An International Journal of Petrology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry
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: • E-mail address • Full postal address
• Telephone and fax numbers All authors'names with complete affiliations • Keywords • All necessary
files have been uploaded • Complete text with reference list, abstract • All figures • All figure captions
• All tables (including title, description, footnotes) • All electronic annexes (if any) • Names and (e-mail)
addresses of 4 potential referees
Further considerations • Manuscript checked for correct English and "spellchecked"
• 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
Authors may choose a handling Editor-in-Chief; as a guideline, the following distinction can be made: metamorphic rocks (Ian Buick) and
igneous rocks (Nelson Eby and Andrew Kerr).
As a general guideline articles should not exceed 10,000 words (text + figure captions),
have more than 15 figures, nor more than 80 references.
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the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language,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.
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the Author(s) must obtain
written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by Authors
in these cases: contact Elsevier's Rights Department, Oxford, UK: phone (+44) 1865 843830, fax (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail permissions@elsevier.com.
Requests may also be completed on-line via the Elsevier homepage (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions).
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 "Author Gateway" page of this journal (http://authors.elsevier.com/) 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.
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 (i.e. no PDF) is necessary for all text elements. 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 addresses of four potential Referees. You may also mention persons who you would prefer
not to review your paper.
Electronic format requirements for accepted articles
General points We accept most wordprocessing formats, but Word, WordPerfect or LaTeX is preferred. An electronic version of the text should be submitted
together with the final hardcopy of the manuscript. The electronic version must match the hardcopy exactly. Always keep a backup copy
of the electronic file for reference and safety. Label storage media with your name, journal title, and software used. 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 Author Gateway's Guide
to Publishing with Elsevier: http://authors.elsevier.com). 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.
LaTeX documents 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 Author Gateway's Quickguide: http://authors.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 information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission please visit
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorshome.authors/languagepolishing or contact authorsupport@elsevier.com
for more information. Please note Elsevier neither endorses nor takes responsibility for any products, goods or services offered by outside
vendors through our services or in any advertising. For more information please refer to our Terms & Conditions: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/termsconditions.cws_home/termsconditions
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 six keywords, 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 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.
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 internationally accepted rules and conventions: use the international system of units (SI).
If other quantities are mentioned, give their equivalent in SI.
Preparation of supplementary data. Elsevier accepts electronic
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 the Author Gateway at http://authors.elsevier.com/artwork.
References: All publications cited in the text
should be presented in a list of references following the text of the manuscript. In the text refer to the author's name (without initials)
and year of publication (e.g. "Since Peterson (1993) has shown that..." or "This is in the agreement with results obtained
later (Kramer, 1994)"). For three or more authors use the first author followed by "et al.", in the text. The list of
references should be arranged alphabetically by authors' names. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the spelling
of authors' names and dates are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list. Note that in the Reference list all journal
titles should be given in full, e.g. "Earth and Planetary Science Letters", not "Earth Planet. Sci. Letts.".
References should be given in the following form:
Kisabeth, J.L., 1979. On calculating magnetic and vector potential field due
to large-scale magnetospheric current systems and induced currents in an infinitely conducting earth. In: Olson, W. P. (Ed.), Quantitative
Modelling Magnetospheric Processes. American Geophysical Union.
Marov, M.Ya., Ioltukhovski, A.A., Kolesnichenko, A.V., Krasitsky,
O.P., Shari, V.P., 1994. On earth ozonosphere space monitoring by stars occultation. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics. Reprint
No. 33, Moscow (in Russian).
Vijayakumar, G., Parameswaran, R., Rajan, R., 1998. Aerosols in the atmospheric boundary layer and
its association with surface wind speed at a coastal site. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 60 (16), 1531-1542.
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. • Provide captions to illustrations separately.
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our website:
http://authors.elsevier.com/artwork. 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 (plate). 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, you will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt
of your accepted article. Please indicate your preference for colour in print or on the Web only. For further information on the preparation
of electronic artwork, please see http://authors.elsevier.com/artwork.
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.
The corresponding author,
at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail or, alternatively, free paper offprints. 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 the terms and conditions
of use.
