Guide for Authors

Submission of Papers

All manuscripts should be submitted electronically through Elsevier Editorial System (EES), which can be accessed at: http://ees.elsevier.com/sg

Papers should be in English. Submission is taken as agreement to the Journal's statement of Editorial and Publication Policies as printed in the Journal.

With the submitted manuscript authors should provide the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of five suggested reviewers.

When an author submits a paper for publication in this journal, (s)he understands the condition that this must be his /her original work and the text (or part of it) is neither under consideration nor published elsewhere. This implies that submitting papers for publication which resemble or duplicate papers already published or awaiting publication in other journals or languages is illegal and, in such cases where this is discovered, agreement to publish will be voided.

Furthermore, published papers, or any parts thereof, may not be published elsewhere either in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher.

Types of Contributions

There are four types of contributions:
Original research paper, Review paper, Comment and Reply and Letter to the Editors. All contributions are subject to peer review except Comments, Replies and Letters to the Editors.
Original research papers are the standard type of contribution as described below.
Review papers should give an succinct, thorough overview of the current state of a subject in a certain field and should not contain new, unpublished material. Review papers should not be directly submitted to the EES, but their submission should first be discussed with the Chief Editor.
Comments on papers published in the Journal of Structural Geology must be submitted within six months of the publication of the online version of the paper. The authors addressed by the Comment will be allowed one month in which to submit a Reply. Both Comment and Reply will be limited to a maximum of three printed pages each, and will be accepted at the discretion of the handling Editor.
Letters to the Editors, carrying opinions, views, or other matter of general interest to the structural geological community will be considered for occasional publication. Letters to the Editors should have a maximum length of one printed page, and should be addressed directly to the Chief Editor, before submission through the EES.

Comments and replies do not need an abstract.

Supplementary Material

We accept supplementary material to support and enhance 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 an article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect: http://www.sciencedirect.com. In order to ensure that the submitted material is directly usable, data should be 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. It should be understood that the supplementary data is also subject to peer review, and should be submitted to the journal together with the original manuscript.

Manuscript Preparation
General: Manuscripts must be in double-spaced format with wide margins and numbered lines. A font size of 12 pt is required. The corresponding author should be identified (include a Fax number and E-mail address). Full postal addresses must be given for all co-authors. Authors should consult a recent issue of the journal or the journal's website (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jsg) for style if possible. The Editors reserve the right to adjust style to certain standards of uniformity.

Paper Length: Papers should be written in the most concise form. Papers will typically be limited to a maximum of 18 printed pages or 15000 words equivalent. Estimates should be made, prior to submission, according to the following: text occupies c. 900 words per page, line drawings, photographic figures and tables will be reduced as appropriate. For review purposes, reduce the resolution of the figures and check that the size of the PDF that is produced by the EES does not exceed 5Mb.

Keywords: The authors are requested to supply 4-6 keywords that can be used for indexing/abstracting purposes.

Abstract: An abstract in English should be provided with all papers, including review Papers. The abstract, not exceeding 200 words, should be informative and independent of the paper. It should not contain references.

Comments and replies do not need an abstract.

Text: Follow this order when composing manuscripts: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Main text, Acknowledgements, Appendix, References, Figure Captions and then Tables. Do not import the Figures or Tables into your text. The corresponding author should be identified with an asterisk and footnote. All other footnotes (except for table footnotes) should be identified with superscript Arabic numbers. The lines in the manuscript must be numbered continuously from beginning to end of the manuscript.

The main text should be subdivided as follows. Primary headings should be bold, left justified and numbered consecutively beginning with 1. Secondary headings should italicized, left justified, and numbered 1.1., and so on. Tertiary headings are numbered 1.1.1., 1.1.2., etc.

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 agreement with results obtained later (Kramer, 1994; Alexius and Naso, 1976)." 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. References should be given in the following form:

Stipp, M., Stunitz, H., Heilbronner, R., Schmid, S., 2002. The eastern tonalite fault zone: a 'natural laboratory' for crystal plastic deformation of quartz over a temperature range from 250 to 700°C. Journal of Structural Geology 24, 1861-1884.

Gavinius, M., Agger, G., 2003. Geology of the Monte Artemisio, Italy. Leidsche Geologische Mededelingen 75, 23-45.

Sanderson, D.J., 1982. Models of strain variation in nappes and thrust sheets: a review. In: Williams, G.D. (Ed.), Strain within Thrust Belts. Tectonophysics 88, 201-233.

Kanagawa, K., 1996. Simulated pressure fringes, vorticity, and progressive deformation. In: De Paor, D.G. (Ed.), Structural Geology and Personal Computers. Computer Methods in the Geosciences 15, 259-283.

