Journal Title：Carbohydrate Research

Carbohydrate Research publishes reports of original research in the following areas of carbohydrate science: action of enzymes, analytical chemistry, biochemistry (biosynthesis, degradation, structural and functional biochemistry, conformation, molecular recognition, enzyme mechanisms, carbohydrate-processing enzymes, including glycosidases and glycosyltransferases), chemical synthesis, isolation of natural products, physicochemical studies, reactions and their mechanisms, the study of structures and stereochemistry, and technological aspects.

Papers on polysaccharides should have a "molecular" component; that is a paper on new or modified polysaccharides should include structural information and characterization in addition to the usual studies of rheological properties and the like. A paper on a new, naturally occurring polysaccharide should include structural information, defining monosaccharide components and linkage sequence.

Papers devoted wholly or partly to X-ray crystallographic studies, or to computational aspects (molecular mechanics or molecular orbital calculations, simulations via molecular dynamics), will be considered if they meet certain criteria. For computational papers the requirements are that the methods used be specified in sufficient detail to permit replication of the results, and that the conclusions be shown to have relevance to experimental observations - the authors' own data or data from the literature. Specific directions for the presentation of X-ray data are given below under Results and "discussion".

碳水化合物研究发表碳水化合物科学以下领域的原创研究报告：酶的作用、分析化学、生物化学（生物合成、降解、结构和功能生物化学、构象、分子识别、酶机制、碳水化合物加工酶，包括糖苷酶和糖基转移酶）、化学合成、天然产物的分离、物理化学研究、反应及其机理、结构和立体化学研究以及技术方面。

关于多糖的论文应该有一个“分子”成分；这是一篇关于新的或改性多糖的论文，除了通常的流变特性研究等外，还应包括结构信息和表征。一篇关于一种新的、天然存在的多糖的论文应该包括结构信息、定义单糖成分和连接序列。

全部或部分致力于 X 射线晶体学研究或计算方面（分子力学或分子轨道计算，通过分子动力学模拟）的论文，如果符合特定标准，将被考虑。对于计算论文，要求是对所使用的方法进行足够详细的说明，以允许复制结果，并且结论必须与实验观察相关——作者自己的数据或文献中的数据。下面的结果和“讨论”部分给出了 X 射线数据呈现的具体方向。