An International Journal on the Application and Technology of Clays and Clay Minerals
Guide for Authors
Submission checklist
It is hoped that this list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to sending it
to the journal's Editor for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.
Ensure that the following
items are present:
One Author designated as corresponding Author: 1: E-mail address; 2: Full postal address; 3: Telephone
and fax numbers
All necessary files have been uploaded
Keywords
All figure captions
All tables (including
title, description, footnotes)
Further considerations
Manuscript has been "spellchecked", text
is double spaced, and lines numbered
References are in the correct format for this journal
All references mentioned
in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa
Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from
other sources (including the Web)
Colour figures are clearly marked as being intended for colour reproduction on the Web (free
of charge) and in print or to be reproduced in colour on the Web (free of charge) and in black-and-white in print
If only colour
on the Web is required, black and white versions of the figures are also supplied for printing purposes
It is essential to give a fax number and e-mail address when submitting a manuscript. Articles must be written
in good English.
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of
an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that
its publication is approved by all Authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and
that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent
of the Publisher.
Upon acceptance of an article, Authors will be asked sign a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (for more information
on this and copyright see http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible
dissemination of information. An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding Author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a
'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this Agreement.
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are
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Authors' rights
As an author you (or your employer or institution) may do the following:
- make copies (print or electronic)
of the article for your own personal use, including for your own classroom teaching use
- make copies and distribute such copies
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e.g., via an e-mail list or list server)
- post a pre-print version of the article on Internet websites including electronic pre-print
servers, and to retain indefinitely such version on such servers or sites
- post a revised personal version of the final text of
the article (to reflect changes made in the peer review and editing process) on your personal or institutional website or server, with
a link to the journal homepage (on elsevier.com)
- present the article at a meeting or conference and to distribute copies of the
article to the delegates attending such a meeting
- for your employer, if the article is a 'work for hire', made within the scope
of your employment, your employer may use all or part of the information in the article for other intra-company use (e.g., training)
- retain patent and trademark rights and rights to any processes or procedure described in the article
- include the article in full
or in part in a thesis or dissertation (provided that this is not to be published commercially)
- use the article or any part thereof
in a printed compilation of your works, such as collected writings or lecture notes (subsequent to publication of your article in the
journal)
- prepare other derivative works, to extend the article into book-length form, or to otherwise re-use portions or excerpts
in other works, with full acknowledgement of its original publication in the journal.
For details you are referred to: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorshome.authors/authorsrights.
Should Authors be requested by the Editor to revise the text, the revised version should be submitted within 8 weeks. After this
period, the article will be regarded as a new submission.
Submission to the journal prior to acceptance
Authors should
send an electronic version of their article by e-mail to ees.elsevier.com/clay. This electronic version will be used for
the reviewing process. Authors, Reviewers and Editors send and receive all correspondence by e-mail and no paper correspondence is necessary.
Note: electronic articles submitted for the review process may need to be edited after acceptance to follow journal standards. For
this an "editable" file format is necessary. See the section on "Electronic format requirements for accepted articles" and the
further general instructions on how to prepare your article below.
Please submit, with the manuscript, the names and emailaddresses
of 4 potential Referees. You may also mention persons who you would prefer not to review your paper.
Online submission
to the journal prior to acceptance
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online. Use the following guidelines to prepare
your article. Via the homwpage of this journal (http://www.elsevier.com/journals) you will be guided stepwise through the
creation and uploading of the various files. The system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of
the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission
for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification
of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the Author's homepage, removing the need for a hard-copy
paper trail.
The above represents a very brief outline of this form of submission. It can be advantageous to print this "Guide for
Authors" section from the site for reference in the subsequent stages of article preparation.
Electronic format requirements for
accepted articles
General points
We accept most wordprocessing formats, but Word, WordPerfect or LaTeX is
preferred. Always keep a backup copy of the electronic file for reference and safety. Save your files using the default extension of
the program used.
