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[Revised May 2013]
Information for Authors PURPOSE OF THESE GUIDELINES These
guidelines explain the American Mineralogist publication procedures,
standardized units, and style. Following these guidelines and any revisions listed
on the inside back cover of subsequent issues of the journal will reduce time
spent during manuscript revision and will help assure rapid publication at
reasonable cost. It advised to obtain the most
recent version of Adobe
Acrobat Reader, which is necessary for viewing page proofs and
other aspects of the submission and review process. Submit
papers via our web-based system at http://minsocam.allentrack.net.
Please note that updates or corrections to your contact information on this web
site will NOT be transfered to your MSA membership/subscription data. Or vice
versa. If your contact info changes, then both databases will need to be
updated. The data will be confidential and not sold or given to other
organizations. As
you probably know, the system of scientific peer review depends on volunteers
who contribute their time and resources for the benefit of the worldwide
scientific community. Editors, reviewers, and associate editors are vital to maintain our
standards of quality; therefore, make the most of their time and yours by
following these guidelines. Submissions
must not be already published, in whole or in part, in print or online. If publishing to an open archive is
desired for a paper accepted by Am Min, then the open access/archive charge of $250 per
PAGE (typeset) will be required before the accepted paper will be published
in/on Am Min. MSA is a nonprofit society funding the journal primarily with a subscriber-based economic model. Subscriptions to online versions or the traditional print version are kept as low in cost as possible by offsets from author page charges and other revenue. To keep Am Min viable, if the paper is to be freely available to all readers concurrently or previously to publication, then the author must pay the open access/archive charges (and the paper will also be open to all readers on our online sites). For institutional/funding requirements it is possible that a
post-publication "e-link" may suffice, for $60. Any details can be
discussed with the managing editor before submission -- and all details are on
the "page charge/reprint" form that the accepted authors are sent. Note
that all the information below is about Manuscript Preparation and is VERY
IMPORTANT! Failure to adhere to these guidelines may delay submission, review,
or production of your paper.
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Q1.
Should I submit my paper to Am Min? Q2.
What should my manuscript look like? Q3.
What are the guidelines for Tables and Figures? Q4.
Is Crystallographic data required for my paper? Q6.
How will I receive my page proofs? Q7.
What's the deal with page charges and reprints/offprints? Q8. Does American Mineralogist offer "Open Access" or Open Archive publication? Q1.
Should I submit my paper to Am Min? A1.
THE SCOPE OF THE JOURNAL: American
Mineralogist, the
journal of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA), publishes the results of
original scientific research in the general fields of mineralogy,
crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology. Specific areas of coverage
include, but are not restricted to, igneous and metamorphic petrology,
experimental mineralogy and petrology, crystal chemistry and crystal-structure
determinations, mineral spectroscopy, mineral physics, isotope geochemistry,
major and trace element geochemistry, planetary material science, clay
minerals, mineral surface science, geochemistry of mineral-fluid systems, environmental
mineralogy, biomineralization, geomicrobiology, new minerals and mineral
occurrences, petrography and petrogenesis, ore deposits, and mineralogical
apparatus and techniques. Any author who is concerned about the suitability of
the subject of their paper should contact one of the Editors for advice.
(E-mail addresses available here: http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/AmMin/aes/aelist.html.) Manuscripts
are judged on the basis of significance, originality, appropriateness of
subject matter, and clarity of presentation. As befitting a journal with international reach, submitted manuscripts should have high import as well as broad appeal. In cover letters, authors must explain the importance of their research, and why their results would be of interest to an international audience.
The decision regarding acceptance
or rejection of a manuscript is the responsibility of the Editors and is based
in large part on the recommendations of Associate Editors and reviewers.
Membership in MSA is not a prerequisite for publication in American
Mineralogist. Link
to full information on the scope of American
Mineralogist, including different paper types, e.g., Regular vs.
Letter, etc. Q2.
What should my manuscript look like? A2.
