American Mineralogist - Submission Guidelnes

Information for Authors

Revised April 2009

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

Submissions are uploaded via our web-based system. The web-based system, started in 2002, has improved submission to publication times, allowed a small staff to handle more work, and keeps authors in touch with their paper better. A few things author should know are detailed here.

Tracking. As an author, you will be able to log back in and monitor the progress of your paper. However once you have approved your submission you cannot delete it or substitute a new table or something. If some rare situation like this arises, contact Rachel Russell, the Managing Editor, at editorial@minsocam.org for help. Depending on the phase of the review, your associate editor might also be able to help.

E-mails. Authors get an e-mail confirming their submission, and then an e-mail when an AE has agreed to handle the paper. If that email does not have the AE name, contact the managing editor because it is important for authors to be able to contact their AE. Authors can also send email via the web-based system to the editorial office and the associate editor.

Revisions, if and when requested, will also be uploaded via this system. Note that all revisions have the original manuscript number followed by an "R". Both the old version and the new version will be available for the editors! If another revision is requested, that upload will be R1 and so on (a rare situation).

Time Frames for Am Min

In general, an editor is assigned and an associate editor invited to handle the paper within a few days of submission. Within a couple weeks, depending on the time of year, an associate editor has been found. Our goal is for associate editors to find reviewers in a couple weeks for over all review time to be about six weeks. However, as everyone knows, it can be challenging finding reviewers. Our goal is between three and four months revision info should be with authors (unless there are complex circumstances or other considerations, of course). The most important factor to having a speedy submission-to-publication experience is for the AUTHOR to handle the revision instructions very promptly. We remind the author at 60 days and again at 120 and then unless there are special circumstances, it is considered withdrawn. Resubmissions are encouraged when the time becomes available. In general, once the revision is in, authors should hear from the editors in six weeks or so. If accepted, production of the paper tends to take about three months. Our average submission-to-publication time currently is under 10 months; many papers are faster. These time lines should guide you as to when to contact the associate editor or the editorial office for information on your paper, in a gentle fashion and understanding that all the editors are volunteers.

No web access? Please contact the Managing editor for directions and information. Please note that an electronic version will be required regardless of the reason for no web access.

Please go to http://minsocam.allentrack.net and submit over the web, which has complete instructions and help files.

Here are quick instructions in PDF format.

Authors for whom English is not a native language must have their manuscript reviewed by a colleague who is fluent in English before submitting it to American Mineralogist. Manuscripts that require extensive editing for grammar and spelling will be summarily rejected.

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