Submissions

Author Guidelines

All articles should include the following elements:

• Title page. It should include the full names, ORCID IDs if available, and institutional addresses of all authors. If a collaboration group should be listed as an author, please list the group name. All individual members of a collaboration group can then be listed in the “Acknowledgements” section. Large Language Models (i.e. ChatGPT) are not to be listed as an author. However, if a LLM was used, this should be documented in the Methods section. The corresponding author should also be indicated and his/her contact details, including a permanent email address, should be provided. Should first authorship be shared amongst two authors, please also indicate this.
• It should contain a brief and concise summary of the following items: the key content areas, your research or article purpose, the relevance or importance of your work and the main outcomes. Abstracts are not required for Letters.
• Provide at least 3 and up to 10 keywords or groups of words that represent the main content of your article.
• Main Text. It should contain the body of the article and can be broken down into (sub)sections with short and informative headings. The following typical sessions should be included: Introduction, Materials and methods, Results, Discussion and/or Summary & Conclusions. The last section should include, when relevant, questions which could be addressed in future research and investigation.
• List of abbreviations and symbols used. Should any abbreviations or symbols be used, they should be defined at first use within the text and at the end a list of all should be provided. If many equations and/or many symbols are used, a Nomenclature should be provided.
• Statements and Declarations. This section should include the following items: Ethics approval (and name of approving ethics committee) and consent to participate if relevant, availability of data and materials, all possible financial and non-financial conflicts of interest, any funding received, author contributions (use initials), and acknowledgements. Should any of these sections not be relevant, please state so.
• References should be done in “Author, Year” style in text and listed alphabetically in the References. Official journal title abbreviations should be used when known. For papers with 10 authors or less, please list all authors, otherwise list only the first 3 authors followed by et al. For further information on referencing style and examples, please see the following source: ((INSERT LINK HERE)) ((Use following as 1 reference: https://www.agu.org/Publish-with-AGU/Publish/Author-Resources/Grammar-Style-Guide#referenceformat))

• Legends for all Figures, Tables, and Diagrams, all of which should be numbered (i.e. Figure 1, 2, 3; Table 1, 2, 3, etc.). Legends should include a specific title and a brief, but descriptive legend so that those with a visual impairment may also be able to understand the data being shown. References to figures and tables should be written as Figure 1 or Table 1. For more tips on this, please see the following resources:
  • https://www.datylon.com/blog/data-visualization-for-visually-impaired-users
  • https://www.datylon.com/blog/data-visualization-for-colorblind-readers

When used in the text, please abbreviate to Legend to Leg. and Figure to Fig., unless it is at the beginning of a sentence.

• Equations: All equations should be numbered and referenced in the text with Eq. 1, 2, 3, etc. When used at the beginning of a sentence, then it should be spelled out. When letters are used in the equation or formula, they should be used in a manner that the capital letters can be clearly distinguished from the lowercase letters. Use Equation Editor (Microsoft Word) to create professional quality equations. All variables within the equation should be defined within the text directly prior to or directly after use, unless the understanding and flow of the text is negatively impacted.

• A list of all Footnotes included in the text (even if these are already included as an actual footnote in main text document. Footnotes should be labelled with lower case letters (a, b, c, aa, bb, cc).
• Optional: All articles may include supplementary information.