Manuscripts submission is only on-line

using the link to ScholarOne in the journal home page:

http//:www.italianjournalofgeosciences.it

Original Research Papers are published free of charge up to 16 printed pages* (including tables and black and white figures; see below for details on colour figures and extra pages). Authors are encouraged to emphasize data presentation in their manuscripts. Large data files, tables, and plates will be stored as digital supplementary material accessible via the internet. The former Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana relies on a long established tradition in publishing colour geological maps. We intend to keep promoting this tradition by encouraging authors to submit their best geological maps, and/or maps derived from interpretation of aerial photographs or satellite images, as a complement to Original Research Papers.

Special Short Papers must be limited within four printed pages* (all included). They need to be concise and focused scientific reports on limited data sets.

Review Papers can be submitted spontaneously or be solicited by the journal editors. Their length will be defined case-by-case.

Discussion-and-Reply Papers must be limited within three printed pages* (all included). Discussions will be submitted following the standard procedure. The editors will review the submission and if accepted they will forward it to the addressed authors for reply. Discussion and replies are published jointly.

* A full-text printed page of the journal typically contains 7,000 characters including blank spaces, each exceeding page will be charged 60 (+VAT) euros.

Reproduction of colour figures in the on-line version is free of charge. A charge of 300 (+VAT) euros will be applied to the Authors for each printed colour figure. Colour figures published in black and white in the printed version are free of charge. The costs for printing large attachments (maps, seismic profiles) must be covered by the authors and will be determined on a case-by-case basis. Publication of large attachments as digital supplementary material is free of charge, provided that the author submit the final digital file to the editorial manager.

Copyright: the authors will transfer copyright of their work to the Journal after final acceptance of the manuscript for publication. Any reproduction (full or in part) of material published elsewhere must be declared in the text (for example in the figure caption of an illustration). In addition, the authors of a submitted manuscript must obtain permission of reproduction from other publishers. Copy of such permission must be submitted to the Editorial Manager at or before the time of copyright transfer.

Preparation of the text

The official language of the journal is British English.

The manuscript, including references and figure captions, must be double spaced. References should be inserted in parentheses in the text in full for single and dual authored papers (e.g. LYELL & BERTRAND, 1987), but using first author and et alii for multiple authored papers (e.g. LYELL et alii, 1988). The order in the text should be chronological, then alphabetical. List all references cited in alphabetical order at the end of the article in the following standard form:

BAKER V.R. (2006) – Water and the evolutionary geological history of Mars. Boll. Soc. Geol. It., 125, 357-369.

RAMSAY J.G. & HUBER M. (1987) – The techniques of Modern Structural Geology. Volume 2: Folds and Fractures. Academic Press, London.

WEGENER A. (1912) – Die Entstehung der Kontinente. Geol. Runds., 3, 277-292.

Submit the text in the following order: Title page (with both the English and Italian article titles, authors’ names and addresses, telephone, fax and e-mail of the corresponding author). Starting from the second page (abstract, key words, text, acknowledgements, references, figure captions, and tables).

Illustrations

The maximum available space for an illustration is 185×244 mm (full page) or 90×244 mm (column). Figures should be prepared with lettering and symbols of sufficient size and clarity to be reduced (Arial, 6-8 pt. minimum). After reduction the smallest lettering should be a minimum of 2 mm high. The approximate position, the suggested size for reproduction and the corrected orientation should be indicated. All figures should be supplied with a separate figure legend included in the text and not in the figure file. After acceptance of the paper, digital version of the figures should be as EPS or 500dpi TIF files.

It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that permission is granted for reproduction of any copyright material (reproduced figures, tables, text passages) and that this permission is acknowledged in their articles.

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