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FOR CONTRIBUTORS TO
PEDOSPHERE
Send manuscripts and address
all editorial correspondence to the Editorial Office of PEDOSPHERE, Institute of
Soil Science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 821, Nanjing 210008,
People's Republic of China. Tel.: +86-25-6881235; Fax: 86-25-6881235; E-mail:
pedo@issas.ac.cn, pedos@issas.ac.cn, rmdu@issas.ac.cn.
I.
Gerneral Requirements
PEDOSPHERE publishes
original research findings on soil sciences which are interpreted to mean the
outcome of scholarly inquiry, investigation, or experimentation having as an
objective the revision of existing concepts, the development of new concepts, or
the development of new or improved techniques in some phase of soil sciences.
Critical reviews are also considered. The article must be written in English and
should have been neither published nor submitted for publication
elsewhere.
All manuscripts must be
presented on about 21 cmx28 cm white paper. Use only one side of a sheet.
Manuscripts must be typed allowing 3 cm margins all around. Manuscript pages
should be numbered consecutively. Manuscripts must be submitted in duplicate
(original and one carbon). The author should retain another
carbon.
Copyright of the articles is
transferred to the Editorial Office of PEDOSPHERE after publication. The
Editorial Committee reserves the right to make the final decision on the
acceptance or rejection of the contribution.
II. Type of
Contributions
Contributions are classified
into two types: full-length paper and short communication. Short communication
is a brief report on new findings or improvement of experiment methods, etc., which requires rapid publication.
Authors should indicate the type of manuscript when they submit it. The
Editorial Committee may, however, request the authors to change the type of the
contribution after review.
A full-length paper is
generally limited to eight printed pages and a short communication to four
pages, including references, tables and figures.
III. Preparation of
Manuscripts
To expedite publication
before preparing the manuscript, consult carefully the lay-out of one of the
latest issues of PEDOSPHERE.
Manuscript as a full-length
paper should be arranged in the following order:
First page (cover
sheet):
Date of
submission;
Name(s) of author(s) and
affiliation(s);
Name, complete mailing
address, telephone number and E-mail for correspondence;
Type of
contribution;
Complete title of the manuscript (A short
title less than 12 words is required. It must accurately identify and describe
the manuscript contents);
Running title (It is a shortened title
used as a running head and should be less than 50 letters including space
between words);
Number of text
pages;
Number of tables:
Number of figures;
Number of
photographs;
Offprint order.
Second page and subsequent
pages:
Complete title of the
manuscript;
Name of author(s),
affiliation(s);
Date of reception
(blank);
Abstract (An informative,
self-explanatory abstract, 100–250 words, must be supplied. It should be
specific, telling why and how the study was made, what the results were, and why
they were important. Use quantitative terms where possible);
Key words (less than 5 words or phrases
that typify the content of the manuscript and are arranged in alphabetical
order);
Introduction;
Materials and
Methods;
Results and
discussion;
Conclusion;
Acknowledgement;
References.
Manuscript as a short
communication should follow the same layout for the first page as in a
full-length paper, but the layout for the second page and subsequent ones may
not follow any particular rule. Abstract should be
omitted.
Words printed in
Gothic, Italic, or Greek letters should be clearly indicated. Characters such as
‘×’ should be printed differently to indicate multiplication and ordinary
letter. The same applies to ‘0’ to indicate zero, and to ‘–’ to indicate minus,
dash and hyphen, and a small letter from subscript.
The International
System of Units (SI) should be used for all the data as far as possible, but the
abandoned units, such as Å, bar, mmHg, mmH2O, Cal and Ci, in China
are not acceptable, and the following units are not
permitted:
% for plant nutrient or chemical element
concentration—use mmol kg-1 or g
kg-1
% for water content—use g
kg-1
ppm for mass or volume—use mg
kg-1or mg L-1
meq for exchange capacity—use moles of
charge per unit mass (cmolc kg-1)
N or M for substance concentration—use mol
L-1
Nomenclature: The Latin binomial or
trinomial (in italics) and authority must be shown for all plants, insects,
animals and microorganisms when first used in the abstract, the main text, or a
table. For pesticides, the full chemical name(s) must be given in either the
abstract or text.
For soil nomenclature, international
classification system (e.g.,
FAO-UNESCO system or USDA Soil Taxonomy) may be included as reference, when a
local classification is presented.
