Information for Authors

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The publication of Electronic Geology is currently underwritten by Kingston University Enterprise Ltd. and Kingston University. Authors are guaranteed that articles published in these journals will be permanently available to the academic community.



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• Authors from disciplines covered by Electronic Geology are invited to submit manuscripts for publication. The language of both journals is English. Authors can FTP their manuscripts to our private FTP space. This process is password protected, so please inform us by mailing Editor in Chief, Electronic Geology if you wish to transfer a manuscript by this method...............
  click here for FTP transfer.

  ......please include in your e-mail a complete list of files and filenames so we can check that the entire manuscript transferred correctly. The names and versions of the applications used in creating the files, together with the format the files are saved in, should also be given.

• Alternatively, authors can submit manuscripts in the traditional manner of established hard-copy journals if they wish: three double spaced copies of the manuscript, plus relevant diagrams, photographs, tables, references and appendices must be supplied to the address given on the Electronic Journals Ltd. homepage.

• Authors may submit manuscripts already encoded in HTML if they so desire, but this is not a requirement for submission. However, HTML encoded manuscripts may be given a higher priority by our editorial staff in recognition of the extra work and time the author has spent formatting the manuscript. HTML encoding may also speed up the refereeing process.

• Authors who wish to embed interactive or animation technology (such as Chemscape's Chime plug-in or Java applets) into their papers should contact us to discuss the possibilities.

• Authors are advised to submit articles to Electronic Geology which are likely to be of broad international interest. Only first-class standard articles will be published. Both journals reserve the right to reject submitted manuscripts outright which in the opinion of the Editorial board do not reach this standard. The submitted article must not have been submitted or published elsewhere.

• Prospective articles will be peer-reviewed by at least two referees. However, unlike most (if not all) other journals, reviewers will be paid £50 for each review received back within two to three weeks. The names of referees who leave their reviews unsigned will be available upon request to authors. See also the section on information for referees

• Once an article has been reviewed and, subject to any necessary revision, deemed acceptable for publication by referees and where necessary members of the journal editorial board, the final manuscript may be submitted by FTP. Alternatively, two copies of the revised manuscript must be submitted to Electronic Journals Ltd. together with an MS-DOS or MAC-OS disk containing the article. Photographs must be submitted as scanned TIFF files by FTP, on disk or on CD-ROM. Special care must be taken that the title and abstract of the article fully conveys the content of the revised version of the manuscript. The article is then accepted for publication.

• The virtual proofs of the manuscript will be displayed privately on the World Wide Web and the authors invited to view them before the manuscript is published by directly linking it to our Web pages.

• Once proof corrected, the title and abstract of the revised article are then posted onto the World Wide Web pages of Electronic Journals Ltd. Journal subscribers may download the article. (For further information see information for subscribers.)

• Articles are published individually rather than being bundled together in 'issues'. Articles can therefore be published with exceptional rapidity (i.e. within a matter of weeks of initial submission). No hard copies of the article are made by Electronic Journals Ltd.

• For a nominal fee we can supply authors with information concerning the number of downloads of their published papers and breakdowns of the jurisdictions where download requests originate from. (Individual client details will not be given.)

• Electronic Journals Ltd. will make every effort to ensure a 24 hour continuity of service. However our guarantee of service does not cover temporary unavailability due to hardware or software faults, or due to changes in the terms of access to the World Wide Web / Internet beyond the control of the company.

• It is proposed that articles will remain available on the Web for a number of years (10). If it becomes necessary or more effective to store and disseminate articles by some other method, then the permission of authors who have published with us under these terms and conditions will be sought before removing the article from the Internet.

Formats

• All electronic copies of text files should be saved in Rich Text Format (.rtf) to ensure all formatting is properly transferred. Graphics should be stored as TIFF, PICT, GIF or JPEG files and transmitted in binary mode if using FTP. (Other formats may be compatible if necessary.) Spreadsheets should be saved as text files. Graphics and spreadsheets should NOT be embedded in text files and vice versa. Each graphic and table should be stored in a separate file. Likewise text, tables and diagrams should be separated in hard copy submissions: each diagram or table should be presented on a separate sheet of paper with a number denoting its relative position in the paper (i.e. Fig 1, 2 etc.).

• The main body of text (hard copy or electronic versions) should be presented as single- column, double or one and a half spaced text.

  Font: Times

  Size: 12 pt.

  Headings should be presented in bold type.

  Latin words or other non-English expressions should be presented in italics.

  Authors should follow established international nomenclature when formatting fossil names, etc.

• Figure and table captions should be given at the end of the paper in the following style:

  Fig. 1.1: Followed by text referring to figure caption

• Cited References

  References should be formatted in the style given below:

  All information such as journal titles etc to be given in full. No abbreviations. the first line of the reference should be flush with the left hand margin. All subsequent lines should be indented by three characters.

  Font: Times. Size: 12 pt.

  All names should be expressed with the surname followed by the initial.

  e.g. - Smith T.H.

  For each type of reference the general format is given with an example on the line below:

  Journal Paper

  Authors. Year. Title. Journal.vol. no.: pages.

  Smith T.H. 1997. Mineral Exploration in the Andes. Electronic Geology.1: 10-26

  Conference Proceedings / Edited Book

  (a) if published in academic periodical -

  Authors. Year. Title. in Journal Special Volume no.:page-page

  Smith T.H. 1997. Mineral Exploration in the Andes. in Electronic Geology Special Volume 1: 10-26

  (b) if published elsewhere -

  Authors. Year. Title. in Book Title. Edited by: editor(s). Published by Publishers. page-page

  Smith T.H. 1997 Mineral Exploration in the Andes. in Electronic Publishing: A Review. Edited by: Jones W.R. Published by Electronic Journals Ltd. 10-26

  (c) if abstract from conference talk

  Authors. Year. Title. (Abstract) from Book Title. Convened/Edited by Convenors/Editors. Published by Publishers. Page

  Smith T.H. 1997 Mineral Exploration in the Andes. (Abstract) from Conference on Electronic Publishing: A Review. Convened by Jones W.R. Published by Electronic Journals Ltd. page 10

  Book / Report / Memoir

  Authors. Year. Title. Published by: Publishers. no of pages

  Smith T.H. 1997 Mineral Exploration in the Andes. Published by Electronic Journals Ltd. 2000 pages.

  Ph.D. thesis

  Author. Year. Title. University. no. of pages

  Smith T.H. 1997 Mineral Exploration in the Andes. University of Hillsborough. 2000 pages.

  Citation in text.

  General

  Author (year) or (Author year).

  Two authors

  should be separately by: and

  eg - (Smith and Jones 1997)

  Three or more Authors:

  second and subsequent authors replaced by: et al.

  e.g. (Smith et al. 1997)

See also:-

Information for Subscribers

Information for Referees

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