Burnham, C.W., 1970. The importance of volatile constituents. In: Yoder, H.S. (Ed.), The Evolution of Igneous Rocks. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 439-474.

Lesher, C.E., Cashman, K.V., Mayfield, J.D., 1999. Kinetic controls on crystallization of Tertiary North Atlantic basalt and implications for the emplacement and cooling history of lava at Site 989, Southeast Greenland rifted margin. In: Larsen, H.C., Duncan, R.A., Allan, J.F., Brooks, K. (Eds.), Proceeding of the ODP, Scientific Results, 163, College Station, Texas (Ocean Drilling Program), 3-16.

Guilbert, J.M., Park, C.F., 1986. The Geology of Ore Deposits. Freeman and Company, New York.

Li, Z.X., Metcalfe, I., Powell, C.M. (Eds.), 1996. Breakup of Rodinia and Gondwanaland and Assembly of Asia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 43.

Albee, H.F., Cullins, H.L., 1975. Geologic map of the Alpine Quadrangle, Bonneville County, Idaho, and Lincoln County Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map GQ-1259, scale 1:24,000.

Di Toro, G., 2003. Processes on fault surfaces of seismic shear zones. Ph.D. thesis, University of Padova.

Illustrations: Photographs, charts and diagrams are all to be referred to as "Fig(s)." or "Figure(s)" in the text. For reviewing purposes, they should be uploaded as different pages at the smallest possible readable resolution and should carry a figure number and, if possible, the figure caption. Figures should be numbered consecutively in the order to which they are referred to in the text. In the revised version, please download your figures at a high resolution that warrants optimal figure quality.

IMPORTANT: In the PDF file, all figures and tables must be numbered and collected at the END of the manuscript. In addition, please indicate clearly in the text where each figure/table should be positioned!

Colour: Colour illustrations will be accepted; however, the authors will be expected to make a contribution towards the extra printing cost. 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., Science Direct 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 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 corresponding to all the colour illustrations.

Tables: Tables should be numbered consecutively and given a suitable caption. Footnotes to tables should be typed below the table and should be referred to by superscript lowercase letters. No vertical rules should be used. Tables should not duplicate results presented elsewhere in the manuscript, (e.g. in graphs).

Mathematics
1. Authors should carefully check if equations are correctly presented in the PDF that is produced by the EES. Letters, used as variables, should be set in italic.
2. Equations should be numbered serially on the right-hand side, in parentheses. In the text they should be referred to as Eq. (1); within mathematical expressions they may be referred to by numbers alone. Equations require normal punctuation.
3. Computer program listings, if appropriate, must be added as an Appendix.

The SI unit of time - units must follow algebraic rules such as the distributive law: 100 Ma - 90 Ma = (100-90) Ma = 10 Ma, and so on. Similarly, rates and decay constants should be expressed in (ka)^-1, (Ma)^-1 or (Ga)^-1.

Proofs
When your manuscript is received by the Publisher it is considered to be in its final form. Proofs are not to be regarded as 'drafts'.
One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author, to be checked for typesetting/editing. No changes in, or additions to, the accepted (and subsequently edited) manuscript will be allowed at this stage. Proofreading is solely your responsibility.
A form with queries from the Copyeditor may accompany your proofs. Please answer all queries and make any corrections or additions required.
The Publisher reserves the right to proceed with publication if corrections are not communicated.
Return corrections within 3 days of receipt of the proofs. Should there be no corrections, please confirm this.
Elsevier will do everything possible to get your article corrected and published as quickly and accurately as possible. In order to do this we need your help. When you receive the (PDF) proof of your article for correction, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are sent back to us in one communication. Subsequent corrections will not be possible, so please ensure your first sending is complete. Note that this does not mean you have any less time to make your corrections, just that only one set of corrections will be accepted.


Reprints
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail or, alternatively, 25 free paper offprints. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.

Copyright
All authors must sign the "Transfer of Copyright" agreement before the article can be published. This transfer agreement enables Elsevier Ltd to protect the copyrighted material for the authors, without the author relinquishing his/her proprietary rights. The copyright transfer covers the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article, including reprints, photographic reproductions, microfilm or any other reproductions of a similar nature, and translations. It also includes the right to adapt the article for use in conjunction with computer systems and programs, including reproduction or publication in machine-readable form and incorporation in retrieval systems. Authors are responsible for obtaining from the copyright holder permission to reproduce any material for which copyright already exists.

Author Enquiries
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Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided when an article is accepted for publication. Authors in Japan kindly note: Upon request Elsevier Japan will provide a list of people who can check and improve the English of an article (before submission). Please contact our Tokyo office: Elsevier Japan K.K., 1-9-15 Higashi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0044, Japan; tel.: +81-3-5561-5032; fax: +81-3-5561-5045; e-mail: jp.info@elsevier.com