Advanced Materials Supporting Information (advmat-supplementary)

Advanced Materials Supporting Information (advmat-supplementary)

When to trigger

• The manuscript is over the Communication/Article format and detail must move out of the body
• A reader cannot judge the material without opening the SI
• You have extended datasets, full recipes, or control experiments with no home
• You are unsure what belongs in the SI versus what must stay in the main text
• Reviewers of a prior version asked for data that would bloat the body

The stand-alone rule (non-negotiable)

The main text must be fully understandable and convincing on its own. The Supporting Information supports the paper; it must never be load-bearing for the central advance. A reader who never opens the SI should still grasp the material, the decisive evidence that it is what you claim, the property, and the benchmarked function.

• The central advance, the decisive characterization, and the headline benchmarked metric live in the main text.
• The SI holds the exhaustive backup a skeptical referee or a group trying to reproduce the work will want.
• Every SI item is cited from the main text at the point it becomes relevant.

If removing the SI collapses the argument, the partition is wrong — pull the essential piece back into the main text (and trim elsewhere via advmat-length-management).

What belongs in Supporting Information

SI organization

• Mirror the main text's logic: order SI sections to match the order they are cited.
• Give SI sections clear headings and self-contained captions; label SI figures/tables distinctly (Figure S1, Table S1).
• Include an SI Experimental Section detailed enough to reproduce the material if the main-text version is condensed.