Wordprocessor documents
It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the
wordprocessor used. The text should be in single-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes
will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use the wordprocessor's options to justify text or to hyphenate
words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. Do not embed "graphically designed" equations or tables, but
prepare these using the wordprocessor's facility. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual
table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. The electronic text should be prepared
in a way very similar to that of conventional manuscripts (see also the Guide to Publishing with Elsevier: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorshome.authors/howtosubmitpaper.
Do not import the figures into the text file but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly in the electronic text and on
the manuscript. See also the section on Preparation of electronic illustrations.
To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly
advised to use the "spellchecker" function of your wordprocessor.
LaTeX documents
If the LaTeX file is suitable,
proofs will be produced without rekeying the text. The article should preferably be written using Elsevier's document class "elsart",
or alternatively the standard document class "article".
The Elsevier LaTeX package (including detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation)
can be obtained from the Quickguide: http://elsevier.com/latex. It consists of the files: elsart.cls, guidelines for users
of elsart, a template file for quick start, and the instruction booklet "Preparing articles with LaTeX".
Preparation of text
Presentation of manuscript
General
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage
is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Italics are not to be used for expressions of Latin origin, for example, in vivo, et al., per
se. Use decimal points (not commas); use a space for thousands (10 000 and above). Language Polishing. Authors who require
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Provide
the following data on the title page (in the order given).
Title. Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval
systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible. Author names and affiliations. Where the family name may be ambiguous
(e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the Authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below
the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the Author's name and in front of the appropriate
address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name, and, if available, the e-mail address of each
Author. Corresponding Author. Clearly indicate who is willing to handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and
publication, also post-publication. Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to
the e-mail address and the complete postal address. Present/permanent address. If an Author has moved since the work
described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a "Present address" (or "Permanent address") may be indicated as a footnote
to that Author's name. The address at which the Author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript
Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes. Abstract. A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state
briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. A structured abstract is required. For this, a recent
copy of the journal should be consulted. An abstract is often presented separate from the article, so it must be able to stand alone.
References should therefore be avoided, but if essential, they must be cited in full, without reference to the reference list.
Non-standard
or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself. Keywords. Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 5 keywords, to be chosen from the standard thesaurus (see the
homepage of this journal, http://www.elsevier.com/journals), avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid,
for example, "and", "of"). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords
will be used for indexing purposes. Abbreviations. Define abbreviations that are not standard in this field at their first
occurrence in the article: in the abstract but also in the main text after it. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article. N.B. Acknowledgements. Collate acknowledgements, including information on grants received, in a separate section at the end
of the article and do not, therefore, include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise.
Arrangement
of the article
Subdivision of the article. Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections
should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also
for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to "the text." Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear
on its own separate line. References. See separate section, below. Figure captions, tables, figures, schemes.
Present these, in this order, at the end of the article. They are described in more detail below. If you are working with LaTeX and have
such features embedded in the text, these can be left, but such embedding should not be done specifically for publishing purposes. Further,
high-resolution graphics files must be provided separately (see Preparation of illustrations). Text graphics.
Present incidental graphics not suitable for mention as figures, plates or schemes at the end of the article and number them "Graphic
1", etc. Their precise position in the text can then be indicated. See further under the section, Preparation of illustrations.
If you are working with LaTeX and have such features embedded in the text, these can be left, but such embedding should not be done specifically
for publishing purposes. Further, high-resolution graphics files must be provided separately (see Preparation of illustrations).
Specific remarks
Mathematical formulae. Present simple formulae in the line of normal text where possible. In
principle, variables are to be presented in italics. Use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line,
e.g., X/Y rather than X Y
Powers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp.
Number consecutively any equations that have to be displayed separate
from the text (if referred to explicitly in the text).
Footnotes. Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively
throughout the article, using superscript Arabic numbers. Many wordprocessors build footnotes into the text, and this feature may be
used. Should this not be the case, indicate the position of footnotes in the text and present the footnotes themselves on a separate
sheet at the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list. Table footnotes. Indicate each footnote
in a table with a superscript lowercase letter.
