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Author Guidelines

Guidelines to Authors

These Guidelines to Authors are based on the CSE's White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications, 2012 Update.

I. GENERAL

The main topics of the Online Publication ‘Geodynamics & Tectonophysics’ cover a wide range of problems of paleogeodynamics, modern geodynamics, structural geology, tectonophysics and experimental tectonics. Its publications are focused on genetic relationships of the geodynamic processes of the past and the present, synchronism in the development of geological structures and their modern spatial and temporal patterns, and conditions for the occurrence of processes during the evolution of the lithospheric structures, which are important as a practical matter.

It publishes materials submitted by graduate students, applicants, doctoral students, specialists and experts in this field of research.

Original articles, reviews and book reviews are accepted for publication in this Online Publication. Short communications containing the data/results/information that is meaningful, yet not requiring a detailed description, are also acceptable.

Publication of articles is free of charge for the authors.

Evidence of publication is actual publication of a manuscript in one of the issues of the Online Publication ‘Geodynamics & Tectonophysics’ (in PDF format) on its official Internet site Author rights are protected as per the relevant international rules.

II. RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE AUTHOR BEFORE SUBMITTING AN MANUSCRIPT

Submitting a manuscript to the Online Publication ‘Geodynamics & Tectonophysics’ implies the following:
- This manuscript has not been published earlier in any other journal, and
- This manuscript is not under consideration in another journal, and
- Its co-authors have agreed to publish the current version of the manuscript.

Before sending the manuscript for consideration by the Online Publication’s Editorial Board, the author must make sure that the file(-s) contains all the necessary information in Russian and English, provides a list of sources of the information presented in figures and tables, and properly furnishes all the quotations.

III. MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. Manuscripts shall be electronically uploaded (after an author is registered on the website).

2. A manuscript shall contain the following:

1. Name(-s) of the author(-s)
Authors are individuals designated by a relevant research team as the key contributors of the presented work, who have agreed to be accountable for published work. In addition to being accountable for the parts of the work he/she has done, an author should be able to identify which co-authors are responsible for specific other parts of the work.

The Online Publication 'Geodynamics and Tectonophysics' adheres to the following criteria of authorship:
1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; and
2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and
3. Final approval of the version to be published.

The list of authors shall not include the names of individuals who are not the authors of the manuscript. The names of people who contributed to the work or supported the work shall be given in the Acknowledgments.

2. Affiliation of the author(-s)
An author note shall provide the following information on the author affiliation: complete official name of the organization, and complete postal address, including zip code, city and country. The author shall indicate all affiliations related to the study.
If authors from various institutions participated in the preparation of the manuscript, the affiliation of each author to a particular institution shall be specified using a superscript.
It is required to give an official name of each institution in English for the Author Information in English.

3. Manuscript title
The title of the manuscript in Russian shall reflect the content of the manuscript.
The title in English shall conform to the standards of the English language, and its meaning shall fully correspond to the title in Russian.

4. Abstract
An abstract shall be succinct and clear, with properly worded and convincing statements, without any irrelevant background information. The abstract shall cover the following aspects: the relevance of the study, the purpose of the research work, methods and materials, the study results, the scope of application, and conclusions. The abstract shall not contain any newly introduced terms and abbreviations (except commonly known). References shall be avoided.
It is recommended to limit the abstract to 200–250 words.

5. Key words
5– 15 key words shall be relevant to the topic of the manuscript. It is advisable that the keywords complement the abstract and title of the article.

6. Funding
It is required to specify all sources of funding for the study.

7. Acknowledgments
This paragraph is to expresses gratitude to the people who participated in the work on the manuscript, but are not its authors. Participation in the work on the manuscript includes the following: recommendations for improving the study, provision of premises to conduct the study, departmental control, specific analysis, provision of materials for the study, etc.

8. Conflict of interest
Conflicts of interest are defined as conditions in which individuals hold conflicting or competing interests that have a potential to bias editorial decisions. Conflicts of interest may be potential or perceived, or factual. Objectivity may be affected in numerous ways by personal, political, financial, academic, or religious considerations.
The author must notify the editor of a real or potential conflict of interest by including information on the conflict of interest in the appropriate section of the manuscript.

9. Manuscript text
A text shall be submitted in IMRAD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion) in English or Russian. The manuscript volume shall not exceed 50,000 characters (including spaces), including tables, references, appendixes and illustrations/figures.

The Editorial Board reserves the right to admit exceptions concerning larger volumes for invited papers and reviews intending to present the material requiring a large number of illustrations/figures and/or animated files. Such texts are only acceptable upon obtaining a prior consent of the Chief Editor of Geodynamics and Tectonophysics.

