Guidelines for Authors of Earth Science and Engineering

1. Article submission

The manuscript should be original and has not been published previously. Please do not submit

material that is currently being considered by another journal.

2. Format

The manuscript should be in MS Word format, submitted via email or web submission system.

3. Length

Manuscripts can be 4,000-15,000 words or longer if approved by the editor, including an abstract,

text, and references, or tables, figures, endnotes, appendixes, etc.. 

3. Title page 

The title page includes the paper title (not exceeding 15 words and followed by an abstract of

100-200 words; three to eight keywords or key phrases are also required); the corresponding

Author’s working place; academic degree/title; main research field(s); mailing addresse-mail.

4. Structure

Generally, the text part should be into the following parts: 1.Introduction; 2. Materials; 3. Results and Discussion; 4. Conclusions. An the end of the paper, you also can add acknowledgment or recommendation.

5. Figures and Tables

Figures and Tables should be into your paper in the right place, do not put all the Figures and Tables at the end of the paper. Tables should be changed into “three-line table”

8. Endnotes

Please use endnotes instead of footnotes to give additional information. Endnotes themselves

should be listed by consecutive Arabic numbers that correspond to the notation in the text. Place a period and a space after each endnote number.

9. References

The references in your paper should be listed as “A[1], A[2], A[3], and marked in your paper in the right place. The references listing in the paper should be by the sequence of [1], [2], [3]…..

10. Peer review 

All papers considered appropriate for this journal are reviewed anonymously by outside reviewers. The review process usually takes 1-2 weeks.

11. After peer review 

You should make suggested corrections according to the comments, and authors of the articles

being accepted are required to sign up the Transfer of Copyright Agreement form.

12. Acceptance

Authors will be charged publication fee if their paper(s) is accepted for publication after blind

review. 

13. After acceptance