期刊名称：SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Print ISSN 0036-9276 Online ISSN 2041-4951
Scottish Journal of Geology
Although published only since 1965, the Scottish Journal of Geology has a long pedigree. It is the joint publication of the Geological Society of Glasgow and the Edinburgh Geological Society, which prior to 1965 published separate Transactions: from 1860 in the case of Glasgow and 1863 for Edinburgh. The Scottish Journal of Geology (SJG) is available online via the Lyell Collection. Please see subscription rates for access entitlements. Traditionally, the Journal has acted as the focus for papers on all aspects of Scottish geology and its contiguous areas, including Europe, the North Sea and the margins of the North Atlantic. The publication policy has always been outward looking, with the Editors encouraging review papers and papers on broader aspects of the earth sciences that cannot be discussed solely in terms of Scottish geology. The diverse geology of Scotland continues to provide an important natural laboratory for the study of earth sciences; many seminal studies in geology have been carried out on Scottish rocks, and over the years the results of much of this work had been published in the Journal and its predecessors. The Journal fully deserves its high reputation worldwide and intends to maintain its status in the front rank of publications in the earth sciences. The Journal is abstracted and/or indexed in:
- Current Contents
- Science Citation Index
- GeoArchive, Geobase
- Geological Abstracts
- Mineralogical Abstracts
- IBZ/IBR
Instructions to Authors
Aim | Submission | Format | Title | Text | Figures | Colour | Tables | Supplementary publication scheme | Offprints/pdfs | Copyright | Book reviews | Open Access Publishing
Aim
The primary aim of the Journal is to publish papers relevant to the geology of Scotland and adjacent areas including the surrounding seas. Papers of general or specialist interest as well as short communications, letters to the editor, and discussions of earlier papers are welcome, together with reviews and thematic sets publishing the results of relevant meetings and conferences. Submission
All contributions must be original. Papers, including figures and references should not normally exceed 12 printed pages. A pdf or Word file of the typescript should be emailed to sally.oberst@geolsoc.org.uk Format
A pdf of the paper may be submitted for review purposes. On acceptance MS Word files of the text, figure captions and tables are required along with a complete copy of the full manuscript. Title
The title should be brief and specific. Name(s) and address(es) of author(s) (including an e-mail address for the corresponding author). Synopsis: must be intelligible without reference to the paper and should not exceed 200 words. Main body of paper, subdivided into 1st, 2nd, and 3rd order headings (see recent issue for styles). Acknowledgements. Appendices. References: NAME, A. B. Year. Title. [In: Name, C. D. & Name E. F. (eds) Title. Publisher, place, pages] Journal, vol, pages. Tables. Captions for figures. Figures Text
Authors should ensure consistency in their use of capitals, hyphens and punctuation. Underlining should be used only to indicate words in italics, e.g. fossil names. Footnotes should be avoided. References in the text should separated by a semicolon and appear in chronological order (Hutton 1795; Hutton & Smith 1805; Werner 1874). Reference in the text to papers with more than two authors should be made thus: (Smith et al. 1975) but cited in full in the references list. References: List all references cited in text, figures and tables. They should be double spaced, in alphabetical order of the authors' names with 'et al.' entries listed chronologically. Repeated author names and journal titles should be given in full. Unpublished material and manuscripts submitted to a journal but not yet accepted should not be cited. Personal communications are preferable to inaccessible unpublished reports. Figures
Page size is 245 x 176 mm; column width is 85mm. Figures should be prepared to fit either a page or column width leaving space for the caption. They must be numbered consecutively and referred to in the text in that order. Make sure that scales and north arrows are included where appropriate. Please provide print outs that are exactly the same as the material on the disc. Acceptable graphics packages are Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator and Aldus Freehand. Ensure that fine lines are saved as actual line widths of at least 0.5 pt. Do not use fine-line default settings (minimum width or hairline) or fine shading; on a high-resolution output device such as a film-setter they may be too fine to show up in print. This problem cannot be detected in proofs, which are produced with a laser printer. No letters, after reduction, should be less than 1mm high Figures should be supplied as EPS files with fonts embedded and a tiff preview. If EPS files are not an option, we can accept high resolution (1000 dpi) bit map TIFFs (or JPEG, GIF). Photographs or halftones can be provided as EPS or greyscale TIFF files (recommended resolution of >300dpi). A scale bar should be used on photographs. Colour
Colour may be used, but authors wishing to do so must contact the editors. Authors are expected to contribute towards the cost of colour reproduction. Similarly, folded figures are expensive, and editors must be consulted. Colour must be saved as CMYK (not RGB). Tables
Tables should go across single or double column width. Vertical and horizontal rules should be avoided limited to the top and bottom of the table body. Tables must be provided as Word, Excel or .rtf files. Supplementary publication scheme
Detailed material such as locality lists and analytical data, will be made available as Supplementary Publications. These files hosted on the Society’s website. Acceptable formats for the online repository are: .rtf, .csv and .pdf. Maximum size is 5 MB per paper (can be zipped if necessary). Offprints/pdfs
Offprint copies of papers will be provided at cost if ordered when the corrected proofs are returned to the publisher. Copies are normally distributed soon after publication. The Scottish Journal of Geology is available online via the Lyell Collection at http://sjg.lyellcollection.org. Authors will be sent instructions on how to obtain pdfs. Copyright
The Scottish Journal of Geology is the joint property of the Geological Society of Glasgow and the Edinburgh Geological Society, in whom the copyright rests. Queries regarding copyright should be directed to the secretaries of the Societies. Papers accepted for publication are deemed to be the property of the Editorial Board acting on behalf of the Societies unless specific arrangements are made to the contrary.
Book reviews
As space permits, the Journal will publish independent reviews of printed works that have a clear relevance to the geology of Scotland.
Open Access Publishing
Authors may choose to make their article fully Open Access (sometimes called ‘Gold Open Access’) on payment of an Article Processing Charge. For Scottish Journal of Geology the APC is £1000/$2000. There is a 50% discount for articles where all the authors are at a research institution in a developing country. More information on the Society’s policy can be found at www.geolsoc.org.uk/open-access.
You do not need to pay until after your article is accepted. You will be sent a form with payment information shortly after your article is accepted.
If you require Open Access but cannot pay the APC, the Geological Society also supports ‘Green Open Access’, where you can post your final post-refereed version of the article to a website or repository 12 months after the online publication date.
Authors must not post a typeset proof or final version to any website or repository unless the article is fully Open Access.
Editorial Board
SJG Editorial Board
Dr Brian Bell (University of Glasgow, UK)
Dr Colin Braithwaite (University of Glasgow, UK)
Prof Rob Duck (University of Dundee, UK)
Dr Alistair McGowan (University of Glasgow, UK)
Dr Alan Stevenson (British Geological Survey, UK)
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