Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
Authors must ensure that their submission complies with the following requirements and guidelines:
- The submission was not published previously — in any form other than preprint;
- The submission contains contact information for the lead author and all the co-authors;
- The submission includes references' URLs if available;
- Supplemental material, if any, is included in the submission file(s);
- The submissions are in MS Word (or PDF initially) file format. No elitist styling formats, such as Tex/LaTex!
- Any other consistent styling is acceptable (preferred: double-spacing; 12-pt font; Figures & Tables in text);
- All co-authors consent to their names being included in the submission if published.
Author Guidelines
Journal of Geophysics is a merit-only publication that adheres to the following standards.
- Demonstration papers must contain a solid (based on real data) proof of the proposed contribution.
- Theory papers may include derivation of fundamental equations or a new law (or disproof of a commonly accepted law), discovery of a novel procedure or principle, development of a new method, etc. We publish neither theories developed without (or ahead of) real-data analyses nor theories based in any part on either synthetic or experimental data. The maximum number of co-authors of strongly theoretical papers is three.
- Experiment papers must neither claim nor imply to constitute a demonstration paper or a theory paper.
- Submissions using file formats and typesetting styles that promote elitism in science, such as Tex/LaTex, are unacceptable.
- Any form of manuscript organizing and styling is acceptable if applied consistently throughout the submission.
- Figures must have a high enough resolution to enable their unambiguous reproduction in both electronic form and print. Black-and-white figures are preferred. While there is no extra charge for color figures, visual messages should be conveyed in color only where necessary.
- Tables must be in an editable file format (preferably MS Excel) and embedded within the text.
- Figures and Tables should be placed within the manuscript in their appropriate places.
- The authors should check the scope of their article's main Subject Category before submitting.
- The authors should read the Ethics and Misconduct Policy before submitting.
Copyright
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal as of Vol. 63 agree to the following terms:
a. Authors share the copyright with this journal in equal parts (50% to the journal, 50% to the lead author), and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work after publication simultaneously licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
b. Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal, and a reference to this copyright notice.
c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) during the submission process, as this can lead to productive exchanges and earlier and greater citation of published work and better sales of the copyright.
Additional Notes
This journal is one of a handful of scholarly journals that publish original scientific works under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 - the only Creative Commons license affording the authors' intellectual property absolute worldwide protection.
Journal of Geophysics is published under the scholar-publishers model, meaning authors do not surrender their copyright to us. Instead, and unlike corporate publishers like Elsevier or Springer Nature that resell copyright to third-parties for up to $80,000 (per paper, per transaction!), the Journal of Geophysics authors share copyright equally with this journal.
Therefore, all the proceeds from reselling copyright to third parties get shared to equal parts (50% to the journal, 50% to the lead author). Under the Berne Convention, this protection is an inheritable right that lasts for as long as the rightsholder lives + 50 years.
By submitting to this journal, the lead author, on behalf of all co-authors, grants permission to this journal to represent all co-authors in negotiating copyright sales and collecting proceeds. The lead author should negotiate with his/her co-authors the modalities of distributing the lead author's portion of the proceeds. Usually, this is per pre-agreed percentage of each co-author's contribution to creating the copyrighted work. (more...)