Instructions for authors

General

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland (BGSF) publishes papers, scientific communications and discussions in all branches of geosciences. Contributions outside Finland are welcome, providing that they contain material relevant to Finnish geology or are of general interest. Acceptable articles should be concise, generally no more than 20 printed pages. Authors assign copyright to the Geological Society of Finland effective when the article is accepted for publication in this journal.

Manuscripts, conforming to the instructions below, should be sent by e-mail to Editor-in-Chief or any of the associate editors. Send the manuscript text, references, figure captions and tables as individual text files or compiled into a single text file (DOC, RTF or XLS). Figures should be compiled into one PDF file. Authors should carefully study the latest issue of BGSF and format their paper accordingly. The approximate position for insertion of each table and figure should be indicated in the manuscript text file. All manuscripts submitted to BGSF are subject to peer-review by at least two referees and at least one of the editors. Authors are requested to submit names, addresses, fax numbers and e-mail addresses of four appropriate reviewers with their cover letter.

Page Charge

Page charge of 30 euros / printed page will be charged from contributors representing non-academic institutions.

Language

Articles must be written clearly and concisely in English (British or American consistently).

Abstract and keywords

Articles must be preceeded by a short ca. 200 word abstract containing the content and conclusions of the paper in a capsule form. Scientific communications and discussions are published without abstracts. Keywords (5-10) should follow the abstract.

References

Carefully study the latest issue of BGSF for the refering practice. Papers in preparation or in manuscript cannot be cited.

Figures

BGSF is printed in full colour throughout so that the authors are encouraged to use colour in their figures when useful. Illustrations will be sized to fit within the width of a column (74 mm) or a page (153 mm): a page is 220 mm deep. Label each figure with the author’s name and figure number (i.e. Surname Fig 1.tif). Use clear, sans serif typeface such as Helvetica or Arial. After reduction, no text should be smaller than 1 mm. The largest lettering should not be more than three times the size of the smallest lettering. Place a white background behind lettering that crosses a dark or textured area in a figure. If possible, use patterns instead of dot fill patterns. Dot fills must be between 20 % and 70 % black. Use clean black lines, no finer than 1 point. On maps, please include latitude and longitude, a scale in kilometers, and label all bodies referring to water in an italic font; all other geographic features in roman font.

Once your paper is accepted we ask you to send us high-quality electronic files (minimum 300 dpi resolution), and possible hard copies of line drawings. Figures generated using drawing programs should be sent in two formats: one in a native format (the program in which it was created; preferably Corel Draw) and one in EPS format (text vectorised) or high resolution TIF format. Excel charts can also be used. Always indicate the drawing program and the version used in your cover letter. Avoid using JPG format for line drawings. Photographs generated by digital cameras should be sent in TIF or JPG format and preferably 600 dpi to allow scaling.

Tables

Number the tables in the order in which they are cited in the paper and label the files in an analogous manner to that of the figures (i.e. Surname Table 1.DOC). Preferred file formats include Excel (.XLS) or MSWord (.DOC) generated with table operator. Align all columns on the decimal. Do not leave blank spaces in analytical tables; these should be marked by n.a. (not analysed) or b.d.l. (below detection limit).

Latest issue
Volume 81 (1-2), 2009

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Joonas Virtasalo
Geological Survey of Finland
P.O. Box 96
FI-02151 ESPOO
FINLAND

bulletin(at)geologinenseura.fi