English language editing

"Carnets de Géologie" publishes manuscripts in other languages (French, Spanish, ...) in addition to English, which however is currently the world's Lingua Franca. Many manuscripts in "English" submitted to us are by authors for whom it is not the mother tongue. For acceptance these proposals must be readily understood by reviewers (and later by readers). If you are uncertain about the clarity of your writing, it would be advisable to have your draft revised by a native-English speaker prior to submittal.

Alternatively there are professional language–editing services that can help. For instance, we recommend you contact Stallard Scientific Editing. But be aware that "Carnets de Géologie" does not endorse these services nor does it accept any responsibility for their use.

Editorial

"Carnets de Géologie" (Staff: Editor, Bruno Granier; Associate Editors, Nadine Roulance, Christian C. Emig, and Nestor Sander) has been established to provide a new and rapid means of presenting papers in the field of sedimentology, stratigraphy, and paleontology, but submissions on other subjects will be considered for publication.

Most papers are in French or English, but others in Spanish, German, or Italian will appear; all include abstracts in English and French. Contributions will appear in the form of numbered issues as soon as they have been approved by the reviewers and any revisions necessary have been made by their authors.

There are three categories of contribution:
1- Memoirs (long copiously illustrated papers presented in HTML with many links),
2- Articles (1,500 to 50,000 words presented in PDF or HTML),
3- Letters (less than 1,500 words, mostly in PDF). Please refer to the guide for additional information regarding these categories.

Prospective authors, as well as special editors (symposium volume, ...), are requested to submit their proposal either to our headquarters in Brest or to a committee member who will forward it. Insofar as it is feasible all aspects of the publication process will be handled electronically.

Current issues are hosted by Paleopolis using the "Red IRIS" server in Spain. Archives are currently hosted by the "Red IRIS" in Spain, the "Université libre de Bruxelles" in Belgium and the "INIST-CNRS" in France.

Copies of the CD-ROM version of "Carnets de Géologie" are deposited semi-annually in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris as a permanent archive and record of our publications. Contact us if you want to get one or more for your records or to establish a subscription:
- Tome 1, 2003/1 (December 2003): out-of-print,
- Tome 2, 2004/2 (December 2004): out-of-print,
- Tome 3, 2006/3 (March 2006): out-of-print,
- Tome 4, 2007/4 (July 2007): out-of-print.
Tome 5, 2008/5 (September 2008) was freely distributed to more than hundred libraries worldwide. It includes all publications from 2002 to July 2008.
Note that the ISSN number of this CD-ROM version is different from that of the online version.

If you are reluctant to consider electronic publishing here are the obvious advantages:

(1) An ISSN (as in any "reputable" printed scientific journal): ISSN 1634-0744 for the online version, ISSN 1765-2553 for the CD-ROM version;

(2) Permanent archives (all papers will be included therein and freely accessible) under Paleopolis / Red IRIS (Spain), INIST-CNRS (France) and Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium);

(3) A peer-review system (one goal of the scientific and editorial committee is to peer-review contributions immediately or to send them at once to competent reviewers);

(4) Publication faster than in any commercially printed scientific journal (including illustrations and photographs in color);

(5) Full royalty assured (when applicable): "Carnets de Géologie" reserves the right to negotiate royalties in place of the author(s) for the reproduction for commercial purposes of any material it has published (non-commercial use remains free). When economically viable the author(s) will receive in toto any sum accrued thereby;

(6) Guaranteed readership: On October 5, 2009, more than 2,300 readers were registered to receive E-mail notification of the posting of a new contribution (registration began on June 10, 2003). Electronic publishing facilitates access to the information required for education and research;

(7) We are now listed in these Directories and Databases as the initial stage of a continuing effort to increase our recognition:
- BIOSIS - Biology Browser,
- Zoological Record (Ovid Technologies Inc.),
- ISI (Thomson Scientific)
- GeoRef ( American Geological Institute),
- Geoscience e-Journals (Spain),
- DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals,
- HAL - Hyper Article en Ligne (France),
- SUDOC - abes,
- Electronic Journal Access Project (USA),
- The Alliance (Colorado, USA),
- Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek EZB (Germany),
- CADIST (France),
- PASCAL (France),
- Petroleum Abstracts (USA),
- SRef (Germany),
- CFI - Comité français de l'IFLA (France),
- NTIC (Canada), etc.

(8) the DVD-ROM (formerly CD-ROM) version is available:
- in France at Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris), CADIST - Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire Jussieu (Paris; corresponding person: Amélia LAURENCEAU), and SCD Marseille 2 (Marseilles; corresponding person: Anne Marie REY DUPERRET),
- in Belgium at Bibliothèque Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels; corresponding person: Dominique LERINKX),
- in Germany at UB Regensburg (Regensburg; corresponding person: Martin SCHEUPLEIN),
- in Argentina at the 'Biblioteca' of the Instituto Superior de Correlación Geologica - INSUGEO (San Miguel de Tucumán; corresponding person: Héctor Rodolfo AREDES),
- in the UK at The Natural History Museum of Londres (corresponding persons: Ann LUM and Nadera LATIF SHAIKH),
- in the USA at the Auburn University Libraries (Auburn - AL; corresponding person: Lisa BEALL), at the Amherst College Library (Amherst - MA; corresponding person: Peter NELSON) and at the Indiana University Geology Library (Bloomington - IN; corresponding person: Lou MALCOLMB).

