期刊名称：AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH 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
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences publishes peer-reviewed, theoretical and experimental research papers as well as significant review articles of more general interest to geoscientists. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences covers the whole field of earth science including basin studies, regional geophysical studies and metallogeny. There is a special thematic issue each year featuring a selection of papers on a particular area of earth science.
Short geological notes are also published on new developments in the geosciences. Critical discussion of recently published research papers is encouraged.
The Journal in published on behalf of the Geological Society of Australia
Indexed/Abstracted in
- Academic Search (EBSCO)
- AESIS (Australian Earth Sciences Information System)
- CAB ABSTRACTS
- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
- Chemical Abstracts Services
- Current Contents/Physical Chemical and Earth Sciences
- Elsevier GEOBASE
- Environmental Issues and Policy (EBSCO)
- GeoArchive
- GeoAbstracts
- Ingenta (previously UnCover)
- International Civil Engineering Abstracts (Emerald)
- International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
- Journals@Ovid
- Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts
- Mineralogical Abstracts
- Petroleum Abstracts
- ProQuest (previously University Microfilms)
- Research Alert
- Science Citation Index
Zoological Record
Instructions to Authors
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SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
All articles submitted to the journal must comply with these
instructions.
Manuscripts should be written so that they are intelligible
to the professional reader who is not a specialist in the field.
Where contributions are judged as acceptable for publication
on the basis of scientific content, the Editor reserves the right
to modify typescripts to eliminate ambiguity and repetition
and improve communication. If extensive alterations are
required, the manuscript will be returned to the author for
revision.
Papers are accepted for publication only if the content has
not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere;
they largely contain previously unpublished material; and all
co-authors agree to the submission. It will assist reviewers if
related papers recently published or submitted elsewhere
accompany the submitted manuscript.
The original manuscript and two copies, should be sub-mitted
to: A. E. Cockbain, Editor-in-Chief: Australian Journal
of Earth Sciences, PO Box 8114, Angelo Street, South Perth,
WA 6151, Australia (email: tcockbai@cyllene.uwa.edu.au; tel.
and fax: +61 8 9367 7037).
COPYRIGHT
Papers accepted for publication become copyright of the
Geological Society of Australia and authors will be asked to
sign a transfer of copyright form. In signing the transfer of
copyright it is assumed that authors have obtained per-mission
to use any copyrighted or previously published
material. All authors must read and agree to the conditions
outlined in the Copyright Assignment Form, and must sign
the form or agree that the corresponding author can sign on
their behalf. Articles cannot be published until a signed
Copyright Assignment Form has been received. Authors
in Government institutions where copyright is retained by
the Crown are exempt from transfer of copyright to the
Society.
PREPARATION OF THE MANUSCRIPT
Submissions should be printed, doubled-spaced, on one side
only of A4 paper. The top, bottom and side margins should be
30 mm. Laser or near-letter quality print is essential. All pages
should be numbered consecutively in the top right-hand
corner, beginning with the title page.
Extensive sets of data, such as large tables or long
appendices, may be classed as Supplementary Papers and
lodged with the National Library of Australia (Manuscript
Section) Canberra; copies may be obtained from the Society's
website (www.gsa.org.au). Authors are encouraged to deposit
whole-rock geochemical and geochronological data in the
Geoscience Australia (GA) ROCKCHEM and OZCHRON data-bases.
Authors should provide coordinates for critical local-ities
and the repositories for critical samples (e.g. samples for
analysis, thin-sections).
Style
The journal uses Australian spelling according to the latest
edition of the Macquarie Dictionary. Style should conform
to the Style manual for authors, editors and printers (6th
edition). Stratigraphic practice should follow the Inter-national
Stratigraphic Guide (2nd edition) and Field
Geologist's Guide to Lithostratigraphic Nomenclature in
Australia; new stratigraphic names should be registered
with the GA Australian Stratigraphic Names Database.
The GA website 'How to define a lithostratigraphic unit'
(http://www.ga.gov.au/minerals/strat_names/) is a useful
guide.
