Publisher Guide of the
Geo-Science Education Journal (GSEJ)
Submission Preparation
Checklist
As part of the submission
process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with
all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do
not adhere to these guidelines.
Author Guidelines
Author Guidelines
1. GENERAL
The Geo-Science Education Journal (GSEJ) is a peer-reviewed, Open-Access,
article-based, international, scientific Journal, that publishes full-length articles
on biology, especially experimental biology. Journal accepts original research
articles, case reports and review articles. The GSEJ is issued quarterly
in electronic version. Public access to all articles is free of
charge.
2. ETHICAL GUIDELINES
2.1. Authorship and Acknowledgements
Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that the manuscript
have been read and approved by all authors and that all authors agree to the
submission of the manuscript to the Journal.
2.2. Ethical Approvals
Please ensure that your biomedical or medical article conforms to the
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors Recommendations for the
Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical
Journals (ICMJE
Recommendations).
We abide by Code of Conduct by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and
aim to adhere to its Best Practice Guidelines.
When reporting experiments on human subjects, indicate whether the
procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible
committee on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975,
as revised in 1983. Do not use patients’ names, initials, or hospital numbers,
especially in illustrative material. To research on human subjects,
the informed consent and other ethical considerations should be
mentioned in the "Methods" section of the manuscript. The author
should include a statement that informed consent was obtained for any
experimentation with human subjects. As the journal follows ICMJE, for more information,
please consider their guideline.
Papers including animal experiments or clinical trials must be accompanied
by an approval by the local ethics committee. Please give date of issue and
registration number. Make sure that reporting of random controlled trials
complies with the CONSORT guidelines, and that such manuscripts include a flow
chart along with a completed checklist when submitted - both available on the
world wide web (http://www.consort-statement.org).
2.3. “Ghostwriting” and “guest authorship”
prevention
The editors of GSEJ lead the policy of “ghostwriting” and “guest
authorship” prevention.
“Ghostwriting” is the case of contributing a publication without revealing
one’s participation as one of the authors or without reference to their role in
the acknowledgments in the publication.
“Guest authorship” (honorary authorship) is the case of insignificant
contribution of the author or its complete absence and nevertheless being the
author or co-author of the publication.
The editors reserve the right to reveal all aspects of scientific
dishonesty, i.e. failure to comply with actions eliminating the occurrence of
the aforementioned practices.
The editors require that Authors should reveal individual co-authors’
contribution to the publication. Potential contributions include:
·
Conception and design
·
Development of methodology
·
Acquisition of data
·
Analysis and interpretation of data
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Writing, review and/or revision of the manuscript
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Administrative, technical, or material support
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Study supervision
·
Other
However, the author submitting the manuscript will chiefly be held responsible.
(The ghostwriting and guest authorship prevention procedure in EJBR was
written according to the guidelines of the Ministry of Science and Higher
Education)
2.4. Plagiarism
Plagiarism is when an author attempts to pass off someone else's work as
his or her own. Duplicate publication, sometimes called self-plagiarism, occurs
when an author reuses substantial parts of his or her own published work
without providing the appropriate references. By submitting your manuscript to
us you accept that your manuscript may be screened for plagiarism against
previously published works.
Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized will incur plagiarism
sanctions:
- immediate rejection of the submitted manuscript or published article
- no return of article-processing charge
- prohibition against all of the authors for any new submissions.
2.5. Withdrawal of manuscripts
The Committee on Publication Ethics
(COPE) published international standards of publication ethics
for the authors and these standards have also been adopted by the journals
appearing in the international scientific indices. According to these
standards, if an authors request to withdraw their already submitted article
for publishing to a journal, a letter signed by all authors stating their
request and reasons for withdrawal must be sent to journal editor regardless of
the stage of the editorial or review process.
2.6. Conflict of Interest and Sources of Funding
Authors are requested to provide a statement concerning any commercial
associations or patent licenses that might result in a conflict of interest
with the work presented in the submitted paper.
