Instructions to authors

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ZDGG fully complies with the open access requirements of UKRI, Wellcome, and NIHR. Where required by their funder, authors retain the right to distribute their author accepted manuscript (AAM), such as via an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g. Europe PMC), under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence for release not earlier than the date of first online publication.

1. General

ZDGG, issued by the Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung (German Geological Society), publishes original manuscripts from the entire field of geosciences with emphasis on applied and regional geology.
One volume consists of four issues, published in print and online.
All accepted articles are published online (PrePub) after author’s release and will receive a citable DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
Open Access (CC-BY-NC license) is available for all papers published in ZDGG. There is a base charge of EUR 140,-- per OA article; each published OA page is charged with EUR 149,-- (all prices include taxes and other costs).

2. Manuscript Submission

Please submit manuscripts online
https://ms.schweizerbart.de/submit/zdgg/

(a) For the review process you should submit screen- optimized pdf files with embedded figures and tables and with numbered lines in ascending order.

(b) Alternatively you may also submit the pdf-file of your manuscript to the editor in charge:
Prof. Dr. Jonas Kley
Georg-August-Universität
Abt. Strukturgeologie und Geodynamik
Goldschmidtstr. 3
37007 Göttingen
Germany
Phone: +49 (551)-39-7930
jonas.kley@geo.uni-goettingen.de

(c) Miscellaneous

– Manuscripts may be submitted in English or German language.
– The manuscript should comply with the rules of Good Scientific Practice (see: http://www.dfg.de/en/research_ funding/legal_conditions/good_scientific_practice/index/ index.html).
– English articles must be checked by a native speaker.
– All manuscripts will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. The reviewers will be organised by the editor- in-chief; recommendations by the authors can be considered.
– After acceptance for publication the technical editor will edit the manuscript until imprimatur.

3. Copyright

– Manuscripts may not be published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
– With acceptance and publication of a manuscript the exclusive copyright for every language and country is transferred to the publishers. The copyright covers the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article including reprints, photocopies, microfilms, and data storage and distribution in electronic form.
– Authors are allowed to electronically distribute and post the last pre-publication version according to the rules of “fair use” for scientific and non-commercial purposes.

4. Manuscript structure and layout

4.1 Manuscript elementes

Irrespective of the language all manuscripts must include the following elements:
– Manuscript title in English language,
– First and last names of all authors (indication of academic titles are optional; corresponding author should be marked),
– Address of all authors,
– E-mail addresses of all authors
– Abstract (an additional abstract in the author's mother tongue is welcome),
– Keywords and “Schlüsselwörter” (keywords in German),
– Text
– Acknowledgements
– References
– Figure and table captions,
A table of contents is not applicable.

4.2 Manuscript text

– Manuscript texts must be submitted in an editable format (preferably: .doc; not pdf).
– Text pages must be consecutively numbered.
– The text should be submitted left-justified; the font is “Times New Roman”, font size is 11 points, line spacing is 1.5.
– The text should not have any formatting, particularly no bookmarks, automatic structuring or numbering, small caps, hyphenation, indenting or header and footer.
– Footnotes should be avoided.
– Write names of species and genera in italics and terms to be emphasised in bold or underlined. – For English articles the text should be marked as “English (U.K.)”.
– For German articles the new German spelling and the Duden recommendations have to be applied.
– The text has to be structured in consecutively numbered chapters; apply secondary chapters only if there are at least two subchapters.

4.3 Figures and tables

– For the first submission of the manuscript all figures and tables have to be submitted as PDF files and as numbered hard copies.
– Figures should be drafted with space limitations in mind; all text must be legible at the printed scale: figures and tables should have a line width and lettering suitable for eduction to the type area of 17.5 x 23.5 cm or less. Figures and tables can also be scaled to fit one column (8.5 cm).
– After acceptance for publication through the editor-in-chief all files of figures and tables must be submitted on separate pages or as separate files; they may not be embedded into the text.
– Pixel-based figures must be supplied in tif or jpg for- mat with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Photographs should be sharp and of high contrast. Line drawings or software generated figures should be supplied as vector- ized data (pdf, eps, svg). In the case of eps files all fonts must be embedded. – Tables must be submitted in an editable format (.doc, .xls). – The position of figures and tables in the text may be proposed by the author. – All figures and tables must consecutively numbered in the text. – In German articles the figure captions must be also submitted in English language.

4.4 References in the text

– References within the text must be by name of author/s, year and, if necessary, place (page or figure number) in the cited reference. The place in the cited reference must to be positioned behind a colon: e.g. Meier 2001: 24, Müller 2008: Fig. 3.
– Multiple citations are separated by comma: e.g. Müller 2000, 2003, Meier 2001.
– For two authors use the “&” notation; for more than two authors quote the first author followed by the “et al.”: e.g. Müller et al. 1995.

4.5 Citations in the reference list

List only and all cited references. References must be listed in alphabetical-chronological order. We strongly recommend authors to use the APA 6 reference style to format references. EndNote users can download the EndNote style file here:
https://www.schweizerbart.de/resources/downloads/style -files/endnote_style_schweizerbart_apa6.ens
Authors not using EndNote shall follow the APA 6 ref- erence formatting style. If possible, please also supply the Endnote reference file.

Examples:

(a) Journal Article
Stets, J., & Schäfer, A. (2011). The Lower Devonian Rheno- hercynian Rift – 20 Ma of sedimentation and tectonics (Rhen- ish Massif, W-Germany). Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesell- schaft für Geowissenschaften, 162(2), 93–115. https://https://doi.org/10.1127/1860-1804/2011/0162-0093

(b) Book
Reineck, H.-E., & Singh, I.B. (Eds.). (1980). Depositional sedimentary environments. With reference to terrigenous clastics (2 nd ed.). Berlin: Springer.

(c) Book Chapter
Brett, C.E., & Seilacher, A. (1991). Fossil-Lagerstätten: A taphonomic consequence of event sedimentation. In G. Ein- sele,W. Ricken, & A. Seilacher (Eds.), Cycles and events in stratigraphy (pp. 283–297). Berlin: Springer.

(d) Web
NASA Science (2020). Solar system exploration. NASA. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mercury/in-depth/

(e) Other
Dunham, A., Grall, C., Mondal, D.R., Steckler, M.S., Raja- para,... Singhvi, A.K. (2016). Complex channel avulsion in the Meghna River Floodplain during the Mid to Late Holo- cene: The potential effect of tectonic and co-seismic uplift. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2016. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AGUFMGC23D1260D/ abstract

5. Proofs

– The corresponding author will receive a digital proof from the publisher (pdf format).
– Corrections may not cause more than a 1 % of cost increase; failing this the author will be charged for addi- tional costs.
– The corrected proof must be send promptly to the technical editor.

6. Reprints

– The corresponding author will receive a pdf-file of the article from the publisher at no charge.
– Reprints may be ordered from the publisher against costs:

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December 2023