Submitting manuscripts to the  Journal of Geocryology

The Journal of Geocryology invites contributions from members of the permafrost science, logistics, and policy communities who want to communicate their work and ideas to an audience that combines specialists and scientifically literate non-specialists.  For additional information, contact Anatoli Brouchkov, Editor.

A summary of  requirements

• Keep your article within the word limit. Articles must be no more than 1,300 words, including figure captions and reference lists. Size of file of article is limited by 200 Kb (preferably html or htm formats).

• Write with Journal readers in mind.  Our audience is diverse and international. Describe the progress of your research in such a way that readers with a college degree, but not necessarily a science degree, will understand the significance of what you do. 

• Keep in mind that Journal of Geocryology is not refereed. Although the Editor copyedits submissions, articles are not peer-reviewed for scientific content or merit. Your writing objective for this publication is to summarize your research, not to present it in detail for replication or scientific review by others. 

• Follow Journal style-- 

  • List no more than three authors. 

  • Single space everything. 

  • Spell out ALL abbreviations and acronyms at first use. 

  • Use metric for all measurements. 

  • Check your reference list to make sure it's complete and correct. 

• Keep artwork as simple as possible-- 

  • Use no more than three pieces of artwork. 

  • Send computer files. 

• Avoid screens (shading) produced by the computer in your artwork. 

• If you are submitting digitized images, please use jpeg or gif formats. 

• Type the captions with the text, not on the artwork. 

Questions about writing style and manuscript preparation

Who will read Journal of Geocryology article? Make sure the significance of your work will be apparent to readers outside your field, even if you feel you are explaining too much for your own colleagues. Readers of the Journal include the multidisciplinary and international community of  researchers,  program managers, government officials, and the public. Avoid specialized jargon and abbreviations, but use technical terms as necessary. Define terms likely to be known only in your field.  To be able to publish as many articles as possible, it has become necessary to enforce the word limit. If we don't limit the number of pages, the book will become too large to bind and too expensive to mail. What's more, as articles become longer, they also tend to become too technical for the Journal's multidisciplinary and non-science reading audiences.

Who is considered an "author"? List as authors only those who actually participated in writing the paper; please limit this list to three authors. Cite other project participants in the acknowledgments. Please include the complete address  for all authors.

Electronic submissions are preferred, but please send a hard copy as well and make sure that symbols, characters, accents, and other similar items are correct on the hard copy. All electronic submissions must be IBM compatible. Use a 3.5-inch disk and WordPerfect, Microsoft Word for Windows, or ASCII format. 

 
Artwork

Digitized images are acceptable, but please check with the Journal of Geocryology editor first.  Do not type the captions on the artwork. Please remember to cite figures in the text. If you have more than one figure, each must have a separate number. Include credit information, if applicable, in the caption.

 
Tables

Remember to include titles and in-text citations for all tables. Don't forget to spell out any abbreviations that you haven't defined in the text. Keep your tables simple, direct, and easy to grasp. Use no more than three tables per article, regardless of the size of the tables.

 
References

The basic reference format for the Journal of Geocryology is

First author (last name, initials), Second author (initials last name), and Last author (initials last name). Year of publication. Title in sentence style (no quotation marks). Editors (of book). Full title of journal or book. Either journal information (volume, number, page numbers) or book information (location and name of publisher).

For references with more than one author, please cite all authors (do not use "et al.").List only the references you cited in text on your reference list. Journals. Spell out titles of all journals and give both volume and issue number. (Issue numbers may be omitted only for publications paginated consecutively throughout a volume.) Books and proceedings. Be sure to cite the city and state or country of publication for books. Do not include the page numbers. Provide the date of conferences and the name and location of the publisher of the proceedings.

Foreign language. For articles or books published in a foreign language, please provide a translated title along with the original title.

Text citations. For citations with one to three authors, include the last name(s) and the year of publication. When more than three authors are cited, use the first author's name, "et al.," and the year of publication. All authors and publications you cite in text must be included on your reference list.

 
Abstracts

You are required to submit a 100-word abstract of your paper for use by this abstracting and indexing service. These abstracts will be used in the Journal of Geocryology, so please submit them  and include the article's title and authors' names.
 

Handling Journal of Geocryology-specific information

Field research sites. If you don't use an index map, cite geographic coordinates of study areas. Avoid use of unofficial names.

 
Journal subscriptions and reprints

Reprints are not provided. Because the Journal is not copyrighted, authors may freely copy their articles.

 
Do you have questions about submitting your work to Journal of Geocryology?

Contact the Journal editor: Anatoli Brouchkov: phone: (613) 244-2057; fax: (613) 446-7343; e-mail: alinabro@attcanada.ca

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