Information For Authors

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NEW SUBMISSIONS

Submission to the IAS (Indian Association of Sedimentologists) proceeds totally online and you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. As part of Your Manuscript, you have to choose to submit your manuscript as a single file to be used in the refereeing process. This should be a Word document, in Times New Roman 12 size font in single column layout that can be used by referees to evaluate your Manuscript.

 REFERENCES

The reference formatting should be strictly according to the IAS (Indian Association of Sedimentologists) format. Where applicable, author(s) name(s), journal title/ book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, volume number/book chapter and the article number or pagination must be present. Use of DOI is highly encouraged.  

Examples: Note that missing data/mistakes will be highlighted at proof stage for the author to correct.

 FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS:

All manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to convey your manuscript, for example Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Artwork and Tables with Captions. If your article includes any other supplementary material, this should be included in your initial submission for peer review purposes. Divide the article into clearly defined sections. Figures and tables embedded in text should be indicated.  Please ensure the figures and the tables included in the single blinded file are placed next to the relevant text in the Manuscript. The corresponding caption should be placed directly below the figure and at the top of the table.  To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the 'spell-check' and 'grammar-check' functions of your word processor.

 PEER REVIEW:

The IAS (Indian Association of Sedimentologists) operates a double-blinded anonymized review process. All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor for suitability for the journal. Manuscripts deemed suitable are then typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers (either processed by an Associate editor or directly by the Editor-in-Chief) to assess the scientific quality of the Manuscript. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of an article. The Editor's decision is final and unchallengeable. Editors are not involved in decisions/recommendations about Manuscripts which they have written themselves or have been written by family members or colleagues or which relate to products or services in which the editor has an interest. Any such submission is subject to all of the journal's usual procedures, with peer review handled independently by the relevant Associate editor and their research groups.

 STRUCTURE OF THE MANUSCRIPT

Introduction should include ‘state the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results’. Results should be clear and concise. Discussion should explore the significance of the results of the work. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate.  The main conclusions of the study should be presented in a short, standalone, ‘Conclusions section’. The conclusions must be unnumbered and not written in bullet-point style. They must be written in standard prose and they must state conclusions that are of general applicability.

 DATA AVAILABILITY:

Authors are encouraged to include a 'Data Availability' section in their manuscript, which is visible in all reading formats and may refer to data hosted in ANY repository. It should be placed before the references to provide readers with information about where they can obtain the research data required to reproduce the work reported in the manuscript, and typically consists of a simple sentence giving the URL(s) of and citation(s) to the dataset(s).

 APPENDICES:

Appendices should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1, etc.

 ESSENTIAL TITLE PAGE INFORMATION

• Title: Title of the Manuscript should be concise and informative (Objective in nature), including period and structure name/location, if appropriate. Titles are often used in information-retrieval system. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible. Avoid the phrase 'case study'.
• Author names and affiliations: Please clearly indicate the given name(s) and family name(s) of each author and check that all names are accurately spelled. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lowercase superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
• Corresponding author: Indicate who will handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication. This responsibility includes answering any future queries about the Manuscript. Ensure that the e-mail address is given and that contact details are kept up to date by the corresponding author.
• Present/permanent address: If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, the address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address.
• Abstract: The abstract should not exceed 300 words and must consist of one paragraph that states only in this order: The research problem, main method(s), main results and main conclusions. The abstract must convey the main content of the paper so that the reader can understand the main content without actually referring to the paper.
• Keywords: Following the abstract, provide a maximum of 5 keywords, using British spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, "and", "of").
• Abbreviations: Only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes. Define abbreviations, which are not standard in this field in the text at their first mention and put them in parenthesis. Ensure consistency of abbreviations throughout the article.

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include them on the title page. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proof reading the article, etc.).

 FUNDING:

This work was supported by the xxxxxxx [grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]; it is not necessary to include detailed descriptions on the program or type of grants and awards. When funding is from a block grant or other resources available to an academic institution, or other research institution, submit the name of the institute or organization that provided the funding. If no funding has been provided for the research, it is recommended to include the following sentence: This research did not receive any specific grant from any public or private funding agencies.

 NOMENCLATURE AND UNITS:

Follow internationally accepted rules and conventions: use the international system of units (SI). If other quantities are mentioned, give their equivalent in SI. You are urged to consult IUGS: Nomenclature for geological time scales/rock names for further information.

 MATH FORMULAE:

Please submit math equations as editable text and not as images. Present simple formulae in line with normal text where possible and use the solidus (/) instead of a horizontal line for small fractional terms, e.g., X/Y. In principle, variables are to be presented in italics. Powers of e are often more conveniently denoted by exp. Number consecutively any equations that have to be displayed separately from the text (if referred to explicitly in the text)

 ARTWORK ELECTRONIC_ARTWORK

General points

• Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
• Preferred fonts: Arial, Times New Roman; Symbol: Courier.
• Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
• Indicate per figure if it is a single, 1.5 or 2-column fitting image.

 FIGURE CAPTIONS:

Ensure that each illustration has a caption. A caption should comprise a brief title (not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used. All captions must not only state the content of the figure but must also tell the reader the main message of the figure. For Production-standard figures will be requested on acceptance.

 TABLES:

Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. Tables can be placed next to the relevant text in the article. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and place any table notes above the table body. Ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. Please avoid using vertical rules and shading in table cells.

 REFERENCES CITATION IN TEXT

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Unpublished results and personal communications are not recommended in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. If these references are included in the reference list, they should follow the standard reference style of the journal and should include a substitution of the publication date with either 'Unpublished results' or 'Personal communication'. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication. Citation of internal reports is not acceptable unless these reports are in the public domain. Please follow the text call-out style and list format in a recent issue; do not number the references. Web references as a minimum, the full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be included in the reference list.

 DATA REFERENCES

The IAS (Indian Association of Sedimentologists) encourages authors to cite underlying or relevant datasets in manuscripts by citing them in the text and including a data reference in the Reference List. Data references should include the following elements: author name(s), dataset title, data repository, version (where available), year, and global persistent identifier. Add [dataset] immediately before the reference so we can properly identify it as a data reference. The [dataset] identifier will not appear in your published article. Preprint references where a preprint has subsequently become available as a peer-reviewed publication, the formal publication should be used as the reference. If there are preprints which are central to your work or which cover crucial developments in the topic, but are not yet formally published, these may be referenced. Preprints should be clearly marked as such, for example by including the word preprint, or the name of the preprint server, as part of the reference. The preprint DOI should also be provided. Please, follow the format of the sample references and citations as shown in this Guide

 REFERENCE FORMATTING

References follow the Harvard system. In the reference list, the order is alphabetic. Please consult a recent issue for examples. The use of DOIs is encouraged. Note that missing data will be highlighted at proof stage for the author to correct.

All citations in the text should refer to:

• Single author: the author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;
• Two authors: both authors' names and the year of publication;
• Three or more authors:
• First author's name followed by 'et al.,' and the year of publication. Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically) as the case may be. Groups of references can be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically. Examples: 'as demonstrated (Allan, 2000a, 2000b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1999)…. References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.