Short communications: maximum length - 10,000–12,000 characters (including spaces), plus a list of references; IMRAD format; one or two figures/illustrations; one table; abstract (150–200 words); 5–10 key words.

In the manuscript submitted in Russian, the name(-s) of the author(-s), affiliation(-s), and keywords (5– 10) shall be also given in English. Specific terms (if any) preferred by the author(-s) should be provided in English in separate lines after the keywords.

In the manuscript submitted in English, its title, the name(-s) of the author(-s), affiliation(-s), keywords (5– 10), and an abstract shall be also given in Russian.

10. Author Information Note
An author information note shall be uploaded in a separate file: full name, ORCID identifier, academic degree, e-mail address, affiliation, and mailing address of organization. The note shall contain the information about every author/co-author. It shall specify the author for correspondence.

11. Possible reviewers
A manuscript may be accompanied by a separate file (in text format) containing information about two to five possible reviewers (full name, affiliation, and email address). The Editorial Board reserves the right not to use the proposed candidates as reviewers.

12. Manuscripts not following the guidelines
The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject manuscripts that fail to comply with these guidelines (a contact person shall be notified accordingly).

IV. MATERIALS TO BE UPLOADED TO THE SITE

Initial stage:
1. Manuscript in PDF format, max. 20 MB: title, author(-s) name(-s), affiliation(-s), abstract (max. 350 words), keywords (max. 15), complete text of the manuscript with tables, charts, schemes, figures, figure captions and references according the guidelines.
2. Author Information Note.

Upon receiving the reviews:
3. Revised manuscript taking into account reviewer comments. The revised manuscript shall be submitted in PDF format, max. 20 MB (title, author(-s) name(-s), affiliation(-s), abstract, keywords, complete text of the manuscript with tables, charts, schemes, figures, figure captions and references).
4. Responses to reviewers, if necessary.
5. To the Editorial Board, a file listing all the corrections included and author comments, if any.

Upon positive reviewing and acceptance of the manuscript for publication:
6. Final version of the manuscript.
7. Figures in separate files (see the requirements below).
8. PDF-format License Agreement completed and signed by all co-authors.

V. MANUSCRIPT FORMAT GUIDELINES

1. Text
Text page set-up: A4, Microsoft Word, half interval spacing, Times New Roman (Size 14), 2.5 cm margins all round, justified alignment. Each paragraph shall be indented by 1.25 cm. No hyphenation. Page numbers in the lower right corner.

No abbreviations are allowable in the text, except the standard ones complying with the International System of Units. Decimal separator: period (i.e. point, or dot).

Mathematical formulas: Microsoft Word (depending on the version).

2. Tables
Tables shall be in the editable text format (not as a scan or a drawing). Large tables shall be given in separate pages in the text format.
Each table shall be numbered and named.
Tables shall be numbered in Arabic numerals through the text. 
References to the tables: e.g., ‘Table 3 gives…’, ‘It is noted that ... (see Table 3)’.
A table header shall include its number and name.
No dot at the end of the table header.
The table names in Russian shall be translated into English. In manuscripts submitted in English, the table names shall be translated into Russian. The translated table name (in English or Russian) shall be put after the original table name .

3. Figures, screen shots and photos

Each figure should be in good quality (CMYK) and needs to have a figure caption.

Required elements of a figure caption: figure number and its title. Full-colour illustrations, as well as extended explanations for the figures (as part of the figure captions) are welcome.

Figure captions must be translated into English if the article is in Russian and into Russian if the article is in English. The caption translated into English/Russian should be placed after the caption in the language of the main text of the article.

Figure numbers should be Arabic (1, 2, 3, etc).

References to the figures: “Fig. 3 shows that… ”; “According to Fig. 3”.

In the figures, all words and numbers must be editable and given in 8 pt Arial (main) in the language of the text. In some cases, the font size can be reduced to 5-6 pt. Alphabetic numbering of figures/insets should be in 10 pt Arial (italics) in the language of the text.

Thickness of lines in the figures: coordinate grid – 0.15 mm thick; main lines – min 0.2 mm, max 0.4 mm.

Figure width (А4): max 180 mm (portrait page layout) or max 249 mm (landscape page layout).

Figure volume: max 5.0 Mb. Figures in excess of 5.0 Mb may be accepted only upon approval by the Editorial Board.

Figures should fit into the borders of the sheet of the desired format. The original images must correspond to the drawings in the manuscript.

Figures should have no frames.

Vector graphics: CorelDRAW version 21.3.0 (max), Adobe Illustrator 22.0.1 (max). Submit in CorelDRAW (.cdr) or Adobe Illustrator (.ai).
When exporting from other programs, you can use the .eps format (PostScript) with a resolution of 300 dpi.

