Guide for Authors
The Journal of Structural Geology publishes on the structural geology of the Earth and other planets
and moons, including related contributions in rheology, geophysics, geochemistry, geodynamics, and tectonics. Papers may cover applied
aspects of structural geology such as structural controls on mineral and hydrocarbon deposits, rock mechanics and neotectonics. We focus
on papers that employ appropriate combinations of field data, geometric analysis, laboratory experiments and observations, computer visualization
and analogue or numerical modelling on all scales, and new educational approaches to structural geology.
Types of paper
There are five types of contributions:
Original Research Paper, Pedagogical Paper, Review
Paper, Comment/Reply to Comment, and Letter to the Editors. All contributions are subject to peer review except Comment/Replies to Comments,
and Letters 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 which must present original results.
Pedagogical Papers
will be considered for occasional publication. They may be authoritative reviews of established concepts, comprehensive explanations
of new theory, or descriptions of practical devices. Papers should be clearly illustrated by examples. Authors that wish their papers
to be considered on pedagogical merit should emphasize this in their letter of submission.
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thorough overview of the current state of a subject in a certain field and should not contain new, unpublished material. Submission of
Review Papers should be discussed with the Chief Editor before entry to the EES.
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.
Ethics in publishing
For information on Ethics in publishing and Ethical
guidelines for journal publication see
http://www.elsevier.com/publishingethics and
http://www.elsevier.com/ethicalguidelines.
Conflict of interest
All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest
including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted
work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. See also
http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.
Submission declaration
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 including electronically in the same form, in English or in any
other language, without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
Changes to authorship
This policy concerns the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before
the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names,
must be sent to the Journal Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name
should be added or removed, or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they
agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the
author being added or removed. Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the
corresponding author, who must follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors
of any such requests and (2) publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After
the accepted manuscript is published in an online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published
in an online issue will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.
Copyright
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete 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.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of
contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher
is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations
(please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions). 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: please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions.
Retained author rights
As an author you (or your employer or institution) retain certain rights; for details you are referred
to:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Role of the funding source
You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation of the article
and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data;
in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such involvement
then this should be stated. Please see
http://www.elsevier.com/funding.
Funding body agreements and policies
Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors whose
articles appear in journals published by Elsevier, to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions
of their grant awards. To learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies.
Open access
This journal offers you the option of making your article freely available to all via the ScienceDirect
platform. To prevent any conflict of interest, you can only make this choice after receiving notification that your article has been
accepted for publication. The fee of $3,000 excludes taxes and other potential author fees such as color charges. In some cases, institutions
and funding bodies have entered into agreement with Elsevier to meet these fees on behalf of their authors. Details of these agreements
are available at
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies. Authors of accepted articles, who wish to take advantage of this
option, should complete and submit the order form (available at
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/openaccessform.pdf). Whatever
access option you choose, you retain many rights as an author, including the right to post a revised personal version of your article
on your own website. More information can be found here:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Language and language services
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted,
but not a mixture of these). Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission
please visit
http://webshop.elsevier.com/languageservices
or our customer support site at
http://support.elsevier.com
for more information.
Submission
Submission to this journal proceeds totally
online and you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. The system automatically converts source files
to a single PDF file of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are
converted to PDF files 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 removing the need for
a paper trail.
Submit your article
Please submit your article via
http://ees.elsevier.com/sg
Referees
Authors should provide the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of five suggested reviewers
with the manuscript.
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
(
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. Reference
lists represent ... words per page. 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 7Mb.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Di Toro, G., 2003. Processes on fault surfaces of seismic shear zones. Ph.D. thesis, University
of Padova.
Gavinius, M., Agger, G., 2003. Geology of the Monte Artemisio, Italy. Leidsche Geologische Mededelingen 75, 23-45.
Guilbert,
J.M., Park, C.F., 1986. The Geology of Ore Deposits. Freeman and Company, New York.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 figures can be accepted. Colour figures will appear on the web (e.g., Science Direct
and other sites) at no extra cost, but colour figures in the printed version will be charged at Euro 270/figure. Please note: because
of technical complications which can arise from 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.
Essential title page information
•
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.
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Corresponding author.
Clearly indicate who will 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. Contact details must be kept up to date
by the corresponding author.
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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.
Graphical abstract
A Graphical
abstract is optional and should summarize the contents of the article in a concise, pictorial form designed to capture the attention
of a wide readership online. Authors must provide images that clearly represent the work described in the article. Graphical abstracts
should be submitted as a separate file in the online submission system. Image size: Please provide an image with a minimum of 531 ×
1328 pixels (h × w) or proportionally more. The image should be readable at a size of 5 × 13 cm using a regular screen resolution
of 96 dpi. Preferred file types: TIFF, EPS, PDF or MS Office files. See
http://www.elsevier.com/graphicalabstracts for examples.
Authors can make use of Elsevier's Illustration and Enhancement service to ensure the best presentation of their images also in accordance
with all technical requirements:
Illustration
Service.
Highlights
Highlights are mandatory for this journal.
They consist of a short collection of bullet points that convey the core findings of the article and should be submitted in a separate
file in the online submission system. Please use 'Highlights' in the file name and include 3 to 5 bullet points (maximum 85 characters,
including spaces, per bullet point). See
http://www.elsevier.com/highlights for examples.
Linking to and depositing data at PANGAEA
Electronic archiving of supplementary data enables readers to
replicate, verify and build upon the conclusions published in your paper. We recommend that data should be deposited in the data library
PANGAEA (
http://www.pangaea.de). Data are quality controlled and archived by an editor in standard machine-readable formats
and are available via Open Access. After processing, the author receives an identifier (DOI) linking to the supplements for checking.
As your data sets will be citable you might want to refer to them in your article. In any case, data supplements and the article will
be automatically linked as in the following example:
doi:10.1016/0016-7037(95)00105-9.
Please use PANGAEA's web interface to submit your data (
http://www.pangaea.de/submit/).
Google Maps and KML files
KML (Keyhole Markup Language) files (optional): You can enrich your online articles
by providing KML files which will be visualized using Google maps. The KML files can be uploaded in our online submission system. KML
is an XML schema for expressing geographic annotation and visualization within Internet-based Earth browsers. Elsevier will generate
Google Maps from the submitted KML files and include these in the article when published online. Submitted KML files will also be available
for downloading from your online article on ScienceDirect. For more information see
http://www.elsevier.com/googlemaps.
Use of the Digital Object Identifier
The
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to electronic documents. The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character
string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon the initial electronic publication. The assigned DOI never changes. Therefore,
it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly 'Articles in press' because they have not yet received their full bibliographic
information. The correct format for citing a DOI is shown as follows (example taken from a document in the journal
Physics Letters
B):
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2010.09.059
When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, the DOIs are
guaranteed never to change.
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.
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