Tables. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance
in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules.
Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.
Nomenclature and units. Follow the terminology as expressed in The Handbook of Clay Science:
"Bergaya, F., Theng, B.K.G.,
Lagaly, G. (Eds.), 2006. Handbook of Clay Science, Developments in Clay Science, vol. 1, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Preparation of
supplementary data. Elsevier accepts supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files
offer the Author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background
datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article
in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com. In order to ensure that your submitted
material is directly usable, please ensure that data is provided in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material
in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. For more detailed instructions
please visit our artwork instruction pages at http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
References
Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic citations lies entirely with the Authors.
Citations in the text: Please
ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract
must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned
in the text. If these references are included in the reference list they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and
should include a substitution of the publication date with either "Unpublished results" or "Personal communication" Citation of a reference
as "in press" implies that the item has been accepted for publication.
Citing and listing of Web references. As a minimum,
the full URL should be given. Any further information, if known (Author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should
also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can
be included in the reference list.
Text: All citations in the text should refer to:
1. Single Author: the Author's
name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;
2. Two Authors: both Authors' names and
the year of publication;
3. Three or more Authors: first Author's name followed by "et al." and the year of publication.
Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically.
Examples: "as demonstrated (Allan, 1996a, 1996b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1995). Kramer et al. (2000) have recently shown ...."
List: References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one
reference from the same Author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c", etc., placed after the year of publication.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2000. The art of
writing a scientific article. J. Sci. Commun. 163, 51-59.
Reference to a book:
Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 1979. The Elements
of Style, third ed. Macmillan, New York.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B., 1999. How to prepare
an electronic version of your article, in: Jones, B.S., Smith , R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age. E-Publishing Inc., New
York, pp. 281-304.
Note that journal names are not to be abbreviated.
References for Applied Clay Science:
1. All
references cited in the text are to be listed at the end of the paper. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the
spellings of authors' names and publication years are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list. Do not type author's and
editor's names in capitals.
2. In the text refer to the author's name (without initials) and year of publication, followed - if necessary
- by a short reference to appropriate pages. Examples: ``Because Peterson (1994) has shown that...''. This is in agreement with results
obtained later (Kramer, 1995, pp. 12-16)''.
3. If reference is made in the text to publications written by more than two authors
the name of the first author should be used, followed by ``et al.''. This indication, however, should never be used in the list of references.
In this list names of authors and all co-authors must be given in full.
4. Where several references occur together in the text they
should be arranged chronologically. The list of references should be arranged alphabetically by authors' names, and chronologically per
author. If an author's name in the list is also mentioned with co-authors, the following order should be used: Publications of the single
author, arranged according to publication year - publications of the same author with one co-author, arranged according to publication
year - publications of the author with more than one co-author, arranged according to publication year.
The following system should
be used for arranging references:
a. Journal papers: Names and initials of all authors, year. Title of paper. Journal name (given
in full or abbreviated using the International List of Periodical Title Word Abbreviations), volume number (issue number): first and
last page numbers of the paper.
Example:
Elbaz-Poulichet, F., Guan, D.M., Martin, J.M., 1991. Trace metal behaviour in a highly
stratified Mediterranean estuary: the Krka (Yugoslavia). Mar. Chem. 32, 211-224.
b. Monographs: Names and initials of all authors,
year. Title of the monograph. Publisher, location of publisher.
Example:
Zhdanov, M.S., Keller, G.V., 1994. The Geoelectrical
Methods in Geophysical Exploration. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
c. Edited volume papers: Names and initials of all authors, year. Title
of paper. Names and initials of the volume editors, title of the edited volume. Publisher, location of publisher, first and last page
numbers of the paper.