MANUSCRIPT FORMAT: Manuscripts
must be typed with double spacing throughout in a size comparable to Times Roman/plain 12
pt type. All pages
must be numbered. The parts of the manuscript should appear in this order:
Please
note that it is helpful and conserves paper and time to have title, authors,
affilations, and abstract all on the same page whenever possible. Conserve paper by not putting in section breaks, but
simply run the sections together. Also
note that a lot of the details below are more necessary for the final version
as opposed to the submission version. However, a little extra at the beginning
should save you a lot of time at the end plus make everything clearer to the
editors and reviewers. Note: Tex or LaTex files are not acceptable for final versions, and not preferred in general. The author must have the manuscript converted (perhaps via http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/ or whatever program you prefer; we do not officially have a conversion recommendation), or retyped into Word/rtf. If we do the conversion for you, there will be a minimum charge of $100. Capitalize only the
first letter of the title and the first letter of the subtitle, if any, as you
would in any sentence. Do not begin the title with a number, symbol, or Greek
letter. Examples: Beryl stability in local hydrothermal and chemical
environments in a mineralized granite Coordination of Ti4+ in silicate glasses: A high-resolution XANES spectroscopy
study at the Ti K
edge II. NAMES AND
ADDRESSES OF AUTHORS (AFFILIATIONS) Names should be typed
normally, not with all caps and not in small caps. All names are listed
together with commas as appropriate and "and" used before the last
author. Addresses should be keyed to the author's name with superscript
numbers, with the address typed normally. Example: Don Jones1,* and Hilda Smith2 1Department of Earth Sciences, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 00000, U.S.A. 2Department of Geology, University of Illinois,
Urbana, Illinois 00000, U.S.A. * Present address: Department
of Geology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 00000, U.S.A. E-mail:
jones@uiuc.edu (If the second author
had a change of address, then the † (dagger) symbol would be used, and so on
for multiple authors.) The abstract should state concisely what was
done and what was concluded in about 250 words if possible, but no more than 800 words. The abstract
should be able to capture broad interest and so must indicate why the results are suitable to an
international audience. Finally, the abstract should include important numbers (e.g., temperature range,
compressibility, thermodynamic data). Literature citations should not appear in the abstract. Immediately
following the abstract should be a line of keywords, e.g.: Keyword: rock, mineral, etc. Pick words that will
aid a computer-Google-type search of and for your paper. In addition, here are more Abstract suggestions to consider seriously. In just a few sentences, very briefly, provide key introduction to your paper; the key data/analysis; and finally the key points and conclusions, the latter of which must show why your paper will be of broad interest and appropriate for a journal with an international audience. You want to entice people who skim abstracts to click on your paper. These are the basic components (adjust these to fit your paper!): (1) Motivation/problem statement: Why do we care about the problem? What practical, scientific, theoretical or other gap is your research filling? (2) Methods/procedure/approach: What did you actually do to get your results? (3) Results/findings/product: As a result of completing the above procedure, what did you learn? (4) Conclusion/implications: What are the larger implications of your findings, especially for the problem/gap identified in step 1? 1) Boldface, Italic,
Super- and Subscripts. Please use these appropriately, for example variables are italic and
vectors are bold. Please be sure to use super- and subscripts, not raised or lowered type. We prefer use of the font
"Times" or "Times (New) Roman/plain" and we do not need
titles larger than body copy or the references smaller; in fact, everything
should be 12 pt type. Note that words and mineral names and numbers are
never italic, for example "Ca" would never be italic, nor would the
"o" for "observations" or the "c" for
"calculations." 2) Special
Characters. Special characters include en- and
em-dashes, Greek letters, and mathematical symbols. You must use the
"Symbol" font for greek letters and symbols as much as possible--not
the special characters from the "insert special character" box unless
there is no other option. Do not use handmade characters such as lowercase,
superscript "o" for the degree sign. 3) Equations. You can use Word equation editor or
