Geoscience Records

Geoscience Records publishes papers describing original field and laboratory investigations focusing on different aspects of scientific research including geology, geochemistry and geophysics and extending from its deep interiors to its hydrosphere and atmosphere. We also invite review papers summarizing the most important research completed recently. Geoscience Records publishes also 'Field trip to...' a short description of interesting geo-localities including the detailed map, the field description, photos and GPS coordinates of the locality.

Geoscience Records is focused on the variety of records that are preserved in geological material such as rocks, fossils, ores, minerals, soils, waters, air, but also in anthropogenic materials such as archeological artefacts, slags, fly ashes and others. We welcome contributions, which present clear links between the analysed feature and the process that formed the record. We also invite contributions, which provide thoroughly tested negative records, even though other studies came up with positive records using the same set of tools. We believe that such negative records are also an important step increasing our understanding of nature, but they are not as easy to publish as positive results. To increase clarity of our manuscripts we would like each contribution to be summarized by a single sentence in the form:

The major observation of the study RECORDS/DOES NOT RECORD a process.

For example:

Original Paper

Chemical composition and textures of clinopyroxene phenocrysts from Księginiki nephelinite record complex history of melt reacting with mantle rocks and "in situ" crystallization of the melt. (Goleń et al., 2015, Geosci.Rec. v.1)

Field trip to…

Specific properties of serpentine soil in Żmijowiec result in the presence of endemic Asplenium adulterium Milde and record the plant adaptation to extreme edaphic stress (Pędziwatr and Kierczak, Geosci.Rec. v.1)

Please follow the guide for authors below to complete the submission. Please send the files to one of the following addresses:

anna.pietranik@ing.uni.wroc.pl

jakub.kierczak@uwr.edu.pl

Preparation of the research article

1. Structure of the paper

The papers should be submitted as Word (.doc or .rtf - Text and Tables) + jpeg, tiff (Figures) files.

The manuscript should include:

- title,

- affiliations of all authors and email and telephone number of the corresponding author,

- abstract (max. 300 words),

- record for the process described in the study (one sentence, as instructed above)

- introduction: the section should clearly state objectives of the work, should present wide overview of the problem and narrow it to the particular research study,

- study area description: the section should present concise description of the location and geological setting and also cite all previous work done in the area,

- materials and methods: the section should present enough information for the experiment to be reproduced,

- results: the datasets should be presented in Tables and plots accompanied by concise description,

- discussion: the section should present interpretation of the presented datasets and their implication, it should explicitly show why the work was important and how it followed or built upon previous work,

- conclusions: the section should stress the “take-home” message of the manuscript,

- acknowledgements: the section should (a) list here those individuals and/or institutions that provided help during the research, (b) funding sources

- references.

Reference style:

Text: All citations in the text should refer to:

1. Single author: the author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;

2. Two authors: both author’s names and the year of publication;

3. Three or more authors: first author's name followed by 'et al.' and the year of publication.

Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically.

Examples: 'as demonstrated (Manatschal, 2004; Wenk and Bulakh, 2004). Grove et al. (1999) have recently shown… '

References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.

References list outline:

Reference to a journal publication:

Grove, T.L., Parmans, S.W., Dann, J.C. (1999). Conditions of magma generation for Archean komatiites from the Barberton Mountainland, South Africa. Geochemical Society Special Publications, 6, 155-167.

Manatschal, G. (2004). New models for evolution of magma-poor rifted margins based on a review of data and concepts from West Iberia and the Alps. Geologische Rundschau, 93, 432-466.

Reference to a book:

Wenk, H.-R., Bulakh, A. (2004). Minerals. Their constitution and origin. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Reference to a chapter in an edited book:

Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B. (2009). How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: Jones, B.S., Smith, R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age. E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281–304.

2. Font

Use Times New Roman, or Arial font, 12 pts, double line spacing. Number lines of the manuscript to facilitate review process.

3. Figures

- Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing in all of your figures.

- Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Times New Roman, Calibri, Symbol.

- Number the figures as they appear in the text.

- Provide captions to illustrations separately at the end of the manuscript.

- Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.

- Keep vector drawings and color or grayscale photographs to a minimum of 300 dpi TIFF (or JPEG) format.

- Submit each figure as a separate file.

4. Tables

Number tables as they appear in the text. Keep the title of the table concise and place all detailed explanation as footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters.

5. Supplementary Material

Submit all the data not presented in the text as .xls or .rtf files. The data will appear as on-line supplementary dataset and the information on the data will be included in the printed version of the manuscript.

Preparation of the Review Paper

Structure of the paper

The papers should be submitted as Word (.doc or .rtf - Text and Tables) + jpeg, tiff (Figures) files.

The manuscript should include:

- title,

- affiliations of all authors and email and telephone number of the corresponding author,

- abstract (max. 300 words),

- record for a general subject of the review (one sentence, as instructed above)

- introduction

- summary of previous research,

- discussion,

- conclusions,

- acknowledgements,

- references.

For the details of References, Figures and Tables preparation see the section 'Preparation of the research article'

Preparation of the Field trip to...

Structure of the paper

The papers should be submitted as Word (.doc or .rtf - Text and Tables) + jpeg, tiff (Figures) files.

The manuscript should include:

- title,

- affiliations of all authors and email and telephone number of the corresponding author,

- abstract (max. 300 words),

- record, which geological process is recorded in the locality (one sentence, as instructed above)

- introduction /geological setting: the section should present a brief description of geological settings or research area in which the studied locality is set,

- field description: should stress the aspect of the locality, which is interesting for geoscientists,

- presentation and interpretation of the field data available for the described site,

- acknowledgements,

- references.

For the details of References, Figures and Tables preparation see the section 'Preparation of the research and review article'