Cover Letter Templates

Dear Author, 
Your cover letter is the first piece of your work that we read. 
As a service to our authors, we have included a template of Cover Letter, which may be useful to help contextualize the work submitted.  This is especially useful for highlighting the importance of the work, providing a narrative story arc, providing key or compelling context for the editors that might not included in the manuscript, and nominating potential reviewers. 
Please be concise. We look forward to reading your manuscript.   
		Sincerely,
		The CCL Editorial Team

Cover Letter Templates

Paragraph 1:  Overview
Article title, Article type, Article subject

Paragraph 2:  Context
Ask yourself, what information would help the editors in their decision-making process? Items for this paragraph might include potential conflicts, concurrent submissions from the same dataset, etc…

Paragraph 3:   Importance
Why should this manuscript be published in Current Chemistry Letters? Why will our readers be interested to read and cite your work?

Paragraph 4:  Current submission and prior presentations disclosure 
This disclosure helps ensure that the work we are considering is original, and not substantially derivative of prior work.

Paragraph 5:  Authorship and conflicts
Acknowledge authorship and conflicts appropriately. Does all the authors who contributed sufficiently to the project to be included as authors are listed in the author byline and there are  no conflict of interest, etc…

Paragraph 6:  Potential reviewers
Suggesting reviewers is optional but it may facilitate the reviewing process. Suggested reviewers should NOT be at your institution, and should have some expertise in your content area/method.  You should NOT have substantially worked with the reviewer in the past few years, and in particular, this should not be someone who has already reviewed or otherwise contributed to the manuscript.   To the best of your knowledge, reviewers should not have conflicts (financial, personal) which would interfere with their objectivity.

Corresponding author and Back up contact 

title, group affiliation, physical address, email