期刊名称：HISTORY OF GEO- AND SPACE SCIENCES
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
History of Geo- and Space Sciences (HGSS)
Executive Editor: Kristian Schlegel
Open Access – Personalized Copyright under a Creative Commons License – Article-Level Metrics
Journal Subject Areas
The journal subject areas are defined by the following index terms below. These terms represent the keywords to be chosen for assignment of submitted manuscripts to individual editors.
History of Research and Historical Aspects:
- Earth Interior and Dynamics;
- Applied Geophysics (Seismology, Gravimetry, Geodesy etc.);
- Chemistry of the Earth;
- Geomagnetism (incl. Paleomagnetism);
- Marine Sciences;
- Geology;
- Hydrology and Ecology;
- Petrology, Mineralogy, Mining;
- External Geophysics (Atmosphere, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Auroa);
- Solar Terrestrial Physics;
- Near-Earth Space exploration, Space Technology, Instrumentation.
History of Geophysical Institutes and Institution
History of Multi-disciplinary Geophysical Studies
People in Geosciences
Book Reviews
Publication Ethics
Ethical standards are crucial to ensure high quality of scientific publications, credibility of scientific findings, and that authors receive credit for their work.
Copernicus Publications has several policies in place to guarantee high ethical standards. These guidelines can be viewed in the General Terms, the General Obligations for Authors, the General Obligations for Editors, and the General Obligations for Referees.
Besides these guidelines, Copernicus Publications recommends the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors as well as the Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as best practice. As a founding member of OASPA, Copernicus Publications also pursues OASPA's principles of transparency and best practices in scholarly publishing.
Amongst other duties, editors have to ensure that all manuscripts received by their journal are reviewed for their scientific content without regard to sex, gender, race, religion, citizenship, etc. of the authors. Furthermore, the editors need to ensure that any information regarding manuscripts submitted by the authors is kept confidential.
The reviews of submitted manuscripts must be done objectively, and the referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments. Furthermore, referees need to be aware that any information regarding the manuscripts they are reviewing should be treated as privileged information.
Copernicus Publications itself aims to follow the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers of COPE by
In addition to the above-mentioned points, authors should be aware in particular about the following:
Originality
In order to avoid ethical violations, all journals published by Copernicus Publications are committed to only publishing original material that was not published before, except in the form of an abstract or proceedings-type publication (including electronic preprints and discussion papers), or that is considered for publication elsewhere. Authors have to agree on that in a consent form. Furthermore, redundant publications ("salami tactic" of publishing small parts of the same research in several papers) should be avoided. Please also view the General Terms.
Author(s) Contribution and Funding Statement
All authors listed on a presented scientific work must have contributed a significant part to it. Vice versa, all persons who contributed to the presented work need to be named in the list of authors. In addition, sources of financial support, if any, must be clearly disclosed.
Citation Manipulation
Any manipulation of citations (e.g. including citations not contributing to a manuscript's scientific content, citations solely aiming at increasing an author's or a journal’s citations, etc.) is regarded as scientific malpractice.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism means the use of any material and ideas developed or created by another person without acknowledging the original source. To avoid any form of plagiarism, each manuscript newly submitted to the Copernicus Office Editor (our online editorial support system) will be checked regarding plagiarism using iThenticate. The decision on whether a manuscript should be rejected because of fraud or should proceed to the peer-review process belongs to the handling editor. The similarity reports are also made available to referees.
The Copernicus Office Editor automatically informs the handling editor and the Copernicus Publications Editorial Support if an author, whose former manuscript was rejected because of fraud, submits another manuscript to one of the journals published by Copernicus Publications. It is up to the respective handling editor to decide on whether the new manuscript should be considered for peer-review.
Instructions to Authors
Submit your manuscript
First Steps
Before the actual submission of a manuscript to the Editorial Support for peer-review, you are kindly requested:
Manuscript Types
The following types of manuscripts can be considered for peer-reviewed publication in History of Geo- and Space Sciences (HGSS):
- Articles reporting results of new historic research within the journal scope.
