期刊名称：STRATIGRAPHY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Stratigraphy (ISSN 1547-139X) is published four times a year, with research across the the entire range of stratigraphic disciplines. It is also the journal of record for the North American Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature (NACSN).
Stratigraphy subscriptions are jointly included with Micropaleontology, and are also available separately (see below). Personal subscriptions for current members of earth science societies are available at half price. Printed copies add $12.50 per issues to cover printing and mailing.
Instructions to Authors
Stratigraphy is for research of regional or international significance on all aspects of stratigraphy, both physical and historical.
Articles as well as theme issues, monographs, and special papers dealing with research questions are published after anonymous peer review. Short notes may be either general information, or formal notifications from stratigraphic commissions. We also publish book reviews and memorials, and noncommercial announcements.
Authors are not required to pay page or plate charges, and there is no fixed limit on number of pages or plates. Authors may be asked to contribute towards the cost of special features such as color printing and fold-out pages. Each author and co-author is entitled to a high quality PDF of their published article, for unrestricted distribution, and a printed copy of the issue in which their work is published.
Requirements and terms
Manuscript must be in English, in digital form and preferably submitted via the Micro Man online manuscript manager. There are no page charges, and authors receive high-resolution PDFs of their contribution at no cost.
COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION: By returning the final page proof of the manuscript, the author(s) agree to grant to The Micropaleontology Project, Inc., the full and undivided copyright to their work in the published form, including the right to grant reproduction in that form to third parties. All other rights are retained by authors.
Preparation, submittal and review
Please review the main points of Stratigraphy requirements before submitting manuscript. The digital files should be uploaded to Micro Man, the Micropress Manuscript Manager. Detailed instructions and suggestions are found below.
Style: Most questions of style can be answered by looking through recent issues of the journal.
Title: The title should be as brief and clear as possible, identifying the subject of the paper and not cetgorizing details of location.
Abstract: Summarize the points made in the paper. A mere list of the contents is not acceptable.
Author: Author names are written out in full. Where there is more than one author the corresponding author (if not first listed) should be indicated in the cover letter. The institutional address of each author should be no more than is necessary for receiving mail; complete organizational information beyond this level is not desirable. E-mail address of the senior or corresponding author is required, and those of other authors should be included if possible.
Text format: Text documents (including captions and references) are double spaced, 11 point, left justfied. Note that submittals are manuscripts, not publications! Refinements simply for the sake of appearance, such as forced hyphens, underlines, boldface sentences, embedded images and so on are not appropriate, and must be removed by the editor before the paper can be prepared for publication. Complex mathematical statements and other expressions using special characters or diagrammatic notation should be submitted separately as graphics. Lengthy quotations should be indented, Serial and book titles, and phrases in foreign languages should be italicized. Single words, symbols and abbreviations under discussion should be set apart by single quotes, but longer phrases taken from context are identified by quotation marks and, if possible, referenced.
Subject heads: Text should be divided in four levels of subject heads, as follows: top level in ALL CAPITALS ROMAN BOLD FACE; second level in lower case Roman bold face; third level in lower case italic bold face, and the fourth level in lower case italics, regular. Except for the all-cap top level, only proper nouns should be capitalized. The top three levels be on a separate line without a following period or other punctuation (except for query? and exclamation point!). The fourth level of "run-in head" is placed in the first line of a paragraph, followed by a period or colon. Note that outline format, with letters and numbers identifying paragraps, is not acceptable, and no footnotes are allowed.
Abbreviations: Characters formatted for superscript, italics and bold face should be executed, not merely indicated.
The conventions for units of measurement are considered to be symbols, not abbreviated words, and thus do not use periods (km, cm, mm, µm, nm, mi, ft, in, kg, g, lb, oz, hr, sec). These symbols are not separated by a space from the numerical values (e.g., 753km; 25µm). Periods are omitted as well from abbreviations of the more common titles (Dr, Mr, Mrs, Ms, Sr, Jr, PhD) and the letters in acronyms. Common acronyms (such as USA, UK, USGS, NY, DSDP, etc.) need not be explained, but where needed, it is the acronym that should be explained -- e.g., "UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)", not "University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)".
The geochronometric expressions Ma (Mega-annus, meaning "million years before present") and ka (kilo-annus, meaning "thousand years before present") are treated as abbreviated phrases. They are not interchangeable with the symbols representing simple quantities of time (Myr, kyr, and so on).
The commonly abbreviated latinisms (etc., et al., viz., e.g., s.s.) are not italicized. On the other hand ex and et are foreign words, and are therefore italicized, as is vs for versus, which by convention is italicized without a period.
Citations: Citations in the text refer to the author (last name only, NOT all caps) and date of the reference in question, with page or plate number added if necessary, as follows:
"We refer to papers by Author (2005; 2006) and Author et al. (2007)."
