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Types of Publications Required Documents
Cover Letter Structure of Main Manuscript
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Submission Process
Manuscripts for Earth and Planetary Science should be submitted online after logging in with your username or by email to eps@nassg.org.
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The submitting author, who is generally the corresponding author, is responsible for the manuscript during the submission and peer-review process. The submitting author must ensure that all eligible co-authors have been included in the author list and that they have all read and approved the submitted version of the manuscript.
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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.
Types of Publications
Manuscripts submitted to the journal should neither be published previously nor be under consideration for publication in another journal. The main article types are Research Article, Review Article, Short Communication, and Editorial.
Required Documents
As supplementary data/information is not copyedited/proofread, kindly ensure that the section is free from errors, and is presented clearly.
Cover Letter
All articles should include a cover letter as a separate document. The cover letter should include:
Highlights
Authors are requested to provide 3-5 highlights of their paper. The purpose of providing highlights of an article is to enable readers and reviewers to quickly and succinctly understand the main ideas and contributions of the paper, as well as to prepare for promotional use after publication. These highlights should highlight the novelty and importance of the article, while providing useful information so that potential readers can decide whether to further read the article.
Structure of Main Manuscript
This document provides some guidelines to authors for submission to work towards a seamless submission process. While complete adherence to the following guidelines is not enforced, authors should note that following through with the guidelines will be helpful in expediting the copyediting and proofreading processes, and allow for improved readability during the review process.
The section titles given are for Research articles. Review papers and other article types have a more flexible structure.
Title
The title should not exceed 50 words. Authors are encouraged to keep their titles succinct and relevant. Titles should avoid using uncommon jargons, abbreviations and punctuation.
Abstract
The abstract should be kept to a maximum of 300 words. It reports concisely on the main findings of the research. To this end, the abstract is structured in Background, Methods, Results and Conclusions, and Significance. Kindly ensure the abstract is self-contained and remains readable to a wider audience. For this reason, references are not allowed.
Keywords
Authors should also include 3-8 keywords after the abstract, separated by a semi-colon, avoiding the words already used in the title of the article.
Title, abstract and keywords are very important for an article, which will be used for indexing purposes, so please be concise, clear and attractive.
Section Headings
Section headings, sub-headings, and sub-subheadings should be differentiated by number. Please number the section headings (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) in boldface. Likewise, use boldface to identify subheadings too but please distinguish them from major headings using numbers (e.g., 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, etc.).
Introduction
This section usually uses the method of literature review to outline the background, current status, and unresolved problems of the field, thus highlighting the reasons and significance of the research, etc.
Materials and Methods
In this section, the methods used to obtain the results in the paper should be clearly elucidated. This allows readers to be able to replicate the study in the future. Authors should ensure that any references made to other research or experiments should be clearly cited.
Results
In this section, the results of the experiments conducted should be detailed. The results should not be discussed at length in this section.
Discussion
In this section, the results of the experiments conducted can be discussed in detail. Authors should discuss the direct and indirect implications of their findings, and also discuss if the results obtained reflect the current state of research in the field. Applications for the research should be discussed in this section. Suggestions for future research can also be discussed in this section.
Conclusion
This section offers closure for the paper. An effective conclusion will need to sum up the principal findings of the papers, highlighting its importance and relevance, and its implications for further research.
Author Contributions
The role(s) that each author undertook should be reflected in this section. This section affirms that each credited author has had a significant contribution to the article.
Funding
Please add: "This research received no external funding" or "This research was funded by NAME OF FUNDER, grant number XXX". Check carefully that the details given are accurate and use the standard spelling of funding agency names at https://search.crossref.org/funding. Any errors may affect your future funding.
Acknowledgments
In this section, you can acknowledge any support given which is not covered by the author contribution or funding sections. This may include administrative and technical support, or donations in kind (e.g., materials used for experiments).
Data Availability Statement
Authors should state where data supporting the results reported in a published article can be found, and under what conditions the data can be accessed. They also include links (where applicable) to the data set.
Conflict of Interest
Declaration of conflict of interest. All conflict of interest needs to be disclosed. If authors have nothing to declare are encouraged to add "The authors disclosed no conflict of interest." in this section.