- Articles containing new interpretation or compilation of science historical facts, events or material.
- Articles describing the vitae of important geoscientist which have not been available so far.
- Review Articles summarising the status of knowledge of historical facts or events within the journal scope. Before preparing and submitting a review article, please contact an editor covering the relevant subject area and an executive editor.
- Short Notes reporting new developments and novel aspects of science historical matters which are relevant for scientific investigations within the journal scope. Manuscripts of this type should be short (a few pages only).
- Tributes are peer-reviewed (maximum 2-page) contributions to honour a living person (eulogy) or deceased (obituary). All submitted articles should have a short abstract that explains the reason for choosing this person. Moreover, it is the author's responsibility to approve with the honored person.
- Book Reviews provide a critique of a book, and are not primarily a summary. They are less than 1000 words and start with "Book Review on:". Please see the further guidelines on Book Reviews.
- Corrigenda correct errors in preceding papers. The manuscript title reads as follows: Corrigendum to "TITLE" published in JOURNAL, VOLUME, PAGES, YEAR.
Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for Authors
The following sections provide guidelines on how to prepare and compose your manuscript. Please follow these standards to ensure a smooth peer-review and production process.
Manuscript Composition
For the review process a *.pdf file of the complete manuscript is required and the pages should be placed in the following order: title page, abstract, text, appendices, acknowledgements, references, tables and figures. All pages must be numbered consecutively and line numbers must be included.
- Title Page: Title (concise but informative), author initials and last names, full institutional addresses of all authors, correspondence email for proofs.
- Abstract: The abstract should be intelligible to the general reader without reference to the text. After a brief introduction of the topic, the summary recapitulates the key points of the article and mentions possible directions for prospective research. Reference citations should not be included in this section, unless urgently required, and abbreviations should not be included without explanations.
- Sections: The headings of all sections, including introduction, results, discussions or summary must be numbered. Three levels of sectioning are allowed, e.g. 3, 3.1 and 3.1.1.
- Footnotes: These should be avoided, as they tend to disrupt the flow of the text. If absolutely necessary, they should be numbered consecutively. Footnotes to tables should be marked by lowercase letters.
- Author contribution: Authors are encouraged to add a section "Author contribution" before the acknowledgements in which the contributions of all co-authors are briefly described. Example: A. A. and B. B. designed the experiments and C. C. carried them out. D. D. developed the model code and performed the simulations. A. A. prepared the manuscript with contributions from all co-authors.
- Appendices: These should be labelled with capital letters: Appendix A, Appendix B etc. Equations, figures and tables should be numbered as (A1), Fig B5 or Table C6, respectively.
- Figures: It is important for the production process that separate figures are submitted. Composite figures containing multiple panels should be collected into one file before submission. The figures should be labelled correctly with Arabic numerals (e.g. fig01, fig02). They can be submitted in *.pdf, *.ps, *.eps, *.jpg, *.png, or *.tif format and should have a resolution of at least 150-300 dpi. The width should not be less than 8 cm. A legend should clarify all symbols used and should appear in the figure itself, rather than verbal explanations in the captions (e.g. "dashed line" or "open green circles").
Tips for producing high-quality line graphics:
- The first choice should be vector graphics in *.eps or *.pdf format.
- If this is not possible, a bitmap image should be saved in a "non-lossy" format, e.g. *.png. A high resolution is recommended. It is always possible to reduce the size of the figure later.
- The *.jpg format should only be used for photos. It is not suitable for sharp edges. Note that it is not advisable to convert a *.jpg file back to *.png.
- Figure captions: Each illustration should have a concise but descriptive caption. The abbreviations used in the figure must be defined, unless they are common abbreviations or have already been defined in the text. Figure captions should be included in the text file and not in the figure files.
- Plot data: Authors are encouraged to put the data needed to create the plots, which are included in the manuscript, in a supplement to the published article (see below). Then, reviewers and readers are able to reproduce the plots.