Raster graphics (photographs, scanned materials): TIFF or JPEG format (JPEG format of maximum or high quality). Resolution: min 600 dpi for black-and-white figures; min 300 dpi for photos. The same goes for the basis for producing vector images.

Maps and diagrams that do not fit into a standard A4 sheet are welcome for electronic publication.

An article may contain additional materials, such as tables of data series, videos, etc. Acceptance and formats of such materials should be agreed with the Editorial Board.

Articles discussing processes in dynamics (e.g., lithospheric plate movements, results of physical modeling, etc.) may contain .mp4 animations placed directly into a .PDF file of the article and reproduced in the kinematic form.

4. References

It is not allowed to refer to study aids, abstracts of theses, news portals, online community websites, blogs, forums, and online encyclopedias.

The permissible number of manuscript authors’ publications in the list of references should not exceed 10-15 % of the total number of the sources of literature. The number of references to publications in “Geodynamics&Tectonophysics” should not exceed 10% of the total number of those.

 
References to the cited literature shall be given in the text in square brackets: e.g. one author - [Ivanov, 2015], two authors - [Ivanov, Petrov, 2015], more than two authors - [Ivanov et al., 2015].

A list of references shall be compiled in the alphabetical order. It shall be separated from the text by a blank line. Names of all the authors shall be given. Full names of Online Publications cited shall be given. For each article cited, a DOI index shall be given, if the article is indexed in CrossRef.

References in the text shall strictly correspond to the list of references. Should the authors fail to meet this requirement, the Editorial Board reserves the right to correct references in the text and, if required, delete a reference from the list.

Foreign journals and Russian journals that are translated into English:
Pollitz F.F., 1997. Gravitational viscoelastic postseismic relaxation on a layered spherical earth. Journal of Geophysical Research 102 (B8), 17921–17941. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/97JB01277.
Steblov G.M., Kogan M.G., Levin B.V., Vasilenko N.F., Prytkov A.S., Frolov D.I., 2008. Spatially linked asperities of the 2006–2007 great Kuril earthquakes revealed by GPS. Geophysical Research Letters 35 (22), L22306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008GL035572.
Rasskazov S.V., Yasnygina T.A., Fefelov N.N., Saranina E.V., 2010. Geochemical evolution of Middle–Late Cenozoic magmatism in the northern part of the Rio Grande rift, Western United States. Russian Journal of Pacific Geology 4 (1), 13–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S1819714010010021.

Russian journals not translated into English:
Хаин Е.В., Неймарк Л.А., Амелин Ю.В. Каледонский этап ремобилизации докембрийского фундамента Гарганской глыбы, Восточный Саян (изотопно-геохронологические данные) // Доклады АН. 1995. Т. 342. № 6. С. 776–780.
Диденко А.Н., Моссаковский А.А., Печерский Д.М., Руженцев С.В., Самыгин С.Г., Хераскова Т.Н. Геодинамика палеозойских океанов Центральной Азии // Геология и геофизика. 1994. Т. 35. № 7–8. С. 59–75.

Books in English:
Ambraseys N., 2009. Earthquakes in the Mediterranean and Middle East. A Multidisciplinary Study of Seismicity up to 1900. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 968 p.

Books in Russian:
Добрецов Н.Л., Кирдяшкин А.Г., Кирдяшкин А.А. Глубинная геодинамика. Новосибирск: Изд-во СО РАН, 2001. 409 с.

Articles/chapters in books in English:
Sun S.S., McDonough W.F., 1989. Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: implications for mantle composition and processes. In: A.D. Sounders, M.J. Norry (Eds), Magmatism in the ocean basins. Geological Society Special Publication, Vol. 42, p. 313–345. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1989.042.01.19.

Articles/chapters in books in Russian:
Рассказов С.В., Масловская М.Н., Скопинцев В.Г., Брандт И.С., Брандт С.Б., Саранина Е.В., Ильясова А.М. Rb–Sr-изотопная систематика гранитоидов Гарганской и Окинской зон Восточного Саяна // Геодинамика Центрально-Азиатского складчатого пояса. Иркутск: Изд-во ИГУ, 2001. С. 88–110.

Electronic resources/sources:
International Seismological Centre, On-line Bulletin, 2012. Available from: http://www.isc.ac.uk (Last Accessed August 27, 2012).