"We agree with other workers (Author 2005; 2006; Author et al. 2006)."
"We note a statement by Author (2005, p. 101).
The term "et al." should be used only in place of three or more (not two or more) author names. "Et al." stands for the authors included, and no others; two papers by "Author et al." cannot be treated as repetitive unless all authors are the same.
Size estimate: A full page of text in Stratigraphy will contain approximately 1,000 words, or 5,200 characters including spaces; this is between 3 and 4 typescript pages, depending on author's font and spacing. The captions to plates and figures take up more area, equivalent to 600 words per full page.
Illustrations: Photographic and other shaded images should be prepared in grey-scale TIF or JPG at 300 to 360 dpi. Line art (diagrams, tables, maps) should be in black and white TIF or JPG at 1000 to 1200 dpi. Proprietary file formats such as IMG, BMP, AI, PSD, etc. will not be accepted. but the images may be converted to PDF as needed. Reduced-size copies (less than 100Kb each) should be used in the first submittal to make reviews easier to manage, but full size images will be required for publication.
Full-page plates and figures should be prepared with an aspect ratio of 0.74 width to height, for a final size to fit inside an area of 7 x 9.5 in 177 x 235 mm). Half-column graphics will fit a width of 3.25 inches (85mm). Figure numbers and superimposed arrows, labels, and other emphasis should be inserted on plates and figures by the author no smaller than 8 point at published scale. No caption should appear on the plate.
Captions and explanations: Explanations for graphics should be confined to text captions as far as possible, and should not be placed within a figure. Any "sideways" text on tables and diagrams should be placed to run upwards when the left side is down, so that the words will be correctly oriented when the page is turned clockwise.
Footnotes are not permitted.
References: Cited works are listed alphabetically by author name (in CAPITALS) and then chronologically. Note that "Mc" comes in order, and not before "Mac". Honorifics are detached (for example, write ORBIGNY, A. D', and G†MBEL, C. W. VON). Serial and book titles are italicized and spelled out in full. The issue number is not indicated unless it is separately paginated. All words in serial titles are capitalized but only proper nouns in book titles. Genus and species level names in article and book titles may be italicized.
AUTHOR, A. A. and AUTHOR, B. B., 1998. Article title. Serial Name Spelled Out in Full, 1:23-45.
__________, 1999. Chapter or paper title. In: Editor, C. C., Ed., Book title spelled out in full, 12-34. City: Publisher. Series or sponsor, no. 100.
AUTHOR, A. A. and COAUTHOR, C. C., 1990. Book title spelled out in full. City: Publisher, 1234 pp., 56 pls.
Note that only author names that are exactly repeated in successive references are replaced by a dash. The final name in a list of authors is not set off by a comma before the "and" or "et al."
Written or verbal communication noted in the text should not be cited in the References. The titles of unpublished reports, student papers, dissertations, and posters should given in quotes. References posted on the internet are considered to be publications; where both printed and online versions exist, the doi is not required.
A work may be listed in the references if it is actually in press, i.e., formally accepted for publication, but no year or volume number should be indicated.
Document name: We strongly recommend that all documents be given an identifiable name, i.e., "Jones.doc." and "Jones_fig_1.TIF", not just "Manuscript.doc" or "fig_1.TIF".
Pre-review: Authors should obtain pre-submittal comments on their work from at least two colleagues of their choice. Pre-review forms are available for the authors' convenience. Only the names and email addresses of pre-reviewers are required with submittal. Note that the objective of pre-review is not to obtain an endorsement, but to improve the paper before submittal. Authors whose first language is not English should get a pre-review from a colleague who is competent to advise on language, to improve acceptability of the paper.
Submittal: Manuscript should be submitted in digital form using the manuscript manager Micro Man, on our website, where details can be found. Note that first time authors must first register on the Micro Man login page before proceeding.
Review: Reviewers are anonymous, unless they wish otherwise. The help of reviewers who identify themselves should be acknowledged in the final draft. The review comments, marked-up manuscript and editor’s remarks will be available in Micro Man after the author is notified (but not before) The authors must satisfy the Editors, not the reviewers, in preparing a final draft acceptable for publication.
Final draft: The corrected manuscript must be submitted in Micro Man, with text in MS Word or rtf and full size illustrations. Documents with the same name will overprint earlier versions.
There is no time limit for returning a final draft. Authors may not, however, introduce significant new data, or substantially change the scope or purpose of the work after review, without consulting with the Editor. In such cases a second round of review may be called for.
Proof Corrections: Authors receive full-page mockups. Corrections may be returned by email, as comments, revised sections, or scans of marked up pages to the editor.
Editorial Board
Emile Pessagno, Scientific Editor
John A. Van Couvering, Publisher and Editor in Chief
John A.
Van Couvering, Publisher and Editor in Chief
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