 Declarations

Authors must provide the relevant declarations to ensure transparency, accountability, safety, reproducibility, and research integrity. The declaration section should include Author Contributions, Funding, Conflict of Interest, Generative Artificial Intelligence Use, Ethics Approval where applicable, Safety and Hazard Statement where relevant, and Data Availability.

3.12 References

The reference list must contain only works cited in the manuscript. Every in-text citation must have a corresponding entry in the reference list, and every reference listed must be cited in the manuscript.

4. Tables and Figures

Oversized tables, extensive spectra, complete raw analytical outputs, large process diagrams, detailed parameter matrices, or supplementary experimental results that interrupt the readability of the manuscript should be moved to the Appendices or supplementary materials where appropriate.

5. Appendices

Appendices may contain detailed experimental procedures, supplementary characterization data, calibration information, reaction conditions, kinetic derivations, process parameters, simulation settings, additional spectra or chromatograms, uncertainty calculations, optimization matrices, supplementary tables, or other supporting materials that assist readers in understanding, reproducing, or evaluating the research but are not essential to the main narrative of the article.

Final Manuscript Quality Check