Example of article

АНАЛИЗ ДЕФОРМИРОВАННОГО СОСТОЯНИЯ ЗОН СДВИГАНИЯ В СВЯЗИ С ТИПАМИ ВТОРИЧНЫХ НАРУШЕНИЙ: ПОСТАНОВКА ПРОБЛЕМЫ
Ф. Л. Яковлев
THE ANALYSIS OF THE STRAIN STATE OF SHEAR ZONES IN TERMS OF TYPES OF SECONDARY FRACTURES: STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
F.L. Yakovlev

Институт физики Земли им. О.Ю. Шмидта РАН, 123242, Москва, ул. Большая Грузинская, 10, стр. 1, Россия

Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, 10/1 Bolshaya Gruzinskaya St, Moscow 123242, Russia

Abstract: max 350 words

Key words: max 15 words

Funding: sponsors and research projects indicators.

The text includes the introduction, brief review of the problem, description of known and new methods of analysis, data, analysis, conclusions, acknowledgements, and references.

REFERENCES
See the guidelines above.

VI. PROCEDUES IN THE ELECTRONIC FORMAT

Authors submitting a manuscript must confirm the following:
SUBMISSION PREPARATION CHECKLIST

VII. ONLINE PUBLICATION – AUTHOR INTERFACE

After a manuscript has been uploaded to the editorial portfolio and technical confirmation is received that the submitted materials comply with the formal technical requirements, this manuscript is considered to have been received by the Editorial Board.
The Editorial Board communicates with the responsible (contact) author. However, if the team of authors wishes, electronic messages can be sent to all authors’ email addresses given in the Author Information Note.
All incoming manuscripts are preliminary reviewed to check for compliance with the formal requirements. At this stage, a manuscript may be sent back to the author(-s) for revision with a request to eliminate errors or add missing data. Furthermore, a manuscript may be rejected at this stage, if it does not fit the purpose of the Online Publication ‘Geodynamics & Tectonophysics’, or lacks originality, or has a low scientific value.
After the preliminary review, the editor-in-charge forwards the manuscript to a reviewer and specify the review timeline.
Manuscripts submitted to the Editorial Board follow a one-way ‘blind’ peer review procedure.
In controversial cases, the editor may involve several specialists, as well as the chief editor, in the review process.
Upon receiving a positive opinion of the reviewer, the manuscript is submitted to the editor to prepare for publication.
If the decision is taken that the manuscript needs revision/correction, the reviewer’s comments are transmitted to the author. The author is given two months to close out the comments. If during this period the author fails to inform the Editorial Board of his/her planned actions in this respect, the manuscript is removed from the publication line.
If the decision is taken that the manuscript is not accepted for publication, this decision of the Editorial Board is conveyed in writing to the author.
The final manuscript layout is sent to the responsible (contact) author of this manuscript accepted for publication, and he/she is obliged to check it. His/her response is expected within three business days. If there is no response from the author, the manuscript layout is considered approved.

VIII. PROCEDURE FOR RECONSIDERATION OF EDITOR / REVIEWER DECISIONS

Should the author disagree with the opinion of the reviewer and/or editor or with any their comments, he/she can challenge the decision. In such case, the author should:
- Correct the manuscript according to the justified comments of the reviewers and editors, and
- Clearly state his/her position on this issue.
The editors shall encourage resubmission of manuscripts that are potentially acceptable, but were
rejected because major revision or additional data were required, explaining precisely what needs to be corrected in the manuscript to make it acceptable for publication.

IX. ACTIONS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD IN CASE OF IDENTIFICATION OF PLAGIARISM, DATA FABRICATION AND FALSIFICATION

Should any author misconduct, plagiarism, data fabrication and falsification be identified, the Editorial Board shall be guided by the rules of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Under the "unscrupulous behavior" set even edition of "Geodynamics and Tectonophysics" understands any action of the scientist, including improper handling of objects of study or deliberate manipulation of scientific information, in which it ceases to reflect the observed study, as well as the behavior of the scientist that does not conform to accepted ethical and scientific standards.

The Online Publication ‘Geodynamics & Tectonophysics’ understands the term ‘misconduct’ as applying to any action of a researcher that involves mistreatment of research subjects or purposeful manipulation of the scientific information such that it no longer reflects the actual observations. This term also means such behaviour of a researcher, which falls short of good ethical and scientific standards.

The ‘research misconduct’ does not include honest errors and honest differences in the design, execution, interpretation and judgment in evaluating research methods or results, and misconduct not related to scientific processes.