If you are interested in these advantages please review your work to determine if you have any project for publication that might appear in our journal.

"Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in the published articles are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors."

"The authors are the 'sole responsible' for the usage made of texts, illustrations (tables and drawings), photos and videos provided and used in their respective publications."

Please contact the addresses below for additional information:

Notebooks on Geology
1916 Temescal Drive
Modesto CA 95355-9171, USA

Carnets de Géologie
Département des Sciences de la Terre
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
6, avenue Le Gorgeu
29238 Brest Cedex 3, France

email:

Carnets in Numbers

Committee

Scientific and editorial committee

Evgenij J. Baraboshkin, Moscow
François Baudin, Paris
Bernard Beaudoin, Fontainebleau
Art Boucot, Corvallis - OR
Juan Carlos Braga, Granada
Ioan Bucur, Cluj-Napoca
Eric Buffetaut, Paris
Trevor Burchette, Sunbury-on-Thames
Jean Charollais, Geneva
Éric Davaud, Geneva
Christian C. Emig, Marseilles
Serge Ferry, Villeurbanne
Bruno Granier, Brest
Jochen Kuss, Bremen
Jere H. Lipps, Berkeley - CA
Michel Moullade, Marseille & Nice
Jörg Mutterlose, Bochum
Emiliano Mutti, Parma
Gilles Serge Odin, Paris
Miguel Pardo, Burjassot, Valencia
Werner E. Piller, Graz
Alain Préat, Brussels
Jean-Loup Rubino, Pau
Philippe Steemans, Liège
John F. Stolz, Pittsburgh - PA
Maurice Tucker, Durham

Technical committee

o Main site located in Spain (Red IRIS):
Christian Emig, Marseilles
Bruno Granier, Brest
Miguel Pardo, Burjassot

o Archive site located in France (INIST-CNRS):
Sylvie Grésillaud, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy
Sylvie Marchal, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy
Irène Michel-Bailly, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy

o Archive site located in Belgium (ULB, Université Libre de Bruxelles):
Benoît Pauwels, Brussels
Alain Préat, Brussels
Philippe Quiévreux, Brussels

o HAL, Hyper Articles on Line, located in France (CCSD, Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) :
Yannick Barborini, Villeurbanne
Daniel Charnay, Villeurbanne
Frank Laloë, Villeurbanne

o English editorial revision:
Nestor Sander, Modesto - CA
Florentin J.-M.R. Maurasse, Miami - FL

o Credits: Many of the photographs featured on Carnets were provided by our authors and our readers. Special thanks are due to:
Karen Carr, Silver City - NM
Mitch Covington, Tallahassee - FL
Alexandre Lethiers, Paris
Marc Philippe, Villeurbanne
Brent Wilson, St. Augustine, Trinidad

The Association

In accordance with the French Law of 1 July 1901 and the Decree of 16 August 1901, on 21 March 2007 an association was created at Brest with the name "Carnets de Géologie". It is a cultural association for the purpose of aiding the diffusion of and promoting scientific infomation concerning earth and life sciences. The administration of the association consists of four members:

President: Bruno Granier, Brest
Vice President: Michel Moullade, Nice & Marseilles
Secretary: Alain Coutelle, Brest
Treasurer: Nadine Roulance, Brest

Carnets de Géologie
Département des Sciences de la Terre
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
6, avenue Le Gorgeu
29238 Brest Cedex 3, France

email:

Recommendations

Editorial Policy

Authors must agree that the whole or any part of their contribution may be quoted or used without charge for any non-commercial purpose. As a counterpart both the authors and the editors/publisher ("Carnets de Géologie") may at their discretion re-use it (For instance, authors are free to deposit their work in any open online archive where it will be permanently and openly accessible).

Copyrights and other limitations

An article stored in our archives may be duplicated and circulated if it is not to be sold or used for any commercial purpose. Written permission need not be obtained from the author(s) and "Carnets de Géologie" unless commercial exploitation is planned. Except where otherwise noted, content on the pages is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 2.5.

Procedure for submission

Proposals for publication in all three categories must be submitted by E-mail or by post. Sent by E-mail the proposal should include the title of the work, a summary of its content that includes an estimate of its length and/or volume: the number of pages, figures, tables, annexes, photos, and the category of submission contemplated (See below for definitions), the names and E-mail addresses of all authors, and the telephone number of the principal or his/her delegate. In submissions by post street addresses replace the E-mail routing. The merit of some short notes may be difficult to assess from a summary. If, in the author's judgement evaluation from a summary would be difficult, the full text may be submitted by E-mail as a proposal.

Priority restrictions

The work proposed must be original. In the event it is not the editor will determine whether or not online publication is desirable.

