Instructions for Authors, contributing to GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY

Aims and scope of the Journal

The scientific English language journal ‘GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY’ aims of informing and covering the results of research and global achievements in the sphere of geography, environmental conservation and sustainable development in the changing world. Publication of the journal will be aimed at foreign and Russian scientists — geographers, ecologists, specialists in environmental conservation, natural resource usage, education for sustainable development, GIS technology, cartography, social and political geography, and also — on field studies in the sphere of environmental science. Publications that are interdisciplinary, theoretical and methodological are particularly welcome.

Among the major sections of the journal will be: basics of geography and environmental science; fundamentals of sustainable development; environmental management; environment and natural resources; human (economic and social) geography; global and regional environmental and climate change; environmental regional planning; sustainable regional development; applied geographical and environmental studies; geo-informatics and environmental mapping; oil and gas exploration and environmental problems; nature conservation and biodiversity; environment and health; education for sustainable development.

I. General guidelines

1. Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work: scientific papers according to the scope of the Journal, reviews (only invited) and brief articles. Materials earlier published, or accepted to the publication in other editions, are accepted under the decision of the Editorial Board.
2. Papers are accepted in English. Either British or American English spelling and punctuation may be used.
3. All the authors of a paper should include their full names, positions, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author. We encourage authors to include theirs photograph and main points of curriculum vitae.
4. The optimum volume of manuscript is 0.2–0.5 of author’s sheet (or about 3,000–5,000 words). On occassion in coordination with edition can be accepted methodological, problem or reviews in volume up to 0.7–1 author’s sheet.

II. Manuscript preparation

1. Manuscript should be compiled in the following order: authors names; title; authors affiliations, Abstract; Keywords; main text; acknowledgments; appendixes (as appropriate); references; authors (brief and photo)
2. Authors should use word processing software for manuscript preparation.
3. Figures should be produced as near to the finished size as possible. Pictures can be represented in formats of programs used for their creation: CorelDraw (up to version 9), Adobe Photoshop (up to version 6), Adobe Illustrator (up to version 9). Raster images should be not less 300 dpi in the natural size. Captions should be given as the separate list.
4. Tables should not be too bulky. Each table should have a short title. Tables are to be numbered separately from the illustrations. Each table should be represented as a separate file in an original format MS Word, Excel, etc.
5. Caption should follow the reference to figure. The same concerns to names of tables.
6. References should be numbered in the alphabetical order, using Arabic numerals. Whenever possible, total number of references should not exceed 10 points. References in the text should be denoted in Harvard (Author, year) system in square brackets, e.g., [Author1, Author2, 2008]. References should be complete in the following style:
   Style for journal articles: Author(s) initials followed by last name for each author, year in brackets, paper title, publication name, year, volume / month, inclusive page numbers
   Style for books: Author(s), year in brackets, title, publisher, location, page numbers
   Style for contribution in a book: Author(s) initials followed by last name for each author, year in brackets, title of a contribution. In: Editor(s), title, publisher, location, inclusive page numbers.
7. Authors must adhere to SI units. Units are not italicised.
8. When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or ™.
9. For expediting of reviewing of a paper authors are encouraged to prepare also an electronic version of their manuscripts with embedded figures of “screen” quality as Adobe Acrobat pdf files.
10. As Instruction for Authors can be changed, please, see the Last “Example of manuscript style” at http://www.geogr.msu.ru/GESJournal/author.php

III. Manuscript submission

Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts electronically. Electronic submissions should be sent as email attachments to GESJournal@yandex.ru