- Tables: Any tables should appear on separate sheets after the references and should be numbered sequentially with Arabic numerals. For the production of the accepted manuscript, they should be submitted as MS WORD or included in the LaTeX file. Tables submitted as a PDF or an image file cannot be processed. Tables should be self-explanatory and include a concise, yet sufficiently descriptive caption. Horizontal lines should normally only appear above and below the table, and as a separator between the head and the main body of the table. Vertical lines must be avoided.
- Data sets: Authors are kindly asked to follow our data policy including the deposit of data that correspond to journal articles in reliable data repositories, the assignment of digital object identifiers, and the proper citation of a data set.
- Supplementary material: Authors have the opportunity to submit supplementary material with their manuscript, such as plot data, movies, animations, highly detailed and specific technical information, such as computer programme code, user manuals, maps, very large images, etc. These files will receive a DOI (digital object identifier) and will be published online along with the article as *.zip archive (or single *.pdf file). As a supplement cover page including title, authors, and the correspondence email will be added to the supplement during publication, please avoid providing this information in the supplement. The overall file size of a supplement is limited to 50 MB. Authors of larger supplements are kindly asked to submit their files to a reliable data repository and to insert a link in the manuscript. Ideally, this linkage is realized through DOIs. The supplementary material shall contain only complementary information but no scientific interpretations or findings/messages that would go beyond the contents of the manuscript.
- File size: Authors are kindly asked to find the best balance between the quality of figures and submitted material on the one hand, and a manageable file size on the other hand. Individual figures should not exceed 5 MB, and the overall size of all submitted files, excluding supplements, should not exceed 30 MB.
- Evaluation Criteria: While preparing their manuscript, authors are kindly requested to consider the manuscript evaluation criteria to meet the quality standards and to reduce the peer review processing time.
References
Papers should make proper and sufficient reference to the relevant formal literature. Informal or so-called "grey" literature may only be referred to if there is no alternative from the formal literature. Works cited in a manuscript should be accepted for publication or published already. These references have to be listed alphabetically at the end of the manuscript under the first author's name. Works "submitted to", "in preparation", "in review", or only available as preprint should also be included in the reference list. Please do not use bold or italic writing for in-text citations or in the reference list.
Please supply the full author list with last name followed by initials. After the list of authors, the complete reference title needs to be named. Journal names are abbreviated according to the ISI Journal Title Abbreviations Index  , followed by the volume number, the complete page numbers (first and last page) and the publication year. If the abbreviation of a journal name is not known, please use the full title. In addition to journal articles, all reference types are summarized together with examples in the Copernicus Publications Reference Types  list.
If there is more than one work by the same first author, his/her papers are listed in the following order: (1) single author papers (first author), followed by (2) co-author papers (first author and second author), and finally (3) team papers (first author et al.). Within these three categories the respective papers are then listed as follows:
- Single author papers: chronologically, beginning with the oldest. If there is more than one paper in the same year, a letter (a, b, c) is added to the year, both in the in-text citation as well as in the reference list.
- Co-author papers: first alphabetically according to the second author's last name, and then chronologically within each set of co-authors. If there is more than one paper in the same year per set of co-authors, a letter (a, b, c) is added to the year both in the in-text citation as well as in the reference list.
- Team papers: first chronologically (beginning with the oldest), independent of the team author names, then alphabetically within each year according to the second (third, etc.) author. If there is more than one paper in the same year for a first author (independent of the team), a letter (a, b, c) is added to the year both in the in-text citation as well as in the reference list.
In terms of in-text citations, the order can be based on relevance, as well as chronological or alphabetical listing, depending on the author's preference.