2.7. Permissions
Materials copied from other sources must be accompanied by a written
statement from both the author and publisher giving permission to GSEJ for
reproduction. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that such permissions
are obtained.
2.8. Copyright Assignment
Authors submitting a paper do so on the understanding that the work and its
essential substance have not been published before and is not being considered
for publication elsewhere. The articles published in this journal are
open-access articles distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
4.0 International License, which permits noncommercial use,
distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is
properly cited.
3. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
3.1. Cover Letter
Each manuscript should be accompanied by a Cover Letter. The cover letter
should contain all important details such as: your full name (submitted by),
full title of article and short title, full list of authors with affiliations,
e-mail of the corresponding author, contact address, telephone/fax numbers of
the corresponding author. In the cover letter Authors should propose 3-5
reviewers giving names, affiliations and e-mails.
All authors of the manuscript are responsible for its content; they must
have agreed to its publication and have given the corresponding author the
authority to act on their behalf in all matters pertaining to publication. The
corresponding author is responsible for informing the coauthors of the
manuscript status throughout the submission, review, and production process.
3.2. Manuscript Files Accepted
The final version of the manuscript, figures and tables should be submitted
by email: hubermilosz@gmail.com.
Main text and tables must be in Microsoft Word (.doc) format (not
write-protected).
Photographs, drawings and graphs must be original and must be in JPG or
TIFF format, preferred resolution >300 dpi.
The manuscript must be accompanied by: a written Licence
Form, and in case of experimental studies a statement that the protocol of
study and informed consent were in compliance with the Helsinki Convention and
were approved by local Ethics Committee. Upon acceptance of the manuscript, the
author(s) will be asked to send Licence Form to the
publisher.
3.3. Peer-Review
All submitted manuscripts are confidential until published. All submitted
manuscript will be reviewed by at least one expert in the field, who is from
behind of scientific unit in which is affiliated author of the publication.
Papers that do not conform to the general aims and scope of the journal will,
however, be returned immediately without review. The names of the reviewers
will not be disclosed to the author submitting a paper. Peer review comments
are confidential and will only be disclosed with the express agreement of the
reviewer.
3.4. E-mail Confirmation of Submission
After submission you will receive an e-mail to confirm receipt of your
manuscript. The error may be caused by some sort of spam filtering on your
e-mail server.
3.5. Manuscript Status
The Journal will inform you by e-mail once a decision has been made.
3.6. Submission of Revised Manuscripts
To submit a revised manuscript, send it by e-mail: hubermilosz@gmail.com
4. MANUSCRIPT TYPES ACCEPTED
Geo-Science Education Journal publishes original research articles, case
reports and reviews.
Original Research Articles must describe
significant and original experimental observations and provide sufficient
detail so that the observations can be critically evaluated and, if necessary,
repeated.
Short Communications are intended for the presentation of brief
observations that do not warrant a full-length papers.
Case Reports must describe an individual phenomenon,
uncommon case or a new or improved method.
Reviews are selected for their broad general
interest; should take a broad view of the field.
5. MANUSCRIPT FORMAT AND STRUCTURE
5.1. Language
The language of publications is English. Authors whose native language is
not English are strongly advised to have their manuscripts checked by a
professional translator or a native speaker prior to submission.
5.2. Structure
All articles should include Title Page, Abstract, and References and in
addition sections on Source of Funding and Conflict of Interests. Figures,
Figure Legends and Tables should be included where appropriate.
Title Page: The title must contain no more than 100
characters including spaces. The title page should include a running title of
no more than 40 characters; 5-10 key words, complete names of institutions for
each author, and the name, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail
address for the corresponding author.
Conflict of Interest and Source of Funding: Authors are requested to
provide a statement concerning any commercial associations or patent licenses
that might result in a conflict of interest with the work presented in the
submitted paper. Author's conflict of interest (or the absence of conflicts of
interest) and the sources of funding for the research will be published under a
heading "Conflict of Interest and Source of Funding Statement".
