Author Instructions
We recommend reading each of the sections below before preparing your submission to GEUS Bulletin.
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Formats and Publishing Criteria
This section describes the types of submissions that you can make to GEUS Bulletin and our editorial criteria for deciding whether to publish. Authors should read this section before making a submission to GEUS Bulletin.
Editorial and Peer Review Process
We recommend reading this section if it is the first time that you are submitting an article to GEUS Bulletin. Here, we outline the editorial process from the moment we receive your submission through to publication, including how to report an issue with your submission, make an appeal or raise a complaint.
Pre-Submission Enquiries
Authors can follow the instructions in this section to seek feedback on their manuscript ahead of making a submission or to ask a question related to the submission, editorial and review processes.
Submitting a Manuscript
This section describes how to submit your manuscript to GEUS Bulletin, including a list of all the information you will need to complete your submission. This section also covers how to submit an accompanying data set or code to the GEUS Bulletin data repostiory (Dataverse).
Preparing an Initial Submission
Please read this section before preparing your manuscript files. This section contains full instructions to help you prepare and format your initial submission, including the main text, figures and tables, references, supplementary files and other important items. You can also download submission templates to help prepare your manuscript file.
Preparing a Final Submission
This section is for authors resubmitting a manuscript after receiving comments from the peer-review stage. We require a few additional steps and checks in the final submission. This section will help you prepare the final production-ready display items (figures and tables), text and reference styles. Please read this section carefully before preparing your resubmission.
Use of generative AI tools
Read our up-to-date policy guidelines on the use of generative AI tools (including Large Language Models or LLMs) and AI-assisted technologies by authors, reviewers and editors. GEUS Bulletin will update these guidelines as these fast-changing technologies develop.
Spellings of geographic places and geological features
Read our journal policies on authorised spellings of geographic places in Greenland and Denmark and geological units and other features.
Posthumous publication
The decision to publish manuscripts where one or more co-authors are deceased is always decided on a case-by-case basis. Read our guiding principles in this section.
Post-Publication Press and Outreach
Here we describe our process for selecting articles for press releases, and help authors develop their own outreach strategy including social media campaigns, blog posts and advice for how to approach journalists.
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Other Formatting Considerations
A list of additional considerations to help authors format their manuscript.
