Official Journal of the IAGR

Submission of Papers
All manuscripts should be submitted electronically through Elsevier Editorial System (EES), which can be accessed at: http://ees.elsevier.com/gr
Papers should be in English.
With the submitted manuscript authors should provide the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of five suggested reviewers.
Submission of a paper implies that it has not been published previously, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and that if accepted it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the publisher.
Types of Contributions
Gondwana Research (GR) is an International Journal aimed to promote high quality research publications related to the origin and evolution of continents, continental assemblies and their resources, particularly on Gondwanaland and its crustal fragments. GR is an "all earth science" journal with no restrictions on geological time, terrane or theme, and covers a wide spectrum of topics in geosciences such as geology, geomorphology, paleontology, structure, petrology, geochemistry, stable isotopes, geochronology, economic geology, exploration geology, engineering geology, resource planning and evaluation, land use, geophysics, and environmental geology among other themes, and provides an appropriate forum to integrate studies from different disciplines and different terranes.

The types of contributions published in GR are: (1) Original research paper, (2) high-profile state-of-the-art review on thrust area topics under the category 'GR FOCUS', (3) short article (within ten printed pages) for rapid publication reporting important discoveries or innovative models of global interest under the category 'GR LETTERS' and (4) Comment and Reply. The Gondwana Newsletter Section (GNL) is published along with GR twice every year in April and October and will carry the following categories of articles: (1) Letters to the Editors, (2) Conference reports, (3) Announcements and (4) Book Reviews. Articles to GNL are limited to two printed pages. Letters to the Editors, carrying opinions, views, or other matter of general interest to the scientific community will be considered for occasional publication. Letters to the Editors should be addressed directly to the Editor-in-Chief, before submission through the EES. For Book Reviews, the publisher/editor/author of the book should submit two copies of the publication to be reviewed to the Editor-in-Chief with a written request for publication of review, who shall then identify an appropriate reviewer. Unsolicited Book Reviews will not be published.
All contributions are subject to peer review except Comments and Replies (GR), Letters to the Editors, Conference reports, Announcements and Book Reviews (GNL). Comments on papers published in Gondwana Research must be submitted within six months of the publication of the printed version of the paper. The authors addressed by the Comment will be allowed one month time 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. Review papers under the 'GR FOCUS' category that give an overview of the current state of a subject in a certain field should not be directly submitted to the EES. Their submission should first be discussed with the Editor-in-Chief. Review papers are limited to 40 printed pages.

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/gondwana) for style if possible. The Editor-in-Chief reserves 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.
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 Condie (2001) has shown that..." or "This is in agreement with results obtained later (Meert, 2003; Burrett and Berry, 2000)." 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:
Kusky, T.M., Stern, R.J., Tucker, R.D., 2003. Evolution of East African and related orogens, and the assembly of Gondwana. Precambrian Research, 123, 81-85.
Pili, E., Sheppard, S.M.F., Lardeaux, J.M.,1999. Fluid-rock interaction in the granulites of Madagascar and lithospheric transfer of fluids. Gondwana Research, 2, 341-350.
Suzuki, K., Adachi, M., 1992. Middle Precambrian detrital monazite and zircon from Hida gneiss in Oki-Dogo island, Japan: their origin and implications for the correlation of basement gneiss of Southwest Japan and Korea. Tectonophysics, 235, 277-292.
Touret, J.L.R., 1985. Fluid regime in southern Norway, the record of fluid inclusions. In: Tobi, A.C., Touret, J.L.R. (Eds.), The Deep Proterozoic Crust in the North Atlantic Provinces. Reidel, Dordrecht, 517-549.
Kinny, P. D., Collins, A. S., Razakamanana, T., 2004. Provenance hints and age constraints of metasedimentary gneisses of Southern Madagascar from SHRIMP U-Pb zircon data. In: Chetty, T.R.K. and Bhaskar Rao, Y.J. (Eds.), International Field Workshop on the Southern Granulite Terrane. National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India, 97-98.
Rogers, J.J.W. and Santosh, M., 2004. Continents and Supercontinents. Oxford University Press, 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.
Sajeev, K., 2003. Evolution and metamorphic zoning of Highland Complex, Sri Lanka: a comparison with Madurai Block, southern India. Ph.D. thesis, Okayama University.
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. Final Submission
Once the contribution is accepted for publication by the Editor-in-Chief, authors should upload the text, tables and figures as per general guidelines given in the link below:
http://www.elsevier.com/authors
Please also consult artwork instructions given in the journal's website at:
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/gr
Postal articles, including books for review, should be addressed to:
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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. Proof reading 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.
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Offprints
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