Abstract: is limited to 250 words in length and
should not contain abbreviations or references.
Acknowledgements: Under acknowledgements please
specify contributors to the article other than the authors accredited.
5.3. Original Research Articles
Main Text should be organized with Introduction, Materials and Methods,
Results, Discussion (or Results and Discussion). The background and hypotheses
underlying the study, as well as its main conclusions, should be clearly
explained.
5.4. Short Communications
These must have an abstract of no more than 100 words. Manuscript should be
formatted without section headings in the body of the text. All the required
parts (introduction, methods, results and discussion) except for the Literature
must be given in single section. Total length should not exceed 10 printed
pages including illustrative material (no more than 3 figures and tables).
5.5. Case Report Articles
These should be divided into the following sections: Title page, Abstract,
Introduction, Case presentation, Discussion, Conclusions.
5.6. Review Articles
Reviews submitted to EJBR are by invitation
only. Topics and authors are
typically chosen by the Editor-in-Chief. However, on occasion, the editors will
consider unsolicited offers to prepare articles. To make an unsolicited
submission, authors must initially submit a summary of the topic, the abstract
and the first full five pages of text. Reviews should take a broad view of
the field rather than merely summarizing the authors´ own previous work. The
use of state-of-the-art evidence-based systematic approaches is expected. Main
text should be organized with Introduction, Review, Conclusions.
5.7. References
Citations in the text should be marked by Arab numbers in square brackets.
a) The arrangement of the references should be in consecutive order (as
they are cited in the text).
b) The first six authors should be presented; if are more than six, please
use a phrase: et al.
c) The order of the items in each reference should be as in examples:
Article
Smith TJ, Zaitsev A.; 2016, Geology of NE Fennoscandia. Geo-Sci. Edu. Jour.
1994; 2(4): 15-36.
Book
Boglaev E.K., Kowalski T., eds., 2014. Geochemistry
of Africanda. 4th edn. Kraków,
Scientific Publishing.
Chapter from a Book
Buruneli TJ, 1985. Mineralogy of Perovskite.
In: Rare Eart’h minerals., Mitrofanov
F.K, eds. Apatity RAN, 53-65.
Non-English Language
Custou G, Gasen K. 1979,
Petrology of Harz Mots [in German]. J Mineralogie;
70: 697-702.
5.8. Tables and Figures
Tables: should be with no vertical rulings, with a
single bold ruling beneath the column titles. Units of measurements must be
included in the column title. Max. format A4, only in a vertical arrangement.
Figures: All figures should be planned to fit
within either 1 column width (8.2 cm) or 2 column widths (17.0 cm). Lettering
on figures should be in a clear typeface; the same typeface should be used for
all figures.
Units should have a single space between the number and the unit, and
follow SI nomenclature or the nomenclature common to a particular field
(defined in the legend). Do not use pixel-oriented programmes.
Permissions: If all or parts of previously published
illustrations are used, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder
concerned. It is the author's responsibility to obtain these in writing and
provide copies to the Publishers.
6. REVISION AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE MANUSCRIPT
6.1. Revision of the manuscript
Finally, journal editors make decisions to accept or reject papers based on
their opinion of the papers’ publication worthiness and reviewers’
comments.
Revised manuscript must be submitted within 2 months from the date of
receipt of the comments of reviewers.
Upon acceptance of a paper for publication, the manuscript will be
forwarded to the production of the journal.
6.3. Article-processing charge
Publication in GSEJ is free of charge.
6.4. Online publication
Online publication will normally be within 2 weeks of receipt of corrected
proof by the Huber Publisher. Authors should note that online articles are
complete and final and thus no changes can be made after online publication.
Copyright Notice
All articles are open-access articles distributed under the terms of
the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported
License, which permits noncommercial use, distribution, and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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