Professor Dr. Joy Jacqueline Pereira (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia)
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
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GUIDE FOR AUTHORS
GENERAL POLICY
Manuscripts should be as concise as possible. Original results of basic, applied and policy research in geology that is of national or international significance are welcome. Current reviews and discussion on techniques, research programs, organisations, information, or national and international policies related to geology are also acceptable.
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Only manuscripts that have not been published elsewhere including electronically, will be considered for publication. Authors must agree not to publish elsewhere the submitted or accepted manuscripts in the same form, in English, Malay or other languages. Similarity detection services will be used to check your manuscript to verify its originality. Only manuscripts that clear a preliminary compliance check will be sent for review.
All manuscripts will be subjected to review by two or more reviewers. Authors wishing to include published and unmodified figures or text passages are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s). Authors of English manuscripts are strongly urged to have their manuscript edited for language before submission by a person whose first language is English.
The Editor reserves the right to reject all or any part of the manuscript submitted. The Geological Society of Malaysia assumes no responsibility for statements made by authors. The paper should be submitted to:
The Editor,
Geological Society of Malaysia
c/o Department of Geology,
University of Malaya
50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: (603) 7957 7036 | Fax: (603) 7956 3900
Email: geologicalsociety@gmail.com
Authors are required to check the online Guide to Authors available at the GSM website (https://gsm.org.my/instruction-to-authors) before submission to ensure that the paper meets the latest requirements of the journal.
THE MANUSCRIPT
The manuscript can be written in Bahasa Malaysia (Malay) or English. For English manuscripts, use either British or American spelling but not a combination of both. The paper should be thoroughly checked for grammar and spelling. The manuscript must be printed at 1.5 spacing in a single column on A4 paper. All pages should be numbered. Length of paper should be between 3,000 and 10,000 words for Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia, and between 2,000 and 3,000 words for Warta Geologi, excluding abstract, references, tables, and illustrations. Metric units should be used and all non-standard symbols, abbreviations and acronyms must be defined.
TITLE
The title must be informative and reflects the content of the paper. It should be concise (less than 20 words). Avoid using abbreviation in the title. Titles in Malay should include an English translation.
AUTHOR’S ADDRESS
Affiliations, address, and email of all authors must be provided. The addresses should be sufficient for correspondence.
ABSTRACT
Abstracts in Malay (optional for manuscripts in English) and English, each in one paragraph and should not exceed 300 words, is mandatory. It should clearly identify the subject matter, results obtained, interpretations discussed, conclusions reached and significance of the study. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or references.
KEYWORDS
Four to eight keywords (including in the Malay language for manuscripts in Malay) that is relevant to the content of the paper is mandatory.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Acknowledgement to reviewers and institutions or agencies must be included at the end of the text. All funding sources must be mentioned in this section and acknowledged accordingly.
AUTHORS CONTRIBUTIONS
A statement of the roles played by each author, e.g. data analysis, experimental design is required
DECLARATION OF COMPETING INTEREST
A declaration of any conflict of interest must be communicated in a statement in the published paper.
REFERENCES
In the text, references should be cited by author and year and listed chronologically (e.g. Smith, 1964; Jones et al., 1998; Smith & Tan, 2000). For both Malay and English paper, all references must be listed in English. Title of non-English manuscripts should be translated to English. Where available, include Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and URLs for the references that have been provided. Self-citations should be limited to less than 10% of the total citations in the paper.
The list of references should only include articles cited in the text and figure/table captions. The list should be arranged in alphabetical order. Please ensure that the reference list is complete and the bibliographical details are accurate. The references should be in the following manner:
Journal article:
Suntharalingam, T., 1968. Upper Palaeozoic stratigraphy of the area west of Kampar, Perak. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia, 1, 1-15
Book:
Hutchison, C.S., 1989. Geological Evolution of South-east Asia. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 368 p.
Chapter of book and Symposium volume:
Hosking, K.F.G., 1973. Primary mineral deposits. In: Gobbett, D.J. & Hutchison, C.S. (Eds.), Geology of the Malay Peninsular (West Malaysia and Singapore). Wiley-Interscience, New York, 335-390
Article in Malay:
Lim, C.H. & Mohd. Shafeea Leman, 1994. The occurrence of Lambir Formation in Ulu Bok Syncline, North Sarawak. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia, 35, 1-5. (in Malay with English abstract).
Online document:
Smith, J., 2019. Minerals and rocks are valuable natural resources. Minerals Web Society. http://minerals.org/articles/12/32/index. Accessed 20 July 2020.
TABLES:
Use the table function in Word to insert tables. Tables are limited to a maximum of five (5) and these should be cited in the text and numbered consecutively. Do not submit tables as images. Tables should have a title and a legend explaining any abbreviation or symbol used. Insert the caption at the top of each table. The captions should begin with the term Table followed by the number and a colon, all in bold. The text after the colon should be in regular font. Avoid excessive tabulation of data. Tabulated data may be included as an Appendix or Supplementary Data.
ILLUSTRATIONS:
All illustrations must be useful, necessary and of good quality. A maximum of ten illustrations (photographs, graphs and diagrams) are allowed and these should be cited in the text and numbered consecutively as Figures. The scales for maps and photomicrographs should be drawn on the figure and not given as a magnification. Illustrations should be drawn to fit and be legible at a maximum one full page of A4 size. High resolution illustrations, photographs, drawings, figures, and images shall be requested upon acceptance for publication. Each figure should have a caption describing the figure accurately and concisely. Insert the caption after each figure. The captions begin with the term Figure followed by the number and a colon, all in bold. The text after the colon should be in regular font.
PREFERRED SOFTWARE:
• Text: Microsoft Word.
• Tables: Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel.
• Illustrations – Vector Graphics: Adobe Illustrator (preferred), CorelDraw and Freehand. For other software, please submit one copy in the native file format and export one copy as a PDF file with all fonts embedded as a high resolution TIFF or JPEG image.
• Photographs or bitmap (raster) images: Adobe Photoshop, high resolution JPEG, TIFF or GIF or files from other sources. The resolution must be high enough for printing at 300 dpi.
All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.