Handling of accepted papers

A work accepted for publication will be sent at once to two or more reviewers deemed expert in the field. Their comments and suggestions will be forwarded to the editor by E-mail. The editor will relay the commentaries to the author(s) who may accept the suggestions and edit the work accordingly, or dispute the findings in an exchange of E-mails with the editor. The corresponding author (if more than one) will be sent a proof of his paper as it will appear by E-mail attachment(s) in PDF or HTML. His comments will be taken into consideration, but the editors' judgements regarding emendations are final. In the event that an author is not entirely at ease in the language selected for publication the editor may require, or the author request, assistance in rendering the text more conventionally. Under special circumstances translation to English or French will be proposed free of charge.

Definitions of Categories

The following definitions are somewhat elastic, but serve to define the three types of submissions:
1. Memoirs: These are papers of considerable length based on factual data (for example stratigraphic sections) together with an explanatory text and links to related topics. The submission will be published in HTML or DHTML and may include MPG, MP3 and AVI or other types of presentation. The editors require discussion of and agreement on these methods before publication.
2. Articles: This is the category resembling that of most papers published conventionally. The text is more than 1500 words in length and commonly does not exceed 50.000 words. The subject may concern findings in any of the disciplines accepted in Carnets and, rarely, those in related fields.
3. Letters: These are reports one to three pages long (1500 words maximum) concerning new facts or interpretations. They are published in PDF format, occasionally in HTML. Two figures in any of the commonly used protocols may be included.

Formats for Submissions

Accepted papers are sent to the address above in Simple Text, or word processor format (exceptionally in HTML after consultation with the editor). Photographs, charts, diagrams and maps are preferably in TIFF, GIF, JPEG or EPS format. Suggested dimensional limits are given below. Normally, illustrations should not exceed 300 dpi. With rare exceptions they will be forwarded only on the CD that includes the arbitrated final version of the text. Vector images in gif or bmp should be accompanied by the original format. All figures required for any one paper must be numbered and identified sequentially. Identification procedure is outlined below.

WinWord Template

Download the template to ease the final submission:

Presentation of Submissions

a. Required Sequence and Recommended Limitations:

TITLE: Not more than two lines of 40 characters each including spaces; no acronyms, numbers or abbreviations.
KEY WORDS: Maximum of eight. See list at GeoRef. website.
ABSTRACT: Less than 250 words, fewer for Letters. First sentence gives scope followed by details and conclusions.
TEXT: Length according to category.
REFERENCES: See style notes below. Maximum of twenty for Letters.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Concise.
TABLES, CHARTS, MAPS: Each on a separate page and numbered consecutively. TABLES should replace text, not duplicate it. MAPS should include latitude and longitude in degrees and a North arrow.
FIGURE LEGENDS: Sans serif font; less than forty words.
FIGURES: On separate pages. Size may be altered to conform to page arrangement and a modest reduction is normal.
The order of presentation is indicated in the final CD by numbers and if required, also by letters: discrete sets of numbers must accompany each of the several categories of illustration. The editor will choose the sites of their placement following the author's recommendations insofar as possible.

b. Preferred fonts: The fonts listed here are satisfactory for net presentation. In general fonts without serifs are read more easily. Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, Verdana, Times New Roman. Others may be used sparingly. Minimum size 9 points. If reduction is probable, 11 pts. Fonts for mathematical, biological and mineralogical presentations are accepted.

c. References: All references cited in the text or in figures or tables must be included in the list of references. They are listed alphabetically by the first author's surname. Two or more authors follow, also alphabetically. If authors have more than one title to list, arrange them chronologically, earlier dates first. Journal names and book titles, publisher name and city of publication are not abbreviated. Here are sample references in the style preferred for this journal:

<u>Frenguelli</u> J. (1936).- Diatomeas de la caliza de la cuenca de Calama en el desierto de Atacama (Chile).- <i>Revista del Museo de La Plata</i>, La Plata, Paleontologia, n° 1, 141 p.

<u>Jones</u> B. & <u>Renaut</u> R.W. (1994).- Crystal fabrics and microbiota in large pisoliths from Laguna Pastos Grandes, Bolivia.- <i>Sedimentology</i>, Oxford, vol. 41, p. 1171-1202.

<u>Risacher</u> F. & <u>Fritz</u> B. (1992).- Mise en évidence d'une phase climatique holocène extrêmement aride dans l'Altiplano central, par la présence de la polyhalite dans le salar de Uyuni (Bolivie).- <i>Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences</i>, Paris, vol. 314, n° II, p. 1371-1377.

<u>Ter Braak</u> C.J.F., <u>Juggins</u> S., <u>Birks</u> H.J.B. & <u>Van der Voet</u> H. (1993).- Weighted averaging partial least squares (WA-PLS): definition and comparison with other methods for species-environmental calibration. <i>In</i>: <u>Patil</u> G.P. & <u>Rao</u> C.R. (eds.), Multivariate Environmental Statistics.- Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, p. 525-560.

Please contact the addresses below for additional information:

Notebooks on Geology
1916 Temescal Drive
Modesto CA 95355-9171, USA

Carnets de Géologie
Département des Sciences de la Terre
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
6, avenue Le Gorgeu
29238 Brest Cedex 3, France

email: