Author guidelines for RSC Medicinal Chemistry
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Research article
All new research in RSC Medicinal Chemistry is published in 乐天堂app下载 Research article format. Research articles have no page limits, although most articles fall between 4 and 10 journal pages (approximately 10–25 pages of double-spaced text).
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Comments
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Abstracts
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