Annals of Glaciology
Instructions for contributors
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Instructions to authors for Annals of Glaciology
We publish three types of papers:
Articles – concerning new findings and theories, or new instruments and methods, in glaciology – the study of ice; or review articles that offer an up-to-date, coherent account of a glaciological subject that is developing rapidly or has been neglected.
Letters – topical in nature and of reduced length, carrying substantially reduced processing charges; comments on previously-published papers are treated as letters.
Communications – short pieces without abstracts that could be, e.g., comments on published articles/letters, book reviews, short correspondence on topics of interest to the community.
An accelerated publication procedure, ‘Paper Profiling’, is available for Articles and Letters. Eligible papers are topical or ground-breaking, and would particularly benefit from a fast turnaround and wide publicity. The editors may themselves initiate Paper Profiling. Alternatively, authors may request Paper Profiling before submission, or in a covering letter upon submission, briefly suggesting reasons why the paper may be eligible. A request for Paper Profiling before submission can expedite the procedure by allowing the editors to secure early agreement of reviewers to return reviews within two weeks. Profiled papers that are accepted will be produced rapidly and will be the subject of a press release at the time of online publication. Authors and their institutes will be asked to assist with publicity.
Suggestions for illustrations for the front cover are welcome, whether they relate to a paper in the issue or not.
Manuscripts submitted should be
Of high scientific quality.
Complete and clear.
Substantially different from previously published work, including works in press. Preprints posted on personal or institutional servers, or on preprint servers such as ArXiv, are not treated as if previously published, and may be considered. Papers posted for discussion with another publisher are also considered to be preprints, provided they are no longer under consideration for final publication. Such papers may be submitted provided that the authors have taken account of comments already made in discussion; these comments, and a response letter from the authors, should be attached to the submission.
Relevant to the theme of the issue of the Annals.
Length
Articles should be concise. Articles begin with a title, a list of authors and their affiliations, and an abstract of 200 words or fewer.
Letters are between three and five IGS pages when published. They have the same structure as Articles, but an abstract of 150 words or fewer.
Communications are no longer than two IGS pages when published. Communications begin with a title and have no abstract, and the list of authors and affiliations appears at the end after the acknowledgements.
One IGS page of pure text, of A4 size, is about 1000 words. Paper length in pages can be estimated by counting the words in the manuscript and adding suitable space for each figure and table. The space occupied by each item will depend on its width in columns (1 or 2; 85 mm or 179 mm) and its height; columns are up to 254 mm high.
Cambridge Language Editing Service
We suggest that authors whose first language is not English have their manuscripts checked by a native English speaker before submission. This is optional but will help to ensure that any submissions that reach peer review can be judged exclusively on academic merit. We offer a Cambridge service which you can find out more about here, and suggest that authors make contact as appropriate. Please note that use of language editing services is voluntary and at the author’s own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.
Original submission
All papers should be submitted online at ScholarOne Manuscripts-AOG. If you have not submitted in this way before, you will need to register as a new author. Consult the ScholarOne Author User Guide or contact igs-glaciology@cambridge.org if you have problems with this system.
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