Mathtype to create display equations. For small expressions with stacked
characters DO NOT USE AN EQUATION PROGRAM. If X0i is your expression, we will know to stack it. Or you can say {note to typesetting} if you are concerned about notation at any point, for example
{note to typesetting, these minus signs are overbars on top of the
1}. Presentation of mathematical equations is patterned after Mathematics
into Type (Swanson
1979). In general, variables are italicized; numbers, functions, and constants
are Roman/plain. Greek letters are already "special" and should not
be further italicized. If simple reactions,
equilibria, and mathematical equations do not need to be referred to later by a
number, they should be incorporated into the text, as, for example, y = mx + b. If mineral names must be centered
under reactants and products or if a space-consuming fraction is involved,
however, the item should be set off as a display (i.e., placed on a separate
line by itself). Reactions, equilibria, and mathematical equations that are
referred to subsequently are displayed and numbered sequentially by using a
number in parentheses at the right margin. They should be referred to in the
text as Equation 3, reaction 4, or Equilibrium 5 (In parentheses they should be
referred to as Eq. 3, reaction 4, or Equilibrium 5). Reactions and equations
are punctuated as part of the sentence; for example, "...the FMQ buffer
reaction is 3Fe2SiO4 + O2 = 2Fe3 O4 +3SiO2. fayalite magnetite
quartz" (where these should be neatly under the corresponding formula) 4) Headings. Use headings to break the text into
sections. The first word and any proper names are capitalized. Only three
orders of headings may be used: main or first-order headings (centered),
second-order headings (on a line by itself, flush left), and third-order
headings (after a paragraph indention, bold, and followed by a period). View a
recent issue for examples. If subheadings are used, there must be at least
two subheadings under a heading. 5) Usage and style. American spelling and usage
according to Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English
Language are standard in the journal. To promote clarity, American
Mineralogist
usually follows the recommendations of the Chicago Manual of Style regarding
capitalization, hyphenation, and use of commas but our house style will take priority. Please note that we do not hyphenate numbers and units even when used as a modifier (e.g., 5 mm diameter holes). Many items that seem "latin" such as et al. are kept in Roman/plain style and not italic. In general,
variables are italicized; numbers, functions, and constants are Roman/plain.
Greek letters are already "special" and should not be further
italicized. Examples of symbols that should be italicized are listed in All About Units. Bold
face type is reserved exclusively for vectors. Polytypes are italicized, but
site labels are Roman/plain, with no parentheses around the number (e.g.,
muscovite-2M1,
M1 site). Complex notation, for example subscripts to subscripts (as in fO2) or overbars,
could be explained to the Editorial Office in a letter or marginal note so that
the manuscript can typeset correctly, if you have any concern, but we are familiar with such notation. 6) Other style
points. A few of
the style points adopted by Am Min to promote consistency and clarity are
mentioned here for easy reference. A sentence should not
begin with an Arabic number or a symbol (e.g., "The values for a quartz" rather than beginning with "a-quartz values"). A zero should precede the
decimal point for values less than one, e.g., 0.25 rather than .25. The chemical-element
abbreviation is used in reference to atoms, in chemical formulas, and in
modifiers (e.g., Fe-rich). The element name is spelled out for substances
(e.g., iron bar, crucible of platinum) and in written formulas (e.g., carbon
dioxide, iron titanium oxide). Ionic charge is
indicated by a superscript plus sign or minus sign following the symbol of the
element; for multiple charges, an Arabic superscript numeral precedes the plus
sign or minus sign, e.g., Na+, Cl–, Ca2+,
S2–. For designation of
coordination numbers, the element symbol is preceded by a superscript
Roman/plain number: VIAl. 7) More rules for
Estimated Standard Deviation. Precision of measurement may be indicated as 1.781 ± 0.002,
if 0.002 represents a subjective estimate of the measurement error. Where
sufficient data permit calculation of the estimated standard deviation
(e.s.d.), indicate it with parentheses e.g., 1.781(2) and 1.781(11)
indicate an e.s.d. of 0.002 and 0.011, respectively. Only significant digits
shall be given for the observed value, i.e., e.s.d. values in parentheses
should be given as single or double digit integers. American Mineralogist as a policy requests that all
measured values have to be accompanied by some indication on the uncertainty.
