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Author Guidelines

Paper size:

Georeview publishes Research and Review papers which should be 10-20 pages long.

Ethics in publishing:

The Research and Review papers submitted to Georeview must be original individual or collective works. Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and that, if accepted, it will be not published elsewhere in the same form, regardless of the language.

All authors of articles in Georeview take public responsibility for the content of their papers.

Language:

Manuscripts must be written in English or French.

Submission:

Submission will be carried out online by e-mail sent to the Editor-in-Chief (georeview@usm.ro). There are no submission or processing charges.

The number and order of the authors cannot be changed after the paper has been submitted.

Reviewers:

Authors are asked to submit with the manuscripts, the names, addresses and email addresses of two potential reviewers. Please note that the editor retains the right to decide whether or not the suggested reviewers are used.

Use of wordprocessing software:

We prefer papers edited in Word formats. The files should be saved using the default extensions of the program used. The text should be in single-column format. Please keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. You can use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns.

To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the ‘spell-check’ and ‘grammar-check’ functions of your wordprocessor.

Paper structure:

Title

Should be concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems.

Author names and affiliations and corresponding author

The names of the authors must be clearly indicated. Present the authors’ affiliation (where the work was done).

Please clearly indicate who will handle the correspondence at all stages of peer-review and publication.

Abstract

A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. Do not cite in the Abstract. The Abstract is a single paragraph. Abbreviations should be avoided; however, if essential, they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself. Please provide an abstract of approximately 170 words.

Keywords

After the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.

Subdivision – numbered sections

Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then

1.1.1, 1.1.2, …, where necessary), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing.

Introduction

State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.

Regional setting/Study area

For papers that focus on an area, provide a brief synopsis of the physical characteristics of the area, sufficient to give the new work context, but avoid a detailed literature survey.

Material and methods

Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced. Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications should be described.

Results

Results should be clear and concise.

Discussion

This section should explore the significance of the results of the work. A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate.

Conclusions

The main conclusions of the study will be presented in a short Conclusions section.

Appendices

If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on. Similarly for tables and figures: Table A.1; Fig. A.1, etc.

Artwork:

Electronic artwork

All photographs should be numbered as figures.
Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
Save text in illustrations as “graphics” or enclose the font.
Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Calibri, Courier, Times, Symbol.
Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
Provide captions to illustrations separately.
Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.

Regardless of the application used, when your electronic artwork is finalised, please “save as” or convert the images to one of the following formats

EPS: Vector drawings. Embed the font or save the text as “graphics”.

TIFF: color or grayscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 300 dpi. TIFF: Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum of 1000 dpi.

TIFF: Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale): a minimum of 500 dpi is required.

DOC, XLS or PPT: If your electronic artwork is created in any of these Microsoft Office applications please supply “as is”.

Please do not supply files that are too low in resolution.

Color artwork

With your accepted article you submit usable colour illustrations. Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format (TIFF, EPS or MS Office files) and with the correct resolution.

References:

1. All references cited in the text are to be listed at the end of the paper. The manuscript should be carefully checked to ensure that the spellings of authors’ names and publication years are exactly the same in the text as in the reference list.

2. In the text, refer to the author’s name (without initials) and year of publication. Examples: “Because AUTHOR (YEAR) and AUTHOR ET AL. (YEAR) has shown that…”. “This was later confirmed by further research (AUTHOR, YEAR; AUTHOR AND AUTHOR (YEARa, YEARb); AUTHOR AND AUTHOR (YEAR); AUTHOR ET AL. (YEAR))”.

3. If reference is made in the text to publications written by more than two authors the name of the first author should be used, followed by “et al.”. However, in the reference list, the names of authors and all co-authors must be given in full.

4. References in the text should be arranged chronologically.

5. The list of references should be arranged alphabetically by authors’ names, and chronologically per author.

6. The references list of a Georeview article must use APA style: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references/examples

7. In the case of publications in any language other than English/French, the original title is to be retained. Titles of publications in non-Latin alphabets should be transliterated, and a note such as ‘(in Russian)’ or ‘(in Japanese, with English Abstract)’ should be added at the end of the reference.

Citation in text

Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Citation of a reference as ‘in press’ implies that the item has been accepted for publication.

Web references

The full URL should be given and the date when the reference was last accessed. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list), or can be included in the reference list.

Use of the Digital Object Identifier:

Accepted manuscripts will be published online and assigned DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers). The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to the document and it remains unchanged. Therefore, it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly ‘Articles in press’ because they have not yet received their full bibliographic information. When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, the DOIs are guaranteed never to change.

Template:

A template for the article can be downloaded at <<ARTICLE TEMPLATE>> (.DOC) with all necessary requirements for editing.

Page Setup settings: see the template.

Margins: Top: 2 cm Bottom: 2 cm Left: 2 cm Right: 1,5 cm

Paper format: B5

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.

The submission has not been previously published elsewhere, is original and has been written by the stated authors.
The article is not currently being considered for publication by any other journal and will not be submitted for such review while under review by Georeview.
The submission file is in Microsoft Word file format.
E-mail addresses and affiliation(s) of 2 potential reviewers are provided by the authors.
All authors have read the manuscript and agree to publish it.

Copyright Notice

The following licence and copyright agreement is valid for any article published in GEOREVIEW:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY license freely allows anyone to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the published articles, under the stipulation that the original authors are given credit and the appropriate citation details are mentioned.

Authors grant the publisher commercial rights to produce hardcopy volumes of the journal for purchase by libraries and individuals.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) after the printing process (of the volume that includes their work), as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

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