Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission process

Manuscripts must be submitted by one of the authors of the manuscript, and should not be submitted by anyone on their behalf. The submitting author takes responsibility for the article during submission and peer review.

To facilitate rapid publication and to minimize administrative costs, Petroleum Journals Online encourages online submission. The website uses a journal management and publishing system that assists with every stage of the refereed publishing process, from submissions through to online publication and indexing. The submission process is compatible with version 3.0 or later of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, and with most other modern web browsers. It can be used from PC, Mac, or Unix platforms.

Files can be submitted as a batch, or one by one. The submission process can be interrupted at any time - when users return to the site, they can carry on where they left off.

See below for examples of acceptable word processor and graphics file formats. Additional files of any type, such as movies, animations, or original data files, can also be submitted as part of the publication.

Assistance with the process of manuscript preparation and submission is available from the technical support team.

Preparing main manuscript text

File formats
The following word processor file formats are acceptable for the main manuscript document:

• Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx format, but preferably .docx format)
• Rich text format (RTF)

Users of other word processing packages should save or convert their files to RTF before uploading. Many free tools are available which ease this process.

Article types
When submitting your manuscript, you will be asked to assign one of the following types to your article:

• New Technology
• Review
• Hypothesis
• Short Report
• Case Study
• Research

Please read the descriptions of each of the article types, choose which is appropriate for your article and structure it accordingly. If in doubt, your manuscript should be classified as a Research article, the structure for which is described below.

Manuscript sections for Research articles
Manuscripts for research articles submitted to e-journal of petrophysics should be divided into the following sections:

• Title page
• Abstract
• Background
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusions
• Methods
• List of abbreviations used (if any)
• Authors' contributions
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Figure legends (if any)
• Tables and captions (if any)
• Description of additional data files (if any)

You can download a template (Mac and Windows compatible; Microsoft Word 98/2000) for your article.

Although we can accept manuscripts prepared as Microsoft Word, Word Perfect or RTF files, the Microsoft Word template can be used to generate a standard style and format for your article. It can be used if you have not yet started to write your paper, or if it is already written and needs to be put into Petroleum Journals Online style.

Title page

The title of the paper and the full names, institutional addresses, and e-mail addresses for all authors must be included on the title page. The corresponding author should also be indicated.

References

All references must be numbered consecutively, in square brackets, in the order in which they are cited in the text, followed by any in tables or legends. Each reference must have an individual reference number. Please avoid excessive referencing. If automatic numbering systems are used, the reference numbers must be finalized and the bibliography must be fully formatted before submission.

Only articles and abstracts that have been published or are in press, or are available through public e-print/preprint servers, may be cited; unpublished abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications should not be included in the reference list, but may be included in the text. Notes/footnotes are not allowed. Obtaining permission to quote personal communications and unpublished data from the cited author(s) is the responsibility of the author. Citations in the reference list should contain all named authors, regardless of how many there are. There should usually be no more than 50 references per article.

Examples of the Modern Language Association (MLA) reference style are shown below. Please take care to follow the reference style precisely; references not in the correct style may be retyped, necessitating tedious proofreading.

Links
Web links and URLs should be included in the reference list. They should be provided in full, including both the title of the site and the URL, in the following format: The Mouse Tumor Biology Database [http://tumor.informatics.jax.org/cancer_links.html]

Modern Language Association (MLA) reference style

Article within a journal

Article within a journal supplement

In press article

Published abstract

Article within conference proceedings

Book chapter, or article within a book

Whole issue of journal

Whole conference proceedings

Complete book

Monograph or book in a series

Book with institutional author

PhD thesis

Link / URL

Style and language

General
Currently, Petroleum Journals Online can only accept manuscripts written in English. Spelling should be US English or British English, but not a mixture.

There is no explicit limit on the length of articles submitted, but authors are encouraged to be concise. There is also no restriction on the number of figures, tables or additional files that can be included with each article online. Figures and tables should be sequentially referenced. Authors should include all relevant supporting data with each article.

Reviewers may advise rejection of a manuscript if it is compromised by grammatical errors. Authors are advised to write clearly and simply, and to have their article checked by colleagues before submission. In-house copyediting will be minimal. Non-native speakers of English may choose to make use of a copyediting service. Petroleum Journals Online has no first-hand experience of these companies and takes no responsibility for the quality of their service. In exceptional cases, (e.g., student submissions) we may assist with copyediting.

Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be used as sparingly as possible. They can be defined when first used or a list of abbreviations can be provided preceding the acknowledgements and references.

Typography

• Please use single line spacing.
• Type the text unjustified, without hyphenating words at line breaks.
• Use hard returns only to end headings and paragraphs, not to rearrange lines.
• All pages should be numbered.
• Use the Petroleum Journals Online reference format.
• Footnotes to text should not be used.
• Greek and other special characters may be included. If you are unable to reproduce a particular special character, please type out the name of the symbol in full. Please ensure that all special characters used are embedded in the text, otherwise they will be lost during conversion to PDF.