Ideally this should be a properly calculated standard uncertainty. Only in
exceptional cases, if scarcity of sample or some other special circumstances
prohibit any even subjective estimation of an uncertainty, can this rule be
waived. 8) Implications Section [the concluding paragraph(s) of a paper]. Although authors may end their paper with a "Discussion" section, we encourage authors to follow their "Discussion" with a final section titled "Implications". This section should be forward-looking; it is intended to provide authors with the opportunity to place their results into a broader context. That context should highlight the importance of the work, and emphasize relevance to and beyond the sub-discipline. This section is not to be confused with a "Conclusions" section, which like the abstract only summarizes the paper (such sections will be cut, regardless of how they are titled). The Editors will look to the Implications section to help judge whether a paper should be highlighted, and to judge whether a paper is suitable for the journal. We also advise authors to report Implications within the Abstract. 9) Acknowledgments. The acknowledgments section should
be brief but inclusive. Please double check grant numbers and spelling of personal and
company names. 1) Overview. All citations in the text, figures,
tables, and other supporting parts of the manuscript must be in the reference
list and vice versa; please make sure that the references are accurate and
complete. Unpublished information,
including papers in preparation or submitted but not yet accepted, should be
omitted from the reference list. These can be cited in the text as J. Doe
(unpublished manuscript) or B. Jones (personal communication). Examples of the common
types of references are listed in All About References.
Consult a recent issue of the journal for other examples. Follow the guidelines outlined below. Here is a
very basic example of our style: Bailey, S.W. (1982) Nomenclature for regular
interstratifications. American Mineralogist, 67, 394–398. 2) Style and format. All authors in the
references must be listed by: last name, followed by initials (with a comma
between, i.e., Jones, H.). For successive references with identical author(s),
the author list is replaced by a series of m-dashes. The first author's first
name may be spelled out if there is a chance of confusion. Journal names must be
spelled out in full. No parts of the
reference are italicized, boldface, or underlined. The reference list is arranged
alphabetically by the last name of the first author. If several references have
the same first author, list the singly authored papers first in chronological
order, then list the papers with two authors in alphabetical (then chronological) order, and
then list the papers with three or more authors in chronological order, without regard to second or
subsequent authors' names. 3) Citations. The style of reference
citation in the text is illustrated by the following examples: Bailey (1982),
Nickel and Mandarino (1987), and Graham et al. (1985). Parenthetical citations
are may also be used (Swanson 1979) and (Jones et al. 2006). Separate multiple
citations in parentheses with a semicolon, i.e., (Bailey 1982; Graham et al.
1985). Use lowercase letters to
distinguish references that would have identical years: for example, Smith
(1993a), or Smith (1993a, 1993b), or (Smith 1993a, 1993b). Supplementary material
will be placed in MSA's depository, which is online as well as paper-based storage when possible. Thus, an electronic copy of deposit information, figures, and tables is required. See Deposit Information section below for details. Tables may form part or
all of the appendix material. Appendix tables will appear exactly as the author prepared them. Since deposit material is supposed to last for a long time, using plain txt, PDF, or other "universal" format is advised; but any format is accepted.
VII. FOOTNOTES Footnotes, except those
in tables, are discouraged; usually the material can be skillfully
incorporated in the text (or included in a parenthetical statement offset by
parentheses or brackets as appropriate). Nevertheless, certain material does
require a footnote; examples include present addresses, directions for
obtaining depository materials (hosted by MSA), computer programs, disclaimers
regarding commercial product use by governmental agencies, etc. All footnotes
should be indicated by a superscript number except those for present addresses,
which carry an asterisk (or other appropriate symbol as described for Tables).
