Earth Science Informatics
Submission guidelines
Instructions for Authors
Types of Papers
Manuscripts that can be submitted to Earth Science Informatics may fall under any of the following categories: research article, methodology article (experimental, computational, simulation, theoretical), software article (e.g., ontology, database, markup language), and review article. The journal also publishes solicited and unsolicited Editorials and Comments on topics of interest to the journal’s audience. Contributors must identify the type of their article during submission.
Research articles report findings of original research, and may be divided into the following sections (authors are free to use alternative structure): Title and Abstract page, Introduction, Methods (with subsections), Results (with subsections), Discussion (with subsections), Conclusions, List of abbreviations (if any), Acknowledgements, References, Figures and captions (if any), and Tables and caption (if any). Each of these sections is described in detail in the Format and Structure of the Manuscript section.
Methodology articles present technical details of a new or revised experimental, computational, theoretical, or simulation approach, method, test, analysis, model, or procedure. The Method section of the Methodology articles should contain enough detail, in proper subsections, to allow other scientists to reproduce the method, and apply it to their own research. For example, the Method section of a computational type of methodology article may be divided into the ‘Algorithm’, ‘Testing’, and ‘Implementation’ subsections. A theoretical Methodology article presenting a new theory should have a subsection on the comparison of existing and new theories.
Software articles report an application or a tool that should become freely available to researchers for their personal (non-commercial) use. To make this possible, a software article must have a section called ‘Software Files’ that follows the ‘Tables and caption’ section. The software articles should have a ‘Design and Implementation’ section between the Introduction and Results sections, an ‘Availability and Requirements’ section after the Conclusion section which should list the URL, where the software files are available on the Web, and a operating system and hardware requirements section.
Solicited or unsolicited Review articles are compendiums of the current status of an area of interest to the journal, and give critical evaluations of published work on the subject. They should accurately present the state-of-the-art knowledge about the subject in a coherent, concise, and organized way. Review articles are reviewed by the Editorial Board members.
Special Issues of the journal are either solicited by the Editors of the journal or, more commonly, suggested by researchers who intend to produce a Special Issue on a timely, specific topic of interest, within the scope of the journal, as Guest Editors. The Guest Editors manage the solicitation/acquisition and review of the papers for the Special Issue.
Editorials are solicited by the Editor-in-Chief or Deputy Editor to accompany a published article or a Special Issue of the journal. Editorials also may be submitted by uninvited researchers.
Comments, written by a reader in the form of a letter or essay of 1000 or less words, may cover timely topics of interest or controversy to the journal’s audience. The comment may also support, criticize, question, expound, or correct a part of a recently published article in the journal, and/or provide an alternate interpretation or perspective for it. The Editor-in-Chief or the Deputy Editor will send the comments to the corresponding author of the published paper and ask for a response. The comments and the response (if any) will be published together in a later issue of the journal.
Errata are submitted by the authors of a previously published article to correct a significant error, introduced inadvertently. The authors should send the corrections to the Editor as soon as the error is discovered. The corrections must be well documented (e.g., with article title, volume number, page and line number), and will be published in a later issue of the journal.
The Feature Editor handles other types of short communications in the journal. These include Events (e.g., meeting and conference announcements), Book Review, Software Review, and Errata. Book and Software reviews can also be contributed by the journal audience.
Manuscript Submission
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
Online Submission
Please follow the hyperlink “Submit manuscript” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.
Please ensure you provide all relevant editable source files. Failing to submit these source files might cause unnecessary delays in the review and production process.
Title Page
Please make sure your title page contains the following information.
Title
The title should be concise and informative.
Author information
The name(s) of the author(s)
The affiliation(s) of the author(s), i.e. institution, (department), city, (state), country
A clear indication and an active e-mail address of the corresponding author
If available, the 16-digit ORCID of the author(s)
If address information is provided with the affiliation(s) it will also be published.
For authors that are (temporarily) unaffiliated we will only capture their city and country of residence, not their e-mail address unless specifically requested.
Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
For life science journals only (when applicable)
Trial registration number and date of registration for prospectively registered trials
Trial registration number and date of registration, followed by “retrospectively registered”, for retrospectively registered trials
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