X. ERROR CORRECTION AND MANUSCRIPT RETRACTION

Should any error/mistake be found in the text of the manuscript, which affects its perception, but does not distort the presented research results, such error/mistake can be corrected by replacing the PDF file of this manuscript and indicating the error/mistake in the file itself and on the relevant page on the website.
In the event that errors are found in the text of the manuscript, which distort the research results, and in case of identification of plagiarism, author(-s) misconduct, data falsification and/or fabrication, such manuscript may be retracted. Manuscript retraction can be initiated by the Editorial Board, author, organization or individual.
A retracted article shall be labelled as ‘Retracted’, and information on the reason for its retraction shall be placed on the corresponding page. The databases in which the journal is indexed shall be notified of the retraction.

XI. THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING

The increasing use of artificial intelligence software, including for scientific writing, encouraged the editorial board of the “Geodynamics & Tectonophysics” online edition to concentrate the authors’ attention on the following issues.

1.    ChatGPT or any similar chat-bot must not on any account be identified as the author of the article or as any other person contributed thereto. Artificial intelligence software or tools do not meet the authorship requirements since they either cannot be responsible for the work submitted, declare that there is or there is no conflict of interest, or manage copyrighted works.  
2.    There is no prohibition on the use of chat-bots or any other artificial intelligence software in scientific writing. In some cases they can be helpful for text editing, source material search, or data collection and analysis. However, it should be taken into account that chat-bots often provide wrong information referring to facts that never existed or publications that do not exist, so the authors need to check the fetched data.
3.    In the case, if scientific writing involves using artificial intelligence software, this fact should be mentioned in the article. The authors always have to indicate the software version and the date it was used.
4.    It is also important to remember that the author is the only one responsible for the final version of the article submitted for publication in the “Geodynamics and Tectonophysics” online edition, despite what artificial intelligence software he used and how large the amount of use was. The editorial board of the “Geodynamics and Tectonophysics” online edition uses Moodle Plagiarism Checker discerning originality from copy and paste.
The “Geodynamics & Tectonophysics” online edition shares the position of the international publishing community concerning the use of artificial intelligence software in scientific writing, set forth in the following documents: Chatbots, Generative AI, and Scholarly Manuscripts, Artificial intelligence (AI) in decision making

The “Geodynamics & Tectonophysics” online edition uses "NeuroAssistant Scientific Publishing" at all stages of the manuscript publication process. NeuroAssistant is proposed to be used by authors in the analysis of articles, by reviewers, and by editors in preparing manuscripts for publication. 

"NeuroAssistant Scientific Publishing" combines the following services:
•    Bibliography writing service
•    Keyword Recommendations
•    Citation Search Service
•    Qualitative article design assessment tool

The reviewer and the editor of the “Geodynamics & Tectonophysics” receive a summarized report on the use of NeuroAssistant services by the author. The reviewer has to estimate the feasibility of using NeuroAssistant recommendations. The editor has to mention in the final version of the article that the preparation of the article for publication involved the use of artificial intelligence software services. 
Only a human can interpret the results of work of NeuroAssistant services and make a decision on the feasibility of corrections and additions proposed.
The author, the reviewer and the editor may but need not accept all corrections and additions proposed by NeuroAssistant. The author, the reviewer and the editor are responsible for the use of corrections proposed by NeuroAssistant.

Copyright

Authors who publish with this Online Publication agree to the following terms:

a. Authors retain their copyrights and grant the Online Publication the right of first publication of their work that will be automatically licensed six months after its publication under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Online Publication.
b. Authors have the right to post their work online using the internet resources that do not belong to other journals (e.g., on their personal websites) and present the content in the format accepted by the Online Publication, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and higher citation impact of this work (see The Effect of Open Access).

Privacy

Names and email addresses shown on the website of the Online Publication shall be used solely for the purposes declared by the Online Publication and shall not be used for any other purposes or provided to other persons and organizations.

PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING PROCEDURE OF THE ONLINE PUBLICATION ‘GEODYNAMICS & TECTONOPHYSICS’

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The manuscripts are accepted if has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.

2. The materials should be presented in PDF format.

3. Internet links are provided as a complete URL. 

4. Text should be typed with an interval of 1,5 line spacing, font Times New Roman, 14 pt; to highlight the accents it is recommended to use italics rather than underlining (except Internet links).

   The PDF  contains the complete text, tables, schemes, diagrams, figures,and figure captions.

5. Text should follow the stylistic and bibliography requirements as stated in  Regulations  located in the Part "About Us." 

6. Supplementary file should contain information about every author.

7. Each Author Information contains a corresponding ORCID index.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this Online Publication agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Online Publication right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Online Publication.
2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the Online Publication's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this Online Publication.
3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

Privacy Statement

Specified when registering the names and addresses will be used solely for technical purposes of a contact with the Author or reviewers (editors) when preparing the article for publication. Private data will not be shared with other individuals and organizations.