NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS
Instructions for Authors
Please consult the Journal's style guide on preparing and submitting a manuscript to the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. These instructions should be read in conjunction with the Royal Society Te Aparangi's Policy and procedures document, which includes guidelines on the responsibilities and requirements placed on authors. This journal is peer-reviewed, and all peer review is single blind.
Prospective contributor should consult recent issues of the journal to ensure a planned submission is appropriate.
Open Access
You have the option to publish open access in this journal via our Open Select publishing program. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership and impact of your research. Articles published Open Select with Taylor & Francis typically receive 95% more citations* and over 7 times as many downloads** compared to those that are not published Open Select.
Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access. Visit our Author Services website to find out more about open access policies and how you can comply with these.
You will be asked to pay an article publishing charge (APC) to make your article open access and this cost can often be covered by your institution or funder. Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
Please visit our Author Services website if you would like more information about our Open Select Program.
*Citations received up to 9th June 2021 for articles published in 2016-2020 in journals listed in Web of Science®. Data obtained on 9th June 2021, from Digital Science's Dimensions platform, available at https://app.dimensions.ai
**Usage in 2018-2020 for articles published in 2016-2020.
Templates
Papers should be submitted in Word format. Figures should be saved separately from the text. To assist you in preparing your paper, we provide formatting template(s).
Word templates are available for this journal. Please save the template to your hard drive, ready for use.
If you are not able to use the template via the links (or if you have any other template queries) please contact us here.
References
Journal names in the reference list can either be listed in full or abbreviated, so long as it is consistent throughout the list. The complete reference style formatting can be found in this reference guide.
An EndNote output style is also available to assist you.
Checklist: What to Include
Author details. Please ensure all listed authors meet the Taylor & Francis authorship criteria. All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript. Where available, please also include ORCiDs. One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF and the online article. Authors’ affiliations are the affiliations where the research was conducted. If any of the named co-authors moves affiliation during the peer-review process, the new affiliation can be given as a footnote. Please note that no changes to affiliation can be made after your paper is accepted . Read more on authorship.
Presentation of papers. Research articles and short communications are to be organized in the following sections: Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, Acknowledgements, References. If your article includes any supplementary material, this should be uploaded with your initial submission for peer review purposes.
An unstructured abstract of no more than 200 words. Read tips on writing your abstract.
You can opt to include a video abstract with your article. Find out how these can help your work reach a wider audience, and what to think about when filming.
Between 5 and 10 keywords. Read making your article more discoverable, including information on choosing a title and search engine optimization.
Funding details. Please supply all details required by your funding and grant-awarding bodies as follows:
For single agency grants
This work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [number xxxx].
For multiple agency grants
This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].
Disclosure statement. This is to acknowledge any financial or non-financial interest that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. If there are no relevant competing interests to declare please state this within the article, for example: The authors report there are no competing interests to declare. Further guidance on what is a conflict of interest and how to disclose it.
Data availability statement. If there is a data set associated with the paper, please provide information about where the data supporting the results or analyses presented in the paper can be found. Where applicable, this should include the hyperlink, DOI or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). Templates are also available to support authors.
Data deposition. If you choose to share or make the data underlying the study open, please deposit your data in a recognized data repository prior to or at the time of submission. You will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-reserved DOI, or other persistent identifier for the data set.
Supplemental online material. Supplemental material can be a video, dataset, fileset, sound file or anything which supports (and is pertinent to) your paper. We publish supplemental material online via Figshare. Find out more about supplemental material and how to submit it with your article.
Figures. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour). Figures should be saved separately from the text as TIFF, JPEG, PS, EPS, AI or SVG files. Provide a list of figure captions after the references section of the manuscript. Do not embed the figure caption in the figure file. Number the figures according to their sequence in the text and use a logical naming convention.
Tables. Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text. Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text. Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. Tables along with captions can be placed on separate page(s) at the end of the manuscript. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text.
Equations. If you are submitting your manuscript as a Word document, please ensure that equations are editable. More information about mathematical symbols and equations.
Units. Please use SI units (non-italicized).
Line numbering text. Please ensure your paper has consecutive line numbering - this is an essential peer review requirement.
Language. Please write your text in good English. Work submitted in incorrect English will be returned to authors for correction prior to being sent for review.
Revised manuscript. Authors must highlight changes in response to editorial/referee comments marked using track changes or coloured text. Authors submitting a revision should also upload a separate document responding to editorial/referee comments, and must explain or justify any suggested revisions the author is not prepared to make.
After submitting a revision, your manuscript may be unsubmitted by the Publishing Team of Royal Society Te Aparangi if one or more of the technical requirements above are not met. You will receive an email informing you of the requirements you have yet to fill. This checking process occurs before the manuscript is placed back in the hands of the handling editor.
Using Third-Party Material in your Paper
You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article. The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission. If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission. More information on requesting permission to reproduce work(s) under copyright.
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