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Please submit your manuscript via the MAPS Manuscript Central website. As of March 23, 2005, the journal will assess a charge of $70 per page for each printed page over 16 pages (i.e. if your printed version is 23 pages long, you will be charged $70 per page for the pages 17-23). These charges will be billed with reprints orders. You can use the new website if your paper was rejected and you are resubmitting. Your manuscript will be assigned a new number. To submit a new paper, you will have to create a user account with the MAPS Manuscript Central website (unless you have used the system before and already have an account). You need to create your account only once. Your account will have an Author Center and a Reviewer Center. To submit a paper, please go to your Author Center and follow the instructions on the screen. To submit a revision, log in to your Author Center, click on the "Manuscripts with Decision" link, find the manuscript you want to work on, then follow the "Create a revision" link. Instructions on the screen will guide you through the process. Please do not submit revisions as new submissions (via the "Click here to submit a new manuscript" link). If you have problems submitting your paper, click the "Get help now" link in the top right corner of the MAPS manuscript submission website to access the online user guide and to email or call customer support. If you still have problems, contact the editorial office. A submitted paper is forwarded to the Editor who then passes it to an Associate Editor in the subject area. If appropriate, the Associate Editor will identify external reviewers. The Associate Editor and the reviewers may recommend to the Editor that the paper be:
The review process ensures that accepted papers are of the highest quality possible and that they are well presented. Authors are expected to acknowledge the contribution of the reviewers, whether the reviewers are anonymous or known to the authors.
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For review, submit a
full electronic copy (the text, all
tables, and all figures) of your manuscript.
At this stage, you do not need to submit high resolution figure files. PDF
files are ideal. Although figures, tables and text can be submitted as
separate files, the most convenient method is to submit a single PDF that
contains all the text, tables and figures as you would like reviewers to
see them. However, the online system will convert Word and other files
into .html, low resolution, and high resolution .PDF proofs. The editors
and reviewers will also be able to view the original files that you
submitted. Please use single line spacing so that your manuscript is
displayed properly in the online templates.
1. Make the text clear, concise, and accurate. The text should reflect the
American spelling. The following guide is based on The Chicago manual of style (14th edition, University of Chicago Press, 1993). Examples are shown for the newer scientific style of citation recommended for natural sciences and social sciences (for details see p. 640–699).
1. Submit
electronic copies of your tables. You can send PDF versions of your tables
for review, but do not send the
“camera-ready” tables or PDF versions when you submit the final copy for
typesetting. We cannot use them to typeset your manuscript.
Also, make sure that the tables are drawn using a table format in your
word processor (preferably Microsoft Word).
Tables that must be completely retyped are subject to charge per table that will be computed by the Editorial Office, typically $300.00 US per table. 1. When submitting the final electronic versions of your figures, ensure that you are submitting high resolution images (400 dpi). Please, submit each figure as a separate file. We can use .tiff , pdf, .jpg, and .psd files. Please, save your Word (.doc) and PowerPoint files as high-resolution tiffs or pdfs and check that no information was lost during conversion before submitting these files. 2. The charge for printing figures in color is $720 per page. Depending on their size and how they are referenced in the paper, we may be able to fit two or more figures on one page. If you are not able to pay for color, please prepare grayscale versions in advance. 3. Figures are often reduced in size when typesetting. Please, keep this in mind when sizing symbols and letters and do not make the figures larger than 7" x 9" (17.5 cm x 22.5 cm). Oversized and difficult to handle figures should be discussed with the editorial office before submission. 4. Line drawings, if possible, should fit in a single column (width 3" or 7.5 cm). 5. The name of the author and the figure number should be written on the front of each figure in the margin. The top should be indicated if there is any possibility of ambiguity. For multi-component figures, each component must be labeled on the figures themselves as A, B, etc. Figures are numbered with Arabic numerals in order of reference in the text. 6. Here is an example of a figure caption: Fig. 1. Trapped heavy noble gases in enstatite chondrites. 7. Within the text, figures (whether line drawings or photographs) are referred to in the abbreviated form as, for example, Fig. 1. 7. Please, place all figure captions at the end of the manuscript. 1. Meteoritics & Planetary Science discourages the citation of abstracts and material that has not been refereed.
2. References that are in the process of publication will be referred to
as "Forthcoming." For example:
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Please, list references at the end of each paper in alphabetical and
chronological order and cross-check the reference list with the text. 7. In the text, two or more authors should be listed as first author's last name followed by "et al." 8. The preference of the University of Chicago Press is to use full titles and journal names. So is ours. 9. When referring to material published on the World Wide Web, please, provide the following information: author/editor, title of page, date that you accessed the source, cite the address (URL) accurately (include the access mode http, ftp, telnet, etc.).
10. Press release should be referenced as an unpublished document: Submission of Revised (Final) Version of Manuscript, Proofs 1. The final version should be submitted within 6 months for final evaluation. Papers that are not revised within 6 months will be treated as new submissions and will be sent for review.
2. The author is responsible for correcting proofs. Please,
read the proof
and return them to the editorial office via email or fax within 48 hours
of receipt. Alterations in proofs are expensive and
should be kept to an absolute minimum. Alterations deemed excessive by the
Editor will be billed to the author (typically $5 per line). If
alterations are essential, they should preferably occupy the same amount
of space as the original material. If you do not send your corrections on
time and need to make changes after the issue has been submitted to the
printer, the charge is $60 per page. A completed form, assigning copyright to the Meteoritical Society, must be returned to MAPS office before your paper can be published. |
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