Examples for Reference Sorting
In general, in-text citations can be displayed as "[…] Smith (2009) […]", or "[…] (Smith, 2009) […]".
| Reference List |
Short Citation |
| Single author: chronologically |
| Smith, P.: …, 2009. |
Smith, 2009 |
| Smith, P.: …, 2010a. |
Smith, 2010a |
| Smith, P.: …, 2010b. |
Smith, 2010b |
| Co-authors: alphabetically before chronologically |
| Smith, P. and Brown, P.: …, 2010. |
Smith and Brown, 2010 |
| Smith, P. and Carter, T.: …, 2007. |
Smith and Carter, 2007 |
| Smith, P. and Carter, T.: …, 2010a. |
Smith and Carter, 2010a |
| Smith, P. and Carter, T.: …, 2010b. |
Smith and Carter, 2010b |
| Smith, P. and Thomson, A.: …, 2005. |
Smith and Thomson, 2005 |
| Team: chronologically before alphabetically |
| Smith, P., Thomson, A., and Carter, T.: …, 2006. |
Smith et al., 2006 |
| Smith, P., Carter, T., and Hanson, M. B.: …, 2008a. |
Smith et al., 2008a |
| Smith, P., Carter, T., and Walter, N.: …, 2008b. |
Smith et al., 2008b |
| Smith, P., Carter, T., and Hanson, M. B.: …, 2009. |
Smith et al., 2009 |
| Smith, P., Brown, P., and Walter, N.: …, 2010. |
Smith et al., 2010 |
Please do not use bold or italic writing in the reference list or for in-text citations.
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Textual and Visual Conventions
- Mathematical Symbols and Formulae: In general, mathematical symbols are typeset in italics. The most notable exceptions are function names (e.g. sin, cos), chemical formulas and physical units, which are all typeset with the normal (upright) font. Matrices are printed in bold face, and vectors in bold face italics. A range of numbers should be specified as "a to b" or "a...b". The expression "a–b" is only acceptable in cases where no confusion with "a minus b" is possible.
- Equations: These should be numbered sequentially with Arabic numerals in parentheses on the right-hand side, i.e. (1), (2), etc. If too long, split them accordingly. If there are chemical formulae included, i.e. reactions, please number them (R1), (R2), etc. When using WORD, the equation editor and not the graphic mode should be used under all circumstances.
- Units: The metric system is mandatory and, wherever possible, SI units should be used. Also units in the denominator should be formatted with negative exponents, e.g. km h-1 instead of km/h.
- Date and Time: 25 July 2007 (dd month yyyy), 15:17:02 (hh:mm:ss). Often it is necessary to specify the time if referring to local time or Universal Time Coordinated. This can be done by adding "LT" or "UTC", respectively.
- Abbreviations and Acronyms: Equations should be referred to by the abbreviation "Eq." and the respective number in parentheses, e.g. "Eq. (14)". However, when the reference comes at the beginning of a sentence, the unabbreviated word "Equation" should be used, e.g.: "Equation (14) is very important for the results; however, Eq. (15) makes it clear that..." The abbreviations "Sect." and "Fig." should be used when they appear in running text and should be followed by a number unless they come at the beginning of a sentence, e.g.: "The results are depicted in Fig. 5. Figure 9 reveals that..." If acronyms or abbreviations are used throughout the article, they should be defined at first occurrence, e.g.: leaf area index (LAI), National Research Foundation (NRF). If these names or concepts are also mentioned in the abstract, they should be defined there as well.
- Capitalization: In addition to proper nouns, capitalization of the first letter is applied for titles, section headings, figure and table captions but only for the first word. Abbreviations and expressions in the text such as Chap(s)., Fig(s)., Table(s), Eq(s)., Sect(s)., Paper, Theorem, etc. should always be capitalized when used with numbers, e.g., Fig. 3, Table 1, Paper III, Sect 2. The words figure(s), table(s), equation(s), theorem(s) in the text should not be capitalized when used without an accompanying number.
- Non-English Words and Phrases: Foreign words that have not come into general use are italicized. Words, phrases and abbreviations referenced in the Webster's are not italicized. For example, et al., cf., e.g., a priori, in situ, bremsstrahlung, and eigenvalue should not be italicized or hyphenated.
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