All footnotes should be double spaced. VIII. DEPOSITORY
ITEMS Deposit Items. Please
put these items in a separate file, one for each deposit item. This material
will be added to the web site. Formats such as txt, Word, PDF, or html documents are strongly
preferred; ASCII, Excel, and other files are acceptable. The material can be
ftp-ed to the server; contact the managing editor for more information. Tables, figures, and
supplementary data may be deposited at the Society's headquarters and do not
have to comply with the official Am Min style guidelines. The material is made
available on the journal web site and may consist of color images or Quicktime
movies in addition to tables, figures, and text. Contact the managing editor for instructions
regarding special format files or for transmitting the files by ftp. Paper
copies of deposit tables and text should also be provided. Please limit the size of the paper to
less than 28 cm x 43.2 cm (11 in. x 17 in.). Please note that even tables
hundreds of pages long need hard copy because ultimately only paper survives.
We will not print out more than 10 pages here; the author is responsible for
supplying hard copy for permanent storage. Label it with your name, manuscript tracking number, any other help identification and mail it to us in an economical manner of your choice. The content for
directions for obtaining deposited material is as follows: Deposit item
AM-YEAR-XXX, Appendix. Deposit items are available two ways: For a paper copy
contact the Business Office of the Mineralogical Society of America (see inside
front cover of recent issue) for price information. For an electronic copy
visit the MSA web site at http://www.minsocam.org, go to the American
Mineralogist Contents, find the table of contents for the specific volume/issue
wanted, and then click on the deposit link there. The author supplies the
correct phrasing ("Appendix" in the example might be Quicktime movie about .....); the Editorial Office will supply the YEAR (publication year) and XXX (unique ID) values. Q3.
What are the guidelines for Tables and Figures? A3(i). Tables First
and most important, we must have your tables in an electronic (editable)
format! Ideally
that format is Microsoft Word or Excel, but we'll even take txt or ascii to keep
re-keying to a minimum. If you use Word's automatic "table" feature
or a spreadsheet with individual cells, do not enter an entire list of data
into one cell. That will necessitate re-keying data when we go to layout. Be
sure the data reads from left to right, with one value per cell. For example,
tables that have a whole column of data in one "cell" block does not work in
the layout process. The cells should read left to right; or simply separate
data with tabs and lines by hard returns. The table submitted for review should be double spaced if
it is short, but not if it is very long. No particular typescript width or style of type is required,
because we reformat everything during layout. A current issue of the journal
will provide examples of approaches to complex tables. Table
titles should be brief. The column headings have any appropriate units (in parentheses).
Any headings that occur within the body and apply to a block of data should be
centered. Footnotes end with periods. You do not need to actually insert the
rules because we do that here, although your hard copy would probably be
clearer if you do use the basic top and bottom rules. See a recent issue of the
journal for examples of tables. No
vertical or diagonal rules may be used in tables. Column headings must be
upright, not turned sideways. Brackets to delineate groups of data may be used only
if necessary; the groups should be clearly marked on the manuscript copy! There
are no horizontal rules in the body of the table to separate sections, please
use white space instead.
Updated May-2013:
The old symbols: * (asterisk); † (dagger)... are being phased out.
We anticipate the alphabetical symbols will appear in print no later than January 2014.
There are two goals: getting the paper peer reviewed and then, if accepted, getting the figures to print very nicely. Following are some suggestions about figure appearance and technical specifications, as well as figure captions. Overview. In the web-based submission system, figures uploaded for peer review and editing may (or may not) be of print quality. If and when your paper is accepted and gets sent to Production, then we work one-by-one with authors on figures and if needed provide FTP instructions to quickly transmit files of any size to us directly.Details about specific dpi are below. If the artwork was submitted as a part of the manuscript file, in Word for example, then .tif or .pdf files will be requested if available. It might be possible for us to create workable art here in the Production office, but that is not preferred. Worst case scenario: the author might need to be prepared to mail us sharp, dark, neat, clean hardcopies. We attempt to avoid these last two possibilities if we can as they create more work for everyone. Do not worry about this procedure unless it is needed.