SI units should be used. Statistics and measurements
should always be given in numerals. When the number does
not refer to a measurement it should be spelt out except when
it is greater than nine. Wherever possible fractions should be
written in the form x/y. Non-standard abbreviations must not
be used in the text. Note that Ma refers to a date (e.g. 345 Ma)
not a time interval (which is written as e.g. 10 million years).
Parts of the manuscript
Manuscripts of all articles should be presented as follows:
Title page; Abstract; Key words; Text; References; Figure
captions; Tables; Appendices (if any); and Figures. Authors
may use up to four levels of headings, all of which are left
justified: first-order headings are bold capitals; second-order
headings are bold upper and lower case; third-order headings
are capitals; and fourth-order headings are upper and lower
case.
Title page The title page should contain: (i) the title of the
paper, (ii) the full names of the authors and (iii) the addresses
of the institutions at which the work was carried out together
with (iv) the full postal and email address, plus facsimile and
telephone numbers, of the author to whom correspondence
about the manuscript, proofs and requests for offprints should
be sent. Changes of address should be indicated in a footnote.
The title should be short, informative and begin with a key
word. A short running title (less than 40 characters, includ-ing
spaces) should also be provided.
Abstract and key words The abstract should provide a
concise summary of the results (rather than the contents) and
should not exceed 300 words, preferably in one paragraph. It
should not contain abbreviations or references.
Three to 10 key words (for the purposes of indexing) should
be supplied.
Text Manuscripts should be organised under the following
headings: Introduction, which should contain the reasons for
doing the work and essential background material, but not
the results or conclusions; Methods (if applicable), which
should provide sufficient details of techniques to allow them
to be repeated; Observations and results, which should not
include material more appropriate to the Discussion;
Discussion, which should emphasise the significance of the
results and place them in the context of related work;
Conclusions, which summarise the main findings of the paper.
Acknowledgements The source of financial grants and
other funding should be acknowledged. The contribution of
colleagues or institutions should also be acknowledged.
References
References should follow the author (date) system. Do not cite
manuscripts submitted or in preparation. Titles of journals
should be given in full and should be listed at the end of the
paper; see recent issues of the Journal for the correct format.
In the list references should be listed in alphabetical
order. Cite the names of all authors.
Personal communications and unpublished data are not to
be listed in the reference list but should be mentioned in full
in the text (e.g. A. Smith pers. comm. 2000).
Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, but not
duplicate, information contained in the text. Extensive tabu-lar
data may be classed as Supplementary Papers. Tables
should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals. Each
table should be presented on a separate sheet of A4 paper with
a comprehensive but concise title above the table. Tables
should be double-spaced and vertical lines should not be used
to separate columns. Column headings should be brief, with
units of measurement in parentheses; all abbreviations
should be defined in footnotes (using superscipt letters). The
table and its footnotes should be understandable without
reference to the text.
Appendices
Data not essential to the understanding of the body of the
paper should be placed in an appendix. Extensive sets of data
may be classed as Supplementary Papers.
Figures
All illustrations (line drawings and photographs) are classi-fied
as figures. Figures should be cited in consecutive order
in the text. Each figure should be labelled on the back in very
soft marker or chinagraph pencil, indicating name of
author(s), figure number and orientation. (Do not use an
adhesive label as this prohibits electronic scanning.)
Figures should be sized to fit within the column (81 mm),
intermediate (117 mm) or full text width (169 mm), and sub-mitted,
preferably, at final size.
Line figures should be supplied as sharp, black and white
graphs or diagrams, drawn professionally or with a computer
graphics package. Lettering should be in a sans serif typeface
(e.g. Helvetica, Univers). After reduction, the size of the
capital letters should be about 2 mm. Allowance should be
made for lines and text becoming smaller and thinner on
reduction.
Photographs should be supplied as sharp, glossy, black
and white photographic prints and must be unmounted.
