The pages which follow explain all of the points expected of authors in preparation for submission of their manuscripts to Clays and Clay Minerals. Many papers are returned to authors one or more times before they enter the peer review system. Attention to the details in the paragraphs below will help to avoid such delays for your manuscript.
Manuscripts that can be submitted to Clays and Clay Minerals may fall under any of the following categories: Articles on original research* or unsolicited and solicited reviews on subjects of interest to the international community of scientists working on clays, clay minerals, and other fine-grained (<2 μm) materials*, and solicited book reviews.
Contributors must identify the type of their article during submission.
Authors must bear in mind many important points before submitting a paper for publication to any journal.
• What was the scientific problem to be solved? What was the specific objective of the study and how did it intend to solve that problem? What is the scientific novelty? What are you, the author, saying that hasn’t been said before, and does your work warrant publication in the journal to which you are submitting it?
• How should the author divide up the paper into sections (Abstract, Introduction, Materials and Methods, etc.) and what should appear in each section?
• What does the journal demand in terms of language? Editors should be allowed to focus on scientific content, and not be forced to read material in which the language is not of appropriate quality.
• What are the journal’s requirements in terms of layout (including headings, citations, references, etc.)
• What is the standard of artwork needed?
Manuscript Submission
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
Online Submission
Authors wishing to submit their article to Clays and Clay Minerals should do so through the journal's submission and peer review platform.
* If publishing Gold Open Access, all or part of the publication costs for these article types may be covered by one of the agreements Cambridge University Press has made to support open access.