Note that TEM artwork needs special care because of the fine detail and repeating patterns that are difficult to capture on paper with ink in printing. Please use high-resolution images. If accepted, the proofs should be a guideline as to what authors will see and you can re-supply at that point if need be.
I. SUBMITTING ARTWORK FOR REVIEW Formats that can be uploaded for Figure file types are .tif, .eps, .jpg, and .pdf. If your artwork is in a Word file (.doc) then either put it at the end of the manuscript file, or upload another article file type and give it a title of Figures x-y. In general, .doc art will work for peer review. It will NOT for print/web versions of accepted papers. Be prepared to send high-quality art if accepted! Large file sizes might take more than 10 minutes to transmit or might take more than a few minutes to convert to the PDF automatic format. You can use LZW compression on Tiff images to reduce file size. If you need help, please contact the editorial office and include your system information including what computer, OS, program(s), and version(s) you are using. Most reviewers will view your figures on the screen so a lower resolution image may work at that time. Remember, you should be able to use other programs or tabs, while the system is converting and merging your figure files. Do not contact the editorial office about how long your file conversion is taking unless it has exceeded 12 hours. II. FIGURE CAPTIONS Figure captions should be brief and explanatory; they should not duplicate information in the figure. Each caption begins with a paragraph indentation and the whole word "Figure" followed by the figure number and a period, i.e., "Figure 1." Multiple parts of figures should be indicated by lowercase letters (a) and (b), (left) and (right), or (upper) and (lower). Note: If letter designations are used for the parts, the figures should actually be labeled with those letters. Items labeled within the figure should use capital letters A, B, C, and so on to key them to the meaning in the caption or in a legend within the figure. Labels and text in the figures must be consistent with the manuscript AND follow Am Min style. Please note our abbreviation style in figures; especially wt% for weight percent, T for temperature, and P for pressure. Close up % symbols to the number: 10%. III. ELECTRONIC ART REQUIREMENTS Note that there are 3 types of figures: plain line art, photographs, and combination art (a mixture of photographic and line art elements). Ideal resolutions for Raster art (.tif): 1200 ppi/dpi for line art; 300 to 600 ppi/dpi for grayscale (shaded) art; 300 ppi/dpi for grayscale-photographic and color artwork. While PDFs and .eps artwork are vector (meaning they expand/contract and keep their set resolution), they will still have too low a resolution if low-resolution raster images are embedded inside. For accepted papers, to prepare for print/web, we prefer .tif and .pdf files, although .eps files are fine, too. Click here for the full guide to figures.
Q4.
Is Crystallographic data required for my paper? A4.
CIF requirement for new structures or refinements CIFs
are required for those reporting new structures or refinements of the
structures of known minerals. Please see guidelines
at IUCr
for how to prepare and check CIFs. We encourage you to also
send the CIFs to the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database at ICSD
(Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe).
No matter the size of the .cif the fastest way to upload it to the manuscript submission database is to "zip" (compress)
it so it ends in .zip and use "dataset" as the
type of item. If you do not have "zip" compression ability, change
the .cif to .txt so the filename is "xxxxCIF.txt" and use
"supplemental material" as the file type. You can always contact the
editorial office for help with this upload! Link
to more information on CIFs, including crucial guidelines for submission A5.
Mineral names and abbreviations. Use a consistent set of mineral abbreviations throughout
text, tables, and figures. Abbreviations are recommended for subscripts,
superscripts, reactions, assemblages (connected with plus signs), and normative
mineral symbols with subscript weight percentages; however, abbreviations
should not be used for mineral names that stand alone in the text.
Whitney and Evans (2010) has recently
suggested a set of abbreviations that may be used.