Individual photographs forming a composite figure should
be of equal contrast, to facilitate printing, and should be
accurately squared. Photographs and line drawings of cross-sections,
photomicrographs, etc. must have a scale; scale bars
prevent potential error if a figure is reduced before publica-tion.
Black and white figures (graphs, cross-sections, maps and
histograms) should preferably be supplied on 3.5' floppy
disks, zip disks or CD (especially for figures with any grey
shades) accompanied by a high-quality hard copy. The author
must ensure that the disk and hard-copy versions are the
same and should specify the drawing program and version
used to generate the figures. The drawing programs sup-ported
by Blackwell Publishing Asia are: Illustrator, Photo-shop,
Freehand and Canvas, preferably for Macintosh. The file
formats .EPS (encapsulated postscript format) or TIFF
(tagged image file format) are recommended as the standard
for all electronically created figures. Digital files must be
supplied at a resolution of at least 300 d.p.i. at full size.
Colour figures Colour photographs should be submitted as
good quality, glossy colour prints. A charge of Au$500 for the
first three colour figures and Au$500 for each extra colour
figure thereafter will be charged to the author.
Colour figure files must be set up as CMYK (cyan, magenta,
yellow, black) and not as RGB (red, green, blue). To get accu-rate
and predictable results when the figure is printed in the
journal, select PMS colours using a Pantone four-colour
process imaging guide (note that colours as they appear on
screen are not an accurate representation of how the colours
will print in the journal). Files should be supplied as EPS files.
If supplying TIFF files the resolution should be 300 dpi
with the figure at full size. The website www.blackwell-science.
com/elecmed/authors.htm gives clear instructions
for submitting electronic text and figures.
Figure captions Captions should be self-explanatory and
typed on a separate sheet. The caption should incorporate de-finitions
of any symbols used and all abbreviations and units
of measurement should be explained so that the figure
and its caption are understandable without reference to
the text.
MANUSCRIPTS ON DISK
If their article is accepted for publiction, authors are required to provide their manuscripts on disk, accompanied by a completed File Description Form.
Use a new disk rather than a reformatted disk; the disk must contain the relevant file(s) only. Authors should supply their accepted paper as formatted text. It is essential that the
hardware and the word processing package are specified on the disk (e.g. IBM, Word 2000 or Mac, Word 5.1), as well as the first author's surname and the journal title.
If possible, authors should visit the Blackwell Publishing website for authors at: www.blackwell-science.com/elecmed/ authors.htm
PROOFS AND OFFPRINTS
Proofs
Authors will be emailed an edited Word file of their article.
Authors are requested to check this file carefully for errors
and to answer any queries.
Proofs will be sent via email as an Acrobat PDF file and
should be returned within 3 days of receipt. Alterations to
the text and figures (other than the essential correction of
errors) are unacceptable at proof stage and authors may be
charged for excessive alterations.
If absent, authors should arrange for a colleague to check
and return proofs to the publisher on their behalf.
Offprints
An Offprint Order Form outlining the cost of offprints will
be sent to the corresponding author with the page proofs. Fifty
offprints will be provided free of charge. Offprints will be pro-vided
only if a completed Offprint Order Form is returned to
the publisher by mail by the specified date.
BLACKWELL JOURNALS ONLINE
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences is also available online
via Blackwell Synergy. Full-text online articles include
reference links to cited articles and external databases, and
a full search facility, so that you can find the information you
are looking for. Note that Supplementary Papers (see above)
are only available at www.gsa.org.au
Keep up to date with the latest tables of contents, emailed
directly to your desktop, by registering for free at:
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Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
A.E. Cockbain, South Perth, Australia
Assistant Editor
K. Grey, Geological Survey of Western Australia
Editorial Office
A.E. Cockbain PO Box 8114
Angelo Street
South Perth, WA 6151
Australia
Fax: +61 8 9367 7037
e-mail: tcockbai@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Editorial Board Executive
C.F. Pain, Australian Geological Survey Organisation, ACT
A.E. Cockbain, South Perth, WA
A.J. Crawford, University of Tasmania, Tas.
D.I. Groves, University of Western Australia, WA
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