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Earth & Life (EL) is an officially registered web journal, on the website www.geofinds.com., with Beijing ICP Reg No. 05031473. Scope It weekly publishes papers on paleontology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochemistry, tectonics, petroleum geology, petrology, mineralogy, hydrogeology, structural geology, and all other branches of geosciences! Paper types Research papers, comments, reviews are all welcome! Review policy Traditional peer review policy is for finding errors in manuscripts and exclude poor-quality manuscripts. However, some innovative papers may be delayed delayed by peer-reviewing system. To avoid of this shortcoming, EL rejected traditional peer-reviewing policy and adopted an revolutionary self-reviewing policy, which lets the author to ask an expert in the same or similar field and with publications to review one's manuscript and send an email to the journal to declare that he has reviewed the manuscript and would support it to be published, and that he/she agrees that his/her name will appear as reviewer at the end of the paper as it is published. An option for experienced geoscientists is to apply for exempt from review requirement by writing email to EL to provide information on research and publication background. An author can also choose to provide 1 to 3 experts as potential reviewers and their email addresses for the journal to have it reviewed. The key policy of EL is to publish any papers with new data or new opinions unless it has unquestionable academic or writing errors. How long it takes to publish After your submissions are received in qualified condition, we promise that you see them published in one week! Length of paper No limitation to paper length, on the condition that research results are clearly expressed! Language Papers are preferred to be written in English. If in Chinese, an abstract shortly describing the research results (including main conclusions and key evidence) is required. Use what software Use Microsoft word to prepare your manuscript. Figures Colorful figures are welcome. Drawing figures are preferred to be prepared with Coredraw and saved as .cdr file. Photo figures are preferred to be saved as .jpg files. Don't insert figures in word files: just indicate their positions with space lines and some words or a textbox. Just insert figure titles at where they should be in the main file. The size of the characters in figures should be about 10pt when in published condition. Important phenomena in figures are better to be indicated with letters and explained in figure captions. Organization of paper Papers in English are recommended to include title, authors' names, author's affiliations, abstracts, keywords (3-6), An introduction of the first author (less than 100 word), introduction (research background and goal of your paper), description of stratigraphic sections or experimental methods, description of scientific findings, interpretations of phenomena and discussions of related problems, conclusions, acknowledgements, and references. Of course, you can write your papers in your favorite style! Please refer to the papers in EL. Papers in Chinese are recommended to include title in English, author's names in English, author's affiliations in English, abstracts in English, keywords (3-6) in English, introduction to the first author in English, title in Chinese, author's names in Chinese, author's affiliations in Chinese, abstracts in Chinese, keywords (3-6) in Chinese, main body of papers (including introduction, description of stratigraphic sections or experimental methods, description of scientific findings, interpretations of phenomena and discussions of related problems, conclusions), acknowledgements in Chinese, all references in English, and original references in Chinese. Please refer to the papers in EL. Reference structure Structure of references should follow the following samples:
Erwin D.H., 1993. The great Paleozoic crisis: life and death in the Permian. Columbia University Press, New York., p. 1-327. Jin Y.G., Shen S.Z., Zhu Z.L., Mei S.L., Wang W., 1996. The Selong section, candidate of the Global Stratotype section and point of the Permian-Triassic boundary. In: Yin, H.F., ed., The Palaeozoic-Mesozoic boundary. Candidates of The Global Stratotype Section and Point of the Permian-Triassic Boundary. China University of Geosciences Press, p.127-135. Jin Y.G., Wang Y., Wang W., Shang Q.H., Cao C.Q., Erwin D.H., 2000. Pattern of marine mass extinction near the Permian–Triassic boundary in South China. Science 289: 432–436. Wu Y.S., 2006. Lagged mass extinction in conodonts across the Permian-Triassic boundary. Earth & Life (www.geofinds.com ), 1(1): 1-6.
Chinese references are required to be translated into English and marked with (in Chinese with English abstract) or (in Chinese) at the end. References should be cited in text in these ways:
(Erwin, 1993) [when one author], (Liao and Wu, 2006) [when two authors], (Jin et al., 1996) [when more than two authors], (Erwin, 1993; Jin et al., 1996; Liao and Wu, 2006)
All references in list should be cited in text correspondingly. Organization and formatting of manuscripts are exemplified by two sample papers, one for papers in English and the other for those in Chinese. How to submit We need your word file. We also need your single files of figures. Please send all files as email attachments to wys@mail.igcas.ac.cn or jianghx@mail.igcas.a.cn. If files are too large to be sent with email, you can put them in a cd disk and send it to: Wu Ya Sheng, P. O. Box 9825, Beijing 100029, China. Or, reduce size of figures with resize function of software ACDSee. Tell us in email what disciplines your paper belongs to and what is important in it. Ask the reviewer to send us an email to qualify your manuscript for publication, as mentioned above. Important points You authors are assumed to be responsible for the quality of your papers. So, please be careful and careful, check your manuscript again and again, to avoid academic or writing errors! Award policy If any papers published on EL were cited for n times in the three years after its publication, EL will award the authors a prize at n * 100 RMB. If n>5, the prize is n*2*100 RMB.
Contact us If any questions about preparing manuscript or about contents of published papers in EL, or any suggestions to improve EL, or any other questions or problems, please contact: Wu Ya Sheng, via: Email: wys@mail.igcas.ac.cn, or Tel: 86-10-62008057, or Mobile phone: 13241929326, or Fax: 86-10-62010846, or Mail Box: P.O. Box 9825, Beijing 100029, China.
Editors of Earth & Life Oct. 2006
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