About the Journal

AUTHOR OBLIGATIONS REGARDING 

CONFLICTING INTEREST

The JIAS requires a “Declaration of Conflicting Interests” while submitting manuscript you will be asked to certify that: All forms of financial support are acknowledged in your Contribution.

  • Any commercial or financial involvements that might present an appearance of a conflict of interest related to the Contribution are disclosed in a covering letter accompanying the manuscript and all such potential conflicts of interest will be discussed with the Editor as to whether disclosure of this information with the published Contribution is to be made in the journal.
  • That you have not signed an agreement with any sponsor of the research reported in the Contribution that prevents you from publishing both positive and negative results or that forbids you from publishing this research without the prior approval of the sponsor.
  • The same obligations equally apply to editors or guest editors writing an editorial that will be published in the journal.

DECLARATION

If you are submitting to or publishing your article in JIAS, please include such a declaration at the end of your manuscript after Acknowledgements and prior to the Funding Acknowledgement notes (if relevant) and References, under the heading 'Declaration of Conflicting Interest'. If no conflict exists, please state that 'The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest'.

*Please note, Where a declaration is required the disclosure information must be specific and include any financial relationship that all authors of the article have with any sponsoring organization and the for-profit interests the organization represents, and with any for-profit product discussed or implied in the text of the article.

 ETHICS IN PUBLISHING

 SUBMISSION DECLARATION AND VERIFICATION:

 Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract), is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright holder IAS (Indian Association of Sedimentologists). To verify compliance, your article will be checked by Crossref Similarity Check and other originality or duplicate checking software (Ithenticate).

 AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS:

For transparency IAS (Indian Association of Sedimentologists), require corresponding authors to provide co-author contributions to the manuscript using the relevant CRediT roles. The CRediT taxonomy includes 14 different roles describing each contributor’s specific contribution to the scholarly article. The roles are Conceptualization; Data curation; Formal analysis; Funding acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration; Resources; Software; Supervision; Validation; Visualization; Roles/Writing - original draft; and Writing - review & editing.

Note that not all roles may apply to every manuscript, and authors may have contributed through multiple roles.

 AUTHORSHIP

All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following: (1) the conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, (3) final approval of the version to be submitted. All authors, i.e., including co-authors, will be mailed by the site to confirm the submission of this manuscript, and will need to contact IAS (Indian Association of Sedimentologists) and/or corresponding author for any concerns, (3) all authors are added in the author fields in the submission menu. This information generates a page automatically consisting of manuscript title, abstract and all authors, their affiliations and addresses.

 CHANGES TO AUTHORSHIP

Authors are expected to consider carefully the list and order of authors before submitting their manuscript and provide the definitive list of authors at the time of the original submission. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list are not allowed; however, in compelling circumstances, minor changes may be allowed only before the manuscript has been accepted; provided approved by the journal Editor. To request such a change, the Editor must receive the following from the corresponding author: (a) the valid reason for the change in author list and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition, removal or rearrangement in the original list. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed or change in the original sequence/change of corresponding author.

COPYRIGHT

For all the accepted papers, the corresponding author for the paper will have to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.  Visit:  http://Journal.Indiansedimentologists.com for the license format. The authors are required to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement’. Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other derivative works, including compilations and translations. If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article.

 REFEREES

Please submit the names and institutional/personal e-mail addresses of potential referees from at least three different institutions/countries.

ALLEGATIONS OF MISCONDUCT: 

The journal policy is to check misconduct at the submission stage of a Manuscript like plagiarism check, taking certificate from the authors about fabrication, falsification, unethical authorship, duplicate submission, overlapping publication, etc. If at any stage of review process any of the above mentioned misconducts comes to the notice or after the publication of the article or if written complaint is received with proof by any reader, author, editor, reviewer, etc.

A research misconduct will be considered if there is a significant departure from accepted practices of the relevant research or scholarly community; and the research misconduct is committed intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly; and the allegation is proved by a preponderance of the evidence. The author/s will be banned from publishing in the journals for a certain time after discovering publishing misconduct

COMPLIANT PROCESS:

The complaint can be made by any reader, author, reviewer, editor at any stage of review process or after the publications of the article in writing with proof. The complaint will be scrutinized by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal or the editor who handled the Manuscript in consultation with the advisory board of the Journal. If they (Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, Reviewer) are the subject of the complaint, the case will be solely handled by the Advisory Board of the Journal.

APPEAL PROCESS:

The offender author/s will be given written notice through email to explain his / her / their position in respect of the complaint. A fair chance will be given to the author/s to defend their position.

PUBLISHING SCHEDULE:

It is published biannually on the 30th of June and 31 December.

PUBLISHED BY:

Dr Bashir Ahmad Lone and Dr Mateen Hafiz on behalf of the Indian Association of Sedimentologists,

Wadia Museum of Natural History, University of Jammu - 180 006 

Jammu & Kashmir