Notes for authors 2005

Section B of Acta Crystallographica publishes papers in which structure is the primary focus of the work reported. The central themes of Section B are the acquisition of structural knowledge from novel experimental observations or from existing data, the correlation of structural knowledge with physico-chemical and other properties, and the application of this knowledge to solve problems in the structural domain. Section B has broad chemical coverage, encompassing metals and alloys, inorganics and minerals, metal-organics and purely organic compounds. Biological, particularly macromolecular, structural science is now covered by Section D. A more complete de®nition of scienti®c scope is given in an Editorial [Acta Cryst. (1994), B50, 1±3].