For chemical nomenclature,
recommendations by the convention of the International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry should be followed.
Formulae: Simple fractions should be
written as Ti+1/Ti instead of
. For chemical formulae, valence of ion should be indicated
as Ca2+ or SO42- and not as Ca++ or
SO4--. Isotope numbers should precede the symbols, e.g., 14C or
(15NH4)2SO4.
Each figure must be arranged on a
separate sheet. Figures should be numbered according to their sequence in the
text. Indicate the first author's name below each figure and the preferred
position of each figure in the text.
Tables: Number all tables with Roman
numerals. Vertical lines between columns should be avoided. Table captions
should not include the units of measurements; these units should be listed in
the body of the table. The symbols *, ** and *** are used to indicate
statistical significance at 0.05, 0.01 and 0.001 levels, respectively, and are
not used for other footnotes.
Figures: All figures should be drawn and
ought to be reeditable by a computer in general. Typewritten matter is not
acceptable. Refer to all photographs, diagrams and graphs as Figure (abbreviated
to ‘Fig.’) in either the text or the caption. A legend for identifying graph
lines should not be included in figure captions; this information should be in
the drawing itself.
Text Footnotes: Avoid using footnotes if
possible. However, if necessary, identify them by the symbols ``*1'', ``*2'',
``*3'', etc., and type them on the
bottom of the page.
References: All published or “in press”
works referred to in the text should be presented in a list of references and
arranged alphabetically by author without serial numbering. Only literature that
is available through libraries can be cited. The reference list can include
theses, books, proceedings, dissertations and abstract publications. The
author-year system is used in the text. Two or more articles by the same
author(s) are listed chronologically; two or more in the same year are indicated
by the letter a, b, c, etc. Use the
International Serials Catalogue or the International List of Periodical Title
World Abbreviations or the Bibliographic Guide for Editors and Authors (The
American Chemical Society, 1974) or the list of periodicals indexed in Chemical
Abstracts for abbreviations of journal names, and when in doubt give full name
of the periodical. The publications in languages other than English should be
translated into English, and a notation such as “(in German)”, “(in Chinese)”,
“(in Japanese)” and “(in Russian)” must be added behind the name of the
periodical, proceedings or book. The name of journal should be given in italic
type, and the volume number in bold type.
References should be arranged as
follows:
For journals: author(s). year. title. name of
journal. volume number(issue No.): inclusive pages.
e.g. Chen, J. F. , He, Q. and Shao, Z. C.
1981a. Activation process of iron oxides in soil. Acta Pedologica Sinica (in Chinese). 18(1):31–42.
For books: author(s) or editor(s). year. book
title. publisher, and city. pages.
e.g. Van Meurs, A. P. H. 1971. Petroleum
Economics and Offshore Mining Legislation. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 208
pp.
For chapter references from books and
symposium proceedings: author(s). year. title. In Editor(s) (ed. or eds.) name of book
or proceedings. publisher, and city. inclusive pages.
e.g. Chen, J. F. and He, Q. 1985. Chemical
distribution of oxide mineral in soil colloid. In Hseung, Y. et al. (eds.) Methods for Soil
Colloid Research (in Chinese). Science Press, Beijing. pp.
241–303.
For dissertations: author (s). year. title.
M.S. (or Ph.D.) Dissertation, degree-awarding institution.
pages.
e.g. Cairn, R.B. 1964. Infrared spectroscopic
studies of solid oxygen. Ph. D. Dissertation, Beijing University.
165pp.
IV. Proofs
The authors will be
requested to revise and return their manuscripts according to the referees'
suggestions, comments or criticisms for improvement of the quality within 2
months. If not returned within 2 months, the manuscript will be released, and it
must then be resubmitted as a new paper.
The authors are asked to
check the proofs for typographical errors. Special attention is directed toward
the following instruction included with proof: “Mark all printer's errors in
red; mark all other errors in some color other than red”. Because of the high
cost of alterations only typographical or serious errors of fact can be
corrected in proof. Authors will be billed for excessive changes on proofs (not
due to the printer's errors). All proofs should be returned to the Editorial
Office of PEDOSPHERE within 48 hours of receipt.
V.
Offprints
Thirty offprints of each
article and one copy of the journal published are supplied free of charge.
Additional offprints may be ordered at extra cost when returning
proofs.