Example:
Thomas, E., 1992. Middle Eocene-late Oligocene bathyal benthic foraminifera (Weddell Sea): faunal
changes and implications for ocean circulation. In: D.R. Prothero, W.A. Berggren (Eds.), Eocene-Oligocene Climatic and Biotic Evolution.
Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, pp. 245-271.
d. Conference proceedings papers: Names and initials of all authors, year. Title
of paper. Name of the conference. Publisher, location of publisher, first and last page numbers of the paper.
Example:
Smith,
M.W., 1988. The significance of climatic change for the permafrost environment. Final Proc. Int. Conf. Permafrost. Tapir, Trondheim,
Norway, pp. 18-23.
e. Unpublished theses, reports, etc.: Names and initials of all authors, year. Title of item. All other relevant
information needed to identify the item (e.g., technical report, Ph.D. thesis, institute, etc.).
Example:
Moustakas, N., 1990.
Relationships of morphological and physicochemical properties of Vertisols under Greek climate conditions. Ph.D. Thesis, Agricultural
Univ. Athens, Greece.
5. In the case of publications in any language other than English, the original title is to be retained. Titles
of publications in non-Latin alphabets should be transliterated, and a note such as `(in Russian)' or `(in Japanese, with English Abstr.)'
should be added at the end of the reference.
Preparation of illustrations
Preparation of electronic illustrations
General points
Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
Save text
in illustrations as "graphics" or enclose the font.
Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Helvetica,
Times, Symbol.
Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
Use a logical naming convention for
your artwork files.
Provide all illustrations as separate files and as hardcopy printouts on separate sheets.
Provide
captions to illustrations separately.
Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.
A detailed
guide on electronic artwork is available on our website: http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
You are urged
to visit this site; some excerpts from the detailed information are given here.
Formats
Regardless of the application
used, when your electronic artwork is finalised, please "save as" or convert the images to one of the following formats (Note the resolution
requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below.):
EPS: Vector drawings. Embed the font or
save the text as "graphics".
TIFF: Colour or greyscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF: Bitmapped
line drawings: use a minimum of 1000 dpi.
TIFF: Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (colour or greyscale): a minimum of 500 dpi
is required.
DOC, XLS or PPT: If your electronic artwork is created in any of these Microsoft Office applications please supply "as
is".
Please do not:
Supply embedded graphics in your wordprocessor (spreadsheet, presentation) document;
Supply
files that are optimised for screen use (like GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
Supply files that are too low
in resolution;
Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Captions
Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief
title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain
all symbols and abbreviations used.
Line drawings
The lettering and symbols, as well as other details, should
have proportionate dimensions, so as not to become illegible or unclear after possible reduction; in general, the figures should be designed
for a reduction factor of two to three. The degree of reduction will be determined by the Publisher. Illustrations will not be enlarged.
Consider the page format of the journal when designing the illustrations.
Do not use any type of shading on computer-generated illustrations.
Photographs (halftones)
Remove non-essential areas of a photograph. Do not mount photographs unless they form
part of a composite figure. Where necessary, insert a scale bar in the illustration (not below it), as opposed to giving a magnification
factor in the caption.
Colour illustrations
Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format
(TIFF, EPS or MS Office files) and with the correct resolution. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable colour figures
then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in colour on the Web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other
sites) regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For colour reproduction in print,
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for colour in print or on the Web only. For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please see http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Please note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting colour figures to "grey scale" (for the printed version
should you not opt for colour in print) please submit in addition usable black and white versions of all the colour illustrations.
Proofs
One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding Author. Elsevier now sends PDF
proofs which can be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe Reader version 7 available free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will accompany the proofs.
If you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you
may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and return to Elsevier in an e-mail. Please list your corrections quoting
line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections and any other comments (including replies to the Query
Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail, or by post.
Please use this proof only for checking
the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted
for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. We will do everything possible to get your article
published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are sent back to us in one communication:
please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading is solely your
responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed with the publication of your article if no response is received.
Electronic
offprints (e-offprints)
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail. The
PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining
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