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[Pages:20]Guide for Authors ? Computers & Geosciences

It can be advantageous to print this "Guide for Authors" section for reference during the subsequent stages of article preparation.

Summary of Important Items when submitting a manuscript

1) Be certain that your manuscript contains suitable material for the journal (computing methods in the physical geosciences). Out of scope articles will be returned to authors without review. Please read the Aims & Scope of the journal.

2) Please read the Elsevier web page on Publishing Ethics: publishingethicskit.

3) Please provide a covering letter explaining the contribution of the manuscript. 4) Grammar, spelling and accuracy are considered as the most important screening criterion.

If your manuscript contains errors in English, it will be returned. Non-English speaking authors are encouraged to have their manuscript checked and edited by a native English speaker. Alternatively, the use of language editing services can be used to improve the English of a manuscript. 5) Manuscripts, which do not meet the novelty, significance, and competence criteria (Aims & Scope of the journal) will be returned to authors at any stage, at the discretion of the Editor. 6) References must follow the format as stipulated in this guide. Your manuscript will be returned if the format of the references is not correct. 7) Ensure that figures are adequately labelled (coordinates, scale bar, orientation) and the resolution is sufficient for publication scale. 8) Choose the appropriate article type (Research, Application, Review or Short Note articles ? see Aims & Scope). Ensure your manuscript falls within the word limit for the article type that you choose. Please note: maximum word count is based on the text, excluding abstract, keywords, references and captions. 9) Text and figure files must be uploaded separately. 10) If you are submitting a revised manuscript, CLEARLY address, point-by-point, to the comments provided by the reviewers. This includes any request for improvements in the English. 11) Briefly, the format of your manuscript must be:

a. in a word processing format (i.e. MS Word or LaTeX). DO NOT SUBMIT PDF DOCUMENTS (PDF figures are ok).

b. single column c. double spaced lines d. line numbers e. adhere to the reference format standard for the journal f. figures must be uploaded separately and properly labelled during the submission

process. g. provide a separate list of figure captions and table captions at the end of the text

document.

The following links within this document provide important details for all submissions:

Guide for Submission of Articles Submission Checklist Preparation of Text Reference Citation Requirements Preparation of Illustrations Submission of Computer Code / Applications Proofs and Offprints

Contact information

For general information about the journal, the submission of computer code, or inquiries on access to the ftp site for computer code () for the journal, contact:

Professor Jef Caers Editor-in-Chief, Computers & Geosciences Email: jcaers@stanford.edu

For information regarding submissions and manuscript status, please contact the Journal Manager:

David Vargas Journal Manager Computers & Geosciences Email: cageo@

Subscription information

Business related to the International Association for Mathematical Geology (IAMG), such as membership and subscriptions to Computers & Geosciences should be sent to:

IAMG Office 5868 Westheimer Rd. #537 Houston, TX 77057 U.S.A. Tel: +1-832-380-8833 (messages) email: support@

Submission of articles

General

It is essential to give an e-mail address and, if available, a fax number, when submitting a manuscript. Articles must be written in good English. Submission of an article implies that the work:

a) has not been published previously in whole or part (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), b) is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, c) is approved by all Authors, d) if accepted, will not be published elsewhere in whole or part, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher.

Upon acceptance of an article, Authors will be asked to transfer copyright (for more information on copyright see authors). This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. A letter will be sent to the corresponding Author confirming receipt of the manuscript. A form facilitating transfer of copyright will be provided.

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 Elseviers Rights Department, Oxford, UK: phone (+44) 1865 843830, fax (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail permissions@. Requests may also be completed online via the Elsevier homepage (permissions).

Authors' rights

Please see: authorsrights

The Submission Process

Manuscripts are to be submitted online. No other form of submission is accepted. Use the following guidelines to present and submit your article.

Manuscripts are submitted via the Elsevier Editorial System page of this journal, . 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 also stored in their original format by the system for further processing after acceptance. All correspondence, including notification of the Editors decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the Authors homepage, removing the need for a hard-copy paper trail.

If you are submitting a manuscript in LaTeX format, the figures and tables will be uploaded together and a pdf will be created from the LaTeX document.

It can sometimes be helpful to suggest the names of up to 4 suitable referees (include their e-mail addresses), although the Editor may not use any of them.

KML files (optional)

The journal would like to enrich online articles by providing GoogleMaps visualizing your data. For this purpose, KML files can be uploaded in our online submission system. Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML schema for expressing geographic annotation and visualization within Internet-based Earth browsers. Elsevier will generate GoogleMaps from the submitted KML files and include these in the online article. Submitted KML files will also be available for downloading from your online article on ScienceDirect.

Open Access (optional)

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 .

Authors of accepted articles, who wish to take advantage of this option, should complete and submit the order form (available at ).

Whatever access option you choose, you retain many rights as an author, more information can be found here: .

Electronic format requirements

We accept most word processing formats, but Word or LaTeX are 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 (e.g. .doc).

Word Processor documents

It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the word processor. The text should be in single-column format, 12 point Times New Roman font, double line-spaced with line numbering. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced during processing of the article. In particular, do not use the word processors 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 word processors 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: guidepublication). Vertical lines should not be included in tables. 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 word processor.

LaTeX documents

If the LaTeX file is suitable, proofs will be produced without re-keying the text. The article should preferably be written using Elseviers 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 Journal authors home: latex. It consists of the files: elsarticle.cls, guidelines for users of elsarticle, a template file for quick start, and the instruction booklet "Preparing articles with LaTeX".

Database Linking

Electronic archiving of supplementary data enables readers to replicate, verify and build upon the conclusions published in the paper. We recommend that data should be deposited in the data library PANGAEA (pangaea.de). Data is archived by an editor in standard format, machine readable form and is available Open Access. After processing, the author receives an identifier (DOI) linking to the supplement for proof reading. Data can be referenced in the publication to facilitate linking between the journal article and the data. Please use PANGAEAs web interface to submit your data ().

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Submission checklist

This list should be used prior to the submission of the article for review. All papers must be submitted to the Editor using the Electronic Submission System. Please do NOT send as hardcopy or by e-mail attachment. 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 necessary files have been uploaded Keywords All figure captions All tables (including title, description, footnotes)

Further considerations

Manuscript has been "spellchecked" and the English grammar is correct. For information on language editing please see languageediting. References are in the correct format for this journal (see Reference Citation Requirements). 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. The text should be uploaded separately from the tables and figures. Figures should be uploaded separately as described during the submission process. Subject matter is appropriate (computing in the physical geosciences). Novelty, significance, and competence criteria are met (see Aims & Scope)

For any further information please contact the Author Support Department at authorsupport@.

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Preparation of text

The journal accepts the following types of articles: research (for novel computer methods), application (for significant applications of computer methods), reviews (for critical reviews of state-of-the-art in geoscience computing,) short notes (brief descriptions of an application or a timely research development), book and software reviews and letters (for communication). Source code and test datasets associated with published papers can be made available for public distribution from the Editor's page.

Presentation of manuscript

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 languagepolishing or contact authorsupport@ 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: termsandconditions.

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 Authors 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 of the Corresponding Author.

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 Authors 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 (maximum length 300 words). 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 6 keywords, avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, "and", "of"). Also, avoid using words that are already in the title. 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.

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 details 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,

X p e.g., Xp/Ym rather than Ym

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).

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