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Earth & E-nvironment publishes:
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Excellent original research by students (up to 12
000 words); and
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Short articles about student academic experience
(up to 2 000 words).
It only accepts articles from undergraduate
and taught postgraduate students in the School of Earth
and Environment.
Original research articles
All undergraduate students attaining first
class and all postgraduate students attaining distinction standards in
pieces of original research are eligible to publish their work in Earth
& E-nvironment. The
minimum mark required to publish pieces of original research at both
undergraduate and postgraduate level is 70.
To be published, authors must complete the
following tasks. Manuscripts will be returned to authors for revision
if these tasks have not been completed properly:
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Ensure their work matches the format of the
journal. An article from a current issue of the journal should be used
as a template (please pay attention to headings, references and
figure/table legends). For a Word version of a template article, click here;
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Obtain copyright permission for any figures that
are not your own work, or revise the work so it can stand alone without
these figures. Documentary evidence of copyright permission for each
relevant figure must be included with your submission. (You may use a
copyright permission request letter template for journal/book
publishers or for websites). Delete any
figures for which you cannot obtain permission and renumber your
figures accordingly;
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Complete and sign a consent
form, and fax/post to the Editor with your submission
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Where possible, make changes suggested suggested in
feedback from markers. Where this is not possible, discuss this with
the Editor.
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Unless absolutely essential, cut all
appendices and all reference to them. Where essential, try and
incorporate into main body of text.
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Submit your manuscript via email, and submit your
consent form and copyright permission evidence via fax or post to the Editor.
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Please note, you are also required to get
permission from your Supervisor(s) before submitting the article.
Short articles about student academic
experience
Students wishing to submit a short article
about student academic experience in the School of Earth
and Environment should email their manuscript to the Editor.
Manuscripts within the journal's scope will
be sent for peer-review.
Examples of appropriate articles include reports on industrial
or year abroad schemes, conference reports, advice to students seeking
subject-related work experience during summer vacations, practical
advice to students planning to do dissertation research abroad etc.
Articles should be
written in clear, concise English and be no more than 2000 words long.
All submissions should have a title, and where necessary use
sub-headings. Figures or tables should be numbered and titled, and
cited in the text. They should be included at the end of the manuscript
on separate pages. Referencing style should match a recent article from
this journal. Articles will be subedited for grammar, punctuation and
spelling prior to publication.
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