References
In-text citations
For parts of the manuscript that have referenced a particular source, a superscript (i.e., [x]) should be included next to the referenced text and should be in the Vancouver style [numeric], not Harvard style [name and year]. Kindly note that all references should be numbered consecutively in the order of their first citation, and the serial number is not to be used instead of the content of the sentence.
e.g.:
Wavelet analysis has long been successfully used in the study of climate series [1].
Fabio [2] studied both technical and scale...
Reference list, placed at the end of the main manuscript.
[x] refers to the allocated number of the source under the Reference List (e.g., [1], [2], [3])
e.g.:
Journals:
[1] Singh, S., Nayak, S., 2020. Development of sustainable livelihood security index for different agro-climatic zones of Uttar Pradesh, India. Journal Of Rural Development. 39(1), 110-129. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25175/jrd/2020/v39/i1/125991
[2] Mondal, B., Singh, A., Singh, S.D., et al., 2017. Augmentation of water resources potential and cropping intensification through watershed programs. Water Environment Research. 90(2), 101-109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2175/106143017X1490296 8254700
Books:
[3] Zotz, G., 2016. Plants on plants: the biology of vascular epiphytes, 1st ed.; Springer International Publishing: Switzerland. pp. 1–282.
Online publishing:
[4] Lewis, D., Mertens, K., Stock, J., 2020. Weekly Economic Index. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WEI. (Accessed 26 May 2020).
Graphs, Figures, Tables, and Equations
All Graphs, figures, tables, and Equations should be mentioned in the text and placed in their corresponding places instead of at the end of the text.
All Graphs, figures, and tables must have a brief title (also known as caption) that describes the entire figure without citing specific panels, followed by a legend, defined as a description of each panel.
e.g.:
Figure 1. xxx
Figure 2. xxx
Table 1. xxx
Table 2. xxx
Graphs, figures, and tables should be labeled closely below them and aligned to the center. Each data presentation type should be labeled as Graph, Figure, or Table, and its sequence should be in running order, separate from each other.
Equations should be aligned to the left, and numbered with in running order with their number in parenthesis (aligned right), and please use the MathType add-on. Equations should be editable by the editorial office and not appear in a picture format.
Copyright
The authors shall retain the copyright of their work but allow the Publisher (Nan Yang Academy of Sciences Pte. Ltd.) to publish, copy, distribute, and convey the work.
Licensing
Earth and Planetary Science publishes accepted manuscripts under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Authors who submit their papers for publication by Earth and Planetary Science agree to have the CC BY-NC 4.0 license applied to their work, and that anyone is allowed to reuse the article or part of it free of charge for non-commercial use. As long as you follow the license terms and the original source is properly cited, anyone may copy, redistribute the material in any medium or format, remix, transform, and build upon the material.
License Policy for Reuse of Third-Party Materials
If a manuscript submitted to the journal contains the materials which are held in copyright by a third-party, authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from the copyright holder to reuse or republish any previously published figures, illustrations, charts, tables, photographs, and text excerpts, etc. When submitting a manuscript, official written proof of permission must be provided and clearly stated in the cover letter.
The editorial office of the journal has the right to reject/retract articles that reuse third-party materials without permission.
Journal Policies on Data Sharing
We encourage authors to share the final version of articles published in our journal to other data platforms, but only if it is noted that it has been published in this journal.
Earth and Planetary Science is an open-access journal supported by Article Processing Charges (APC). All articles published in the journal are accessible electronically from the journal website without the need for subscription fees or other forms of payment from the readers.
Authors who publish in Earth and Planetary Science are requested to pay the APC to cover publication costs. The APC will be requested after peer review and acceptance of the article. There are no submission charges, and no surcharges based on the length of an article, figures, or supplementary data. Some items (Editorials, Corrections, Retractions, etc.) are published free of charge.
Article Processing Charges (APC): $400 USD
Waiver Policy
The journal provides waivers and discounts to authors from low-income and middle-income countries, based on the Research4Life country list. Authors from Group A countries will have their APC waived, and authors from Group B countries will have their APC reduced by 50%.
If an author does not have funds to pay a full APC, they should contact us via eps@nassg.org to apply for a waiver or discount before submitting their manuscript, and requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Note: Each submitted manuscript is fair and unbiased, the Article Processing Charges will not affect any decision made by the editor on the manuscript.