However, you may choose another consistent set. Mineral
nomenclature. New
mineral names and redefinitions of existing names must be approved by the
Commission on New Minerals Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) of the
International Mineralogical Association (IMA) (Fleischer 1970) before
publication. For this purpose, consult the published reports of the Commission on New Minerals
Nomenclature and Classification (CNMNC) of the International Mineralogical
Association (IMA). The MSA website hosts many of the IMA Reports. A Special Note About Nomenclature: Remember it is the author's responsibility to make sure the text, tables and other materials consistently follow the nomenclature recommended by the IMA. Reports detailing the CMNNC approved style for nomenclature for minerals and mineral groups are available.
New mineral names. Authors must provide the Editorial Office with evidence of IMA approval of any
new mineral names.
Whenever naming new minerals, authors must conform to the rules and principles set forth in
Nickel and Mandarino (1987) (excerpt, pdf, 180 K)
or Nickel and Grice (1998) (pdf, 332 K). The
paper by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (1982) should be
consulted for a suggested outline for new mineral descriptions. The abstract of
a new mineral description should completely list the properties of the mineral
in a manner consistent with the "New Mineral Names" section of the
journal. The paper by Nickel and Grice (1998) (pdf, 332 K) gives
more information on procedures. Additional information is given by Dunn (1977).
Naming of regular interstratifications of clay minerals is discussed by Bailey
(1982). In general, manuscripts proposing new names for imperfectly or
incompletely described minerals cannot be accepted. Obsolete,
discredited, or superfluous mineral names may not be used. A helpful guide is Glossary
of Mineral Species (Fleischer
and Mandarino 1995). This glossary is taken as the standard for the spelling of
mineral names. However, the editors now allow use of element symbols as
prefixes to the approved name of a mineral (e.g., Mg-chlorite, K-feldspar). A
list of discredited mineral names and examples of acceptable and unacceptable
usages of mineral names appear in Nickel and Mandarino (1987) (excerpt, pdf, 180 K)
and Nickel and Grice (1998) (pdf, 332 K). Meteorite
nomenclature. New
meteorite names must be approved by the Nomenclature Committee of the
Meteoritical Society [Dr. A.L. Graham, Secretary, British Museum (Natural
History), Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, U.K.]. Other meteorite names must
conform to the spelling given in the Catalogue of Meteorites (4th edition) by Graham et al. (1985)
or in subsequent numbers of the Meteoritical Bulletin (published in Meteoritics). Q6.
How will I receive my page proofs? A6.
Overview. Proofs are
sent to authors via e-mail as PDF files and authors will need the latest Adobe
Acrobat Reader to view them. Authors can e-mail changes and corrections or
print out hard copies to write on, then scan/e-mail, fax, or mail back. The
electronic proofs system has greatly increased the speed of publication time
and improved communication with authors. Changes in proofs. Changes made at the page-proof stage are time consuming, expensive, and are logically discouraged. An author who makes extensive changes in text (such as rewriting passages or changing data on tables) may be billed for all lines that must be reset and all additional lines in the paragraph that must be reset as a result of the additions or deletions. Any changes to data in Tables or to Equations in the text will be cleared with the Editor. Re-doing of figures because of an author's changes can also be charged to the author. However, there is no charge for answering Editor queries or correcting scientific mistakes. Returning
page proofs.
Authors will be advised of the time frame in which page proofs are due to
arrive when their manuscript is accepted. If they expect to be away during that
time, it is their responsibility to provide the Editorial Office with an
alternative e-mail address, if necessary, to which the page proofs may be sent
or to make other arrangements for the proofs to be checked and returned.
Authors have 5 business days from the date the proofs arrive to return them to
the Editorial Office. All proof procedures are explained with the proof. Q7.
What's the deal with page charges and reprints/offprints? A7.
PAGE CHARGES AND REPRINTS Authors
are requested to pay page charges of $75 per printed page (subject to change),
although current publication costs are about $250/page, considerably higher
than the requested amount. Payment of page charges is not a condition of
acceptance for manuscript publication; however, MSA depends largely on the
revenue generated from page charges and reprint orders to keep journal subscription costs
low. For this reason, authors are asked to make every effort to obtain funds
for page charges or reprints from their granting agency or institution. Authors
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