MANUSCRIPTS

1. Manuscripts should be written in English. Authors, whose native language is not English, are recommended to seek the advice of a colleague who has English as his mother-tongue before submitting their manuscript. Upon request, CATENA VERLAG might be able to recommend language editors.

2. Manuscripts should be prepared on a word processor and printed with double spacing and wide margins and include an abstract of not more than 500 words. Leave good margins on each side of the paper. The various headings should be clearly differentiated. First lines of each new paragraph should be indented. Corrections should be made in the text, not in the margins.

3. The entire manuscript should be paginated starting with the title page. The title page should include the name(s) of the author(s) and their affiliations, fax and E-mail numbers. In case of more than one author, please indicate to whom the correspondence should be addressed. Authors should provide 4 to 6 keywords. These must be taken from the most recent American Geological Institute Georef Thesaurus and should be placed beneath the abstract.

4. The metric system should be used and temperatures expressed in degrees Celsius. The use of S.I. units is recommended.

5. Manuscripts should in general be organized in the following order:

   1. Title

   2. Name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s)

   3. Abstract (not more than 300 words)

   4. Keywords

   5. Introduction

   6. Methods, techniques, material studied, and area descriptions

   7. Results

   8. Conclusions

   9. Acknowledgements

   10. References

   11. Tables

   12. Figure captions

   13. Figures

6. CATENA VERLAG reserves the privilege of returning to the author for revision accepted manuscripts and illustrations which are not in the form given in this guide.

TABLES

ILLUSTRATIONS

REFERENCES

1. All references to publications made in the text should be presented in a list of references following after the text. The list should preferably only contain references which are cited in the text. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the spellings of author's names and dates are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list. Do not type author's and editor's names in capitals.

2. In the text refer to the author's name (without initial) and year of publication, followed - if necessary - by a short reference to appropriate pages. Examples: "Since Peterson (1967) has shown that . . . ". "This is in agreement with results obtained later (Kramer, 1969, pp. 12-16)".

3. If reference is made in the text of publications written by more than two authors the name of the first author should be used, followed by "et al.". This indication, however, should never be used in the list of references. In this list names of authors and all co-authors should be given in full.

4. References in the text should be arranged chronologically. The list of references should be arranged alphabetically by author's names, and chronologically per author. If an author's name in the list is also mentioned with co-authors, the following order should be used. Publications of the single author, arranged according to publication dates - publications of the same author with one co-author - publications of the author with more than one co-author.

5. The following system should be used for arranging references:

   1. For periodicals
      Lamb, H.H. (1971): Climate engineering schemes to meet a climatic emergency. Earth Sci. Rev. 7: 87-95.

   2. For edited symposia, special issues, etc. published in periodical
      Fox, P.J., Ruddiman, W.F., Ryan, W.B.F. and Heezen, B.C. (1971): The geology of the Caribbean crust, I. Beata Ridge. In: B.C. Heezen and I.P. Kosminskaya (Editors), The Structure of the Crust and Mantle beneath Inland and Marginal Seas. Tectonophysics 10: 495-513.

   3. For books
      Van Meurs, A.P.H. (1971): Petroleum Economics and Offshore Mining Legislation. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 208 pp.

   4. For multi-author books
      Davies, W.E. and LeGrand, H.E. (1971): Karst of the United States. In: M. Herak and V.T. Stringfield (Editors), Karst: Important Karst Regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 467-505.

6. Periodical names should be given in full or abbreviated using the International List of Periodical Title World Abbreviations, or the Bibliography Guide for Editors and Authors (The American Chemical Society, 1974).

7. For publications in any other language than English, the original title is to be retained. However, the titles of publications in non-Latin alphabets should be transliterated, and a notation such as "(in Russian)" or "(in Greek, with English abstract)" should be added.

8. In referring to a personal communication the two words are followed by the year, e.g. "(J. McNary, pers. commun., 1968)".

CROSS-REFERENCES

1. Cross-references cannot be finally inserted until the page proof is available. Type them "see page 000". In the marginal pencil the page number of the cross-reference in the manuscript.

FORMULAE

1. Formulae should be typewritten, if possible. Ample space should be left round the formulae.

2. Subscripts and superscripts should be set off clearly.

3. Greek letters and other non-Latin or handwritten symbols should be explained in the margin where they are first used. Special care should be taken to clearly show the difference between zero (0) and the letter O, and between one (1) and the letter l.

4. The meaning of all symbols should be given immediately after the equation in which they are first used.

5. For simple fractions the solidus (/) should be used instead of a horizontal line, e.g.

   
   
   I_p/2_m rather than
   
   
   

6. Parentheses and square brackets are preferred in formulae. Accolades should be used only when they are absolutely necessary.

7. Equations should be numbered serially on the right-hand side and in parentheses. In general, only equations explicitely referred to in the text need be numbered.

8. The use of fractional powers instead of root signs is recommended. Also, powers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp.

9. In chemical formulae the valence of ions should be given as, e.g., Ca²⁺ and CO₃^2- rather than Ca⁺⁺ or CO₃^{- -}.

10. Isotope numbers should precede the symbols, e.g. ¹⁸O.

11. The use of superscripts added to superscripts, and subscripts, added to subscripts should be avoided, if possible.

12. Mark italic, bold or italic-bold symbols. Symbols denoting matrices, vectors and tensors will be set in italics if not marked.

FOOTNOTES

1. Footnotes should only be used if absolutely essential. If possible the information should be incorporated in the normal text.

2. If used, footnotes should be indicated by asterisks and kept as short as possible.

3. If references are given in footnotes, full bibliographic data must be given in the list of references, not in the footnote.

PROOFS

1. One set of page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author, if not decided differently by the editors of the book. The author is asked to check the proofs for typographical errors and to answer queries from the desk editor.

2. Authors are requested to return the proofs within 3 days.

3. The publisher will not accept new material in proofs unless permission from the editors has been obtained for the addition of a "note added in proof".

4. Authors may be charged for corrections made by them in proof if these constitute departures from the original manuscripts. Publication of articles in which such corrections occur can be seriously delayed.

 

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SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts should be sent in triplicate to the Editorial Office CATENA VERLAG GMBH, Ärmelgasse 11, D-35447 Reiskirchen, Germany, or to the corresponding editor of the book.

Illustrations should be submitted in triplicate. One set should be in a form ready for reproduction, the other two may be of lower quality.

The indication of a Fax and E-mail number on the manuscript will assist in speeding communications. The fax number of the CATENA VERLAG Office is: (0049)6408-64978.

Submission of an article is understood to imply that the article is original and unpublished and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

Upon acceptance of an article, the author(s) will be asked to transfer the copyright of the article to the publisher. This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information.

 

SUBMISSION OF ELECTRONIC TEXT

In order to publish the paper as quickly as possible after acceptance, authors are encouraged to submit the final text on CD or 3,5" diskette, preferable either in Microsoft Word or RTF file; ASCII file is accepted as well.

Please ensure disks are in the MS-Dos format for IBM PS-2 or compatible PC.

Similar to the requirements for manuscript submission, main text, list of references, tables and figure legends should be formatted in Times New Roman and stored in separate files with clearly identified file names.

All graphs should be of good contrast and intensity, at least 300 dpi resolution. The following formats for figures are accepted: tif, gif, jpg, eps for PC, and ai format up to 7. Authors should take note of the limitations set by the size and lay-out of the book (printed area 126 x 190 mm).

All used fonts should be included on the disks. Authors are asked to ensure that the disk version and the hardcopy must be identical.

Two hardcopies of the text and two hardcopies of each figure should be submitted together with the CD or diskette.

 

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