Geo-Marine Letters (published by Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg) would be pleased to publish the peer-reviewed contribution to the congress. We are therefore planning a special issue (SI) of Geo-Marine Letters on "Deep-water Circulation: Processes & Products" for hardcopy publication in early 2011. Depending on how quickly original manuscripts are submitted, and the reviewing and revision completed, papers could appear online already by late 2010.
Good news: all colour figures are free of charge!
Dates and links for online submission of original manuscripts:
21st June 2010 Installation of dedicated online link called SI Baiona in http://www.editorialmanager.com/gmle/
18th July 2010 Deadline for online submission of original manuscripts
Instructions for authors can be found at http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences/geology/journal/367, notably in the link called "Types of papers". For your convenience, some key information concerning manuscript preparation and processing is summarised below.
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Geo-Marine Letters An International Journal of Marine Geology Editor-in-Chief: Burghard W. Flemming ISSN: 0276-0460 (print version) ISSN: 1432-1157 (electronic version) Journal no. 367 Springer Online version available Online First articles available |
For Geo-Marine Letters standard articles please follow the guidelines and structure outlined below. There are no strict structure/length requirements for review articles, discussion/reply articles, prefaces to special issues, technical papers, etc.
Length: not strictly limited but authors should generally keep the "letter" nature of the journal in mind.
Choose between British and American English, and use consistently throughout .
Abstract
Introduction
Physical setting (if not already addressed in the Introduction)
Materials and methods (or Methods)
Results: minimise citation of published work
Discussion (or Discussion and conclusions): presents an interpretation of the results and their significance with reference to published work. Plain repetition of the Results section must be avoided
Conclusions (if not already combined with the Discussion): this is not a summary (cf. the Abstract serves this purpose) but rather focuses on the implications of the main findings
Acknowledgements
References: presents only published/filed works cited in the main text. These are listed alphabetically (multi-author articles: first author only) and then in order of first appearance (In the main text, references are cited by author and year, in order of first appearance and then alphabetically for one/two-author articles, followed by multi-author articles: e.g. Smith 1994, 2005a, 2005b; Jones 1996; Anton and Smith 1996; Jones et al. 1996; Anton et al. 2001).
Any Appendix (comes immediately above the References list)
Figure captions
Any tables, each preceded by its table legend
Extra Information from the Journal Editors
There is no strict size limit for the Abstract in this journal. It should nevertheless be concise and as short as possible. Usually, 300-350 words are more than sufficient.
Size of printed page (useful in designing the figures): double-column page: one column=8.6 cm across. Total page print area=17.5 cm across and 23.1 cm down.
Authors in SI Baiona
When submitting your paper online, please take care to choose the special issue (SI) link called: SI Baiona
Which will be installed specifically for the special issue "Deep-water Circulation: Processes & Products". Note: there may be more than one SI in preparation at a given time!
Common causes of delay in the formal processing of papers include (1) incomplete references, (2) the citation of figures/tables out of sequence, (3) the submission of non-annotated figure parts and (4) the submission of the text in non-editable formats (e.g. pdf). Thus:
Take care that all references cited in the main text/figure captions/tables appear in the References list, and that all references in the list are cited somewhere in the main text/figure captions/tables.
Take care that the figures/tables are cited sequentially in the main text. The first citation of Fig. 1 must appear before the first citation of all other figures, the first citation of Fig. 2 must appear before the first citation of Fig. 3 and all subsequent figures, etc. This serves as guide for the typesetter to insert the figures/tables in the correct sequence.
Embedded into the actual plot of each figure part, there needs to be an annotation a, b, c ...
Articles with very long tables reporting raw data: these tables will be published as electronic supplementary material (ESM); ESM does not appear in the article itself but only as an online link to the article. Number these tables as Table 1, Table 2 ...
Uploading of files in suitable formats!
On the online submission system, upload the following files/formats:
One, single, editable Word doc file (not docx!) containing the whole text: main text, figure captions, tables (each table preceded by its legend).
The figure files, each figure in a separate file, using standard graphic formats and uncomplicated file names (e.g. Fig1.eps, Fig2.tiff, Fig3.jpeg, ... but not pdf!).
Any files for electronic supplementary material.
Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
Use the equation editor or MathType for equations. Note: If you use Word 2007, do not create the equations with the default equation editor but use the Microsoft equation editor or MathType instead.
Copy editing
Once the paper has been accepted by the guest editors of the special issue SI Baiona, but before the page proofs are prepared to be sent to the corresponding author for final checking/approval, the text is copy edited. This entails formal language polishing and a thorough check for completeness. For example, if it has been overlooked that the page numbers are missing for a reference in the References list, then the author will be requested to provide this information. Of course, this would delay the online publication of the paper!